Family Story Time
We are excited to welcome back Family Story Time as a mainstay here at Glendora Bookshop! Every Friday morning from 11-12pm 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 11-12pm 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.
The Epiloguers: Honest Talk About Death and Dying - October 2026
Losing a loved one is difficult. Processing the many feelings about the loss is different for everyone.
Studies show that coming to terms with ones mortality can be achieved through a better understanding of end-of-life. As “epiloguers,” we strive to collaboratively create our concluding piece at the end of our journey, facing the reality of death, and embracing a positive approach to living each day.
The Epiloguers Book Club aims to create a safe space for people to gather and discuss death and dying.
Sign up for book clubs at Glendora Bookshop by email, call/text, or just stop in and inquire. This group is facilitated by community member Karen Quasney, we’re happy to connect you with her. This group meets on the last Thursday of every other month.
October’s “The Epiloguers” selection is Living with Our Dead: on Loss and Consolation by Delphine Horvilleur. Be sure to snag your copy at Glendora Bookshop. (Book club members take 10% off book club reads!) Join us in October to discuss!
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A MAJOR INTERNATIONAL BEST-SELLER
A timely, powerful reflection on our relationship to death and an invitation to accept loss and vulnerability as essential and enriching parts of life, from France's most prominent female rabbi and a leading intellectual.
The New York Times describes Delphine Horvilleur as "the rare intellectual to bring religious texts into the public square," and, as one of only five female rabbis in France, unique in that she "calls for a plurality of religious voices in interpreting holy texts."
Living with Our Dead is a profoundly humanist, universal, and hopeful book that celebrates life, love, memory, and the power of storytelling to inspire and sustain us.
In this moving book by the leader of France's Liberal Jewish Movement, Delphine Horvilleur recounts eleven stories of loss, mourning, and consolation, collected during the years she has spent caring for the dying and their loved ones.
From Elsa Cayat, the psychologist and Charlie Hebdo columnist killed in the 2015 terrorist attack, to Simone Veil and Marceline Loridan, "the girls of Birkenau"; from Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, assassinated in 1995, to Myriam, a New Yorker obsessed with planning her own funeral, to the author friend's Ariane and her struggle with terminal illness. In telling these stories and her own relationship to them, Horvilleur addresses death and dying with intelligence, humor, and compassion. Rejecting the contemporary tendency to banish death from our thoughts and discourse, she encourages us to embrace its presence as a fundamental part of life.
Family Story Time
We are excited to welcome back Family Story Time as a mainstay here at Glendora Bookshop! Every Friday morning from 11-12pm 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.
Facing Change Book Club - November 2026
Join us for Facing Change Book Club, a group that examines todays events through non-fiction and helps address the question of “What is happening?!” Facing Change meets (loosely) every first Sunday of the month.
Sign up for book clubs at Glendora Bookshop by email, call/text, or just stop in and inquire.
This month, Facing Change is reading The Stories Whiteness Tells Itself: Racial Myths and Our American Narratives by David Mura. 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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Uncovering the pernicious narratives white people create to justify white supremacy and sustain racist oppression
The police murders of two Black men, Philando Castile and George Floyd, frame this searing exploration of the historical and fictional narratives that white America tells itself to justify and maintain white supremacy. From the country's founding through the summer of Black Lives Matter in 2020, David Mura unmasks how white stories about race attempt to erase the brutality of the past and underpin systemic racism in the present.
Intertwining history, literature, ethics, and the deeply personal, Mura looks back to foundational narratives of white supremacy (Jefferson's defense of slavery, Lincoln's frequently minimized racism, and the establishment of Jim Crow) to show how white identity is based on shared belief in the pernicious myths, false histories, and racially segregated fictions that allow whites to deny their culpability in past atrocities and current inequities. White supremacy always insists white knowledge is superior to Black knowledge, Mura argues, and this belief dismisses the truths embodied in Black narratives.
Mura turns to literature, comparing the white savior portrayal of the film Amistad to the novelization of its script by the Black novelist Alexs Pate, which focuses on its African protagonists; depictions of slavery in Faulkner and Morrison; and race's absence in the fiction of Jonathan Franzen and its inescapable presence in works by ZZ Packer, tracing the construction of Whiteness to willfully distorted portraits of race in America. In James Baldwin's essays, Mura finds a response to this racial distortion and a way for Blacks and other BIPOC people to heal from the wounds of racism.
Taking readers beyond apology, contrition, or sadness, Mura attends to the persistent trauma racism has exacted and lays bare how deeply we need to change our racial narratives--what white people must do--to dissolve the myth of Whiteness and fully acknowledge the stories and experiences of Black Americans.
Rotating Reads Book Club - November 2026
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 November, join your hosts on the first Thursday of the month to discuss In Defense of Witches: The Legacy of the Witch Hunts and Why Women are Still on Trial by Mona Chollet.
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Mona Chollet's In Defense of Witches is a “brilliant, well-documented” celebration (Le Monde) by an acclaimed French feminist of the witch as a symbol of female rebellion and independence in the face of misogyny and persecution.
Centuries after the infamous witch hunts that swept through Europe and America, witches continue to hold a unique fascination for many: as fairy tale villains, practitioners of pagan religion, as well as feminist icons. Witches are both the ultimate victim and the stubborn, elusive rebel. But who were the women who were accused and often killed for witchcraft? What types of women have centuries of terror censored, eliminated, and repressed?
Celebrated feminist writer Mona Chollet explores three types of women who were accused of witchcraft and persecuted: the independent woman, since widows and celibates were particularly targeted; the childless woman, since the time of the hunts marked the end of tolerance for those who claimed to control their fertility; and the elderly woman, who has always been an object of at best, pity, and at worst, horror. Examining modern society, Chollet concludes that these women continue to be harrassed and oppressed. Rather than being a brief moment in history, the persecution of witches is an example of society’s seemingly eternal misogyny, while women today are direct descendants to those who were hunted down and killed for their thoughts and actions.
With fiery prose and arguments that range from the scholarly to the cultural, In Defense of Witches seeks to unite the mythic image of the witch with modern women who live their lives on their own terms.
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!)
Author Event with Nancy Ronquillo
Join us Saturday, November 7th to welcome Nancy Ronquillo who will share some of her new memoir, A Soldier in the Family: a Mother Confronts the Invisible Wounds of War.
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About Nancy’s writing:
“I began writing in earnest when I was about ten when I received my very first diary. It had a thick white cover, and the word DIARY was embossed in gold. From 1961 I have kept a diary or journal. I also wrote poems, short stories, and episodes for my favorite TV series, with me and my friends as characters in the diabolical plots.
A Soldier in the Family is my first memoir.”
About A Soldier in the Family:
“When my son Matt, a young paratrooper, returns home from Iraq, he brings a dusty bag of disposable cameras in his duffel. No one knows that a few months later he will die alongside his combat buddy. Consumed by this shattering loss, I begin a quest to understand what caused his death. A Soldier in the Family is a riveting tale that unveils powerful premonitions, stark truths, and dark secrets about the pull and presence of war in one family. My firsthand account takes the blinders off, sharing the ravages of past wars — in Iraq, Vietnam, Burma, France, and beyond — and the poison of their shadowy presence on generations of my family.
Rooted in America’s heartland, I struggled to find answers about what happened to my son, My journey plumbs the anguish and complex mystery of how to choose life after unfathomable loss. The hope and wisdom embedded in this story — of one soldier, one mother, one family — moves beyond the obvious to the hidden devastation and legacy burden of war. This stark yet uplifting experience brings light to war’s enduring aftermath: and a surprising alchemy of healing, and clarion call to wage peace.”
Dragon Dreams: A Romantasy Book Club - November 2026
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.
November’s Dragon Dreams selection continue’s down the ACOTAR path with the new and HIGHLY anticipated A Court of Splintered Harmony by Sarah J. Mass. 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!
*****
Romance, danger, and intrigue await you in the breathtaking sixth book in the #1 bestselling Court of Thorns and Roses (ACOTAR) series.
What was broken will be remade.
Deep in the heart of the continent, Koschei the Deathless is stirring. Though he's been bound to a mountain lake for millennia, the insidious threat of his return now spreads across the Fae territories, attracting powerful allies hell-bent on reclaiming what was once theirs: the human lands.
The Night Court will not stand idly by while innocents are attacked. But with Prythian still piecing itself together in the wake of the devastating Hybern War, the task of uniting is proving more difficult by the day.
To make matters worse, those who rule and protect the Night Court are reeling from recent betrayals and revealed truths. The rifts dividing them seem insurmountable.
But to defeat Koschei's creeping shadow, they must find a way back to each other and resurrect their former alliances. To survive, they must find a way to repair the splintered harmony all around them.
O/U Nature & More Book Club - November 2026
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 Return of the Bison: A Story of Survival, Restoration, and a Wilder World by Roger Di Silvestro. 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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"With fervor and meticulous research--and with implications for the future of megafauna around the world--Roger L. Di Silvestro recounts the complex and difficult ongoing struggle for bison recovery." - Shelf Awareness
Offers a hopeful view of threatened species, grounded in history and science
Addresses current conservation trends: wildlife corridors, prairie restoration, cultural restoration for the American Indian community
Return of the Bison is the story of how this symbol of the American West was once almost lost to history and of the continuing journey to bring bison back from the brink. Author and naturalist Roger Di Silvestro explores the complex history of the bison's decimation and how a rising awareness of their possible extinction formed the roots of many modern wildlife conservation approaches. Weaving in natural history and fascinating historical context featuring personalities such as Teddy Roosevelt, George Bird Grinnell, and William T. Hornaday, Di Silvestro traces the decades it took to begin to save the bison, often with little hope and plagued by discouraging setbacks. Di Silvestro explores the key role in the story of America's Indigenous people, whose fate was intertwined with the bison's and whose conservation work is important not only for the animal's recovery but also for their own cultural renewal.
Di Silvestro also examines the plight of European bison and the latest challenges facing the species in the US: Are the bison doomed to be treated like cattle, fenced and contained? Or will they be listed as an endangered species, requiring us to treat them like the wild animals they are?
Family Story Time
We are excited to welcome back Family Story Time as a mainstay here at Glendora Bookshop! Every Friday morning from 11-12pm 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 - October 2026
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.
October’s Dragon Dreams selection is This Kingdom Will Not Kill Me by Ilona Andrews. 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!
*****
When Maggie wakes up cold, filthy, and naked in a gutter, it doesn't take her long to recognize Kair Toren, a city she knows intimately from the pages of the famously unfinished dark fantasy series she's been obsessively reading and re-reading while waiting years for the final novel.
Her only tools for navigating this gritty world of rival warlords, magic, and mayhem? Her encyclopedic knowledge of the plot, the setting, and the characters' ambitions and fates. But while she quickly discovers she cannot be killed (though many will try!), the same cannot be said for the living, breathing characters she's coming to love—a motley band that includes a former lady’s maid, a deadly assassin, various outrageous magical creatures, and a dangerously appealing soldier. Soon, instead of trying to get home, she finds herself enmeshed in the schemes—and attentions—of dueling princes, dukes, and villains, all while trying to save them and the kingdom of Rellas from the way she knows their stories will end: in a cataclysmic war.
For fans of Samantha Shannon, Danielle L. Jensen, Sarah J. Maas, and isekai and portal fantasy, This Kingdom Will Not Kill Me is the beginning of the most epic adventure yet from genre powerhouse author duo Ilona Andrews.
Family Story Time
We are excited to welcome back Family Story Time as a mainstay here at Glendora Bookshop! Every Friday morning from 11-12pm 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 10/3 to welcome Christy Prahl who will share some of her new book Catalog of Labors.
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About Christy:
“An 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.”
Buchanan Harvest Fest and Chili Walk
Stop by Glendora Bookshop during Harvest Fest for book sales and treats! And, of course, a break from the brisk fall weather ;)
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 11-12pm 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 - October 2026
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 October, join your hosts on the first Thursday of the month to discuss Beloved by Toni Morrison.
*****
Sethe was born a slave and escaped to Ohio, but eighteen years later she is still not free. Sethe has too many memories of Sweet Home, the beautiful farm where so many hideous things happened. And Sethe’s new home is haunted by the ghost of her baby, who died nameless and whose tombstone is engraved with a single word: Beloved.
Family Story Time
We are excited to welcome back Family Story Time as a mainstay here at Glendora Bookshop! Every Friday morning from 11-12pm 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 - September
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 Is a River Alive? by Robert MacFarlane. sure to snag your copy at Glendora Bookshop (book club members take 10% off book club reads!) and join us in September to discuss.
*****
Hailed in the New York Times as "a naturalist who can unfurl a sentence with the breathless ease of a master angler," Robert Macfarlane brings his glittering style to a profound work of travel writing, reportage, and natural history. Is a River Alive? is a joyful, mind-expanding exploration of an ancient, urgent idea: that rivers are living beings who should be recognized as such in imagination and law.
Macfarlane takes readers on three unforgettable journeys teeming with extraordinary people, stories, and places: to the miraculous cloud-forests and mountain streams of Ecuador, to the wounded creeks and lagoons of India, and to the spectacular wild rivers of Canada--imperiled respectively by mining, pollution, and dams. Braiding these journeys is the life story of the fragile chalk stream a mile from Macfarlane's house, a stream who flows through his own years and days.
Powered by dazzling prose and lit throughout by other minds and voices, Is a River Alive? will open hearts, challenge perspectives, and remind us that our fate flows with that of rivers--and always has.
Author Event - Kassidy VanGundy
Join us on September 18th at 6:00pm for a reading and discussion from Kassidy VanGundy! Kassidy will be reading from her most recent book, Cursed Images: Channel Surfing.
“As a kid who used to keep all of her dark fantasies a secret in her Girl Tech Password Journal™, Kassidy VanGundy is now an adult who shares all of these stories for the world to see. She predominantly writes nostalgic horror and dark fantasy stories that are sprinkled with just the right amount of childhood longing.”
Family Story Time
We are excited to welcome back Family Story Time as a mainstay here at Glendora Bookshop! Every Friday morning from 11-12pm 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.
Facing Change Book Club - September 2026
Join us for Facing Change Book Club, a group that examines todays events through non-fiction and helps address the question of “What is happening?!” Facing Change meets (loosely) every first Sunday of the month.
Sign up for book clubs at Glendora Bookshop by email, call/text, or just stop in and inquire.
This month, Facing Change is reading The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together by Heather McGee. 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!
*****
WINNER OF THE PORCHLIGHT BUSINESS BOOK AWARD • ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: Time, The Washington Post, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Ms. magazine, BookRiot, Library Journal
Look for the author’s podcast, The Sum of Us, based on this book!
Heather McGhee’s specialty is the American economy—and the mystery of why it so often fails the American public. From the financial crisis of 2008 to rising student debt to collapsing public infrastructure, she found a root problem: racism in our politics and policymaking. But not just in the most obvious indignities for people of color. Racism has costs for white people, too. It is the common denominator of our most vexing public problems, the core dysfunction of our democracy and constitutive of the spiritual and moral crises that grip us all. But how did this happen? And is there a way out?
McGhee embarks on a deeply personal journey across the country from Maine to Mississippi to California, tallying what we lose when we buy into the zero-sum paradigm—the idea that progress for some of us must come at the expense of others. Along the way, she meets white people who confide in her about losing their homes, their dreams, and their shot at better jobs to the toxic mix of American racism and greed. This is the story of how public goods in this country—from parks and pools to functioning schools—have become private luxuries; of how unions collapsed, wages stagnated, and inequality increased; and of how this country, unique among the world’s advanced economies, has thwarted universal healthcare.
But in unlikely places of worship and work, McGhee finds proof of what she calls the Solidarity Dividend: the benefits we gain when people come together across race to accomplish what we simply can’t do on our own. The Sum of Us is not only a brilliant analysis of how we arrived here but also a heartfelt message, delivered with startling empathy, from a black woman to a multiracial America. It leaves us with a new vision for a future in which we finally realize that life can be more than a zero-sum game.
LONGLISTED FOR THE ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL
Family Story Time
We are excited to welcome back Family Story Time as a mainstay here at Glendora Bookshop! Every Friday morning from 11-12pm 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 - September
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 September, Rotating Reads Book Club will conduct their fourth 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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Dragon Dreams: A Romantasy Book Club - September
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.
September’s Dragon Dreams selection continue’s down the ACOTAR path with A Court of Silver Flames by Sarah J. Maas. 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!
*****
Sarah J. Maas's sexy, richly imagined Court of Thorns and Roses (ACOTAR) series continues with the journey of Feyre's fiery sister, Nesta.
Nesta Archeron has always been prickly-proud, swift to anger, and slow to forgive. And ever since being forced into the Cauldron and becoming High Fae against her will, she's struggled to find a place for herself within the strange, deadly world she inhabits. Worse, she can't seem to move past the horrors of the war with Hybern and all she lost in it.
The one person who ignites her temper more than any other is Cassian, the battle-scarred warrior whose position in Rhysand and Feyre's Night Court keeps him constantly in Nesta's orbit. But her temper isn't the only thing Cassian ignites. The fire between them is undeniable, and only burns hotter as they are forced into close quarters with each other.
Meanwhile, the treacherous human queens who returned to the Continent during the last war have forged a dangerous new alliance, threatening the fragile peace that has settled over the realms. And the key to halting them might very well rely on Cassian and Nesta facing their haunting pasts.
Against the sweeping backdrop of a world seared by war and plagued with uncertainty, Nesta and Cassian battle monsters from within and without as they search for acceptance-and healing-in each other's arms.
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 11-12pm 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 11-12pm 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.
The Epiloguers: Honest Talk About Death and Dying - August 2026
Losing a loved one is difficult. Processing the many feelings about the loss is different for everyone.
Studies show that coming to terms with ones mortality can be achieved through a better understanding of end-of-life. As “epiloguers,” we strive to collaboratively create our concluding piece at the end of our journey, facing the reality of death, and embracing a positive approach to living each day.
The Epiloguers Book Club aims to create a safe space for people to gather and discuss death and dying.
Sign up for book clubs at Glendora Bookshop by email, call/text, or just stop in and inquire. This group is facilitated by community member Karen Quasney, we’re happy to connect you with her. This group meets on the last Thursday of every other month.
August’s “The Epiloguers” selection is Briefly Perfectly Human: Making an Authentic Life by Getting Real About the End by Alia Arthur. Be sure to snag your copy at Glendora Bookshop. (Book club members take 10% off book club reads!) Join us in August to discuss!
*****
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER | New York Times' Staff Favorite Book of the Year | Boston Globe Best Book of the Year
A deeply transformative memoir that reframes how we think about death and how it can help us lead better, more fulfilling and authentic lives, from America’s most visible death doula.
For her clients and everyone who has been inspired by her humanity, Alua Arthur is a friend at the end of the world. As our country’s leading death doula, she’s spreading a transformative message: thinking about your death—whether imminent or not—will breathe wild, new potential into your life.
Warm, generous, and funny AF, Alua supports and helps manage end-of-life care on many levels. The business matters, medical directives, memorial planning; but also honoring the quiet moments, when monitors are beeping and loved ones have stepped out to get some air—or maybe not shown up at all—and her clients become deeply contemplative and want to talk. Aching, unfinished business often emerges in this spiritual journey. Alua has been present for thousands of these sacred moments—when regrets, fears, secret joys, hidden affairs, and dim realities are finally said aloud. When this happens, Alua focuses her attention at the pulsing center of her clients’ anguish and creates space for them, and sometimes their loved ones, to find peace.
This has had a profound effect on Alua, who was already no stranger to death’s periphery. Her family fled a murderous coup d’état in Ghana in the 1980s. She has suffered major, debilitating depressions. And her dear friend and brother-in-law died of lymphoma. Advocating for him in his final months is what led Alua to her life’s calling. She knows firsthand the power of bearing witness and telling the truth about life’s painful complexities, because they do not disappear when you look the other way. They wait for you.
Briefly Perfectly Human is a life-changing, soul-gathering debut, by a writer whose empathy, tenderness, and wisdom shimmers on the page. Alua Arthur combines intimate storytelling with a passionate appeal for loving, courageous end-of-life care. Hers is a powerful testament to getting in touch with something deeper in our lives, by embracing the fact of our own mortality. “Hold that truth in your mind,” Alua says, “and wondrous things will begin to grow around it.”
A Guide to Dying Well: Learn from America’s most visible death doula how thinking about the end can transform the way you live, offering a powerful testament to getting in touch with something deeper in our lives.
Navigating Grief and Loss: Journey through intimate, life-changing stories—from fleeing a coup in Ghana to advocating for a dying loved one—that reveal the power of bearing witness to life’s painful complexities.
Finding Purpose Through Service: Discover how Alua Arthur found her life’s calling at her brother-in-law’s bedside, a profound experience that shaped her mission to provide loving, courageous end-of-life care.
The Power of Human Connection: In thousands of sacred moments with her clients, Alua creates space for regrets, fears, and secret joys to be spoken, fostering peace and honoring the quiet moments at the end of the world.
Family Story Time
We are excited to welcome back Family Story Time as a mainstay here at Glendora Bookshop! Every Friday morning from 11-12pm 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 - August 2026
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 August, join your hosts on the SECOND Thursday* of the month to discuss The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton.
*This month has a modified date. Next month will be back to normal.
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Set during the Gilded Age in New York City, The Age of Innocence follows Newland Archer, a poised and pedigreed gentleman lawyer who is eagerly anticipating his impending union with May Welland, a paragon of Old New York grace. The arrival of Countess Ellen Olenska, May's enigmatic and alluring cousin, shatters the tranquility of Archer's carefully structured world. Recently returned from Europe, Ellen exudes an air of cosmopolitan mystery as whispers of scandal cling to her, and rumors of the turbulent marriage she left behind circulate in posh ballrooms. As Archer finds himself drawn into Ellen's world, he grapples with the stark contrast between the two women. May, a portrait of tradition and conformity, is the epitome of what society would call an excellent match. In contrast, Ellen's allure lies in her defiance of convention, her rebellion against the constraints of propriety. Archer is faced with a choice that will define his destiny and the person he will become. Against the backdrop of high society's glittering façade, Edith Wharton's masterful tale unravels, exploring the timeless themes of honor, love, and the intricate dance between societal expectation and personal fulfillment. This Warbler Classics edition includes an extensive biographical timeline of Edith Wharton's life and work.
Dragon Dreams: A Romantasy Book Club - August 2026
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.
August’s Dragon Dreams selection continue’s down the ACOTAR path with A Court of Frost and Starlight by Sarah J. Maas. 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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A tender addition to the #1 bestselling Court of Thorns and Roses (ACOTAR) series by Sarah J. Maas, bridging the events of A Court of Wings and Ruin and A Court of Silver Flames.
Feyre, Rhysand, and their friends are still busy rebuilding the Night Court and the vastly altered world beyond, recovering from the war that changed everything. But Winter Solstice is finally approaching, and with it, the joy of a hard-earned reprieve.
Yet even the festive atmosphere can't keep the shadows of the past from looming. As Feyre navigates her first Winter Solstice as High Lady, her concern for those dearest to her deepens. They have more wounds than she anticipated-scars that will have a far-reaching impact on the future of their court.
Connecting A Court of Wings and Ruin with the later books in the series, A Court of Frost and Starlight explores the far-reaching effects of a devastating war and the fierce love between friends.
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 11-12pm 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 - July 2026
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 Timefulness: How Thinking Like a Geologist Can Help Save the World by Marcia Bjornerud. 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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Why an awareness of Earth's temporal rhythms is critical to our planetary survival
Few of us have any conception of the enormous timescales of our planet's long history, and this narrow perspective underlies many of the environmental problems we are creating. The lifespan of Earth can seem unfathomable compared to the brevity of human existence, but this view of time denies our deep roots in Earth's history--and the magnitude of our effects on the planet. Timefulness reveals how knowing the rhythms of Earth's deep past and conceiving of time as a geologist does can give us the perspective we need for a more sustainable future. Featuring illustrations by Haley Hagerman, this compelling book offers a new way of thinking about our place in time, showing how our everyday lives are shaped by processes that vastly predate us, and how our actions today will in turn have consequences that will outlast us by generations.
This edition includes discussion questions for reading groups.
Rotating Reads Book Club - July 2026
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 July, Rotating Reads Book Club is on the Memoir round! Join your hosts to discuss Everything I learned, I learned in a Chinese Restaurant by Curtis Chin.
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This poignant memoir tells the story of Curtis Chin's time growing up as a gay Chinese American kid in 1980's Detroit.
"Vivid, moving, funny, and heartfelt" --Lisa Ko, author of The Leavers
Nineteen eighties Detroit was a volatile place to live, but above the fray stood a safe haven: Chung's Cantonese Cuisine, where anyone--from the city's first Black mayor to the local drag queens, from a big-time Hollywood star to elderly Jewish couples--could sit down for a warm, home-cooked meal. Here was where, beneath a bright-red awning and surrounded by his multigenerational family, filmmaker and activist Curtis Chin came of age; where he learned to embrace his identity as a gay ABC, or American-born Chinese; where he navigated the divided city's spiraling misfortunes; and where--between helpings of almond boneless chicken, sweet-and-sour pork, and some of his own, less-savory culinary concoctions--he realized just how much he had to offer to the world, to his beloved family, and to himself.
Served up by the cofounder of the Asian American Writers' Workshop and structured around the very menu that graced the tables of Chung's, Everything I Learned, I Learned in a Chinese Restaurant is both a memoir and an invitation: to step inside one boy's childhood oasis, scoot into a vinyl booth, and grow up with him--and perhaps even share something off the secret menu.
Dragon Dreams: A Romantasy Book Club - July 2026
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 continue’s down the ACOTAR path with A Court of Wings and Ruin by Sarah J. Maas. 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 epic third novel in the #1 bestselling Court of Thorns and Roses series by global phenomenon Sarah J. Maas.
Feyre has returned to the Spring Court, determined to gather information on Tamlin's actions and learn what she can about the invading king threatening to bring her land to its knees. But to do so she must play a deadly game of deceit. One slip could bring doom not only for Feyre, but for everything-and everyone-she holds dear.
As war bears down upon them all, Feyre endeavors to take her place amongst the High Fae of the land, balancing her struggle to master her powers-both magical and political-and her love for her court and family. Amidst these struggles, Feyre and Rhysand must decide whom to trust amongst the cunning and lethal High Lords, and hunt for allies in unexpected places.
In this thrilling third book in the #1 bestselling series from Sarah J. Maas, the fate of Feyre's world is at stake as armies grapple for power over the one thing that could destroy it.
Facing Change Book Club - July 2026
Join us for Facing Change Book Club, a group that examines todays events through non-fiction and helps address the question of “What is happening?!” Facing Change meets (loosely) every first Sunday of the month.
Sign up for book clubs at Glendora Bookshop by email, call/text, or just stop in and inquire.
This month, Facing Change is reading Surviving Autocracy by Masha Gessen. 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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WINNER OF THE 2026 PULITZER PRIZE FOR OPINION WRITING
“When Gessen speaks about autocracy, you listen.” —The New York Times
“A reckoning with what has been lost in the past few years and a map forward with our beliefs intact.” —Interview
As seen on MSNBC’s Morning Joe and heard on NPR’s All Things Considered: the bestselling, National Book Award–winning journalist offers an essential guide to understanding, resisting, and recovering from the ravages of our tumultuous times.
This incisive book provides an essential guide to understanding and recovering from the calamitous corrosion of American democracy over the past few years. Thanks to the special perspective that is the legacy of a Soviet childhood and two decades covering the resurgence of totalitarianism in Russia, Masha Gessen has a sixth sense for the manifestations of autocracy—and the unique cross-cultural fluency to delineate their emergence to Americans. Gessen not only anatomizes the corrosion of the institutions and cultural norms we hoped would save us but also tells us the story of how a short few years changed us from a people who saw ourselves as a nation of immigrants to a populace haggling over a border wall, heirs to a degraded sense of truth, meaning, and possibility. Surviving Autocracy is an inventory of ravages and a call to account but also a beacon to recovery—and to the hope of what comes next.
Family Story Time
We are excited to welcome back Family Story Time as a mainstay here at Glendora Bookshop! Every Friday morning from 11-12pm 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.