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SUMMARY:Thursday 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? \nCLICK HERE TO SAVE YOUR SPOT \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.
URL:https://purplecouchbookshop.com/event/thursday-silent-book-club-5/
LOCATION:The Purple Couch Bookshop\, 350 Winthrop Ave unit 9b\, North Andover\, MA\, 01845\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Clubs
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SUMMARY:Romantasy Book Club - Dire Bound by Sable Sorenson
DESCRIPTION:Fourth Wing meets The Hunger Games in this spicy\, page-turning romantasy. \n\n\n\n\nCLICK HERE TO RESERVE YOUR SEAT \nGet ready for Direbound by Sable Sorensen. \nThis fantasy adventure delivers powerful magic\, danger\, romance\, and high-stakes tension from beginning to end. \nSpice Level: Hot\nSunday\, August 9\n1 PM \nJoin fellow romantasy readers for an afternoon of books\, conversation\, and community.
URL:https://purplecouchbookshop.com/event/romantasy-book-club-dire-bound-by-sable-sorenson/
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 - Her Wicked Roots by Tanya Pell
DESCRIPTION:A dark and atmospheric sapphic gothic horror novel filled with mystery\, obsession\, and deadly secrets. \nCLICK HERE TO RESERVE YOUR SEAT \n\n\n\n\nJoin us for a haunting and beautifully written queer gothic novel that blends mystery\, romance\, and botanical horror into an unforgettable reading experience. \nWhen Cordelia Beecher escapes the charity school where she was raised in search of her missing brother\, she follows a trail of clues to the quiet town of Farrow. But no one seems to know who he is—or what happened to him. Desperate for answers\, Cordelia finds refuge at Edenfield\, a sprawling estate owned by the enigmatic Lady Evangeline\, a renowned botanist known for sheltering young women in need. \nAs Cordelia settles into life at the estate and grows closer to Evangeline’s daughter Briar\, she begins to uncover unsettling secrets hidden among the gardens and glasshouses. When evidence emerges that her brother may have once lived at Edenfield\, Cordelia becomes determined to discover the truth\, even if it means confronting the darkness growing beneath the estate’s beautiful surface. \nInspired by Nathaniel Hawthorne’s classic tale Rappaccini’s Daughter\, Her Wicked Roots is an atmospheric sapphic gothic filled with poisonous blooms\, family secrets\, obsession\, and questions about the fine line between protection and control. Fans of Mexican Gothic\, Midsommar\, and eerie slow-burn horror will find plenty to love. \n“Darkly enchanting\, HER WICKED ROOTS is haunting\, propulsive and as hypnotic as the poisonous blooms at the novel’s heart. Truly a bewitching sapphic delight.” – Francesca May\, author of Wild and Wicked Things and This Vicious Hunger \nWhy you should join us \nThis is more than a book club—it’s a space to connect\, reflect\, and celebrate queer stories together. Whether you’ve finished the book\, just started\, or simply want to be part of the conversation\, you are welcome. We center community over completion and conversation over perfection. Expect thoughtful discussion\, lots of laughs\, and a welcoming group that shows up for each other. \nAll are welcome. No need to be queer to attend—just come ready to listen\, share\, and be part of something meaningful.
URL:https://purplecouchbookshop.com/event/queer-book-club-her-wicked-roots-by-tanya-pell/
LOCATION:The Purple Couch Bookshop\, 350 Winthrop Ave unit 9b\, North Andover\, MA\, 01845\, United States
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SUMMARY:Thriller Book Club - The Season of Sinking by Daphne Woolsoncroft
DESCRIPTION:From a hit true crime podcaster turned novelist\, a woman’s unsettling past creeps back to her consciousness as she returns to her hometown. \n\n\n\n\nOur August Thriller Book Club Selection is The Season of Sinking by Daphne Woolsoncroft. \nCLICK HERE TO RESERVE YOUR SEAT \nWhen Imogen Bly’s mother suddenly passes away\, she leaves her Seattle apartment and returns to Lake Blair—the picturesque Washington town where she grew up. After Imogen and her twin sister Amelia arrive\, ready to pack up their mother’s home\, strange things begin to happen\, reminding Imogen of her long held feelings of dread surrounding her hometown. \nImogen enlists the help of her first crush\, next-door neighbor Rory\, to uncover the truth about her mother’s death and the traumatic event she experienced as a child. But is the boy who got away really the man with something to hide? Or is the suspicious neighbor in the house across the lake behind it all? \nWhen Imogen’s own family’s tragedies lead her to question the disappearance of a local young woman the previous year\, her persistent unease becomes terrifyingly real and suddenly nowhere feels safe …
URL:https://purplecouchbookshop.com/event/thriller-book-club-the-season-of-sinking-by-daphne-woolsoncroft/
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-16/
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 - Yesteryear by Caro Claire Burke
DESCRIPTION:A “tradwife” influencer suddenly awakens in the brutal reality of 1855— is it an elaborate hoax or something more sinister? \n\n\n\n\nOur Fantasy Book Club selection for August is Yesteryear by Caro Claire Burke. \nCLICK HERE TO RESERVE YOUR SEAT \n“A bold and biting satire\, Yesteryear…will have you cackling and gasping right to the final page.”\n—Nita Prose\, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Maid series \nMy name was Natalie Heller Mills\, and I was perfect at being alive. \nNatalie lives a traditional lifestyle. Her charming farmhouse is rustic\, her husband a handsome cowboy\, her six children each more delightful than the last. So what if there are nannies and producers behind the scenes\, her kitchen hiding industrial-grade fridges and ovens\, her husband the heir to a political dynasty? What Natalie’s followers—all 8 million of them—don’t know won’t hurt them. And The Angry Women? The privileged\, Ivy League\, coastal elite haters who call her an antifeminist iconoclast? They’re sick with jealousy. Because Natalie isn’t simply living the good life\, she’s living the ideal—and just so happens to be building an empire from it. \nUntil one morning she wakes up in a life that isn’t hers. Her home\, her husband\, her children—they’re all familiar\, but something’s off. Her kitchen is warmed by a sputtering fire rather than electricity\, her children are dirty and strange\, and her soft-handed husband is suddenly a competent farmer. Just yesterday Natalie was curating photos of homemade jam for her Instagram\, and now she’s expected to haul firewood and handwash clothes until her fingers bleed. Has she become the unwitting star of a ruthless reality show? Could it really be time travel? Is she being tested by God? By Satan? When Natalie suffers a brutal injury in the woods\, she realizes two things: This is not her beautiful life\, and she must escape by any means possible. \nA gripping\, electrifying novel that is as darkly funny as it is frightening\, Yesteryear is a gimlet-eyed look at tradition\, fame\, faith\, and the grand performance of womanhood.
URL:https://purplecouchbookshop.com/event/fantasy-book-club-yesteryear-by-caro-claire-burke/
LOCATION:The Purple Couch Bookshop\, 350 Winthrop Ave unit 9b\, North Andover\, MA\, 01845\, United States
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SUMMARY:Romance Book Club - The Missed Connection by Tia Williams
DESCRIPTION:An intensely romantic tale about a woman searching for her handsome seatmate on a European flight & the unexpected places her hunt for love. \n\n\n\n\nThis month\, the Romance Book Club will be joined by Guest Moderator Amy from Lala Books in Lowell. \nCLICK HERE TO LET US KNOW YOU’RE COMING \nNew York Times bestselling author Tia Williams returns with an intensely romantic\, deliciously sexy tale about a woman searching for her handsome seatmate on a European flight—and the unexpected places her hunt for love leads her. \nSasha Cruz knows types. As a booked-and-busy casting agent\, she’s always casting—at happy hour\, the grocery store\, everywhere. She’s all about finding the perfect person to slot into the perfect role. What she doesn’t do\, however\, is relationships. Too much energy\, not enough time. \nOn a flight to Paris for work\, a chance encounter with her type changes everything. Sasha’s seated next to a broodingly attractive mystery man\, and sparks fly—but they never exchange contact information. Convinced she’s lost out on her soulmate\, Sasha emails her work friend for help\, but accidentally writes to the entire company worldwide! The international manhunt to find Seat F begins. \nMeanwhile Sasha takes matters into her own hands. She hires a smoldering detective she knew in another lifetime—who complicates matters in unforeseen (and irresistible) ways. \nWith a worldwide search underway\, will love take flight for Sasha?
URL:https://purplecouchbookshop.com/event/romance-book-club-the-missed-connection-by-tia-williams/
LOCATION:The Purple Couch Bookshop\, 350 Winthrop Ave unit 9b\, North Andover\, MA\, 01845\, United States
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SUMMARY:Fiction Book Club - Valley of the Moms by Hannah Selinger
DESCRIPTION:Don’t miss our discussion of the most talked about book on the North Shore. \n\n\n\n\nStepford Wives meets Big Little Lies in this twisty thriller that uncovers the untruths\, petty grievances\, and local school politics underneath a seemingly quaint small town. \nCLICK HERE TO LET US KNOW YOU’RE COMING \nHamilton\, Massachusetts is one of those suburban towns that appears untouched by the outside world where stay-at-home moms wear 2ct diamond studs to the playground\, where a million-dollar property is “affordable\,” and where the Parent Teacher Organization is a hotbed of controversy. Sure\, some people struggle to make ends meet\, but residents would say discussing such ugly matters is impolite. Hamilton has been like this forever\, and everyone likes it that way. Or: almost everyone. \nIt’s not that Anna Plummer doesn’t like Hamilton\, but she never thought she’d be married with two young kids\, comfortable\, complacent…and growing more bored by the minute. So\, when she realizes her second grader won’t be able to attend the “Ziti with Your Sweetie” school dance because she didn’t pay for a “Premium” membership\, she snaps. She sends an email to the terrifying president of the PTO—and all hell breaks loose. \nOne year later\, Anna is found dead in the frozen Ipswich River. Left to pick up the pieces\, her husband\, Denny\, is shaken to his core. He’s no expert\, but he’s seen enough Dateline to know that the police think he’s the main suspect. If they aren’t going to get justice for Anna\, he will. Told through the alternating perspectives of Anna and Denny exactly one year apart\, and with a shocking concluding twist\, Valley of the Moms is a gripping look at the underpinnings of grief\, the social structures of wealth\, and the secrets people keep—even among friends and loved ones.
URL:https://purplecouchbookshop.com/event/fiction-book-club-valley-of-the-moms-by-hannah-selinger/
LOCATION:The Purple Couch Bookshop\, 350 Winthrop Ave unit 9b\, North Andover\, MA\, 01845\, United States
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SUMMARY:Horror Book Club - Dead But Dreaming of Electric Sheep
DESCRIPTION:Philip K. Dick meets the Coen Brothers in this genre-bending near-future tech nightmare that is as bitingly funny as it is horrifically believable from the New York Times bestselling author of Horror Movie. \nJoin us to discuss Dead But Dreaming of Electric Sheep on Sunday\, August 30 at 1pm. CLICK HERE TO LET US KNOW YOU’RE COMING \n\n\n\n\nMeet Julia Flang\, a twenty-something former semi-professional gamer\, living with her retired uncle\, and working two jobs she doesn’t like. Out of the blue\, her estranged mother\, a CFO for one of the world’s largest tech companies\, offers her a temp job with a payday Julia can’t refuse. One sham interview later\, she’s offered the job: to chaperone a man in a vegetative state—one with proprietary AI implanted in his head—from California to the East Coast. \nTo sum up in Julia’s own words: “You want me to remote control this dead dude across the country.” In a word\, yes. But he’s not dead dead. \nMeet a middle-aged man who wakes within a disorienting hellscape filled with monstrous grotesqueries. Worse than the fluid\, morphing reality in which he’s trapped\, he has no memory of who he is. He certainly doesn’t remember getting the rabbit tattoo on his arm. He only knows that he must find a certain person. Who? He can’t remember. \nUsing a cell phone modeled after a video game controller\, Julia fumblingly navigates the man she calls “Bernie” from the company campus and onto planes and through one of the largest airports in America. All the while\, the man endures an ever-changing and worsening nightmare that offers clues as to who he was—and who he must track down. And as their two lives intertwine\, Julia and Bernie become unlikely allies and fugitives on a collision course with reality. \nDead but Dreaming of Electric Sheep is a heady\, horrific genre-bender from one of the most groundbreaking voices in fiction today.
URL:https://purplecouchbookshop.com/event/horror-book-club-dead-but-dreaming-of-electric-sheep/
LOCATION:The Purple Couch Bookshop\, 350 Winthrop Ave unit 9b\, North Andover\, MA\, 01845\, United States
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