Shopping online? Shop Local! Shop villagebooks.com on Monday, November 30 and December 7, and save 20%. Order online then pick up at the store or have your purchase shipped anywhere in th U.S. Just enter Coupon Code VBPD20 at checkout. Easy. Peasy. There are a few — but just a few!
Our monthly Open Mic Night is back and it's going virtual! Village Books invites everyone to enjoy local talents as they share their own stories, poems and essays! Published and unpublished writers are encouraged to attend and enjoy a welcoming audience. Our regular emcee and celebrated local author, Sean Dwyer, will host as he does every month. Pre-registration to read is required and spaces are limited so please email Sean at sean@seandwyerauthor.com to secure your spot!
Open mic is usually held the last Monday of every month at 7pm and will remain a virtual event for the foreseeable future due to Covid 19.
CLICK HERE TO ATTEND THE EVENT
Seán Dwyer teaches Spanish at Western Washington University and his memoir, A Quest for Tears: Surviving Traumatic Brain Injury continues to be a bestseller at Village Books. He is also the author of a number of published short stories. As an advocate for other writers, he hosts the open mic at Village Books.
Shopping online? Shop Local! Shop villagebooks.com on Monday, November 30 and December 7, and save 20%. Order online then pick up at the store or have your purchase shipped anywhere in th U.S. Just enter Coupon Code VBPD20 at checkout. Easy. Peasy. There are a few — but just a few!
Village Books is pleased to join forces with Whatcom Writers and Publishers to co-host their monthly virtual supper club.
Each month on the second Wednesday, we host a guest author or explore a new topic to connect Whatcom Writers and industry speakers.
Check back for details on this month's topic!
Join us in the Virtual Readings Gallery for an event that will be as entertaining as it is informative. How could it be otherwise with these to local food experts?
We all eat – that makes us all experts on eating, doesn’t it? Yet dozens of times a day we struggle with tough decisions about not only what to eat (are eggs really as bad for us as smoking a pack of cigarettes?) but also how much (those low-fat diets don’t always shed pounds). Clearly, we live in a culture awash with advice on nutrition and eating—even during the holidays. Gigi Berardi’s FoodWISE instead, gives us a WISE view of food: Whole, Informed, Sustainable, and Experienced.
Gigi Berardi is a professor at Western Washington University and free-lance writer. She maintains the popular food blog “FoodWISE” and “Food and Resilience” vlog, and has written numerous articles for general and scientific audiences alike. Her work has appeared in outlets including the LA Times and BioScience among others, and her public radio features (for KSKA, Anchorage, Alaska) have been recognized by the Society of Professional Journalists. Her most recent book, FoodWISE, has been endorsed by over 30 food thought-leaders (including food journalists Michael Pollan and Pulitzer awardee Michael Moss) and has been listed as one of “19 reads that inspire us and challenge us to be better activists, environmentalists, cooks, policymakers, protectors of the planet, farmers, supporters of pollinators and advocates for a better food system” (Forbes.com). In September, it received a silver medal, Living Now Book Awards.
Chef Christy Fox is co-owner and Executive Chef of Evolve Chocolate + Cafe deliciously perched on the mezzanine level of Village Books.
Join us in the Virtual Readings Gallery for a reading from some of your favorite local writers who organize through the Village Books writing groups!
The Writers' Corner Anthology is a biennial snapshot of some of the best writing currently happening in association with the Village Books writing groups. We are excited to bring something for everyone from our poetry, nonfiction/memoir, prompts, and fiction groups!
Join us for an evening of poetry and creative fun, as the talented young writers of the 2019 Peaceful Poetry Youth Contest read their award-winning poems. Sure to pull your heartstrings and capture your imagination! Click here to register.
Presented by the Whatcom Dispute Resolution Center and Village Books. To learn more about youth programs sponsored by the WDRC, click here.
Join us in the Virtual Readings Gallery for an evening of ecological poetry with this stellar author.
Unlike most books of poems, Goodbye, Ice does not brim with ambiguities or the author’s selfies. Rather, it has a strongly ecological bias. It gives the reader a window on the natural world of the Arctic and its tradition-bound indigenous people. It is also a jeremiad for that world, which, due to climate change, is becoming just like the rest of the heated up planet.
Writer-mycologist-Arctic explorer Lawrence Millman is the author of 18 previous books, including such titles as Last Places, Lost in the Arctic, Northern Latitudes, Hiking to Siberia, At the End of the World, and Fungipedia. He has been to Greenland 15 times, but never to Rome (Rome, New York: once). He keeps a post office box in Cambridge,Massachusetts.
Join us in the Virtual Readings Gallery for this event with a celebrated local author!
The Were Chronicles: Omnibus is a collected edition of three novels, Random, Wolf, and Shifter - a triptych of stories about a society so like and so very unlike our own - where Were creatures can coexist alongside "normal" humans, but are subject to fear, prejudice, discrimination, and bullying.
Alma Alexander's life so far has prepared her very well for her chosen career. She was born in a country which no longer exists on the maps, has lived and worked in seven countries on four continents (and in cyberspace!), has climbed mountains, dived in coral reefs, flown small planes, swum with dolphins, touched two-thousand-year-old tiles in a gate out of Babylon. She is a novelist, anthologist and short story writer who currently shares her life between the Pacific Northwest of the USA (where she lives with her husband and two cats) and the wonderful fantasy worlds of her own imagination. You can find out more about Alma on her website (www.AlmaAlexander.org).
Join us for a great event as part of the Whatcom READS series!
We are pleased to welcome David Allen Sibley back to the (virtual) Readings Gallery. He will do a presentation on his latest book and will also focus on nature illustrations, in concert with the themes of Washington Black by Esi Edugyan, this year's Whatcom READS selection.
On What It's Like to Be a Bird: This is the bird book for birders and nonbirders alike that will excite and inspire by providing a new and deeper understanding of what common, mostly backyard, birds are doing–and why.
“Can birds smell?” “Is this the same cardinal that was at my feeder last year?” “Do robins ‘hear’ worms?” In What It’s Like to Be a Bird, David Sibley answers the most frequently asked questions about the birds we see most often.
DAVID ALLEN SIBLEY is the author and illustrator of the series of successful guides to nature that bear his name, including The Sibley Guide to Birds. He has contributed to Smithsonian, Science, The Wilson Journal of Ornithology, Birding, BirdWatching, and North American Birds, and to The New York Times. He is the recipient of the Roger Tory Peterson Award for Lifetime Achievement from the American Birding.
