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SUMMARY:Ashley's Fiction Book Club
DESCRIPTION:A Time of Witches by Madeline Martin \nTwo women. Two centuries. One chance to rewrite history before they are both erased. \nIn present day\, Lilith Legare’s life is unraveling. Since her mother’s death\, strange things have been happening – plants turn toward her touch\, animals linger in her path\, and the birthmark on her arm has started tingling. Worse still is her recurring nightmare of being burned alive at the stake. \nHer search for answers brings her from Savannah\, Georgia to England\, to the decaying Brackenmere Manor where the past blurs with the present. There\, Lilith discovers a legacy she never asked for and along with it\, the threat of peril. History must be rewritten\, or she too will die. \nIn 1645 Suffolk\, Sybil Brantham stands accused as a witch. An educated\, wealthy widow\, she is branded a threat by men who fear her independence. As arrests begin and suspicion abounds\, Sybil must protect her younger sister\, even as betrayal takes root within her household. \nAcross centuries\, Lilith and Sybil are bound by blood and by danger. To save themselves\, and each other\, they must confront the silence that has stolen women’s power for generations—and dare to claim their voices before it’s too late.
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SUMMARY:Weird Girl Fiction Book Club
DESCRIPTION:The Pisces by Melissa Broder \nLucy has been writing her dissertation on Sappho for nine years when she and her boyfriend break up in a dramatic flameout. After she bottoms out in Phoenix\, her sister in Los Angeles insists Lucy dog-sit for the summer. Annika’s home is a gorgeous glass cube on Venice Beach\, but Lucy can find little relief from her anxiety — not in the Greek chorus of women in her love addiction therapy group\, not in her frequent Tinder excursions\, not even in Dominic the foxhound’s easy affection. \nEverything changes when Lucy becomes entranced by an eerily attractive swimmer while sitting alone on the beach rocks one night. But when Lucy learns the truth about his identity\, their relationship\, and Lucy’s understanding of what love should look like\, take a very unexpected turn. A masterful blend of vivid realism and giddy fantasy\, pairing hilarious frankness with pulse-racing eroticism\, THE PISCES is a story about falling in obsessive love with a merman: a figure of Sirenic fantasy whose very existence pushes Lucy to question everything she thought she knew about love\, lust\, and meaning in the one life we have.
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SUMMARY:Make a Bookish Candle
DESCRIPTION:Booktenders is partnering with The Haute Wick Social ® to bring you a fun day of crafting. Come to the shop and make your very own bespoke bookish candle that you can burn all winter long!\n\n\nAshley from Haute Wick will be on hand to help you pick out scents and pour your own candle. Candles will need 2 hours to cool so you can stroll around the shop or go visit our neighbors on the block while you wait. Candles can also be picked up at a later time. But Booktenders will be providing some light refreshments.\n\n\nSessions begin at 11:30 and 2:30 on October 3rd and each session is limited to 12 people. So grab your friends…or sign up solo and make new friends! Tickets can be purchased at the link.
URL:https://visithuntingtonwv.org/event/make-a-bookish-candle/
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SUMMARY:Fright Book Club at Booktenders
DESCRIPTION:The Unknown by Riley Sager \nIn 1926\, five women disappeared from a remote island in Vermont. Now\, one-hundred years later\, it’s happening again. \nStruggling actress Marin Keane is shocked when she lands a role in a major motion picture about the unsolved mystery of New Avalon\, an island on sprawling Lake Faraday in Vermont. She’s even more surprised when she learns that the role requires a weeklong research trip to that very spot. \nBecause New Avalon isn’t your ordinary island. A century ago\, it was a commune for spiritual mediums—until they all vanished in 1926. The only trace of them was five dresses hanging from the branches of an old oak tree in the middle of the island\, one for each missing woman. Some locals say they simply left. Others think they were murdered. But the prevailing opinion\, thanks to a diary left behind by one of the vanished\, a young woman named Daisy Rue\, is that a séance gone wrong conjured something supernatural that took them all one by one. \nNot long after arriving\, Marin and her castmates\, including legendary actress Violet Wright and white-hot director Ronan Peters\, begin to realize all is not right with New Avalon. They hear strange noises in the night and notice mysterious symbols left behind by the island’s previous occupants. And after a sudden health emergency leaves Marin\, Ronan\, and the other actors stranded on the island\, the disappearances begin again. \nIs it the work of someone trying to derail the movie? Or is the island’s alleged supernatural past catching up with the present? As fear and suspicion mount\, Marin turns to Daisy’s diary\, hoping it holds the key to figuring out what really happened to the women of New Avalon—and how to keep the island’s terrible history from repeating itself.
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SUMMARY:Dudes Book Club at Booktenders
DESCRIPTION:Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton \nAn astonishing technique for recovering and cloning dinosaur DNA has been discovered. Now humankind’s most thrilling fantasies have come true. Creatures extinct for eons roam Jurassic Park with their awesome presence and profound mystery\, and all the world can visit them—for a price. \nUntil something goes wrong. . . . \nIn Jurassic Park\, Michael Crichton taps all his mesmerizing talent and scientific brilliance to create his most electrifying technothriller.
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SUMMARY:Kids' Book Club at Booktenders
DESCRIPTION:Do you have a kiddo who likes to read? We have a great book club just for them. Bring your middle grade reader and let them hang out at book club while you sip on a beverage and browse our books. This month’s selection is Pax by Sara Pennypacker. Bekah does a great job at leading this club and your kid will have a great time and maybe make some new bookish pals
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LOCATION:Booktenders\, 621 Central Ave\, Barboursville\, WV\, 25504\, United States
CATEGORIES:Author Reading,Barboursville,Talk,Wine
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SUMMARY:Stories of Resilience Book Club at Booktenders
DESCRIPTION:Know My Name by Chanel Miller \nShe was known to the world as Emily Doe when she stunned millions with a letter. Brock Turner had been sentenced to just six months in county jail after he was found sexually assaulting her on Stanford’s campus. Her victim impact statement was posted on BuzzFeed\, where it instantly went viral–viewed by eleven million people within four days\, it was translated globally and read on the floor of Congress; it inspired changes in California law and the recall of the judge in the case. Thousands wrote to say that she had given them the courage to share their own experiences of assault for the first time. \nNow she reclaims her identity to tell her story of trauma\, transcendence\, and the power of words. It was the perfect case\, in many ways–there were eyewitnesses\, Turner ran away\, physical evidence was immediately secured. But her struggles with isolation and shame during the aftermath and the trial reveal the oppression victims face in even the best-case scenarios. Her story illuminates a culture biased to protect perpetrators\, indicts a criminal justice system designed to fail the most vulnerable\, and\, ultimately\, shines with the courage required to move through suffering and live a full and beautiful life. \nKnow My Name will forever transform the way we think about sexual assault\, challenging our beliefs about what is acceptable and speaking truth to the tumultuous reality of healing. It also introduces readers to an extraordinary writer\, one whose words have already changed our world. Entwining pain\, resilience\, and humor\, this memoir will stand as a modern classic.
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SUMMARY:Amy's Romance Book Club at Booktenders
DESCRIPTION:The Odds of You by Kate Dramis \nSage Collins knows a thing or two about odds. A year ago\, she was a data analyst until she burned it all down to pursue her dream of becoming an author. One whirlwind bestseller and a struggling second book later\, and Sage isn’t sure she’ll ever write a novel again. \nBut then an accidental encounter with an irritating passenger on the flight to Comic Con leaves Sage in an untested position. That passenger is Theo Sharpe: a breakout actor on the cusp of fame. And\, unfortunately\, the paparazzi have mistaken her for his girlfriend. \nArmed with signature British charm and a smile that could tame oceans\, Theo wears fame like a well-fit coat…though Sage can see there’s something deeper held in his eyes. But his fans are too involved in the drama\, the pressure to deliver the next bestseller is on\, and Sage and Theo both must agree there’s nothing between them. They don’t have to acknowledge that saying it doesn’t make it true. \nWhen Sage decides to flee to Scotland to clear her head and write her novel\, she expects to find fresh air and the stillness to think. What she doesn’t expect is Theo Sharpe come back into her life…and how he may be her greatest miscalculation of all.
URL:https://visithuntingtonwv.org/event/amys-romance-book-club-at-booktenders-11/
LOCATION:Booktenders\, 621 Central Ave\, Barboursville\, WV\, 25504\, United States
CATEGORIES:Author Reading,Barboursville,Talk,Wine
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SUMMARY:Weird Girl's Fiction Book Club at Booktenders
DESCRIPTION:Motherthing by Ainslie Hogarth \nWhen Ralph and Abby Lamb move in with Ralph’s mother\, Laura\, Abby hopes it’s just what she and her mother-in-law need to finally connect. After a traumatic childhood\, Abby is desperate for a mother figure\, especially now that she and Ralph are trying to become parents themselves. Abby just has so much love to give—to Ralph\, to Laura\, and to Mrs. Bondy\, her favorite resident at the long-term care home where she works. But Laura isn’t interested in bonding with her daughter-in-law. She’s venomous and cruel\, especially to Abby\, and life with her is hellish. \nWhen Laura takes her own life\, her ghost haunts Abby and Ralph in very different ways: Ralph is plunged into depression\, and Abby is terrorized by a force intent on destroying everything she loves. To make matters worse\, Mrs. Bondy’s daughter is threatening to move Mrs. Bondy from the home\, leaving Abby totally alone. With everything on the line\, Abby comes up with a chilling plan that will allow her to keep Mrs. Bondy\, rescue Ralph from his tortured mind\, and break Laura’s hold on the family for good. All it requires is a little ingenuity\, a lot of determination\, and a unique recipe for chicken à la king…
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SUMMARY:Ashley's Fiction Book Club at Booktenders
DESCRIPTION:A Good Hard Look by Ann Napolitano \nForced by illness to leave behind a successful life in New York\, literary icon Flannery O’Connor has returned to her family farm in the small town of Milledgeville\, Georgia. With her health and time both limited\, all she wants is to be left alone to write. \nBut Flannery’s plans are soon upended by Melvin Whiteson\, a banker from Manhattan who has recently married the town belle. Melvin is at loose ends with his new life; though he has every opportunity\, he’s not sure where to begin. Flannery knows exactly what she wants\, but is running out of time. Through their unusual and clandestine friendship\, both will come to reflect on the decisions they have made and the paths they have chosen. \nLiterary history and fiction gracefully intersect in this emotionally charged novel of small town Southern life from one of our most beloved novelists\, which asks us all to consider how we can live our lives to the fullest.
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SUMMARY:Dude Book Club at Booktenders
DESCRIPTION:Frankenstein by Mary Shelley \n“I saw the pale student of unhallowed arts kneeling beside the thing he had put together. I saw the hideous phantasm of a man stretched out\, and then\, on the working of some powerful engine\, show signs of life and stir with an uneasy\, half-vital motion.” \nA summer evening’s ghost stories\, lonely insomnia in a moonlit Alpine room\, and a runaway imagination—fired by philosophical discussions with Lord Byron and Percy Bysshe Shelley about science\, galvanism\, and the origins of life—conspired to produce for Mary Shelley this haunting night specter. By morning it had become the germ of her Romantic masterpiece about the ambitious scientist Victor Frankenstein and the monstrous creature he created. \nWritten in 1816\, when she was only nineteen\, Mary Shelley’s novel of “The Modern Prometheus” chillingly dramatized the dangerous potential of life begotten upon a laboratory table. A frightening creation myth for our own time\, Frankenstein remains one of the greatest horror stories ever written and is an undisputed classic of its kind.
URL:https://visithuntingtonwv.org/event/dude-book-club-at-booktenders-5/
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CATEGORIES:Author Reading,Barboursville
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SUMMARY:Kid's Book Club at Booktenders
DESCRIPTION:Because of Winn-Dixie by Kate DiCamillo \nAn unforgettable first novel about coming of age one sweet summer-and learning to love what you have. \nThe summer Opal and her father\, the preacher\, move to Naomi\, Florida\, Opal goes into the Winn-Dixie supermarket-and comes out with a dog. A big\, ugly\, suffering dog with a sterling sense of humor. A dog she dubs Winn-Dixie. Because of Winn-Dixie\, the preacher tells Opal ten things about her absent mother\, one for each year Opal has been alive. Winn-Dixie is better at making friends than anyone Opal has ever known\, and together they meet the local librarian\, Miss Franny Block\, who once fought off a bear with a copy of WAR AND PEACE. They meet Gloria Dump\, who is nearly blind but sees with her heart\, and Otis\, an ex-con who sets the animals in his pet shop loose after hours\, then lulls them with his guitar. \nOpal spends all that sweet summer collecting stories about her new friends and thinking about her mother. But because of Winn-Dixie or perhaps because she has grown\, Opal learns to let go\, just a little\, and that friendship-and forgiveness-can sneak up on you like a sudden summer storm.
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SUMMARY:Author Kate Price at Booktenders
DESCRIPTION:Join us for an afternoon with Kate Price to celebrate the paperback release of her powerful memoir “This Happened to Me.” Follow the link for tickets below to secure your spot—the cost of the ticket includes a copy of the book. If you already own the book\, that will serve as your ticket. If you would like to discuss the book with other prior to the event\, the Stories of Resilience book club will be meeting on August 19th at Booktenders at 5:30 to do so.\nhttps://withfriends.co/…/2868…/author_event_w_kate_priceKate Price grew up in a small mill town in central Pennsylvania with her sister and parents in northern Appalachia. At the insistence of her mother\, and through her academic accomplishments\, Price escaped the unbroken cycles of poverty\, violence\, addiction\, mental illness\, and abuse that had plagued her family for generations. She started a new life in Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, in pursuit of her master’s and PhD. But despite having left this dark world behind\, it still kept a firm grip on her.\nOvercome with unexplainable grief and sadness and having sustained a series of hazy flashbacks accompanied by a “chilling of her blood and uncomfortable feeling in her bones\,” Price sought out Dr. van der Kolk\, a trauma specialist\, to help heal her constant emotional pain through EMDR therapy. When Price\, whose brain had been protecting her by shutting out these horrific memories\, felt safe enough\, she along with van der Kolk as her guide\, discovered what that darkness that lay within her was. Her father had abused and trafficked her as a child.\nPrice grappled with what had been revealed. Did this really happen to her? How could a parent do this to a child? A dedicated researcher and academic\, she knew she needed confirmation\, proof that what she had remembered had happened. And so began a 10-year quest alongside a journalist\, to prove what Price knew to be her truth. With many trips back to the hometown she thought she had left forever\, the two eventually found the hard-earned evidence Price had been searching for.
URL:https://visithuntingtonwv.org/event/author-kate-price-at-booktenders/
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SUMMARY:Ashley's Fiction Book Club at Booktenders
DESCRIPTION:Typewriter Beach by Meg Waite Clayton \nSet in Carmel-by-the-Sea and Hollywood\, Typewriter Beach is an unforgettable story of the unlikely friendship between an Oscar-nominated screenwriter and a young actress hoping to be Alfred Hitchcock’s new star. \n1957. Isabella Giori is ten months into a standard seven-year studio contract when she auditions with Hitchcock. Just weeks later\, she is sequestered by the studio’s “fixer” in a tiny Carmel cottage\, waiting and dreading. \nMeanwhile\, next door\, Léon Chazan is annoyed as hell when Iz interrupts his work on yet another screenplay he won’t be able to sell\, because he’s been blacklisted. Soon\, they’re together in his roadster\, speeding down the fog-shrouded Big Sur coast. \n2018. Twenty-six-year-old screenwriter Gemma Chazan\, in Carmel to sell her grandfather’s cottage\, finds a hidden safe full of secrets—raising questions about who the screenwriter known simply as Chazan really was\, and whether she can live up to his name
URL:https://visithuntingtonwv.org/event/ashleys-fiction-book-club-at-booktenders-6/
LOCATION:Booktenders\, 621 Central Ave\, Barboursville\, WV\, 25504\, United States
CATEGORIES:Author Reading,Barboursville
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SUMMARY:Amy's Romance Book Club at Booktenders
DESCRIPTION:Pen Pal by J.T. Geissinger \nThe first letter arrived the day my husband was buried. It was postmarked from the state penitentiary\, and contained a single sentence: \nI’ll wait forever if I have to. \nIt was signed by Dante\, a man I didn’t know.\nOut of simple curiosity\, I wrote back to ask him what exactly he was waiting for. His reply? \nYou. \nI told the mystery man he had the wrong girl. He said he didn’t. I said we’d never met\, but he said I was wrong.\nWe went back and forth\, exchanging letters every week that grew increasingly more intimate. Then one day\, the letters stopped. When I found out why\, it was already too late. Dante was at my doorstep. And nothing on earth could have prepared me for what happened next
URL:https://visithuntingtonwv.org/event/amys-romance-book-club-at-booktenders-10/
LOCATION:Booktenders\, 621 Central Ave\, Barboursville\, WV\, 25504\, United States
CATEGORIES:Author Reading,Barboursville
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20260813T173000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20260813T190000
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SUMMARY:Tobi Doyle's Book Release at Booktenders
DESCRIPTION:Come join Tobi and celebrate the release of Ales and Alibis – the second book in the Pour Decisions series. She’s bringing books\, swag\, and who knows what else and Booktenders has drinks.\nAles & Alibis: When the mayor turns up dead and a violent ghost haunts her basement\, pub owner Wanda Atkins must solve a murder on one leg—literally.\n\n“The cast of lovable characters\, paired with the cozy coastal setting\, creates an inviting atmosphere that’s easy to get lost in. With a tight-knit community full of gossip\, suspicion\, secrets\, and just a hint of superstition\, the story captures everything that makes a cozy mystery so enjoyable. Picking up this book definitely won’t be a “pour” decision.”-Kylie Forsythe\, author of Murder at the Agency
URL:https://visithuntingtonwv.org/event/tobi-doyles-book-release-at-booktenders/
LOCATION:Booktenders\, 621 Central Ave\, Barboursville\, WV\, 25504\, United States
CATEGORIES:Author Reading,Barboursville
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20260806T173000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20260806T190000
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SUMMARY:Jarod Anderson & Justin McElroy at Booktenders
DESCRIPTION:Come to the shop to meet The CryptoNaturalist and author Jarod Anderson. We will have both of his books in stock. “Strange Animals” is a contemporary fantasy novel about an ordinary man named Green who\, after a near-death experience\, discovers a hidden world of supernatural creatures in the Appalachian mountains. “Something in the Woods Loves You” is an inspiring blend of nature writing and memoir that explores nature’s crucial role in our emotional and mental health. \nYou can pre-order both titles through our website or in person to ensure that you get a book if you want one. \nJarod will be in conversation with Justin McElroy.
URL:https://visithuntingtonwv.org/event/jarod-anderson-justin-mcelroy-at-booktenders/
LOCATION:Booktenders\, 621 Central Ave\, Barboursville\, WV\, 25504\, United States
CATEGORIES:Author Reading,Barboursville,Free,Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20260729T150000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20260729T180000
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SUMMARY:Classic Lit Book Club at Booktenders
DESCRIPTION:In Cold Blood by Truman Capote \nOn November 15\, 1959\, in the small town of Holcomb\, Kansas\, four members of the Clutter family were savagely murdered by blasts from a shotgun held a few inches from their faces. There was no apparent motive for the crime\, and there were almost no clues. \nIn one of the first non-fiction novels ever written\, Truman Capote reconstructs the murder and the investigation that led to the capture\, trial\, and execution of the killers\, generating both mesmerizing suspense and astonishing empathy. In Cold Blood is a work that transcends its moment\, yielding poignant insights into the nature of American violence.
URL:https://visithuntingtonwv.org/event/classic-lit-book-club-at-booktenders-2/
LOCATION:Booktenders\, 621 Central Ave\, Barboursville\, WV\, 25504\, United States
CATEGORIES:Author Reading,Barboursville,Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20260728T173000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20260728T190000
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SUMMARY:Dude Book Club at Booktenders
DESCRIPTION:The Visions by Tom King \nThe android Avenger known as the Vision wants to be human — and what’s more human than family? So he heads back to the beginning — to the laboratory where Ultron created him as a weapon. The place where he first rebelled against his destiny and imagined that he could be more — that he could be a man. There\, he builds them. A wife\, Virginia. Teenage twins\, Viv and Vin. They look like him. They have his powers. They share his grandest ambition (or obsession): the unrelenting need to be ordinary. Behold the Visions! Theirs is a story of togetherness and tragedy — one that will set the former Avenger on course for a devastating confrontation with Earth’s Mightiest Heroes. Acclaimed creators Tom King and Gabriel Hernandez Walta present one of the 21st century’s most celebrated Marvel comics!
URL:https://visithuntingtonwv.org/event/dude-book-club-at-booktenders-4/
LOCATION:Booktenders\, 621 Central Ave\, Barboursville\, WV\, 25504\, United States
CATEGORIES:Author Reading,Barboursville,Talk
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20260723T190000
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SUMMARY:Author Pamela Steele at Booktenders
DESCRIPTION:Join us for our second author in the Voices of Appalachian Women series with Pamela Steele! The book is including in the price of the ticket. If you’ve already purchased the book then that is your ticket.\n\nFor enjoyers of Jeannette Walls and Barbara Kingsolver\, a young couple is torn apart by both global conflict and their families’ ancient feud in this love story set in rural Appalachia during the Vietnam War.\nIn late 1960s Appalachia\, many things loom darkly over June Branham: the Vietnam War is dividing the country\, and a strip mine is eating away the mountain at the head of the holler where she lives\, threatening the natural landscape and the only way of life she has ever known. While still in high school\, June has fallen in love. She is pregnant\, and the father may be Ellis Akers. Ellis is the son of Solomon\, a mortal enemy of June’s stepfather\, Isom. The feud is so old it fuels two vengeful men with the power of long animosity between rival families.\nJune’s brother\, Tom\, leaves to enlist in the war\, and so does Ellis. Suddenly\, June is on her own at sixteen with a newborn\, and is a mother unable to protect her daughter from the wrath of Isom. Without warning\, her baby is kidnapped. Guided by her love for the generations of women before her\, but now desperately alone\, June must carefully navigate the search for her child alongside family and strangers in a wild and disappearing landscape.\nIn the Fields of the Fatherless Children is a powerful story of love and perseverance\, masterfully told by a writer of exquisite care who knows intimately the rural people of this time and place.
URL:https://visithuntingtonwv.org/event/author-pamela-steele-at-booktenders/
LOCATION:Booktenders\, 621 Central Ave\, Barboursville\, WV\, 25504\, United States
CATEGORIES:Author Reading,Barboursville,Talk,Writing
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20260722T190000
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SUMMARY:Fright Book Club at Booktenders
DESCRIPTION:Carrie by Stephen King \nUnpopular at school and subjected to her mother’s religious fanaticism at home\, Carrie White does not have it easy. But while she may be picked on by her classmates\, she has a gift she’s kept secret since she was a little girl: she can move things with her mind. Doors lock. Candles fall. Her ability has been both a power and a problem. And when she finds herself the recipient of a sudden act of kindness\, Carrie feels like she’s finally been given a chance to be normal. She hopes that the nightmare of her classmates’ vicious taunts is over . . . but an unexpected and cruel prank turns her gift into a weapon of horror so destructive that the town may never recover.
URL:https://visithuntingtonwv.org/event/fright-book-club-at-booktenders-6/
LOCATION:Booktenders\, 621 Central Ave\, Barboursville\, WV\, 25504\, United States
CATEGORIES:Author Reading,Barboursville,Talk
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20260721T190000
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SUMMARY:Amy's Romance Book Club at Booktenders
DESCRIPTION:My Boyfriend is a Swamp Monster  by Paige Lavoie \nA struggling songwriter returns to her childhood summer camp and comes face-to-face with the imaginary boy from her past-and a second chance she never believed was real. \nMarina is used to being overlooked. She works at her manipulative aunt’s boutique\, writing songs on a broken keyboard and spending her free time with her grandmother. Her last close friend was a boy from summer camp years ago\, but he was imaginary\, so he doesn’t count. When Marina lands an audition that could change everything\, her Grams pushes her to find inspiration where it all started. Armed with an old camp notebook\, Marina returns to the now-abandoned campground\, hoping to write one good song. Instead\, she meets a handsome stranger. \nGil has never forgotten the girl who made his summers full of sunlight. He remembers the snacks she shared with him\, the songs she wrote\, and the promise he made to always come back for her. But he wasn’t prepared for the wave of emotions he felt when she came back. Eager to keep his second chance from slipping away\, Gil spends the weekend with Marina\, hoping she’ll realize he’s the boy she imagined all those years ago. \nTogether\, they return to a time where the summer is magic and the days are never ending. Marina can’t help but wonder if Gil is real\, then maybe happy endings are too.
URL:https://visithuntingtonwv.org/event/amys-romance-book-club-at-booktenders-9/
LOCATION:Booktenders\, 621 Central Ave\, Barboursville\, WV\, 25504\, United States
CATEGORIES:Author Reading,Barboursville,Talk
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SUMMARY:Ashley's Fiction Book Club at Booktenders
DESCRIPTION:Ending by Maria Riva \nUkraine\, 2022. Yeva is a maverick scientist who scours the country’s forests\, trying and failing to breed rare snails. To fund her work\, she entertains Westerners who come to Ukraine on guided romance tours believing they’ll find docile wives. Nastia and Solomiya are also entangled in the booming marriage industry\, posing as a hopeful bride and her translator. Together\, the three women embark on the journey of a lifetime with a truckful of kidnapped bachelors and a last-of-his-kind snail—that is\, until Russia invades. \nA darkly comic novel\, Endling draws on Reva’s own experiences as a Ukrainian expat tracking her family’s delicate dance of survival behind enemy lines. As fiction and reality collide on the page\, she probes the hard truths of war: What stories must we tell ourselves to survive? Once shattered\, can our sense of normalcy and security ever be restored? Endling is a metafictional tour de force weaving love\, loss\, humor\, and devastation in a story only this author can tell.
URL:https://visithuntingtonwv.org/event/ashleys-fiction-book-club-at-booktenders-5/
LOCATION:Booktenders\, 621 Central Ave\, Barboursville\, WV\, 25504\, United States
CATEGORIES:Author Reading,Barboursville,Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20260714T173000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20260714T190000
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SUMMARY:Kids Book Club at Booktenders
DESCRIPTION:Odder\, the Novel by Katherine Applegate \nMeet Odder\, the Queen of Play: \nNobody has her moves.\nShe doesn’t just swim to the bottom\,\nshe dive-bombs.\nShe doesn’t just somersault\,\nshe triple-doughnuts.\nShe doesn’t just ride the waves\,\nshe makes them. \nOdder spends her days off the coast of central California\, practicing her underwater acrobatics and spinning the quirky stories for which she’s known. She’s a fearless daredevil\, curious to a fault. But when Odder comes face-to-face with a hungry great white shark\, her life takes a dramatic turn\, one that will challenge everything she believes about herself―and about the humans who hope to save her. \nInspired by the true story of a Monterey Bay Aquarium program that pairs orphaned otter pups with surrogate mothers\, this poignant and humorous tale told in free verse examines bravery and healing through the eyes of one of nature’s most beloved and charming animals.
URL:https://visithuntingtonwv.org/event/kids-book-club-at-booktenders-2/
LOCATION:Booktenders\, 621 Central Ave\, Barboursville\, WV\, 25504\, United States
CATEGORIES:Author Reading,Barboursville,Talk
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20260709T190000
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SUMMARY:Stories of Resilience Book Club at Booktenders
DESCRIPTION:I’m Glad My Mom Died by Jenette McCurdy \nJennette McCurdy was six years old when she had her first acting audition. Her mother’s dream was for her only daughter to become a star\, and Jennette would do anything to make her mother happy. So she went along with what Mom called “calorie restriction\,” eating little and weighing herself five times a day. She endured extensive at-home makeovers while Mom chided\, “Your eyelashes are invisible\, okay? You think Dakota Fanning doesn’t tint hers?” She was even showered by Mom until age sixteen while sharing her diaries\, email\, and all her income. \nIn I’m Glad My Mom Died\, Jennette recounts all this in unflinching detail—just as she chronicles what happens when the dream finally comes true. Cast in a new Nickelodeon series called iCarly\, she is thrust into fame. Though Mom is ecstatic\, emailing fan club moderators and getting on a first-name basis with the paparazzi (“Hi Gale!”)\, Jennette is riddled with anxiety\, shame\, and self-loathing\, which manifest into eating disorders\, addiction\, and a series of unhealthy relationships. These issues only get worse when\, soon after taking the lead in the iCarly spinoff Sam & Cat alongside Ariana Grande\, her mother dies of cancer. Finally\, after discovering therapy and quitting acting\, Jennette embarks on recovery and decides for the first time in her life what she really wants.
URL:https://visithuntingtonwv.org/event/stories-of-resilience-book-club-at-booktenders/
LOCATION:Booktenders\, 621 Central Ave\, Barboursville\, WV\, 25504\, United States
CATEGORIES:Author Reading,Barboursville,Talk
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20260624T190000
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SUMMARY:Fright Book Club at Booktenders
DESCRIPTION:The  Elementals by Michael McDowell \nAfter a bizarre and disturbing incident at the funeral of matriarch Marian Savage\, the McCray and Savage families look forward to a restful and relaxing summer at Beldame\, on Alabama’s Gulf Coast\, where three Victorian houses loom over the shimmering beach. Two of the houses are habitable\, while the third is slowly and mysteriously being buried beneath an enormous dune of blindingly white sand. But though long uninhabited\, the third house is not empty. Inside\, something deadly lies in wait. Something that has terrified Dauphin Savage and Luker McCray since they were boys and which still haunts their nightmares. Something horrific that may be responsible for several terrible and unexplained deaths years earlier – and is now ready to kill again …
URL:https://visithuntingtonwv.org/event/fright-book-club-at-booktenders-5/
LOCATION:Booktenders\, 621 Central Ave\, Barboursville\, WV\, 25504\, United States
CATEGORIES:Author Reading,Barboursville,Talk
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20260623T190000
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SUMMARY:Dude Book Club at Booktenders
DESCRIPTION:Guards! Guards! by Terry Pratchett \nInsurrection is in the air in the city of Ankh-Morpork. The Haves and Have-Nots are about to face off. Again. \nIt’s old news to Captain Sam Vimes of the city’s ramshackle Night Watch. But this time\, slomething is different—the Have-Nots have found the key to a dormant\, lethal weapon that even they can’t fully control\, and they’re about to unleash a campaign of terror on the city. \nLong believed extinct\, a draco nobilis can now be seen patrolling the skies above Discworld’s greatest city. Not only does this unwelcome visitor have a nasty habit of charbroiling everything in its path\, but it’s also soon crowned King. \nCan Vimes\, Captain Carrot\, and the rest of the Ankh-Morpork City Watch restore order (before it’s burned to a crisp)?
URL:https://visithuntingtonwv.org/event/dude-book-club-at-booktenders-3/
LOCATION:Booktenders\, 621 Central Ave\, Barboursville\, WV\, 25504\, United States
CATEGORIES:Author Reading,Barboursville,Talk
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20260619T190000
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SUMMARY:M Lynne Squires Book Launch at Booktenders
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the launch of the new book by M. Lynne Squires. The author will read from the book\, answer questions and sign your book. And light refreshments will be served! Price of ticket includes a copy of the book. \n  \n“River of Silence” is about Anastasia\, a woman who becomes severely depressed in the early days of her motherhood. Her family becomes worried when Anastasia begins to hear voices and\, this being in the 1950’s\, decide that the best place for Anastasia to get help is in an asylum. Instead of a cure\, a horror story unfolds behind the walls of Salinger-Whiteside as shock treatments and talk of a lobotomy occur. \n  \nThe story of Anastasia\, sadly immersed in a river of silence\, is told through family\, work friends\, other patients\, and asylum staff. What unfolds is the reality of mental health care for women 70 years ago and little removed from our experiences today. Consider is your sanity came under question and decisions made for you became a true existential threat to your life?
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LOCATION:Booktenders\, 621 Central Ave\, Barboursville\, WV\, 25504\, United States
CATEGORIES:Author Reading,Barboursville,Talk
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SUMMARY:Ashley's Fiction Book Club at Booktenders
DESCRIPTION:Trespasses by Louise Kennedy \nAmid daily reports of violence\, Cushla lives a quiet life with her mother in a small town near Belfast\, teaching at a parochial school and moonlighting at her family’s pub. There she meets Michael Agnew\, a Protestant barrister who’s made a name for himself defending IRA members. Against her better judgment\, Cushla lets herself get drawn in by him and his sophisticated world\, and an affair ignites. Then the father of a student is savagely beaten\, setting in motion a chain reaction that will threaten everything\, and everyone\, Cushla most wants to protect.
URL:https://visithuntingtonwv.org/event/ashleys-fiction-book-club-at-booktenders-4/
LOCATION:Booktenders\, 621 Central Ave\, Barboursville\, WV\, 25504\, United States
CATEGORIES:Author Reading,Barboursville,Talk
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SUMMARY:Amy's Romance Book Club at Booktenders
DESCRIPTION:The Boyfriend Subscription by Steven Salvatore \nWhat happens when a simple deal gets…complicated? After losing his marriage and his beloved retail plant business\, Teddy Hughes is ready to drown his sorrows—or would be\, if he could afford another beer in his favorite dive bar. He has no choice but to uproot his dreams and leave New York for good. And then a gorgeous stranger walks in with cheekbones that could cut glass and a confidence that leaves Teddy panting. \nLike the leather harness he wears under his designer suit\, Cole Vivien is a mass of contradictions. He’s a successful entrepreneur whose app\, VERSTL\, allows consumers and sex workers to form real—if temporary—connections. But now Cole is in the unfamiliar position of needing something from someone else. A fake boyfriend can help Cole project a more traditional image for a potential investor. And Teddy—shy\, smart and so much hotter than he knows—is perfect for the part. Maybe too perfect. \nCole just has two conditions: no kissing and no falling in love. In exchange for one week together\, Teddy will get enough money to get back on his feet\, and no messy feelings will be in the mix. \nBut some rules are made to be broken…
URL:https://visithuntingtonwv.org/event/amys-romance-book-club-at-booktenders-8/
LOCATION:Booktenders\, 621 Central Ave\, Barboursville\, WV\, 25504\, United States
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