Spice Girls is our new monthly romance book club! Our pick for July is Problematic Summer Romance by Ali Hazelwood.

What is wrong meets what feels right in this romance set in Italy by the New York Times bestselling author of Deep End.

Maya Killgore is twenty-three and still in the process of figuring out her life.

Conor Harkness is thirty-eight, and Maya cannot stop thinking about him.

It’s such a cliché, it almost makes her heart implode: older man and younger woman; successful biotech guy and struggling grad student; brother’s best friend and the girl he never even knew existed. As Conor loves to remind her, the power dynamic is too imbalanced. Any relationship between them would be problematic in too many ways to count, and Maya should just get over him. After all, he has made it clear that he wants her gone from his life.

But not everything is as it seems—and clichés sometimes become plot twists.

When Maya’s brother decides to get married in Taormina, she and Conor end up stuck together in a romantic Sicilian villa for over a week. There, on the beautiful Ionian coast, between ancient ruins, delicious foods, and natural caves, Maya realizes that Conor might be hiding something from her. And as the destination wedding begins to erupt out of control, she decides that a summer fling might be just what she needs—even if it’s a problematic one.

Spice Girls is a collaboration between Columbus-Lowndes Public Library System and Friendly City Books and meets on the fourth Tuesday of every month at 7 pm at Friendly City Books. See you there!

Hope Compass is a new book club run by the community!

“Hope is a social gift that flourishes when we build intentional relationships in our community. We invite you to join us for a book study led by local faith leaders that will help strengthen the skills that bring people together to foster connection.”

Their pick for July is Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection by Charles Duhigg

From the author of The Power of Habit, a fascinating exploration of what makes conversations work—and how we can all learn to be supercommunicators at work and in life

“A winning combination of stories, studies, and guidance that might well transform the worst communicators you know into some of the best.”—Adam Grant, author of Think Again and Hidden Potential

Come inside a jury room as one juror leads a starkly divided room to consensus. Join a young CIA officer as he recruits a reluctant foreign agent. And sit with an accomplished surgeon as he tries, and fails, to convince yet another cancer patient to opt for the less risky course of treatment. In Supercommunicators, Charles Duhigg blends deep research and his trademark storytelling skills to show how we can all learn to identify and leverage the hidden layers that lurk beneath every conversation.

Join us for our horror book club Cursed Books! We’re reading Bury Your Gays by Chuck Tingle for July.

The instant USA Today bestseller by Chuck Tingle about what it takes to succeed in a world that wants you dead. Named one of the Best Horror Books of 2024 (Esquire, Parade, and Library Journal)!

Misha knows that chasing success in Hollywood can be hell.

But finally, after years of trying to make it, his big moment is here: an Oscar nomination. And the executives at the studio for his long-running streaming series know just the thing to kick his career to the next level: kill off the gay characters, "for the algorithm," in the upcoming season finale.

Misha refuses, but he soon realizes that he’s just put a target on his back. And what’s worse, monsters from his horror movie days are stalking him and his friends through the hills above Los Angeles.

Haunted by his past, Misha must risk his entire future—before the horrors from the silver screen find a way to bury him for good.

"Brilliantly bloody, wildly fun, and extremely scary, Bury Your Gays brings a sledgehammer down on tired tropes and makes a masterpiece of their guts."—Rachel Harrison, national bestselling author of Black Sheep

Cursed Books meets on the third Tuesday of every month at 7 pm at Friendly City Books. See you there!

Join us for a Virtual Event reading with Honorée Fanonne Jeffers, author of The Love Songs of W.E.B. DuBois, as she discusses her new essay collection Misbehaving at the Crossroads.

Register for the event here!

Join us for our nonfiction book club True Story! Our July pick is The Great River by Boyce Upholt.

The Mississippi River lies at the heart of America, an undeniable life force that is intertwined with the nation's culture and history. Its watershed spans almost half the country, Mark Twain's travels on the river inspired our first national literature, and jazz and blues were born in its floodplains and carried upstream.

In this landmark work of natural history, Boyce Upholt tells the epic story of this wild and unruly river, and the centuries of efforts to control it.

Over thousands of years, the Mississippi watershed was home to millions of Indigenous people who regarded "the great river" with awe and respect, adorning its banks with astonishing spiritual earthworks. The river was ever-changing, and Indigenous tribes embraced and even depended on its regular flooding. But the expanse of the watershed and the rich soils of its floodplain lured European settlers and American pioneers, who had a different vision: the river was a foe to conquer.

Rich and powerful, The Great River delivers a startling account of what happens when we try to fight against nature instead of acknowledging and embracing its power--a lesson that is all too relevant in our rapidly changing world.

True Story meets on the second Tuesday of every month at 7 pm at Friendly City Books. See you there!

Join us at Friendly City Books as we join the Nationwide Read 25 event with a silent book club gathering from 5:25 p.m. - 5:50pm, with socializing before and after!

We will have two giveaways during this event - a $50 bookshop.org gift certificate (proceeds benefit Friendly City Books!) and a $25 Gretchen Rubin Happiness Project gift certificate! Don’t miss out on your chance to mingle with book lovers and take home some prizes.

Get ready for our biggest reading celebration yet! As part of the Read 25 in 2025 challenge, Gretchen Rubin is partnering with Bookshop.org to host a nationwide gathering on Wednesday, June 25th, for a special 25-minute silent reading experience, followed by lively discussions about the books that captivate us.

Imagine thousands of book lovers across the US, all sharing a moment of quiet immersion in their chosen stories. We’re partnering with hundreds of independent bookstores to make this happen, bringing communities together through the joy of reading.

The Muses is a monthly book club for anyone who loves fantasy, romantasy, and mythology by women writers. Our pick for June is The Knight and The Moth by Rachel Gillig.

"The Knight and the Moth is a lavender-drenched dream. Transportive and pacy, Gillig delivers sparkling romantic tension, eerie atmosphere, and the most unique, endearing characters I've read in a long while. The signs are clear--readers won't be able to put down this adventurous, dark gem of a book." --Kalie Cassidy, author of In the Veins of the Drowning

From NYT bestselling author Rachel Gillig comes the next big romantasy sensation, a gothic, mist-cloaked tale of a young prophetess forced on an impossible quest with the one knight whose future is beyond her sight. Perfect for fans of Jennifer L. Armentrout and Leigh Bardugo.

Sybil Delling has spent nine years dreaming of having no dreams at all. Like the other foundling girls who traded a decade of service for a home in the great cathedral, Sybil is a Diviner. In her dreams she receives visions from six unearthly figures known as Omens. From them, she can predict terrible things before they occur, and lords and common folk alike travel across the kingdom of Traum's windswept moors to learn their futures by her dreams.

Just as she and her sister Diviners near the end of their service, a mysterious knight arrives at the cathedral. Rude, heretical, and devilishly handsome, the knight Rodrick has no respect for Sybil's visions. But when Sybil's fellow Diviners begin to vanish one by one, she has no choice but to seek his help in finding them. For the world outside the cathedral's cloister is wrought with peril. Only the gods have the answers she is seeking, and as much as she'd rather avoid Rodrick's dark eyes and sharp tongue, only a heretic can defeat a god.

The Muses is a collaboration between Columbus-Lowndes Public Library System and Friendly City Books and meets on the fourth Tuesday of every month at 7 pm at Friendly City Books. See you there!

Join us for our horror book club Cursed Books! We’re reading Feast While You Can by Mikaella Clements.

"Messy lesbians fight a horrifying monster in a small town. Sophisticated and terrifying, it genre splices so well that it's not a splice any more. I've never read anything like it!"-- Tamsyn Muir, author of the Locked Tomb series.

For readers of Nightbitch and We Ride Upon Sticks, an "exciting new hybrid horror-romance" about queer love in a small town that serves as an unsettling reminder that the horrors of modern life is a monster ready to possess us all (New York Times Book Review).

Angelina Sicco was born and raised in Cadenze, an ugly little mountain town that's dead most of the year. Determined to be content with her lot in life, she walks her mongrel dog, attends her brother's heavy metal concerts, holds court in the local dive bar, and does everything she can to bait hot, queer women to her sleepy, conservative hometown. But on the night of a family party, Angelina runs into the sternly handsome Jagvi, who's back in town for a spell.

Upon Jagvi's arrival, an ancient evil is awakened, and a monstrous force infiltrates Angelina's life. Only Jagvi's touch repels it -- the final trigger for a secret, passionate romance. But this monster feasts on all the passion, heartbreak and mess that makes up a life, and Angelina Sicco's life has never looked tastier. What will Angelina do to protect her future? And what will it cost her?

Cursed Books meets on the third Tuesday of every month at 7 pm at Friendly City Books. See you there!

Join us for the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters’ Awards Weekend Readings! This annual book awards reading and signing at Friendly City Books features some of the 2025 winners, including Max Hipp, Robert K.D. Colby, Julian Randall, Allen R Wells, and Adam Shemper. This event is free and open to the public - we’ll see you there!

Join us for our new nonfiction book club True Story! Our June pick is The Dead Don’t Need Reminding by Julian Randall.

"The Dead Don't Need Reminding is a generous journey through Julian Randall's expansive mind, weaving together tightly knit threads of place, popular culture, and identity that all strike equally vibrant notes. Not only stunningly written, this book is also, plainly, an absolute pleasure to read."-- Hanif Abdurraqib, author of There's Always This Year and A Little Devil in America

This "inventive, poetic, vulnerable, and sincere" book from an acclaimed author and poet weaves two wrenching personal narratives of recovery and reclamation, spliced with a dazzle of pop-culture (Kirkus).

The Dead Don't Need Remindingis a braided story of Julian Randall's return from the cliff edge of a harrowing depression and his determination to retrace the hustle of a white-passing grandfather to the Mississippi town from which he was driven amid threats of tar and feather.

Alternatively wry, lyrical, and heartfelt, Randall transforms pop culture moments into deeply personal explorations of grief, family, and the American way. He envisions his fight to stay alive through a striking medley of media ranging fromInto the Spiderverseand Jordan Peele movies toBoJack Horsemanand the music of Odd Future. Pulsing with life, sharp, and wickedly funny,The Dead Don't Need Remindingis Randall's journey to get his ghost story back.

Julian Randall is a contributor to the #1 New York Times bestseller Black Boy Joy and his middle-grade novel, Pilar Ramirez and the Escape From Zafa, was published by Holt in 2022. He has received fellowships from Cave Canem, Tin House, and Milkweed Editions. He is the winner of the 2019 Betty Berzon Emerging Writer Award from the Publishing Triangle, the 2019 Frederick Bock Prize, and a Pushcart prize. His poetry has been published in The New York Times Magazine, Ploughshares, and POETRY. His first book, Refuse, won the Cave Canem Poetry Prize and was a finalist for an NAACP Image Award. He lives in Chicago.

True Story meets on the second Tuesday of every month at 7 pm at Friendly City Books. See you there!

Please join us to celebrate two new publications from MUW’s creative writing program!

MFA Director Kendall Dunkelberg and MFA Alumna Lauren Rhoades will present their brand new books during this special MFA residency reading open to the public on June 5 at 7 p.m. at Friendly City Books. MUW faculty, students, and alumni will receive 10% off their purchase during this event.

Kendall Dunkelberg, the author of Tree Fall with Birdsong: Poems, directs the low-residency MFA in Creative Writing at Mississippi University for Women, where he is also Chair of the Department of Languages, Literature, and Philosophy and Professor of English. The author of the textbook A Writer’s Craft: Multi-genre Creative Writing, he also has three previous poetry collections.

Lauren Rhoades, the author of Split the Baby: A Memoir in Pieces, is director of grants at the Mississippi Arts Commission, a host of MPB’s The Mississippi Arts Hour, and founder of Rooted Magazine, an online publication dedicated to telling unfiltered stories about what it means to call Mississippi home. She holds an MFA in creative writing from the Mississippi University for Women.

Order signed and personalized copies of their books online at friendlycitybooks.com/shop.

Please join us for a reception honoring Don Waldon, author of Journey to the River, on June 4 at 4 p.m. at the Agnes Zaiontz Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway Transportation Museum.

For over two decades, Waldon served as the Administrator of the Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway Authority, headquartered in Columbus, Mississippi, and his memoir is a first-hand account of the political debates and engineering challenges posed by the development of the 234-mile long navigation channel which joins the Tennessee River with the Tombigbee River through Northeast Mississippi and West Alabama.

When it was completed after 12 years of construction in 1984, the Tenn-Tom was the largest, most complex water resources project ever built, costing nearly $2 billion. Today, the Tenn-Tom is used for shipping cargo, managing wildlife, and outdoor recreation, with nearly 3 million people visiting parks along the waterway each year.

Join us for a ribbon-cutting celebration at Friendly City Books' beautiful new location, welcoming their new and improved children’s section, proudly sponsored by Pediatric Dentistry of Columbus! 📚✂️

Come see what’s new, meet the team, and explore a space designed to inspire our youngest readers!

Join us for our new poetry book club in collaboration with local zine Cicadian Rhythm. Our June 2025 pick is Doggerel by Reginald Dwayne Betts.

One of Literary Hub's Most Anticipated Books of 2025, Doggerel is a revelatory meditation on Blackness, masculinity, and vulnerability from one of poetry's boldest voices.

“Doggerel is an apt name for this lovely collection, with the canine-hidden-in-plain-sight in its title and coursing through so many of the poems. Betts manages to capture essences--of memory, of hope or loss, of oft-overlooked everydayness--in a way that feels surprising and familiar at once.”--Dr. Alexandra Horowitz, author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Inside of a Dog: What Dogs See, Smell, and Know

Reginald Dwayne Betts is the author of three books of poetry, including the best-selling Felon. He is a poet, lawyer, and the founder and CEO of Freedom Reads. He lives in New Haven, Connecticut, with his dog.

Poetry Book Club meets on the first Tuesday of every month at 7 pm at Friendly City Books. See you there!

🎉🌈 Get ready for a day full of color, fun, and family memories as we kick off the 2025 Summer Library Program with a party for all ages! 🌈🎉

🫧 Bubble Foam Party – 10 am to 12 pm

Slide into summer with bubbly fun! Bring your swimsuit, towel, and plenty of sunscreen for this sudsy outdoor celebration the whole family will love!

📚 Free Book Swap with Friendly City Books – 10 am to 1 pm

Once you’ve dried off, head inside for a blast from the past: our book swap is throwing it back to the golden days of school book fairs! Trade a book, take a book, and discover your next summer read!

This year’s theme is Color Our World and we’re doing just that, with bright experiences that spark imagination, creativity, and connection.

☀️ No registration needed - just show up and get ready to celebrate the start of a colorful summer with your library!

Mark your calendars for a special double feature with Michael Farris Smith — the Columbus book launch of his new novel Lay Your Armor Down and a screening of his directorial debut Chasing Rabbits. We’ll have a book discussion moderated by Thomas Easterling followed by a 30-minute short film and book signing. Preorder a copy of the book or purchase a ticket at friendlycitybooks.com/shop to reserve your spot.

The Muses is a monthly book club for anyone who loves fantasy, romantasy, and mythology by women writers. Our pick for April is Immortal by Sue Lynn Tan.

A young ruler must forge a delicate alliance with the enigmatic God of War to protect her kingdom in this standalone romantic fantasy from bestselling author Sue Lynn Tan set in the breathtaking world of Daughter of the Moon Goddess.

“A slow-burning love story, high-flying action scenes, and some unexpected twists make this a stunner.” — Publishers Weekly

The Muses is a collaboration between Columbus-Lowndes Public Library System and Friendly City Books and meets on the fourth Tuesday of every month at 7 pm at Friendly City Books. See you there!

Join us for our horror book club Cursed Books! We’re reading Never Whistle at Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology edited by Shane Hawk and Theodore C. Van Alst Jr.

In 27 wholly original and shiver-inducing tales, bestselling and award-winning authors including Tommy Orange, Rebecca Roanhorse, Cherie Dimaline, Waubgeshig Rice, and Mona Susan Power 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.

Cursed Books meets on the third Tuesday of every month at 7 pm at Friendly City Books. See you there!

Join us for our new nonfiction book club True Story! Our first pick is Everything Is Tuberculosis by John Green.

Instant #1 New York Times bestseller - #1 Washington Post bestseller - #1 Indie Bestseller - USA Today Bestseller

Once romanticized as a malady of poets, today tuberculosis is seen as a disease of poverty that walks the trails of injustice and inequity we blazed for it, killing over a million people every year despite being preventable and curable. In Everything Is Tuberculosis, John tells the story of Henry Reider, a young tuberculosis patient in Sierra Leone, woven through with the scientific and social histories of how this disease has shaped our world.

John Green is the award-winning, #1 bestselling author of books including Looking for Alaska, The Fault in Our Stars, Turtles All the Way Down, and The Anthropocene Reviewed. With his brother, Hank, John has co-created many online video projects, including Vlogbrothers and the educa­tional channel Crash Course.

True Story meets on the second Tuesday of every month at 7 pm at Friendly City Books. See you there!

Save the date for the annual Eighth of May Emancipation Celebration! We are thrilled to welcome award-winning author Reginald Dwayne Betts as our special guest to kick off an evening of performances by MSMS African American History students, the MUW United in Harmony gospel choir, and members of the band and choir at Columbus High and Columbus Middle School. Join us in the Historic Sandfield Cemetery for this free event.

Join us for our new poetry book club in collaboration with local zine Cicadian Rhythm. Our first pick is Helen of Troy, 1993 by Maria Zoccola.

"Maria Zoccola’s Helen of Troy, 1993 brings Helen to life in the twentieth-century American South — Sparta, Tennessee, where she shops at Piggly Wiggly. … Helen of Troy, 1993 is the most imaginative debut I’ve read in years." — Maggie Smith, poet and New York Times bestselling author of You Could Make This Place Beautiful

Maria Zoccola is a queer Southern writer and educator from Memphis, Tennessee. She holds a BA in writing and English from Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, and an MA in professional writing from Falmouth University in Cornwall, England. Maria has worked and written for nonprofits both big and small and has spent several years leading creative writing workshops for middle and high school youth.

Poetry Book Club meets on the first Tuesday of every month at 7 pm at Friendly City Books. See you there!

It’s the best day of the year: Independent Bookstore Day! Join us on Saturday, April 26 for a day full of bookish fun. Earn exclusive swag when you shop, including a Scarlet sticker for your $25 purchase, a free advance reader copy book for $50, a print of the bookstore made by our bookseller Rosy Davis for $75, and a free tote bag for $100. Plus, we’ll have 10% off signed books and adorable book annotation kits made by MSMS students for free while supplies last!

The Muses is a monthly book club for anyone who loves fantasy, romantasy, and mythology by women writers. Our pick for April is The Stardust Thief by Chelsea Abdullah.

“Chelsea Abdullah has created a sumptuous feast of richly layered classic tales, and characters who will have you hungering to unravel their mysteries. The Stardust Thief will transport you, enchant you, and revive your belief in the magic of storytelling.” ― Shelley Parker-Chan, author of She Who Became the Sun

Inspired by stories from One Thousand and One Nights, The Stardust Thief is the thrilling beginning to The Sandsea Trilogy, the epic tale of a ragtag team led by an unlikely heroine on an impossible mission through a magical world influenced by Arab culture, landscapes, and language.

The Muses is a collaboration between Columbus-Lowndes Public Library System and Friendly City Books and meets on the fourth Tuesday of every month at 7 pm at Friendly City Books. See you there!

Join us for our new horror book club Cursed Books! We’re reading The Eyes Are the Best Part by Monika Kim.

Crying in H-Mart meets My Sister, the Serial Killer in this brilliantly subversive feminist psychological horror from a Korean-American perspective — one of Time Magazine’s 100 Must-Read Books of the Year.

Cursed Books meets on the third Tuesday of every month at 7 pm at Friendly City Books. See you there!

We are honored to have Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis visit MUW to present the annual Nell Peel Wolfe lecture. Free copies of her book You Only Get What You're Organized to Take will be available while supplies last.

One of the nation’s leading anti-poverty organizers and moral voices shares the largely untold story of the movement to end poverty, open to all, and led by the poor themselves.

Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis is founder and codirector of the Kairos Center for Religions, Rights, and Social Justice and coordinator of the Poverty Initiative at Union Theological Seminary. An ordained minister in the Presbyterian Church, Theoharis is a popular speaker, teacher, and activist, and has published numerous books and articles including Always With Us?: What Jesus Really Said About the Poor.

Book giveaway sponsored by the Friendly City Books Community Connection, a special project of the CREATE Foundation.

Join us for a special edition of Writing to Heal with the Columbus-Lowndes Public Library System with author Catherine Simone Gray. Free copies of Proud Flesh will be available while supplies last.

Proud Flesh is a searing portrait of a mother’s body—a resurrection and reclamation of pleasure after abuse, a study of intergenerational trauma, and a love letter to the bodies of women: as alive and unbound as the teeming Mississippi wilds that bear witness.

Catherine Simone Gray is a writer and educator whose writings on her blog Unsilenced Woman have captivated audiences globally of up to 2.5 million. She is the recipient of an Artist Fellowship by the Mississippi Arts Commission and has been published in The Bitter Southerner. Her writings on motherhood has been shared by respected organizations for new mothers, such as La Leche League, International Cesarean Awareness Network, and ImprovingBirth. She lives in Jackson, Mississippi with her husband and their two children.

Book giveaway sponsored by the Friendly City Books Community Connection, a special project of the CREATE Foundation.

Welcome back Rev. Anne Marie Harris, the former rector of St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, as she returns to Columbus to catch up with old friends and celebrate the successful release of her first novel Bound by an Oath.

It is 462AD, and the monk, Fra Paulos, is reminiscing on his long life. Sent to find the Pope's brother, who had stayed in the land of the Britons after ‎the last Romans had left, Paulos braves the sea journey and meets Aethelreda, Queen of the Cantii, who changes his life forever.

Anne Harris was born in New Zealand but has resided in ‎the USA since the mid-1980s. She has ‎had several different careers along the way, including ‎banking and teaching, culminating in ordination to the ‎Episcopal priesthood in 2008. Along the way she has ‎written hundreds of thousands of words, in one form or ‎another.

The Muses is a monthly book club for anyone who loves fantasy, romantasy, and mythology by women writers. Our pick for March is Babylonia by Costanza Casati.

From the author of the bestselling Clytemnestra comes another intoxicating excursion into ancient history, painting the brutal and captivating empire of gods and men, and the one queen destined to rule them all.

Costanza Casati was born in Texas and grew up in a village in Northern Italy, where she studied Ancient Greek. Babylonia, her second novel, was an instant Sunday Times bestseller.

The Muses is a collaboration between Columbus-Lowndes Public Library System and Friendly City Books and meets on the fourth Tuesday of every month at 7 pm at Friendly City Books. See you there!

All are invited to a guest lecture and Q&A by Melanie R. Anderson as part of Fant Library’s Meet the Author series. Free copies of her book Monster, She Wrote will be available while supplies last.

Meet the women writers who defied convention to craft some of literature’s strangest tales, from Frankenstein to The Haunting of Hill House and beyond in Monster, She Wrote, the 2019 Bram Stoker Award(R) Winner for Superior Achievement in Non-Fiction.

Melanie R. Anderson is an assistant professor of English at Delta State University in Cleveland, MS. She researches and writes about American Gothic and supernatural fiction.

Book giveaway sponsored by the Friendly City Books Community Connection, a special project of the CREATE Foundation.

Calling all high schoolers! Teen Book Club is meeting at Friendly City Books on Saturday, March 22, at 1 p.m. Come join us and get free copies of our next book Maybe an Artist by Liz Montague.

When Liz Montague was a senior in college, she wrote to the New Yorker, asking them why they didn't publish more inclusive comics. The New Yorker wrote back asking if she could recommend any. She responded: yes, me.

Those initial cartoons in the New Yorker led to this memoir of Liz's youth, from the age of five through college — how she navigated life in her predominantly white New Jersey town, overcame severe dyslexia through art, and found the confidence to pursue her passion.

This brilliant, laugh-out-loud graphic memoir offers a fresh perspective on life and social issues and proves that you don't need to be a dead white man to find success in art.

The Columbus-Lowndes Public Library and Friendly City Books are bringing together teens every month on the 2nd Saturday (at CLPL) and the 4th Saturday (at FCB) for:
✅ A FREE novel & graphic novel to read
✅ Thoughtful discussions in a judgment-free zone
✅ Snacks & fun activities to enjoy with friends!
Come connect, read, and discover new stories in a welcoming space! See you there!

Book giveaway sponsored by the Friendly City Books Community Connection, a special project of the CREATE Foundation.