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Science Fiction Book Club (Remote)

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

TO ATTEND: 1) Purchase the book club book to support our shop. If you already own the book you may purchase a gift certificate or sponsor a stack for $15 or $25 dollars depending on if the book club book is paperback or hardcover. 2) Email us after your purchase that you plan on attending and we'll provide the password. The Books Around the Corner Science Fiction Book Club meets monthly on the third Tuesday of every month at 6:30PM. We would like to extend an invitation to all of our science fiction loving customers. Join us January 19th for our Books Around the Corner Science Fiction Book Club. We will discuss Wanderers by Chuck Wendig. About the Book: Shana wakes up one morning to…

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$15 – $25

True Crime Book Club (Remote)

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

TO ATTEND: 1) Purchase the book club book to support our shop. If you already own the book you may purchase a gift certificate or sponsor a stack for $15 or $25 dollars depending on if the book club book is paperback or hardcover. 2) Email us after your purchase that you plan on attending and we'll provide the password. The True Crime Book Club is led by the true crime aficionado Rachel Newton Cumley. We would like to extend an invitation to all of our true crime enthusiasts. Our book discussions aim to bring people together to talk about books in a safe and inviting atmosphere. Join us on Wednesday January 20th at 6:30pm for True Crime Book Club. This month's pick is The…

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$15 – $25

Page Turner Book Club (Remote)

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

TO ATTEND: 1) Purchase the book club book to support our shop. If you already own the book you may purchase a gift certificate or sponsor a stack for $15 or $25 dollars depending on if the book club book is paperback or hardcover. 2) Email us after your purchase that you plan on attending and we'll provide the password. Join us on January 21st for Page Turner Book Club. We will discuss The Last Flight by Julie Clark. Two women. Two flights. One last chance to disappear. Claire Cook has a perfect life. Married to the scion of a political dynasty, with a Manhattan townhouse and a staff of ten, her surroundings are elegant, her days flawlessly choreographed, and her future auspicious. But behind…

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$15 – $25

Young Adult Book Club (Remote)

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

TO ATTEND: 1) Purchase the book club book to support our shop. If you already own the book you may purchase a gift certificate or sponsor a stack for $15 or $25 dollars depending on if the book club book is paperback or hardcover. 2) Email us after your purchase that you plan on attending and we'll provide the password. Join us on January 26th at 6:30pm for our next Young Adult Book Club. We will discuss The Shadow Between Us by Tricia Levenseller. About the Book: "They've never found the body of the first and only boy who broke my heart. And they never will." Alessandra is tired of being overlooked, but she has a plan to gain power: 1) Woo the Shadow King.…

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$15 – $25

Two Rivers Virtual Book Club January

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

Who is ready to kick 2020 to the curb? We are! January 2021 is a special edition of Book Club, a year-end BYOB (Bring Your Own Book) Reading Roundup where we invite you to bring a favorite book that you read this year, any genre! Each participant will get a chance to talk about their selection. In addition to bringing a book that you loved, you are also welcome to bring a book that you hated! That should make for some fun discussion. Check your email for the Zoom link!

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Fiction Addiction Book Club (Remote)

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

TO ATTEND: 1) Purchase the book club book to support our shop. If you already own the book you may purchase a gift certificate or sponsor a stack for $15 or $25 dollars depending on if the book club book is paperback or hardcover. 2) Email us after your purchase that you plan on attending and we'll provide the password. SIGN COPIES ON OUR WEBSITE WHILE SUPPLIES LAST! Join us for the January meeting of the Fiction Addiction Book Club on January 27th at 6:30pm. We will discuss Memorial by Bryan Washington. About the Book: A funny and profound story about family in all its strange forms, joyful and hard-won vulnerability, becoming who you're supposed to be, and the limits of love. Benson and Mike…

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$15 – $25

Horror Book Club (Remote)

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

TO ATTEND: 1) Purchase the book club book to support our shop. If you already own the book you may purchase a gift certificate or sponsor a stack for $15 or $25 dollars depending on if the book club book is paperback or hardcover. 2) Email us after your purchase that you plan on attending and we'll provide the password. The Books Around the Corner Horror Book Club is led by the owner/librarian, Stephanie Rose, and meets monthly on the fourth Thursday of every month at 6:30PM. We would like to extend an invitation to all of our horror loving customers . Our book discussions aim to bring people together to talk about books in a safe and inviting atmosphere. Come and enjoy a lively…

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$15 – $25

Romance Book Club (Remote)

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

Our book discussions aim to bring people together to talk about books in a safe and inviting atmosphere. Our meetings are lovely and inclusive; we invite you to attend. Come and enjoy a lively discussion about the chosen book with other readers. Join us on February 4th 6:30pm for our Romance Book Club. We will discuss The Flatshare by Beth O'Leary. About the book: What if your roommate is your soul mate? A joyful, quirky romantic comedy, Beth O'Leary's The Flatshare is a feel-good novel about finding love in the most unexpected of ways. Tiffy and Leon share an apartment. Tiffy and Leon have never met. After a bad breakup, Tiffy Moore needs a place to live. Fast. And cheap. But the apartments in her…

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$15 – $25

Fantasy Book Club

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

We will discuss The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V E Schwab. About the book: A Life No One Will Remember. A Story You Will Never Forget. France, 1714: in a moment of desperation, a young woman makes a Faustian bargain to live forever--and is cursed to be forgotten by everyone she meets. Thus begins the extraordinary life of Addie LaRue, and a dazzling adventure that will play out across centuries and continents, across history and art, as a young woman learns how far she will go to leave her mark on the world. But everything changes when, after nearly 300 years, Addie stumbles across a young man in a hidden bookstore and he remembers her name. TO ATTEND: 1) Purchase the book club…

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$15 – $25

Science Fiction Book Club (Remote)

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

We will discuss Hench by Natalie Zina Walschots. About the Book: his debut is a hilariously sly indictment of our knee-jerk ideas of good and bad, asking pointed questions about the cost of "justice." Anna is a "Hench"--a data science temp who helps super villains operate at the cutting edge of evil. Anna rationalizes that being a cog in the villain machine isn't that different than being a cog in the corporate machine. When she becomes collateral damage and is badly injured during a superhero rescue, she (of course) gets laid off. Broke, angry and bedbound, she starts a website that calculates the human cost of the mayhem superheroes wreak upon the world. Once she gets into the weeds of the data, it's clear that…

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$15 – $25
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