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LATEST NEWS

Reading group selection: War, So Much War by Merce Rodoreda

The Book Beat reading group will meet Wednesday June 24, at 7:00 PM to discuss War, So Much War by Catalan author Mercè Rodoreda.The meeting is both in store and will also be available by a Zoom link sent the day of the meeting. Our reading groups are free and open to the public. Reading [̷...

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Sub Rosa June Selection: Sleepless Nights

Sleepless Nights by Elizabeth Hardwick is the Sub Rosa Selection for June. The discussion will be held Saturday, June 20th at 6:30pm. Books are in stock and discounted at 15%. “Sleepless Nights—a novel of mental weather—enchants by the scrupulousness and zip of the narrative voice,...

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Caroline Cash & Peepee Poopoo by Sean Bieri

Cash’s comic PeePee-PooPoo is something of a throwback too, to the solo-artist alt-comix anthology titles of the ‘80s and ‘90s, such as Dan Clowes’s Eightball. The cover of each issue is a pitch-perfect pastiche of some notable alternative cartoonist’s work: Clowes, R. Crumb, Charles Burns...

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Book Beat Summertime News

The Book Beat newsletter is a monthly record of author book signings, lectures, and local book culture....

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