Explore the secret history of Exeter through a fascinating selection of stories, facts and photographs.

John Wheelwright, a man too pure for the Puritans, founded Exeter in 1638. Resourceful, notorious and just plain unusual characters have populated the town ever since. Thinking inside the box, Albert and Lucy Tyler tried to ship themselves home to Exeter in a piano box after they ran out of funds on the West Coast. Albertus T. Dudley saved the town's founding document from the hands of William Randolph Hearst. Exeter has a paradoxical streak--it is an inland town with a working seaport, and it was both adamantly anti-abolition and home to the Free-Soil Party. Exeter Historical Society curator Barbara Rimkunas uncovers the lesser-known tidbits and gems hidden in the town's history.

Still recovering from the case of a serial killer spirit in Lyme-Regis, Dr Ribero’s agency is soon confronted with an even greater threat: a reckless cult conspiring with an ancient and powerful Daemon to open a permanent spirit door so that spirits have unfettered access to the human realm. Having just witnessed the lethal consequences uncontrolled spirits can have on the unsuspecting, the agency joins forces with several others to prevent the cult from unleashing chaos and ending the world’s fragile protection from dangerous spirits.

This essay collection focuses on enclosure, deception and secrecy in three spatial areas – the body, clothing and furniture. It contributes to the study of private life and explores the micro-history of hidden spaces. The contents of pockets may prove a surer index to their owner’s real thoughts than anything they say; a piece of furniture with ingenious mechanisms created to conceal secrets may also reveal someone’s attempts to break in and thus give away as much as it holds. Though the book’s focus is on particular material or imagined objects, taken as a whole it exemplifies a range of interdisciplinary encounters between history, literary criticism, art history, philosophy, psychoanalysis, sociology, criminology, archival studies, museology and curating, and women’s studies.

A collection of colorful stories about some of New Hampshire’s most notable newsmakers and remarkable historic events. Includes photos. Hidden in the cracks and crevices of the Granite State are the stories of pioneers who pursued their passions, creating legacies along the way. Compiled by a Smithsonian researcher and former Boston Globe contributor, this treasury includes tales of: the mountain man who became an innkeeper the “Bird Man” who took his passion to the White House the gentleman who ascended the highest peak in the Northeast in a steam-powered locomobile the story of one skier’s dramatic win at the 1939 “American Inferno” Mount Washington race the Shaker Meetinghouse, built in just one day, in complete silence the gallant efforts to save the Old Man of the Mountain and much more

This is the 6th edition of the very popular Hidden Places of Devon and has been completely redesigned to include a new cover and new page layouts. The Hidden Place of Devon is printed in full colour and includes detailed directional maps, eye catching photographs and is packed with places to eat, drink and stay. The book includes all the main tourist attractions as well as concentrating on the less well-known visitor attractions in this beautiful county. Devon is a county of sheer beauty and delight and is endowed with stunning green rolling hills, bright fresh streams tumbling through wooded valleys and picturesque little villages. The county of Devon is home to the National Parks of Dartmoor and Exmoor (which it shares with Somerset), two areas of outstanding natural beauty, both spectacularly eye-catching they consist of bleak uplands and isolated moorland that stretch out towards a rugged coastline. The book is packed with information covering the more secluded and little known venues for food, accommodation and places of interest as well as the more enduring attractions of the region. The new edition includes a stunning redesigned cover that incorporates an eye-catching photograph of Willmead Farm in Bovey Tracey.

Chronicles the life of author Dan Brown, discussing his childhood, schooling, efforts to avoid the public eye, acclaimed novels, impact on the literary world, and other related topics.