Staunton Books & Tea

A note from Julia, on our March curated exhibition wall. Join us on March 18th for the first-ever Staunton Reading Society , a conversation-based gathering where we will discuss books about women who shaped history. I grew up in a society that had women's rights designed into its foundations. Not as a movement, not as a conversation, not as something women had to fight for in the streets. It was written into the constitution. The Soviet Union was, in many ways, a pioneer of formal gender...

On November 16, 2025, we gather for a thoughtful exploration of one of the year’s most complex subjects: immigration. Rather than debate, this evening invites curiosity, empathy, and clarity as our panelists share their lived experiences, historical contexts, and human stories. We are honored to welcome a distinguished group of voices: Seth Michelson , poet and professor at Washington and Lee University, whose decades of work in immigration spaces inform his latest book, Hope on the Border ....

Clifford Garstang is the special guest at our October International Book Club , giving us a perspective on Counterfeit by Kirstin Chen. All books mentioned in this post are collected in the Community Curated Shelf at Staunton Books & Tea . In 1983, the Chairman of the law firm where I worked as a junior associate (a large firm headquartered in Chicago), asked me if I would like to move to Singapore to work in the firm’s small branch office there. He didn’t have to twist my arm. I had visited...