Howard Frank Mosher
Author
Pub. Date
2006.
Physical Desc
351 pages (large print) ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
The time: 1932, just before the repeal of Prohibition and just shy of Wild Bill's 14th birthday. The place: Vermont, near the Canadian border. Bill's dad, desperate to preserve his cattle herd through a bitter winter, resorts to smuggling whiskey--a traditional family occupation. He takes his son on a voyage that will remain etched in the reader's mind: a journey into the demonic and spellbinding past. What they find is the genuine stuff of legends....
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
228 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Earnest and innocent, a bright high school student, Jim grows curious about the unspoken 'trouble in the family' that haunts his father, a small-town newspaper editor, and his grandfather, a raconteur who keeps the Kinnesons' secrets to himself. Layer by layer, tale by tale, sorting out fact from deliberately obscured legend, Jim explores the Kinnesons' long relationship with others in the Kingdom, culminating in a discovery that forever changes...
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
202 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
The final book by one of America's most treasured writers. Upon his passing in January 2017, Howard Frank Mosher was recognized as one of America's most acclaimed writers. His fiction set in the world of Vermont's fabled Northeast Kingdom chronicles the intertwining family histories of the natives, wanderers, outcasts, and others who settled in this ethereal place. In its obituary, The New York Times wrote, "Mr. Mosher's fictional Kingdom County,...
Author
Pub. Date
2007.
Physical Desc
276 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In 1930 Vermont, Jane Hubbell Kinneson, the last resident of a remote mountain on the U.S.-Canadian border that is threatened by a proposed new highway, confronts a mysterious pilot searching for a cache of stolen gold who crashes his plane on her mountain.
10) Disappearances
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (103 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Forced to smuggle whiskey in an attempt to save his family, Quebec Bill and his son embark on a spellbinding and unforgettable trip. This treacherous journey through the wilderness will lead them to discover a haunted and elusive past.