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VB Writes... Morning Poetry Group

Tue, 06/06/2023 - 10:30am
Tue, 06/20/2023 - 10:30am
Village Books
1200 11th St
Bellingham, WA 98225-7015
Meets 1st & 3rd Tuesdays, 10:30-Noon in the Readings Gallery

Tuesday Story Time

Tue, 06/06/2023 - 11:00am
Tue, 06/13/2023 - 11:00am
Tue, 06/20/2023 - 11:00am
Tue, 06/27/2023 - 11:00am
Village Books
1200 11th St
Bellingham, WA 98225-7015

Join us in the kids' section of our Fairhaven location every Tuesday at 11am for a half hour of stories, songs, and movement! 

VB Writes...Prompts

Wed, 06/07/2023 - 10:30am
Wed, 06/21/2023 - 10:30am
Village Books
1200 11th St
Bellingham, WA 98225-7015

Meets 1st & 3rd Wednesday, 10:30am-Noon in the Readings Gallery

VB Writes...Children's Picture Book Critique Group

Wed, 06/07/2023 - 6:00pm
Wed, 06/21/2023 - 6:00pm
Village Books
1200 11th St
Bellingham, WA 98225-7015

Meets the 1st and 3rd Wednesdays from 6-7:30pm in the Writer's Corner on the mezzanine level of the bookstore.

VB Writes...Fiction I

Thu, 06/08/2023 - 6:00pm
Thu, 06/22/2023 - 6:00pm
Village Books
1200 11th St
Bellingham, WA 98225-7015
Meets 2nd & 4th Thursdays, 6-8pm in the Writers Corner on the mezzanine level of the bookstore beginning in January of 2023.

VB Reads...Motherhood By the Book

Sun, 06/11/2023 - 2:00pm to 3:00pm
1200 11th St
Bellingham, WA 98225-7015

Sunday, June 11, 2pm  

The Color Purple by Alice Walker

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. Alice Walker's iconic modern classic is now a Penguin Book.

A powerful cultural touchstone of modern American literature, The Color Purple depicts the lives of African American women in early twentieth-century rural Georgia. Separated as girls, sisters Celie and Nettie sustain their loyalty to and hope in each other across time, distance and silence. Through a series of letters spanning twenty years, first from Celie to God, then the sisters to each other despite the unknown, the novel draws readers into its rich and memorable portrayals of Celie, Nettie, Shug Avery and Sofia and their experience. The Color Purple broke the silence around domestic and sexual abuse, narrating the lives of women through their pain and struggle, companionship and growth, resilience and bravery. Deeply compassionate and beautifully imagined, Alice Walker's epic carries readers on a spirit-affirming journey towards redemption and love.

Alice Walker won the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award for her novel The Color Purple. Her other novels include By the Light of My Father’s Smile and Possessing the Secret of Joy. She is also the author of three collections of short stories, three collections of essays, seven volumes of poetry, and several children’s books. Born in Eatonton, Georgia, Walker now lives in Northern California.

Red Wheelbarrow Writers Group Reading, Spring and All 2023 Anthology

Sun, 06/11/2023 - 4:00pm to 5:00pm
Village Books
1200 11th St
Bellingham, WA 98225-7015

Join us in the Readings Gallery for a reading of the latest anthology by the Red Wheelbarrow Writers!

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“—Still the profound change

has come upon them: rooted, they

grip down and begin to awaken.”

VB Reads...Armchair Historians

Mon, 06/12/2023 - 6:00pm to 7:30pm
1200 11th St
Bellingham, WA 98225-7015

Monday, June 12, 6pm  

The Great Dissenter: The Story of John Marshall Harlan, America's Judicial Hero by Peter S. Canellos

The “superb” (The Guardian) biography of an American who stood against all the forces of Gilded Age America to fight for civil rights and economic freedom: Supreme Court Justice John Marshall Harlan.

They say that history is written by the victors. But not in the case of the most famous dissenter on the Supreme Court. Almost a century after his death, John Marshall Harlan’s words helped end segregation and gave us our civil rights and our modern economic freedom.
But his legacy would not have been possible without the courage of Robert Harlan, a slave who John’s father raised like a son in the same household. After the Civil War, Robert emerges as a political leader. With Black people holding power in the Republican Party, it is Robert who helps John land his appointment to the Supreme Court.

Peter S. Canellos is an award-winning writer and former Editorial Page Editor of The Boston Globe and Executive Editor of Politico. He is the editor of the New York Times bestseller, Last Lion: The Fall and Rise of Ted Kennedy.

Tuesday Story Time

Tue, 06/06/2023 - 11:00am
Tue, 06/13/2023 - 11:00am
Tue, 06/20/2023 - 11:00am
Tue, 06/27/2023 - 11:00am
Village Books
1200 11th St
Bellingham, WA 98225-7015

Join us in the kids' section of our Fairhaven location every Tuesday at 11am for a half hour of stories, songs, and movement! 

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