Books published by Onion River Press

Award-Winning Finalist in the Fiction: LGBTQ category of the 2019 Best Book Awards sponsored by American Book FestAs dawn breaks on a summer morning in 1900, Darby Walker, owner of a St. Petersburg, Florida, ferry service, sets out to check on his older brother, Tulley, whose lighthouse across Tampa Bay on Walker's Key has gone dark. The recent death of their father, a ship pilot based on Egmont Key, has been declared a suicide, but Darby knows better, and signs point to Tulley as the murderer.Going back thirty-five years to Darby's birth in Harwich Port, on Cape Cod, Walker's Key explores the bitter sibling rivalry between overly kind, personable Darby and angry, isolated Tulley. While that sibling rivalry unfolds, Darby learns of a sibling rivalry generations earlier in his family, a rivalry that ended in murder. Of pivotal significance is Darby's grandfather, an abolitionist who rescued slaves from a Florida plantation decades earlier and initiated a family tradition of acceptance far broader than the Walker brothers realize when one of them maliciously exposes the other's private encounter.When we arrive back in 1900, Darby works to figure out who has murdered his father. When he learns the killer's identity, he must find the inner strength to bring the killer to justice while also saving himself.

"What a gift this book is! It is a gift for all who have lived and worked in the Wake Robin community, and for all who have watched this community take shape and then grow. … And it is also a treasure trove of ideas and analyses for others interested in senior living, re¿ecting on what it means to age well and create an environment where that can happen. … Wake Robin's experience does not provide all the answers, but this well-documented and thoughtful book is a learning lab, painting a picture of a community that helps create a vibrant life for seniors."- Allie Stickney, former president and CEO of Wake RobinOpened in 1993, Wake Robin was the first Continuing Care Retirement Community (CCRC) and first Life Care Community in Vermont. Residents can move from independent living to increasing levels of support without a change in monthly fee (the Life Care promise). Today, some 25 years later, the community thrives. This book tellsthe story of Wake Robin's origins and contemporary life on its campus. It explores the culture and practices that have allowed Wake Robin to create and sustain a high quality of life and a strong sense of community and belonging-a context where residents realize their potential for continuing growth throughout their later years. Wake Robin's successful strategies are readily translatable to varied forms of senior congregate living and care settings. Thus, this book is recommended for all who are exploring senior housing and care options for themselves or their loved ones, as well as for senior housing and care professionals who are committed to improving settingsdesigned for people in later life.

Welcome to Skunk Hollow, a seemingly tranquil, idyllic town of weathered red barns and rambling white farmhouses, grazing cows in green pastures, and thousands of maple trees, providing their river of golden sweetness every spring. But there's a dark side to this pastoral village. Greenish, long-toothed sapsuckers. Feral sap lines. Genetically modified trees. Follow adventurous investigative reporter Charlotte St. Johnsbury (aka, Ms. Sugar Maple) and country boy Chester Arthur as they uncover the dark underbelly of this rural paradise.

From giving his second-grade teacher a black eye to insulting the grieving parents of a military hero, the rollicking verse in this book presents a Donald Trump profile of bombast, babes, and bankruptcies. Details of Trump, his progeny and current political cohorts, characterized by greed and deceit, are verified by engrossing news accounts. The facts are grim, the humor captivating.

The wedding industry is set up to screw you over. This refreshingly entertaining book will give you a candid insider's perspective on the Wedding Industry. It'll expose the tricks the industry professionsals use to get you to spend more, warn you about potential pitfalls, and guide you through the ins and outs of securing your ideal vendors for a reasonable price -- all while teaching you how to successfully plan your wedding.This book includes: Detailed information on powerful strategies to ensure wedding professionals won't try to pull the wool over your eyes Ready to use email templates with the specific words to use while reaching out to vendors Memorable stories and cautionary tales followed by specific strategies on how to avoid common set-backs Questions to ask vendors to build respective relationships with vendors without losing control of the conversation Ways to combat common tricks of the trade without becoming defensive This is one of the most snarky, down-to-earth guides on navigating the industry traps. Not just tips and advice, but the acutal scripts and strategies that you what you want.

"A Small History of Political Thought" is a collection of essays written by Victor Nuovo. It contains thirty-three essays beginning with the ancients, Plato and Aristotle, continuing with notable moderns, including Machiavelli, Hobbes, Spinoza, Locke, Diderot, and concluding with Madison and the U.S. Constitution. The general theme is the nature and purpose of civil government and the norms that govern it.The essays previously appeared in the Addison County Independent, a local newspaper serving Middlebury and surrounding towns in Addison County, Vermont. They were written to make political philosophy accessible to the public at a time when our political institutions are under great stress and public diligence is requisite.

The poems collected here are not mere versification, nor do they hide their meaning behind surrealism or cubism or any of the other movements of the 20th century that made meaning oblique in the construction of an artistic reality. Rather, they offer to the reader of the new millenium a fresh way of organizing language and discovering is import. No one should doubt that the talend displayed in this volume is a growing one that will make its audience happy to come back for more,

Rose lives in a world with magic. Spells. Vampires. Witches. All of this is normal, but she lacks magic ability of her own. She feels lost until one day, she falls into another world not unlike her own, except for one glaring, dark difference.