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toward me, out of the light, is a man. . . . Behind the man a faint curtain of light rises to the sky out of the ocean. He wears the light like a robe, though I see he's dressed like me. Jeans and a T-shirt, no shoes. And that he's older than I am, a lot older, maybe mid-thirties. He walks right toward me. He walks right into my eyes. So begins the spellbinding story of Warren Harlan Pease, a young U.S. Army sniper freshly returned from the Iraq War to his native New Hampshire. What follows is a page-turning adventure that is also a powerful meditation on religion and war, love and loss. This extraordinary work of compassion and healing grace combines the themes of religion, war and poetry in a way that is wholly original, and unforgettable. It will resonate with skeptics and believers, be shared and discussed between friends and among families."
deftly moves us from the intimacies of family life to school, to university, to various bureaucracies with exposure along the way to ballet and theater. This is a rich experience - a personal journey paralleled by huge national changes and ending in a deeply satisfying portrait of peace in America. Those who have traveled from another place to America will find themselves in this rich memoir. Yes, rich is the word I've been groping for: Rich."
confronts her identity as a biracial young woman in a world that wants to see her as either black or white. Meanwhile, a mystery unfolds, revealing the terrible truth about Rachel’s last morning on a Chicago rooftop. Interwoven are the voices of Jamie, a neighborhood boy who witnessed the events, and Laronne, a friend of Rachel’s mother. Inspired by a true story of a mother’s twisted love, The Girl Who Fell From the Sky reveals an unfathomable past and explores issues of identity at a time when many people are asking “must race confine us and define us?
hidden from her as a child--shocking revelations about April's mother, Adele. Elizabeth, now herself a mother, tracks down the people who knew Adele Cassidy and who thought that they knew what was going through her mind before she committed that most incomprehensible of crimes. She seeks out anyone who might help piece together the final months, days, and hours of this troubled woman’s life--from Adele's former neighbor to her psychiatrist to her sister. But the answers are more elusive than any normal investigation can yield, the questions raised difficult to contemplate. In fact, the further into the story Elizabeth digs, the more she is forced to accept that she and Adele might not be so different. Elizabeth's exploration thus leads her ultimately back to herself: her compromised marriage, her increasing self-doubt, her desire for more out of her career and her life, and finally to a fearsome reckoning with what it means to be a wife and mother.
"clients", those couples whose homes he has burgled for small items over and over again for almost a decade. His success is based on a precise and unflagging attention to details as well as a keen knowledge of his targets' schedules, work situations and appointments. This information affords Martin unnoticed access to their homes, access that is planned out and timed to the second--his watch's buzzer tells him when he has less than 30 seconds left in a particular house. When he begins to think of himself as his clients’ guardian angel, conscience rears its ugly head.
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her book, The Moon Makes its Own Plea , Mnookin explores the idea of self and how that self is strengthened and
abraded by relationships. Anchored in everyday life, the narrative is fluid and
the poems coalesce around the condition of mortality. Her poems probe this
question with bravado, defiance, fear, anger, humor and hope. Mnookin
graduated from Radcliffe College and the Vermont College MFA Program.
She lives in Newton, Massachusetts.
Baron Wormser, author of Scattered Chapters, believes in the power of poetry. He grew up in Baltimore, moved to Maine in 1970, worked as a librarian for twenty-five years, teaching poetry along the way while he and his family lived off the grid on forty-eight acres. His memoir, The Road Washes Out in Spring tells that story. In 2000 he was appointed Poet Laureate of Maine and served in that capacity for six years, visiting schols and libraries throughout Maine. He currently resides in Cabot, Vermont and teaches at the Stonecoast MFA program at the University of Southern Maine.
His 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.. that is.. until the snow falls. A poignant, funny and full-hearted evocation of a Vermont mostly forgotten. Sure to please, no matter what county you're from. At the bookstore.
Meet author/illustrator Will Moses who will sign his new book, Raining Cats and Dogs: A Collection of Irresistible Idioms and Illustrations to Tickle the Funny Bones of Young People. as well as his Night Before Christmas, Silent Night, and Hansel & Gretel. 
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Sunday, November 16 
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Sunday, July 20 at 4:00 PM Journalist & Vermont Public Radio personality 
Friday, July 25 at 6:30 PM 
Saturday & Sunday, July 26 & 27 The Lost Boys of Sudan- A Benefit with John Dau 
Sunday, May 18 at 4:00 PM, Former Vermont Life editor Tom Slayton will discuss his book, Searching for Thoreau: On the Trails & Shores of Wild New England.
Friday, June 13 @ 7:00 PM Simon Winchester reading from his new books, The Man Who Loved China: Joseph Needham & The Making of a Masterpiece 
Friday, May 2 at 7:00 Reeve Lindbergh talks about her newest book, Forward From Here- Leaving Middle Age.. and Other Unexpected Adventures.
Tales from the Town of Widows 
The Insufficiency of Maps 
Among Other Things, I’ve Taken Up Smoking 
The Last Summer of the World 
Every Past Thing 
Carol Wood, who draws her inspiration from great poets like William Blake & W.B.Yeats and from ancient Celtic music, will play & sing pieces from The Beasts of Bethlehem and other holiday songs. 
November 4, 2007 - Archer Mayor reading & discussing his 18th Joe Gunther mystery: Chat dealing with internet crime
November 11, 2007 - Howard Frank Mosher discussing (and showing slides) his new book, On Kingdom Mountain, the story of Miss Jane Kinneson, an endearing as she is odd librarian, bird carver, and avid hunter & fisherman and her heroic efforts to save her ancestral mountain from development 
November 18, 2007 - Jeffrey Lent presenting his new book, A Peculiar Grace. Set in the art scene of postwar New York, a commune in the early seventies, and contemporary small town New England, it is the story of Hewitt Pearce who must confront his own dark history and rediscover human connection as he faces the heartbreaking losses that nearly destroyed his father and himself.
November 25, 2007 - Ron Powers & John Baldwin discussing their book, Last Flag Down, The Epic Journey of the Last Confederate Warship 
Sunday, May 27 at 4:00 - Syndicated columnist Henri de Marne, whose column First Aid for the Ailing House has been a lifesaver for homeowners throughout the US & Canada for 32 years, will talk about his book, About The House with Henri de Marne and will maybe answer a few questions about your house that you have been dying to ask. Homeowners & contractors alike will find this a fascinating afternoon. -- At the bookstore
Thursday, May 31 at 7:00 PM - Mt. Ascutney Audubon & Misty Valley Books welcome environmentalist, Middlebury professor, and author Bill McKibben to talk about his newest book, Deep Economy, The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future.
Sunday, May 20 at 4:00 - Author/gardener/designer Gordon Hayward will present his two newest books, Tending Your Garden and Small Buildings Small Gardens with a slide show and discussion on creating gardens around structures and tending your garden year round. -- At the bookstore 
February 15 at 7:00 - SOVERA (Southern Vermont Astronomy Group) will meet at Misty Valley Books to hear a presentation by astrophysicist John Thorstensen of Dartmouth College. He will discuss how our very existence is the product of a series of critical stellar events.
March 4 at 3:00 - Misty Valley Books & Whiting Library welcome Weston Playhouse director Steve Stettler who will lead a discussion on the upcoming production (July 25-August 19, 2007) of Caryl Churchill’s play, A Number. What would happen if you discovered you had a clone -or more than one? Three sons of “a number” of possible clones confront their father about identity, the responsibilities of science, and the depths of filial ties. A fascinating look at the human consequences of genetic engineering. Scripts available at Misty Valley Books & Whiting Library.
Sunday, March 11 at 4:00 - Chris Graff, former Vermont Bureau Chief for the Associated Press, will discuss his newest book, Dateline Vermont: The inside story of how Vermont transformed itself from a rural, Republican outpost into the state of Howard Dean, Jim Jeffords, Pat Leahy, and Bernie Sanders. At the bookstore.
Sunday, March 18 at 4:00 - Stephen Kiernan, Last Rights:
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Sunday, August 15 at 4:00 PM, Sean Hemingway discusses the Restored Edition of A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway "If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast." Many of us remember reading these lines from Hemingway’s memoir of his
expatriate life in Paris in the 1920’s with Scott Fitzgerald, Gertrude
Stein, Ford Maddox Ford, and others. This new, restored edition seeks to
provide readers with a clearer picture of the author's original intent for
his unfinished memoir. Patrick Hemingway, Hemingway's lone surviving son,
prefaces this restored edition, and the editorial changes and new additions
are detailed in an introduction by Sean Hemingway, the project's editor and
authors’s grandson. Included in this volume are never before published
sketches revealing experiences that Hemingway had with his son Jack, his
first wife, Hadley, Fitzgerald, and Ford Maddox Ford. The restored edition
brilliantly evokes the exuberant mood of Paris after World War I and the
unbridled creativity and unquenchable enthusiasm that Hemingway himself
epitomized. Sean Hemingway is curator of the Greek and Roman Department at
the Metropolitan Museum of Art. - At the bookstore. Coming soon to Misty Valley Books! Roger Guest, The Tender Heart of Sadness Steve Friesen, Buffalo Bill: Scout, Showman, Visionary Bob Stannard, How to Survive the Recession, A Vermont Perspective
 Wednesdays, April 7-28 at 7:00 PM Michael Palma returns for four evenings of poetry discussion. This session will celebrate W. H. Auden and his poetry. Auden (1907-1973) was the leading poet of his generation and a central figure of a revolution in British poetry. He settled in the United States in 1939 and became an American citizen in 1946. His long poem The Age of Anxiety (1974) won the Pulitzer Prize, inspired a symphony by Leonard Bernstein, and gave a phrase to the English language. Each evening, Palma will examine several Auden poems in depth. An inexpensive volume of his poetry will be available for sale at the bookstore in advance. The public is encouraged to attend all four free sessions but everyone is welcome at any of the sessions.
 Sunday, April 18 at 4:00 PM Celebrate Poetry Month with poet Gary Margolis who will read from his newest collection, Below the FallsBelow the Falls is a brilliant journey through the emotions. According to Jay Parini, Gary Margolis' collection of poems is "among the handful of recent volumes that has sunk deep into my mind and heart." John Elder writes, Below the Falls offers a world in which everything melts away and nothing is lost. I feel personally grateful for his way of mapping a path through a long Vermont winter into the sometimes troubled irrepressibility of spring." Gary Margolis is Executive Director of College Mental Health Services and Associate Professor of English and American Literatures at Middlebury College. He is on the board of the Vermont Humanities Council, is a former Frost Fellow, and is on the staff at Bread Loaf Writers' Conference. His poems have been featured on National Public Radio.
 Saturday, May 1 at 2:00 PM Author Bill McKibben will present his newest book, EaarthBarbara Kingsolver says, "Read it please. Straight through to the end. Whatever else you were planning to do next, nothing could be more important.". Twenty years ago, Bill McKibben offered one of the earliest warnings about global warming, most of which have gone unheeded. Now, he insists, we need to acknowledge that we've waited too long and that massive change is not only unavoidable, but underway. We've created a new planet, still recognizable but fundamentally different. We may as well call it Eaarth. Our hope depends, McKibben argues, on scaling back, on building the kinds of societies and economics that can hunker down, concentrate of the essentials, and create the kind of community (in the neighborhood but also on the internet) that will allow us to weather trouble on an unprecedented scale. Change- fundamental change- is our best hope on a planet suddenly and violently out of balance. At the First Universalist Church (Stone Church), Route 103 North.
 Sunday, May 2 at 4:00 Author Ron Koss presents his book (co-authored with his brother, Arnie), The Earth's Best Story: A Bittersweet Tale of Twin Brothers Who Sparked an Organic RevolutionPeople of every imaginable background and station in life want to make a difference with their lives. But how do you do that effectively? How does an idea journey successfully across the wastelands separating fantasy and reality? In The Earth's Best Story, twins Ron and Arnie Koss masterfully recount their transition from eking out livings as sprout growers and broom makers to creating Earth's Best baby food-the first organic food to sit beside mainstream competitors on the nation's supermarket shelves. That feat revolutionized and empowered the organic-foods movement and benefited hundreds of farmers as well as the millions of babies whose very first foods have been organically grown. Told through the dual narrative of each brother, this memoir is as rich in life lessons as it is in entrepreneurial wisdoms and warnings. Personal, intense, and inspirational, the Koss brothers' tale reflects the quest to find a place in this world by somehow changing it for the better. At the bookstore.
 Thursday, May 13 at 6:30 PM Cornelia Read presents her third mystery novel, Invisible BoyThe smart-mouthed but sensitive runaway socialite Madeline Dare is shocked when she discovers the skeleton of a brutalized three-year-old boy in her own weed-ridden family cemetery outside Manhattan. Determined to see that justice is served to the perpetrators, Madeline finds herself examining her own troubled personal history, and the sometimes hidden, sometimes all-too-public class and racial warfare that penetrates every level of society in the savage streets of New York City during the early 1990s. She is aided in her efforts by a colorful assemblage of friends, relatives, and new acquaintances, each one representing a separate strand of the patchwork mosaic city politicians like to brag about. The result is a gripping narrative that relates the causes and consequences of a vicious crime to the wider relationships that connect and divide us all. In Invisible Boy , Cornelia Read depicts, with sensitivity, eloquence, and powerful emotion, the unstable fault lines of family, friendship, and society at large. At the bookstore. Dinner afterwards with the author at The Stone Hearth Inn. Reservations encouraged. At the bookstore.
 Sunday, May 16, 2010 at 4:00 Howard Frank Mosher will present his newest book, Walking to GatlinburgIt's 1864, and seventeen-year-old Morgan Kinneson is helping a runaway slave named Jesse to freedom in Canada. But the chance to kill a moose that would feed his family for months lures Morgan away, and on his return, he finds that Jesse has been murdered. Desperate and guilt-ridden, Morgan decides to travel south from northern Vermont through war-torn America to the Great Smokey Mountains, searching for his older brother Pilgrim, who is now missing fromn the Union Army. Morgan's determination to locate the brother he idolizes and reclaim what little family and honor he feels he has left is a dangerous gambit at best. When Morgan learns that Jesse's killers are on his tail and that he unknowingly possesses something of great value, his trek to Gatlinburg becomes a journey of intenmse survival. At the bookstore. Reception and book signing.
 Wednesday, February 17, 2010 at 5:30 PM Judy Lake, The Lampshade Lady Join Judy Lake, the Lampshade Lady, author of The Lampshade Lady’s Guide to Lighting Up Your Life, as she demonstrates how easy it is to make your own lampshade. If you can cut and glue, you can renew and revive old lampshades. Soon, after having mastered the basics, you won’t be able to pass by a piece of fabric without thinking, ”That would make a fabulous shade.” Lake has been making lampshades for more than 20 years and turning out distinctive handmade lampshades from her Vermont shop for more than 11 years. Join Judy at the bookstore for her demonstration and talk. At the bookstore.
 Sunday, March 7, 2010 at 4:00 PM Dave Bonta and Stephen Snyder will talk about their latest book, The New Solar Home. From an umbrella home in California and a stunning luxury condominium in New York to a Chicago brownstone-style home in Illinois and a pueblo-style gem in the foothills of Santa Fe, solar homes have come a long way from the PV-clad creations of the 1980’s. Bonta and Snyder demonstrate that today’s solar homes are attractive, good financial investments, and comfortable places for daily living. These homes are groundbreaking not only in their use of renewable energy but also in their commitment to recycling and repurchasing materials. The authors will talk about why these homeowners decided to go solar and how having a solar home can save you money in the long run. Dave Bonta is the president and founder of USA Solar Stores, the largest renewable energy retailer in the northeast. Stephen Snyder is the communications director for USA Solar Stores, having left New York Coty in 1995 to start an organic farm in Vermont. They both live in Perkinsville, Vermont. At the store. Reception and book signing. At the bookstore.  Saturday, March 13, 2010 at 8:00 PM Preview of Avenue Q Join the Weston Playhouse directors in a preview of Avenue Q, this spectacular musical playing this summer in Weston. At The Stone Hearth Inn. Co-sponsored by Stone Hearth Inn and Misty Valley Books. By Robert Lopez, Jeff Marx & Jeff Whitty
 New Voices 2010, A Showcase of New Authors Saturday, January 30, 2010 at 2:00 at the Stone Church in Chester.
Featured Authors:
New Voices 2010 Schedule Saturday, January 30. 2010 * 9:30-11:30 at Grafton Ponds There will be a reception and book signing after the readings at The Stone Church. Many inns and B & B’s will be offering special New Voices packages. Go to www.chesterlodging.com
 Sunday, December 13, 2009 at 4:00 Dr. Warner E. Jones, Minor Memoir: An Anecdotal Autobiography of a Country Doc
JDr. Warner Jones has practiced internal medicine for 46 years. Now retired, he decided to chronicle his life, including his time in the Air Force as a Flight Surgeon and his years in the Springfield area as a "country doc". Beloved by his patients, friends, family, and Missy, his dog, he is a testimony to the kind of doctor we long for. Dr. Jones will read from parts of his book and will sign copies at the reception following. At the bookstore. Free.
 Sunday, December 20, 2009 at 4:00 Author/commentator Willem Lange and illustrator Bert Dodson, Favor Johnson, A Christmas StoryJoin well-loved Willem Lange and illustrator Bert Dodson as they read from and talk about their children's book, Favor Johnson, A Christmas Story. A mystery hangs over a village as Christmas approaches. Who is delivering the delicious treats from house to house? A modern American folktale, Favor Johnson: A Christmas Story has been a favorite radio story for twenty-five years and is published now for the first time, brought to life by the wonderful watercolor illustrations of Bert Dodson. The unsentimental but completely heartwarming story of Favor Johnson, his dog Hercules, Doctor Jennings, and the mysterious house-to-house delivery of homemade fruit cakes on Christmas Eve has become a Vermont classic tale.
To bring cheer to the dreary November days, Vermont Voices features Vermont authors on four different Sundays.
 September 30- -October 21, 2009: Michael Palma returns for The Art of Losing: four Wednesdays to discuss the poetry of Robert Lowell and Elizabeth BishopPalma enthralled attendees with his "Frost in July", his Dante's Inferno series and his discussion on Longfellow, Dickinson, Robinson, and others. Free. At the bookstore.
 Sunday, October 25 at 4:00 Author and storyteller Michael Caduto will read his story Mean John and the Jack-O-lantern and other stories from The August House Book of Scary Stories: Spooky Tales for Telling Out Loud just in time for Halloween. At the bookstore. Free.
Sunday, October 4, 2009 at 4:00 PM: Ellen Graf presents her book The Natural Laws of Good Luck: A Memoir of an Unlikely Marriage
Thursday evening, August 20, 2009 at 7:00 PM at the bookstore, singer and songwriter Elisabeth von Trapp returns to Misty Valley Books to sing songs of Robert Frost from her CD Poetic License. 
 The Chester Music Series returns to downtown Chester on four Thursdays starting July 23, 2009 from 6:30-8:00 PM.
July 23, 2009: The Starline Rhythm Boys (rhythm and blues)
David Bonta New Green Home Solutions June 14 at 7:00 PM
Michael Palma returns with Four Wednesdays of New England Poets:
Friday, April 3 at 7:00 PM Celebrate Poetry Month with two celebrated poets: Wendy Mnookin and Baron Wormser
Sunday, March 1 at 2:00 PM SPECIAL EVENT : Join The Boston Globe's Washington Bureau Chief, Peter Canellos, who will be in Chester to talk about The Last Lion: The Fall and Rise of Ted Kennedy. 
Sunday, March 15 at 2:00 PM Bill Schubart , author of The Lamoille Stories, brings to life the friends and characters of his native Lamoille County where, in the late 1950's and early 1960's, life was lived close to the earth and often against the grain.
New Voices 2009 January 31, 2009 at 2:00 at the First Universalist Church in Chester’s Stone Village, Route 103 North.
Sunday, February 8 at 3:00 PM Remember spelling bees? Join the Weston
Playhouse Theater Company at Misty Valley Books for an afternoon of fun
and phonetics with a preview of the musical comedy The 25th Annual Putnam
County Spelling Bee.
Tuesday, February 10 at 7:00 PM Join SOVERA (Southern Vermont
Astronomy Group) at Misty Valley Books to hear author Andrew Chaikin
presenting a discussion and slide showoff his book, A Passion for Mars.
Sunday, December 14 @ 2:00 PM Come meet
Archer Mayor reads from his 19th Joe Gunther mystery entitled The Catch. Set primarily in Maine, it focuses on the activities of Alan Budney, the disaffected son of an old-time lobsterman. The book begins in Vermont when a deputy sheriff is shot to death. Joe and the VBI get involved in the investigation and end up in Maine and a rendez-vous with Budney and his plans to usurp and replace Maine's biggest drug lord.
Sunday, November 9 Gordon Hayward presents a slide show and discussion on his new book, Art and the Gardener: Fine Painting as Inspiration for Garden Design. Hayward first presented his slide-illustrated lecture at The Museum of Fine Arts in Boston in 1995. He has since refined and presented it at art museums and garden organizations across the country. Now he has turned it into a beautiful book about the visual language shared between painters and garden designers.
Chuck Wooster, Chuck Wooster, associate editor at Northern Woodlands magazine, will introduce his book, Living With Pigs: Everything You Need to Know to Raise Your Own Porkers. Pigs are adorable, clean, friendly, and the fourth most intelligent creatures on the planet, just below humans, primates, and dolphins. They also make great bacon. Wooster's comprehensive guide to all things pig tells readers with a reassuring voice and plenty of entertaining anecdotes how easy it is to take care of a pig. Beautifully illustrated with full color photographs by Geoff Hansen.
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Peter Galbraith, called by New York Times columnist David Brooks "the smartest and most devastating critic of President Bush's Iraq policies", returns to Chester to talk about his second book entitled Unintended Consequences: How the War in Iraq Strengthened America's Enemies. Former Ambassador to the UN Richard Holbrook calls the book "angry and passionate" and adds that he hopes that "the next president absorbs the lessons of Galbraith's work and acts on them".
............................................................................................ ............................................................................................ ............................................................................................ ............................................................................................ ............................................................................................ ............................................................................................ ............................................................................................ Wednesday, August 13, 2008 at 7:00 PM Professor of Law at Yale University and author Stephen L. Carter will present his third book, Palace Council In the summer of 1952, twenty prominent men gather at a secret meeting on Martha’s Vineyard and devise a plot to manipulate the President of the United States. Soon after, the body of one of these men is found by Eddie Wesley, Harlem’s rising literary star. When Eddie’s younger sister, a Harvard Law graduate, mysteriously disappears, Eddie and the woman he loves, Aurelia Treene, are pulled into what becomes a twenty year search for the truth. Carter’s novel is as complex as it is suspenseful and his ability to turn stereotypes inside out make Palace Council an enthralling read. Book signing and reception to follow. Winchester has written the true account of the life of an Oxford don- and socialist- who set out to show the extraordinary advances of Chinese technology and science that produced discoveries pre-dating those of the west. Fascinated by China, Joseph Needham bravely set out to China during the Japanese occupation, World War II, and the take-over by the Communists to do his research, having amazing adventures and creating an admirable multi-volume history of science in China. ............................................................................................ Friday, April 25, 2008 at 7:00 PM An Evening of Poetry with Pat Fargnoli (Duties of the Spirit), Tim Mayo (The Loneliness of Dogs), and Leland Kinsey (The Immigrant’s Contract). Join us as these three New England poets read from their latest works. ............................................................................................ In her funny and wistful new book, Reeve Lindbergh contemplates entering a new stage of life, turning sixty. As a true Lindbergh she says,”Time flies, but if I am willing to fly with it, then I can be airborne, too.” Age is but one of the many subjects that she writes about with perception and insight. Living in northern Vermont, nature is a big part of her life as is family, including her new family, having found, thirty years after his death, that her father had three secret families in Europe. Sunday, May 4 at 4:00 PM Nicholas Daniloff, author of The Kremlin and the Cosmos and Two Lives, One Russia, will talk about his newest book, Of Spies & Spokesmen. AT THE BOOKSTORE ............................................................................................ Caduto has written an interesting book which integrates herbs into everyday spiritual life. He discusses meditations and prayer ceremonies throughout history, shows how to create a spiritual herb garden, recommends birth and end-of-life rituals, blessing ceremonies for garden and worship space, and recommends herbs for healing the troubled spirit. New Voices 2008 - January 26, 2008 at 2:00 and 7:30 at the First Universalist Church Saturday, January 26. 2008 There will be a reception and book signing after each reading at The Stone Church. Many inns and B & B’s will be offering special New Voices packages. Go to www.chesterlodging.com The men of a fictional Columbian mountain town have been marched off to fight in a decades-long guerilla war. The women left behind resign themselves to littered streets, no electricity or water, and starvation until one day, Rosalba, the widow of the police sergeant, declares herself magistrate and promises to restore law and order. The utopia that emerges is ironically the ideal society the guerilla group claims to promote. Magical. Pierce, the daughter of a Lebanese mother and American Indian father, tracks the odyssey of a young girl trying to find her home and her identity without a reliable guide. Five-year-old Alice lives nomadically with her schizophrenic mother who makes life enchanting for her daughter, enthralling her with stories of their Quechan history and legends. Returning to their Arizona reservation after a long absence to live with Alice’s father who is still deeply in love with his wife, Alice finds a sense of community, tradition and heritage that ends when her mother becomes ill and she is placed with a white foster family in the suburbs. Pierce asks probing questions about identity and culture. Part sexual awakening, part family mystery, Sweeney’s book is animated by the hungry perceptions of a young woman who leaves her widowed father behind on a remote island in Maine to find her place in teeming New York City. When Miranda graduates from high school, her brilliant father, who had moved from Manhattan to Maine to work on a translation of Ovid, sends her to live with friends from his old life and she embarks on a journey from one island to another- a journey that will finally reveal the truth about her father’s past. Collins has written a modern Victorian novel- farcical, poised, astringent, generous. It’s the story of Peter Russell, an everyman filled with longing, lust, and good sense. His story of love in modern times with all its missed opportunities is so engaging and real that it is impossible to put down. Collins is a skeptic, a realist and a fervent romantic all in one. Mitchell has written an enchanting story of photographer Edward Steichen and his life in France just before and during World War I. Steichen lived a magical life in eastern France with his wife and two children until the war, then did aerial reconnaissance and photography of the French/German lines for the U.S. Army, developed friendships with the sculptor Rodin and Isadora Duncan and saw his personal life fall apart. Like Steichen’s photographs, Mitchell’s prose shimmers with incandescent light and intriguing shadows and evokes the spell of creativity and the pain of rupture. This is historical fiction at its finest. In 1899, the streets of New York were as unsettled as the heart and mind of Mary Jane Elmer. Transcendentalist ideas were still in the air, Emma Goldman spoke to the disenfranchised in Union Square, and women were redefining their roles for the coming century, Mary, still grieving the death of her daughter ten years earlier and solitary in her marriage to an intractable and distant artist, struggles to shape a future she can endure. An intimate and moving family portrait during the late nineteenth century. Sunday, December 30 at 4:00 (re-scheduled) - Singer, harpist & composer Carol Wood and poet John Wood will delight us with a holiday concert/reading Vermont Voices: Four Sundays in November at 2:00 at the First Universalist Saturday, November 3 at 12:00: Luncheon & Reading with Emerson String Quartet founding member Eugene Drucker who will discuss his book, The Savior World renowned violinist Drucker has written a haunting novel of a non-Jewish German musician forced to play for concentration camp inmates in the waning days of World War II. Offering a startling juxtaposition of the intense beauty of the European classical music tradition with the indescribable horrors of the Final Solution, The Savior offers a perceptive character study that ponders ageless questions of the Holocaust- its inhuman impulses and its origins in the same highly humanistic culture that produced Bach, Beethoven and other peerless geniuses of the German music tradition. When Braestrup’s trooper husband was killed in a car crash, she took up his dream of going to seminary and became a chaplain for the Maine Warden Service. Her book is powerful, poignant, and inspirational. At the First Universalist Church in Chester’s Stone Village. Co-sponsored with the Ascutney Mountain Audubon Society. At the First Universalist Church in Chester’s Stone Village. Sunday, February 4, 2007 - (4:00 PM) - Marc Estrin Golem’s Song Sunday, February 11, 2007 - (4:00 PM) - Storyteller Annie Hawkins Sunday, December 17 from 1:00-2:00 Vermont artist & sculptor Stephen Huneck will be at Misty Valley Books with his black lab, Sally, to sign books and to talk about his life with dogs.
Saturday, October 7, 2006 7:00 PM First Universalist Church Scott Ritter was the top UN weapons inspector to Iraq. In his book Iraq Confidential, Ritter reveals in detail how the CIA manipulated and sabotaged the work of UN departments to achieve the U.S.'s hidden foreign policy agenda in the Middle East. His newest book, Target Iran, tells the truth about the White House’s plans for regime change in Iran Peter Galbraith, former (and first) U.S. Ambassador to Croatia is the Senior Diplomatic Fellow at the Center for Arms Control & Non Proliferation. His book The End of Iraq is a tough-minded, clear-eyed description of America’s failed strategy in Iraq and what needs to be done to avoid a spreading, dangerous and deadly civil war. The authors will have an open conversation with the audience about Iraq and the Middle East after their presentations. Reception and book signing to follow. Saturday, August 19, 2006 at 5:00 PM Cornelia Read, author of A Field of Darkness Dinner at The Fullerton Inn Read, who has ties to nearby Weston, Vermont, has written a smart stylish mystery about the fascinating, little-understood, and deeply American theme of old money. Author Lee Child (who invited her to do a joint book tour) says that her book is” completely captivating- wry, knowing, hip, intelligent, exciting- one of the best debuts I’ve seen.” Need we say more? Summer Gourmet Mystery Series Join us three Saturday evenings this summer to listen to and dine with three great mystery writers. Each month we will host a mystery writer who will read from and discuss his/her book. Afterwards, we will have dinner at The Fullerton Inn on the Green in Chester -just steps from Misty Valley Books- (except June when we will have a light dinner at the Moon Dog Café) with the author. A great opportunity to learn how mysteries are written and meet the people who write them. Friday, May 5, 2006 at 7:00 PM at the bookstore Local author Amanda Clark will read from her newest book of poems, Flying Fall. A book signing and reception will follow. Misty Valley Books and the Ascutney Mountain Audubon Society are co-sponsoring this remarkable author who will give a unique and personal perspective on what could be one of the most significant ornithological events of the past hundred years. Picnic before the event on the church grounds. Call for details 875-3400. March 12, 2006 @ 2:00 PM at the First Universalist Church Ambassador Bremer spent fourteen danger-filled months as America’s proconsul in Iraq following the collapse of Saddam Hussein’s regime. Facing daunting problems working with Iraq’s traumatized and divided population, he worked tirelessly to find a path to help the Iraqis form a responsible, representative government. This is a riveting memoir that carries the reader behind closed doors in Baghdad during the most intense months of the occupation. Friday, November 18, 2005 at 7:00 PM Sunday, October 16, 2005 @4:00 PM Sunday, August 21, 2005 @ 4:00 October 24, 2004 at 4:00 PM home
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Who but Marc Estrin could imagine the line of descent from the Frankenstein Golem of Rabbi Loew to the outrageous false messiah of the Bronx, Nurse Alan Krieger. Like each of Estrin’s novels, Golem Song is an allusive, insightful, and wildly comic approach to the most serious and difficult cultural questions of our time. Estrin has been a New Voice, a Vermont Voice, and is a cellist and activist living in Burlington, Vermont.
Join us at Misty Valley as storyteller Annie Hawkins returns, this time to tell love stories in honor of Valentine’s Day. Anyone who has heard Annie knows that her stories are about the unexpected and are poignant, funny, and incredibly moving. Take your Valentine afterwards for a light supper at The Moon Dog Café.
November 5, 2006 Archer Mayor, The Second Mouse
November 12, 2006 Jeff Danziger, Blood, Debt, and Fears
November 19, 2006 Ron Powers, Mark Twain
Gary Margolis, Fire in the Orchard: Poems
Ambassador L. Paul Bremer, III, My Year in Iraq
November 21, 2004 David Moats, Civil Wars, A Battle for Gay Marriage
November 28, 2004 Marjorie Pivar & Quang Van Nguyen, Fourth Uncle in the Mountain 