Northshire Bookstore Event: An Evening with Finalists for the Vermont Book Awards

(Manchester Center, VT) On Friday, April 11 at 6 pm, Northshire Bookstore will host a mixer and reading with three of the finalists for the 2025 Vermont Book Awards. The Vermont Book Awards, created in 2015, are annual prizes for outstanding literature by Vermont authors. They are awarded through a partnership between Vermont Humanities and the Vermont Department of Libraries. The 2025 winners will be announced in Montpelier on Saturday, May 3.

The finalists speaking at Northshire on April 11 will be William Homestead, author of Not Till We Are Lost: Thoreau, Education, and Climate Crisis; Lucy Ives, author of An Image of My Name Enters America; and GennaRose Nethercott, author of Fifty Beasts To Break Your Heart: And Other Stories.

In Not Till We Are Lost, Homestead, an associate professor and longtime member of The Thoreau Society, takes readers inside the classroom for a meditation on students need to explore their inner lives and respond to our collective lostness in an age of climate crisis. As Thoreau modeled, deep listening and then acting on what we learn, is the deepest measure of being educated. Lest we lead lives of quiet desperation, we desperately need an educational system that mirrors this philosophy.

An Image of My Name Enters America is a vibrant tapestry of memoir, research, and criticism from Lucy Ives, a “brilliant, one-of-a-kind maestro” (Booklist). In this collection of five interrelated essays, Ives explores identity, national fantasy, and history. She retrieves shadowy sites of pain and fear and, with her boundless imagination, attentiveness, and wit, transforms them into narratives of repair and possibility.

GennaRose Nethercott’s Fifty Beasts to Break Your Heart is a collection of dark fairytales and fractured folklore exploring how our passions can save us—or go monstrously wrong. In these lush, strange, beautifully written stories the author explores human longing in all its diamond-dark facets to create a collection that will redefine what you see as a beast, and make you beg to have your heart broken.

For more information on these or other events, email events@northshire.com, or visit the Northshire Bookstore website at www.northshire.com.

Northshire Bookstore, originally founded in 1976, has locations in Manchester, Vermont and Saratoga Springs, NY as well as at Northshire.com. Our large but intimate general bookstores carry the largest selection of categories and genres including new & used fiction, history, cooking, arts and rare author-signed editions. We also have entire floors devoted to Children’s Books and toys, a full line of stationery, magazines, music, cards, calendars, locally-sourced foods and many fine gifts from clothing to jewelry. Open to the public daily from 10:00 AM to 7:00 PM and 24/7 online with free shipping at www.northshire.com