A vet for 42 years, the author shares how he overcame his fear of animals as a child to become a skilled and compassionate doctor treating exotic, domestic, and a wild medley of animals.

Exotic Tails

Science & Math

Metz, Steven B.

Biological Sciences

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Johnson's memoir explores the complex relationship that exists between father and daughter and the deep bond that can survive amidst turmoil, alcohol, and death. Johnson brings readers along on a roller coaster journey of rememberances as she laughs at the absurd and honors the relationship and its shared past.

Good Dad, Bad Dad, My Dad

Biographies & Memoirs

Johnson, Ginger

Memoirs

I Wish He'd Taught Me How to Shave is a compilation of "Dr. Dave's" reflections and students' essays from his popular Saint Michael's College gender studies course in Men and Masculinities.Landers distills into thematic chapters what he has learned from his decades-long career as a college professor and student counselor about the generational damage done when society holds strict and limiting views about masculinity:such as, real men don't cry, feel afraid, lost,or indecisive; real men like sports; are primary breadwinners; take foolish risks and put themselves in danger(YOLO, You Only Live Once). Readers will hear students recount the powerful, poignant and profound ways that fathers defy or buy into these constructs and influence their children's defining views of a man.

I Wish He'd Taught Me How to Shave

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Landers, Dave

Psychology & Counseling

The poems in this new collection by Daniel Lusk have been inspired in large part by the wildlife he encountered while living at the edge of wilderness in northern Vermont. Lusk sings of nature's wild kingdom - animal, anima, animus - in which humans, animals, earth and its heavens are related in a marriage royal and holy: the porcupine in quill robe, the moose in his crown, birds whose songs can heal, moss rocks and wet caves, midnight caterwauls, and hemlock shadows. "Without bears, bats, or fire," he asks, "What is there to worship?" Kin has been a finalist for the Tupelo Press Dorset and Snowbound Awards, the Sarabande Press Morton Prize, and White Pine Press Book Award. Many of the individual poems in this collection were first published in national journals, among them Appalachia, The Iowa Review, New Letters, Nimrod International Journal, North American Review, and The Southern Review.

Literature & Fiction

Lusk, Daniel

Poetry

Irish born and Vermont settled poet Angela Patten turns her lyrical skills to this story-telling memoir of growing up in horse-and-cart Dublin, striving to find her own voice amid the insistent clamor of family and clergy. She was a child in the 50s when Irish milmen still rode bicycles, ladled loose mil from a tilley-can, and telling stories was both entertainment and sustenance. She broke away from home and the authoritarian rule of the Catholic Church as she came of age in the 60s and an unruly future on American soil beckoned.

High Tea at a Low Table, Stories from an Irish Childhood

Patten, Angela

Author Anthony Quintiliani, a licensed psychologist with more than 35 years professional clinical experience, casts a wide net into the personal, clinical, and societal causes of prolonged human suffering and unhappiness in his book Mindful Happiness. The book's guided interventions are aimed at helping to relieve depression, anxiety, traumatic reactivity, and addictions - together, these conditions make up the bulk of human suffering due to mental health issues. Mindful Happiness also presents psychological interventions that reduce emotion dysregulation due to chronic and acute medical conditions. Readers that wish for help in overcoming the debilitating psychological effects of these conditions will want to read and follow the prescriptions in this book. The first few chapters are designed for self-care and emotion regulation skill building - skills that may lead readers to happier and more equanimous lives. The last two chapters contain more advanced clinical interventions, all of

Mindful Happiness: How to Use Helpful Habits to Live a Healthier Life with More Joy and Less Suffering

Self-Help

Quintiliani, Anthony

Happiness

QUEENS NEVER MAKE BARGAINS is the engaging, evocative tale of three spirited Scottish-American women who carry on their lives through two world wars, a flu pandemic, and a Great Depression. The story opens with young Jessie Menzies who takes ship to America to live in a Vermont machine tool town as nanny to her pious Uncle Wallace's bereaved children. The action moves in and out of a boarding house filled with eccentrics like the feisty artist Llew Arthur, whose polio forces him to paint propped up against a shaky card table. It propels us into the 30's N.Y.C. theater world where a small-minded congressman succeeds in silencing the actors; and into war-time London where rebel-pilot Victoria ferries her beloved Spitfires, has a failed love affair, and mourns a lost child. The novel explores the role of immigrants and their conflicting cultures and religions. It shows us how external events can shape and alter our lives, and how we cope with and survive them.

Queens Never Make Bargains

Wright, Nancy Means

Contemporary

A collection of the lifetime work of Vermont poet, Charles "Charlie" Ballantyne.

Poetry of a Lifetime

Ballantyne, Charles

Through twenty works of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction inspired by old library checkout cards, Please Do Not Remove anthologizes our rich literary culture through the voices of Vermont writers. Created, curated, and edited by writer Angela Palm, the book celebrates library ephemera and a love of literature. Inspired by libraries, librarians, or antiquated signatures and book titles on checkout cards, Vermont writers pen characters, prose, poems, and plot lines in celebration of reading, books, and public libraries. Contributors include Gary Margolis, Jessica Hendry Nelson, Jericho Parms, Karin Gottshall, Tim Brookes, Daniel Lusk, Lene Gary, Erika Nichols, Penelope Cray, Angela Palm, Rob Friesel, Hillary Read, Shelagh Connor Shapiro, Kate Sykes, Niels Rinehart, Malisa Garlieb, David Dillon, Tamra Higgins, Mary Jane Dickerson, and Emily Arnason Casey. Ten percent of the book's net proceeds will be donated to the Vermont Library Association.

Please Do Not Remove: A Collection Celebrating Vermont Literature and Libraries

United States

Shape of the Sky tells the story of Resolute, Vermont - population 613 - a town trying to draw tourism by hosting a rock festival. Days before the music is due to begin, a fan is found dead in the woods. State trooper Chris Kozlowski's world turns upside down as the case returns him to dark memories of a sister who disappeared when he was a boy. An account of one community's experience with fifteen minutes of fame, Shape of the Sky weaves tales of friendship, family, love, and loss through the viewpoints of townspeople, a policeman, fans, and a rock star. Cover art by Vermont artist, Daryl Storrs.

Shape of the Sky

Shapiro, Shelagh Connor

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