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Check out these titles by our talented local authors and authors who have visited for events - some of which are sold exclusively at Phoenix Books! Remember, not all books featured on our website are necessarily in stock at our bricks-and-mortar locations, but we're always happy to special order a book for you to pick up at the store. Special orders almost always come in quickly, and don't involve any extra fees. Happy browsing!
Phoenix Books and the Heritage Winooski Mill Museum are honored to present an evening with award-winnig author David Macaulay on Wednesday, February 24th. David will be stopping by to sign copies of his featured titles a few days following the event. 
For more detail on the event, or to register please click HERE!
“We will raise this wounded world into a wondrous one…There is always light, if only we’re brave enough to see it if only we’re brave enough to be it.” - Amanda Gorman, from The Hill We Climb
Inspiring words spoken at today's inauguration by America's first youth poet laureate.
We are very excited to share that Amanda Gorman's first two books will be published this September. Preorder your copies today at the links below.
Molly Stevens will be the featured chef and instructor on February 3rd at the Milk Street Cooking School. Details on her online class, Cooking at Home with Molly Stevens: The Art of the Braise, can be found HERE.
Phoenix Books is proud to partner with Molly and the Milk Street Cooking School to offer signed/personalized copies of her cookbooks. If you would like to purchase a signed/personalized copy, please follow the links below. Please note: signed copies will be not be available for in-store pick up or for shipping until after February 9, 2021. If you would like to pick up your book(s) at one of our locations, please select store-pick up at check out. Our store will contact you as soon as the book in available. If you would like your book shipped, please allow an extra 7-10 days for USPS delivery.
Phoenix Books is honored to join Chris Bohjalian on Wednesday, January 6th at 4 PM eastern for The Mighty Blaze's Authors Love Bookstores segment. Chris will be talking about his most recent releases including the new paperback edition of The Red Lotus (January 2021) and his upcoming novel, Hour of the Witch (April 2021). Chris will be visiting our store following this Facebook event to sign copies of his books. If you'd like to order a signed/personalized copy of The Red Lotus or The Flight Attendant, please note that books will be available for pick up or shipping 5-7 days following this event. Signed/personalized copies of Hour of the Witch will be available following the release date in April, 2021.
Peter Hogenkamp is a practicing physician, public speaker, and author of medical fiction and thrillers living in Rutland, Vermont. His first novel, The Intern was published in April 2020 by Touchpoint Press. Peter is the founder and editor of The Book Stops Here, a literary blog for readers and writers written by authors, agents, editors, publishers, and poet, and the creator, producer, and host of Your Health Matters, a health information program, which airs on cable television, streams on YouTube and sounds off on podcast. Peter was a finalist for the prestigious 2019 Killer Nashville Claymore Award as well as the 2020 Vermont Writer’s Prize. When he isn’t writing or practicing medicine, he loves to hike, ski, and take photographs.
Check back for details on his new book, The Vatican Secret, coming in April 2021!
We are excited to welcome James Kochalka to our Phoenix Zoom Channel for a virtual story time and drawing lesson. This event will begin at 11 AM on Saturday, January 9th.
Please register here!
Signed/personalized copies will be available following the event.
Laurie Forest lives deep in the backwoods of Vermont, where she sits in front of a wood stove drinking strong tea and dreaming up tales full of dryads, dragons and wands. She is the author of The Black Witch Chronicles, including The Black Witch, The Iron Flower, The Shadow Wand and the prequel e-novellas Wandfasted and Light Mage, which are also available in print as The Rebel Mages anthology.
Receive a free limited edition Black Witch Chronicles tote bag with the purchase of a signed copy of any of Laurie's titles below! (While supplies last)
Emily Bernard was born and grew up in Nashville, Tennessee, and received her PhD in American studies from Yale University. She has been the recipient of grants from the Ford Foundation, the NEH, and a W. E. B. Du Bois Resident Fellowship at Harvard University. Her essays have been published in journals and anthologies, among them The American Scholar, Best American Essays, and Best African American Essays. She is the Julian Lindsay Green & Good Professor of English at the University of Vermont.
Dr. Bernard is the 2019 winner of the prestigious Christopher Isherwood Prize for Autobiographical Prose for Black is the Body: Stories from My Grandmother’s Time, My Mother’s Time and Mine. Sponsored by the Christopher Isherwood Foundation, the award encompasses fiction, travel writing, memoir and diary, and honors exceptional work.
See Dr. Bernard read from Black is the Body here.
