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Happy Year of the Ox!
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This year marks the Vermont Book Shop's 60th year in business. We aim to celebrate it by forging a path for this Addison County institution right into the 21st Century. (Yes, technically that started 8 years ago, but change is hard...) So, in order to stave off the bad juju affecting so many in bookselling, (case in point.) we're throwing caution to the wind in 2009 and trying everything.
This means a renewed effort with our web presence via this website, more newsletters, a Facebook page,and increased involvement with IndieBound, LocalFirst Vermont, the Better Middlebury Partnership, and BALLE. All that and we're going to keep providing first-class customer service, daily special-ordering, on-campus delivery to Middlebury College residence halls and offices, and the community engagement that our competitors just can't provide.
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Since we buy, receive, and shelve every book in the store, we see titles you might not, and because we are nerdy booksellers, we read A LOT. These two facts combine to generate real enthusiasm on our part - for particular titles and for whole subject areas and sections. Click "Read More" to learn about what we like right now.
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Miles from Nowhere
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Mun, Nami
In raw and beautiful prose, debut novelist Mun delivers the story of a young woman who is at once tough and vulnerable, world-weary and naive, faced with insurmountable odds and yet fiercely determined to survive. In the process, Mun creates one of the most indelible characters in recent fiction. |
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Local Interest
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Local Interest means different things to different people. To visitors and tourists, it generally means books about Vermont history, while to Vermont residents it may indicate titles about subjects of current interest in their communities. Explore this section for both, and more.
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Return to Sender
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Alvarez, Julia
After Tyler's father is injured in a tractor accident, his family is forced to hire migrant Mexican workers to help save their Vermont farm from foreclosure. Tyler isn't sure what to make of these workers. Are they undocumented? And what about the three daughters, particularly Mari, the oldest, who is proud of her Mexican heritage but also increasingly connected her American life. Her family lives in constant fear of being discovered by the authorities and sent back to the poverty they left behind in Mexico. Can Tyler and Mari find a way to be friends despite their differences?
In a novel full of hope, but no easy answers, Julia Alvarez weaves a beautiful and timely story that will stay with readers long after they finish it. |
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Vermont Book Shop History
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2009 marks the 60th anniversary of The Vermont Book Shop! Dike and Reba Blair opened the shop in 1949, when it was located in "the Deanery" on College Street. Several years later, the Blairs moved the shop to Main Street and its current location, a space once occupied by a grocery store. The Blairs retired in 1992, selling the shop to John and Laura Scott, who, in turn, sold it in 2005 to Becky Dayton.
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