In this personal and poignant memoir, Vivian Miller Moore recounts her adventures when a ruffed grouse she names Paddy chooses to live on the ancestral family farm she shares with her husband. Paddy: A Ruffed Grouse Chooses Our Farm is the story of an unusual friendship between a wild bird and a woman willing to learn from him and protect him.  In addition to the story she tells about Paddy, Moore also invites readers into the world of farming in the hills of Vermont. In prose that is at once simple and elegant, author Vivian Moore gives readers a perspective on living with the land, an experience to be shared with readers of all ages.

Paddy: A Ruffed Grouse Chooses Our Farm

Science & Math

Moore, Vivian Miller

Nature & Ecology

White River Pr

<p>Spirituality is a book about the spiritual life that doesn't tell you what to believe. Have you ever heard someone say: "I'm spiritual, but not religious." Or "It's easier for me to find God in nature than in a church." Or "I can't limit myself to just one faith tradition: I see God in all of them." If statements like these make sense to you, you aren't alone. Today, more people are searching for spiritual experience outside traditional channels of religious faith. But even alternative or New Age spiritualities are often filled with dogma and prescribed notions of how to behave and what to believe. By contrast, Carl McColman's book answers the question "What is spirituality, and why does it matter?" with insights drawn not only from religious traditions, but also popular culture. Here the emphasis is on celebrating the many ways spirituality makes a powerful and positive difference in our lives.</p>

Spirituality: A Post-Modern and Interfaith Approach to Cultivating a Relationship With God

McColman, Carl

Self-Help

<p>Every year on the Fourth of July, Jeeter’s wife Lou struts in the town parade wearing suspenders made of jumper cables with a tow chain around her waist. Those in the know―which means everyone in town―chuckle at Lou’s silent commentary on her husband’s skill as an automotive mechanic. But Jeeter has a different perspective: “That’s my wife right there,” he tells a stranger. “She knows cars.” Author Bill Schubart brings to life the friends and characters of his native Lamoille County, where in the late 1950s and early 1960s, life was lived close to the earth and often against the grain. Schubart’s collection of twenty-two stories captures Vermont in its transition from an enclave of hill farms and small towns where everyone knew your grandfather to a place where vehicles bearing license plates from “away” mix with hippie vans filled with born-again Vermonters getting back to the land…until snowfall. It’s a time and place where the Jeeters of The Lamoille Stories rub elbows with the ladies of the Uplift Club, all to the fiddle accompaniment of Québécois music played by people whose conversations often weave French and English together in a single sentence. Schubart’s full-hearted and compassionate evocation of this Vermont is by turns poignant, funny and savory. The stories give readers a good excuse to stay up too late to discover how Wyvis will circumvent the new Vermont prohibition on having more than three junk cars in your yard or how Charlie is going to get Edgar to pay him for his new chimney. Schubart’s thoroughly enjoyable short story collection is as finely etched as the frost crystals on your winter window. Amusez-vous bien! “Bill Schubart’s Vermont stories of a mostly-forgotten time and place are fresh, authentic, funny in places and sad in others. He knows his corner of the Green Mountains inside out and writes with honesty and grace about its people.” ―Howard Frank Mosher, author of Disappearances, Mary Blythe, and On Kingdom Mountain</p>

The Lamoille Stories: Uncle Benoit's Wake and Other Tales from Vermont

Literature & Fiction

Schubart, Bill

Contemporary

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