Here is a book that will make you envious of Vermonters when the snow falls--if you are not already a citizen of that most engaging and individual of American states. For it is a delightful picture of winter life among Yankees living in a region in which winter means deep snow and the stillness of cold nights and the brittle crispness of sub-freezing days. To the farmer it means hard work; to the nature lover it means searching the fields and woods...

Explores the reasons why women do not have the same influence, power, and wealth as men do and meditates on the writer-temperament.

Originally published by J. Day Co., New York, 1950, with a couple of subsequent reprints, this classic volume provides the small-scale commercial practitioner or homesteader with clear instructions on the production and marketing of maple syrup.

The story of Sylvia,a young girl raised by her parents to think for herself and participate in the world of adults. As she grows up she feels conflict between her life with her parents and the town and university life that they do not conform to. When she encounters her Aunt Victoria and is drawn towards her luxurious world she further grapples with the desire for wealth and luxury and the concern for social inequity.

The autobiography of a black American, recounting his early years and the harrowing experiences he encountered drifting from Natchez to Chicago to Brooklyn.

Maya Angelou's seven volumes of autobiography are a testament to the talents and resilience of this extraordinary writer. Loving the world, she also knows its cruelty. As a Black woman she has known discrimination and extreme poverty, but also hope, joy, achievement and celebration. In this first volume of her six books of autobiography, Maya Angelou beautifully evokes her childhood with her grandmother in the American south of the 1930s. She learns...