The Ivy is over the moon to celebrate our bookseller James Magruder's new collection of short stories, and we hope you'll join us! If you've interacted with Jim in the shop, or in one of his many roles around Baltimore, you have likely encountered his razor-sharp wit, emotional...
Eileen Flanagan's Common Ground: How the Crisis of the Earth Is Saving Us from Our Illusion of Separation brings together the author's experiences in Quaker communities, teaching, and grassroots environmental organizing to demonstrate the necessity of solidarity. Flanagan shows that "the illusion of separation"--the fallacy that humans can...
Camille Ralphs, editor at the Times Literary Supplement, celebrates the US publication of her debut poetry collection, After You Were, I Am! She'll offer a reading and conversation with Andrew Motion, former UK Poet Laureate and current Homewood Professor of the Arts at Johns Hopkins University. The book's three...
The Vital Perspectives on Healthcare and Science series engages with some of the most pressing public health issues of our time, in a regular public forum catalyzed by a book. For the October event, we are delighted to welcome Dr. Ksenia Tatarchenko to share her new book Soviet SCI_BERIA:...
Kick off your weekend with a festive meet-and-greet with author Libby Buck and her "enchanting debut novel exploring second chances and blossoming romance"! Port Anna is set in a charming port town in Maine, and is perfect for fans of J. Courtney Sullivan's The Cliffs and Catherine Newman's...
Kay Healy, author and illustrator of the graphic novel Casey’s Cases: The Mysterious New Girl, joins us for a comic activity, short reading, and the release of the second book in the series, Casey’s Cases: Everything is Terrible. Hailed as “Riotous” in a starred review from School Library...
Commonplay provides interactive moments for caregivers to sing, play instruments, dance, and connect with their child. Children will develop confidence and music appreciation through playful exploration. In every class, you will experience live music that is dynamic and imaginative and will encourage everyone to move, sing, and create...
We’ve teamed up with Libro.fm and Silent Book Club to host a #BannedBooksWeek Read-In in protest of censorship. Join us as we read to fight book bans! RSVP here How it works: Meet your fellow readers at the community table at Bird in Hand Coffee & Books at...
The Ivy invites you to a book event to celebrate the publication of Vessels of Light: Inspirations from a Spiritual Landscape by photographer Ellen Zimmerman and poet Cantor Karen Webber. Karen will be in conversation with local poet and translator Joseph Reisberg about accessing the spiritual world through...
Rose Diell's Fledging is a beautiful, allegorical novel that considers the decision whether to have a child. It's about Lia, who lays an egg. Her partner on tour on the other side of the world and her mother diagnosed with a terminal illness, Lia finds herself torn, unsure whether she's...
The Ivy welcomes Baltimore legend Leonard "Boogie" Weinglass to the patio for a conversation with Greg Lewis, author of the new volume BOOGIE: Afraid of Nothing Except Being Nothing! Leonard “Boogie” Weinglass always had dreams—impossible dreams, soon forgotten. Greg Lewis' new biography explores poverty and wealth, gambling addiction, violence,...
You're invited to a special night on the theme of "setting free," inspired by designer Claire McCardell-- the subject of Elizabeth Evitts Dickinson's new biography CLAIRE MCCARDELL: THE DESIGNER WHO SET WOMEN FREE. Elizabeth Dickinson will speak on the Ivy patio in conversation with author and Ivy bookseller Elisabeth...