events across the state, fabulous readings and opportunities to get involved.... visit the link below for the schedule.  

panel discussion on writing and the environment

reading from his new novel, a sudden light, this man wrote the art of racing in the rain, a book I hold close to my heart.  and cried through.

kayann short reads from her ecobiography, a book about her grandmother's farming past and the power and possibilities of community farming.

Join author, Gary Ferguson, for a reading and signing of his new book, The Carry Home. The Carry Home is both a moving celebration of the outdoor life shared between Ferguson and his wife Jane, who died tragically in a canoeing accident in northern Ontario in 2005, and a chronicle of the mending, uplifting power […]

After nine years of keeping his prostate cancer at bay, the drugs were no longer working. The doctors told him his time was nearly up. And so Jeff Metcalf dove deep into writing, tasking himself to write one essay each week for a year. Requiem for the Living contains the best of the resulting fifty-two award-winning essays by an author who continues to defy his medical prognosis. The essays form a memoir of sorts, recounting good times and critical moments from Metcalf’s life. Funny, moving, profoundly personal, they draw from his rich experience.

oin local authors, Brooke and Terry Tempest Williams, for a reading and signing of their new book, Story of My Heart.

In The Story of My Heart, originally published in 1883, British nature writer Richard Jefferies explores the existence of a “soul-life” as experienced while wandering in England. In essays alongside Jefferies’ original work, Brooke and Terry Tempest Williams contemplate dilemmas of modernity, the intrinsic need for wildness, and what it means to be human in the 21st century.

  Ken Sanders Rare Books would like to invite the public to a night of remembrance for the late great writer Charles Bowden.

oin us for the Collectors Book Salon, a chance to meet with fellow bibliophiles and have light refreshment and bookish conversation. Each month we feature a different speaker. In November, we feature our staff XMAS picks! Reception at 6:30, speakers at 7:30.

join the king's english for a day-long celebration of the bookstores we love! visit their website for a full list of events  http://www.kingsenglish.com/event/independent-bookstore-day weller book works is celebrating, too, with a full calendar of activities: http://www.wellerbookworks.com/events/2015/5/