Alumni Book Club

The Lyndon Institute Alumni Book Club is an online community for alumni and friends of Lyndon Institute. Connect with Vikings across the globe who enjoy reading, lifelong learning, personal growth, and conversation. You can read one book or all the books; whatever works for your schedule. Joining is completely free, you just have to get a copy of the book to enjoy. The group will read one book every four months so that you’ll have plenty of time for each book.

The books we will feature and read are written by Lyndon Institute alumni and there will be a discussion at the end of each four-month reading period led by the book’s author, when possible.  We will plan to host the discussion with a limited capacity at Gateway Cottage, on LI’s campus, but will also open the discussions up virtually for unlimited attendance online.

To join the book club, simply sign up here on our website or phone the alumni office at 802-535-3772.  Once registered, you will receive information on upcoming books, discussion dates, etc.

Register by March 1st in order to be entered into a drawing to win a copy of the January-April Book Club pick, Two Rivers by Tammy Greenwood, ‘87.

Our current book JAN 1 – APRIL

Two Rivers by Tammy Greenwood, ‘87

In Two Rivers, Vermont, Harper Montgomery is living a life overshadowed by grief and guilt. Since the death of his wife, Betsy, twelve years earlier, Harper has narrowed his world to working at the local railroad and raising his daughter, Shelly, the best way he knows how. Still wracked with sorrow over the loss of his life-long love and plagued by his role in a brutal, long-ago crime, he wants only to make amends for his past mistakes.

Then one fall day, a train derails in Two Rivers, and amid the wreckage Harper finds an unexpected chance at atonement. One of the survivors, a pregnant fifteen-year-old girl with mismatched eyes and skin the color of blackberries, needs a place to stay. Though filled with misgivings, Harper offers to take Maggie in. But it isn't long before he begins to suspect that Maggie's appearance in Two Rivers is not the simple case of happenstance it first appeared to be.

Tammy is pictured here signing a copy of Two Rivers to remain at the Norma Gordon Austin Alumni Center and Museum at Thompson Cottage.