Emily Monosson’s book Blight: Fungi and the Coming Pandemic is a prescient warning about the mysterious and deadly world of fungi—and how to avert further loss across species, including our own. Fungi are everywhere. Most are harmless; some are helpful. A few are killers. Collectively, infectious fungi are the most devastating agents of disease on […]
Join us in celebrating National Poetry Month with the meditative and empathic Nadia Colburn and Sandra Lim. The poets will read and engage in a Q & A, followed by book signings and light refreshments. Nadia Colburn reads from her new collection, I Say the Sky (University Press of Kentucky 2024). She is also the […]
Prof. Shams will share her experiences and read her poetry. Question and Answer Period and Reception will follow. Shams currently serves as Associate Professor of Persian Literature and Gender Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. She has been living in exile since June 2009 and her lived experience has served as a springboard for her […]
Barefoot Books is delighted to welcome parents/caregivers, educators and book lovers (ages 12+) to attend our annual Community Conference on Saturday, May 4th at our colorful West Concord community space , or online via Zoom. Enjoy an inspiring day of thought-provoking, fun panel discussions led by children's literature & mental health experts that dive deep into the power […]
Join us at our capstone event for the 2023-24 season with nationally acclaimed poets Charles Coe, John Hodgen, and Henry Walters. The poets will read and engage in a Q & A, followed by book signings and light refreshments. Charles Coe, poet, prose writer, musician (vocals and didgeridoo) and filmmaker, reads from his newest collection, […]
Catherine Staples in conversation with Richard Higgins about the importance of Thoreau in the writing of her newest book of poetry, VERT, which is part elegy, part quest, part paean to the natural world. Staples grew up in Massachusetts and it’s there, in New England woods, meadows, and Cape Cod coasts, that the loss of […]
Join local author John Hanson Mitchell for a reading from his new novel, The Sweet Revenge of Marcus Aurelius: Based on the True Story of a Slave Who Sold his Master. John Hanson Mitchell is best known for a series of books known as the Scratch Flat Chronicles in which he uses a single square […]
Join us for a talk with local author Henriette Lazaridis who will discuss her new novel Last Days in Plaka! An immersive and multifaceted novel—The Talented Mr. Ripley by way of Elena Ferrante—that explores the lies at the heart of an old woman’s identity and the desperation of a young woman’s struggle to belong. Today's […]
Join The Walden Woods Project and RESTORE: The North Woods for a special presentation from wilderness activist and author Jamie Sayen. Thoreau’s "Maine Woods" provides the most lyrical and ecological introduction to the “mossy and moosey” landscape of undeveloped northern Maine before lumberjacks, paper companies and contemporary land speculators degraded this wild place “not bound to be kind […]
Author Ain Heath Drew and illustrator Erin Robinson discuss their newly released picture book ‘Ayo’s Adventure: Across the African Diaspora from Afro to Zulu’, for ages 5-10. Accompanied by Senior Editor Autumn Allen, this family-friendly panel discussion delves behind the scenes of ‘Ayo’s Adventure’, an A-to-Z “journey through the sights and sounds of the African […]
