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We are spoiled for choice when it comes to authors in our area. Here is just a sampling of the talented writers whose books you'll find highlighted in our store. Local Authors Browse All See all items The Morse Code: Legacy of a Vermont Sportswriter Brendan Buckley Current price: $19.99 No description available. Landmark Memories: A Vermont Village 1930s-1950s Joyce Slayton Mitchell Current price: $19.95 More than “the good old days,” destined only for the memoir and history-buff markets; more than the “community-building” market to describe America’s fall from working and playing together books, Landmark Memories tells stories, vignettes, really, of a Vermont village. Describing the school, the ... Unstitched: My Journey to Understand Opioid Addiction and How People and Communities Can Heal Brett Ann Stanciu Current price: $15.00 What if society looked at addiction without judgement? Unstitched shares the powerful story of one librarian’s quest to understand the impact of addiction fed by stigma and inevitable secrecy. ... Hidden View Brett Ann Stanciu Current price: $19.95 Hidden View is a short novel set in the Vermont agrarian landscape, a story of Fern Hartshorn, unworldly, and unexpectedly pregnant at nineteen. ... A Stranger In The Kingdom: A Novel Howard Frank Mosher Current price: $17.99 This novel of murder and its aftermath in a small Vermont town in the 1950s is “reminiscent of To Kill a Mockingbird...Absorbing” (New York Times). ... Sanctuary: Kip Tiernan and Rosie's Place, the Nation's First Shelter for Women Christine McDonnell Current price: $18.99 Before Kip Tiernan came along, the US had no shelters for women. Here is the inspirational story of a singular woman and what her vision and compassion have brought to life. ... Stealing Mt. Rushmore Daphne Kalmar Current price: $16.99 "Daphne Kalmar has created a wonderfully imperfect cast of characters and gathered them into a story that will break your heart. . . and heal it again. Stealing Mt. Rushmore has it all." —Marion Dane Bauer, author of the Newberry Honor novel On My Honor ... Beyond Denial: Essays on Consciousness, Spiritual Practice and Social Repair Anthony E. Acheson Current price: $19.95 Beyond Denial is an essay collection that sketches a spirituality for our time that is life-affirming and inclusive, intellectually viable and socially responsible. ... Moment to Moment: Poems of a Mountain Recluse David Budbill Current price: $14.00 New England mountain recluse's poems reminiscent of those of the great Chinese and Taoist poet-sages. ... Crosscut: Poems (Mary Burritt Christiansen Poetry) Sean Prentiss Current price: $18.95 Sean Prentiss takes readers into what it means to be a rookie trail-crew leader guiding a motley collection of at-risk teens for five months of backbreaking work in the Pacific Northwest. ... Peep and Ducky Sleepover David Martin Current price: $14.99 It’s sleepover night for good friends Peep and Ducky—lucky, lucky, lucky! Ducky’s in his pj’s.Ducky’s all ready.Peep’s in his footies,and so is his Teddy. ... Discounted Crossing to Safety (Modern Library Classics) Wallace Stegner Previous price: $19.00 Current price: $18.00 Introduction by Terry Tempest WilliamsAfterword by T. H. Watkins ... The Bear That Heard Crying Natalie Kinsey-Warnock, Helen Kinsey Current price: $7.99 An IRA-CBC Children’s Choice Book. The drama of this unbelievable but true story is enhanced by Ted Rand’s stunning illustrations. ... Caledonia County (Images of America) Dolores E. Ham Current price: $24.99 At the top of Vermont is a region known as the Northeast Kingdom. It is composed of three counties, and one of those counties is Caledonia. ... The SheepOver (Sweet Pea & Friends #1) Jennifer Churchman, John Churchman Current price: $7.99 Meet the adorable orphan lamb Sweet Pea and discover why her true story has become a picture book phenomenon and enchanted readers of all ages! ... Galvanized: New And Selected Poems Leland Kinsey Current price: $24.95 Leland Kinsey's much-anticipated new and selected poetry collection, Galvanized, ranges from Kinsey's home in the rugged mountains of northern Vermont to the towering stone lighthouses and highland shielings of his ancestors' Scotland. ... Roads Taken: Contemporary Vermont Poetry Sydney Lea (Editor) Current price: $24.95 With its mystical landscape and fiercely self-reliant citizenry, Vermont has inspired poets from its earliest days. This anthology of contemporary Vermont poets represents a wide range of accomplished voices?both young and old, both renowned and relatively unestablished. ... Translations from Bark Beetle: Poems Jody Gladding Current price: $16.00 "A powerful, eerie book." --CECILIA VICU A ... Contemporary Vermont Fiction: An Anthology John Elder (Foreword by) Current price: $19.95 Contemporary Vermont Fiction: An Anthology is a 244-page collection of short fiction by established Vermont-based writers, each rendering their own unique and diverse perspectives on the cultural and physical landscape of the Green Mountain State. ... Horse-Drawn Yogurt: Stories from Total Loss Farm, 2nd Revised Edition Peter Gould Current price: $16.95 Total Loss Farm in Guilford, Vermont, was and is a wordy place. Its hilly acres and flimsy buildings provided a refuge from a riven country, a place to grow paragraphs and stanzas, among the tilled rows of the market garden. ... Wild Mind, Wild Earth: Our Place in the Sixth Extinction David Hinton Current price: $19.95 Exploring the confluence of ancient Chinese spirituality and modern Western environmental thought, Wild Mind, Wild Earth reveals the unrecognized kinship of mind and nature that must be reanimated if we are to end our destruction of the planet. ... Elf Dog and Owl Head M. T. Anderson Current price: $18.99 From the singular imagination of National Book Award winner M. T. Anderson comes a magical adventure about a boy and his dog—or a dog and her boy—and a forest of wonders hidden in plain sight. ... Revolution in Our Time: The Black Panther Party’s Promise to the People Kekla Magoon Current price: $19.99 A National Book Award FinalistA Coretta Scott King Author Award Honor BookA Michael L. Printz Honor BookA Walter Dean Myers Honor Book ... Barb the Last Berzerker Dan Abdo, Jason Patterson, Dan & Jason Current price: $13.99 The action of Moana meets the humor of books like Dog Man in this sidesplitting graphic novel about a young Berzerker who has to rescue her fellow warriors from the evil villain Witch Head before he destroys the world! ... The Glass Château: A Novel Stephen P. Kiernan Current price: $30.00 From the critically acclaimed author of Universe of Two and The Baker’s Secret, a novel of hope, healing, and the redemptive power of art, set against the turmoil of post-World War II France and inspired by the life of Marc Chagall. ... I Could Hardly Keep from Laughing: An Illustrated Collection of Vermont Humor Don Hooper, Bill Mares Current price: $29.99 With brand new cartoons by Don Hooper, and a foreword by Jeff Danziger, I Could Hardly Keep from Laughing is a potpourri of art and words documenting how Vermont humor has evolved over 150 years. ... North: A Novel Brad Kessler Current price: $26.00 Award-winning author Brad Kessler’s North is a powerfully moving novel about the intertwined lives of a Vermont monk, a Somali refugee, and an Afghan war veteran by the author of the acclaimed memoir Goat Song. Finalist for the Dayton Literary Peace Prize ... The Memoirs of Stockholm Sven Nathaniel Ian Miller Current price: $17.99 In this "briskly entertaining" (New York Times Book Review), "transporting and wholly original" (People Magazine) novel, one man banishes himself to a solitary life in the Arctic Circle, and is saved by good friends, a loyal dog, and a surprise visit that changes everything. ... The Secret To Superhuman Strength Alison Bechdel Current price: $24.00 The Best Graphic Book of 2021 by Publishers Weekly | A New York Times Best Graphic Novel of 2021 | A New York Times Notable Book | An Autostraddle Best Queer Book of the Year | A Boston Globe Best Book of the Year | A St. ... Lieutenant Dangerous: A Vietnam War Memoir Jeff Danziger Current price: $14.95 "A must-read war memoir… with zero punches pulled, related by one of the most incisive observers of the American political scene." —KIRKUS (starred review) ... The Lioness: A Novel Chris Bohjalian Current price: $17.00 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A luxurious African safari turns deadly for a Hollywood starlet and her entourage in a riveting historical thriller the New York Times calls “Wildly entertaining.” • From the bestselling author of The Flight Attendant. ... Mad Honey: A Novel Jodi Picoult, Jennifer Finney Boylan Current price: $18.00 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “Alternatingly heart-pounding and heartbreaking. ... The Universe in You: A Microscopic Journey Jason Chin Current price: $18.99 Jason Chin, winner of the Caldecott Medal for Watercress, dives into the microscopic building blocks of life in this companion to the award-winning Your Place in the Universe. ... Ear Worm! Jo Knowles Current price: $17.99 A musical treat for the ear and eye, this antic tale of a worm on a mission doubles as a cozy bedtime book. ... Coming of Age: My Journey to the Eighties Madeleine May Kunin, Governor Current price: $18.95 Many readers are already familiar with Madeleine Kunin, the former three-term governor of Vermont, who served as the deputy secretary of education and ambassador to Switzerland under President Bill Clinton. ... Discounted Black Is the Body: Stories from My Grandmother's Time, My Mother's Time, and Mine Emily Bernard Previous price: $18.00 Current price: $16.00 “Blackness is an art, not a science. It is a paradox: intangible and visceral; a situation and a story. It is the thread that connects these essays, but its significance as an experience emerges randomly, unpredictably. . . ... Once & Future Cory McCarthy, A. R. Capetta Current price: $10.99 King Arthur as you've never seen her! This bold, sizzling YA novel reimagines the Once and Future King as a teenage girl determined to save the universe from an evil curse. My name is Ari Helix. I have a magic sword, a cranky wizard, and a revolution to start. I've been chased my whole life. ... The Heartbreak Bakery A. R. Capetta Current price: $11.99 A Lambda Literary Award Winner Teenage baker Syd sends ripples of heartbreak through Austin’s queer community when a batch of post-being-dumped brownies turns out to be magical—and makes everyone who eats them break up. ... The Benefits of Being an Octopus: A Novel Ann Braden Current price: $9.99 One of Edutopia's "25 Essential Middle School Reads from the Last Decade," NPR Best Book of 2018, Bank Street List for Best Children's Books of 2019, Named to the Vermont Dorothy Canfield Fisher List, Maine's Student Book Award List, Louisiana Young Reader's Choice Award List, Rhode Island Middle ... Over and Under the Snow Kate Messner Current price: $8.99 A wonderful winter book for kids from the author and illustrator of the beloved Over and Under series, now in paperback! ...
The Morse Code: Legacy of a Vermont Sportswriter Brendan Buckley Current price: $19.99 No description available.
Landmark Memories: A Vermont Village 1930s-1950s Joyce Slayton Mitchell Current price: $19.95 More than “the good old days,” destined only for the memoir and history-buff markets; more than the “community-building” market to describe America’s fall from working and playing together books, Landmark Memories tells stories, vignettes, really, of a Vermont village. Describing the school, the ...
Unstitched: My Journey to Understand Opioid Addiction and How People and Communities Can Heal Brett Ann Stanciu Current price: $15.00 What if society looked at addiction without judgement? Unstitched shares the powerful story of one librarian’s quest to understand the impact of addiction fed by stigma and inevitable secrecy. ...
Hidden View Brett Ann Stanciu Current price: $19.95 Hidden View is a short novel set in the Vermont agrarian landscape, a story of Fern Hartshorn, unworldly, and unexpectedly pregnant at nineteen. ...
A Stranger In The Kingdom: A Novel Howard Frank Mosher Current price: $17.99 This novel of murder and its aftermath in a small Vermont town in the 1950s is “reminiscent of To Kill a Mockingbird...Absorbing” (New York Times). ...
Sanctuary: Kip Tiernan and Rosie's Place, the Nation's First Shelter for Women Christine McDonnell Current price: $18.99 Before Kip Tiernan came along, the US had no shelters for women. Here is the inspirational story of a singular woman and what her vision and compassion have brought to life. ...
Stealing Mt. Rushmore Daphne Kalmar Current price: $16.99 "Daphne Kalmar has created a wonderfully imperfect cast of characters and gathered them into a story that will break your heart. . . and heal it again. Stealing Mt. Rushmore has it all." —Marion Dane Bauer, author of the Newberry Honor novel On My Honor ...
Beyond Denial: Essays on Consciousness, Spiritual Practice and Social Repair Anthony E. Acheson Current price: $19.95 Beyond Denial is an essay collection that sketches a spirituality for our time that is life-affirming and inclusive, intellectually viable and socially responsible. ...
Moment to Moment: Poems of a Mountain Recluse David Budbill Current price: $14.00 New England mountain recluse's poems reminiscent of those of the great Chinese and Taoist poet-sages. ...
Crosscut: Poems (Mary Burritt Christiansen Poetry) Sean Prentiss Current price: $18.95 Sean Prentiss takes readers into what it means to be a rookie trail-crew leader guiding a motley collection of at-risk teens for five months of backbreaking work in the Pacific Northwest. ...
Peep and Ducky Sleepover David Martin Current price: $14.99 It’s sleepover night for good friends Peep and Ducky—lucky, lucky, lucky! Ducky’s in his pj’s.Ducky’s all ready.Peep’s in his footies,and so is his Teddy. ...
Discounted Crossing to Safety (Modern Library Classics) Wallace Stegner Previous price: $19.00 Current price: $18.00 Introduction by Terry Tempest WilliamsAfterword by T. H. Watkins ...
The Bear That Heard Crying Natalie Kinsey-Warnock, Helen Kinsey Current price: $7.99 An IRA-CBC Children’s Choice Book. The drama of this unbelievable but true story is enhanced by Ted Rand’s stunning illustrations. ...
Caledonia County (Images of America) Dolores E. Ham Current price: $24.99 At the top of Vermont is a region known as the Northeast Kingdom. It is composed of three counties, and one of those counties is Caledonia. ...
The SheepOver (Sweet Pea & Friends #1) Jennifer Churchman, John Churchman Current price: $7.99 Meet the adorable orphan lamb Sweet Pea and discover why her true story has become a picture book phenomenon and enchanted readers of all ages! ...
Galvanized: New And Selected Poems Leland Kinsey Current price: $24.95 Leland Kinsey's much-anticipated new and selected poetry collection, Galvanized, ranges from Kinsey's home in the rugged mountains of northern Vermont to the towering stone lighthouses and highland shielings of his ancestors' Scotland. ...
Roads Taken: Contemporary Vermont Poetry Sydney Lea (Editor) Current price: $24.95 With its mystical landscape and fiercely self-reliant citizenry, Vermont has inspired poets from its earliest days. This anthology of contemporary Vermont poets represents a wide range of accomplished voices?both young and old, both renowned and relatively unestablished. ...
Translations from Bark Beetle: Poems Jody Gladding Current price: $16.00 "A powerful, eerie book." --CECILIA VICU A ...
Contemporary Vermont Fiction: An Anthology John Elder (Foreword by) Current price: $19.95 Contemporary Vermont Fiction: An Anthology is a 244-page collection of short fiction by established Vermont-based writers, each rendering their own unique and diverse perspectives on the cultural and physical landscape of the Green Mountain State. ...
Horse-Drawn Yogurt: Stories from Total Loss Farm, 2nd Revised Edition Peter Gould Current price: $16.95 Total Loss Farm in Guilford, Vermont, was and is a wordy place. Its hilly acres and flimsy buildings provided a refuge from a riven country, a place to grow paragraphs and stanzas, among the tilled rows of the market garden. ...
Wild Mind, Wild Earth: Our Place in the Sixth Extinction David Hinton Current price: $19.95 Exploring the confluence of ancient Chinese spirituality and modern Western environmental thought, Wild Mind, Wild Earth reveals the unrecognized kinship of mind and nature that must be reanimated if we are to end our destruction of the planet. ...
Elf Dog and Owl Head M. T. Anderson Current price: $18.99 From the singular imagination of National Book Award winner M. T. Anderson comes a magical adventure about a boy and his dog—or a dog and her boy—and a forest of wonders hidden in plain sight. ...
Revolution in Our Time: The Black Panther Party’s Promise to the People Kekla Magoon Current price: $19.99 A National Book Award FinalistA Coretta Scott King Author Award Honor BookA Michael L. Printz Honor BookA Walter Dean Myers Honor Book ...
Barb the Last Berzerker Dan Abdo, Jason Patterson, Dan & Jason Current price: $13.99 The action of Moana meets the humor of books like Dog Man in this sidesplitting graphic novel about a young Berzerker who has to rescue her fellow warriors from the evil villain Witch Head before he destroys the world! ...
The Glass Château: A Novel Stephen P. Kiernan Current price: $30.00 From the critically acclaimed author of Universe of Two and The Baker’s Secret, a novel of hope, healing, and the redemptive power of art, set against the turmoil of post-World War II France and inspired by the life of Marc Chagall. ...
I Could Hardly Keep from Laughing: An Illustrated Collection of Vermont Humor Don Hooper, Bill Mares Current price: $29.99 With brand new cartoons by Don Hooper, and a foreword by Jeff Danziger, I Could Hardly Keep from Laughing is a potpourri of art and words documenting how Vermont humor has evolved over 150 years. ...
North: A Novel Brad Kessler Current price: $26.00 Award-winning author Brad Kessler’s North is a powerfully moving novel about the intertwined lives of a Vermont monk, a Somali refugee, and an Afghan war veteran by the author of the acclaimed memoir Goat Song. Finalist for the Dayton Literary Peace Prize ...
The Memoirs of Stockholm Sven Nathaniel Ian Miller Current price: $17.99 In this "briskly entertaining" (New York Times Book Review), "transporting and wholly original" (People Magazine) novel, one man banishes himself to a solitary life in the Arctic Circle, and is saved by good friends, a loyal dog, and a surprise visit that changes everything. ...
The Secret To Superhuman Strength Alison Bechdel Current price: $24.00 The Best Graphic Book of 2021 by Publishers Weekly | A New York Times Best Graphic Novel of 2021 | A New York Times Notable Book | An Autostraddle Best Queer Book of the Year | A Boston Globe Best Book of the Year | A St. ...
Lieutenant Dangerous: A Vietnam War Memoir Jeff Danziger Current price: $14.95 "A must-read war memoir… with zero punches pulled, related by one of the most incisive observers of the American political scene." —KIRKUS (starred review) ...
The Lioness: A Novel Chris Bohjalian Current price: $17.00 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A luxurious African safari turns deadly for a Hollywood starlet and her entourage in a riveting historical thriller the New York Times calls “Wildly entertaining.” • From the bestselling author of The Flight Attendant. ...
Mad Honey: A Novel Jodi Picoult, Jennifer Finney Boylan Current price: $18.00 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “Alternatingly heart-pounding and heartbreaking. ...
The Universe in You: A Microscopic Journey Jason Chin Current price: $18.99 Jason Chin, winner of the Caldecott Medal for Watercress, dives into the microscopic building blocks of life in this companion to the award-winning Your Place in the Universe. ...
Ear Worm! Jo Knowles Current price: $17.99 A musical treat for the ear and eye, this antic tale of a worm on a mission doubles as a cozy bedtime book. ...
Coming of Age: My Journey to the Eighties Madeleine May Kunin, Governor Current price: $18.95 Many readers are already familiar with Madeleine Kunin, the former three-term governor of Vermont, who served as the deputy secretary of education and ambassador to Switzerland under President Bill Clinton. ...
Discounted Black Is the Body: Stories from My Grandmother's Time, My Mother's Time, and Mine Emily Bernard Previous price: $18.00 Current price: $16.00 “Blackness is an art, not a science. It is a paradox: intangible and visceral; a situation and a story. It is the thread that connects these essays, but its significance as an experience emerges randomly, unpredictably. . . ...
Once & Future Cory McCarthy, A. R. Capetta Current price: $10.99 King Arthur as you've never seen her! This bold, sizzling YA novel reimagines the Once and Future King as a teenage girl determined to save the universe from an evil curse. My name is Ari Helix. I have a magic sword, a cranky wizard, and a revolution to start. I've been chased my whole life. ...
The Heartbreak Bakery A. R. Capetta Current price: $11.99 A Lambda Literary Award Winner Teenage baker Syd sends ripples of heartbreak through Austin’s queer community when a batch of post-being-dumped brownies turns out to be magical—and makes everyone who eats them break up. ...
The Benefits of Being an Octopus: A Novel Ann Braden Current price: $9.99 One of Edutopia's "25 Essential Middle School Reads from the Last Decade," NPR Best Book of 2018, Bank Street List for Best Children's Books of 2019, Named to the Vermont Dorothy Canfield Fisher List, Maine's Student Book Award List, Louisiana Young Reader's Choice Award List, Rhode Island Middle ...
Over and Under the Snow Kate Messner Current price: $8.99 A wonderful winter book for kids from the author and illustrator of the beloved Over and Under series, now in paperback! ...
