Barrie Dunsmore traveled the world for over thirty years as a foreign correspondent with ABC News and reported from more than one hundred countries on virtually every major international event from 1965-1995.  In his new book, There and Back, Dunsmore's columns offer thoughtful entrances into decade-long discussions about Middle East policy, superpower strategies, and controversial domestic issues. With a humble sense of humor and a veteran reporter's eye, Dunsmore holds a broader and longer view of history than most contemporary opinion-based news sources. 

Alice Davidson Outwater was born in Brooklyn Heights and lived with her family on Remsen Street for 18 years. She attended Packer Collegiate Institute and graduated from Vassar College. Alice earned her MEd. From the University of Vermont and received her Ph.D. in psychology from Union Institute at the age of 60 years old. She currently has a private practice in Burlington, Vermont. Alice and her late husband have lived in Vermont for 55 years. They have four children and two grand children.

University of Vermont Professor Lyn Carew has compiled his informative, humorous, and engaging newspaper columns into a new book, Musings of a Vermont Nutritionist, A to Z: Antioxidants to Zinc. Carew has been touted by students and colleagues as "one of the very best nutrition educators in the country" and during his 42 years at the University of Vermont "he earned the teaching award so many times that a rule was made that a faculty member could only receive the recognition once." Additionally, Carew has received the prestigious Kidder award and the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching's Vermont Professor of the Year award. In Carew's Musings of a Vermont Nutritionist, he sifts the wheat from the chaff of nutritional facts, fads, and fiction and takes a well-informed and sensible approach to healthy foods and vitamins. 

Laurie Caswell Burke's book Skinny Dipping with Loons, Uncommon Stories of the Everyday, is a collection of warm, personal, and humorous vignettes that "tap the emotional undercurrents of everyday events." Burke's stories and observations cover a broad spectrum of humbling and enlightening moments - whether as a young adult involved in college escapades, or as a parent navigating run-ins with teenage children, her stories reveal the connections that bind us to another and that form the narratives of our lives.

Rick Bessette has spent his childhood and working life at historic Shelburne Farms. WRP has published Bessette's first book of poetry, A Vermonter's Heritage: Listening to the Trees. Rick has spent a lifetime surrounded by Shelburne Farms' immense natural beauty and this is reflected in his down-to-earth poetry, echoing the peaceful, peaceful, heartening affect of nature on the human spirit.  

Shelburne resident Marilyn Webb Neagley wrote WRP's first book, Walking through the Seasons. The book was a gold medal winner in best regional nonfiction, awarded by the Indepentdent Publishers Book Awards in 2009 for excellence in independent publishing and given to books and publishers that are "breaking new ground."