<div>Set in northern Vermont in 1930, On Kingdom Mountain is the story of Miss Jane Hubbell Kinneson. She is a renowned local bookwoman, eccentric bird carver, and the last remaining resident of a wild mountain on the U.S.-Canadian border, now threatened by a proposed new highway. Miss Jane encounters a mysterious stunt pilot and weathermaker when his biplane crashes on a nearby frozen lake. He brings with him a riddle containing clues to the whereabouts of stolen Civil War gold that may have been hidden on Miss Jane&rsquo;s property. As she and the footloose aviator search for the treasure, Miss Jane is confronted by the most important decisions of her life. Featuring daring action scenes and outrageous comedy, along with a passionate, surprising love affair, On Kingdom Mountain is traditional storytelling at its best, rooted in Howard Mosher&rsquo;s own family history and in a way of life on the brink of extinction.</div>

On Kingdom Mountain

<div>A vivid portrait of a young man&#39;s coming of age in an America that is almost gone, Waiting for Teddy Williams has been hailed by Ernest Hebert as &quot;ranking with Huckleberry Finn in heart, spirit, and insight into the American character.&quot; The book begins on the eighth birthday of Ethan &quot;E.A.&quot; Allen in the remote village of Kingdom Common, Vermont. Noted for its fervent, if unrequited, devotion to the Boston Red Sox, the village sports a replica of Fenway Park&#39;s Green Monster on top of the local baseball bat factory. Here, in a region that lags decades behind the rest of New England, E.A. lives with his honky-tonk mother, Gypsy Lee, and the acid-tongued Gran, wheelchair-bound since the Sox&rsquo;s heart-wrenching playoff loss to the Yankees in 1978. Homeschooled, fatherless, and living on the wrong side of the tracks, E.A. is an outcast in his own town. Haunted by a dark mystery in his family&#39;s past, he has only one close friend to talk it over with, a statue of his namesake on the village green. Into the world of the Allen family comes a drifter named Teddy, who is determined to do one decent thing in his life by teaching E.A. everything he knows about baseball. As E.A. grows up and learns the secrets of the game, we get to know Kingdom Common and its flinty, colorful people. We also meet the incomparable manager of the Red Sox, the Legendary Spence, &quot;the winningest big-league manager never to win a World Series,&quot; and his macaw, Curse of the Bambino. When the Sox&rsquo;s new owner vows to move the team to Hollywood if they lose the Series again, Spence, his pitching corps decimated by injuries, has to take a chance on a young nobody from Vermont.</div>

Waiting For Teddy Williams

<div>This novel of murder and its aftermath in a small Vermont town in the 1950s is &ldquo;reminiscent of To Kill a Mockingbird . . . Absorbing&rdquo; (The New York Times). In Kingdom County, Vermont, the town&rsquo;s new Presbyterian minister is a black man, an unsettling fact for some of the locals. When a French-Canadian woman takes refuge in his parsonage&mdash;and is subsequently murdered&mdash;suspicion immediately falls on the clergyman. While his thirteen-year-old son struggles in the shadow of the town&rsquo;s accusations, and his older son, a lawyer, fights to defend him, a father finds himself on trial more for who he is than for what he might have done. &ldquo;Set in northern Vermont in 1952, Mosher&rsquo;s tale of racism and murder is powerful, viscerally affecting and totally contemporary in its exposure of deep-seated prejudice and intolerance . . . [A] big, old-fashioned novel.&rdquo; &mdash;Publishers Weekly &ldquo;A real mystery in the best and truest sense.&rdquo;&mdash;Lee Smith, The New York Times Book Review A Winner of the New England Book Award</div>

A Stranger in the Kingdom

<div>&ldquo;A richly observant memoir of a coast-to-coast journey along the US-Canada border . . . An armchair traveler&rsquo;s delight&rdquo; (Kirkus Reviews). &ldquo;Part travelogue, part memoir, part meditation, part exploration,&rdquo; North Country is an account of a trip along the northern border of the United States in search of the country&rsquo;s last unspoiled frontiers (The Boston Sunday Globe). In this vast, sparsely settled territory, Howard Frank Mosher found both a harsh and beautiful landscape and some of the continent&rsquo;s most independent men and women. Here, he brings this remote area to vivid life in a book &ldquo;bright with anecdote and history and lore and most importantly with affection for his human subjects&rdquo; (Richard Ford, Pulitzer Prize&ndash;winning author of Independence Day). &ldquo;A classic road book. You could, with confidence, place this book on the shelf next to such American classics as John Steinbeck&rsquo;s Travels with Charley and Jonathan Raban&rsquo;s Old Glory.&rdquo; &mdash;Detroit Free Press &ldquo;What Mosher&rsquo;s northern journey is really about is our society&rsquo;s loss of Eden, the garden we were promised when we came here. The garden we&rsquo;ve turned into pulp fiction and rocket ranges. The very fact that this brave book can stir up so many thoughts about the predicaments of civilization is surely an indication that it is well worth reading.&rdquo; &mdash;Ottawa Citizen</div>

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<div>A New York Times Notable Book: A novel about growing up in a remote corner of Vermont, from the author Richard Russo calls &ldquo;one of our very best writers.&rdquo; When six-year-old Austen Kittredge was sent up north to live on his grandparents&rsquo; farm in 1948, he didn&rsquo;t know that he would spend the next twelve years of his life there&mdash;or that his remarkable stay would never leave him, no matter how far he traveled. The farm in Lost Nation Hollow would become a magical place for Austen, full of eccentric people&mdash;like his stubborn but loving grandparents, whose marriage was known as the Forty Years War&mdash;wild adventures, and festering family secrets. An enchanting, startling coming-of-age novel, Northern Borders evokes a world of county fairs, heirloom quilts, and timber forests, in &ldquo;a touching and unforgettable portrait of a people and time that are past&rdquo; (Fannie Flagg, The New York Times Book Review). &ldquo;A contemporary classic . . . A complex, yet idyllic, story of childhood in Vermont.&rdquo; &mdash;Los Angeles Times</div>

Northern Borders

<div>New England Book Award Winner: A father and son smuggle liquor across the border in Depression-era Vermont in this &ldquo;remarkable and wonderful&rdquo; novel (The Christian Science Monitor).This endearing novel is both a heroic adventure and a thrilling coming-of-age story. It is the memorable tale of a young man named Wild Bill Bonhomme, his larger-than-life father, Quebec Bill, and their whiskey-smuggling exploits along the Vermont-Canada border in 1932. On an epic journey through the wilderness, Bill and his father encounter a cast of wild characters&mdash;and live out magical escapades as they carve their way into legend.&ldquo;Revives the tall tale with remarkable grace and intelligence&hellip;delightful.&rdquo;&mdash;The Washington Post&ldquo;Disappearances at its best is reminiscent of manic Faulkner, wild and violent and violently funny.&rdquo;&mdash;The Boston Herald &ldquo;Rollicking, boisterous, sprawling, [and] highly entertaining.&rdquo;&mdash;Harper&rsquo;s Magazine</div>

Disappearances

<div>A priest’s adopted son narrates a colorful tale of small-town Vermont life in this autobiographical novel from the author of A Stranger in the Kingdom. Set in the beautiful mountains of Kingdom County, The Fall of the Year is Howard Frank Mosher’s brilliant autobiographical novel about love in all its forms, from friendship to the most passionate romance, in a place where family, community, vocation, and the natural world still matter profoundly. Here are the lively stories of the eccentric inhabitants of Kingdom County, including Louvia the Fortuneteller; Foster Boy Dufresne, the local bottle picker and metaphysical savant; the incomparably strange clairvoyant and matchmaker, Louvia the Fortuneteller; Dr. Sam E. Rong, a wayfaring Chinese herbalist and connoisseur of human nature; the itinerant vaudevillian mind reader, Mr. Moriarity Mentality, who uses his unusual powers to teach the town fathers a lesson they will never forget; and the daredevil tomboy Molly Murphy, who risks her life to fulfill her dream of running away with the Greatest Little Show on Earth. Mosher’s kingdom is “timeless. It existed well before man, has survived his spell upon it, and will do so long after the curtain has fallen” (Washington Post Book World). Praise for Fall of the Year “Impossible to read without recalling the best tales of Washington Irving and Mark Twain.” —Richard Russo “Superb storytelling, a delightful novel filled with humor and grace.” —Alice Hoffman “Dialogue so right that you feel like you’re eavesdropping on a small, special world.” —New York Times Book Review “Mosher at his agile best, spinning a tale that richly melds vibrant character sketches and a palpable sense of place . . . . his spare folktale style, a wide spectrum of unforgettable minor characters and rich sense of story sustain this ultimately winning novel.” —Publishers Weekly</div>

The Fall of the Year

<div>An explorer and his nephew set out to beat Lewis &amp; Clark to the Pacific in this humorous historical novel by the author of A Stranger in the Kingdom. In the spring of 1804, Private True Teague Kinneson—schoolmaster, inventor, playwright, and explorer—sets out with his nephew, Ticonderoga, to race Meriwether Lewis and William Clark to the Pacific. Along the way True and Ti encounter Daniel Boone and his six-foot-two spinster daughter, Flame Danielle; fight and trick a renegade army out to stop Lewis’s expedition; invent baseball with the Nez Perce; hold a high-stakes rodeo with Sacagawea’s Shoshone relatives; and outwit True’s lifelong adversary, the Gentleman from Vermont, a.k.a. the Devil himself. And when a beautiful and mysterious Blackfoot girl named Yellow Sage Flower Who Tells Wise Stories enters the tale, things start to get really interesting . . . A Top Ten Book Sense 76 Selection Praise for The True Account “A madcap what-if story . . . a cock-eyed joyride through history.” —Washington Post “Picaresque is too tame a word for this imagined romp . . . A great adventure.” —Los Angelese Times Book Review “The funniest historical novel about the West since Little Big Man.” —Denver Post “Mosher calls to mind the best of Mark Twain—mischievous, touching, and very funny.” —Carl Hiaasen “Clever . . . . Fun and fanciful with much to savor, Mosher's novel demonstrates a boundless imagination and a light comic touch.” —Publishers Weekly</div>

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Books By Howard Frank Mosher (8 Books)

On Kingdom Mountain

Waiting For Teddy Williams

A Stranger in the Kingdom

North Country

Northern Borders

Disappearances

The Fall of the Year

The True Account

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