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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-14/
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 - Mid read check-in for Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil by VE Schwab
DESCRIPTION:Our Fantasy Book Club for May & June is a two part series as we read Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil from V. E. Schwab\, the #1 New York Times bestselling author. \nCLICK HERE TO RESERVE YOUR SEAT \nThis is a story about hunger.\n1532. Santo Domingo de la Calzada.\n\nA young girl grows up wild and wily—her beauty is only outmatched by her dreams of escape. But María knows she can only ever be a prize\, or a pawn\, in the games played by men. When an alluring stranger offers an alternate path\, María makes a desperate choice. She vows to have no regrets.\n\nThis is a story about love.\n1827. London.\n\nA young woman lives an idyllic but cloistered life on her family’s estate\, until a moment of forbidden intimacy sees her shipped off to London. Charlotte’s tender heart and seemingly impossible wishes are swept away by an invitation from a beautiful widow—but the price of freedom is higher than she could have imagined.This is a story about rage.\n2019. Boston.\n\nCollege was supposed to be her chance to be someone new. That’s why Alice moved halfway across the world\, leaving her old life behind. But after an out-of-character one-night stand leaves her questioning her past\, her present\, and her future\, Alice throws herself into the hunt for answers . . . and revenge.This is a story about life—how it ends\, and how it starts.
URL:https://purplecouchbookshop.com/event/fantasy-book-club-mid-read-check-in-for-bury-our-bones-in-the-midnight-soil-by-ve-schwab/
LOCATION:The Purple Couch Bookshop\, 350 Winthrop Ave unit 9b\, North Andover\, MA\, 01845\, United States
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SUMMARY:Romance Book Club - A Little Buzzed by Alys Murray
DESCRIPTION:A sex toy engineer with one big secret finally meets her match\, and together they’ll put their own products to the test in this steamy romance. \nCLICK HERE TO RESERVE YOUR SEAT \nVibe readers unite! Join Romance Book Club as we discuss A Little Buzzed! \nIf she builds it\, they will come. \nScout Porter is screwed. Not literally\, of course. Literally\, she’s a twenty-six-year-old virgin\, thanks to a relationship so disastrous she swore off love and sex for good. Metaphorically\, she’s screwed because the entire office of BuzzCorp\, the sex toy start-up where she’s head engineer\, just found out. Scout needs her team to stay focused on their upcoming launch\, not her lack of a sex life\, so she finds the simplest solution: lose her V-card—and fast—then get back to business as usual. \nEnter Hudson Bailey\, the nerdy and charming software developer hired to build the app for Scout’s latest creation. The only problem is\, he’s as inexperienced with sex toys as she is with sex. Fortunately\, he’s all too eager to learn\, and they agree that one very educational\, totally professional hook-up will solve both of their problems. All for research\, obviously. \nBut their little experiment yields unexpected results—chemistry so off the charts Scout starts to think she might actually want more than just a one-time fling. When their budding relationship is threatened by the return of Scout’s notorious ex\, both Scout and Hudson will have to decide if they’ve reached their climax as a couple\, or if they’re willing to risk everything for a chance at true love. \n  \n 
URL:https://purplecouchbookshop.com/event/romance-book-club-4/
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 - Pineapple Street by Jenny Jackson
DESCRIPTION:A deliciously funny\, sharply observed debut of family\, love\, and class\, this zeitgeisty novel follows three women in one wealthy Brooklyn clan. \nCLICK HERE TO RESERVE YOUR SEAT \nDarley\, the eldest daughter in the well-connected old money Stockton family\, followed her heart\, trading her job and her inheritance for motherhood but giving up far too much in the process; Sasha\, a middle-class New England girl\, has married into the Brooklyn Heights family\, and finds herself cast as the arriviste outsider; and Georgiana\, the baby of the family\, has fallen in love with someone she can’t have\, and must decide what kind of person she wants to be. \nRife with the indulgent pleasures of life among New York’s one-percenters\, Pineapple Street is a smart\, escapist novel that sparkles with wit. Full of recognizable\, loveable—if fallible—characters\, it’s about the peculiar unknowability of someone else’s family\, the miles between the haves and have-nots\, and the insanity of first love—all wrapped in a story that is a sheer delight.
URL:https://purplecouchbookshop.com/event/fiction-book-club-pineapple-street-by-jenny-jackson/
LOCATION:The Purple Couch Bookshop\, 350 Winthrop Ave unit 9b\, North Andover\, MA\, 01845\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Clubs
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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-11/
LOCATION:The Purple Couch Bookshop\, 350 Winthrop Ave unit 9b\, North Andover\, MA\, 01845\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Clubs
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SUMMARY:Horror Book Club - The Ballad of Black Tom by Victor Lavalle
DESCRIPTION:One of NPR‘s Best Books of 2016\, winner of the Shirley Jackson Award\, the British Fantasy Award\, the This is Horror Award for Novella of the Year\, and a finalist for the Hugo\, Nebula\, Locus\, World Fantasy\, and Bram Stoker Awards. \nCLICK HERE TO REGISTER \nPeople move to New York looking for magic and nothing will convince them it isn’t there. \nCharles Thomas Tester hustles to put food on the table\, keep the roof over his father’s head\, from Harlem to Flushing Meadows to Red Hook. He knows what magic a suit can cast\, the invisibility a guitar case can provide\, and the curse written on his skin that attracts the eye of wealthy white folks and their cops. But when he delivers an occult tome to a reclusive sorceress in the heart of Queens\, Tom opens a door to a deeper realm of magic\, and earns the attention of things best left sleeping. \nA storm that might swallow the world is building in Brooklyn. Will Black Tom live to see it break? \n“LaValle’s novella of sorcery and skullduggery in Jazz Age New York is a magnificent example of what weird fiction can and should do.”\n— Laird Barron\, author of The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All \n“[LaValle] reinvents outmoded literary conventions\, particularly the ghettos of genre and ethnicity that long divided serious literature from popular fiction.”\n— Praise for The Devil in Silver from Elizabeth Hand\, author of Radiant Days \n“LaValle cleverly subverts Lovecraft’s Cthulhu mythos by imbuing a black man with the power to summon the Old Ones\, and creates genuine chills with his evocation of the monstrous Sleeping King\, an echo of Lovecraft’s Dagon… [The Ballad of Black Tom] has a satisfying slingshot ending.” – Elizabeth Hand for Fantasy & ScienceFiction
URL:https://purplecouchbookshop.com/event/horror-book-club-the-ballad-of-black-tom-by-victor-lavalle/
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 - Disco Witches of Fire Island by Blair Fell
DESCRIPTION:Hit the dance floor with a coven of queer witches on 1980s Fire Island in this gay fantasy romance about finding magic\, love\, and family. \n\n\n\n\n“Heartfelt.”—The New York Times \nA heartwarming LGBTQ+ novel for fans of steamy romance\, loathe-at-first-sight\, and Red\, White\, and Royal Blue. \n\n\nCLICK HERE TO RESERVE YOUR SEAT \n\n\nIn person + on Zoom\nJoin us for a magical\, emotional\, and deeply queer summer read that blends romance\, fantasy\, and found family in one unforgettable story.\nSet in 1989\, this novel follows Joe Agabian as he spends a summer on Fire Island Pines\, hoping to move forward after losing his boyfriend to the HIV/AIDS epidemic. What begins as a season of healing and self-discovery quickly turns mysterious when Joe and his best friend Ronnie meet two eccentric older men who are hiding a powerful secret. As members of a covert disco witch coven\, they are working to protect their community from a growing darkness—one that threatens Joe himself. With romance\, magic\, and danger intertwined\, this story captures both the joy and heartbreak of queer life during a pivotal moment in history.\n“A vibrant\, heartfelt blend of magic and history that celebrates queer resilience\, love\, and community in the face of unimaginable loss.”\n\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-disco-witches-of-fire-island-by-blair-fell/
LOCATION:The Purple Couch Bookshop\, 350 Winthrop Ave unit 9b\, North Andover\, MA\, 01845\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Clubs
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SUMMARY:Thriller Book Club - My Husband's Wife by Alice Feeney
DESCRIPTION:The Queen of Twists is back with a psychological masterpiece that will leave you questioning what you know about love\, identity\, and revenge. \nCLICK HERE TO RESERVE YOUR SEAT \n\n\nThe New York Times bestselling Queen of Twists is back with a psychological masterpiece that will leave you questioning everything you know about love\, identity\, and revenge. \nEden Fox\, an artist on the brink of her big break\, sets off for a run before her first exhibition. When she returns to the home she recently moved into\, Spyglass\, an enchanting old house in Hope Falls\, nothing is as it should be. Her key doesn’t fit. A woman\, eerily similar to her\, answers the door. And her husband insists that the stranger is his wife. \nOne house. One husband. Two women. Someone is lying. \nSix months earlier\, a reclusive Londoner called Birdy\, reeling from a life-changing diagnosis\, inherits Spyglass. This unexpected gift from a long-lost grandmother brings her to the pretty seaside village of Hope Falls. But then Birdy stumbles upon a shadowy London clinic that claims to be able to predict a person’s date of death\, including her own. Secrets start to unravel\, and as the line between truth and lies blurs\, Birdy feels compelled to right some old wrongs. \nMy Husband’s Wife is a tangled web of deception\, obsession\, and mystery that will keep you guessing until the last page. Prepare yourself for the ultimate mind-bending marriage thriller and step inside Spyglass – if you dare – to experience a story where nothing is as it seems.
URL:https://purplecouchbookshop.com/event/thriller-book-club-title-tbd/
LOCATION:The Purple Couch Bookshop\, 350 Winthrop Ave unit 9b\, North Andover\, MA\, 01845\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Clubs
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260614T130000
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SUMMARY:Romantasy Book Club - The Knight and the Moth by Rachel Gillig
DESCRIPTION:There’s something about a gothic fantasy in the summer! \nFor June Book Club\, we’re reading The Knight and the Moth by Rachel Gillig—a story full of omens\, mystery\, strange magic\, and the kind of slow-building tension that keeps you reading way too late. \nCLICK HERE TO RESERVE YOUR SEAT \n\nIf your ideal book feels like candlelight\, rain on old stone walls\, and secrets no one should be keeping… this one is for you. \nFrom New York Times bestselling author Rachel Gillig comes a sensational romantasy\, a gothic\, mist-cloaked tale of a young prophetess forced on an impossible quest with the one knight whose future is beyond her sight. \n“Prepare to meet your next obsession.” — Rebecca Ross\, author of Divine Rivals \nSybil Delling has spent nine years dreaming of having no dreams at all. Like the other foundling girls who traded a decade of service for a home in the great cathedral\, Sybil is a Diviner. In her dreams she receives visions from six unearthly figures known as Omens. From them\, she can predict terrible things before they occur\, and lords and common folk alike travel across the kingdom of Traum’s windswept moors to learn their futures by her dreams. \nJust as she and her sister Diviners near the end of their service\, a mysterious knight arrives at the cathedral. Rude\, heretical\, and devilishly handsome\, the knight Rodrick has no respect for Sybil’s visions. But when Sybil’s fellow Diviners begin to vanish one by one\, she has no choice but to seek his help in finding them. For the world outside the cathedral’s cloister is wrought with peril. Only the gods have the answers she is seeking\, and as much as she’d rather avoid Rodrick’s dark eyes and sharp tongue\, only a heretic can defeat a god.
URL:https://purplecouchbookshop.com/event/romantasy-book-club-the-knight-and-the-moth-by-rachel-gillig/
LOCATION:The Purple Couch Bookshop\, 350 Winthrop Ave unit 9b\, North Andover\, MA\, 01845\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Clubs
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SUMMARY:Romance Book Club - Cleat Cute
DESCRIPTION:A sapphic rivals to lovers rom com for fans of Ted Lasso and A League of Their Own. \nCLICK HERE TO RESERVE YOUR SEAT \n\n\n\n\nA sapphic rivals to lovers rom com for fans of Ted Lasso and A League of Their Own\, where two soccer teammates are at odds before falling in love as their team gears up for the World Cup. \nGrace Henderson has been a star of the US Women’s National Team for ten years\, even though she’s only 26. But when she’s sidelined with an injury\, a bold new upstart\, Phoebe Matthews\, takes her spot. 22-year-old Phoebe is everything Grace isn’t—a gregarious jokester who plays with a joy that Grace lost somewhere along the way. The last thing Grace expects is to become teammates with benefits with this class clown she sees as her rival. \nPhoebe Matthews is too focused on her first season as a professional soccer player to think about seducing her longtime idol. But when Grace ends up making the first move\, they can’t keep their hands off of each other. \nAs the World Cup approaches and Grace works her way back from injury\, a miscommunication leaves the women with hilariously different perspectives on their relationship. But they’re on the same page on the field\, realizing they can play together instead of vying for the same position. With every tackle the tension between them grows\, and both players soon have to decide what’s more important—being together or making the roster. \nThe perfect blend of funny and steamy\, Meryl Wilsner’s Cleat Cute is about being brave enough to win on and off the field.
URL:https://purplecouchbookshop.com/event/romance-book-club-cleat-cute/
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 - So Old\, So Young by Grant Ginder
DESCRIPTION:June’s Fiction Book Club selection is the much anticipated novel by Grant Ginder\, So Old\, So Young. \nCLICK HERE TO RESERVE YOUR SEAT \n\n\n“I gulped it down on a plane\, taking breaks to recall my own friend group from college. The people who are your real friends\, the novel invites us to remember\, often drive you completely crazy.” — The New York Times \nSix Friends.\nFive Parties.\nTwenty Years…\nHow did we get So Old\, So Young? \nFrom Grant Ginder\, the bestselling author of The People We Hate at the Wedding\, comes a generation-defining novel that is part love story\, part tragic comedy. Five parties over the course of twenty years bring six college friends together\, exploring the ways we run from and cling to our friends in love\, life\, and death. \nFor Marco and Mia\, Sasha and Theo\, Richie and Adam\, the one constant in life after college together has been change. New jobs. New cities. New spouses. New children. Through it all\, one thing they thought would always stay the same is their friendship. \nBut time has a way of breaking even the strongest bonds\, and testing what we thought we knew. From East Village apartment parties and disastrous destination weddings\, to fortieth birthdays and suburban backyard barbecues\, Grant Ginder’s resonant\, funny\, and deeply moving novel is a story about the growing pains of the Millennial generation\, and a celebration of how love can shift\, stumble\, and grow into something bigger than we ever could have imagined.
URL:https://purplecouchbookshop.com/event/fiction-book-club-so-old-so-young-by-grant-ginder/
LOCATION:The Purple Couch Bookshop\, 350 Winthrop Ave unit 9b\, North Andover\, MA\, 01845\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Clubs
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SUMMARY:Horror Book Club - The September House by Carissa Orlando
DESCRIPTION:A woman is determined to stay in her dream home even after it becomes a haunted nightmare in this compulsively readable\, twisty\, and layered debut novel. \nCLICK HERE TO RESERVE YOUR SEAT \n\n\n\nWhen Margaret and her husband Hal bought the large Victorian house on Hawthorn Street—for sale at a surprisingly reasonable price—they couldn’t believe they finally had a home of their own. Then they discovered the hauntings. Every September\, the walls drip blood. The ghosts of former inhabitants appear\, and all of them are terrified of something that lurks in the basement. Most people would flee. \nMargaret is not most people. \nMargaret is staying. It’s her house. But after four years Hal can’t take it anymore\, and he leaves abruptly. Now\, he’s not returning calls\, and their daughter Katherine—who knows nothing about the hauntings—arrives\, intent on looking for her missing father. To make things worse\, September has just begun\, and with every attempt Margaret and Katherine make at finding Hal\, the hauntings grow more harrowing\, because there are some secrets the house needs to keep.
URL:https://purplecouchbookshop.com/event/horror-book-club-the-september-house-by-carissa-orlando/
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 – Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil by VE Schwab
DESCRIPTION:Our Fantasy Book Club selection for May & June is from V. E. Schwab\, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue: a new genre-defying novel about immortality and desire. \nCLICK HERE TO RESERVE YOUR SEAT \nThis is a story about hunger.\n1532. Santo Domingo de la Calzada. \nA young girl grows up wild and wily—her beauty is only outmatched by her dreams of escape. But María knows she can only ever be a prize\, or a pawn\, in the games played by men. When an alluring stranger offers an alternate path\, María makes a desperate choice. She vows to have no regrets. \nThis is a story about love.\n1827. London. \nA young woman lives an idyllic but cloistered life on her family’s estate\, until a moment of forbidden intimacy sees her shipped off to London. Charlotte’s tender heart and seemingly impossible wishes are swept away by an invitation from a beautiful widow—but the price of freedom is higher than she could have imagined. \nThis is a story about rage.\n2019. Boston. \nCollege was supposed to be her chance to be someone new. That’s why Alice moved halfway across the world\, leaving her old life behind. But after an out-of-character one-night stand leaves her questioning her past\, her present\, and her future\, Alice throws herself into the hunt for answers . . . and revenge. \nThis is a story about life—how it ends\, and how it starts.
URL:https://purplecouchbookshop.com/event/7118/
LOCATION:The Purple Couch Bookshop\, 350 Winthrop Ave unit 9b\, North Andover\, MA\, 01845\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Clubs
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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-12/
LOCATION:The Purple Couch Bookshop\, 350 Winthrop Ave unit 9b\, North Andover\, MA\, 01845\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Clubs
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SUMMARY:Thriller Book Club - The Anniversary by Alex Finlay
DESCRIPTION:From the national bestselling author of Parents Weekend\, comes one of the most anticipated thrillers of the year. \nCLICK HERE TO RESERVE YOUR SEAT \n“Everything I want in a thriller!”―Ashley Elston \nEvery May 1st\, a serial killer stalks a small town. Every year he comes for them . . . \nOn May 1\, 1992\, Jules Delaney and Quinn Riley hardly know each other. \nJules is high school queen bee in a small Midwestern town when she survives a brutal attack by the elusive May Day Killer—a predator who strikes every May 1st and then vanishes without a trace. Quinn\, a boy from the wrong side of the tracks\, is arrested the same night after trying to break up a fight and nearly killing someone. \nBy morning\, their lives are forever connected. \nA year later\, Jules is haunted by trauma and guilt\, tormented by one question: Why was she spared? Quinn is newly released from juvenile detention and returns home to devastating news—the unsolved murder of his mother. \nOver the next decade\, their lives are revisited on a single day each year: May 1st. \nAs the years pass\, secrets surface\, lies unravel\, and the paths of Jules and Quinn draw closer together. Two mysteries edge toward the truth—what really happened the night Jules was attacked\, and who murdered Quinn’s mother? All the while\, the May Day Killer is still out there. \nAnd the clock is racing toward another anniversary. \nTwisty\, high-concept\, and emotionally charged\, The Anniversary is an addictive murder mystery and nail-biting thriller—but it’s also a tender\, heartrending story about fate\, innocence lost\, and two people bound by a single day. With its masterful structure and propulsive tension\, The Anniversary reaffirms Alex Finlay as one of the leading thriller writers today.
URL:https://purplecouchbookshop.com/event/7795/
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 - Red\, White\, and Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston
DESCRIPTION:What happens when America’s First Son falls in love with the Prince of Wales? \nCLICK HERE TO RESERVE YOU SEAT \n\n\nIn person + on Zoom\nJoin us for a fan-favorite queer romance that is equal parts swoony\, funny\, and heartfelt—perfect for a summer discussion full of energy and emotion.When First Son Alex Claremont-Diaz clashes with his longtime rival\, Prince Henry of Wales\, their very public feud becomes an international PR nightmare. To smooth things over\, the two are forced into a staged friendship for the cameras. But what starts as damage control quickly turns into something much more real. As Alex navigates his mother’s reelection campaign and the pressures of public life\, he and Henry find themselves in a secret relationship that could change everything—from their futures to the relationship between their countries.“Charming\, witty\, and full of heart—this is the kind of love story that makes you believe in hope\, change\, and happy endings.” \nWhy you should join us\nThis is one of those books that sparks conversation\, laughter\, and maybe even a little debate. Whether you’re rereading a favorite or picking it up for the first time\, come be part of a welcoming\, inclusive space where we celebrate queer stories and community. No pressure to finish the book—just show up as you are and join the conversation.All are welcome. No need to be queer to attend—just come ready to connect\, share\, and enjoy the discussion together.
URL:https://purplecouchbookshop.com/event/queer-book-club-red-white-and-royal-blue-by-casey-mcquiston/
LOCATION:The Purple Couch Bookshop\, 350 Winthrop Ave unit 9b\, North Andover\, MA\, 01845\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Clubs
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UID:7378-1784455200-1784462400@purplecouchbookshop.com
SUMMARY:Sunday Silent Book Club
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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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UID:7380-1785061800-1785065400@purplecouchbookshop.com
SUMMARY:Writers Round Table – Works in Progress Sharing
DESCRIPTION:Come share your current writing with a group of cool\, supportive\, local writers! \nJust starting your writing journey or stuck on a passage of your novel? \nAre you a poet struggling with stanzas or a comedian in search of your perfect punchline? \nJoin us for a low-stakes chat about what works and ways to improve while supporting others. \nAll genres and styles are welcome\, bring a short piece to read and an open mind\, just keep the spice level at mayo and the critiques encouraging! \nFree\, the first Sunday of the month.
URL:https://purplecouchbookshop.com/event/writers-round-table/
LOCATION:The Purple Couch Bookshop\, 350 Winthrop Ave unit 9b\, North Andover\, MA\, 01845\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Clubs
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