Osher members and Study Leaders have written numerous books on a variety of topics. Browse a selection of these works below.
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The First Freedoms and America's Culture of Innovation (2013)
This is a book about the dynamics of the aspirational society. It explores the boundaries of permissible thought--deviations and transgressions that create constant innovations.
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Purchase: Amazon
Vanishing Time (2016), Little Island (2013); Her Sister's Shadow (2011)
My three novels have a common theme: family secrets and the problems they cause. In each I enjoyed exploring how a story's location might inform its character and plot, setting Vanishing Time in South Carolina's Low Country with its rich history, Little Island at a family Inn on the Maine coast, and Her Sister's Shadow in the sisters' childhood home.
Publisher: Brigham Books; Berkley Books
Purchase: Amazon, Barnes & Noble, iBooks
A Sprinkling of Stardust Over the Outhouse (2023)
A fast-paced autobiography that takes the reader from a quaint and charming New Hampshire town to the streets and boulevards of Beverly Hills. Heretofore untold stories of the author’s friendships with a plethora of Hollywood legends. Ultimately, the lesson may be to always be true to yourself and never give-up.
Publisher: Page Publishing
Purchase: Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Gibson’s Bookstore (Concord, NH)
Squaring the Circle, Geometry in Art and Architecture (2008)
A study of geometry and its use in art and architecture, from the musical ratios of the Pythagoreans to the fractal art and geometry of today. It was written as part of an NSF-funded project at Dartmouth. See HERE.
Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
Purchase: Wiley, Barnes & Noble, Amazon
Managing Pain Before It Manages You (2016)
Provides state-of-the-art information about the causes and treatment of pain and guides you to identify what increases and decreases your symptoms, reduce your pain and emotional distress, make informed decisions about medications and nutritional therapies, and benefit from relaxation, meditation, and gentle exercise.
Publisher: The Guilford Press
Purchase: Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Guilford Press
The Grifter, the Poet, and the Runaway Train: Stories from a YANKEE Writer's Notebook (2019)
A collection of pieces in Yankee Magazine, written over the past twenty years. Some recount public events, widely reported; others are more private, the stories of men and women surviving, facing choices, living life: the last race of a luckless small-time jockey; a local police chief's terrible moral quandary; a young man's tortured path toward suicide.
Publisher: Globe Pequot Press
Purchase: Amazon
The Social Profit Handbook (2015)
A guide to setting goals, assessing outcomes, and achieving success for mission-driven organizations.
Publisher: Chelsea Green
Purchase: Amazon, Chelsea Green
Get Ready... Get Set...My Life and Times Volume One (2017)
A memior of memories, Get Ready... Get Set... is filled with wonderful stories and images from George Hano's life.
Publisher: George Hano
The Grandest Madison Square Garden: Art, Scandal, and Architecture in Gilded Age New York (2019)
The remarkable non-fiction story of the fabulous 1890 Madison Square Garden designed by Stanford White and the beautiful nude sculpture of the virgin goddess Diana by Augustus Saint-Gaudens, set on the garden's and America's tallest tower.
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Purchase: Amazon
China's Grand Strategy: Weaving a New Silk Road to Global Primacy (2019)
In the "Great Game" of the 21st century gaining leadership and influence in Asia the United States is rapidly being outflanked by China, which is investing in infrastructure, connectivity, and supply chains on an unprecedented global scale.
Publisher: Praeger
Purchase: Amazon
Pauper Auction (2022)
A gorgeous and meticulously-researched historical fiction examining a young woman’s struggle to escape unexpected poverty and find autonomy and purpose in early New England.
Publisher: Stone Fence Press
Purchase: Norwich Bookstore, Morgan Hill Bookstore, Indiebound (independent bookstore finder), Amazon, Amazon Kindle, Audible, many local libraries, and Libby.
Hiding in Plain Sight: The Incredible True Story of a German-Jewish Teenager's Struggle to Survive in Nazi-Occupied Poland (2004)
It is 1938. Berta Weissberger, twelve years old, lives in Hindenburg, Germany, with her mother and older sister. Her father has already left for America, and the family is awaiting the arrival of their American visas. These hopes and plans are destroyed at the end of October 1938, however, when Jews are rounded up, loaded onto trucks, and driven to the Polish border.
Publisher: Smith & Kraus Global
Purchase: Amazon
The Art & Joy of Hospital Clowning Training Program (2024)
Originally published in 2005, this book represents the first ever published comprehensive training for improvisation-based hospital clowning and supports the growth and professionalization of hospital clowning organizations and individuals worldwide.
Publisher: Jeannie Lindheim
Purchase: Amazon
My Life and Thoughts, the Formative Years (2014); My Global Life, a Conversation with Raymond Malley (2012); Cold Waters, Being Notes Regarding Ship Voyages in the Arctic, Antarctica, and the North Atlantic (2018)
The author rose to senior positions in the U.S. diplomatic corps and global business. His three books describe crisply and vividly his many experiences in Asian and African countries during the Cold War, his numerous diplomatic and business negotiations, and his adventures to the far ends of the earth.
Publisher: Xlibris
Purchase: Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Xlibris
Butcher Bird: Tales from Down Under (2016)
The author reaches back to her experiences as an isolated, yet carefree and inquisitive child growing up on the family farm during the 1940s and '50s.
Publisher: Back Channel Press
Purchase: Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Norwich Bookstore
James Melton: The Tenor of His Times (2013)
A biographical memoir about the author's father, Metropolitan Opera tenor and pre-eminent antique car collector, James Melton (1904-1961).
Publisher: Hawk Pine Press
Purchase: Amazon
The Last Party in Eden (2013)
Welcome to the middle of the turbulent 1960's. Kennedy's been dead for two years, while the Summer of Love lies three years in the future. Five young women come to Washington to share a townhouse while they chase their dreams in the offices across the Potomac. Some want to find a husband, just as their mothers did. Others pray that there is something more to life besides being a housewife. What they find, on the eve of the sexual revolution and at the death of the staid 50's, will shatter their lives and destroy the last of their innocence.
Publisher: Galir Publishing, a subsidiary of Banty Hen Publishers
Purchase: Amazon
Murder at the End of the Line (2014)
First in the series. Kate McGonagle arrives in the tiny desert town of Del Sueño, to meet up with Josie Hadding, ber best friend since childhood. Mystified by Josie's loyalty to the Line and the stand-offish town dwellers, Kate is nevertheless persuaded to stay and help bartend at Josie's "End of the Line" beer hall. But when she finds Josie's bludgeoned body one dark night in the back office, the town's citizens and local police force seem a little too eager to write off the killing as a random burglary gone bad.
Publisher: Createspace Independant Publishing Platform
Purchase: Amazon
Eradicating Smallpox in Ethiopia (2020)
Alan Schnur, editor (with Gene L. Bartley, John Scott Porterfield, and James W. Skelton, Jr.). The book tells the tale of the work that some 73 Peace Corps Volunteers did in the 1970s with the World Health Organization’s (WHO) Smallpox Eradication Program (SEP), a massive project that ultimately eliminated smallpox from the world. This serious story is served up with large dollops of nostalgia, humor, delightful tales of daring, and loads of information about fighting infectious diseases, which — as it turns out in these times of the coronavirus — makes the book very contemporary. Even useful.
Publisher: Peace Corps Writers
Purchase: Amazon
War Torn: A Family Story (2017)
August 1940. A young father sends his wife and twin children through dangerous seas to safety in America. His daughter searches the past to answer her questions.
Publisher: Felicity Vaughan Swayze
Purchase: Amazon
Terra Infirma (2015)
A finalist for the Tampa Review Prize for Poetry, this bittersweet collection journeys through grief and loss, reminding us, as Cynthia Huntington says, "how deeply our lives may be cherished.
Publisher: David Robert Books
Purchase: Amazon, Norwich Bookstore