New York: Grove Press, (2014). First edition - A novel which continues Chute's exploration of outsiders in a close-knit Maine culture in this story into the investigation of a homeschool on HeartÕs Content Road and its mysterious leader of the homeschool, Gordon St. Onge. The New York Times said "Carolyn Chute is a James Joyce of the backcountry, a Proust of rural society, an original in every meaning of the word. She inhabits everyone in her creation, sees everything that goes on within it. And though we might at times rather look away, we readers see everything and everyone too.Ó and the Boston Globe commented "ChuteÕs voice is smart, funny, and fired up about righting the wrongs of the world...The book has a breathless quality. It rolls over you like a tide, at times dazzlingly inventive... Fiery, impassioned, and unlike anything else you will ever probably read, you can take ChuteÕs book as a warning, a letter from the future or from the present from people who are tired of promises and lies and just might not be willing to take it anymore." Author's notes, character list. 691 pp.

New York: Harper & Row, (1987) dj. Hardcover first edition - An insider's account of the Rajneesh movement - the author was the "secretary" to Ma Anand Sheela for most of 1976-1981, and thus she was part of the inner circle controlling the ashram and its financial affairs, This book attempts but does not quite manage to explain the allure of the movement, and, since Strelley was only on the periphery after the move to Oregon, it does not really explain the collapse either. Strelley's final conclusion is that Bhagwan was the center of it all. An interesting look at a phenomena that was very much a part of the times - late 1960s thru early 1980s - but one which still continues to have an influence today from a different perspective than the award-winning documentary "Wild, Wild Country." Review copy with publisher's material laid in. 381 pp. ISBN: 0-062508210.