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Booked Club for Grown-Ups
Booked Club reads contemporary, literary fiction and nonfiction from a diverse range of authors. Booked owners Abby and Betsy host Booked Club on the third Wednesday of the month (most months!) at 7:00pm at Booked. Bringing snacks and beverages to share is always encouraged but never required. Questions? Email abby@bookedevanston.com.
Grandmother Begins the Story
Title
Grandmother Begins the Story
Price
$19.99
Available In Store
From award-winning Métis author Michelle Porter, a powerfully funny and moving story told not just by five generations of Métis women, but also by the land, the bison that surround them, and two utterly captivating dogs. Carter is a young mother on a quest to find the true meaning of her heritage, which she only learned of in her teens. Allie is trying to make up for the lost years with her first born and to protect Carter from the hurt she herself suffered from her own mother. Lucie wants the granddaughter she's never met to help her get to her ancestors in the afterlife. And Geneviève is determined to conquer her demons--before the fire inside burns her up--with the help of the sister she lost but has never been without. Meanwhile, Mamé, in the afterlife, knows that all their stories began with her; she must find a way to cut herself from the last threads that keep her tethered to the living, just as they must find their own paths forward. And a young bison wants to understand why he keeps being moved and whether he should make a break for it and run for his life. This extraordinary novel, told by a chorus of vividly realized, wise, confused, struggling characters attempting to make sense of this life and the next, heralds the arrival of a stunning new voice in literary fiction.
SKU
9781643755199
Grandmother Begins the Story
$19.99
Available In Store
Description
From award-winning Métis author Michelle Porter, a powerfully funny and moving story told not just by five generations of Métis women, but also by the land, the bison that surround them, and two utterly captivating dogs. Carter is a young mother on a quest to find the true meaning of her heritage, which she only learned of in her teens. Allie is trying to make up for the lost years with her first born and to protect Carter from the hurt she herself suffered from her own mother. Lucie wants the granddaughter she's never met to help her get to her ancestors in the afterlife. And Geneviève is determined to conquer her demons--before the fire inside burns her up--with the help of the sister she lost but has never been without. Meanwhile, Mamé, in the afterlife, knows that all their stories began with her; she must find a way to cut herself from the last threads that keep her tethered to the living, just as they must find their own paths forward. And a young bison wants to understand why he keeps being moved and whether he should make a break for it and run for his life. This extraordinary novel, told by a chorus of vividly realized, wise, confused, struggling characters attempting to make sense of this life and the next, heralds the arrival of a stunning new voice in literary fiction.
Description
From award-winning Métis author Michelle Porter, a powerfully funny and moving story told not just by five generations of Métis women, but also by the land, the bison that surround them, and two utterly captivating dogs. Carter is a young mother on a quest to find the true meaning of her heritage, which she only learned of in her teens. Allie is trying to make up for the lost years with her first born and to protect Carter from the hurt she herself suffered from her own mother. Lucie wants the granddaughter she's never met to help her get to her ancestors in the afterlife. And Geneviève is determined to conquer her demons--before the fire inside burns her up--with the help of the sister she lost but has never been without. Meanwhile, Mamé, in the afterlife, knows that all their stories began with her; she must find a way to cut herself from the last threads that keep her tethered to the living, just as they must find their own paths forward. And a young bison wants to understand why he keeps being moved and whether he should make a break for it and run for his life. This extraordinary novel, told by a chorus of vividly realized, wise, confused, struggling characters attempting to make sense of this life and the next, heralds the arrival of a stunning new voice in literary fiction.
ISBN
9781643755199
Publisher
Publication Date
August 27, 2024
Binding
Paperback
Item Condition
New
Language
English
Pages
352
Keywords
Fiction | Indigenous | General (see also Indigenous Peoples of Turtle Island or Nat; Fiction | Literary; Fiction | Visionary & Metaphysical; Fiction | Cultural Heritage; Fiction | World Literature | Canada - 21st Century; Fiction | Family Life | Siblings
Meeting Next on:
Nov 19 | 7:00PM
Event Details
Sunday Smut Book Club
Bookseller Alicia hosts our Sunday Smut Book Club on the last Sunday of the month (most months!) at 3:30pm. Sunday Smut reads are contemporary, spicy romance novels with a range of settings, sexual and gender identities, and spice levels. Questions? Email alicia@bookedevanston.com.
Yours for the Season: A Spicy Sapphic Christmas Romance (Original)
Title
Yours for the Season: A Spicy Sapphic Christmas Romance (Original)
Price
$18.99
Available In Store
Making the yuletide gay
JT Cox never quite fit into Hart's Landing. Playing on the boys' hockey team and coming out young didn't help. Now, thanks to an Olympic gold medal, JT's name is on a sign greeting visitors to her hometown. Her family of artists and creatives still treat her as an odd duck, but elsewhere there's a warm welcome. Especially from her best friend's older sister, newly divorced Ali Porter.
Single for the first time since high school, Ali is ready to take the reins of her own life. She's never had the chance to date another woman, and JT is an irresistible force of nature. When they team up for the town's holiday contest, cocoa tasting and gingerbread decorating give way to snow-melting chemistry.
If teenage JT thought Ali was the prettiest girl on the planet, adult JT is completely smitten. But JT can't see herself living in Hart's Landing again and Ali can't imagine leaving her job and her newly purchased home. And with Ali's mom trying to plot a reconciliation with her ex, this holiday season might be bittersweet...or the start of something magical.
Puck Struck
Book 1: Wake Up, Nat & Darcy
Book 2: Yours for the Season
JT Cox never quite fit into Hart's Landing. Playing on the boys' hockey team and coming out young didn't help. Now, thanks to an Olympic gold medal, JT's name is on a sign greeting visitors to her hometown. Her family of artists and creatives still treat her as an odd duck, but elsewhere there's a warm welcome. Especially from her best friend's older sister, newly divorced Ali Porter.
Single for the first time since high school, Ali is ready to take the reins of her own life. She's never had the chance to date another woman, and JT is an irresistible force of nature. When they team up for the town's holiday contest, cocoa tasting and gingerbread decorating give way to snow-melting chemistry.
If teenage JT thought Ali was the prettiest girl on the planet, adult JT is completely smitten. But JT can't see herself living in Hart's Landing again and Ali can't imagine leaving her job and her newly purchased home. And with Ali's mom trying to plot a reconciliation with her ex, this holiday season might be bittersweet...or the start of something magical.
Puck Struck
Book 1: Wake Up, Nat & Darcy
Book 2: Yours for the Season
SKU
9781335081926
Yours for the Season: A Spicy Sapphic Christmas Romance (Original)
$18.99
Available In Store
Description
Making the yuletide gay
JT Cox never quite fit into Hart's Landing. Playing on the boys' hockey team and coming out young didn't help. Now, thanks to an Olympic gold medal, JT's name is on a sign greeting visitors to her hometown. Her family of artists and creatives still treat her as an odd duck, but elsewhere there's a warm welcome. Especially from her best friend's older sister, newly divorced Ali Porter.
Single for the first time since high school, Ali is ready to take the reins of her own life. She's never had the chance to date another woman, and JT is an irresistible force of nature. When they team up for the town's holiday contest, cocoa tasting and gingerbread decorating give way to snow-melting chemistry.
If teenage JT thought Ali was the prettiest girl on the planet, adult JT is completely smitten. But JT can't see herself living in Hart's Landing again and Ali can't imagine leaving her job and her newly purchased home. And with Ali's mom trying to plot a reconciliation with her ex, this holiday season might be bittersweet...or the start of something magical.
Puck Struck
Book 1: Wake Up, Nat & Darcy
Book 2: Yours for the Season
JT Cox never quite fit into Hart's Landing. Playing on the boys' hockey team and coming out young didn't help. Now, thanks to an Olympic gold medal, JT's name is on a sign greeting visitors to her hometown. Her family of artists and creatives still treat her as an odd duck, but elsewhere there's a warm welcome. Especially from her best friend's older sister, newly divorced Ali Porter.
Single for the first time since high school, Ali is ready to take the reins of her own life. She's never had the chance to date another woman, and JT is an irresistible force of nature. When they team up for the town's holiday contest, cocoa tasting and gingerbread decorating give way to snow-melting chemistry.
If teenage JT thought Ali was the prettiest girl on the planet, adult JT is completely smitten. But JT can't see herself living in Hart's Landing again and Ali can't imagine leaving her job and her newly purchased home. And with Ali's mom trying to plot a reconciliation with her ex, this holiday season might be bittersweet...or the start of something magical.
Puck Struck
Book 1: Wake Up, Nat & Darcy
Book 2: Yours for the Season
Description
Making the yuletide gay
JT Cox never quite fit into Hart's Landing. Playing on the boys' hockey team and coming out young didn't help. Now, thanks to an Olympic gold medal, JT's name is on a sign greeting visitors to her hometown. Her family of artists and creatives still treat her as an odd duck, but elsewhere there's a warm welcome. Especially from her best friend's older sister, newly divorced Ali Porter.
Single for the first time since high school, Ali is ready to take the reins of her own life. She's never had the chance to date another woman, and JT is an irresistible force of nature. When they team up for the town's holiday contest, cocoa tasting and gingerbread decorating give way to snow-melting chemistry.
If teenage JT thought Ali was the prettiest girl on the planet, adult JT is completely smitten. But JT can't see herself living in Hart's Landing again and Ali can't imagine leaving her job and her newly purchased home. And with Ali's mom trying to plot a reconciliation with her ex, this holiday season might be bittersweet...or the start of something magical.
Puck Struck
Book 1: Wake Up, Nat & Darcy
Book 2: Yours for the Season
JT Cox never quite fit into Hart's Landing. Playing on the boys' hockey team and coming out young didn't help. Now, thanks to an Olympic gold medal, JT's name is on a sign greeting visitors to her hometown. Her family of artists and creatives still treat her as an odd duck, but elsewhere there's a warm welcome. Especially from her best friend's older sister, newly divorced Ali Porter.
Single for the first time since high school, Ali is ready to take the reins of her own life. She's never had the chance to date another woman, and JT is an irresistible force of nature. When they team up for the town's holiday contest, cocoa tasting and gingerbread decorating give way to snow-melting chemistry.
If teenage JT thought Ali was the prettiest girl on the planet, adult JT is completely smitten. But JT can't see herself living in Hart's Landing again and Ali can't imagine leaving her job and her newly purchased home. And with Ali's mom trying to plot a reconciliation with her ex, this holiday season might be bittersweet...or the start of something magical.
Puck Struck
Book 1: Wake Up, Nat & Darcy
Book 2: Yours for the Season
ISBN
9781335081926
Publisher
Publication Date
October 28, 2025
Binding
Paperback
Item Condition
New
Language
English
Pages
336
Series
Puck Struck
Series Number
2
Keywords
Fiction | Romance | LGBTQ+ - Lesbian; Fiction | Romance | Sports; Fiction | Small Town & Rural; Fiction | Sports; Fiction | LGBTQ+ | Lesbian
Meeting Next on:
Dec 07 | 3:30PM
Event Details
Cooked at Booked Club
Cooked at Booked is a potluck-style club that meets monthly to enjoy a meal (or snacks!) featuring recipes from one shared cookbook! Food's better with friends, books are better with friends, and cookbooks are too! Questions? Email Scarlett@bookedevanston.com.
Good Soup: 52 Colorful Recipes for Year-Round Comfort (Soups and Stews Cookbook)
Title
Good Soup: 52 Colorful Recipes for Year-Round Comfort (Soups and Stews Cookbook)
Price
$22.00
Available In Store
2023 WINNER Pub West Award - Gourmand World Cookbook Awards "Aims to prove that soup can be served year-round with recipes for broths, bisques, chowders, and more." --Publishers Weekly "Recipes are not overly complicated, offering wide appeal and making the book accessible for less-experienced cooks." --Library Journal "The combinations of ingredients will delight adventurous cooks" --San Francisco Book Review Before Chef Joris Bijdendijk cooked together three Michelin stars and Samuel Levie became a prolific sausage maker, soup was a regular guest in many memories. Good Soup pays tribute to the phenomenon that is soup in 52 recipes from all over the world. Whether your soup is a meal in itself or a light starter, it is always comforting. For chefs Joris Bijdendijk and Samuel Levie, soup is the regular guest in many memories: a comforting bowl of broth when they were ill, steaming cups or cold gazpacho when there was something to celebrate, or a hot mug of soup after skating. Or that first time they made their own fish stock as young chefs... An ode to soup in all its forms, this vibrant cookbook features weekly recipes for comfort all year round, including thai coconut soup, mushroom cream soup, gazpacho, and goulash. Not a week can go by without a delicious bowl. In recent years, their shared love of soup has taken on outrageous proportions. In addition to this colorful soup book, they were involved in a huge Freedom Meal, consisting of ten thousand servings of pumpkin soup, and launched their own tinned soup, SNERT, and three other canned soups.
SKU
9798986640662
Good Soup: 52 Colorful Recipes for Year-Round Comfort (Soups and Stews Cookbook)
$22.00
Available In Store
Description
2023 WINNER Pub West Award - Gourmand World Cookbook Awards "Aims to prove that soup can be served year-round with recipes for broths, bisques, chowders, and more." --Publishers Weekly "Recipes are not overly complicated, offering wide appeal and making the book accessible for less-experienced cooks." --Library Journal "The combinations of ingredients will delight adventurous cooks" --San Francisco Book Review Before Chef Joris Bijdendijk cooked together three Michelin stars and Samuel Levie became a prolific sausage maker, soup was a regular guest in many memories. Good Soup pays tribute to the phenomenon that is soup in 52 recipes from all over the world. Whether your soup is a meal in itself or a light starter, it is always comforting. For chefs Joris Bijdendijk and Samuel Levie, soup is the regular guest in many memories: a comforting bowl of broth when they were ill, steaming cups or cold gazpacho when there was something to celebrate, or a hot mug of soup after skating. Or that first time they made their own fish stock as young chefs... An ode to soup in all its forms, this vibrant cookbook features weekly recipes for comfort all year round, including thai coconut soup, mushroom cream soup, gazpacho, and goulash. Not a week can go by without a delicious bowl. In recent years, their shared love of soup has taken on outrageous proportions. In addition to this colorful soup book, they were involved in a huge Freedom Meal, consisting of ten thousand servings of pumpkin soup, and launched their own tinned soup, SNERT, and three other canned soups.
Description
2023 WINNER Pub West Award - Gourmand World Cookbook Awards "Aims to prove that soup can be served year-round with recipes for broths, bisques, chowders, and more." --Publishers Weekly "Recipes are not overly complicated, offering wide appeal and making the book accessible for less-experienced cooks." --Library Journal "The combinations of ingredients will delight adventurous cooks" --San Francisco Book Review Before Chef Joris Bijdendijk cooked together three Michelin stars and Samuel Levie became a prolific sausage maker, soup was a regular guest in many memories. Good Soup pays tribute to the phenomenon that is soup in 52 recipes from all over the world. Whether your soup is a meal in itself or a light starter, it is always comforting. For chefs Joris Bijdendijk and Samuel Levie, soup is the regular guest in many memories: a comforting bowl of broth when they were ill, steaming cups or cold gazpacho when there was something to celebrate, or a hot mug of soup after skating. Or that first time they made their own fish stock as young chefs... An ode to soup in all its forms, this vibrant cookbook features weekly recipes for comfort all year round, including thai coconut soup, mushroom cream soup, gazpacho, and goulash. Not a week can go by without a delicious bowl. In recent years, their shared love of soup has taken on outrageous proportions. In addition to this colorful soup book, they were involved in a huge Freedom Meal, consisting of ten thousand servings of pumpkin soup, and launched their own tinned soup, SNERT, and three other canned soups.
ISBN
9798986640662
Publisher
Publication Date
October 17, 2023
Binding
Hardcover
Item Condition
New
Language
English
Pages
160
Keywords
Cooking | Courses & Dishes | Soups & Stews; Cooking | Regional & Cultural | International; Cooking | Comfort Food
Meeting Next on:
Dec 03 | 7:00PM
Event Details
Adventurers Guild Book Club
The Adventurers Guild Book Club is a monthly, 90-minute book club and craft session for kids ages 8-12. Each month, Guild members read a graphic novel or chapter book, participate in a guided discussion, and do a book-related craft. If you have an Adventurer who'd like to join the Guild, please email info@bookedevanston.com.
Meeting Next on:
Nov 16 | 3:30PM
Event Details
Betsy Gets Real