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1962 dark fantasy novel by Ray Bradbury about two 13-year-old boys, Jim Nightshade and Will Halloway, who encounter a sinister traveling carnival called Cooger & Dark's Pandemonium Shadow Show. The carnival arrives in their Midwestern town of Green Town, Illinois, a week before Halloween, promising to fulfill secret desires but instead preying on the life... View Article
Saturday, Nov 1 at 2 pm Join author Amanda Hooser (A. B. Hooser) for the release of A Spirit of Summer, Book 3 in the Perth Paranormal series! About the series: Go back in time to 1995 and follow the adventures of Gerri and Pansy Bellafini as they navigate teen life (and afterlife) in a... View Article
Loving Mountains, Loving Men is the first book- length treatment of a topic rarely discussed or examined before: gay life in Appalachia. Appalachians are known for their love of place, yet many gays and lesbians from the mountains flee to urban areas. Jeff Mann tells the story of one who left and then returned, who... View Article
Come out to Cicada Books the first Tuesday of every month to discuss food-related fiction. This month's book is Feast of the 7 Fishes by Paterna. Tasty Reads is free and open to the public. Read on!
Join us for an evening of poetry with Daniel Lassell, author of Frame Inside a Frame, joined by local poets Mary B. Moore and A. E. Stringer.
In his debut memoir, the New York Times Bestseller, Solito, Salvadoran poet Javier Zamora retells his nine-week odyssey across Guatemala, Mexico, and the Sonoran Desert before reuniting with his parents in California. Accompanied only by strangers and a hired “coyote,” Zamora left his beloved aunt and grandparents to reunite with his mother and father in... View Article
Tasty Reads is closing out 2025 with our November meeting where we'll be sharing an Italian-inspired sampling menu, including dishes made by Nick Atkins, chef at the Wild Ramp. Feast of the Seven Fishes: A Brooklyn Italian's Recipes Celebrating Food and Family by Daniel Paterna is a love-letter to the author's family recipes and the... View Article
Maverick Hall has spent years trying to forget the chilling events of his thirteenth birthday in the summer of 1999. That fateful night, he and his best friends ventured through a seemingly innocuous tunnel on their bikes - a journey from which not all of them returned. Now, as an adult, Maverick is haunted by... View Article
Join us as we try a new book sale format! Not only will we be kicking off our fall book sale on a Friday evening, we will be inviting vendors and community partners to table the event. Book sales are cash only and will be priced at $1 each or $5 per bag. The book... View Article
Slaughterhouse-Five, an American classic, is one of the world’s great antiwar books. Centering on the infamous World War II firebombing of Dresden, the novel is the result of what Kurt Vonnegut described as a twenty-three-year struggle to write a book about what he had witnessed as an American prisoner of war. It combines historical fiction,... View Article
