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Book talk with Dan Carter, author of Unmasking the Klansman: The Double Life of Asa and Forrest Carter

Book talk with Jonathan Eig, author of King: A Life

Book talk with Lee Durkee, author of Stalking Shakespeare

Book talk with James R. Hansen, author of Completely Mad

Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts ArtTalk with Emily Thomas

Book Talk with Jefferson Cowie, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Freedom's Dominion

Reading the great 19th-Century Russian Writers: a talk by Dr. Lee Farrow

Book Talk with Victor Luckerson, author of Built From The Fire

Sickle Cell Anemia Talk With UAB Children's Hospital

Music and Stories with The Vikings

The NewSouth Bookstore first annual sidewalk sale

Book Talk with Mayor Steven Reed, author of First, Best

The NewSouth Bookstore 2023 holiday reading of Thornton Wilder's The Long Christmas Dinner

Book Talk with Burgin Mathews, author of Magic City

Author/journalist Howell Raines captivates a bookstore group with his talk about Silent Cavalry: How Union Soldiers Helped Sherman Burn Atlanta – and Then Got Written Out of History

Dr. Kirk Curnutt gives a fascinating bookstore presentation on the complicated life and work of Alabama's own Zora Neale Hurston

Book talk with Steve Suitts, author of A War of Sections: How Deep South Political Suppression Shaped Voting Rights in America

The NewSouth Bookstore and Read Freely Alabama co-host an evening of letter writing to protest Alabama code changes impacting book access in public libraries

Ilyon Woo, in conversation with Dr. Lee Farrow, captivates with her talk about Master Slave Husband Wife at The NewSouth Bookstore

Beto O'Rourke wows our large bookstore crowd with his inspiring talk about democracy and voting rights in connection with the paperback release of We've Got to Try: How the FIght for Voting Rights Makes Everything Else Possible

Frye Gaillard celebrates the paperback release of A Hard Rain: America in the 1960s with a talk at The NewSouth Bookstore

Trish O'Kane gives talk on her new book Birding to Change the World at The NewSouth Bookstore

The NewSouth Bookstore hosts our second annual poetry read-aloud for National Poetry Month

Patricia Foster joins us at The NewSouth Bookstore for a talk about and reading from Written in the Sky

British Historian Dominic Erdozain at The NewSouth bookstore with One Nation Under Guns: How Gun Culture Distorts Our History and Threatens Our Democracy

Five presenters and a packed house for a program celebrating the release of Old Enough: Southern Women Artists and Writers on Creativity and Aging

The NewSouth Bookstore kicks off summer with Karren Pell and the Old Alabama Revue

The NewSouth Bookstore is offsite for a fun, successful day at Prattville Pride!

The Montgomery Dulcimer Players open an evening of talk by Michael Streissguth about Highways and Heartaches: How Ricky Skaggs, Marty Stuart, and Children of the New South Saved the Soul of Country Music

Edda Fields-Black was a wonderful bookstore presenter on the subject of her important work, Combee: Harriet Tubman, the Combahee River Raid, and Black Freedom during the Civil War

Poets Tina Mozelle Braziel and James Braziel delight an audience with talk about their creativity conceived poetry collection, Glass Cabin

Mike Coleman brings his fabulous talk about coming out as told in The Way From Me to Us to The NewSouth Bookstore

In an amazing program, New York Times journalist Elizabeth Dias was our featured speaker, presenting on the topic of her landmark new book coauthored with Lisa Lerer, The Fall of Roe: The Rise of a New America

A great program was had with Mary Annaïse Heglar, author of Troubled Waters: A Novel, in conversation with Kandeaux, founder of The Farm Plug, about the book's many themes

The NewSouth Bookstore's first Local Author Day!

Dr. Lee Farrow leads The NewSouth Bookstore's second group read with Father and Sons by Ivan Turgenev

Grace Elizabeth Hale leads a fantastic talk on her book In the Pines: A Lynching, A Lie, A Reckoning at The NewSouth Bookstore

Stephen Puleo wows an audience with his talk about Charles Sumner, subject of his new biography The Great Abolitionist

The NewSouth Bookstore hosts its 2024 annual Sidewalk Sale – and it's simply fabulous

The story of John Turner's lifelong love affair with the Appalachian Trail – subject of his new book, Killing the Buddha on the Appalachian Trail – captivates our bookstore audience