Join us for First Friday's Open Mic, every first Friday of the month! Come in a few minutes before start time to sign-up if you wish to read - time slots are usually 5-10mins long depending on participation.

Have a poem you want to share? A short story you want to workshop? What about reciting some gorgeous writing from a book you love? Join us for our monthly OPEN MIC as we gather to celebrate and support our collective creativity, risk-taking, and generosity. (18+ as some material may be challenging for youthful ears. Stay tuned, though, as we’re planning to host quarterly family open mics for the younger writers among us!)

We are excited to welcome back Family Story Time as a mainstay here at Glendora Bookshop! Every Friday morning from 11-11:30am EST we will hold a themed Story Time for you and your little ones to enjoy, so be sure to come on down to the shop!

Help us spread the word for this fun-filled family event, and thank you as always for supporting your local, independent bookshop.

Spooky Book Club is a monthly reading group for the macabre-curious. The genres we explore are often horror, horror-adjacent, thriller, supernatural, gothic & more. We meet every LAST Friday of the month.

Sign up for book clubs at Glendora Bookshop by email, call/text, or just stop in and inquire. Spooky Book Club also mingles on FB so be sure to join our group to keep in touch.

March’s Spooky Book Club selection is Our Wives Under the Sea by Julia Armfield. Be sure to snag your copy at Glendora Bookshop (book club members take 10% off book club reads!) and join us in March to discuss!

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A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR (NPR, The Washington Post, Lit Hub, The Telegraph, Goodreads, Tor.com, them, and more)

A FINALIST for the LAMBDA LITERARY AWARD and GOODREADS CHOICE AWARD

“A deeply strange and haunting novel in the best possible way…An impressive and exciting debut novel that may leave you thinking about your own relationships in a new light.” —NPR

“Shocking…Achingly poetic…Sharp and beautiful as coral polyps…Armfield exercises an exquisite—even sadistic—sense of suspense." —Ron Charles, The Washington Post

Leah is changed. A marine biologist, she left for a routine expedition months earlier, only this time her submarine sank to the sea floor. When she finally surfaces and returns home, her wife Miri knows that something is wrong. Barely eating and lost in her thoughts, Leah rotates between rooms in their apartment, running the taps morning and night. Whatever happened in that vessel, whatever it was they were supposed to be studying before they were stranded, Leah has carried part of it with her, onto dry land and into their home. As Miri searches for answers, desperate to understand what happened below the water, she must face the possibility that the woman she loves is slipping from her grasp.

By turns elegiac and furious, wry and heartbreaking, Our Wives Under the Sea is an exploration of the unknowable depths within each of us, and the love that compels us nevertheless toward one another.

https://bookshop.org/p/books/our-wives-under-the-sea-julia-armfield/17449967?ean=9781250229908&next=t&next=t

We are excited to welcome back Family Story Time as a mainstay here at Glendora Bookshop! Every Friday morning from 11-11:30am EST we will hold a themed Story Time for you and your little ones to enjoy, so be sure to bundle up and come on down to the shop!

Help us spread the word for this fun-filled family event, and thank you as always for supporting your local, independent bookshop!

Outside/Underground Book Club is a bi-monthly reading group for those who want to learn more about the fascinating world around us . O/U explores topics around science and nature through memoir, poetry, non-fiction & more. We meet every other LAST Thursday of the month.

Sign up for book clubs at Glendora Bookshop by email, call/text, or just stop in and inquire.

This month’s O/U Book Club selection is The Serviceberry by Robin Wall Kimmerer. Be sure to snag your copy at Glendora Bookshop (book club members take 10% off book club reads!) and join us in March to discuss!

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From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Braiding Sweetgrass, a bold and inspiring vision for how to orient our lives around gratitude, reciprocity, and community, based on the lessons of the natural world.

As Indigenous scientist and author of Braiding Sweetgrass Robin Wall Kimmerer harvests serviceberries alongside the birds, she considers the ethic of reciprocity that lies at the heart of the gift economy. How, she asks, can we learn from Indigenous wisdom and the plant world to reimagine what we value most? Our economy is rooted in scarcity, competition, and the hoarding of resources, and we have surrendered our values to a system that actively harms what we love. Meanwhile, the serviceberry’s relationship with the natural world is an embodiment of reciprocity, interconnectedness, and gratitude. The tree distributes its wealth—its abundance of sweet, juicy berries—to meet the needs of its natural community. And this distribution ensures its own survival. As Kimmerer explains, “Serviceberries show us another model, one based upon reciprocity, where wealth comes from the quality of your relationships, not from the illusion of self-sufficiency.”

As Elizabeth Gilbert writes, Robin Wall Kimmerer is “a great teacher, and her words are a hymn of love to the world.” The Serviceberry is an antidote to the broken relationships and misguided goals of our times, and a reminder that “hoarding won’t save us, all flourishing is mutual.”

Robin Wall Kimmerer is donating her advance payments from this book as a reciprocal gift, back to the land, for land protection, restoration, and justice.

https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-serviceberry-robin-wall-kimmerer/21259025?ean=9781668072240&next=t&next=t

Join us Saturday 3/22 @ 2pm EST right here at Glendora Bookshop to welcome author Wendy Simons who will be sharing from her latest novel, Losing August. After the reading, we’ll open the floor to discussion, and Wendy will offer signings for anyone who wants to purchase a copy of one of her books. Hope to see you there!

Wendy S. Simons is a fifth-generation daughter of the Great Lakes. Growing up on the southern shores of Lake Michigan, it’s no wonder Simons has an affinity with water. She has said it seems she can’t write a story without some element of water playing a roll, more often than not therapeutic in nature.

Wendy’s first novel, A Second Look, is available now, along with Stone by Stone. Losing August is releasing March 22nd of this year, with Weeding Out the Lies launching later in 2025. Both novels share a common location with Wendy’s first novel in the fictional lakefront town of Edgewater, Michigan.

We are excited to welcome back Family Story Time as a mainstay here at Glendora Bookshop! Every Friday morning from 11-11:30am EST we will hold a themed Story Time for you and your little ones to enjoy, so be sure to bundle up and come on down to the shop!

Help us spread the word for this fun-filled family event, and thank you as always for supporting your local, independent bookshop!

We are excited to welcome back Family Story Time as a mainstay here at Glendora Bookshop! Every Friday morning from 11-11:30am EST we will hold a themed Story Time for you and your little ones to enjoy, so be sure to bundle up and come on down to the shop!

Help us spread the word for this fun-filled family event, and thank you as always for supporting your local, independent bookshop!

Join us for First Friday's Open Mic, every first Friday of the month! Come in a few minutes before start time to sign-up if you wish to read - time slots are usually 5-10mins long depending on participation.

Have a poem you want to share? A short story you want to workshop? What about reciting some gorgeous writing from a book you love? Join us for our monthly OPEN MIC as we gather to celebrate and support our collective creativity, risk-taking, and generosity. (18+ as some material may be challenging for youthful ears. Stay tuned, though, as we’re planning to host quarterly family open mics for the younger writers among us!)

We are excited to welcome back Family Story Time as a mainstay here at Glendora Bookshop! Every Friday morning from 11-11:30am EST we will hold a themed Story Time for you and your little ones to enjoy, so be sure to bundle up and come on down to the shop!

Help us spread the word for this fun-filled family event, and thank you as always for supporting your local, independent bookshop!

Join us for Rotating Reads Book Club, a reading group that explores fiction, non-fiction, memoir/biography and classics every first Thursday of the month. For a fun twist, one of these months will also be a freestyle "book report" where everyone reads something different, and shares what they read with the group.

Every month, a different volunteer will serve as the “host”. Their role will be to select the book, guide the discussion, and bring any fun insights or background about the author or genre. 

Sign up for book clubs at Glendora Bookshop by email, call/text, or just stop in and inquire!

For the month of March, Rotating Reads Book Club will be diving into Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals by Oliver Burkeman. Be sure to snag your copy at Glendora Bookshop to save 10%!

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“Provocative and appealing . . . Well worth your extremely limited time.” —Barbara Spindel, The Wall Street Journal

There’s a good reason why everyone has been talking about Oliver Burkeman’s New York Times bestseller, Four Thousand Weeks. Nobody needs to be told there isn’t enough time. Whether we’re starting our own business, or trying to write a novel during our lunch break, or staring down a pile of deadlines as we’re planning a vacation, we’re obsessed with our lengthening to-do lists, overfilled inboxes, work-life balance, and ceaseless struggle against distraction. We’re deluged with advice on becoming more productive and efficient and life hacks to optimize our days. But such techniques often end up making things worse. The sense of anxious hurry grows more intense, and yet the most meaningful parts of life seem to lie just beyond the horizon. Still, we rarely make the connection between our daily struggles with time and the ultimate time management problem: the challenge of how best to use our four thousand weeks, the average length of a human life.

Drawing on the insights of both ancient and contemporary philosophers, psychologists, and spiritual teachers, Oliver Burkeman delivers an entertaining, humorous, practical, and ultimately profound guide to time and time management. Rejecting the futile modern obsession with “getting everything done,” Four Thousand Weeks introduces readers to tools for constructing a meaningful life by embracing finitude, showing that many of the unhelpful ways we’ve come to think about time aren’t inescapable, unchanging truths, but choices we’ve made as individuals and as a society—and that we can do things differently.

https://bookshop.org/p/books/four-thousand-weeks-time-management-for-mortals-oliver-burkeman/18140090?ean=9781250849359&next=t&next=t

Spooky Book Club is a monthly reading group for the macabre-curious. The genres we explore are often horror, horror-adjacent, thriller, supernatural, gothic & more. We meet every LAST Friday of the month.

Sign up for book clubs at Glendora Bookshop by email, call/text, or just stop in and inquire. Spooky Book Club also mingles on FB so be sure to join our group to keep in touch.

This month’s Spooky Book Club selection is Silver Nitrate by Silvia Moreno-Garcia - a dark fantasy-thriller with a spooky kick. Be sure to snag your copy at Glendora Bookshop (book club members take 10% off book club reads!) and join us in February to discuss!

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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the author of The Daughter of Doctor Moreau and Mexican Gothic comes a fabulous meld of Mexican horror movies and Nazi occultism: a dark thriller about the curse that haunts a legendary lost film—and awakens one woman’s hidden powers.

“No one punctures the skin of reality to reveal the lurking, sinister magic beneath better than Silvia Moreno-Garcia.”—Kiersten White, author of Hide

LOCUS AWARD FINALIST • A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The New York Times Book Review, The Washington Post, Tordotcom, Polygon, CrimeReads, BookPage, Book Riot

Montserrat has always been overlooked. She’s a talented sound editor, but she’s left out of the boys’ club running the film industry in ’90s Mexico City. And she’s all but invisible to her best friend, Tristán, a charming if faded soap opera star, though she’s been in love with him since childhood.

Then Tristán discovers his new neighbor is the cult horror director Abel Urueta, and the legendary auteur claims he can change their lives—even if his tale of a Nazi occultist imbuing magic into highly volatile silver nitrate stock sounds like sheer fantasy. The magic film was never finished, which is why, Urueta swears, his career vanished overnight. He is cursed.

Now the director wants Montserrat and Tristán to help him shoot the missing scene and lift the curse . . . but Montserrat soon notices a dark presence following her, and Tristán begins seeing the ghost of his ex-girlfriend.

As they work together to unravel the mystery of the film and the obscure occultist who once roamed their city, Montserrat and Tristán may find that sorcerers and magic are not only the stuff of movies.

https://bookshop.org/p/books/silver-nitrate-silvia-moreno-garcia/18963482?ean=9780593355381&next=t&next=t

We are excited to welcome back Family Story Time as a mainstay here at Glendora Bookshop! Every Friday morning from 11-11:30am EST we will hold a themed Story Time for you and your little ones to enjoy, so be sure to bundle up and come on down to the shop!

Help us spread the word for this fun-filled family event, and thank you as always for supporting your local, independent bookshop!

We are excited to welcome back Family Story Time as a mainstay here at Glendora Bookshop! Every Friday morning from 11-11:30am EST we will hold a themed Story Time for you and your little ones to enjoy, so be sure to bundle up and come on down to the shop!

Help us spread the word for this fun-filled family event, and thank you as always for supporting your local, independent bookshop!

Join us for Fall in Love with a Local Author, our first multiple-author event, on February 15. Speed date an author, enjoy refreshments, signup for one of our fabulous book clubs, and meet-cute with your community. This is a family friendly event, so bring the kids! This lovely group of authors will be presenting a landscape of varying genres, from children's to poetry, photography to contemporary fiction, so there's sure to be something for everyone. Hope to see you there!

We are excited to welcome back Family Story Time as a mainstay here at Glendora Bookshop! Every Friday morning from 11-11:30am EST we will hold a themed Story Time for you and your little ones to enjoy, so be sure to bundle up and come on down to the shop!

Help us spread the word for this fun-filled family event, and thank you as always for supporting your local, independent bookshop!

Glendora Bookshop welcomes Mel, creator behind Blushing Bookmarks, and host of our NEW Romantasy book group, Dragon Dreams: A Romantasy Book Club! For our first book, we will be reading and discussing Immortal by Sue Lynn Tan. Feel free to snag a copy in-store (book club members take an extra 10% that months book purchase), and join our Facebook Group to keep up to date with book picks & more.

Sign up for book clubs at Glendora Bookshop by email, call/text, or just stop in and inquire!

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A young ruler must forge a delicate alliance with the untrustworthy yet magnetic God of War to protect her kingdom in this stunning romantic fantasy filled with dangerous secrets, forbidden magic, and passion, from Sue Lynn Tan, bestselling author of Daughter of the Moon Goddess

The young heir to a mortal crown, Liyen ascends a precarious throne when her grandfather dies, vowing to end her kingdom's obligation to the immortals and take vengeance against those she feels responsible for his death. When she is summoned to the Immortal Realm, she seizes the opportunity to learn their secrets and to form a tenuous alliance to safeguard her people, all with the one she should fear and mistrust the most: the ruthless God of War. As they are drawn together, a treacherous attraction ignites between them--one she has to resist, to not endanger all she is fighting for.

But with darker forces closing in around them, and her kingdom plunged into peril, Liyen must risk everything to save her people from an unspeakable fate, even if it means forging a dangerous bond with the immortal... even if it means losing her heart.

https://bookshop.org/p/books/immortal-sue-lynn-tan/21679865?ean=9780063267619&next=t&next=t

Is the winter chill bringing you down? Fernwood is here to help! Experience an afternoon indulging in the Danish practice of “hygge,” meaning cozy or comfort. Enjoy a guided hike through our nature trails, where we’ll forage for evergreen needles to make a soothing tea. Find a soft seat in Fernwood’s candlelit library to enjoy your brew, or grab some herbed broth from our outdoor fire. Glendora Bookshop will have an array of cozy-themed tales for sale, or feel free to borrow a book from Fernwood’s shelves or bring one from home. You may also wish to bring along a knit, crochet, embroidery, or mending project to work on, or start something new. Instructors will be on hand to guide you and provide additional supplies to beginners and accomplished hand workers alike. Hygge is all about connecting with the present moment and taking time to appreciate being with others. So invite a friend or family member, or plan to meet someone new!

Audience: All ages

Location: Meet at the Sims Education Center 

Cost: $15 ($12 members) - Please register by February 7

*To receive your member discount, please be sure to sign in by clicking the button in the upper right-hand corner of the registration screen.

https://www.fernwoodbotanical.org/list-of-events-programs/the-gentle-art-of-hygge

Join us for First Friday's Open Mic, every first Friday of the month! Come in a few minutes before start time to sign-up if you wish to read - time slots are usually 5-10mins long depending on participation.

Have a poem you want to share? A short story you want to workshop? What about reciting some gorgeous writing from a book you love? Join us for our monthly OPEN MIC as we gather to celebrate and support our collective creativity, risk-taking, and generosity. (18+ as some material may be challenging for youthful ears. Stay tuned, though, as we’re planning to host quarterly family open mics for the younger writers among us!)

We are excited to welcome back Family Story Time as a mainstay here at Glendora Bookshop! Every Friday morning from 11-11:30am EST we will hold a themed Story Time for you and your little ones to enjoy, so be sure to bundle up and come on down to the shop!

Help us spread the word for this fun-filled family event, and thank you as always for supporting your local, independent bookshop!

Glendora Bookshop welcomes community member, book friend and chief mastermind, Jodie, as the leader and first host of our NEW Rotating Reads Book Club, a reading group that will explore fiction, non-fiction, memoir/biography, and classics bi-monthly. For a fun twist, one of these months will also be a freestyle "book report" where everyone reads something different, and shares what they read with the group.

Every other month, a different volunteer will serve as the “host”. Their role will be to select the book, guide the discussion, and bring any fun insights or background about the author or genre. 

To kick things off, we’re reading and discussing All Fours by Miranda July! We have copies in house, so be sure to come and grab one early.

Sign up for book clubs at Glendora Bookshop by email, call/text, or just stop in and inquire!

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The New York Times bestselling author returns with an irreverently sexy, tender, hilarious and surprising novel about a woman upending her life

"All Fours possessed me. I picked it up and neglected my life until the last page, and then I started begging every woman I know to read it as soon as possible." --The Cut

"A novel that presses into that tender bruise about the anxiety of aging, of what it means to have a female body that is aging, and wanting the freedom to live a fuller life . . . Deeply funny and achingly true." --LA Times

"July's novel is hot and weird and captivating and one of the most entertaining, deranged, and moving depictions of lust and romantic mania I've ever read." --New York Magazine

A semi-famous artist announces her plan to drive cross-country, from LA to NY. Thirty minutes after leaving her husband and child at home, she spontaneously exits the freeway, checks into a nondescript motel, and immerses herself in an entirely different journey.

Miranda July's second novel confirms the brilliance of her unique approach to fiction. With July's wry voice, perfect comic timing, unabashed curiosity about human intimacy, and palpable delight in pushing boundaries, All Fours tells the story of one woman's quest for a new kind of freedom. Part absurd entertainment, part tender reinvention of the sexual, romantic, and domestic life of a forty-five-year-old female artist, All Fours transcends expectation while excavating our beliefs about life lived as a woman. Once again, July hijacks the familiar and turns it into something new and thrillingly, profoundly alive.

https://bookshop.org/p/books/all-fours-miranda-july/20578438?ean=9780593190265

We’re kicking off the New Year with something fun for Spooky Book Club - Choose Your Own Adventure: Stephen King! For the month of January, choose any book by horror icon Stephen King, whether that’s the perfect, bite-size novella, or one of his… lengthier titles (ahem, looking at you The Stand…) and come discuss what you read! This is a fun way for us to spotlight an author who sports an extensive catalogue. Let’s get to know the writer behind some of the most influential horror ever written!

We have copies of some of King’s work in house, and we can always order special order whatever you’re looking for. Be sure to stop in and inquire - see you in January spooky book friends!

Join our Spooky Book Club Facebook group!

Sign up for book clubs at Glendora Bookshop by email, call/text, or just stop in and inquire.

We are excited to welcome back Family Story Time as a mainstay here at Glendora Bookshop! Every Friday morning from 11-11:30am EST we will hold a themed Story Time for you and your little ones to enjoy, so be sure to bundle up and come on down to the shop!

Help us spread the word for this fun-filled family event, and thank you as always for supporting your local, independent bookshop!

We are excited to welcome back Family Story Time as a mainstay here at Glendora Bookshop! Every Friday morning from 11-11:30am EST we will hold a themed Story Time for you and your little ones to enjoy. This Friday, January 24, our very own Carla Mayer will be putting together some cozy reads, so be sure to bundle up and come on down to the shop!

Please help us spread the word for this fun-filled family event, and thank you as always for supporting your local, independent bookshop!

NOBEL PRIZE WINNER - A remarkable memoir of courage, faith, and the power of persistence about one woman's extraordinary journey from her childhood in rural Kenya to the world stage.

"[Maathai's] story provides uplifting proof of the power of perseverance--and of the power of principled, passionate people to change their countries and inspire the world." --The Washington Post

In Unbowed, Nobel Prize winner Wangari Maathai recounts her extraordinary life. When Maathai founded the Green Belt Movement in 1977, she began a vital poor people's environmental movement, focused on the empowerment of women, that soon spread across Africa. Persevering through run-ins with the Kenyan government and personal losses, and jailed and beaten on numerous occasions, Maathai continued to fight tirelessly to save Kenya's forests and to restore democracy to her beloved country.

Copies of Unbowed: A Memoir are in house now - give us a call to reserve a copy today!

We are bringing in the New Year with an EPIC post-release party for Rebecca Yarros’ latest installment in her acclaimed Fourth Wing series, ONYX STORM! Come to the shop on Wednesday January, 22nd from 5-7pm EST to mingle with fellow fantasy-fiends, enjoy refreshments, share your book theories, sign up for our NEW Romantasy Book Club and, of course, grab a copy of Onyx Storm if you haven’t already pre-ordered!

If you’d like for us to reserve a copy of Onyx Storm ahead of time, please call/text @ (269) 479-2728 or e-mail us at glendorabookshop@gmail.com. Hope to see you there!

Join us for First Friday's Open Mic, every first Friday of the month! Come in a few minutes before start time to sign-up if you wish to read - time slots are usually 5-10mins long depending on participation.

Have a poem you want to share? A short story you want to workshop? What about reciting some gorgeous writing from a book you love? Join us for our monthly OPEN MIC as we gather to celebrate and support our collective creativity, risk-taking, and generosity. (18+ as some material may be challenging for youthful ears. Stay tuned, though, as we’re planning to host quarterly family open mics for the younger writers among us!)

NATIONAL BESTSELLER - SHIRLEY JACKSON AWARD NOMINEE FOR BEST EDITED ANTHOLOGY - BRAM STOKER AWARD NOMINEE FOR SUPERIOR ACHIEVEMENT IN AN ANTHOLOGY - LOCUS AWARD FINALIST

A bold, clever, and sublimely sinister collection that dares to ask the question: "Are you ready to be un-settled?"

Norris Black - Amber Blaeser-Wardzala - Phoenix Boudreau - Cherie Dimaline - Carson Faust - Kelli Jo Ford - Kate Hart - Shane Hawk - Brandon Hobson - Darcie Little Badger - Conley Lyons - Nick Medina - Tiffany Morris - Tommy Orange - Mona Susan Power - Marcie R. Rendon - Waubgeshig Rice - Rebecca Roanhorse - Andrea L. Rogers - Morgan Talty - D.H. Trujillo - Theodore C. Van Alst Jr. - Richard Van Camp - David Heska Wanbli Weiden - Royce K. Young Wolf - Mathilda Zeller

Many Indigenous people believe that one should never whistle at night. This belief takes many forms: for instance, Native Hawaiians believe it summons the Hukai'po, the spirits of ancient warriors, and Native Mexicans say it calls Lechuza, a witch that can transform into an owl. But what all these legends hold in common is the certainty that whistling at night can cause evil spirits to appear--and even follow you home.

These wholly original and shiver-inducing tales introduce readers to ghosts, curses, hauntings, monstrous creatures, complex family legacies, desperate deeds, and chilling acts of revenge. Introduced and contextualized by bestselling author Stephen Graham Jones, these stories are a celebration of Indigenous peoples' survival and imagination, and a glorious reveling in all the things an ill-advised whistle might summon.