EVENTS
Meet the Poets
Celebrate 2022 Art Week with a Progressive Poetry Party
Beaverdale Books is proud to partner with Poetry&, a new initiative working to take poetry out into the community in...
Meet the Poets
Celebrate 2022 Art Week with Readings by John Thompson, Staci Harper-Bennett, Isabella Brantley, Prince Harrison Jr
Beaverdale Books partners with newly formed poetry group to celebrate local poetry. Join us on Friday, June 17 at 6:30...
Poetry & Coffee
Judy Richardson | Coffee Lovers’ Poetry Companion
@ Artisan Gallery 218
Slow down, grab a cup of coffee, and join Judy for a chat! Catch up on old times or share...
Meet the Author
Mindy Carlson | Her Dying Day
Perfect for fans of Shari Lapena and Hannah Mary McKinnon, Her Dying Day leads a budding filmmaker down a dark road to...
Meet the Author
Anna Lind Thomas | I’m Not Ready for This: Everybody Just Calm Down and Give Me a Minute
From popular humor writer and social media sensation Anna Lind Thomas comes a second book of charming and uproarious essays...
Meet the Author
Kathleen Williams Renk | Vindicated
Winner of Story Circle Network’s May Sarton Award in Historical Fiction Mary Godwin is a teenager with a formidable pedigree....
Meet the Author
Loren A. Olson, M.D. | No More Neckties: A Memoir in Essays
The award-winning author of Finally Out: Letting Go of Living Straight, flings open the doors on the hard stuff in...
Meet the Author/Photographer
Robert Nandell | Meet Me at the Depot
Do You Love Trains, B&W Photography, and Iowa History? If so, you are sure to enjoy an evening of stories...
Happy Birthday to Us!
“Sweet 16” Anniversary Celebration
Happy Birthday to Us! Join us on Saturday, July 9 from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. as we celebrate 16...
Meet the Author
Jan Down | Wind In My Wheels
@ Artisan Gallery 218
“Wind in My Wheels by Jan Down chronicles an amazing feat: she and her husband bicycled across all fifty states...
Meet the Author
Steve Dunn | Principal Park: A Diamond in the Rough
@ BEAVERDALE BOOKS
Three ballparks at the confluence of the Des Moines and Raccoon rivers in Des Moines have hosted professional baseball since...
Meet the Author
Alicia Elifritz | Then and Now
@ BEAVERDALE BOOKS
Just as a young life is opening up with promise, a diagnosis of leukemia disrupts everything. Then and Now takes us...