vermont

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The darkness under the water

2008
Molly Ballou, an Abenaki-French Canadian girl in 1920s Vermont, is haunted by her dead sister and her family's secrets as the government tries to force the Ballous and their neighbors out of their homes in an attempt to rid the state of its poor citizens.

The good life

Helen and Scott Nearing's sixty years of self-sufficient living
1989
Contains Helen and Scott Nearing's classic guides to the theory and practice of rural homesteading, "Living the Good Life" and "Continuing the Good Life".

Second glance

a novel
2003
When an old man puts a piece of land up for sale in Vermont, the local Abenaki Indian tribe protest, claiming it is a burial ground, and when odd, supernatural events start plaguing the town, a ghost hunter is hired by the developer to help convince residents that there is nothing spiritual about the property.

Knuckleboom loaders load logs

a trip to the sawmill
2003
Shows how trees in Vermont are cut down and taken to a sawmill where they are turned into lumber, wood chips, and other useful products.

Second glance

a novel
2004
When an old man puts a piece of land up for sale in Vermont, the local Abenaki Indian tribe protest, claiming it is a burial ground, and when odd, supernatural events start plaguing the town, a ghost hunter is hired by the developer to help convince residents that there is nothing spiritual about the property.

Fire!

my parents' story
1998
Describes a nighttime fire in a country house in Vermont in 1948 and the struggle of the residents to save their belongings.

Dear Mom, in Ohio for a year

1992
When she is sent to stay with her aunt and uncle in rural Vermont while her mother finishes college, Cassie must adjust to a new school and a very different way of life.

Nearer nature

1996
The noted naturalist and artist presents sketches and observations from his walks around the Vermont farm where he lives.

The two brothers

2000
Heinrich and Friedrich, two brothers in Prussia in the 1880s, travel separately to America and end up working on adjacent farms in Vermont.

Heart songs and other stories

1995
Contains over ten short fiction stories by Pulitzer Prize winning author Annie Proulx.

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