Happy to Help is a collection of essays about how you can be the one everyone else depends on and still be struggling―how you can be “happy to help,” even when, for your own sake, you shouldn’t.

Do you love to write poetry?  Or read poetry?  If so, grab a friend and head to Beaverdale Books for a free, fun, and informal evening of open mic poetry, emceed by Iowa poet Kelsey Bigelow.  

Just a Kid: Unfiltered Poetry is a raw and captivating collection of verses that lays bare the thoughts, struggles, and triumphs of a young heart navigating life.

After the murder of her best friend, a librarian’s search for answers leads back to her own dark secrets in this sweeping novel, The Quiet Librarian, about a woman transformed by war, family, vengeance, and love, from award-winning writer Allen Eskens.

The poems in BJ Soloy’s Birth Center in Corporate Woods use long, contorting lines and elliptical connections to wade through the collisions of love, eros, loss, irony, pop culture, and late capitalism.

A funny, fiercely intelligent, and moving collection exploring marriage, friendship, fame, and artistic ambition—including a story that revisits the main character from Curtis Sittenfeld’s iconic novel Prep—from the New York Times bestselling author of Eligible and Romantic Comedy.
Tickets at: https://www.eventcombo.com/e/meet-the-author----curtis-sittenfeld-73894

Join us for a cross-dimensional presentation by songwriter and novelist, Zaq Baker, as he shares his music and his writing. It's all part of his debut book tour for Unspectacular: A Novel.  

The Reluctant Sheriff is Chris Offutt's fourth book featuring Mick Hardin.  Back in the familiar setting of the Kentucky hills, Mick Hardin returns standing in as the sheriff while the previous sheriff, his sister Linda, recuperates from a gunshot wound sustained in the line of duty.

One of the most anticipated books of the year, from #1 New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Weiner, a glimmering novel set in the world of pop music about sisters, motherhood, young love, and the dreams we chase.
Tickets at: https://www.eventcombo.com/e/meet-the-author----jennifer-weiner-74032

Join us for an evening of anthologies featuring three fascinating authors, Dr. Donald Quist, Kali VanBaale, and Bailey Gaylin Moore, as they share their new writings featured in The Past Ten. 

Twilight of the Gods is satire and alternate history on an operatic, cinematic, and cosmic scale, with a cast that transcends time and space.

“Funny, self-effacing, heartbreaking, and wise, Herman shows us that life, in all of its choreography and improvisation, really is like ballet: Press down and rise at the same time. Descend and lift.”  —Maggie Smith, New York Times bestselling author of You Could Make This Place
Beautiful and Good Bones