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 December, Rotating Reads Book Club is on the Fiction round! Join your host, Winnie, to discuss Kurt Vonnegut’s first novel Piano Player, a dystopian story set in a future where machines have replaced most human labor, creating a society divided between the elite engineers who run the automated factories and the rest of the population, who are left with little purpose. Prescient!

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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 Wolfish: Wolf, Self and The Stories We Tell About Fear. 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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For fans of Helen MacDonald’s H is for Hawk and Mary Roach, Erica Berry’s WOLFISH blends science, history, and cultural criticism in a years-long journey to understand our myths about wolves, and track one legendary wolf, OR-7, from the Wallowa Mountains of Oregon

OREGON BOOK AWARD WINNER * Shortlisted for the 2024 Pacific Northwest Book Award * A Most Anticipated Book of 2023: TIME, Los Angeles Times, Vulture, Salon, Bustle, The Rumpus, Financial Times, Reader's Digest, LitHub, Book Riot, Debutiful, and more!

"Exhilarating." —The Washington Post

"Wolfish starts with a single wolf and spirals through nuanced investigations of fear, gender, violence, and story. A GORGEOUS achievement." —Blair Braverman, author of Welcome to the Goddamn Ice Cube

“This is one of those stories that begins with a female body. Hers was crumpled, roadside, in the ash-colored slush between asphalt and snowbank.”

So begins Erica Berry’s kaleidoscopic exploration of wolves, both real and symbolic. At the center of this lyrical inquiry is the legendary OR-7, who roams away from his familial pack in northeastern Oregon. While charting OR-7’s record-breaking journey out of the Wallowa Mountains, Erica simultaneously details her own coming-of-age as she moves away from home and wrestles with inherited beliefs about fear, danger, femininity, and the body.

As Erica chronicles her own migration—from crying wolf as a child on her grandfather’s sheep farm to accidentally eating mandrake in Sicily—she searches for new expressions for how to be a brave woman, human, and animal in our warming world. What do stories so long told about wolves tell us about our relationship to fear? How can our society peel back the layers of what scares us? By strategically unspooling the strands of our cultural constructions of predator and prey, and what it means to navigate a world in which we can be both, Erica bridges the gap between human fear and grief through the lens of a wrongfully misunderstood species.

Wolfish is for anybody trying to navigate a world that is often scary. A powerful, timeless, and necessary book for our current and future generations.

https://bookshop.org/p/books/wolfish-wolf-self-and-the-stories-we-tell-about-fear-erica-berry/38ffc2f414bd2275?ean=9781250832672&next=t

It’s more important than ever to support local independent businesses and Small Business Saturday is the perfect occasion! Come in to celebrate Buchanan for the Holidays! We will be boasting holiday-themed and best-of-the-year books as well as so many gifts and surprises you’ll love.

AND this year we’ve entered the window decorating contest for the first time. Come by to take a look and wish us luck!

PLUS it’s our BIRTHDAY, we’ll be two years old TODAY! We’ll have treats and drinks all day, help us raise a glass and wish for many more years as part of our beautiful community!

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!

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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

Come join on-the-move South Bend Silent Book Club for a cozy evening of reading at Glendora Bookshop! SBSBC is the perfect place to unwind, meet fellow book lovers, and enjoy some quiet reading time. Bring your favorite book and immerse yourself in a relaxing atmosphere. No assigned reading, no pressure - just pure bookish bliss. See you there!

Eventbrite info here.

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 is Metal Slinger by Rachel Schneider. 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!

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The breakout romantasy sensation by Rachel Schneider that has taken the Internet by storm – bursting with suspense, romance, and breathtaking twists, this heart-stopping debut now has an embossed cover, silver foiling, and bonus scene from the highly anticipated sequel, LIGHT WIELDER.

Even though she's not one of them, Brynn has spent her life among the Alaha, training to be a guard and waiting for the chance to attend the annual market hosted by the Kenta–the very same people who exiled her adopted community to a life at sea. Going to the market is a rite of passage eagerly anticipated by all young guards, but Brynn does not anticipate breaking a century-long peace treaty while there. Nor does she plan for the intense encounter with an enemy soldier that now threatens to unwind the fragile coexistence between their people–and everything Brynn once believed about herself to be true.

Brynn's loyalty to the Alaha is tested when the truth of her identity is brought to light by this soldier who's taken an oath to bring her back to where she belongs. Narrowly escaping death on the violent high seas, Brynn's connection to the Alaha is further tested when she learns about the world of magic she's been denied. She was once certain of her fate and where she belonged, but the dark, knowing eyes of this stranger have her questioning everything, including her heart.

Packed with knife fights and seafaring adventure, METAL SLINGER is the smash-hit start to the romantic fantasy duology, the Fire & Metal series.

https://bookshop.org/p/books/metal-slinger-fire-metal-book-one-rachel-schneider/51f488530693a051?ean=9781250419088&next=t

Join us in welcoming poet and book friend Jan Wiezorek for our November Author Event and celebrate his latest work, Prayer’s Prairie. Along with his poetry, Jan will be sharing his process with us and we’ll open the floor to questions and signings after the reading. Enjoy refreshments while you’re here and get your book signed in person! Copies of Jan’s book Prayer’s Prairie are on sale at the shop now and available for purchase day of event as well.

If you’re looking for a way to meet new people (or just find something fun & different to do!) mark your calendars for one of our monthly Author Events!

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Prayer's Prairie digs into a terrain and its people, past and present, to upturn and preserve artifacts of the mind.

Artfully composed and immersive, set among the fires and grasses from the Great Lakes to the Northern Plains, these poems revere the prairie-scape and the Prayer's complexities of lives and deaths on its soils. Its people show a compassion "that still salves, still stings."

The rough loveliness of the habitat emerges from the soil-the "wild onion, clover, stinging nettles, husks and rasps" are "entitled to be prairie." And its inhabitants are called to higher standards. A speaker calls out destruction in the name of progress, posing questions such as

"If the / machine is dominant, what and who / are submissive, and why?"

Yet, much remains. The poems are a recognition of the beautiful permanence of this land and the generations who lived there. https://bookshop.org/p/books/prayer-s-prairie-jan-wiezorek/22699712?ean=9781950744237&next=t

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!)

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.

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, Rotating Reads Book Club will conduct their second 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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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.

For November, Facing Change is reading Poverty, by America by Matthew Desmond. 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!

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The United States, the richest country on earth, has more poverty than any other advanced democracy. Why? Why does this land of plenty allow one in every eight of its children to go without basic necessities, permit scores of its citizens to live and die on the streets, and authorize its corporations to pay poverty wages? 
 
In this landmark book, acclaimed sociologist Matthew Desmond draws on history, research, and original reporting to show how affluent Americans knowingly and unknowingly keep poor people poor. Those of us who are financially secure exploit the poor, driving down their wages while forcing them to overpay for housing and access to cash and credit. We prioritize the subsidization of our wealth over the alleviation of poverty, designing a welfare state that gives the most to those who need the least. And we stockpile opportunity in exclusive communities, creating zones of concentrated riches alongside those of concentrated despair. Some lives are made small so that others may grow.
 
Elegantly written and fiercely argued, this compassionate book gives us new ways of thinking about a morally urgent problem. It also helps us imagine solutions. Desmond builds a startlingly original and ambitious case for ending poverty. He calls on us all to become poverty abolitionists, engaged in a politics of collective belonging to usher in a new age of shared prosperity and, at last, true freedom.

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

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.

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.

Join us for a late morning Author Event with mother and daughter duo, Children’s Author Kristen Dobson and Illustrator Sophie Dobson! Kristen will read from her book Lolly and the ‘Tudes and share some of the inspiration for her writing. Sophie will share her artistic process with us as well. We will have copies of Kristen and Sophie’s book in house before and during the event, so be sure to grab a copy while we have them. Bring the kids by - this is a family affair!

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"A refreshing story centered and grounded in the love of a grandmother for her grandchildren. . . . deep yet whimsical and lovingly real. . . . My heart is full." --Dr. Nancy P. Nekvasil, Professor Emerita and former President of Saint Mary's College, Notre Dame, IN

Watch out for Opal and Arlie! Giggles may erupt. Tears may flow. Feet may dance or fists might fly. You just never know what emotions may be whirling around. These two are full of attitude. Does this make them less lovable? In this beautifully illustrated children's book, little boys and girls will see their own emotions reflected and be assured of their gramma's love no matter whether (or should we say "weather") they're happy or sad, silly or mad.

"'Lolly and the 'Tudes' is a brilliant reminder of the timeless love between a grandmother and her grandchildren--no matter the circumstances. Just like seasons, moods change, but Lolly's devotion to her grandchildren weathers all." --Dr. Becky Thompson, English Professor, North Greenville University

"A beautiful story that reassures children of a grandmother's unwavering love through every up and down of their emotions. A sweet tale to share with my grandchildren!"-Tricia Goyer, author of over 90 books, including Wonders of the Ocean Realm, and co-host of The Daily Bible Podcast. https://bookshop.org/p/books/lolly-and-the-tudes-kristen-n-dobson/22073183?ean=9798385035427&next=t

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.

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!

October’s Rotating Read is classic (and winner of the Pulitzer in Memoir!) Anne of Green Gables by L. M. Montgomery. 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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The cherished classic featuring everyone's favorite red-headed orphan, now in a lush hardcover edition with beautiful cover illustrations by Anna Bond, the artist behind world-renowned stationery brand Rifle Paper Co.

Anne, an eleven-year-old orphan, is sent by mistake to live with a lonely, middle-aged brother and sister on a Prince Edward Island farm and proceeds to make an indelible impression on everyone around her.https://bookshop.org/p/books/anne-of-green-gables-l-m-montgomery/15792264?ean=9780147514004&next=t

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.

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 A Dark and Secret Magic by Wallis Kinney. 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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A USA TODAY BESTSELLER!

A warm, spellbinding tale about a witch and the secrets her coven has been keeping from her, with echoes of the classic Hades and Persephone story, in the tradition of Practical Magic and Witch of Wild Things.

Hecate Goodwin, Kate to her friends, has curated the perfect life as a hedge witch, living in a secluded cottage with only a black cat for company. She spends her days foraging herbs from the Ipswich forest, gardening, and creating tinctures to sell at the apothecary she owns. Most evenings pass without her speaking to another human being, an arrangement she quite prefers. 

Kate’s solitude is thrown into disarray when her older sister, Miranda, reaches out and asks her to host their coven’s annual Halloween gathering. The day marks the beginning of the new year for witches and is also Kate’s birthday. The pressure from her coven to make the evening memorable mounts as the event draws near. To complicate things further, a handsome man from Kate’s past turns up at her cottage, asking for sanctuary. It is Kate’s duty as a hedge witch to honor this request, much to her dismay. Matthew Cypher is no ordinary lost soul–he’s a practitioner of forbidden magic who’s tricked Kate once before, and her guard is up.

As she juggles Matthew’s arrival and the preparations for Halloween, Kate comes across an old tome shrouded in dark magic. She is horrified when she realizes the blood-red inscription is written in familiar handwriting: her recently deceased mother’s. Afraid to even touch the dark magic her mother secretly studied, Kate can turn only to Matthew for help. Her idealized memory of her mother begins to distort, and as she and Matthew grow closer, Kate has to reevaluate whom she can really trust.  

A Dark and Secret Magic is a celebration of the Halloween season and a love letter to anyone who drinks pumpkin spice in August and carries the spirit of a witch inside their heart all year long. https://bookshop.org/p/books/this-book-is-for-october-wallis-kinney/21095019?ean=9781639109890&next=t

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.

For October, Facing Change is reading Blood Red Lines: How Nativism Fuels the Right by Brendan O’Connor. 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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"An important contribution to the political debate over immigration." --The New Republic

In Blood Red Lines, journalist Brendan O'Connor investigates the recent history and politics of U.S. nativism, from the dark money-funded think tanks to the militant reactionaries doing battle with antifascists in the streets. As O'Connor argues, a new ideology is emerging, "border fascism," one that any movement for working class liberation will need to reckon with in the struggles to come. https://bookshop.org/p/books/blood-red-lines-how-nativism-fuels-the-right-brendan-o-connor/17013781?ean=9781642599190&next=t

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!)

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 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

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.

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.

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 The Darkness Manifesto by Johan Eklöf. 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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*Winner of the Penn Libraries Book Prize in Sustainability*
*Named a Best Book of the Year by Scientific American*

This timely and captivating look at the hidden impact of light pollution is “rich in revelation and insight…lyrical” (The Wall Street Journal) and urges us to cherish natural darkness for the sake of the environment, our own well-being, and all life on earth.

How much light is too much light? Satellite pictures show our planet as a brightly glowing orb, and in our era of constant illumination, light pollution has become a major issue. The world’s flora and fauna have evolved to operate in the natural cycle of day and night. But in the last 150 years, we have extended our day—and in doing so have forced out the inhabitants of the night and disrupted the circadian rhythms necessary to sustain all living things, including ourselves.

In this “well-researched and surprisingly lyrical” (The New Statesman, UK) book, Swedish conservationist Johan Eklöf urges us to appreciate natural darkness, its creatures, and its unique benefits. He ponders the beauties of the night sky, traces the errant paths of light-drunk moths and the swift dives of keen-eyed owls, and shows us the bioluminescent creatures of the deepest oceans. As a devoted friend of the night, Eklöf reveals the startling domino effect of diminishing darkness: insects, dumbfounded by streetlamps, failing to reproduce; birds blinded and bewildered by artificial lights; and bats starving as they wait in vain for insects that only come out in the dark. For humans, light-induced sleep disturbances impact our hormones and weight, and can contribute to mental health problems like chronic stress and depression. The streetlamps, floodlights, and neon signs of cities are altering entire ecosystems, and scientists are only just beginning to understand their long-term effects. The light bulb—long the symbol of progress and development—needs to be turned off.

“Urgent…vivid…eye-opening” (Publishers Weekly), and ultimately encouraging, The Darkness Manifesto outlines simple steps that we can take to benefit ourselves and the planet. In order to ensure a bright future, we must embrace the darkness. https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-darkness-manifesto-johan-eklof/22293146?ean=9781668000915&next=t&next=t

Join us Saturday 9/13 for an Author Event with Hillel Levin - journalist, true crime writer, and author of several books including his most recent 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

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