John & Jennifer Churchman will be joining us from Moonrise Farm for a very special story time featuring their new book, The Happy Garden: Best Friends!  

Follow the story of a little frog named Oliver and baby caterpillar Flora as she makes her transformation into a beautiful monarch butterfly. Watch their journey unfold in this heartwarming tale of friendship, and unconditional love while growing up in The Happy Garden.

ABOUT THE AUTHORS: John Churchman is a photographer, artist, and farmer. Jennifer Churchman is a multimedia artist, storyteller, and writer. John and Jennifer combine their talents to give voice to the stories of the animals that surround them and add boundless enjoyment to their lives. They have made their home on a small farm in the beautiful countryside of Essex, Vermont, with their daughter Gabrielle.

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Phoenix Books is pleased to virtually present an evening with Chuck Collins for a discussion of his most recent book, The Wealth Hoarders. 

This is a ticketed event. Ticket purchase includes entry for your household to the virtual event as well as a copy of The Wealth Hoarders with a signed bookplate and shipping via USPS Media Mail (US addesses only). You will receive a link to join the Zoom event the day of the event, April 20th. Please allow 7-10 businees days for book delivery due to Covid-related USPS delays.

ABOUT THE BOOK: For decades, a secret army of tax attorneys, accountants and wealth managers has been developing into the shadowy Wealth Defense Industry. These 'agents of inequality' are paid millions to hide trillions for the richest 0.01%. 

In this book, inequality expert Chuck Collins, who himself inherited a fortune, interviews the leading players and gives a unique insider account of how this industry is doing everything it can to create and entrench...

Phoenix Books is honored to present an evening of poetry with Madeleine May Kunin.  Please join us to celebrate the release of her debut collection of poetry, Red Kite, Blue Sky.

Red Kite, Blue Sky celebrates life and the natural world, occasioned by the birth of grand-children, the memories of friendship and past birthdays/Bar Mitzvahs, a gift of plum-colored gloves from the poet’s daughter, the Sicilian sun which “melts my argument against myself," with sharp observations and humor. Like Emily Dickinson before her, Kunin does not shy away from death; rather she embraces the anticipation “before death drags me deep,” the gap in her life when her beloved husband dies, the fear of immigration to America during World War II with “an H for Hebrew, I found out later,” and the sadness of being isolated as an older woman living alone during the pandemic. For years Kunin was caught in the tempo of politics—as governor, as a federal official, and as an ambassador—but as she eased into retirement from public life, she found a door that opened for her to explore the multi-layered language of poetry.

Madeleine May Kunin, the first...

Join us for an evening of poetry with Vermont poet Angela Patten as we celebrate the release of her most recent collection of poetry, The Oriole & the Ovenbird.  

"Angela Patten’s The Oriole & the Ovenbird offers us bird-loving readers the pleasure of seeing the birds and savoring their habits and quirky ways. But the poems of the collection also deliver to us a profundity about our human lives as we absorb the insightful portraits of these creatures that are both common and extraordinary. These serious, crafty, and elegant compositions show us just how necessary birds are to our spiritual lives; a task that also warns us how bereft we will be if we no longer have the birds enriching our days."

--David Huddle, author of Blacksnake at the Family Reunion and My Surly Heart

Angela Patten is author of four poetry collections, The Oriole and the Ovenbird (Kelsay Books), In Praise of Usefulness (Wind Ridge...