June Eras Book Club (1989 & Speak Now): Dahlia Adler

Come join the last meeting of our Eras Book Club for a special Double Eras Double Book Discussion centered around one of our favorite teen romance writers, Dahlia Adler! We’ll discuss longtime favorite (finally out in paperback!) in conjunction with Taylor’s 1989 album AND Dahlia Adler’s newest, , as a pairing with Speak Now.

As always, we’ll make friendship bracelets with signature charms for BOTH eras and those who attend will get to leave with a bag of parting beads to keep the magic going all summer long. It has been a pleasure to have your teens for the past year!

Tickets are $5 to cover material costs. Every participant must purchase a ticket. Mention the book club at the shop or order online and note “book club” to get 10% off!

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About the Books:

Going Bicoastal is a Sliding Doors rom-com in which a girl must choose between summer in NYC with her dad (and the girl she's always wanted) or LA with her estranged mom (and the guy she never saw coming). Natalya Fox has twenty-four hours to make the biggest choice of her life: stay home in NYC for the summer with her dad (and finally screw up the courage to talk to the girl she's been crushing on), or spend it with her basically estranged mom in LA (knowing this is the best chance she has to fix their relationship, if she even wants to.) (Does she want to?) How's a girl supposed to choose? She can't, and so both summers play out in alternating timelines - one in which Natalya explores the city, tries to repair things with her mom, works on figuring out her future, and goes for the girl she's always wanted. And one in which Natalya explores the city, tries to repair things with her mom, works on figuring out her future, and goes for the guy she never saw coming.

Set in a New Hampshire boarding school, Come As You Are is an opposites attract romance proving that a fresh start doesn't have to mean changing yourself! Hot on the heels of a broken heart, Everett “Evie” Riley arrives at Camden Academy ready for a new beginning - one far away from her cheating ex-boyfriend, the sister who stole him, and the best friend who let it happen. But her fresh start is stopped in its tracks when she's accidentally placed in an all-boys dorm, with no choice but to stay. When rumors and gossip about Evie's housing predicament spread like wildfire, she decides the only way to survive is to lean into her questionable new reputation... but she's definitely going to require help. Her grumpy emo dorm mate Salem Grayson isn't exactly her first choice, but he does need her help to repair his relationship with his parents every bit as much as she needs his to learn how to be cool. And so they make a pact: he'll teach her how to be bad, if she teaches him how to be good.

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