The Vermont Book Shop
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Book review: Little Family — by Ishmael Beah
(Riverhead Books) Five children in an unnamed postcolonial African port city, having fled their previous lives riddled with unspoken struggles, come together, one by one, to form a…
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Book review: The Path to Fernglade — by Susan Humphrey
(Woods Edge Press) Weybridge author, as well as a former teacher, bookseller and Middlebury College graduate, Susan Humphrey lost her second son, Dan, to an extremely rare form…
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Book review: The End of October — by Lawrence Wright
(Knopf Publishing Group) The premise of Lawrence Wright’s apocalyptic new thriller is eerily familiar: a mysterious new virus turned global pandemic infects untold numbers of people as scientists…
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Book review: Officer Clemmons
(Catapult) Curious readers will discover inside information about “Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood,” but this deeply personal and intimate account of one man’s single-minded pursuit of a career as a…
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Book review: The Book of Longings — by Sue Monk Kidd
(Viking) Sue Monk Kidd, author of the beloved “Secret Life of Bees,” vividly portrays Ana, as the imagined wife of Jesus, in her new richly textured, historically accurate…
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Book review: Why We Swim — by Bonnie Tsui
(Algonquin Books) Tsui reminds us that “as human swimmers, we can never really be the fish,” but we can experience the unique isolation of submersion. Her informative book…
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Book review: Simon the Fiddler — by Paulette Jiles
(William Morrow & Company) Paulette Jiles has somehow outdone herself, crafting another wholly original story, rooted in its historical time and space, directly following the end of America’s…
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Book review: Afterlife — by Julia Alvarez
(Algonquin Books) At long last, the wait is over because readers who loved “In the Time of the Butterflies” and “How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents” finally…
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Book review: Untamed — by Glennon Doyle
(Dial Press) Glennon Doyle’s new memoir may break you open. From the opening chapter’s description of her child’s reaction to a caged cheetah to the astounding moment when…
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Book review: Deep Creek: Finding Hope in the High Country — by Pam Houston
W. W. Norton & Company I was lucky enough to hear Pam Houston read when she was on a book tour for “Contents May Have Shifted,” a novel…
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Book review: The Red Lotus — by Chris Bohjalian
(Doubleday Books) It’s not uncommon to see the No.1 New York Times bestselling author of “Midwives” and “The Flight Attendant” cycling along Addison County roadways. A resident of…
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Book review: The Story of More — by Hope Jahren
(Vintage) Hope Jahren, an award-winning geobiologist and writer, was tasked with teaching a class on climate change. Feeling like she had no business telling anybody anything about this…
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Book review: The Falcon Thief — by Joshua Hammer
(Simon & Schuster) Prepare to enter the surreal landscape of the wildlife-crime underworld where you’ll meet notorious wild-bird trafficker and convicted egg thief Jeffrey Lendrum. You, like the…
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Book review: The Bear — by Andrew Krivak
(Bellevue Literary Press) In Andrew Kirivak’s slim new novel, a father meticulously and lovingly teaches his only offspring, his wise young daughter, how to live on the land,…
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Book review: Weather – by Jenny Offill
(Knopf Publishing Group) “Weather,” at its base, is a book about a university librarian, a mother, a wife and the sister of a brother struggling with addiction, but…
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Book review: When We Were Vikings — by Andrew David MacDonald
(Scout Press) You’ll instantly fall in love with the narrator of this book, Zelda, and get completely caught up in her enthusiasm for everything Viking. She is also…