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Our Nig: Sketches from the Life of a Free Black This seminal autobiographical novel, originally published in 1859, is believed to have been the first by an African-American woman.

Peyton Place The blockbuster novel that shocked the nation written by NH author Grace Metalious.

String Too Short To Be Saved Recollections of summers on a New England farm.

The Count of Concord, A Novel Historical fiction about a great American character—New Hampshire’s Benjamin Thompson, Count Rumford.