In this groundbreaking, bestselling graphic memoir, Alison Bechdel charts her fraught relationship with her late father. In her hands, personal history becomes a work of amazing subtlety and power, written with controlled force and enlivened with humor, rich literary allusion, and heartbreaking detail.
Tilly Nightingale receives an unexpected gift from the man she loved and lost—a year of books, one for every month—launching a reading-inspired journey to live, dream, and love again in this glimmering and heart-stopping novel.
Twelve books. Twelve months. One chance to heal her heart…
*A percentage of proceeds from book sales and registration benefit Furever After Rescue.
Popular meals and snacks are transformed into down-sized one-bite wonders that are big on presentation as well as bold in taste. Ideas for fresh light bites come from all around the globe, with modern takes on traditional dishes inspired by Mediterranean, Scandinavian, Middle Eastern, Indian, Asian, and American cuisines. And for those with a sweet tooth, there are plenty of mini desserts here too, from light and fruity mouthfuls to rich and indulgent bites. Also included are expert menu planners to help you serve the perfect number and selection of cold and hot canapés, matched to the occasion, season and venue—whether it’s a festive candlelit cocktail party or an al fresco drinks reception at a summer wedding.
*Come by the bookstore and choose a recipe to share potluck-style.
What is the true meaning of family? Imogene Good finds herself wrestling with this question when, still grieving her mother’s death, she abandons a promising teaching career to open a boarding house in the near-lawless oil boomtown of Borger, Texas. Alone.
The business thrives, love arrives in the form of a mysterious Texas Ranger, and Imogene takes in a stray dog and a runaway cousin from the Good family farm in East Texas. But months later, as fatigue, mounting threats, and violence against her business threaten to overwhelm her, she finds refuge in the contents of a trunk she carted to town after her mother’s death.
*Author, Teddy Jones, will join us via Zoom. Bring your questions!
Registration: February 22 – March 20
Join Bear’s Books and The Food Section this spring for a competition like no other. Get ready to Stir the Pot and test your culinary literature knowledge! You’ll go head-to-head in a battle of the (cook)books against other teams of four to claim the glory and the grand prize.
Register your team of four and start reading the list of six selections of books, including cookbooks, food fiction, literary histories, personal memoirs, and true crime. Then test your knowledge and truly battle it out at quiz-bowl style gatherings around town in June. Teams will score their way to the final round to be crowned Kings and Queens of the Kitchen.
Registration is $40 per team of four. Teams will compete for a grand prize in June with qualifying quiz-bowl style question competitions leading up the final showdown.
Stir the Pot Book Bundle (all six titles, plus tax & shipping) $150
And a Bottle of Rum by Wayne Curtis $26 (includes tax & shipping)
On Barbecue by John Shelton Reed $26 (includes tax & shipping)
The Elephant in the Room by Tommy Tomlinson $25 (includes tax & shipping)
American Soul: The Black History of Food in the United States by Anela Malik $48 (includes tax & shipping)
Bitter in the Mouth by Monica Truong $29 (includes tax & shipping)
Whisper to the Black Candle by Jaclyn Weldon White $23 (includes tax & shipping)
In this unflinching and moving memoir, John T. Edge takes us on a quest for home in a South that has both held him close and pushed him away, as he tries and fails and tries again to write the stories he inherited.
Many of you attended John T. Edge’s event at the Hay House this fall, the hometown launch of House of Smoke. Now, John T will join us via Zoom to discuss and answer questions about his memoir. Plus, we’ll have a special recipe mentioned in the book for you to sample. You don’t want to miss this opportunity to talk to one of our most articulate, insightful Southern writers.
Cost $25, includes tracker, kickoff party, closeout party, and prizes along the way
Participants receive a 10% discount on purchases with tracker for the duration of the program.
Our goal is to read 12 books, and there are two options: Read 12 books with “winter” in the title from our list including several genres, or read 12 books of your choice.
The completed tracker is due on Friday, March 20th and enters participants in a drawing for a cozy winter basket.
His name is Theo. And he asks a lot more questions than he answers.
Theo visits the local coffeehouse, where ninety-two pencil portraits hang on the walls, portraits of the people of Golden drawn by a local artist. He begins purchasing them, one at a time, and putting them back in the hands of their “rightful owners.” With each exchange, a story is told, a friendship born, and a life altered.
Join us for a discussion, light refreshments, and a cuddle with rescue pup, Clara!
Guy Montag is a fireman. His job is to destroy the most illegal of commodities, the printed book, along with the houses in which they are hidden. Montag never questions the destruction and ruin his actions produce, returning each day to his bland life and wife, Mildred who spends all day with her television “family.” But when he meets an eccentric young neighbor, Clarisse, who introduces him to a past where people didn’t live in fear and to a present where one sees the world through the ideas in books instead of the mindless chatter of television. Montag begins to question everything he has ever known.
Did you resolve to eat healthier foods in the new year? Wondering what a breakfast salad is? Take a look at this beautiful book organized by seasons. You’ll find pantry staples, tips on mindfulness, even music to make salads by.
Join us for a potluck-style meal. Come by the store and choose a salad to make from the book, or bring your favorite soup, and email the recipe to us.
When beautiful, unmarried Vianne Rocher sweeps into the little French town of Lasquenet on the heels of the carnival and opens a chocolate shop across the square from the church, she begins to wreak havoc with the town’s Lenten vows. Her uncanny ability to perceive her customers’ private discontents and alleviate them with just the right confection coaxes the villagers to abandon themselves to temptation and happiness, but enrages the local priest. Certain only a witch could stir such sinful indulgence and devise such clever cures, Father Francis pits himself against Vianne and vows to block the chocolate festival she plans for Easter Sunday, and to run her out of town forever. Witch or not, (she’ll never tell), Vianne soon sparks a dramatic confrontation between those who prefer the cold comforts of the church and those who revel in their newly discovered taste for pleasure.
Cost $10
Light refreshments provided
Do you like all things paper, journals, scrapbooks, stickers . . .? Looking for a new, creative venture outside of social media? Join us for a Junk Journaling Workshop! BYOJ (journal, junk) and lots of imagination! Kenzie will show you how to use your “junk” to create a unique spread that represents YOU!
*Optional: Bring stickers, washi tape, stamps, etc. to swap!