Join Cambridge Common Writers as we celebrate the launch of Nada Samih-Rotondo (Fiction, June 2012)'s, All Water Has Perfect Memory: A Memoir. A debut work from a Palestinian-American author, All Water Has Perfect Memory is a memoir that takes readers from the author's ancestral origins--the coast of Yaffa, Palestine--to her birthplace of Kuwait, eventually landing […]
Books & Books presents an evening with Pamela Petro (Nonfiction/Graphic Novels & Comics, MFA Writing Faculty) & Thomas Swick discussing Petroโs book: The Long Field: Wales and the Presence of Absence, a Memoir.This event is FREE and open to the public and books will be available for purchase the night of the event so make […]
Join RJ Julia Independent Booksellers to celebrate the launch of Sara Levine's (Nonfiction/WFYP, January 2006) latest picture book, Sensitive. A unique and powerful look at the ways being sensitive and having big feelings is a strength "You feel way too much." / "Will you stop being dramatic?" This tender picture book follows a girl who […]
Bonita Lee Penn (Poetry, January 2015) reads from her chapbook, "Every Morning a Foot is Looking for My Neck" at the City Books OcTBRfest event.
๐๐ญ๐ญ ๐๐ข๐ต๐ฆ๐ณ ๐๐ข๐ด ๐๐ฆ๐ณ๐ง๐ฆ๐ค๐ต ๐๐ฆ๐ฎ๐ฐ๐ณ๐บ takes us from the author's ancestral roots along the coast of Yaffa, Palestine, to the shores of Rhode Island. Nada Samih-Rotondo's (Fiction, June 2012) powerful narrative unravels the layers of silence within families, revealing untold stories with an enchanting blend of folklore that explores the profound connection between our bodies, […]
Author Candice Iloh (WFYP, June 2017) will be joined by conversation partner Ebony LaDelle and special guest Rasheed Copeland. Copies of the book will be available for purchase before and after the event, and Candice will be signing following the program. This event is free and open to all. The program begins at 6:00 pm, […]
Join Doing Good Together for a live-streamed parent webinar by Rebecca Rolland (Fiction, June 2017), Harvard professor and author of The Art of Talking with Children. Following the event, registered attendees will receive a webinar recording, Festival of Giving Activity Guide and be added to the Doing Good Together monthly newsletter, packed with kindness tips […]
From Printz honoree and National Book Award finalist Candice Iloh (WFYP, June 2017), a verse novel about Cerulean Gene, a nonbinary Black teenager searching for a new way to do more than survive in post-pandemic America. Cerulean and their friends went into senior yearโthe first year of normal school after the pandemicโwith a plan: keep […]
Join Books on the Square on Friday, October 13th at 7:00 p.m. for Writing Home/Homeland with Nancy Abagian, Nada Samih-Rotondo, and Jared Harel. The Fear of Large and Small Nations by Nancy Abagian In The Fear of Large and Small Nations, feminist writer and teacher Nataleeโaka Naโseeks to reclaim her cultural roots in Armenia only to be […]
Porter Square Books welcomesย Sara Levine (Nonfiction/WFYP, January 2006) for an author talk and book signing in celebration of the launch of her new book,ย Sensitive! "You feel way too much." / "Will you stop being dramatic?" This tender picture book follows a girl who is told she is too intense, too sensitive, too much. She's told […]
Join the Grolier Poetry Book Shop for a hybrid reading with Naomi Mulvihill and Hilary Sallick with an introduction by Lloyd Schwartz. This event will take place synchronously in-store at 6 Plympton Street and on Zoom. Registration Required. Naomi Mulvihill (Poetry, 2011) was a Margaret Murphy endowed fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center in […]
Join local authors as the Holyoke, MA Barnes & Noble location for a meet and greet and book signing. Local authors:
