Please join us as we welcome Christine Kenneally to Phoenix Books in Burlington for a discussion of her new book, Ghosts of the Orphanage: A Story of Mysterious Deaths, a Conspiracy of Silence, and a Search for Justice.  
 

“Sometimes the world’s secrets have to wait for the right person to turn up to reveal them. Across ten years of hard and painful investigation, Christine Kenneally discovered, explored, and here reports on a great sink of human misery visited upon unprotected children by the very people who were honored for caring for them. It’s a chilling book, but a brave and important one—and a gripping read. It bears comparison to Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s The Gulag...

Join us at Champlain College on March 8th to celebrate the International Day of Women. 

Dr. Tanya Lee Stone, author of Girl Rising: Changing the World One Girl at a Time will be joined by Absa Samba, Social Work,'20, The Gambia and Mariama Jallow, Social Work, '21, The Gambia. 
We are looking forward to a screening of the award winning documentary Girl Rising, followed by a community conversation.
Free & open to the public! 

Phoenix Books will be on hand with copies of Dr. Stone's book Girl Rising available for purchase. 

Join us for an afternoon of poetry hosted by Phoenix Books Rutland’s own Bianca Amira Zanella.  Come to read, come to listen, or come for both!  Those interested in reading can sign up at the door.

ABOUT THE EVENT HOST:  Bianca Amira Zanella is a cis queer Vermont-based performance poet, artist, and advocate living on traditionally Abenaki land. She is the Poet-in-Residence at Phoenix Books Rutland, hosting an international monthly open mic. Her poems have most recently appeared in The Artful Mind, The Rutland Herald, The Mountain Troubadour, and The...

The Rutland Chapter UVM Extension Master Gardeners presents an evening with Martha Leb Molnar at the Godnick Adult Center in Rutland!   This free event is not just for gardeners!  Please join us as Martha discusses her memoir, Playing God in the Meadow.

About the book:  After decades of fantasizing and saving, of working multiple jobs and embracing frugality in the midst of Manhattan, Martha Leb Molnar and her husband had found their parcel of land. Determined to turn an overgrown and unproductive Vermont apple orchard into a thriving and beautiful landscape, they decided to restore this patch of land to a pristine meadow and build a safe haven for their family and...