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
We are excited to welcome back Family Story Time as a mainstay here at Glendora Bookshop! Every Friday morning from 11-11:30am EST we will hold a themed Story Time for you and your little ones to enjoy, so be sure to come on down to the shop!
Help us spread the word for this fun-filled family event, and thank you as always for supporting your local, independent bookshop.
Dragon Dreams: A Romantasy Book Club - June 2025
Calling all Romantasy lovers! Glendora Bookshop is excited to host our very first Romantasy Book Club, Dragon Dreams! Co-led by book friends and community members Lauryn & Michaela, Dragon Dreams meets every second Wednesday of the month.
Sign up for book clubs at Glendora Bookshop by email, call/text, or just stop in and inquire. Dragon Dreams also mingles on FB so be sure to join our group to keep in touch.
June’s Dragon Dreams selection is Heavenly Bodies by Imani Errui, a star-crossed enemies-to-lovers romance that’s sure to ignite an unforgettable conversation. Be sure to snag your copy at Glendora Bookshop (book club members take 10% off book club reads!) and join us in June to discuss!
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A runaway TikTok sensation, Heavenly Bodies is the first book in a dazzling new romantasy series that blends mythology and shadow magic with a tantalizing enemies-to-lovers romance that will rewrite the stars.
“You know the most dangerous kind of villain? A woman with nothing left to lose.”
In a world ruled by the cruel and merciless Stars, Elara has been cursed by fate. A prophecy promises she will fall for a Star, but that it will kill them both.
So when Ariete, Star of Wrath, War and Chaos, descends to wreak havoc on Elara’s kingdom, she flees her home—the Kingdom of Night—for the neighbouring Helios, Kingdom of Light.
And strides straight into the arms of an enemy prince.
Fearing that Ariete might turn his sights to Helios next, Prince Lorenzo is forced to train Elara as a weapon—one worthy of battling against the tyrannical reign of the Stars. But there are shadows even within the Kingdom of Light—and they threaten to reveal the darkness in Lorenzo’s past and the ancient magic that slumbers in Elara’s veins.
And with it all comes an undeniable, star-crossed pull between Elara and Lorenzo that neither can seem to resist... https://bookshop.org/p/books/heavenly-bodies-imani-erriu/21512439?ean=9781039012592&next=t
Family Story Time
We are excited to welcome back Family Story Time as a mainstay here at Glendora Bookshop! Every Friday morning from 11-11:30am EST we will hold a themed Story Time for you and your little ones to enjoy, so be sure to come on down to the shop!
Help us spread the word for this fun-filled family event, and thank you as always for supporting your local, independent bookshop.
Family Story Time
We are excited to welcome back Family Story Time as a mainstay here at Glendora Bookshop! Every Friday morning from 11-11:30am EST we will hold a themed Story Time for you and your little ones to enjoy, so be sure to come on down to the shop!
Help us spread the word for this fun-filled family event, and thank you as always for supporting your local, independent bookshop.
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.
Pride Party @ Glendora Bookshop
That’s right, we’re throwing a Pride Party at your local, indie bookshop! Join us Saturday evening for some bookish arts and crafts followed by a special Queer the Mic Open Mic starting at 7:30pm! This event is FREE to the public, so bring your friends and celebrate PRIDE with us.
PRIDE Bookmark Craft & Chat - 5:30-7:00pm EST
Let’s get arty! Join us in creating bookmarks & bracelets & whatever else inspires you to show your PRIDE! Share your creations online & take home whatever you make! Be sure to tag us <3
Queer the Mic Open Mic - 7:30-8:30pm EST
Stick around for a special Open Mic starting at 7:30pm EST. Kick back & enjoy refreshments with friends! Share your story, share a piece of beloved writing, get to know your community.
Family Story Time
We are excited to welcome back Family Story Time as a mainstay here at Glendora Bookshop! Every Friday morning from 11-11:30am EST we will hold a themed Story Time for you and your little ones to enjoy, so be sure to come on down to the shop!
Help us spread the word for this fun-filled family event, and thank you as always for supporting your local, independent bookshop.
Rotating Reads Book Club - July 2025
Join us for Rotating Reads Book Club, a reading group that explores fiction, non-fiction, memoir/biography and classics every first Thursday of the month. For a fun twist, one of these months will also be a freestyle "book report" where everyone reads something different, and shares what they read with the group.
Every month, a different volunteer will serve as the “host”. Their role will be to select the book, guide the discussion, and bring any fun insights or background about the author or genre.
Sign up for book clubs at Glendora Bookshop by email, call/text, or just stop in and inquire!
July’s Rotating Read is Girls with Long Shadows by Tennessee Hill. Be sure to snag your copy at Glendora Bookshop (book club members take 10% off book club reads!) and join us in July to discuss!
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"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
Family Story Time
We are excited to welcome back Family Story Time as a mainstay here at Glendora Bookshop! Every Friday morning from 11-11:30am EST we will hold a themed Story Time for you and your little ones to enjoy, so be sure to come on down to the shop!
Help us spread the word for this fun-filled family event, and thank you as always for supporting your local, independent bookshop.
Family Story Time
We are excited to welcome back Family Story Time as a mainstay here at Glendora Bookshop! Every Friday morning from 11-11:30am EST we will hold a themed Story Time for you and your little ones to enjoy, so be sure to come on down to the shop!
Help us spread the word for this fun-filled family event, and thank you as always for supporting your local, independent bookshop.
Author Event with Christy Prahl
Join us Saturday 7/19 to welcome Christy Prahl who will share some of her poetry as well as her process with us!
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We Are Reckless by Christy Prahl 1st Runner-Up for Chicago Reader's Best New Poetry Collection by a Chicagoan, 2023!
"These poems boldly ask how we define a self, a marriage, and a family via eerie and frightening worlds. We Are Reckless is a dazzling debut." -Hadara Bar-Nadav, author of The New Nudity
"I love the wild curiosity of this book, its attention to the off-kilter, the liminal, the often unseen and unacknowledged. I love the way nothing is beneath the notice of these searching, pulsing, vibrantly alive poems." -Kasey Jueds, author of Keeper and The ThicketAn Illinois Arts Council grant recipient and multiple Best of the Net and Pushcart Prize nominee, my work has appeared in a host of national and international journals. I have enjoyed residencies at both Ragdale and The Writers Colony at Dairy Hollow and split my time between Chicago and rural Michigan. I am the founder and director of the PenRF reading series. https://christyprahl.wixsite.com/christy-prahl
Family Story Time
We are excited to welcome back Family Story Time as a mainstay here at Glendora Bookshop! Every Friday morning from 11-11:30am EST we will hold a themed Story Time for you and your little ones to enjoy, so be sure to come on down to the shop!
Help us spread the word for this fun-filled family event, and thank you as always for supporting your local, independent bookshop.
Family Story Time
We are excited to welcome back Family Story Time as a mainstay here at Glendora Bookshop! Every Friday morning from 11-11:30am EST we will hold a themed Story Time for you and your little ones to enjoy, so be sure to come on down to the shop!
Help us spread the word for this fun-filled family event, and thank you as always for supporting your local, independent bookshop.
Family Story Time
We are excited to welcome back Family Story Time as a mainstay here at Glendora Bookshop! Every Friday morning from 11-11:30am EST we will hold a themed Story Time for you and your little ones to enjoy, so be sure to come on down to the shop!
Help us spread the word for this fun-filled family event, and thank you as always for supporting your local, independent bookshop.
Family Story Time
We are excited to welcome back Family Story Time as a mainstay here at Glendora Bookshop! Every Friday morning from 11-11:30am EST we will hold a themed Story Time for you and your little ones to enjoy, so be sure to come on down to the shop!
Help us spread the word for this fun-filled family event, and thank you as always for supporting your local, independent bookshop.
Author Event with Meagan Francis
Join us Saturday 8/16 for our Author Event with Meagan Francis! Writer, podcaster and mom, we are excited for Meagan to share her latest work with us, The Last Parenting Book You’ll Ever Need: How to Let Your Kids Go and Embrace What’s Next. Come and enjoy a reading by the author, discussion, book signings & more in August.
about the book…
Your guide to celebrating and loving your kids more than ever in the weeks, months, and years before they begin their adult lives
We read the parenting books. We cheer from the sidelines. We grow accustomed to the joys and pains of raising toddlers, kids, tweens, and teens. And then, before we know it, it's our kids' last first day of school, the last time we'll watch them take the field, or the last night they sleep at home before heading off to their next adventures. A season of our lives as moms is ending, and we may be mourning its passing. And yet, while our kids still need us--in some ways, more than ever--this stage can also be an opportunity for personal transformation.
Author Meagan Francis understands the mixed feelings that come along with this stage. As a mom of five kids ages teen to young adult, she's been blogging and podcasting about motherhood for more than twenty-five years while going from five kids under her roof to just one. In The Last Parenting Book You'll Ever Read, Francis will take you by the hand and lead you through the final stage of "active" parenting, as your teenagers prepare to step into the world...and you explore what it means to step back into yourself.
The Last Parenting Book You'll Ever Read is about coming to terms with the many endings that moms of teenagers experience--but more than that, it's about all the new beginnings on the horizon, and how moms can still hold their families close while letting them go. With compassion for the big feelings that accompany big transitions, Francis helps readers harness some of the mothering energy they've been directing toward their children and redirect it back toward nurturing themselves. https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-last-parenting-book-you-ll-ever-read-how-we-let-our-kids-go-and-embrace-what-s-next-meagan-francis/21709100?ean=9781464225161&next=t
about the author…
I’ve been writing professionally since 2002, placing hundreds of articles and essays in newsstand magazines and websites like Parenting, Good Housekeeping, Parents, Midwest Living, The Washington Post, NBCNews.com, NYTimes.com, and many more. I moved into digital publishing in 2005 as a pioneer in the “mommy blogging” landscape, and was an early podcaster on home and family life, starting in 2012.
I’ve cohosted The Mom Hour podcast, which has been downloaded over 20 million times, since 2015. My solo podcast and Substack publication The Kettle reach thousands of loyal listeners and readers each week, with cozy conversations about living wisely and well in our manic modern world. And my new book, The Last Parenting Book You’ll Ever Read, focuses on the transitional period between the “arms full” and “hands free” stages of parenting.
I live with my new husband Eric, and our large blended family of adult kids are a constant presence in our home. While I have resided in Southwest Michigan for the past fifteen years, Northern Michigan – specifically the Upper Peninsula – is like a second home to me.
I love nature, books, music, sharing stories and connecting over tea. I can’t wait to get to know you. https://meaganfrancis.com/about/
Family Story Time
We are excited to welcome back Family Story Time as a mainstay here at Glendora Bookshop! Every Friday morning from 11-11:30am EST we will hold a themed Story Time for you and your little ones to enjoy, so be sure to come on down to the shop!
Help us spread the word for this fun-filled family event, and thank you as always for supporting your local, independent bookshop.
Family Story Time
We are excited to welcome back Family Story Time as a mainstay here at Glendora Bookshop! Every Friday morning from 11-11:30am EST we will hold a themed Story Time for you and your little ones to enjoy, so be sure to come on down to the shop!
Help us spread the word for this fun-filled family event, and thank you as always for supporting your local, independent bookshop.
Family Story Time
We are excited to welcome back Family Story Time as a mainstay here at Glendora Bookshop! Every Friday morning from 11-11:30am EST we will hold a themed Story Time for you and your little ones to enjoy, so be sure to come on down to the shop!
Help us spread the word for this fun-filled family event, and thank you as always for supporting your local, independent bookshop.
O/U Nature & More Book Club - May 2025
Outside/Underground Book Club is a bi-monthly reading group for those who want to learn more about the fascinating world around us . O/U explores topics around science and nature through memoir, poetry, non-fiction & more. We meet every other LAST Thursday of the month.
Sign up for book clubs at Glendora Bookshop by email, call/text, or just stop in and inquire.
This month’s O/U Book Club selection is Wilding: Returning Nature to Our Farm by Isabella Tree. Be sure to snag your copy at Glendora Bookshop (book club members take 10% off book club reads!) and join us in March to discuss!
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An inspiring story about what happens when 3,500 acres of land, farmed for centuries, is left to return to the wild, and about the wilder, richer future a natural landscape can bring.
For years Charlie Burrell and his wife, Isabella Tree, farmed Knepp Castle Estate and struggled to turn a profit. By 2000, with the farm facing bankruptcy, they decided to try something radical. They would restore Knepp’s 3,500 acres to the wild. Using herds of free-roaming animals to mimic the actions of the megafauna of the past, they hoped to bring nature back to their depleted land. But what would the neighbors say, in the manicured countryside of modern England where a blade of grass out of place is considered an affront?
In the face of considerable opposition the couple persisted with their experiment and soon witnessed an extraordinary change. New life flooded into Knepp, now a breeding hotspot for rare and threatened species like turtle doves, peregrine falcons, and purple emperor butterflies.
The fabled English nightingale sings again.
At a time of looming environmental disaster, Wilding is an inspiring story of a farm, a couple, and a community transformed. Isabella Tree’s wonderful book brings together science, natural history, a fair bit of drama, and—ultimately—hope.
https://bookshop.org/p/books/wilding-returning-nature-to-our-farm-isabella-tree/6394219?ean=9781681373713&next=t
Author Event with Rekha S. Rajan
Glendora Bookshop welcomes back Rekha S. Rajan (author of the This is Music series and Can You Dance Like a Peacock?) here with her latest children’s book This is Ballet! Bring the kids down for this family friendly affair and be ready to move! After story time, we’ll open the floor to discussion, and Rekha will offer signings for anyone who wants to purchase a copy of one of her books. Hope to see you there!
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Dr. Rekha S. Rajan is an author of over 15 books (nonfiction and fiction) for kids and adults (and more to come!). Her books have been listed on multiple BEST BOOKS list, received numerous starred reviews and been #1 new releases and editor's picks on Amazon. Her audio narration and musical instrumentation for the THIS IS MUSIC board book series were named best children's recordings from ALA/ALSC 2023. Her book AMAZING LANDMARKS is a finalist for the 2024 Rhode Island Children's book award.
Rekha is a classically trained opera singer, has performed in numerous musicals, and plays the mridangam (a drum from South India), the piano, banjo, ukulele, djembe, bongos, recorder, and a lot of other instruments.
She has been teaching young children, helping them understand the world around them through STEAM activities, projects and books. As a professor, she has taught classes on arts, education, grant writing, evaluation. She is also the editor for the Journal of General Music Education with the National Association for Music Education. https://rekhasrajan.com/about-me
Family Story Time
We are excited to welcome back Family Story Time as a mainstay here at Glendora Bookshop! Every Friday morning from 11-11:30am EST we will hold a themed Story Time for you and your little ones to enjoy, so be sure to come on down to the shop!
Help us spread the word for this fun-filled family event, and thank you as always for supporting your local, independent bookshop.
Family Story Time
We are excited to welcome back Family Story Time as a mainstay here at Glendora Bookshop! Every Friday morning from 11-11:30am EST we will hold a themed Story Time for you and your little ones to enjoy, so be sure to come on down to the shop!
Help us spread the word for this fun-filled family event, and thank you as always for supporting your local, independent bookshop.
Dragon Dreams: A Romantasy Book Club - May 2025
Calling all Romantasy lovers! Glendora is excited to host our very first Romantasy Book Club, Dragon Dreams! Co-led by book friends and community members Lauryn & Michaela, Dragon Dreams meets every second Wednesday of the month.
Sign up for book clubs at Glendora Bookshop by email, call/text, or just stop in and inquire. Dragon Dreams also mingles on FB so be sure to join our group to keep in touch.
May’s Dragon Dreams selection is From Blood and Ash by Jennifer Armentrout, a spellbinding tale of love, war, and the clash of legends. Be sure to snag your copy at Glendora Bookshop (book club members take 10% off book club reads!) and join us in May to discuss!
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Captivating and action-packed, From Blood and Ash is a sexy, addictive, and unexpected fantasy perfect for fans of Sarah J. Maas and Rebecca Yarros.
A Maiden...
Chosen from birth to usher in a new era, Poppy's life has never been her own. The life of the Maiden is solitary. Never to be touched. Never to be looked upon. Never to be spoken to. Never to experience pleasure. Waiting for the day of her Ascension, she would rather be with the guards, fighting back the evil that took her family, than preparing to be found worthy by the gods. But the choice has never been hers.
A Duty...
The entire kingdom's future rests on Poppy's shoulders, something she's not even quite sure she wants for herself. Because a Maiden has a heart. And a soul. And longing. And when Hawke, a golden-eyed guard honor bound to ensure her Ascension, enters her life, destiny and duty become tangled with desire and need. He incites her anger, makes her question everything she believes in, and tempts her with the forbidden.
A Kingdom...
Forsaken by the gods and feared by mortals, a fallen kingdom is rising once more, determined to take back what they believe is theirs through violence and vengeance. And as the shadow of those cursed draws closer, the line between what is forbidden and what is right becomes blurred. Poppy is not only on the verge of losing her heart and being found unworthy by the gods, but also her life when every blood-soaked thread that holds her world together begins to unravel.
https://bookshop.org/p/books/from-blood-and-ash-jennifer-l-armentrout/14913991?ean=9781952457760&next=t
Family Story Time
We are excited to welcome back Family Story Time as a mainstay here at Glendora Bookshop! Every Friday morning from 11-11:30am EST we will hold a themed Story Time for you and your little ones to enjoy, so be sure to come on down to the shop!
Help us spread the word for this fun-filled family event, and thank you as always for supporting your local, independent bookshop.
Family Story Time
We are excited to welcome back Family Story Time as a mainstay here at Glendora Bookshop! Every Friday morning from 11-11:30am EST we will hold a themed Story Time for you and your little ones to enjoy, so be sure to come on down to the shop!
Help us spread the word for this fun-filled family event, and thank you as always for supporting your local, independent bookshop.
Rotating Reads Book Club - May 2025
Join us for Rotating Reads Book Club, a reading group that explores fiction, non-fiction, memoir/biography and classics every first Thursday of the month. For a fun twist, one of these months will also be a freestyle "book report" where everyone reads something different, and shares what they read with the group.
Every month, a different volunteer will serve as the “host”. Their role will be to select the book, guide the discussion, and bring any fun insights or background about the author or genre.
Sign up for book clubs at Glendora Bookshop by email, call/text, or just stop in and inquire!
For the month of May, Rotating Reads Book Club will be diving into To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee. Be sure to snag your copy at Glendora Bookshop to save 10%!
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Voted America's Best-Loved Novel in PBS's The Great American Read
Harper Lee's Pulitzer Prize-winning masterwork of honor and injustice in the deep South—and the heroism of one man in the face of blind and violent hatred
One of the most cherished stories of all time, To Kill a Mockingbird has been translated into more than forty languages, sold more than forty million copies worldwide, served as the basis for an enormously popular motion picture, and was voted one of the best novels of the twentieth century by librarians across the country. A gripping, heart-wrenching, and wholly remarkable tale of coming-of-age in a South poisoned by virulent prejudice, it views a world of great beauty and savage inequities through the eyes of a young girl, as her father—a crusading local lawyer—risks everything to defend a black man unjustly accused of a terrible crime.
https://bookshop.org/p/books/to-kill-a-mockingbird-harper-lee/266047?ean=9780061120084&next=t
Michiana Vegfest 2025
Glendora Bookshop is proud to be a vendor at Michiana Vegfest this year! Join us at the Gillespie Center in South Bend, IN on Sunday April 27th - admission is FREE! Get your tickets here.
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Michiana Vegfest is the only event in Southwestern Michigan and Northwestern Indiana offering the unique opportunity to connect with experts in health, plant-based nutrition, the environment, and sustainable living, all within a single day! Attendees also enjoy tasty vegan preparations from food vendors and observe appealing chef demonstrations to learn more about plant-powered living. Admission is FREE!
Our goal is to provide the communities of northern Indiana and southwestern Michigan with an opportunity to explore many exciting flavors and options in the rapidly expanding world of plant-based eating. We bring together new vegan products and services along with dynamic speakers to promote a plant-powered lifestyle for health, compassion, and environmental conservation. We encourage everyone to make healthy food choices and to support our local vegan-friendly businesses and organizations.
Michiana VegFest, Inc. is a 501 (c) 3 not-for-profit organization that is entirely run by volunteers. Donations and any proceeds from our yearly event are used to support efforts for the next VegFest.https://michianavegfest.org/
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.
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
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.
Family Story Time
We are excited to welcome back Family Story Time as a mainstay here at Glendora Bookshop! Every Friday morning from 11-11:30am EST we will hold a themed Story Time for you and your little ones to enjoy, so be sure to come on down to the shop!
Help us spread the word for this fun-filled family event, and thank you as always for supporting your local, independent bookshop.
Family Story Time
We are excited to welcome back Family Story Time as a mainstay here at Glendora Bookshop! Every Friday morning from 11-11:30am EST we will hold a themed Story Time for you and your little ones to enjoy, so be sure to come on down to the shop!
Help us spread the word for this fun-filled family event, and thank you as always for supporting your local, independent bookshop.
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.)
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
Family Story Time
We are excited to welcome back Family Story Time as a mainstay here at Glendora Bookshop! Every Friday morning from 11-11:30am EST we will hold a themed Story Time for you and your little ones to enjoy, so be sure to come on down to the shop!
Help us spread the word for this fun-filled family event, and thank you as always for supporting your local, independent bookshop.
Family Story Time
We are excited to welcome back Family Story Time as a mainstay here at Glendora Bookshop! Every Friday morning from 11-11:30am EST we will hold a themed Story Time for you and your little ones to enjoy, so be sure to 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!
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!
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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
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.
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!
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!
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.
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!
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%!
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“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
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!
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!
Fall in Love with a Local Author
Join us for Fall in Love with a Local Author, our first multiple-author event, on February 15. Speed date an author, enjoy refreshments, signup for one of our fabulous book clubs, and meet-cute with your community. This is a family friendly event, so bring the kids! This lovely group of authors will be presenting a landscape of varying genres, from children's to poetry, photography to contemporary fiction, so there's sure to be something for everyone. Hope to see you there!
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!