8 Main Street Amherst, MA 01002 ·
413.256.1547 · 800.503.5865 · books @ amherstbooks.com
Events
Events listed in white are at the bookshop; events listed in yellow are elsewhere.
Unless noted otherwise all events are free & open to the public.
- Saturday, January 13th at 5:00pm (Book launch party)
Join Isabella Chiaravallotti in celebrating the publication of her new book,
Milk for No One. A work of narrative nonfiction surrounding pregnancy & abortion full of light & love.
Milk For No One is an intriguingly honest book that examines the delicate nuances of motherhood, personhood, health, healing, & nature.
- Saturday, January 27th at 12:00pm (Book launch party)
Sonia Sanchez will speak at the second annual “Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Legacy Symposium” in
Johnson Chapel, Amherst College. The talk will be preceded by a book signing at 11:15am.
- Tuesday, January 30th at 5:00pm (Book launch party)
Join
Toussaint Losier in celebrating the publication of his new book (co-authored with Dan Berger),
Rethinking the American Prison Movement at the
New Africa House, UMass, Amherst. Toussaint teaches in the W.E.B. Du Bois Department of Afro-American Studies at UMass here in Amherst.
- Wednesday, January 31st at 8:00pm (Talk)
Jeff Hobbs will talk about his book,
The Short & Tragic Life of Robert Peace: A Brilliant Young Man Who Left Newark for the Ivy League, in the
Stirn Auditorium, Amherst College.