“Horse”
Geraldine Brooks
Viking, 2022
In mid-19th century America, Lexington was hailed as the greatest racing stallion of all time. His beauty and power were captured by Thomas Scott, an itinerant equine painter of the era; and after his death, his skeleton became a celebrated...
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“Universe of Two” by Stephen P. Kiernan
William Morrow, 2020
“Universe of Two” is a wartime love story of a physicist, Charlie Fisk, and an organist, Brenda Dubie. They meet in 1943 when he wanders into Dubie’s Music, a Chicago store that sells sheet music and...
William Morrow, 2020
“Universe of Two” is a wartime love story of a physicist, Charlie Fisk, and an organist, Brenda Dubie. They meet in 1943 when he wanders into Dubie’s Music, a Chicago store that sells sheet music and...
“The Winter of the Witch” by Katherine Arden, Del Rey, 2019
“The Winter of the Witch” is the third volume of Katherine Arden’s “Winternight Trilogy,” a fantasy set in medieval Russia (Rus’) and deftly incorporating the country’s rich fairytale tradition. The first volume, “The...
One-Minute Book Reviews: Laura Stevenson
“Aesop Lake” by Sarah Ward Green Writers Press, 2018
Leda Keogh’s boyfriend is the bright spot in her life. Her father’s death has left the family in desperate financial circumstances that have led her mother to supplement her care-giving job by selling opioids. Her older...
Leda Keogh’s boyfriend is the bright spot in her life. Her father’s death has left the family in desperate financial circumstances that have led her mother to supplement her care-giving job by selling opioids. Her older...
“The Broken Girls” by Simone St. James, Penguin Random House, 2018
Idlewild Hall, a deserted girls’ boarding school just outside the small Vermont town of Barrons, was known to be haunted long before it closed in 1979. Later, it became known as the place where police found...
Idlewild Hall, a deserted girls’ boarding school just outside the small Vermont town of Barrons, was known to be haunted long before it closed in 1979. Later, it became known as the place where police found...
Frost Heaves by T. Stores Green Writers Press, 2018
The title story in these 13 intricately linked short stories is the last, but the metaphor of emotions that push themselves up from beneath the thick surface of ordinary lives deftly describes the whole. The collection...
The title story in these 13 intricately linked short stories is the last, but the metaphor of emotions that push themselves up from beneath the thick surface of ordinary lives deftly describes the whole. The collection...
“The Underneath” by Melanie Finn, Two Dollar Radio, 2018
Kay Ward was once an intrepid international journalist in Uganda, writing a story about the atrocities of General Christmas and his child soldiers. Now she is the mother of two children and the wife of documentary...
Kay Ward was once an intrepid international journalist in Uganda, writing a story about the atrocities of General Christmas and his child soldiers. Now she is the mother of two children and the wife of documentary...
“Red Scare in the Green Mountains: Vermont in the McCarthy Era1946-1960” by Rick Winston - Rootstock Publishing, 2018
This interesting and informative book has its roots in “Vermont in the McCarthy Era,” a conference that Winston helped to organize and for which he was a researcher. A...
This interesting and informative book has its roots in “Vermont in the McCarthy Era,” a conference that Winston helped to organize and for which he was a researcher. A...
“The Benefits of Being an Octopus” by Ann Braden
Sky Pony Press, 2018
Are there really benefits of being an octopus? Most people would say there aren’t, but seventh-grader Zoey knows better. One benefit, she has learned from a discarded DVD and the...
Are there really benefits of being an octopus? Most people would say there aren’t, but seventh-grader Zoey knows better. One benefit, she has learned from a discarded DVD and the...
“The Opposite of Never” by Mary Kathleen Mehuron, Spark Press, 2018
Note: Laura Stevenson is featuring Vermont authors. The Vermont series started in April.
In an unusual love story, Mehuron portrays parallel Vermont romances of two generations: one of Kenny Simmons...
Note: Laura Stevenson is featuring Vermont authors. The Vermont series started in April.
In an unusual love story, Mehuron portrays parallel Vermont romances of two generations: one of Kenny Simmons...
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