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1) Midwives
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Cut off from the hospital and rescue squad by an ice storm, midwife Sibyl Danforth makes the decision to perform a cesarean section on a patient she believes has died of a stroke during labor, but when her assistant tells police the mother was alive during the surgery, Sibyl and the entire community are drawn into a gripping trial.
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University Press of New England
Pub. Date
c1999
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English
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In this new collection of never-before-published tales, classic legends, and long-forgotten lore, best-selling compiler and investigator of the supernatural Joseph A. Citro takes us on a tour of every haunted corner of his native state. We tour a home designed by otherworldly architects, pass the night in haunted hotels, visit an anti-gravity spot, and search for demon-protected treasure.
We take a ride on Vermont's only ghost ship, visit tiny fairyland...
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Chronicles the history of maple sugaring, spanning Native American traditions through modern practices, and explains the production process from tapping through marketing; also includes an essay on the Nearings, who first published this book in 1950 and based it on their own maple business.
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Catalyzed by a nephew's thoughtless prank, a pair of brothers confront painful psychological issues surrounding the freak accident that killed their father when they were boys, a loss linked to a heartbreaking deception that shaped their personal and professional lives.
6) Shadow child
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"To outsiders, the deep, impenetrable forest that blankets Vermont's Green Mountains gives the state its peaceful and verdant mystique, but those same dark woods hide a secret from pre-history that reaches menacingly into the present. Joseph A. Citro's widely read publications about the more haunting history, legends, and lore of New England have earned him a reputation as an expert on themes of the supernatural. In this book (first published in 1987),...
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Chip and Emily Linton have just purchased a rambling Victorian home in New Hampshire and hope to make a happy home there for themselves and their twin daughters. But, in a dusty corner of the basement is a door sealed with 39 six-inch long carriage bolts. Then the haunting begins.
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University Press of New England
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c2001
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"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...
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"Close Your Eyes, Hold Hands is the story of Emily Shepard, a homeless teen living in an igloo made of ice and trash bags filled with frozen leaves. Half a year earlier, a nuclear plant in Vermont's Northeast Kingdom had experienced a cataclysmic meltdown, and both of Emily's parents were killed. Devastatingly, her father was in charge of the plant, and the meltdown may have been his fault. Was he drunk when it happened? Thousands of people are forced...
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David Sedaris has kept a diary for forty years, recording everything that has captured his attention -- overheard comments, salacious gossip, soap opera plot twists, secrets confided by total strangers. These observations are the source code for his work, and through them he has honed his cunning, surprising sentences. Now Sedaris shares his private writings with the world. Theft by Finding, the first of two volumes, is an account of how a drug-abusing...
14) The sleepwalker
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When a sleepwalker who has experienced episodes of near violence while unconscious goes missing, her eldest daughter, Lianna, finds herself drawn to a lead detective who seems to know more than he is revealing.
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Horsethief Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
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"Far from the madding crowd, but keenly aware of the dangerous and uncertain world we live in, Kristina Stykos’s poems from rural Vermont uncover 'a joy shining through cracked prisms of love, loss and letting go,' exploring from the ground up, what it is to be human. Working as a landscape gardener, while trying to eke out a living as a musician, Stykos’s persistent voice is as singular as it is unsentimental, musing on a hardscrabble existence...
17) The second mouse
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Joe Gunther is called to the home of a young woman who apparently committed suicide, but is troubled by his findings and wants to investigate further. His normally trustworthy medical examiner however, stalls the investigation, for personal reasons. To get what he wants, Joe must help her with her situation first, but will it be in time to catch the violent trio lurking behind the woman's death?
19) Occam's razor
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The discovery of an apparently homeless man's body in downtown Brattleboro leads Detective Joe Gunther and his squad to investigate possible suspects from the down-and-out types in a local bar to gubernatorial candidates in Montpelier.
20) Water witches
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A conflict between a ski resort attempting to expand and environmentalists wanting to preserve a mountain for nature. The setting is Vermont, the protagonist, a lawyer hired by the ski resort to handle their case. As the novel progresses he becomes convinced of the validity of the opposition's cause. By the author of Past the Bleachers.
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