The Vermont Book Shop
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Book review: Mary Jane — by Jessica Anya Blau
(Custom House) Mary Jane — a 14-year-old girl in 1970s Baltimore, sheltered from the seismic cultural shift the country has taken by her strict, conformist parents — has…
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Book review: Hour of the Witch — by Chris Bohjalian
(Doubleday Books) In a departure from his most recent bestselling books, Chris Bohjalian, lucky for us, a local to Addison County and a New York Times bestselling author,…
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Book review: Wonder Walkers — by Micha Archer
(Nancy Paulsen Books) Two children, in their house, and one inquires of the other, “Wonder walk?? which tells the reader, or listener, of this picture book, that a…
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Book review: The Addiction Inoculation — by Jessica Lahey
(Harper) The adolescent brain is a marvel of biology, and understanding the pace of its growth is how this book begins to unravel why teens are “wired for…
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Book review: Libertie — by Kaitlyn Greenidge
(Algonquin Books) In their free Black community, rooted in still-rural Brooklyn in the days of Reconstruction following the Civil War, Libertie’s mother was a person of high regard,…
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Book review: The Agitators — by Dorothy Wickenden
(Scribner Book Company) Subtitled “Three Friends Who Fought for Abolition and Women’s Rights,” and written by author, journalist and current executive editor of the New Yorker, Dorothy Wickenden’s,…
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Book review: Accidentally Engaged — by Farah Heron
(Forever) If you like cooking competitions and romantic comedy, you will love Farah Heron’s new romance. Reena Manji’s parents have done it again; they’ve arranged her marriage to…
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Book review: Infinite Country — by Patricia Engel
(Avid Reader Press) The story of Elena and Mauro, Colombians by birth and allegiance, and their family, children born in both Bogotá and the United States, is the…
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Book review: Vera — by Carol Edgarian
(Scribner Book Company) Meet Vera, the oldest living survivor of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake — one of the worst and deadliest earthquakes in the history of the…
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Book review: Endpapers: A family story of books, war, escape, and home — by Alexander Wolff
(Atlantic Monthly Press) “Endpapers,” a historical and literary narrative/memoir, written by Cornwall-based journalist Alexander Wolff, opens with an illustrated family tree and contains a liberally-distributed trove of family…
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Book review: The Electric Kingdom — by David Arnold
(Viking Books for Young Readers) In David Arnold’s new young adult (that adults will also enjoy) post-apocalyptic survival story, a young woman and her dog set out on…
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Book review: Under A White Sky: The Nature of the Future — by Elizabeth Kolbert
(Crown Publishing Group) Pulitzer Prize-winning author Elizabeth Kolbert’s new book may have you shaking your head and chuckling, albeit grimly and under your breath. In the groundbreaking Silent…
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Book review: The Liar’s Dictionary — by Eley Williams
(Doubleday Books) Mallory, three years into a “temporary” internship at Swansby’s, the smaller, disgruntled and forgotten tome akin to the Oxford English Dictionary, mainly fields vaguely threatening phone…
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Book review: The Survivors — by Jane Harper
(Flatiron Books) When we first meet Bronte, an art student just landed in Evelyn Bay, a small coastal town on Tasmania off the southern coast of Australia, for…
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Book review: Aftershocks: A memoir — by Nadia Owusu
(Simon & Schuster) It is often said you can learn a lot by walking in someone else’s shoes, and this gifted writer, Nadia Owusu, winner of a Whiting…
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Book review: Better Luck Next Time — by Julia Claiborne Johnson
(Custom House) When an unknown but interested party finds Howard Stovall Bennett III, living out his last days in a retirement home, and shows him an old photo,…