Peter E. Randall Publishing

 

Since 1970, Peter E. Randall Publisher has been publishing quality books for individuals and groups in New Hampshire, Maine, Massachusetts, Vermont, New York, Washington DC, Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Virginia, Utah, California and Hawaii. Peter, the founder, is the author of fourteen books and an award-winning photographer and publisher. The publishing house has produced more than 550 books, ranging in subject from history, children’s, biography, travel, photography, and memoir.

 

Last Bake Sale

The Fight for Fair School Funding
Format: Paperback
Pages: 224
ISBN: 9781942155904
Pub Date: 01 Apr 2025
Illustrations: 10 images
Description:
During this time of attacks on public education, teacher layoffs and funding crises, it's crucial to understand why some schools struggle for lack of resources while others flourish. Why is education funding in America so embattled and so unequal? In The Last Bake Sale, Andru Volinsky tells this story as no one else can, using New Hampshire as the example of the most unfair and regressive state in the nation in terms of how it funds its schools.

Bedrock

The Making of a Public Garden
Format: Hardback
Pages: 224
ISBN: 9781942155812
Pub Date: 15 Mar 2025
Illustrations: 290 4/c photographs throughout
Description:
“Cultivation is just another word for commitment. You think you are just pulling weeds, but what you are really doing is writing a love letter to your patch of earth.” – Thomas RainierThis quote opens Bedrock: The Making of a Public Garden, a book that is a love letter from a woman to the garden she spent 40 years creating.
The Way It Was Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 352
ISBN: 9781942155737
Pub Date: 09 Feb 2025
Illustrations: B&W Photographs, Maps
Description:
This important memoir, translated into English for the author’s 100th birthday, tells the life story of Maj. Gen. (ret.
At My Portuguese Table Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 224
ISBN: 9781942155799
Pub Date: 09 Jan 2025
Illustrations: 4/C Photographs
Description:
Discover the heart and soul of Portuguese cuisine with Maria Lawton’s second cookbook, "At My Portuguese Table: Azorean Cooking and More". Maria, the beloved host of the award-winning PBS series "Maria's Portuguese Table", invites you to experience the rich flavors and cherished traditions of her heritage. Each recipe is a culinary journey back to her family table, filled with the warmth and love that define Portuguese culture.
Everyone's Trash Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 160
ISBN: 9781942155775
Pub Date: 09 Jan 2025
Illustrations: B&W Photographs
Description:
Each day, every single person in the United States, all 324 million, discards about five pounds of waste. Be it a bottle that gets placed in a recycling bin or a piece of paper crumpled and tossed into the waste bin, every bit of the daily 1.6 billion pounds cast-off has a story.
Murder and Mayhem Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 432
ISBN: 9781942155744
Pub Date: 09 Jan 2025
Illustrations: Photographs, Newspaper clippings
Description:
In Murder and Mayhem, veteran author and genealogist Milli Knudsen looks at true crime in New Hampshire. In the rapidly changing world of 1883-1915, criminals and good citizens learned to cope with new ways to commit crimes and how to protect themselves. Emerging forensic science became a valuable tool.
What's Wild Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 144
ISBN: 9781942155768
Pub Date: 09 Jan 2025
Illustrations: Photographs
Description:
As the state’s first bear biologist in the 1970s, Eric Orff began a half century career as a “forest ranger who works with animals,” his stated dream job as a 7-year-old. A respected wildlife biologist, with more than thirty-one years at the New Hampshire Fish and Game Department and another fifteen years with the National Wildlife Federation, he still publishes a video blog called “What’s Wild in New Hampshire” that regularly receives hundreds of thousands of views each week.Known for his educational programs and political action—If Only Moose Could Vote—Eric has been a literal voice in the wilderness, declaring the threat of climate change to be real, based on what he has seen in the woods.

Words, Wonder, and the Divine in You

Format: Paperback
Pages: 120
ISBN: 9781942155652
Pub Date: 01 Nov 2023
Description:
Deborah Roof, a queer Christian pastor, shares her experience,strength and hope and invites the reader to take their own spiritualjourney. Exemplifying her authentic gift of hospitality Roof shares thetruth she has come to know: divinity dwells within each one of us. Shefinds God in the wonder of the created world and in the scriptures shehas come to love.

All Join Hands

Dudley Laufman & The New England Country Dance Tradition
Format: Paperback
Pages: 202
ISBN: 9781942155553
Pub Date: 01 May 2023
Illustrations: 28 b/w images
Description:
All Join Hands is the story of what happened when a ten-thousand-year-old musical tradition wasput into the hands of a seventeen-year-old Boston boy in 1947. While in high school, DudleyLaufman apprenticed with fiddlers and callers throughout New England. Eventually, he squiredthe old country dance traditions through to their revival in the 1960s at the Newport FolkFestival, the Club 47, and Robert J.

Hidden

A True Story of the Holocaust
Format: Paperback
Pages: 96
ISBN: 9781942155539
Pub Date: 02 Apr 2023
Illustrations: 4/c graphic novel
Description:
HIDDEN [a graphic novel] is the compelling story told from the child’s perspective of Kati Preston, who lost her extended Jewish family in the Holocaust and was saved when she was 5 years old. It is beautifully illustrated in color as a graphic novel. Kati Preston was born in Hungary in 1939, the only child born to a Jewish father and a Catholic mother.

Hope…

Even for US
Format: Paperback
Pages: 122
ISBN: 9781937721992
Pub Date: 21 Dec 2022
Illustrations: 40 illustrations
Description:
What makes Time, Ignorance, and Death inevitable? Do they have something in common? A pioneer of reducing that deadly "something" leads a short tour of where it's found and displaced.

The Adventures of Bobby and Jimmy!

Format: Paperback
Pages: 104
ISBN: 9781942155515
Pub Date: 22 Nov 2022
Illustrations: 25 sketches
Description:
Has anyone ever dared you to eat an ant sandwich? Have you ever built a raft or looked out the window of your treehouse to see for miles? Have you ever seen a snake in the school cafeteria?

Ciao Italia: Plant, Harvest, Cook!

Format: Hardback
Pages: 320
ISBN: 9781942155485
Pub Date: 15 Nov 2022
Illustrations: Full color images
Description:
CIAO ITALIA: PLANT, HARVEST, COOK! takes the reader on a seasonal home garden vegetable journey focusing on simple growing tips for anyone interested in growing their own vegetables and how to cook them Italian style. In simple language, anyone interested in growing their own vegetables whether on a grand or small scale will find this book filled with helpful gardening advice.
A Deep Presence Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 160
ISBN: 9781942155409
Pub Date: 11 Oct 2021
Illustrations: 68 color images
Description:
Almost 13,000 years ago, small groups of Paleoindians endured frigid winters on the edge of a river in what would become Keene, New Hampshire.This begins the remarkable story of Native Americans in the Monadnock region of southwestern New Hampshire, part of the traditional homeland of the Abenaki people.Typically neglected or denied by conventional history, the long presence of Native people in southwestern New Hampshire is revealed by archaeological evidence for their deep, enduring connections to the land and the complex social worlds they inhabited.

Finding Home

Portraits and Memories of Immigrants
Format: Hardback
Pages: 96
ISBN: 9781942155348
Pub Date: 01 Sep 2020
Illustrations: full color photographs
Description:
Finding Home is a celebration of people from other countries who have resettled in New Hampshire, a state known for low cultural diversity. Photographer Becky Field has been documenting cultural diversity in the state since 2012. Now, in addition to their portraits, she met with 40 immigrants to record and transcribe their memories of life in the home country and their journeys to find a new home in the Granite State.