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** NEWS ** Click above to order books and ebooks! BOOK CLUB On the Go is a totally independent bookstore - no walls hold us in!
We continue to sell books at events and online at https://bookshop.org/shop/bookclubct. Audiobooks available through us at https://www.libro.fm/bookclubct. Purchasing books with us helps us to keep our events free and open to all. Thank you!
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3/17/20: πHappy book birthday to All the Pretty Things by Emily Arsenault!
We are offering πFREE LOCAL DELIVERY to South Windsor, East Windsor, Ellington, Enfield, Manchester, Somers, and Vernon.
You may pay with credit card when you order at 860-265-6077, by PayPal, or leave a check for driver. We will leave your book at your front door. You may also order online at https://bookshop.org/bo…/all-the-pretty-things/9781984897053.
Don’t forget to save the date for our event with the author on 6/13!
Thank you for supporting our small business!
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All events subject to change. Please confirm date/RSVP at https://www.facebook.com/BookClubCT/events
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CANCELED Mon. 6/1 6:30pm Stafford Cidery Book Club: The Last Thing I Told You by Emily Arsenault
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Thurs. 6/4 6pm Chat & Chew Book Club at Wood Memorial Library: All the Pretty Things by Emily Arsenault
This delicious book club reads books featuring food. Attendees are encouraged to bring a dish from, or inspired by, the book to share.
This month we suggest carnival/summer fare. You may purchase your book at: https://bookshop.org/books/all-the-pretty-things/9781984897053
This club is facilitated by Cynde Acanto, and meets at Wood Memorial Library and Museum 783 Main St., South Windsor.
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Thurs. 6/11 6pm Marcia Clark Book Club: Final Judgment
Join book reviewer John Valeri for a lively book discussion. Final Judgment to be released 4/21/20. Pre-order with us at https://bookshop.org/books/8032560/9781542091176. This club meets at Wood Memorial Library and Museum 783 Main St., South Windsor.
Feel free to BYO snack/drink.
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Sat. 6/13 11am-12pm Author Event: Emily Arsenault, All the Pretty Things
Join us to hear and meet New York Times Notable Author Emily Arsenault at Wood Memorial Library!
Pre-order All the Pretty Things (03/17/20) with us now at https://bookshop.org/books/all-the-pretty-things/9781984897053!
This is a free event with light refreshments. Signed books available for purchase.
“All the Pretty Things is a skillfully plotted mystery, bursting with the glare and feverish energy of its summer amusement park setting. The atmosphere creeps up on you, wraps you up, and transports you to Fabuland with Ivy, where you’ll discover that among the roller-coasters and cotton-candy stalls,
dark secrets await.” —Holly Jackson, author of A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder
Emily Arsenault is the author of several literary mysteries, including In Search of the Rose Notes, a Wall Street Journal Best Book of the Year; The Broken Teaglass, a New York Times Notable Crime Book; and The Evening Spider.
Wood Memorial Library 783 Main St., South Windsor
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Thurs. 6/18 6pm Pints & Pages Book Club at Red Heat Tavern: Reconstructing Amelia by Kimberly McCreight
Join our Pints & Pages Book Club at Red Heat Tavern in Evergreen Walk! This event is FREE to attend & open to all!
Read Reconstructing Amelia and join us for a lively discussion facilitated by Cynde Acanto.
You may order from us athttps://bookshop.org/books/6431855/9780062225443
We’ll be in Red Heat Tavern’s beautiful private room and will order food/drinks from their delicious menu*.
Red Heat Tavern 400 Evergreen Way (at Evergreen Walk), South Windsor
*gluten free options available *separate checks
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Sat. 6/20 1pm Author Event: New York Times Best Selling Author Kimberly McCreight, A Good Marriage
In conversation with the Book Cougars at Wood Memorial Library
Pre-order A Good Marriage (5/5/20) with us now! This is a free event with light refreshments. Signed books available for purchase.
"A Good Marriage is absolutely, positively riveting. I could not put this down! Kimberly McCreight has crafted a captivating, thrilling story that bolts out of the gate at a breakneck speed and never misses a step."- Taylor Jenkins Reid, author of Daisy Jones & The Six
Big Little Lies meets Presumed Innocent in this riveting novel from the New York Times bestselling author of Reconstructing Amelia, in which a woman’s brutal murder reveals the perilous compromises some couples make—and the secrets they keep—in order to stay together.
Wood Memorial Library 783 Main St., South Windsor
Pre-order at https://bookshop.org/books/a-good-marriage/9780062367686 ships 5/5
Call/text us at (860) 265-6077 for local delivery on 5/5!
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Mon. 6/29 10:30am E. Windsor Senior Center Book Club: The Library Book by Susan Orlean
You do not need to be a resident of East Windsor to join in! The East Windsor Senior Center is located above the Broad Brook Fire Dept.
125 Main St., Broad Brook (park behind building). Facilitated by Cynde Acanto.
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Thurs. 7/16 2-3pm Willa Cather Book Club at Wood Memorial Library: Lucy Gayheart
All are welcome to join the Willa Cather Book Club for a discussion of Lucy Gayheart.
About the book:
In Lucy Gayheart, Willa Cather seems to be writing the lightest and slightest of records of a short life: the obscure life of a young girl in an American village who goes to Chicago to study music, falls in love with a middle-aged singer, knows a brief moment of deep contentment and then the pain of a separation that is final--but the impression left on the reader is not slight. The unity of Miss Cather's design, the clarity and distinction of this book should put it beside her first great success, My Antonia.
Group leader Chris Wolak is a former college English professor who studied Cather at the University of Nebraska and is a member of the Willa Cather Foundation.
We are a quarterly book club that meets at the Wood Memorial Library and Museum (783 Main St., South Windsor, CT).
Tues. 8/4 5:30-7:30pm Book Launch at Elicit Brewing w/ author Megan Collins, Behind the Red Door
Megan Collins, the author of the “suspenseful, atmospheric, and completely riveting” (Megan Miranda, New York Times bestselling author) debut The Winter Sister returns with BEHIND THE RED DOOR, a darkly thrilling novel about a woman who comes to believe that she has a connection to a decades old kidnapping and now that the victim has gone missing again, begins a frantic search to learn what happened in the past.
Celebrate BEHIND THE RED DOOR with us on release day!
5:30-6:30: Social hour, food and drinks available for purchase. Seat yourself.
6:30-7:30: Author talk moderated by book reviewer John Valeri. Signing immediately after.
Books available for purchase by Book Club on the Go
Elicit Brewing 165 Adams St., Manchester, CT (upstairs bar)
More about Behind the Red Door:
When Fern Douglas sees the news about Astrid Sullivan, a thirty-four-year-old missing woman from Maine, she is positive that she knows her. Fern’s husband is sure it’s because of Astrid’s famous kidnapping—and equally famous return—twenty years ago, but Fern has no memory of that, even though it happened an hour outside her New Hampshire hometown. And when Astrid appears in Fern’s recurring nightmare, one in which a girl reaches out to her, pleading, Fern fears that it’s not a dream at all, but a memory.
Back at her childhood home to help her father pack for a move, Fern purchases a copy of Astrid’s recently published memoir—which may have provoked her original kidnapper to abduct her again—and as she reads through its chapters and visits the people and places within it, she discovers more evidence that she has an unsettling connection to the missing woman. With the help of her psychologist father, Fern digs deeper, hoping to find evidence that her connection to Astrid can help the police locate her. But when Fern discovers more about her own past than she ever bargained for, the disturbing truth will change both of their lives forever.
Featuring Megan Collins’s signature “dark, tense, and completely absorbing” (Booklist) prose and plenty of shocking twists and turns, Behind the Red Door is an arresting thriller that will haunt you long after you turn the last page.
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Sat. 9/12 10:00-4:00 Craft Fair at Wood Memorial Library We'll have books & bookish gifts!
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All events subject to change. Please confirm date/RSVP at https://www.facebook.com/BookClubCT/events
BOOK CLUB On the Go is a totally independent bookstore - no walls hold us in!
We continue to sell books at events and online at https://bookshop.org/shop/bookclubct. Audiobooks available through us at https://www.libro.fm/bookclubct.
Purchasing books with us helps us to keep our events free and open to all. Thank you!
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