Literature LIVE!

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Saturday, June 24 & Sunday, June 25

Village Books and Paper Dreams

43rd Anniversary Sale in Lynden & Fairhaven!

VillageBooks Presents The Chuckanut

Join us in the Crystal Ballroom of the Hotel Leo for an evening of music, poetry, comedy, and literature. Award-winning writer Lyanda Lynn Haupt’s highly personal new book is a brilliant invitation to live with the earth in both simple and profound ways—from walking barefoot in the woods and reimagining our relationship with animals and trees, to examining the very language we use to describe and think about nature. She invokes rootedness as a way of being in concert with the wilderness—and wildness—that sustains humans and all of life.

Lyanda Lynn Haupt is a naturalist, eco-philosopher, and author of many books including Mozart’s Starling, and Crow Planet. A winner of the Washington State Book Award and the Sigurd F. Olson Nature Writing Award, she lives in Seattle. Haupt will be interviewed by Bec Detrich, Executive Director of North Cascades Institute!

Village Books is celebrating FORTY-THREE years as your community bookstore with our annual store wide sale! Take advantage of 20% off most merchandise throughout both stores! Some restrictions do apply so please ask one of our booksellers for details. This sale DOES include phone and online orders that are placed and paid for during sale days. Online orders—use code VB1980. Due to extra volume, you can expect delays in processing those orders. Thanks for celebrating with us!

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Thursday, June 22, 6pm JEAN WAIGHT –The River Beyond the Dam : Shooting the Rapids of Progressive Christianity

A modern, ex-Christian, tree-hugging woman comes up against a strange wish for church—but only if it could be radically different from what she’s known. Join Jean Waight for an hour of lighthearted stories of canoeing and church, with themed refreshments and more. Expect to come away with hope for bridging some of our worst social divisions.

“Having tried to pretzel herself to fit inherited Christian teachings and then rejecting the lot in disgust, Jean Waight unexpectedly finds treasure behind door number three—inclusive, non-patriarchal, and liberating. Weaving an astonishing tapestry of canoeing, scholarship, mountaintop experience, and a very human set of fellow travelers, she brings us on her adventure forging a new identity. And a new understanding of Christianity emerges: that there is always a place for God in a rapidly changing world as long as we accept that we are continual works in progress.”

–Cami Ostman, author of Second Wind: One Woman’s Midlife Quest to Run Seven Marathons on Seven Continents

Jean Waight is a local memoirist. A prizewinner in the Pacific Northwest Writers Association 2021 literary contest, her work has appeared in anthologies and in Cirque: A Literary Journal for the North Pacific Rim. Her sociology M.A. research is in Research in Social Stratification and Mobility. She lives among conifers and rhododendrons in Bellingham, canoes every chance she gets, attends First Congregational Church of Bellingham, and is a fan of baseball and cooking for a small planet.

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Friday, June 23, 6pm Young Adult Fiction!

JAMES L. SUTTER in conversation with Tim McHugh

–Darkhearts: A Novel

Join us in the Readings Gallery as James L. Sutter presents his new YA novel! He’ll be joined by local musician Tim McHugh and together, they will perform the song that is featured in Darkhearts! Don’t miss this unique event! Perfect for fans of Red, White, & Royal Blue and Perks of Being a Wallflower, Darkhearts is a hilarious, heartfelt novel about fame, romance, and what happens when the two collide.

James L. Sutter is a co-creator of the bestselling Pathfinder and Starfinder roleplaying games. He’s the author of the fantasy novels Death’s Heretic and The Redemption Engine. James lives in Seattle, where he’s performed with musical acts ranging from metalcore to musical theater.

Tim McHugh is a local musician, composer, and high school English teacher, as well as the author of Ivan: A Pound Dog’s View on Life, Love and Leashes.

Unless otherwise noted, events take place in the Readings Gallery at VIllage Books in Fairhaven