October's Book is:  The Book of Hope: A Survival Guide for Trying Times by Jane Goodall, Douglas Abrams

The program will be held this month in the Library's Admin Conference Room on the top floor.  

This is a hybrid book club.  Please contact Barbara at bshatara@burlingtonvt.gov to obtain the Zoom link.

Join our newest book discussion group, the Earth Lovers Book Club - Reading for Our Future:

About This Month's Book:

November's Book is:  Fresh Banana Leaves by Jessica Hernandez.

After an inspiring first Book Club session we continue with the book Fresh Banana Leaves by Jessica Hernandez who is an Indigenous environmental scientist. In her book Hernandez breaks down why Western conservationism isn't working–and offers Indigenous models informed by case studies. Tea and homemade cookies will be available. 

National Novel Writing Month began in 1999 as a daunting but straightforward challenge: to write 50,000 words of a novel in thirty days. Now, each year on November 1, hundreds of thousands of people around the world begin to write, determined to end the month with a first draft.

NaNoWriMo is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit that provides the structure, community, and encouragement to help people use their voices, achieve creative goals, and build new worlds—on and off the page. 

What goes into telling your own story?  Find out when Sean Prentiss moderates this panel of memorists, Thomas Christopher Greene, Rob Mermin, and Adrie Kusserow.  

Not quite sure what this new blend of romance and fantasy is all about? Come find out more at Romantasy: An Emerging Genre !

Moderator Amber Roberts will be joined by bestselling authors Katherine Arden, Laurie Forest, and Madison Rene, as they discuss where the fantasy ends and the romance begins.

We're pleased to announce our next panel for this year's Green Mountain Book Festival: Grappling with Vermont's Complicated Past. Moderator J. Kevin Graffagnino will be joined by authors Elise A. Guyette, Pamela N. Walker and Mercedes de Guardiola while they discuss the more difficult parts of Vermont history.

We're thrilled to welcome accomplished poets Stephen Cramer, Toussaint St. Negritude, Alison Prine, and Neil Shepard to this year's Green Mountain Book Festival, where they'll each be reading from their work.

Tis the season for all things spooky! Join us for Spooky Season: The Ins-and-Outs of Writing Horror, where moderator Daniel Mills will be joined by horror experts Kristin Dearborn, Margot Harrison, and Brian Staveley, to discuss how to write a very scary tale.