Please join us for a very special evening featuring New York Times bestselling author Naomi Novik at the Contois Auditorium in downtown Burlington! Naomi will in conversation with fellow bestselling author, Katherine Arden.   Advance tickets are required; please purchase your ticket below.

Naomi Novik is the New York Times bestselling author of The Scholomance series, the award-winning novels Uprooted and Spinning Silver, and the nine-...

Phoenix Books and Vermont Italian Cultural Association are honored to welcome Mary Ann Esposito, the creator and host of the nationally televised PBS series Ciao Italia to our Zoom stage for a discussion of her latest book, Ciao Italia: Plant, Harvest, Cook! 

Ciao Italia: Plant, Harvest, Cook! takes the reader on a seasonal home garden vegetable journey focusing on simple growing tips for anyone interested in growing their own vegetables and how to cook them Italian style. In simple language, anyone interested in growing their own vegetables whether on a grand or small scale will find this book filled with helpful gardening advice. No former green thumb necessary...

Virtually appear to read and/or to listen. Those interested in reading can sign up at the beginning of the meeting, via the Zoom Chat Box feature. 

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 Reverie. Their poem films, sculptural poems, and poem paintings have also been on exhibit with PoemCity Montpelier, Merwin Gallery, Stone Valley Arts, SPACE: a Pop Up Art Gallery, and Surdam Gallery.

They received the...

Join us a Phoenix Books in Essex for a very special holiday storytime event featuring author-illustrator Matt Tavares and his beautifully illustrated version of Twas the Night Before Christmas!

The stockings were hung by the chimney with care,
in hopes that St. Nicholas soon would be there.

Once upon a time, children imagined St. Nicholas as a stern, skinny bishop who was as likely to dole out discipline as Christmas presents. But thanks to the poem “Account of a Visit from St. Nicholas”—written by Clement C. Moore in 1822 and published the next year in the Troy Sentinel—a plumper, merrier St. Nick was born, transformed into the sleigh-riding, chimney-diving jolly old elf we now...