"Downsized from his job and dumped by his girlfriend, Harrison Allen longs for a fresh start. Alone, with no prospects or plans, he relocates to a borrowed house on Friars Island in Lake Champlain to relax, contemplate, and begin redefining his life. Then he hears about the monsters.... Creatures - perhaps similar to those of Loch Ness - are said to inhabit the murky waters and fogbound marshes of his new island home. His interest piqued, Harrison...

"On the eve of Vermont's Great Flood of 1927, rain falls on northern Lake Champlain. Otter's father has been missing since World War I, and then a letter arrives with surprising news. Royal St. Onge may be alive! Otter and Granddad load a canoe with Mississquoi Moonbeam and paddle across Goose Bay to rendezvous at the family camp, but Otter's father is nowhere to be found, and bullet holes scar the cabin walls. The trail finally leads to a cutthroat...

Biography of Civil War veteran Truman Naramore who was captured at Craig's Meeting House during the Battle of the Wilderness. After surviving imprisonment at Andersonville, Naramore returned to Vermont to become a successful farmer, businessman, and inventor, eventually migrating to California and its real estate boom.

This richly realistic story which takes place in Barre, Vt. in the decades preceeding WWII is told through the eyes of a penniless, frail but sharp-witted immigrant schoolteacher, Mr. Tiff. He watches and reflects as his friends and family engage in the drama of life - marriage, birth and death - yet who never speak of the fear that is always with them, that of the granite dust that kills the stonemasons who make their living in the sheds.

Set in the remote mountains to the north, Broken Wing is an allegorical tale about a rusty blackbird with a broken wing who can't fly and therefore is trapped in the inhospitable north country for the winter, and a man, known only as The Man Who Lives Alone in the Mountains, who lives a solitary life of nurturing attentiveness, simple kindness, and passionate emotional intensity. Broken Wing is the story of how these two different lives come together....

"Helen and Scott Nearing, authors of Living the Good Life and many other bestselling books, lived together for 53 years until Scott's death at age 100. Loving and Leaving the Good Life is Helen's testimonial to their life together and to what they stood for: self-sufficiency, generosity, social justice, and peace. In 1932, after deciding it would be better to be poor in the country than in the city, Helen and Scott moved from New York City to Vermont....