
A Hard Look at America
The books in this series, comprised of Pulitzer-winning reporting and research, dig deep, revealing facts and stories that continue to be relevant years after they were brought to the surface.
Jay Craven is an award-winning director, writer, and producer whose films include Where the Rivers Flow North, A Stranger in the Kingdom, The Year That Trembled, After the Fog, Disappearances, and the 2004 Emmy-winning public television series Windy Acres. Craven also writes regular newspaper and radio commentaries on media, the arts, and public issues, and directs the film studies program at Marlboro College. He has toured his films to more than 100 towns throughout the state and enjoys the distinctive character of each group and town.
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The books in this series, comprised of Pulitzer-winning reporting and research, dig deep, revealing facts and stories that continue to be relevant years after they were brought to the surface.
Each book in this series is a Pulitzer-winning work of fiction, with portions based on one person’s real life story.
Look past the stereotypes to examine the realities of minimum-wage existence, small-town economics, social divisions, and what does or doesn’t constitute the good life.
Established in 1968, England’s Booker Prize is awarded annually to a citizen of the U.K., the Commonwealth, Ireland, Pakistan, or South Africa who has written the year’s best novel according to a panel of critics, writers, and academics.
The Pulitzer-winning novels in this series examine not only relationships, but the ways difficult chapters of a family’s past are revealed by the passing of time.
These titles include fiction, myth, poetry, and personal narrative – and represent some of the finest work by Native writers since the renaissance of American Indian writing in the 1970s.
What lies hidden beneath the popular images of New England with its white spires and Yankee frugality? More than meets the eye!
This discussion series examines the treatment of populations outside the cultural norms of the late 19th and early 20th century America.
The “March” Trilogy was written by civil rights icon John Lewis, in collaboration with co-writer Andrew Aydin and award-winning graphic artist Nate Powell. All three volumes illustrate the story of Lewis’s commitment to nonviolent protest in the pursuit of social justice.
Vermont Reads is Vermont Humanities’ statewide community reading program. These books are all high-quality young-adult level works that offer food for thought for all ages.