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1) The Beans of Egypt, Maine

Author

Chute, Carolyn

Series

Egypt Maine

Language

English

Formats

Book, eBook, Kindle

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A novel of a down-and-out New England family that “seizes the reader on its opening page with . . . a knock-about country humor unmistakably its own” (Newsweek).

There are families like the Beans all over America. They live on the wrong side of town in mobile homes strung with Christmas lights all year round. The women are often pregnant, the men drunk and just out of jail, and the children...

2) The recipe for revolution: a novel

Author

Chute, Carolyn

Pub. Date

2020.

Edition

First Edition.

Language

English

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"It's September 1999 and the world is on the cusp of a new millennium. In rural Maine, Gordon St. Onge, known as "The Prophet," presides over his controversial Settlement, a place rumored to be a cult, where his many wives and children live off the grid and off the land. Out in greater America, Bruce Hummer, the aging CEO of multinational corporation Duotron Lindsey, lays off workers by the thousands. Meanwhile, the newest member of the Settlement,...

3) The school on Heart's Content Road

Author

Chute, Carolyn

Series

Heart's Content

Pub. Date

[2008]

Edition

First edition.

Language

English

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"The School on Heart's Content Road spirals out from the story of Mickey Gammon, a disaffected fifteen-year-old dropout who has been evicted from his home by his overwrought half-brother. With the help of his new friend, Rex York, the captain of the local militia, Mickey is introduced to the secretive world of the Settlement. Run by a man known to many as 'The Prophet, ' the Settlement is a rural cooperative in alternative energy, farm produce, and...

4) Treat us like dogs and we will become wolves

Author

Chute, Carolyn

Series

Heart's Content

Pub. Date

[2014]

Edition

First edition.

Language

English

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When journalist Ivy Morelli sets out to investigate the mysterious leader of the nearby homeschool, known as "The Prophet," she is drawn into the life of his self-sufficient countercultural community called the Settlement.