Green Writers Press: 19 books
An American Harvest
How One Family Moved From Dirt-Poor Farming To A Better Life In The Early 1900s
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2017
Green Writers Press is proud to announce the first book in our place-based history series, An American Harvest: How One Family Moved from Dirt-Poor Farming to a Better Life in the Early 1900s, by Vermont writer and University of Vermont professor emerita, Cardy Raper, PhD.
Sometimes...
by Tim Weed
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2017
A high mountain lake in the Colorado Rockies is the point of departure for these stories of dark adventure, in which vividly drawn landscapes provide an immersive setting for narratives about coming of age, altered states, moral slippage, romantic love, sexual jealousy, and impenetrable loneliness....
So Little Time
Words and Images for a World in Climate Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2014
*So Little Time *is a revolving door of political activism, spirituality, nature, and humanity. It is a call to action, where urgency meets poetry in no uncertain terms, and asks, What hour are we in? Edited by poet, Irish and U. S. citizen, and Vermont activist, Greg Delanty, it takes its cue from...
by Leland Kinsey
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2014
Winter Ready is a 96-page collection of new poems by a Vermont-based writer who draws from his impressive repertoire of observations and physical landscape of the Northeast Kingdom of Vermont to bring to the reader poems with universal meaning and at times a painful acuity.
Kinsey opens the...
The Beavers of Popple's Pond
Sketches from the Life of an Honorary Rodent
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2014
Tucked away in a remote stream valley in Vermont, a dynasty of beavers has nearly completed the restoration of the meadows and ponds that adorned this stream in the days before the beavers of a continent were turned into top hats. Willow, Popple, and their progeny begin the night's work of dam repair,...
by Daintry Jensen, Alan Baker
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2015
Nantucket Island in the summertime— a dream come true, right? Not for twelve year old Adelaide, whose father died a year earlier and now has one ambition in life: to be a great explorer and adventuress like her idol, Amelia Earhart. Adelaide loves fantasizing about the future exotic places she’ll...
While Glaciers Slept
Being Human in a Time of Climate Change
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2017
While Glaciers Slept weaves together the parallel stories of what happens when the climates of a family and a planet change. M Jackson, a noted scientist and National Geographic Expert, reveals how these events are deeply intertwined, and how the deterioration of her parents' health was as devastating...
by G. D. Spilsbury
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2014
It was the year of the Boston Marathon bombing, the year of the Red Sox's championship, and the year the city's most prestigious publishing house was fighting for its life. It was the year Flo Wright relocated from New York to save Churchill & Co. and hired freelance editor, Nick Turner, to help...
Coming of Age: My Journey to the Eighties
My Journey to the Eighties
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2018
Many readers are already familiar with Madeleine Kunin, the former three-term governor of Vermont, who served as the deputy secretary of education and ambassador to Switzerland under President Bill Clinton. In her newest book, a memoir entitled Coming of Age: My Journey to the Eighties, the topic...
Holding the Net
Caring for My Mother on the Tightrope of Aging
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2017
A Caregiving.com choice for Best Caregiving Book of 2017, this poignant and timely memoir was also named American Book Fest’s 2017 Best Book Award Winner for Autobiography/Memoir. Even with her professional background as former hospice consultant who studied aging, illness, and the intricacies of...
Mastering the Art of Psychotherapy
The Principles Of Effective Psychological Change, Challenging The Boundaries Of Self-Expression
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2017
Mastering the Art of Psychotherapy is a complete manual on the practice of psychotherapy, principally designed to help clinical professionals and graduate students improve their diagnostic skills, develop treatment strategies, broaden therapeutic techniques, and further their understanding of the...
by Nancy Kilgore
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2018
Vermonter Mona Duval loves the covered bridge beside her store. She loves local history and the rugged, rural nature of her home state. But when an ice storm collapses the bridge, she is bereft. Frank MacFarland, a seasonal resident who is beguiled by Mona, lends his political expertise to help...
by Brian Adams, Donald Saaf
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2014
Meet Casey, a community college professor with OCD (Obsessive Climate Disorder). While navigating the zaniness of teaching he leads a rag-tag bunch of climate activists, lusts after one of his students, and smokes a little too much pot. Quirky, socially awkward and adolescent- acting, our climate...
by Don Bredes
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2014
Don Bredes's new young adult (YA) fantasy is called Polly and the One and Only World. Don's first novel,* Hard Feelings*, was an American Library Association Best Book for Young Adults in 1977, a New York Times Notable Book, and a 20th Century Fox feature film. Polly and the One and Only World is...
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