Upcoming Events
During 2024-2025, we were honored to welcome, among many others:
Louise Penny, Heather Cox Richardson, Ellen Baker, Shannon Bowring, Rich Cohen, Brock Clarke, Ron Curie, Paul Doiron, Tess Gerritsen, Jessica Berger Gross, Ann Hood, Lily King, Christina Baker Kline, Michael Koryta, Sam Sifton, Tony Scott, Catherine Newman, Thomas Ricks, Lewis Robinson, Richard Russo, Elizabeth Strout, Simon Van Booy, Chris Van Dusen, and Martin Walker.
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Free Event
Robert Klose - Author Talk & Signing
WHERE: Left Bank Books
Author of Adopting Alyosha and Adopting Anton, Robert is a single adoptive father of boys from Russia and Ukraine, and has written two memoirs detailing the intriguing, challenging, and often dramatic process of adopting his sons from Eastern Europe. Although single women have long been permitted to adopt children, adoption by unmarried men remains an uncommon experience in Western culture.
It took three years for Robert to work his way through his first adoption maze where he continually met resistance andead ends. Happenstance finally led him to Russia, where he found Alyosha, the child of his dreams, in a Moscow orphanage. Seven years later, Robert embarked on a quest to find a brother for Alyosha, a journey that took him to Ukraine.
Robert teaches Biological Sciences at the University of Maine (Orono) and is a regular contributor to The Christian Science Monitor. His writing has also appeared in Newsweek, The Boston Globe, and various literary magazines. Adopting Anton was a finalist in the Maine Literary Awards.
Free Event
Helen Whybrow - Author Talk & Signing
WHEN: THURSDAY, March 5 at 7pm
WHERE: Left Bank Books
In the heart of Vermont’s Green Mountains, Helen and her partner restored a two-hundred-acre farm. Soon after releasing a flock of Icelandic sheep onto the worn-out fields, Helen realized that the art of shepherding extends far beyond the flock and fences of Knoll Farm.
Join us to welcome Helen who will discuss her book, The Salt Stones, in which she offers an intimate and profoundly moving story of what it means to care for a flock and truly inhabit a piece of land. The shepherd’s life unfolds in the seasons and cycles of farming and family—birthing lambs, fending off coyotes, rescuing lost sheep in a storm, and raising children.
Evocative, affectionate, and illuminating, The Salt Stones sings of a way of life that is both ancient and contemporary, inspiring readers to seek greater intimacy and a sense of belonging wherever our homeplace may be.
The Salt Stones:
- National Books Award Longlist
- New England Book Award Finalist
- PBS NewsHour Summer 2025 Reading Recommendation
- Featured on NPR’s “Fresh Air”
- An Esquire “Best Books of Summer 2025”
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We are deeply grateful to the hundreds of authors — of local, national and international acclaim — who have taken time to visit our bookshop, meet our faithful customers, speak about their work, and sign their books.
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