“The novel that foreshadowed Donald Trump’s authoritarian appeal.”—Salon
It Can’t Happen Here is the only one of Sinclair Lewis’s later novels to match the power of Main Street, Babbitt, and Arrowsmith. A cautionary tale about the fragility of democracy, it is an alarming, eerily timeless look at how fascism could take hold in America.
Written during the Great Depression,...

Spotting a lost child who flees into the woods, Tess, a woman whose high-profile marriage was shattered by her inability to have children is disbelieved by local authorities and conducts an obsessive search that becomes tied to her efforts to heal.

Retired MP Mercy Carr and her bomb-sniffing dog Elvis become embroiled in an investigation in the Vermont wilderness involving an abandoned baby, a missing mother, and a cold-case murder.

A tale of personal struggle, sweeping transformation, and romantic love. In an effort to escape an unending string of personal disasters in Boston and a desire to leave behind a world she sees as increasingly defined by consumerism, hypocrisy, and division, Ann hopes to find a kind of peace in her new life as a farmhand in Vermont.

Joe Gunther investigates after discovering the body of the perpetrator of a burglary spree in the truck of one of the cars he stole.

Decades after taking millions of dollars during a mission in Libya and starting over in Vermont under a new name, former Army intelligence offer Dan Chase is forced back on the run after eluding two attackers with an interest in obtaining the loot.

In the face of an impending superstorm, a transplanted Brooklyn couple in rural Vermont deal with their imploding marriage as well as doomsday prepping with paranoid rednecks, religious fanatics, and government fools.