
Family Story Time
We are excited to welcome back Family Story Time as a mainstay here at Glendora Bookshop! Every Friday morning from 11-11:30am EST we will hold a themed Story Time for you and your little ones to enjoy, so be sure to come on down to the shop!
Help us spread the word for this fun-filled family event, and thank you as always for supporting your local, independent bookshop.

Author Event with Christy Prahl
Join us Saturday 7/19 to welcome Christy Prahl who will share some of her poetry as well as her process with us!
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We Are Reckless by Christy Prahl 1st Runner-Up for Chicago Reader's Best New Poetry Collection by a Chicagoan, 2023!
"These poems boldly ask how we define a self, a marriage, and a family via eerie and frightening worlds. We Are Reckless is a dazzling debut." -Hadara Bar-Nadav, author of The New Nudity
"I love the wild curiosity of this book, its attention to the off-kilter, the liminal, the often unseen and unacknowledged. I love the way nothing is beneath the notice of these searching, pulsing, vibrantly alive poems." -Kasey Jueds, author of Keeper and The ThicketAn Illinois Arts Council grant recipient and multiple Best of the Net and Pushcart Prize nominee, my work has appeared in a host of national and international journals. I have enjoyed residencies at both Ragdale and The Writers Colony at Dairy Hollow and split my time between Chicago and rural Michigan. I am the founder and director of the PenRF reading series. https://christyprahl.wixsite.com/christy-prahl

Summer Book Fair @ River Saint Joe!
Join us for our latest collaboration with River Saint and enjoy a Book Fair for ALL ages from 5-7pm. We’ll have a specially curated collection of beach reads (and summer must reads) for the whole family. Hope to see you on the farm!
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Summer vacation is finally here! Relax into these warm days of sunshine with a good book, courtesy of Glendora Bookshop!
Join us, Tuesday July 22nd from 5-7pm for a Summer Book Fair in the greenhouse at River Saint Joe and find the perfect beach reads and bestsellers to brighten your days of leisure and delight every reader in the family.
Comb through their curated selection of books for ALL AGES and grab a drink (or two!) to enjoy while you peruse the stacks and mingle with other book lovers.
SHARE this event with your beach buddies! https://www.riversaintjoe.com/event-list/summer-book-fair

Family Story Time
We are excited to welcome back Family Story Time as a mainstay here at Glendora Bookshop! Every Friday morning from 11-11:30am EST we will hold a themed Story Time for you and your little ones to enjoy, so be sure to come on down to the shop!
Help us spread the word for this fun-filled family event, and thank you as always for supporting your local, independent bookshop.

Spooky Book Club - July 2025
Spooky Book Club is a monthly reading group for the macabre-curious. The genres we explore are often horror, horror-adjacent literature, thriller, supernatural, gothic & more. We meet every LAST Friday of the month.
Sign up for book clubs at Glendora Bookshop by email, call/text, or just stop in and inquire. Spooky Book Club also mingles on FB so be sure to join our group to keep in touch.
July’s Spooky Book Club selection is Graveyard Shift by M.L. Rio Be sure to snag your copy at Glendora Bookshop (book club members take 10% off book club reads!) and join us in July to discuss!
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The author of sales sensation If We Were Villains returns with a story about a ragtag group of night shift workers who meet in the local cemetery to unearth the secrets lurking in an open grave.
Every night, in the college’s ancient cemetery, five people cross paths as they work the late shift: a bartender, a rideshare driver, a hotel receptionist, the steward of the derelict church that looms over them, and the editor-in-chief of the college paper, always in search of a story.
One dark October evening in the defunct churchyard, they find a hole that wasn’t there before. A fresh, open grave where no grave should be. But who dug it, and for whom?
Before they go their separate ways, the gravedigger returns. As they trail him through the night, they realize he may be the key to a string of strange happenings around town that have made headlines for the last few weeks—and that they may be closer to the mystery than they thought.
Atmospheric and eerie, with the ensemble cast her fans love and a delightfully familiar academic backdrop, Graveyard Shift is a modern Gothic tale in If We Were Villains author M. L. Rio’s inimitable style. https://bookshop.org/p/books/graveyard-shift-a-novella-m-l-rio/20974723?ean=9781250356796&next=t

O/U Nature & More Book Club - July 2025
Outside/Underground Book Club is a bi-monthly reading group for those who want to learn more about the fascinating world around us . O/U explores topics around science and nature through memoir, poetry, non-fiction & more. We meet every other LAST Thursday of the month.
Sign up for book clubs at Glendora Bookshop by email, call/text, or just stop in and inquire.
This month’s O/U Book Club selection is Other Minds by Peter Godfrey-Smith. Be sure to snag your copy at Glendora Bookshop (book club members take 10% off book club reads!) and join us in July to discuss.
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Philosopher Peter Godfrey-Smith dons a wet suit and journeys into the depths of consciousness in Other Minds
Although mammals and birds are widely regarded as the smartest creatures on earth, it has lately become clear that a very distant branch of the tree of life has also sprouted higher intelligence: the cephalopods, consisting of the squid, the cuttlefish, and above all the octopus. In captivity, octopuses have been known to identify individual human keepers, raid neighboring tanks for food, turn off lightbulbs by spouting jets of water, plug drains, and make daring escapes. How is it that a creature with such gifts evolved through an evolutionary lineage so radically distant from our own? What does it mean that evolution built minds not once but at least twice? The octopus is the closest we will come to meeting an intelligent alien. What can we learn from the encounter?
In Other Minds, Peter Godfrey-Smith, a distinguished philosopher of science and a skilled scuba diver, tells a bold new story of how subjective experience crept into being—how nature became aware of itself. As Godfrey-Smith stresses, it is a story that largely occurs in the ocean, where animals first appeared. Tracking the mind’s fitful development, Godfrey-Smith shows how unruly clumps of seaborne cells began living together and became capable of sensing, acting, and signaling. As these primitive organisms became more entangled with others, they grew more complicated. The first nervous systems evolved, probably in ancient relatives of jellyfish; later on, the cephalopods, which began as inconspicuous mollusks, abandoned their shells and rose above the ocean floor, searching for prey and acquiring the greater intelligence needed to do so. Taking an independent route, mammals and birds later began their own evolutionary journeys.
But what kind of intelligence do cephalopods possess? Drawing on the latest scientific research and his own scuba-diving adventures, Godfrey-Smith probes the many mysteries that surround the lineage. How did the octopus, a solitary creature with little social life, become so smart? What is it like to have eight tentacles that are so packed with neurons that they virtually “think for themselves”? What happens when some octopuses abandon their hermit-like ways and congregate, as they do in a unique location off the coast of Australia?
By tracing the question of inner life back to its roots and comparing human beings with our most remarkable animal relatives, Godfrey-Smith casts crucial new light on the octopus mind—and on our own. https://bookshop.org/p/books/other-minds-the-octopus-the-sea-and-the-deep-origins-of-consciousness-peter-godfrey-smith/8487100?ean=9780374537197&next=t

Family Story Time
We are excited to welcome back Family Story Time as a mainstay here at Glendora Bookshop! Every Friday morning from 11-11:30am EST we will hold a themed Story Time for you and your little ones to enjoy, so be sure to come on down to the shop!
Help us spread the word for this fun-filled family event, and thank you as always for supporting your local, independent bookshop.

First Fridays OPEN MIC
Have a poem you want to share? A short story you want to workshop? What about reciting some gorgeous writing from a book you love? Join us for our monthly OPEN MIC as we gather to celebrate and support our collective creativity, risk-taking, and generosity.
Come in a few minutes before start time to sign-up if you wish to read - time slots are usually 5-8 mins long depending on participation. 18+ as some material may be challenging for youthful ears (stay tuned, though, as we’re planning to host quarterly family open mics for the younger writers among us!)

Rotating Reads Book Club - August 2025
Join us for Rotating Reads Book Club, a reading group that explores fiction, non-fiction, memoir/biography and classics every first Thursday of the month. For a fun twist, one of these months will also be a freestyle "book report" where everyone reads something different, and shares what they read with the group.
Every month, a different volunteer will serve as the “host”. Their role will be to select the book, guide the discussion, and bring any fun insights or background about the author or genre.
Sign up for book clubs at Glendora Bookshop by email, call/text, or just stop in and inquire!
August’s Rotating Read is Everything is Tuberculosis by John Green. Be sure to snag your copy at Glendora Bookshop (book club members take 10% off book club reads!) and join us in August to discuss!
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Instant #1 New York Times bestseller! • #1 Washington Post bestseller! • #1 Indie Bestseller! • USA Today Bestseller!
John Green, acclaimed author and passionate advocate for global healthcare reform, tells a deeply human story illuminating the fight against the world’s deadliest infectious disease. Signed edition
“The real magic of Green’s writing is the deeply considerate, human touch that goes into every word.” –The Associated Press
″Told with the intelligence, wit, and tragedy that have become hallmarks of the author’s work.... This is the story of us.” –Slate
“Earnest and empathetic.” –The New York Times
Tuberculosis has been entwined with humanity for millennia. Once romanticized as a malady of poets, today tuberculosis is seen as a disease of poverty that walks the trails of injustice and inequity we blazed for it.
In 2019, author John Green met Henry Reider, a young tuberculosis patient at Lakka Government Hospital in Sierra Leone. John became fast friends with Henry, a boy with spindly legs and a big, goofy smile. In the years since that first visit to Lakka, Green has become a vocal advocate for increased access to treatment and wider awareness of the healthcare inequities that allow this curable, preventable infectious disease to also be the deadliest, killing over a million people every year.
In Everything Is Tuberculosis, John tells Henry’s story, woven through with the scientific and social histories of how tuberculosis has shaped our world—and how our choices will shape the future of tuberculosis. https://bookshop.org/p/books/everything-is-tuberculosis-signed-edition-the-history-and-persistence-of-our-deadliest-infection-john-green/21901967?ean=9780525556572&next=t

Family Story Time
We are excited to welcome back Family Story Time as a mainstay here at Glendora Bookshop! Every Friday morning from 11-11:30am EST we will hold a themed Story Time for you and your little ones to enjoy, so be sure to come on down to the shop!
Help us spread the word for this fun-filled family event, and thank you as always for supporting your local, independent bookshop.

Family Story Time
We are excited to welcome back Family Story Time as a mainstay here at Glendora Bookshop! Every Friday morning from 11-11:30am EST we will hold a themed Story Time for you and your little ones to enjoy, so be sure to come on down to the shop!
Help us spread the word for this fun-filled family event, and thank you as always for supporting your local, independent bookshop.

Author Event with Meagan Francis
Join us Saturday 8/16 for our Author Event with Meagan Francis! Writer, podcaster, and mom. Meagan will be sharing her latest work with us, The Last Parenting Book You’ll Ever Need: How to Let Your Kids Go and Embrace What’s Next. Come and enjoy a reading by the author, discussion, book signings & more in August.
about the book…
Your guide to celebrating and loving your kids more than ever in the weeks, months, and years before they begin their adult lives
We read the parenting books. We cheer from the sidelines. We grow accustomed to the joys and pains of raising toddlers, kids, tweens, and teens. And then, before we know it, it's our kids' last first day of school, the last time we'll watch them take the field, or the last night they sleep at home before heading off to their next adventures. A season of our lives as moms is ending, and we may be mourning its passing. And yet, while our kids still need us--in some ways, more than ever--this stage can also be an opportunity for personal transformation.
Author Meagan Francis understands the mixed feelings that come along with this stage. As a mom of five kids ages teen to young adult, she's been blogging and podcasting about motherhood for more than twenty-five years while going from five kids under her roof to just one. In The Last Parenting Book You'll Ever Read, Francis will take you by the hand and lead you through the final stage of "active" parenting, as your teenagers prepare to step into the world...and you explore what it means to step back into yourself.
The Last Parenting Book You'll Ever Read is about coming to terms with the many endings that moms of teenagers experience--but more than that, it's about all the new beginnings on the horizon, and how moms can still hold their families close while letting them go. With compassion for the big feelings that accompany big transitions, Francis helps readers harness some of the mothering energy they've been directing toward their children and redirect it back toward nurturing themselves. https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-last-parenting-book-you-ll-ever-read-how-we-let-our-kids-go-and-embrace-what-s-next-meagan-francis/21709100?ean=9781464225161&next=t
about the author…
I’ve been writing professionally since 2002, placing hundreds of articles and essays in newsstand magazines and websites like Parenting, Good Housekeeping, Parents, Midwest Living, The Washington Post, NBCNews.com, NYTimes.com, and many more. I moved into digital publishing in 2005 as a pioneer in the “mommy blogging” landscape, and was an early podcaster on home and family life, starting in 2012.
I’ve cohosted The Mom Hour podcast, which has been downloaded over 20 million times, since 2015. My solo podcast and Substack publication The Kettle reach thousands of loyal listeners and readers each week, with cozy conversations about living wisely and well in our manic modern world. And my new book, The Last Parenting Book You’ll Ever Read, focuses on the transitional period between the “arms full” and “hands free” stages of parenting.
I live with my new husband Eric, and our large blended family of adult kids are a constant presence in our home. While I have resided in Southwest Michigan for the past fifteen years, Northern Michigan – specifically the Upper Peninsula – is like a second home to me.
I love nature, books, music, sharing stories and connecting over tea. I can’t wait to get to know you. https://meaganfrancis.com/about/

Family Story Time
We are excited to welcome back Family Story Time as a mainstay here at Glendora Bookshop! Every Friday morning from 11-11:30am EST we will hold a themed Story Time for you and your little ones to enjoy, so be sure to come on down to the shop!
Help us spread the word for this fun-filled family event, and thank you as always for supporting your local, independent bookshop.

Family Story Time
We are excited to welcome back Family Story Time as a mainstay here at Glendora Bookshop! Every Friday morning from 11-11:30am EST we will hold a themed Story Time for you and your little ones to enjoy, so be sure to come on down to the shop!
Help us spread the word for this fun-filled family event, and thank you as always for supporting your local, independent bookshop.

Spooky Book Club - August 2025
Spooky Book Club is a monthly reading group for the macabre-curious. The genres we explore are often horror, horror-adjacent literature, thriller, supernatural, gothic & more. We meet every LAST Friday of the month.
Sign up for book clubs at Glendora Bookshop by email, call/text, or just stop in and inquire. Spooky Book Club also mingles on FB so be sure to join our group to keep in touch.
August’s Spooky Book Club selection is Perfume: The Story of a Murderer by Patrick Suskind. Be sure to snag your copy at Glendora Bookshop (book club members take 10% off book club reads!) and join us in August to discuss!
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INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • Set in eighteenth-century France, the classic novel that provokes a terrifying examination of what happens when one man’s indulgence in his greatest passion—his sense of smell—leads to murder.
In the slums of eighteenth-century France, the infant Jean-Baptiste Grenouille is born with one sublime gift—an absolute sense of smell. As a boy, he lives to decipher the odors of Paris, and apprentices himself to a prominent perfumer who teaches him the ancient art of mixing precious oils and herbs. But Grenouille’s genius is such that he is not satisfied to stop there, and he becomes obsessed with capturing the smells of objects such as brass doorknobs and fresh-cut wood. Then one day he catches a hint of a scent that will drive him on an ever-more-terrifying quest to create the “ultimate perfume”—the scent of a beautiful young virgin. Told with dazzling narrative brilliance, Perfume is a hauntingly powerful tale of murder and sensual depravity. https://bookshop.org/p/books/perfume-the-story-of-a-murderer-patrick-suskind/8525602?ean=9780375725845&next=t

Author Event with Hillel Levin
Join us Saturday 9/13 for our Author Event with Hillel Levin - journalist, true crime writer, and author of several books including his latest Submerged: How a Cold Case Condemned an Innocent Man to Hide a Family's Darkest Secret. Hillel will read from his latest work, share insights into his process and be available for book signings right here at Glendora Bookshop.
about the book…
In March 1993, sixteen-year-old Rayna Rison was abducted outside the La Porte, Indiana, veterinary hospital where she worked. A month later, her body was found submerged under tree limbs in a rural pond. Police targeted her brother-in-law, Ray McCarty, as the prime suspect. Although a grand jury indicted him for the murder in 1998, prosecutors later dropped the charges. Then in 2013, county officers arrested Jason Tibbs, Rayna's middle-school boyfriend, convicted him, and sentenced him to forty years in prison.
After a two-year investigation, drawing on dozens of interviews and more than a thousand pages of police files, author Hillel Levin completes the case against McCarty, following clues and leads that detectives overlooked. In the process, he reveals startling new information about the killer's murder weapon and accomplices, and uncovers the politics and misconduct that enabled the prosecutor to convict Jason Tibbs. Although cold cases are celebrated in popular culture, Jason's trial shows the perils they can pose for innocent defendants.
At the heart of Submerged is the tragic story of Rayna Rison, an exceptional young woman with a promising future whose family and justice system failed to keep her from harm.https://www.hillellevin.com/
about the author…
Hillel Levin’s reporting has appeared in The Nation, New York magazine, Monthly Detroit magazine, Metropolitan Detroit magazine, and Chicago magazine. He was executive editor of Metropolitan Detroit and editor of Chicago magazine. In 1984, he wrote Grand Delusions: The Cosmic Career of John De Lorean (Viking). In 2004, he wrote When Corruption Was King (Carroll & Graf) with Robert Cooley about Cooley’s central role in the FBI investigation of mob influence on Chicago’s courts and political system. “Area Two,” his Playboy article on Chicago police misconduct, co-written with John Conroy, won a 2011 Headline Club Peter Lisagor Award. His docudrama play, Assassination Theater, was produced in Chicago in 2015 and based on his Playboy article, “How the Outfit Killed JFK.” His 2010 book In With the Devil (St. Martin’s Press), which he wrote with James Keene, was about Keene's undercover mission to crack a serial killer in a federal prison and was the basis for the Apple TV+ series Black Bird. https://www.hillellevin.com/about

Spooky Book Club - September 2025
Spooky Book Club is a monthly reading group for the macabre-curious. The genres we explore are often horror, horror-adjacent literature, thriller, supernatural, gothic & more. We meet every LAST Friday of the month.
Sign up for book clubs at Glendora Bookshop by email, call/text, or just stop in and inquire. Spooky Book Club also mingles on FB so be sure to join our group to keep in touch.
September’s Spooky Book Club selection is Slewfoot by BROM. Be sure to snag your copy at Glendora Bookshop (book club members take 10% off book club reads!) and join us in September to discuss!
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Set in Colonial New England, Slewfoot is a tale of magic and mystery, of triumph and terror as only dark fantasist Brom can tell it.
Connecticut, 1666: An ancient spirit awakens in a dark wood. The wildfolk call him Father, slayer, protector.
The colonists call him Slewfoot, demon, devil.
To Abitha, a recently widowed outcast, alone and vulnerable in her pious village, he is the only one she can turn to for help.
Together, they ignite a battle between pagan and Puritan – one that threatens to destroy the entire village, leaving nothing but ashes and bloodshed in their wake.
This terrifying tale of bewitchery features more than two dozen of Brom’s haunting full-color paintings and brilliant endpapers, fully immersing readers in this wild and unforgiving world. https://bookshop.org/p/books/slewfoot-a-tale-of-bewitchery/18841349?ean=9781250621993&next=t

Spooky Book Club - October 2025
Spooky Book Club is a monthly reading group for the macabre-curious. The genres we explore are often horror, horror-adjacent literature, thriller, supernatural, gothic & more. We meet every LAST Friday of the month.
Sign up for book clubs at Glendora Bookshop by email, call/text, or just stop in and inquire. Spooky Book Club also mingles on FB so be sure to join our group to keep in touch.
October’s Spooky Book Club selection is The Bloody Chamber by Angela Carter. Be sure to snag your copy at Glendora Bookshop (book club members take 10% off book club reads!) and join us in October to discuss!
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Angela Carter was a storytelling sorceress, the literary godmother of Neil Gaiman, David Mitchell, Audrey Niffenegger, J. K. Rowling, Kelly Link, and other contemporary masters of supernatural fiction. In her masterpiece, The Bloody Chamber—which includes the story that is the basis of Neil Jordan’s 1984 movie The Company of Wolves—she spins subversively dark and sensual versions of familiar fairy tales and legends like “Little Red Riding Hood,” “Bluebeard,” “Puss in Boots,” and “Beauty and the Beast,” giving them exhilarating new life in a style steeped in the romantic trappings of the gothic tradition.
For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators. https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-bloody-chamber/17744851?ean=9780143107613&next=t

Spooky Book Club - November 2025
Spooky Book Club is a monthly reading group for the macabre-curious. The genres we explore are often horror, horror-adjacent literature, thriller, supernatural, gothic & more. We meet every LAST Friday of the month.
Sign up for book clubs at Glendora Bookshop by email, call/text, or just stop in and inquire. Spooky Book Club also mingles on FB so be sure to join our group to keep in touch.
November’s Spooky Book Club selection is Notes on an Execution by Danya Kukafka Be sure to snag your copy at Glendora Bookshop (book club members take 10% off book club reads!) and join us in November to discuss!
*****
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • WINNER OF THE EDGAR AWARD FOR BEST NOVEL • NEW YORK TIMES BEST CRIME NOVEL OF THE YEAR
“Defiantly populated with living women . . . beautifully drawn, dense with detail and specificity . . . Notes on an Execution is nuanced, ambitious and compelling.” —Katie Kitamura, NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW (Editors' Choice)
"A searing portrait of the complicated women caught in the orbit of a serial killer. . . . Compassionate and thought-provoking." –BRIT BENNETT, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Vanishing Half
Recommended by New York Times Book Review • Los Angeles Times • Washington Post • Entertainment Weekly • Esquire • Good Housekeeping • USA Today • Buzzfeed • Goodreads • Real Simple • Marie Claire • Rolling Stone • Business Insider • Bustle • PopSugar • The Millions • The Guardian • and many more!
In the tradition of Long Bright River and The Mars Room, a gripping and atmospheric work of literary suspense that deconstructs the story of a serial killer on death row, told primarily through the eyes of the women in his life—from the bestselling author of Girl in Snow.
Ansel Packer is scheduled to die in twelve hours. He knows what he’s done, and now awaits execution, the same chilling fate he forced on those girls, years ago. But Ansel doesn’t want to die; he wants to be celebrated, understood.
Through a kaleidoscope of women—a mother, a sister, a homicide detective—we learn the story of Ansel’s life. We meet his mother, Lavender, a seventeen-year-old girl pushed to desperation; Hazel, twin sister to Ansel’s wife, inseparable since birth, forced to watch helplessly as her sister’s relationship threatens to devour them all; and finally, Saffy, the detective hot on his trail, who has devoted herself to bringing bad men to justice but struggles to see her own life clearly. As the clock ticks down, these three women sift through the choices that culminate in tragedy, exploring the rippling fissures that such destruction inevitably leaves in its wake.
Blending breathtaking suspense with astonishing empathy, Notes on an Execution presents a chilling portrait of womanhood as it simultaneously unravels the familiar narrative of the American serial killer, interrogating our system of justice and our cultural obsession with crime stories, asking readers to consider the false promise of looking for meaning in the psyches of violent men.
"Poetic and mesmerizing . . . Powerful, important, intensely human, and filled with a unique examination of tragedy, one where the reader is left with a curious emotion: hope." —USA TODAY
“A profound and staggering experience of empathy that challenges us to confront what it means to be human in our darkest moments. . . . I relished every page of this brilliant and gripping masterpiece."—ASHLEY AUDRAIN, New York Times bestselling author of The Push https://bookshop.org/p/books/notes-on-an-execution-danya-kukafka/16909648?ean=9780063052741&next=t

Spooky Book Club - December 2025
Spooky Book Club is a monthly reading group for the macabre-curious. The genres we explore are often horror, horror-adjacent literature, thriller, supernatural, gothic & more. We meet every LAST Friday of the month.
Sign up for book clubs at Glendora Bookshop by email, call/text, or just stop in and inquire. Spooky Book Club also mingles on FB so be sure to join our group to keep in touch.
December’s Spooky Book Club selection is The Unworthy by Agustina Bazterrica Be sure to snag your copy at Glendora Bookshop (book club members take 10% off book club reads!) and join us in December to discuss!
*****
NATIONAL BESTSELLER
The long-awaited new novel from the author of global sensation Tender Is the Flesh: a thrilling work of literary horror about a woman cloistered in a secretive, violent religious order, while outside the world has fallen into chaos.
From her cell in a mysterious convent, a woman writes the story of her life in whatever she can find—discarded ink, dirt, and even her own blood. A lower member of the Sacred Sisterhood, deemed an unworthy, she dreams of ascending to the ranks of the Enlightened at the center of the convent and of pleasing the foreboding Superior Sister. Outside, the world is plagued by catastrophe—cities are submerged underwater, electricity and the internet are nonexistent, and bands of survivors fight and forage in a cruel, barren landscape. Inside, the narrator is controlled, punished, but safe.
But when a stranger makes her way past the convent walls, joining the ranks of the unworthy, she forces the narrator to consider her long-buried past—and what she may be overlooking about the Enlightened. As the two women grow closer, the narrator is increasingly haunted by questions about her own past, the environmental future, and her present life inside the convent. How did she get to the Sacred Sisterhood? Why can’t she remember her life before? And what really happens when a woman is chosen as one of the Enlightened?
A searing, dystopian tale about climate crisis, ideological extremism, and the tidal pull of our most violent, exploitative instincts, this is another unforgettable novel from a master of feminist horror. https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-unworthy-agustina-bazterrica/21530471?ean=9781668051887&next=t

Family Story Time
We are excited to welcome back Family Story Time as a mainstay here at Glendora Bookshop! Every Friday morning from 11-11:30am EST we will hold a themed Story Time for you and your little ones to enjoy, so be sure to come on down to the shop!
Help us spread the word for this fun-filled family event, and thank you as always for supporting your local, independent bookshop.

Rotating Reads Book Club - July 2025
Join us for Rotating Reads Book Club, a reading group that explores fiction, non-fiction, memoir/biography and classics every first Thursday of the month. For a fun twist, one of these months will also be a freestyle "book report" where everyone reads something different, and shares what they read with the group.
Every month, a different volunteer will serve as the “host”. Their role will be to select the book, guide the discussion, and bring any fun insights or background about the author or genre.
Sign up for book clubs at Glendora Bookshop by email, call/text, or just stop in and inquire!
July’s Rotating Read is Girls with Long Shadows by Tennessee Hill. Be sure to snag your copy at Glendora Bookshop (book club members take 10% off book club reads!) and join us in July to discuss!
*****
"A brilliant, engrossing portrait of three sisters and the bonds of love and betrayal. . . . Hill is a gifted talent and I look forward to more."—Jill McCorkle, New York Times bestselling author of Life After Life
"Singular, striking, and sly, Girls with Long Shadows seduced me from its first sentence to its last. This book has so much scathing beauty in it I could feel the scrape of a knife on every page. What a delicate, hot-blooded tempest of a debut."—Amy Jo Burns, author of Mercury
With the haunting, romantic voyeurism of The Virgin Suicides and the atmosphere and emotional intensity of Where the Crawdads Sing, an intoxicating Southern Gothic debut novel about identical triplets whose lives are devastated when their burgeoning desires turn deadly.
Identical triplets Baby A, Baby B, and Baby C Binderup were welcomed into the world as their mother was ushered out of it, leaving them nameless and in the care of their Gram, Isadora. Nineteen years later, the triplets work at their Gram’s crumbling golf course in Longshadow, Texas, where the ever-watchful eyes of the town observe them serving up glasses of ice-cold lemonade to golfers, swimming in the murky waters of the neighboring bayou, or slipping t-shirts off their sunburnt shoulders in hopes of attracting the kind of attention they are only beginning to understand.
Cautious Baby B watches as lustful Baby A and introverted Baby C find matches among the town boys. Even Baby B has noticed that the town’s golden boy seems to be intrigued by her, only her. Just as each girl’s desire to be seen for herself is becoming fulfilled, a seemingly trivial kiss is bestowed on the wrong sister, leading to a moment of unspeakable violence that will upend the triplets’ world forever.
Pulsating with menace and narrated with hypnotic lyricism, Girls with Long Shadows is an electrifying literary thriller that captures how female teenage angst can turn lethal when insecurities are weaponized and sibling bonds are severed. Tense, lush, and painfully beautiful, it forces us to consider the lengths to which we will go to claim our own personhood. https://bookshop.org/p/books/girls-with-long-shadows-tennessee-hill/22044738?ean=9780063412019&next=t

Dragon Dreams: A Romantasy Book Club - July 2025
Calling all Romantasy lovers! Glendora Bookshop is excited to host our very first Romantasy Book Club, Dragon Dreams! Co-led by book friends and community members Lauryn & Michaela, Dragon Dreams meets every second Wednesday of the month.
Sign up for book clubs at Glendora Bookshop by email, call/text, or just stop in and inquire. Dragon Dreams also mingles on FB so be sure to join our group to keep in touch.
July’s Dragon Dreams selection is The Knight and the Moth by Rachel Gillig “a gothic, mist-cloaked tale of a young prophetess forced on an impossible quest.” Be sure to snag your copy at Glendora Bookshop (book club members take 10% off book club reads!) and join us in July to discuss!
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INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!
"Prepare to meet your next obsession." -- Rebecca Ross, author of Divine Rivals
From New York Times bestselling author Rachel Gillig comes the next big romantasy sensation, a gothic, mist-cloaked tale of a young prophetess forced on an impossible quest with the one knight whose future is beyond her sight. Perfect for fans of Jennifer L. Armentrout and Leigh Bardugo.
Sybil Delling has spent nine years dreaming of having no dreams at all. Like the other foundling girls who traded a decade of service for a home in the great cathedral, Sybil is a Diviner. In her dreams she receives visions from six unearthly figures known as Omens. From them, she can predict terrible things before they occur, and lords and common folk alike travel across the kingdom of Traum's windswept moors to learn their futures by her dreams.
Just as she and her sister Diviners near the end of their service, a mysterious knight arrives at the cathedral. Rude, heretical, and devilishly handsome, the knight Rodrick has no respect for Sybil's visions. But when Sybil's fellow Diviners begin to vanish one by one, she has no choice but to seek his help in finding them. For the world outside the cathedral's cloister is wrought with peril. Only the gods have the answers she is seeking, and as much as she'd rather avoid Rodrick's dark eyes and sharp tongue, only a heretic can defeat a god.
https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-knight-and-the-moth-rachel-gillig/21771200?ean=9780316582704&next=t

Family Story Time
We are excited to welcome back Family Story Time as a mainstay here at Glendora Bookshop! Every Friday morning from 11-11:30am EST we will hold a themed Story Time for you and your little ones to enjoy, so be sure to come on down to the shop!
Help us spread the word for this fun-filled family event, and thank you as always for supporting your local, independent bookshop.

Buchanan PRIDE! 2025
Join us again for Buchanan Pride at The Buchanan Common! The full Buchanan Pride event starts at 1pm and goes until 8pm. Glendora Bookshop will be set up in one of the farmer’s market stalls from 2-7pm, so be sure to stop by and say hi! We will have a specially curated collection of goods for the community that we hope are thoughtful & educational as well as entertaining.
We’re thrilled to be a part of this fun-filled family event again this year and we can’t wait to show and share our pride with the community! See you there!
❤️ 🧡 💛 💚 💙 💜 🤎 🖤 🩵 🤍 🩷
Formed January 2023 as a committee of Buchanan Area Senior Center, we proudly organize Buchanan Pride. Open to ALL. The main event is the last Sunday of June on The Common and includes entertainment & a vendor market. Contact buchananpride@thebasc.org. https://www.facebook.com/BuchananPride

Pride Party @ Glendora Bookshop
That’s right, we’re throwing a Pride Party at your local, indie bookshop! Join us Saturday evening for some bookish arts and crafts followed by a special Queer the Mic Open Mic starting at 7:30pm! This event is FREE to the public, so bring your friends and celebrate PRIDE with us.
PRIDE Bookmark Craft & Chat - 5:30-7:00pm EST
Let’s get arty! Join us in creating bookmarks & bracelets & whatever else inspires you to show your PRIDE! Share your creations online & take home whatever you make! Be sure to tag us <3
Queer the Mic Open Mic - 7:30-8:30pm EST
Stick around for a special Open Mic starting at 7:30pm EST. Kick back & enjoy refreshments with friends! Share your story, share a piece of beloved writing, get to know your community.

Spooky Book Club - June 2025
Spooky Book Club is a monthly reading group for the macabre-curious. The genres we explore are often horror, horror-adjacent literature, thriller, supernatural, gothic & more. We meet every LAST Friday of the month.
Sign up for book clubs at Glendora Bookshop by email, call/text, or just stop in and inquire. Spooky Book Club also mingles on FB so be sure to join our group to keep in touch.
June’s Spooky Book Club selection is So Thirsty by Rachel Harrison. Be sure to snag your copy at Glendora Bookshop (book club members take 10% off book club reads!) and join us in June to discuss!
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A woman must learn to take life by the throat after a night out leads to irrevocable changes in this juicy, thrilling novel from the USA Today bestselling author of Such Sharp Teeth and Black Sheep.
Sloane Parker is dreading her birthday. She doesn’t need a reminder she’s getting older, or that she’s feeling indifferent about her own life. Her husband surprises her with a birthday-weekend getaway—not with him, but with Sloane’s longtime best friend, troublemaker extraordinaire Naomi. Sloane anticipates a weekend of wine tastings and cozy robes and strategic avoidance of issues she’d rather not confront, like her husband’s repeated infidelity.
But when they arrive at their rental cottage, it becomes clear Naomi has something else in mind. She wants Sloane to stop letting things happen to her, for Sloane to really live. So Naomi orchestrates a wild night out with a group of mysterious strangers, only for it to take a horrifying turn that changes Sloane’s and Naomi’s lives literally forever. The friends are forced to come to terms with some pretty eternal consequences in this bloody, seductive novel about how it’s never too late to find satisfaction, even though it might taste different than expected. https://bookshop.org/p/books/so-thirsty-rachel-harrison/20975203?ean=9780593642542&next=t

Author Event with Angeline Boulley
Join us Saturday 6/21 for a special Author Event with Angeline Boulley, author of New York Times bestsellers Firekeeper’s Daughter and Warrior Girl Unearthed. Audrey and her BANNED Book Club will lead a discussion with Angeline Boulley about her book, Firekeeper’s Daughter, engaging in what is sure to be an educational and empowering talk regarding censorship & more. This event is open to the public, so spread the word, and join us at Glendora Bookshop for an inspiring afternoon!
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Angeline Boulley, an enrolled member of the Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians, is a storyteller who writes about her Ojibwe community in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. She is a former Director of the Office of Indian Education at the U.S. Department of Education.
Angeline lives in southwest MI, but her home will always be on Sugar Island. Firekeeper's Daughter is her debut novel, and was an instant #1 NYT Bestseller. https://angelineboulley.com/about-angeline-boulley.html

Family Story Time
We are excited to welcome back Family Story Time as a mainstay here at Glendora Bookshop! Every Friday morning from 11-11:30am EST we will hold a themed Story Time for you and your little ones to enjoy, so be sure to come on down to the shop!
Help us spread the word for this fun-filled family event, and thank you as always for supporting your local, independent bookshop.

Family Story Time
We are excited to welcome back Family Story Time as a mainstay here at Glendora Bookshop! Every Friday morning from 11-11:30am EST we will hold a themed Story Time for you and your little ones to enjoy, so be sure to come on down to the shop!
Help us spread the word for this fun-filled family event, and thank you as always for supporting your local, independent bookshop.

Dragon Dreams: A Romantasy Book Club - June 2025
Calling all Romantasy lovers! Glendora Bookshop is excited to host our very first Romantasy Book Club, Dragon Dreams! Co-led by book friends and community members Lauryn & Michaela, Dragon Dreams meets every second Wednesday of the month.
Sign up for book clubs at Glendora Bookshop by email, call/text, or just stop in and inquire. Dragon Dreams also mingles on FB so be sure to join our group to keep in touch.
June’s Dragon Dreams selection is Heavenly Bodies by Imani Errui, a star-crossed enemies-to-lovers romance that’s sure to ignite an unforgettable conversation. Be sure to snag your copy at Glendora Bookshop (book club members take 10% off book club reads!) and join us in June to discuss!
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A runaway TikTok sensation, Heavenly Bodies is the first book in a dazzling new romantasy series that blends mythology and shadow magic with a tantalizing enemies-to-lovers romance that will rewrite the stars.
“You know the most dangerous kind of villain? A woman with nothing left to lose.”
In a world ruled by the cruel and merciless Stars, Elara has been cursed by fate. A prophecy promises she will fall for a Star, but that it will kill them both.
So when Ariete, Star of Wrath, War and Chaos, descends to wreak havoc on Elara’s kingdom, she flees her home—the Kingdom of Night—for the neighbouring Helios, Kingdom of Light.
And strides straight into the arms of an enemy prince.
Fearing that Ariete might turn his sights to Helios next, Prince Lorenzo is forced to train Elara as a weapon—one worthy of battling against the tyrannical reign of the Stars. But there are shadows even within the Kingdom of Light—and they threaten to reveal the darkness in Lorenzo’s past and the ancient magic that slumbers in Elara’s veins.
And with it all comes an undeniable, star-crossed pull between Elara and Lorenzo that neither can seem to resist... https://bookshop.org/p/books/heavenly-bodies-imani-erriu/21512439?ean=9781039012592&next=t

First Fridays OPEN MIC
Have a poem you want to share? A short story you want to workshop? What about reciting some gorgeous writing from a book you love? Join us for our monthly OPEN MIC as we gather to celebrate and support our collective creativity, risk-taking, and generosity.
Come in a few minutes before start time to sign-up if you wish to read - time slots are usually 5-8 mins long depending on participation. 18+ as some material may be challenging for youthful ears (stay tuned, though, as we’re planning to host quarterly family open mics for the younger writers among us!)

Family Story Time
We are excited to welcome back Family Story Time as a mainstay here at Glendora Bookshop! Every Friday morning from 11-11:30am EST we will hold a themed Story Time for you and your little ones to enjoy, so be sure to come on down to the shop!
Help us spread the word for this fun-filled family event, and thank you as always for supporting your local, independent bookshop.

Rotating Reads Book Club - June 2025
Join us for Rotating Reads Book Club, a reading group that explores fiction, non-fiction, memoir/biography and classics every first Thursday of the month. For a fun twist, one of these months will also be a freestyle "book report" where everyone reads something different, and shares what they read with the group.
Every month, a different volunteer will serve as the “host”. Their role will be to select the book, guide the discussion, and bring any fun insights or background about the author or genre.
Sign up for book clubs at Glendora Bookshop by email, call/text, or just stop in and inquire!
For the month of June, Rotating Reads Book Club will conduct their first Book Report round! It’s a literary free-for-all, just be prepared to share what you’re reading with your book club cohort. Sell someone on whatever you just read? Feel free to book-swap with friends! This is a great way to learn about genres you’re less familiar with and to build community over books. The best part… these reports will NOT be graded!
Here’s a preview of the Book Report Discussion Format for those of you who like to come prepared!
Title & Author
Genre & Vibe (Is it a tearjerker? A page-turner? A slog worth finishing?)
Why You Chose It
Quick Summary (No spoilers)
Favorite Line or Moment
Rating (Out of 5 Stars)
Would You Recommend It (And to Whom?)
One Thing It Made You Think About
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Spooky Book Club - May 2025
Spooky Book Club is a monthly reading group for the macabre-curious. The genres we explore are often horror, horror-adjacent literature, thriller, supernatural, gothic & more. We meet every LAST Friday of the month.
Sign up for book clubs at Glendora Bookshop by email, call/text, or just stop in and inquire. Spooky Book Club also mingles on FB so be sure to join our group to keep in touch.
May’s Spooky Book Club selection is Tiny Nightmares: Very Short Tales of Horror edited by Lincoln Michel and Nadxieli Nieto. Be sure to snag your copy at Glendora Bookshop (book club members take 10% off book club reads!) and join us in May to discuss!
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A collection of horror–inspired flash fiction, featuring over 40 new stories from literary, horror, and emerging writers—edited by Lincoln Michel and Nadxieli Nieto, the twisted minds behind Tiny Crimes: Very Short Tales of Mystery and Murder
In this playful, inventive collection, leading literary and horror writers spin chilling tales in only a few pages. Each slim, fast–moving story brings to life the kind of monsters readers love to fear, from brokenhearted vampires to Uber–taking serial killers and mind–reading witches.
But what also makes Tiny Nightmares so bloodcurdling—and unforgettable—are the real–world horrors that writers such as Samantha Hunt, Brian Evenson, Jac Jemc, Stephen Graham Jones, Lilliam Rivera, Kevin Brockmeier, and Rion Amilcar Scott weave into their fictions, exploring how global warming, racism, social media addiction, and homelessness are just as frightening as, say, a vampire’s fangs sinking into your neck.
Our advice? Read with the hall light on and the bedroom door open just a crack.
Featuring new stories from Samantha Hunt, Jac Jemc, Stephen Graham Jones, Rion Amilcar Scott, and more! https://bookshop.org/p/books/tiny-nightmares-very-short-stories-of-horror-lincoln-michel/17252478?ean=9781948226622&next=t

Family Story Time
We are excited to welcome back Family Story Time as a mainstay here at Glendora Bookshop! Every Friday morning from 11-11:30am EST we will hold a themed Story Time for you and your little ones to enjoy, so be sure to come on down to the shop!
Help us spread the word for this fun-filled family event, and thank you as always for supporting your local, independent bookshop.

O/U Nature & More Book Club - May 2025
Outside/Underground Book Club is a bi-monthly reading group for those who want to learn more about the fascinating world around us . O/U explores topics around science and nature through memoir, poetry, non-fiction & more. We meet every other LAST Thursday of the month.
Sign up for book clubs at Glendora Bookshop by email, call/text, or just stop in and inquire.
This month’s O/U Book Club selection is Wilding: Returning Nature to Our Farm by Isabella Tree. Be sure to snag your copy at Glendora Bookshop (book club members take 10% off book club reads!) and join us in March to discuss!
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An inspiring story about what happens when 3,500 acres of land, farmed for centuries, is left to return to the wild, and about the wilder, richer future a natural landscape can bring.
For years Charlie Burrell and his wife, Isabella Tree, farmed Knepp Castle Estate and struggled to turn a profit. By 2000, with the farm facing bankruptcy, they decided to try something radical. They would restore Knepp’s 3,500 acres to the wild. Using herds of free-roaming animals to mimic the actions of the megafauna of the past, they hoped to bring nature back to their depleted land. But what would the neighbors say, in the manicured countryside of modern England where a blade of grass out of place is considered an affront?
In the face of considerable opposition the couple persisted with their experiment and soon witnessed an extraordinary change. New life flooded into Knepp, now a breeding hotspot for rare and threatened species like turtle doves, peregrine falcons, and purple emperor butterflies.
The fabled English nightingale sings again.
At a time of looming environmental disaster, Wilding is an inspiring story of a farm, a couple, and a community transformed. Isabella Tree’s wonderful book brings together science, natural history, a fair bit of drama, and—ultimately—hope.
https://bookshop.org/p/books/wilding-returning-nature-to-our-farm-isabella-tree/6394219?ean=9781681373713&next=t

BANNED Book Club - May 2025
Knowledge is power. Join Audrey for Glendora Bookshop’s newest book group: BANNED Book Club, a reading group exclusively for young adults/teens.
BANNED Book Club meets every LAST Wednesday of the month @ 5pm EST. At the meeting, we will talk about why these books are banned and the consequences of censorship.
Sign up for book clubs at Glendora Bookshop by email, call/text, or just stop in and inquire.
This month’s BANNED Book Club selection is Firekeeper’s Daughter by Angeline Boulley. Be sure to snag your copy at Glendora Bookshop (book club members take 10% off book club reads!) and join us in May to discuss! Join us again in June for our Author Event with Angeline Boulley! Check back soon for details on this author event.
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An Instant #1 New York Times Bestseller! A Reese Witherspoon x Hello Sunshine Book Club Pick! A Printz Medal AND Morris Award Winner!
Soon to be adapted at Netflix for TV with President Barack Obama and Michelle Obama's production company, Higher Ground.
“One of this year's most buzzed about young adult novels.” —Good Morning America
With four starred reviews, Angeline Boulley's debut novel, Firekeeper's Daughter, is a groundbreaking YA thriller about a Native teen who must root out the corruption in her community, perfect for readers of Angie Thomas and Tommy Orange.
Eighteen-year-old Daunis Fontaine has never quite fit in, both in her hometown and on the nearby Ojibwe reservation. She dreams of a fresh start at college, but when family tragedy strikes, Daunis puts her future on hold to look after her fragile mother. The only bright spot is meeting Jamie, the charming new recruit on her brother Levi’s hockey team.
Yet even as Daunis falls for Jamie, she senses the dashing hockey star is hiding something. Everything comes to light when Daunis witnesses a shocking murder, thrusting her into an FBI investigation of a lethal new drug.
Reluctantly, Daunis agrees to go undercover, drawing on her knowledge of chemistry and Ojibwe traditional medicine to track down the source. But the search for truth is more complicated than Daunis imagined, exposing secrets and old scars. At the same time, she grows concerned with an investigation that seems more focused on punishing the offenders than protecting the victims.
Now, as the deceptions—and deaths—keep growing, Daunis must learn what it means to be a strong Anishinaabe kwe (Ojibwe woman) and how far she’ll go for her community, even if it tears apart the only world she’s ever known.
Return to Sugar Island in Warrior Girl Unearthed...https://bookshop.org/p/books/firekeeper-s-daughter-angeline-boulley/14661768?ean=9781250866035&next=t

Author Event with Rekha S. Rajan
Glendora Bookshop welcomes back Rekha S. Rajan (author of the This is Music series and Can You Dance Like a Peacock?) here with her latest children’s book This is Ballet! Bring the kids down for this family friendly affair and be ready to move! After story time, we’ll open the floor to discussion, and Rekha will offer signings for anyone who wants to purchase a copy of one of her books. Hope to see you there!
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Dr. Rekha S. Rajan is an author of over 15 books (nonfiction and fiction) for kids and adults (and more to come!). Her books have been listed on multiple BEST BOOKS list, received numerous starred reviews and been #1 new releases and editor's picks on Amazon. Her audio narration and musical instrumentation for the THIS IS MUSIC board book series were named best children's recordings from ALA/ALSC 2023. Her book AMAZING LANDMARKS is a finalist for the 2024 Rhode Island Children's book award.
Rekha is a classically trained opera singer, has performed in numerous musicals, and plays the mridangam (a drum from South India), the piano, banjo, ukulele, djembe, bongos, recorder, and a lot of other instruments.
She has been teaching young children, helping them understand the world around them through STEAM activities, projects and books. As a professor, she has taught classes on arts, education, grant writing, evaluation. She is also the editor for the Journal of General Music Education with the National Association for Music Education. https://rekhasrajan.com/about-me

Family Story Time
We are excited to welcome back Family Story Time as a mainstay here at Glendora Bookshop! Every Friday morning from 11-11:30am EST we will hold a themed Story Time for you and your little ones to enjoy, so be sure to come on down to the shop!
Help us spread the word for this fun-filled family event, and thank you as always for supporting your local, independent bookshop.

Family Story Time
We are excited to welcome back Family Story Time as a mainstay here at Glendora Bookshop! Every Friday morning from 11-11:30am EST we will hold a themed Story Time for you and your little ones to enjoy, so be sure to come on down to the shop!
Help us spread the word for this fun-filled family event, and thank you as always for supporting your local, independent bookshop.

Dragon Dreams: A Romantasy Book Club - May 2025
Calling all Romantasy lovers! Glendora is excited to host our very first Romantasy Book Club, Dragon Dreams! Co-led by book friends and community members Lauryn & Michaela, Dragon Dreams meets every second Wednesday of the month.
Sign up for book clubs at Glendora Bookshop by email, call/text, or just stop in and inquire. Dragon Dreams also mingles on FB so be sure to join our group to keep in touch.
May’s Dragon Dreams selection is From Blood and Ash by Jennifer Armentrout, a spellbinding tale of love, war, and the clash of legends. Be sure to snag your copy at Glendora Bookshop (book club members take 10% off book club reads!) and join us in May to discuss!
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Captivating and action-packed, From Blood and Ash is a sexy, addictive, and unexpected fantasy perfect for fans of Sarah J. Maas and Rebecca Yarros.
A Maiden...
Chosen from birth to usher in a new era, Poppy's life has never been her own. The life of the Maiden is solitary. Never to be touched. Never to be looked upon. Never to be spoken to. Never to experience pleasure. Waiting for the day of her Ascension, she would rather be with the guards, fighting back the evil that took her family, than preparing to be found worthy by the gods. But the choice has never been hers.
A Duty...
The entire kingdom's future rests on Poppy's shoulders, something she's not even quite sure she wants for herself. Because a Maiden has a heart. And a soul. And longing. And when Hawke, a golden-eyed guard honor bound to ensure her Ascension, enters her life, destiny and duty become tangled with desire and need. He incites her anger, makes her question everything she believes in, and tempts her with the forbidden.
A Kingdom...
Forsaken by the gods and feared by mortals, a fallen kingdom is rising once more, determined to take back what they believe is theirs through violence and vengeance. And as the shadow of those cursed draws closer, the line between what is forbidden and what is right becomes blurred. Poppy is not only on the verge of losing her heart and being found unworthy by the gods, but also her life when every blood-soaked thread that holds her world together begins to unravel.
https://bookshop.org/p/books/from-blood-and-ash-jennifer-l-armentrout/14913991?ean=9781952457760&next=t

Family Story Time
We are excited to welcome back Family Story Time as a mainstay here at Glendora Bookshop! Every Friday morning from 11-11:30am EST we will hold a themed Story Time for you and your little ones to enjoy, so be sure to come on down to the shop!
Help us spread the word for this fun-filled family event, and thank you as always for supporting your local, independent bookshop.

First Fridays OPEN MIC
Have a poem you want to share? A short story you want to workshop? What about reciting some gorgeous writing from a book you love? Join us for our monthly OPEN MIC as we gather to celebrate and support our collective creativity, risk-taking, and generosity.
Come in a few minutes before start time to sign-up if you wish to read - time slots are usually 5-8 mins long depending on participation. 18+ as some material may be challenging for youthful ears (stay tuned, though, as we’re planning to host quarterly family open mics for the younger writers among us!)

Family Story Time
We are excited to welcome back Family Story Time as a mainstay here at Glendora Bookshop! Every Friday morning from 11-11:30am EST we will hold a themed Story Time for you and your little ones to enjoy, so be sure to come on down to the shop!
Help us spread the word for this fun-filled family event, and thank you as always for supporting your local, independent bookshop.

Rotating Reads Book Club - May 2025
Join us for Rotating Reads Book Club, a reading group that explores fiction, non-fiction, memoir/biography and classics every first Thursday of the month. For a fun twist, one of these months will also be a freestyle "book report" where everyone reads something different, and shares what they read with the group.
Every month, a different volunteer will serve as the “host”. Their role will be to select the book, guide the discussion, and bring any fun insights or background about the author or genre.
Sign up for book clubs at Glendora Bookshop by email, call/text, or just stop in and inquire!
For the month of May, Rotating Reads Book Club will be diving into To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee. Be sure to snag your copy at Glendora Bookshop to save 10%!
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Voted America's Best-Loved Novel in PBS's The Great American Read
Harper Lee's Pulitzer Prize-winning masterwork of honor and injustice in the deep South—and the heroism of one man in the face of blind and violent hatred
One of the most cherished stories of all time, To Kill a Mockingbird has been translated into more than forty languages, sold more than forty million copies worldwide, served as the basis for an enormously popular motion picture, and was voted one of the best novels of the twentieth century by librarians across the country. A gripping, heart-wrenching, and wholly remarkable tale of coming-of-age in a South poisoned by virulent prejudice, it views a world of great beauty and savage inequities through the eyes of a young girl, as her father—a crusading local lawyer—risks everything to defend a black man unjustly accused of a terrible crime.
https://bookshop.org/p/books/to-kill-a-mockingbird-harper-lee/266047?ean=9780061120084&next=t

Michiana Vegfest 2025
Glendora Bookshop is proud to be a vendor at Michiana Vegfest this year! Join us at the Gillespie Center in South Bend, IN on Sunday April 27th - admission is FREE! Get your tickets here.
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Michiana Vegfest is the only event in Southwestern Michigan and Northwestern Indiana offering the unique opportunity to connect with experts in health, plant-based nutrition, the environment, and sustainable living, all within a single day! Attendees also enjoy tasty vegan preparations from food vendors and observe appealing chef demonstrations to learn more about plant-powered living. Admission is FREE!
Our goal is to provide the communities of northern Indiana and southwestern Michigan with an opportunity to explore many exciting flavors and options in the rapidly expanding world of plant-based eating. We bring together new vegan products and services along with dynamic speakers to promote a plant-powered lifestyle for health, compassion, and environmental conservation. We encourage everyone to make healthy food choices and to support our local vegan-friendly businesses and organizations.
Michiana VegFest, Inc. is a 501 (c) 3 not-for-profit organization that is entirely run by volunteers. Donations and any proceeds from our yearly event are used to support efforts for the next VegFest.https://michianavegfest.org/

Indie Bookstore Day & Glendora Bookshop Birthday Celebration!
Glendora Bookshop is celebrating our 1st Birthday this year on Independent Bookshop Day! Join us Saturday, April 26th for fun and games all day, including refreshments, trivia, giveaways, discounts & more. Indie Bookstore Day also kicks off MI Book Hop 2025, so be sure to grab your MI Book Hop bingo cards from us if you’re in the area. Come out and celebrate with us!
Illustration by Sneakaway Creations

Spooky Book Club - April 2025
Spooky Book Club is a monthly reading group for the macabre-curious. The genres we explore are often horror, horror-adjacent, thriller, supernatural, gothic & more. We meet every LAST Friday of the month.
Sign up for book clubs at Glendora Bookshop by email, call/text, or just stop in and inquire. Spooky Book Club also mingles on FB so be sure to join our group to keep in touch.
April’s Spooky Book Club selection is Winterset Hollow by Jonathan Edward Durham. Be sure to snag your copy at Glendora Bookshop (book club members take 10% off book club reads!) and join us in April to discuss!
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Everyone has wanted their favorite book to be real, if only for a moment. Everyone has wished to meet their favorite characters, if only for a day. But be careful in that wish, for even a history laid in ink can be repaid in flesh and blood, and reality is far deadlier than fiction . . . especially on Addington Isle.
Winterset Hollow follows a group of friends to the place that inspired their favorite book-a timeless tale about a tribe of animals preparing for their yearly end-of-summer festival. But after a series of shocking discoveries, they find that much of what the world believes to be fiction is actually fact, and that the truth behind their beloved story is darker and more dangerous than they ever imagined. It's Barley Day . . . and you're invited to the hunt.
Winterset Hollow is as thrilling as it is terrifying and as smart as it is surprising. A uniquely original story filled with properly unexpected twists and turns, Winterset Hollow delivers complex, indelible characters and pulse- pounding action as it storms toward an unforgettable climax that will leave you reeling. How do you celebrate Barley Day? You run, friend. You run.
https://bookshop.org/p/books/winterset-hollow-jonathan-edward-durham/1031f8b4284279da?ean=9781625862082&next=t

Family Story Time
We are excited to welcome back Family Story Time as a mainstay here at Glendora Bookshop! Every Friday morning from 11-11:30am EST we will hold a themed Story Time for you and your little ones to enjoy, so be sure to come on down to the shop!
Help us spread the word for this fun-filled family event, and thank you as always for supporting your local, independent bookshop.