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’s poems have most recently appeared in The Mountain Troubadour and The Reverie. The recipient of a 2014 Robert T. Marsh Memorial Prize for Excellence in Writing and a 2017 Green Mountain Scholarship, Bianca plans...
Books and music are perfect partners! Enjoy young chamber musicians performing while you browse, or watch.
Green Mountain Chamber Music Festival brings together young string musicians from around the U.S. and several other countries with professional string teachers from many conservatories and universities, to work together for a month in the beautiful setting of Burlington, Vermont. The Classical Encounters series brings informal chamber music performances to non-traditional venues around Burlington.
ADMISSION: This event is free and open to the public.
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Join us for story time at 6 pm during Friday Night Live and listen as Deputy Chief Scott Mangan and other members of the Rutland City Fire Department read from their favorite books!
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Join Kimberly Paul for her Rutland stop on the Live Well Die Well Tour, and for a talk on her book, Bridging the Gap.
ABOUT THE BOOK: Live vicariously through Kimberly C. Paul as she shares personal stories and the life lessons she has learned while working with hospice patients over the last 18 years. Each chapter will inspire you to design your own life and death around what matters most. Kimberly C. Paul will urge you to discard what you thought you knew about death and embrace a new way of thinking when facing the end of life. Her stories emphasize that death and dying are not taboo subjects and encourage you to engage in light-hearted conversations as you face your own death or the passing of a loved one. This innovative and...
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This is an offsite event at Foam Brewery. From the Rootstock Publishing website:
Join JC as he launches his book, Junkyard at No Town, out into the world. The party will be Foam Brewery, 112 Lake St, Burlington, VT 05401. Books will be available for purchase!
The excellent Doug Perkins will join JC to play some tunes. Other members of Broken String may join us too. Book signed and sold!.
Beer. Music. Fun.
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Join Sharon Lamb for a talk on her new book, The Not Good Enough Mother.
ABOUT THE BOOK: A psychologist who evaluates the fitness of parents when their children have been removed from their custody finds herself reassessing her own mothering when her son falls victim to the opioid crisis.
Psychologist and expert witness Dr. Sharon Lamb evaluates parents, particularly in high-stakes cases concerning the termination of parental rights. The conclusions she reaches can mean that some children are returned home from foster homes. Others are freed for adoption. Well-trained, Lamb generally can decide what’s in the best interests of the child. But when her son’s struggle with opioid addiction...
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Was it Colonel Mustard in the Library with the Candlestick?
Join us for an evening of CLUE®—the Classic Board Game edition at Phoenix Books Rutland! Please call 802-855-8078 or email will@phoenixbooks.biz to RSVP. Light fare will be provided. ...
Bill will engage the audience in one of his favorite topics, "Do I have a book in me?" As an author of eight fictional works - both self-published and traditionally published - he will answer questions about the work of writing and the new business of publishing. Bill recently published his eighth novel, The Priest, and will discuss the book as well.
ABOUT THE BOOK: The Priest explores the struggle many boys have becoming men - especially around sexuality - and how one boy finds safety within the vocational confines of his Catholic faith, only then to be astonished as he experiences life vicariously in the shadow of the confessional. Ultimately, he must confront his own emerging sexuality...
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Join Teresa Mares for a talk on her new book, Life on the Other Border: Farmworkers and Food Justice in Vermont.
ABOUT THE BOOK: In her timely new book, Teresa M. Mares explores the intersections of structural vulnerability and food insecurity experienced by migrant farmworkers in the northeastern borderlands of the United States. Through ethnographic portraits of Latinx farmworkers who labor in Vermont’s dairy industry, Mares powerfully illuminates the complex and resilient ways workers sustain themselves and their families while also serving as the backbone of the state’s agricultural economy. In doing so, Life on the Other Border exposes how broader movements for food justice and labor rights play out in the agricultural sector, and...
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