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LATEST NEWS

Friday, June 19: Charles Baxter at Book Beat

We are pleased to welcome Charles Baxter back to Book Beat on Friday, June 19 from 6:30-8:00 PM. Author of The Feast of Love, Burning Down the House, and numerous celebrated novels and story collections. Baxter will read from his work and discuss the art of the writing. His most recent novel Blood T...

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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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