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Hydrangea Happiness: Planting, Pruning, and Blooming
By C.L. Fornari
A comprehensive, easy-to-use, illustrated guide to hydrangeas for novice gardeners and experienced horticulturists alike.
With large, long-lasting flowers that range from showy pinks to heartbreaking shades of blue, hydrangeas are captivating, popular plants. Yet gardeners often find themselves flummoxed by the challenge of understanding and growing the many varieties of these shrubs.
Writer, radio host, and gardening consultant C. L. Fornari simplifies the cultivation and care of the six most popular species of hydrangeas in this practical, clear, and accessible guide. Hydrangea Happiness explains the difference between varietals and tells how and where they can successfully grow and in which soils and conditions they thrive. Fornari also addresses myths and misinformation about cultivating these popular plants. Punctuated with catchy rhymes and beautiful photographs, this book makes the road to Hydrangea Happiness easy, successful, and fun.
C.L. Fornari lives in Sandwich, Cape Cod and has a radio show - The Garden Lady - on WCAI. She started the annual Cape Cod Hydrangea Festival and is the go-to expert on gardening in New England and on hydrangeas in particular. New England also has a worldwide reputation for growing and displaying the best hydrangeas.
Brandeis University Press • 9781648583102 • Hardcover • $27.95
Pub date: April 30th, 2026
6 copies are available for booksellers.
Email Sue Ramin (sueramin@brandeis.edu) to request.
Fortune and Glass
By John Mutter
Imagine a John le Carré noveL infused with the lyrical grace of All the Light We Cannot See with the moral intimacy of The Book Thief. A literary spy novel and love story set in WWII Berlin, for readers who think they’ve read every WWII novel—until now. Fortune and Glass is a philosophical spy novel and literary love story about private choices, secret resistance, and the cost of staying human inside a system determined to erase individuality. Lyrical, atmospheric, and morally complex, it explores the gray zones of living under authoritarianism and asks a timeless question: Who are you when everything falls apart?
John was born and raised in New England, raised his kids in metro New York, and has recently moved back to New England—New Hampshire. John is also the founder and publisher of Shelf Awareness. He's well-known by most bookstores in the region.
Left Field Publishing • 9781966883074 • Hardcover • $30
Pub date: September 1, 2026
100+ copies are available for booksellers.
E-mail Kristen Gilligan (kristen@left-field-publishing.com) to request.
Ambulance Wars
By Henry Moore
In the competitive landscape of emergency services in Connecticut before the 1980s, one man's ambition transformed the industry, igniting fierce rivalries and shaping regulations that would define the future of ambulance operations and pre-hospital patient care.
Ambulance Wars delves into the tumultuous world of emergency medical services, focusing on the fierce competition that arose among ambulance operators. Harvey Kagan, a driven entrepreneur, purchased a fledgling ambulance company in 1965 and muscled it to dominance through relentless ambition and aggressive tactics. His rise to power garnered admiration and condemnation, sparking controversies that were the catalyst for increased regulatory oversight of the EMS sector.
Palmetto Publishing • 9798318816093 • Paperback • $26.99
Pub date: January 16, 2026
7 copies are available for booksellers.
Email Henry Moore (ambulancewars@gmail.com) to request.
Looking for the Klondike Stone
By Elizabeth Arthur
A luminous memoir of five perfect summers at a camp in the Green Mountains of southern Vermont. To read it is to inhabit a prelapsarian world – a place without screens or phones, where transportation might mean a horse or hay wagon, and where the only town is the one we find ourselves in. Camp Wynakee – as seen through the eyes of an extraordinary child – is pristine, flawless and absolute, a place where everything is newly created Yet beneath its shimmering surface, this is also a profound story about loss. As Robert Frost wrote, “Nothing gold can stay.”
Elizabeth Arthur spent much of her childhood in Vermont and for five summers attended a sleep-away camp in a cirque in the Green Mountains in Dorset Hollow, Dorset, Vermont, where the book is set. She currently lives in southwestern Vermont.
Hollow Tree Press • 9781969498299 • Paperback • $19.95
Pub date: March 14, 2026
5 copies are available for booksellers.
Email Steven Bauer (steven@hollowtreepress.com) to request.