This Open Book Women’s Retreat is a wonderful opportunity to spend a few hours on a Saturday afternoon talking about books on women’s issues with other readers as well as meeting the author of Visionary Women. The event takes place in the beautiful setting of the Manor House at Whitpain Farm, an historic colonial-era  house in Blue Bell, PA. (Directions to be provided.)

The event includes:

• Keynote presentation by Andrea Barnet, author of Visionary Women

• Intro presentation by Lynn Rosen: “Women’s Words: Feminist Literary Highlights from Virginia Woolf to Gloria Steinem”

• A copy of Visionary Women

• Time to mingle, meet other attendees, and talk about books

• A closing wine & cheese reception with the author where you get to place your own nominations for Visionary Women!

Sign up for the event here.

The subjects of Andrea Barnet’s Visionary Women (Jane Jacobs, Jane Goodall, Rachel Carson, and Alice Waters) forged their careers with limited support, few academic credentials, little public recognition. In How to Disappear, Akiko Busch considers the value of invisibility in a time of transparency. In this panel, these two writers will discuss those ways in which working inconspicuously, discreetly, and otherwise under the radar can serve ways of thinking, writing, being. 

See the full schedule of events at millbrookliteraryfestival.org

Reading and talk.

Reading and talk. A portion of the proceeds will benefit the Columbia County Land Conservancy.

Join Andrea for dinner at one of Hancock Shaker Village's monthly Food for Thought dinners. Tickets include a 3-course farm-to-table dinner prepared by noted regional chef Brian Alberg, wine, and a signed book. Limited seating.

22nd Annual Sharon Summer Book Signing, where 30 authors and illustrators gather to sign their latest work. Click here for the full lineup and more info. 

Andrea will discuss Visionary Women. For more info and to buy the book from the bookstore, visit Northshire's site here.

Join author Andrea Barnet for lunch to discuss her new book Visionary Women: How Rachel Carson, Jane Jacobs, Jane Goodall, and Alice Waters Changed Our World. (A copy of the book, published in March, is included. See below for details.)

For more information, check out the the full schedule of the retreat.

Author talk with Andrea Barnet. Books will be available for signing and sale.

Learn more about the event here.

Panel on "Writing Great Lives," featuring Andrea Barnet, Diane Smith, Jonathan Eig, John A. Farrell, and Adam Federman.

For more info, visit the LA Times Book Festival page.

The White Hart Speaker Series: Andrea Barnet. This event is free, but RSVP is required.

Register for the event here.

Author Andrea Barnet takes us into the lives and work of four influential women — Jane Jacobs, Rachel Carson, Jane Goodall and Alice Waters — and how they spearheaded the modern progressive movement.

Tickets from $29. Buy tickets here.