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The Buffalo Soldier

The Buffalo Soldier
  • Author(s): Chris Bohjalian
  • Location(s): Vermont

With his trademark emotional heft and storytelling skill, bestselling author Chris Bohjalian presents this resonant novel about the formation of an unconventional family-the ties that bind it, and the strains that pull it apart. Two years after their twin...

The Mill River Redemption: A Novel

The Mill River Redemption: A Novel
  • Author(s): Darcie Chan
  • Location(s): Vermont
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance

Sequel to the Mill River Recluse New York Times bestselling author Darcie Chan returns to the enchanting town of Mill River in a heartwarming novel of family, self-discovery, and forgiveness. Perfect for fans of Maeve Binchy. Josie DiSanti is...

The Santa Shop

The Santa Shop
  • Author(s): Tim Greaton
  • Location(s): New York State, Vermont
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

A poignant and uplifting story. Skip Ralstat loses his wife and baby son on a Christmas Eve fire, Skip’s palpable guilt that he wasn’t there for them causes him to lose his job as a lawyer: and he becomes...

BEFORE

BEFORE
  • Author(s): J Kilburn
  • Location(s): Vermont
  • Genre(s): Coming of Age, Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1990's

BEFORE by Vermont writer J. Kilburn takes your average teenagers, gives them family and community, and then plausibly and seamlessly drops them into international intrigue in a small New England college town. These teenagers go about their sweet and...

Bittersweet

Bittersweet
  • Author(s): Miranda Beverly-Whittemore
  • Location(s): Vermont
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

One perfect family. Too many perfect lies. In every glossy picture of the American society pages, there’s an Ev Winslow. Disarmingly beautiful, and – naturally – tall, athletic, with a smile that’s perfect. Small-town Mabel Dagmar has never known...

The Mill River Recluse

The Mill River Recluse
  • Author(s): Darcie Chan
  • Location(s): Vermont
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

Disfigured by the blow of an abusive husband, the widow Mary McAllister has spent almost sixty years secluded in a white marble mansion overlooking the town of Mill River, Vermont. Her links to the outside world are few: the...

Blue Angel

Blue Angel
  • Author(s): Francine Prose
  • Location(s): Vermont
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Set in a small town in Northern Vermont, Swenson, a professor of creative writing at a small American college, has published a novel of his own. And it’s been longer since one of his students has shown the faintest...

Pollyanna

Pollyanna
  • Author(s): Eleanor H Porter
  • Location(s): Vermont
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): Early 1900s

When orphan Pollyanna is sent to live with her bad-tempered aunt, she realizes that many of the folk in Beldingsville could use her help. As she brings cheer and hope to the people around her, and reminds them that...

Afterlife

Afterlife
  • Author(s): Julia Alvarez
  • Location(s): Vermont
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Antonia Vega, the immigrant writer at the center of Afterlife, has had the rug pulled out from under her. She has just retired from the college where she taught English when her beloved husband, Sam, suddenly dies. And then...

American Homemaker

American Homemaker
  • Author(s): John Kaine
  • Location(s): Vermont
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Kim Loomis is a social media star, homemaker and mortician. With her husband Norman, they’ve been bringing in a dark harvest. But death is an infrequent visitor to a small town, and when they struggle to meet demand, Kim...

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