Royce's Picks

"Set in rural America and spanning much of the 20th century, Lila & Theron captures the spirit of the American rural experience, as it relates to their personal stories of love and sacrifice..." Award winning author and public radio commentator, Bill Schubart, first introduced us to Lila & Theron characters in his 2008 short story collection, The Lamoille Stories. After being influenced by William Faulkner’s acceptance speech on winning the Nobel...

The author shares what she has learned about the rules that govern deer families, based on her observations of the deer that live near her New Hampshire home over the course of the difficult 2007 winter when the acorn crop failed.

"In this evocative first novel, a young woman returns to her rural Vermont hometown in the wake of a heavy storm to search for her missing mother and unravel a powerful family secret"-- August 2011. Tropical Storm Irene wreaked havoc on Vermont, flooding rivers and destroying homes. New Orleans bartender Vale receives a call and is told that her mother, Bonnie, has disappeared. Beginning her search in the hometown she left eight years earlier, Vale...

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. Schubarts 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 a?way m_ix with hippie vans filled with...

An award-winning best-seller from the UK recounts how the author, an experienced falconer grieving the sudden death of her father, endeavored to train for the first time a dangerous goshawk predator as part of her personal recovery. "As a child Helen Macdonald was determined to become a falconer. She learned the arcane terminology and read all the classic books, including T.H. White's tortured masterpiece, The Goshawk, which describes White's struggle...

The author offers his observations about trees and forests, formed throughout a lifetime of associations with wooded lands, and explores his own stretch of forest in western Maine as a scientist, an owner, and a caretaker.

A photographic guide to New England's natural world, featuring nature notes on the activities of amphibians, reptiles, birds, mammals, insects and arachnids, and plants and fungi in each month of the year, and including more in-depth essays on related topics.

Collects sweet and savory recipes that feature maple syrup, for everything from barbecue sauce to classic cocktails to delectable desserts, with tips on storage, substitution, and do-it-yourself syrup making.

"Academy Award winner Andrea Arnold returns with an intimate portrait of a dairy cow's life. The film chronicles the daily life of dairy cow Luma in an attempt for humans to understand her reality. Sharing both the beauty and the challenge of dairy cow life, the film highlights the dairy cow's great service to us all"--Container.

"In Cassie Fancher's debut collection of stories, small town American women navigate grief and loss. Piecing together images from her own life, Cassie creates stories that prioritize not the trauma itself but the relationships these women find in order to survive. This collection, and the characters within, consider home from afar, from close up, from the past and the present." --