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SUMMARY:Silent Book Club
DESCRIPTION:With traditional book clubs there’s the scramble to finish the selected book\, and the pressure to have something smart to say. Wouldn’t it be great to have a book club where you could just enjoy books and friends —without any homework? \nAt Silent Book Club\, there’s no assigned reading. All readers are welcome—ebooks\, audiobooks\, textbooks\, comic books… it’s BYOBook. Join us at the Purple Couch Bookshop to socialize from 6:00-6:30pm. Staff will be on hand to help you find a great read if you need one. Then\, from 6:30-7:30\, pick a spot and read whatever makes you happy. The store will stay open until 8:00pm for those who need to finish one more chapter or are ready to find their next great book. \nCLICK HERE TO SAVE YOUR SPOT
URL:https://purplecouchbookshop.com/event/silent-book-club-8/
LOCATION:The Purple Couch Bookshop\, 350 Winthrop Ave unit 9b\, North Andover\, MA\, 01845\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Clubs
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SUMMARY:Queer Book Club - Patricia Wants to Cuddle
DESCRIPTION:Join us for community building and a discussion of Patricia Wants to Cuddle by Samantha Allen. \nOn this season of The Catch\, contestants must compete for love. And their lives. \nCLICK HERE TO REGISTER \nWhen the final four women in competition for an aloof\, somewhat sleazy bachelor’s heart arrive on a mysterious island in the Pacific Northwest\, they prepare themselves for another week of extreme sleep deprivation\, invasive interviews\, and\, of course\, the salacious drama eager viewers nationwide tune in to devour. Each woman came on The Catch for her own reasons―brand sponsorships\, followers\, and\, yes\, even love―and they’ve all got their eyes steadfastly trained on their respective prizes. \nEnter Patricia\, a temperamental and woefully misunderstood local living alone in the dark\, verdant woods\, and desperate for connection. Through twists as unexpected as they are wildly entertaining\, the self-absorbed cast and jaded crew each make her acquaintance atop the island’s tallest and most desolate peak\, finding themselves at the center of an action-packed thriller that is far from scripted―and only a few will make the final cut. \nA whirlwind romp careening toward a last-girl-standing conclusion\, and a scathing indictment of contemporary American media culture\, Patricia Wants to Cuddle is also a love story: between star-crossed lesbians who rise above their intolerant town\, a deeply ambivalent woman and her budding self-actualization\, and a group of misfit islanders forging community against all odds.
URL:https://purplecouchbookshop.com/event/queer-book-club-patricia-wants-to-cuddle/
LOCATION:The Purple Couch Bookshop\, 350 Winthrop Ave unit 9b\, North Andover\, MA\, 01845\, United States
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SUMMARY:Thriller Book Club - It's Not Her by Mary Kubica
DESCRIPTION:Two families vacationing together at a secluded lake resort are at the center of a chilling crime and mysterious disappearance.\n\n\n\n📚 Thriller Book Club -March Pick 📚 \nCLICK HERE TO RESERVE YOUR SEAT \nTwo families vacationing together at a secluded lake resort are at the center of a chilling crime and mysterious disappearance in this twisty\, unputdownable thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of Local Woman Missing \nA chilling crime… \nCourtney Gray’s tranquil family vacation is shattered when she hears a blood-curdling scream from the lakeside cottage next door. There she finds the lifeless bodies of her brother and sister-in-law. Her teenage niece Reese is nowhere to be found. Her nephew Wyatt lies asleep upstairs\, unharmed. \nA stunning investigation…
URL:https://purplecouchbookshop.com/event/thriller-book-club-its-not-her-by-mary-kubica/
LOCATION:The Purple Couch Bookshop\, 350 Winthrop Ave unit 9b\, North Andover\, MA\, 01845\, United States
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SUMMARY:Private Book Club - Store will be open
DESCRIPTION:A local book club will be meeting at the store.  We will be open for business during this time\, but the back living room area will be in use.
URL:https://purplecouchbookshop.com/event/private-book-club-store-will-be-open/
LOCATION:The Purple Couch Bookshop\, 350 Winthrop Ave unit 9b\, North Andover\, MA\, 01845\, United States
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SUMMARY:Sunday Silent Book Club
DESCRIPTION:We invite you to hold space with us on select Sunday mornings from 10am -12pm. \nCLICK HERE TO SAVE YOUR SEAT \nWith traditional book clubs there’s the scramble to finish the selected book\, and the pressure to have something smart to say. Wouldn’t it be great to have a book club where you could just enjoy books and friends —without any homework? \nAt Silent Book Club\, there’s no assigned reading. All readers are welcome—ebooks\, audiobooks\, textbooks\, comic books… it’s BYOBook. Join us at the Purple Couch Bookshop to socialize from 10:00-10:30am. Staff will be on hand to help you find a great read if you need one. Then\, from 10:30-11:30\, pick a spot and read whatever makes you happy. The store will be opening to the public at 12pm for those who need to finish one more chapter or are ready to find their next great book.
URL:https://purplecouchbookshop.com/event/sunday-silent-book-club-13/
LOCATION:The Purple Couch Bookshop\, 350 Winthrop Ave unit 9b\, North Andover\, MA\, 01845\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Clubs
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SUMMARY:Fantasy Book Club - Queen of Faces by Petra Lord
DESCRIPTION:This blockbuster dark academia fantasy for fans of Leigh Bardugo follows a desperate girl at a cutthroat magical academy who faces a choice between life and death: become an assassin for the enchanted elite or watch her decaying body draw its last breath.\n\n\n\nCLICK HERE TO RESERVE YOUR SEAT \nAnabelle Gage is trapped in a male body\, and it’s rotting from the inside out. In Caimor\, where the magical elite buy and swap designer bodies like clothes\, Ana can’t afford to escape her tattered form. When she fails the entrance exam to the prestigious Paragon Academy\, her last hope of earning a new body implodes. As the clock ticks down to her last breath\, she’s forced to use her illusion magic to steal a healthy chassis—before her own kills her. \nBut Ana is caught by none other than the headmaster of Paragon Academy\, who poses a brutal ultimatum: face execution for her crime or become a mercenary at his command. Revolt brews in Caimor’s smog-choked underworld\, and the wealthy and powerful will stop at nothing to take down the rebels and the infamous dark witch at their helm\, the Black Wraith. \nWith no choice but to accept\, Ana will steal\, fight\, and kill her way to salvation. But her survival depends on a dangerous band of renegades: an impulsive assassin\, a brooding bombmaker\, and an alluring exile who might just spell her ruin. As Ana is drawn into a tangled web of secrets\, the line between villain and hero shatters—and Ana must decide which side is worth dying for.
URL:https://purplecouchbookshop.com/event/fantasy-book-club-queen-of-faces-by-petra-lord/
LOCATION:The Purple Couch Bookshop\, 350 Winthrop Ave unit 9b\, North Andover\, MA\, 01845\, United States
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SUMMARY:Romance Book Club - Honey Bee Mine
DESCRIPTION:In this sweet and sexy small town romance\, a type-A beekeeper and a former bad boy join forces to plan a summertime Honey Festival.\n\n\nCLICK HERE TO RESERVE YOUR SEAT\n\n\nLike the bees she keeps\, Penny Becker lives by a golden rule: never stop working. That mantra kept Becker Farms running when her grandfather\, dad\, and ex all left for greener pastures. But after taking out a loan for an expansion plan that crashed and burned\, Penny has to find a way to pay or risk losing it all\, and she’s betting everything on the Sullivan’s Glen Honey Festival. To save the farm\, she has to make the festival bigger\, better\, and more successful than ever before—and she plans to do it all on her own. \nReformed bad boy turned restaurateur Zander Bouras left Sullivan’s Glen in a blaze of glory and vowed to never return. But when his ex-wife wants to go back for the summer\, Zander grudgingly follows. He refuses to miss time with his son\, and figures it’s finally time to deal with the farmhouse his grandfather left\, for some reason\, to him. \nHis first day in town brings Zander face to face with Penny\, the girl whose perfect life mocked him from next door. It’s just his luck that his son loves her and her bees\, and before he knows it he’s been volunteered to help plan a honey festival with the sexy\, stubborn beekeeper whose braid he just wants to tug. As they learn to work together\, Zander faces his demons and learns to see Sullivan’s Glen in a new light as Penny realizes that accepting help isn’t so bad—especially from the right person. But as the festival day and Zander’s departure draw near\, they’ll have to decide if the romance buzzing between them can last past the sweet days of summer.
URL:https://purplecouchbookshop.com/event/romance-book-club-honey-bee-mine/
LOCATION:The Purple Couch Bookshop\, 350 Winthrop Ave unit 9b\, North Andover\, MA\, 01845\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Clubs
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SUMMARY:Fiction Book Club - The Astral Library by Kate Quinn
DESCRIPTION:From New York Times bestselling author Kate Quinn comes a gorgeously written fantastical adventure which poses the question: Have you ever wished you could live inside a book? Welcome to the Astral Library\, where books are not just objects\, but doors to new worlds\, new lives\, and new futures. \nCLICK HERE TO RESERVE YOUR SPOT \nAlexandria “Alix” Watson has learned one lesson from her barren childhood in the foster-care system: unlike people\, books will never let you down. Working three dead-end jobs to make ends meet and knowing college is a pipe dream\, Alix takes nightly refuge in the high-vaulted reading room at the Boston Public Library\, escaping into her favorite fantasy novels and dreaming of far-off lands. Until the day she stumbles through a hidden door and meets the Librarian: the ageless\, acerbic guardian of a hidden library where the desperate and the lost escape to new lives…inside their favorite books. \nThe Librarian takes a dazzled Alix under her wing\, but before she can escape into the pages of her new life\, a shadowy enemy emerges to threaten everyone the Astral Library has ever helped protect. Aided by a dashing costume-shop owner\, Alix and the Librarian flee through the Regency drawing rooms of Jane Austen to the back alleys of Sherlock Holmes and the champagne-soaked parties of The Great Gatsby as danger draws inexorably closer. But who does their enemy really wish to destroy—Alix\, the Librarian\, or the Library itself?
URL:https://purplecouchbookshop.com/event/fiction-book-club-the-astral-library-by-kate-quinn/
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