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1) In the fall
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An interracial relationship between a Union soldier from Vermont and a runaway slave at the end of the Civil War initiates a haunting family legacy of war, racism, and secrets that follows three generations from the end of the Civil War to the Great Depression.
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Inspired by an exhibit in Manchester, Vermont in 2023, this book describes how Lyman Orton (whose family owns the Vermont Country Store) has gathered an extensive collection of art that has as its subject the landscape of Vermont, as well as her people and their activities over the past 150 or so years.
For the first time, here is the story of how the proprietor of The Vermont Country Store endeavored over the past forty-five years to retain and...
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This non-fiction comics anthology presents stories of survival and healing told by Latin American migrant farmworkers in Vermont, and drawn by New England cartoonists as part of the El Viaje Mas Caro Project-a health care outreach effort of the Open Door Clinic and UVM Extension Bridges to Health aimed at addressing the overlooked mental health needs of these vulnerable immigrants. Originally distributed to farm workers as individual Spanish language...
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Published in 2018 in connection with the Brattleboro Museum & Art Center exhibit "Emily Mason: To another place", the catalogue contains reproductions of all 50 paintings in the exhibition, an essay by BMAC Chief Curator Mara Williams and a chronology of Emily Mason's career.
Emily Mason is one of America's most important and admired living artists. For the past 50 years, she and her husband, artist Wolf Kahn, have spent the summers and falls living...
7) Identity
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"The #1 New York Times-bestselling author's terrifying new thriller about one man's ice-cold malice, and one woman's fight to reclaim her life. Former Army brat Morgan Albright has finally planted roots in a friendly neighborhood near Baltimore. Her friend and roommate Nina helps her make the mortgage payments, as does Morgan's job as a bartender. But after she and Nina host their first dinner party-attended by Luke, the flirtatious IT guy who'd been...
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In the summer of 1953, two 11-year-old boys--best friends--are playing in a Little League baseball game in New Hampshire. One of the boys hits a foul ball that kills his best friend's mother. Owen Meany believes he didn't hit the ball by accident. He believes he is God's instrument. What happens to Owen after 1953 is extraordinary and terrifying. He is Irving's most heartbreaking hero.
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Ellingham Academy is a famous private school in Vermont for the brightest thinkers, inventors, and artists. It was founded by Albert Ellingham, an early 20th century tycoon, who wanted to make a wonderful place full of riddles, twisting pathways, and gardens. A place, he said, where learning is a game. Shortly after the school opened, his wife and daughter were kidnapped. The only real clue was a mocking riddle listing methods of murder, signed with...
10) The broken girls
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Idlewild Hall is a boarding school in Vermont for girls who don't fit in; there are rumors the school is haunted. In 1950, four roommates bond over their whispered fears, and budding friendship, until 1 of them disappears. 64 years later, Fiona, sister of a murdered Idlewild girl returns to write a story about the school. Though her sister's boyfriend was was convicted of the crime 20 years ago, Fiona has always felt there was something suspicious...
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"Be careful what you wish for. When social worker Jax receives nine missed calls from her older sister, Lexie, she assumes that it's just another one of her sister's episodes. Manic and increasingly out of touch with reality, Lexie has pushed Jax away for over a year. But the next day, Lexie is dead: drowned in the pool at their grandmother's estate. When Jax arrives at the house to go through her sister's things, she learns that Lexie was researching...
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