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Family Story Time
May
16

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.

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Family Story Time
May
23

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.

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Author Event with Rekha S. Rajan
May
24

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

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BANNED Book Club - May 2025
May
28

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

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O/U Nature & More Book Club - May 2025
May
29

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

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Family Story Time
May
30

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.

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Spooky Book Club - May 2025
May
30

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

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Rotating Reads Book Club - June 2025
Jun
5

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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Family Story Time
Jun
6

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.

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First Fridays OPEN MIC
Jun
6

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!)

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Family Story Time
Jun
13

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.

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Family Story Time
Jun
20

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.

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Family Story Time
Jun
27

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.

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Spooky Book Club - June 2025
Jun
27

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

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Rotating Reads Book Club - July 2025
Jul
10

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

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First Fridays OPEN MIC
Aug
1

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!)

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Dragon Dreams: A Romantasy Book Club - May 2025
May
14

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!

*****

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

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Family Story Time
May
9

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.

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First Fridays OPEN MIC
May
2

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!)

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Family Story Time
May
2

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.

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Rotating Reads Book Club - May 2025
May
1

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%!

*****

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

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Michiana Vegfest 2025
Apr
27

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/

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Indie Bookstore Day & Glendora Bookshop Birthday Celebration!
Apr
26

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

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Spooky Book Club - April 2025
Apr
25

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!

*****

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

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Family Story Time
Apr
25

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.

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BANNED Book Club - April 2025
Apr
23

BANNED Book Club - April 2025

Knowledge is power. Please join our very own Audrey for Glendora Bookshop’s newest book group: BANNED Book Club, a reading group exclusively for young adults/teens, as we BURN through these books.

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 The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood - a book banned for it’s themes of feminism and extremism. 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!

*****

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • An instant classic and eerily prescient cultural phenomenon, from “the patron saint of feminist dystopian fiction” (The New York Times). Now an award-winning Hulu series starring Elizabeth Moss.

Look for The Testaments, the bestselling, award-winning sequel to The Handmaid’s Tale

In Margaret Atwood’s dystopian future, environmental disasters and declining birthrates have led to a Second American Civil War. The result is the rise of the Republic of Gilead, a totalitarian regime that enforces rigid social roles and enslaves the few remaining fertile women. Offred is one of these, a Handmaid bound to produce children for one of Gilead’s commanders. Deprived of her husband, her child, her freedom, and even her own name, Offred clings to her memories and her will to survive. At once a scathing satire, an ominous warning, and a tour de force of narrative suspense, The Handmaid’s Tale is a modern classic.

https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-handmaid-s-tale-margaret-atwood/7333453?ean=9780385490818&next=t&next=t

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Earth Day Adult Book Fair @ River Saint Joe
Apr
22

Earth Day Adult Book Fair @ River Saint Joe

Step back in time to the fun and whimsy of the book fair with this ALL AGES event in the greenhouses at River Saint Joe! Join us at River St. Joe on April 22nd for a Book Fair for the young and young-at-heart from 5-7pm, hosted by Glendora Bookshop and featuring starter plants for sale from Flatwater Farms.

Shop from Glendora Bookshop’s curated Earth Day selection, including Children’s and Adult’s books, and more--all perfect for Springtime reading!

While you're here enjoy River Saint Joe's beautiful beer garden and taproom, including our delicious farm-fresh beers, ciders, and menu.

LIKE AND SHARE with the BOOK LOVERS in your life!

River Saint Joe Brewery | www.riversaintjoe.com

Flatwater Farms | www.flatwaterfarms.com

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Family Story Time - Easter Special!
Apr
20

Family Story Time - Easter Special!

This month, we’re moving our Friday 4/18 story time to host a special Easter Sunday Story Time on 4/20 at 1 pm.

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.

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Family Story Time
Apr
11

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.

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Family Story Time
Apr
11

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.

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Rotating Reads Book Club - April 2025
Apr
10

Rotating Reads Book Club - April 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 April, Rotating Reads Book Club will be diving into All Boys Aren’t Blue: A Memoir- Manifesto by George M. Johnson. Be sure to snag your copy at Glendora Bookshop to save 10%!

*****

In a series of personal essays, prominent journalist and LGBTQIA+ activist George M. Johnson's All Boys Aren't Blue explores their childhood, adolescence, and college years in New Jersey and Virginia.

A New York Times Bestseller!
Good Morning America, NBC Nightly News, Today Show, and MSNBC feature stories


From the memories of getting his teeth kicked out by bullies at age five, to flea marketing with his loving grandmother, to his first sexual relationships, this young-adult memoir weaves together the trials and triumphs faced by Black queer boys.

Both a primer for teens eager to be allies as well as a reassuring testimony for young queer men of color, All Boys Aren't Blue covers topics such as gender identity, toxic masculinity, brotherhood, family, structural marginalization, consent, and Black joy. Johnson's emotionally frank style of writing will appeal directly to young adults. (Johnson used he/him pronouns at the time of publication.)

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Dragon Dreams: A Romantasy Book Club - April 2025
Apr
9

Dragon Dreams: A Romantasy Book Club - April 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.

April’s Dragon Dreams selection is Divine Rivals by Rebecca Ross, 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 April to discuss!

*****

When two young rival journalists find love through a magical connection, they must face the depths of hell, in a war among gods, to seal their fate forever.

After centuries of sleep, the gods are warring again. But eighteen-year-old Iris Winnow just wants to hold her family together. Her mother is suffering from addiction and her brother is missing from the front lines. Her best bet is to win the columnist promotion at the Oath Gazette.

To combat her worries, Iris writes letters to her brother and slips them beneath her wardrobe door, where they vanish—into the hands of Roman Kitt, her cold and handsome rival at the paper. When he anonymously writes Iris back, the two of them forge a connection that will follow Iris all the way to the front lines of battle: for her brother, the fate of mankind, and love.

Shadow and Bone meets Lore in Rebecca Ross's Divine Rivals, an epic enemies-to-lovers fantasy novel filled with hope and heartbreak, and the unparalleled power of love.

https://bookshop.org/p/books/divine-rivals-rebecca-ross/18403358?ean=9781250857439&next=t

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Herbal Spring Symposium @ Fernwood Botanical Garden
Apr
5

Herbal Spring Symposium @ Fernwood Botanical Garden

Glendora Bookshop is proud to be a vendor for Fernwood Botanical Garden’s Herbal Spring Symposium this year!

Gather with fellow herb enthusiasts for this day-long symposium featuring presentations from local and national herbalists. You’ll learn about herb cultivation, culinary and medicinal uses, preservation, and much more! Participants will enjoy mini-workshops, exhibitor booths, herbal shopping, complimentary refreshments, and a boxed lunch. All proceeds will support the Michiana Herb Society and Fernwood’s Herb and Sensory Garden.

Register here by April 2nd, tickets are $120 ($96 for Fernwood Members)

Glendora Bookshop will still be open regular business hours during this event, so be sure to stop by and say hi!

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First Fridays OPEN MIC
Apr
4

First Fridays OPEN MIC

Join us for First Friday's Open Mic, every first Friday of the month! Come in a few minutes before start time to sign-up if you wish to read - time slots are usually 5-10mins long depending on participation.

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. (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!)

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Family Story Time
Apr
4

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.

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Spooky Book Club - March 2025
Mar
28

Spooky Book Club - March 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.

March’s Spooky Book Club selection is Our Wives Under the Sea by Julia Armfield. 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!

*****

A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR (NPR, The Washington Post, Lit Hub, The Telegraph, Goodreads, Tor.com, them, and more)

A FINALIST for the LAMBDA LITERARY AWARD and GOODREADS CHOICE AWARD

“A deeply strange and haunting novel in the best possible way…An impressive and exciting debut novel that may leave you thinking about your own relationships in a new light.” —NPR


“Shocking…Achingly poetic…Sharp and beautiful as coral polyps…Armfield exercises an exquisite—even sadistic—sense of suspense." —Ron Charles, The Washington Post

Leah is changed. A marine biologist, she left for a routine expedition months earlier, only this time her submarine sank to the sea floor. When she finally surfaces and returns home, her wife Miri knows that something is wrong. Barely eating and lost in her thoughts, Leah rotates between rooms in their apartment, running the taps morning and night. Whatever happened in that vessel, whatever it was they were supposed to be studying before they were stranded, Leah has carried part of it with her, onto dry land and into their home. As Miri searches for answers, desperate to understand what happened below the water, she must face the possibility that the woman she loves is slipping from her grasp.

By turns elegiac and furious, wry and heartbreaking, Our Wives Under the Sea is an exploration of the unknowable depths within each of us, and the love that compels us nevertheless toward one another.

https://bookshop.org/p/books/our-wives-under-the-sea-julia-armfield/17449967?ean=9781250229908&next=t&next=t

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Family Story Time
Mar
28

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 bundle up and 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!

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O/U Nature & More Book Club - March 2025
Mar
27

O/U Nature & More Book Club - March 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 The Serviceberry by Robin Wall Kimmerer. 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!

*****

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Braiding Sweetgrass, a bold and inspiring vision for how to orient our lives around gratitude, reciprocity, and community, based on the lessons of the natural world.

As Indigenous scientist and author of Braiding Sweetgrass Robin Wall Kimmerer harvests serviceberries alongside the birds, she considers the ethic of reciprocity that lies at the heart of the gift economy. How, she asks, can we learn from Indigenous wisdom and the plant world to reimagine what we value most? Our economy is rooted in scarcity, competition, and the hoarding of resources, and we have surrendered our values to a system that actively harms what we love. Meanwhile, the serviceberry’s relationship with the natural world is an embodiment of reciprocity, interconnectedness, and gratitude. The tree distributes its wealth—its abundance of sweet, juicy berries—to meet the needs of its natural community. And this distribution ensures its own survival. As Kimmerer explains, “Serviceberries show us another model, one based upon reciprocity, where wealth comes from the quality of your relationships, not from the illusion of self-sufficiency.”

As Elizabeth Gilbert writes, Robin Wall Kimmerer is “a great teacher, and her words are a hymn of love to the world.” The Serviceberry is an antidote to the broken relationships and misguided goals of our times, and a reminder that “hoarding won’t save us, all flourishing is mutual.”

Robin Wall Kimmerer is donating her advance payments from this book as a reciprocal gift, back to the land, for land protection, restoration, and justice.

https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-serviceberry-robin-wall-kimmerer/21259025?ean=9781668072240&next=t&next=t

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Author Event with Wendy Simons
Mar
22

Author Event with Wendy Simons

Join us Saturday 3/22 @ 2pm EST right here at Glendora Bookshop to welcome author Wendy Simons who will be sharing from her latest novel, Losing August. After the reading, we’ll open the floor to discussion, and Wendy will offer signings for anyone who wants to purchase a copy of one of her books. Hope to see you there!

Wendy S. Simons is a fifth-generation daughter of the Great Lakes. Growing up on the southern shores of Lake Michigan, it’s no wonder Simons has an affinity with water. She has said it seems she can’t write a story without some element of water playing a roll, more often than not therapeutic in nature.

Wendy’s first novel, A Second Look, is available now, along with Stone by Stone. Losing August is releasing March 22nd of this year, with Weeding Out the Lies launching later in 2025. Both novels share a common location with Wendy’s first novel in the fictional lakefront town of Edgewater, Michigan.

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Family Story Time
Mar
21

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 bundle up and 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!

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Family Story Time
Mar
14

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 bundle up and 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!

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Spring Clean BOOK SALE & Used Book Drop Off
Mar
12
to Mar 16

Spring Clean BOOK SALE & Used Book Drop Off

Starting Wednesday 3/12 and running through the weekend, we are having a huge book sale on scores of titles, many of them recent. We need to make way for more of the fun, surprising new inventory you've come to expect from Glendora... so it's time to clean house. Books and other items will be discounted 25-40% off!!

We will also be opening up our used book drop off for the entire week to help you with your spring cleaning! Please refer to our Used Book Policy for details.

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First Fridays OPEN MIC
Mar
7

First Fridays OPEN MIC

Join us for First Friday's Open Mic, every first Friday of the month! Come in a few minutes before start time to sign-up if you wish to read - time slots are usually 5-10mins long depending on participation.

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. (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!)

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Family Story Time
Mar
7

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 bundle up and 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!

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Rotating Reads Book Club - March 2025
Mar
6

Rotating Reads Book Club - March 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 March, Rotating Reads Book Club will be diving into Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals by Oliver Burkeman. Be sure to snag your copy at Glendora Bookshop to save 10%!

*****

“Provocative and appealing . . . Well worth your extremely limited time.” —Barbara Spindel, The Wall Street Journal

There’s a good reason why everyone has been talking about Oliver Burkeman’s New York Times bestseller, Four Thousand Weeks. Nobody needs to be told there isn’t enough time. Whether we’re starting our own business, or trying to write a novel during our lunch break, or staring down a pile of deadlines as we’re planning a vacation, we’re obsessed with our lengthening to-do lists, overfilled inboxes, work-life balance, and ceaseless struggle against distraction. We’re deluged with advice on becoming more productive and efficient and life hacks to optimize our days. But such techniques often end up making things worse. The sense of anxious hurry grows more intense, and yet the most meaningful parts of life seem to lie just beyond the horizon. Still, we rarely make the connection between our daily struggles with time and the ultimate time management problem: the challenge of how best to use our four thousand weeks, the average length of a human life.

Drawing on the insights of both ancient and contemporary philosophers, psychologists, and spiritual teachers, Oliver Burkeman delivers an entertaining, humorous, practical, and ultimately profound guide to time and time management. Rejecting the futile modern obsession with “getting everything done,” Four Thousand Weeks introduces readers to tools for constructing a meaningful life by embracing finitude, showing that many of the unhelpful ways we’ve come to think about time aren’t inescapable, unchanging truths, but choices we’ve made as individuals and as a society—and that we can do things differently.

https://bookshop.org/p/books/four-thousand-weeks-time-management-for-mortals-oliver-burkeman/18140090?ean=9781250849359&next=t&next=t

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Spooky Book Club - Feb 2025
Feb
28

Spooky Book Club - Feb 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.

This month’s Spooky Book Club selection is Silver Nitrate by Silvia Moreno-Garcia - a dark fantasy-thriller with a spooky kick. Be sure to snag your copy at Glendora Bookshop (book club members take 10% off book club reads!) and join us in February to discuss!

*****

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the author of The Daughter of Doctor Moreau and Mexican Gothic comes a fabulous meld of Mexican horror movies and Nazi occultism: a dark thriller about the curse that haunts a legendary lost film—and awakens one woman’s hidden powers.

“No one punctures the skin of reality to reveal the lurking, sinister magic beneath better than Silvia Moreno-Garcia.”—Kiersten White, author of Hide


LOCUS AWARD FINALIST • A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The New York Times Book Review, The Washington Post, Tordotcom, Polygon, CrimeReads, BookPage, Book Riot

Montserrat has always been overlooked. She’s a talented sound editor, but she’s left out of the boys’ club running the film industry in ’90s Mexico City. And she’s all but invisible to her best friend, Tristán, a charming if faded soap opera star, though she’s been in love with him since childhood.

Then Tristán discovers his new neighbor is the cult horror director Abel Urueta, and the legendary auteur claims he can change their lives—even if his tale of a Nazi occultist imbuing magic into highly volatile silver nitrate stock sounds like sheer fantasy. The magic film was never finished, which is why, Urueta swears, his career vanished overnight. He is cursed.

Now the director wants Montserrat and Tristán to help him shoot the missing scene and lift the curse . . . but Montserrat soon notices a dark presence following her, and Tristán begins seeing the ghost of his ex-girlfriend.

As they work together to unravel the mystery of the film and the obscure occultist who once roamed their city, Montserrat and Tristán may find that sorcerers and magic are not only the stuff of movies.

https://bookshop.org/p/books/silver-nitrate-silvia-moreno-garcia/18963482?ean=9780593355381&next=t&next=t

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