5th Thursday: Cozy Coloring

It can be hard to pick up a fun new hobby when there’s not enough time in the day. Join Casey and the occasional guest host for an hour each month to learn something or make something. Creative exploration meets casual socializing. Some events will allow for more socializing than others.

Because the store will be open until 8pm on Thursday evenings, registration is required as seats are limited to 10 people a session.

Take a break with a cozy, cute coloring page. Try out the popular alcohol ink markers, or go with classic colored pencils.
All supplies will be provided.

Songs and stories for our littlest readers!

Little Bees is held on the first Friday of the month.

Our current group of attendees is primarily around the age of 2 so we tend to select books for that age range. We can easily pivot to include more titles geared toward the 0-1 crowd, especially as many of our regulars have children of both age groups.

Join us to discuss A People’s History of the United States, by Howard Zinn!

Historian Howard Zinn’s A People’s History of the United States, a landmark work of social history, chronicles American history from the bottom up, throwing out the official narrative taught in schools—with its emphasis on great men in high places—to focus on the street, the home, and the workplace.

Known for its lively, clear prose as well as its scholarly research, it is the only volume to tell America's story from the point of view of—and in the words of—America's women, factory workers, African-Americans, Native Americans, the working poor, and immigrant laborers. As Zinn shows, many of our country's greatest battles—the fights for a fair wage, an eight-hour workday, child-labor laws, health and safety standards, universal suffrage, women's rights, racial equality—were driven by powerful social movements carried out at the grassroots level, against bloody resistance.

IMPORTANT NOTE: Because this is a long, dense book, we will only be discussing selected chapters. Come to book club having read chapters 1 through 5 and chapters 19 through 25. Reading chapter 17 is optional but highly recommended!

Registration is strongly encouraged in order to have adequate seating.

In celebration of TJ Klune’s upcoming Syracuse visit as part of FOCL’s Author Series, join us to discuss The Bones Beneath My Skin!

There's nothing more human than a broken heart.

In the spring of 1995, Nate Cartwright has lost everything: his parents are dead, his only brother wants nothing to do with him, and he's been fired from his job as a journalist in Washington, DC.

With nothing left to lose, he returns to his family's summer cabin outside the small mountain town of Roseland, Oregon, to try and find some sense of direction. The cabin should be empty. It's not.

Inside is a man named Alex. And with him is an extraordinary ten-year-old girl who calls herself Artemis Darth Vader. Artemis, who isn't exactly as she appears.

Soon it becomes clear that Nate must make a choice: let himself drown in the memories of his past, or fight for a future he never thought possible. Because the girl is special. And forces are descending upon them who want nothing more than to control her.

Registration is recommended to ensure adequate seating.

1st Thursday: Creative Writing

Sometimes the hardest part about writing is actually getting yourself to sit down and, you know, write.

That’s what Writing Club is for: a dedicated time each month when you can shut out other distractions and sit down at our community table to create whatever you’d like to create. Come in with your own project to work on if you’d like, but we’ll also have a bunch of different writing prompts to choose from to spark your imagination. You can put in earbuds and zone out for an hour and a half, or commiserate with your fellow creatives about the plots and characters that refuse to cooperate. There’s no pressure to stay for the whole time or share your work with anyone.

Younger writers are welcome as long as they’re accompanied by a parent.

Because the store will be open until 8pm on Thursday evenings, registration is required as seats are limited to 10 people a session.

Join us at the Liverpool Public Library for an evening with bestselling author TJ Klune for a special reading, conversation, and book signing. 
Registration is required. Seating is limited. 

5:30 PM: Doors Open 
6 PM: Opening remarks, author introduction, and moderated conversation between TJ Klune and Casey Rose Frank followed by an audience Q&A.

Attendees will have the opportunity to have books signed by TJ Klune. Books will be sold by the Golden Bee Bookshop. 

This program is made possible thanks to a collaboration between the Golden Bee Bookshop and the Liverpool Public Library.  

Save the date: Registration opens at 9am on April 20

2nd Thursday: Letter Writing/Making with Olivia

Do you love getting mail? Let's share that joy with others! In this group we will write letters to a different group each month to give attention to those who would benefit from it. Everyone from older adults to little kids should know there is someone out there who cares for them and what they do. Supplies will be provided, but feel free to bring your own supplies to jazz things up.

Because the store will be open until 8pm on Thursday evenings, registration is required as seats are limited to 10 people a session.

Liverpool Play Reading Club is an adult group interested in exploring plays! Each month, the group gets together for an informal read aloud of a chosen play. No experience is necessary. Participants are typically asked to get their own print or electronic copy of the play to bring with them to the meeting. Play reading club happens on the third Saturday of the month, in the Golden Bee Bookshop (the shop is closed to the public).

For May, we’ll be reading “Almost, Maine” by John Cariani. It’s available for download through Scribd. (Make sure you get the play script of Almost, Maine and not the novelization by the same title.)

Registration is recommended in order to ensure adequate seating.

Join us the discuss Thirteen by Steve Cavanagh!

If you can’t beat the system, be the system.

It’s the murder trial of the century―and Joshua Kane has killed to get the best seat in the house. He has done everything in his power to make sure the wrong man goes down for the crime. Because this time, the killer isn’t on trial. He’s on the jury.

But there’s someone on his tail. Defense lawyer and former conman Eddie Flynn doesn’t believe that his movie-star client killed two people. He suspects that the real killer is closer than they think―but who would guess just how close?

Registration is recommended in order to ensure adequate seating.

SAVE THE DATE!
May’s theme: Baking From Fiction

This club is WELCOME TO ALL, from amateur home cooks on up. Did your dish go horribly wrong? We won't judge! Did it not get enough seasoning? We won't scream at you or throw a pot at your head! We are not aspiring to be Michelin chefs here; we're just a bunch of people who want to cook for fun, try new foods, and meet some new friends along the way.  

3rd Thursday: Make a Thing with Casey

It can be hard to pick up a fun new hobby when there’s not enough time in the day. Join Casey and the occasional guest host for an hour each month to learn something or make something. Creative exploration meets casual socializing. Some events will allow for more socializing than others.

Because the store will be open until 8pm on Thursday evenings, registration is required as seats are limited to 10 people a session.

Make a watercolor bookmark!
Great for artists of all skill levels- try a suggested theme or create something uniquely your own.
All supplies will be provided.

Golden Bee is proud to be the official Liverpool chapter of Silent Book Club! We host Silent Book Club on the 4th Wednesday of every month.

Unlike your typical book club, Silent Book Club is more about the actual act of reading than the discussion of books. Come for an hour and read without the interruptions and nagging “should-dos” that often plague us elsewhere. Then chat with your fellow attendees for a half hour, or book it out the door without needing to say a word.

Registration is strongly encouraged in order to ensure adequate seating!

4th Thursday: Puzzle Party!

Are you freaked out all the time by the state of the world and all the stress in your own life?

Of course you are! A lot of things are terrible!

Maybe a puzzle will help? Or some pleasant socializing? Or both?

Take a break from the outside world and come unwind with us. We’ll open a new puzzle at the Community Table and chat while we work on it. It’s fun and low stakes and relaxing and satisfying and a nice way to wrap up the day and you can bring a nice little snack and warm drink to enjoy and doesn’t that sound nice? Of course it does! See you then!

Registration is requested to ensure adequate seating.

Join us to discuss Heartstopper Volume 1, by Alice Oseman!

Shy and softhearted Charlie Spring sits next to rugby player Nick Nelson in class one morning. A warm and intimate friendship follows, and that soon develops into something more for Charlie, who doesn't think he has a chance.

But Nick is struggling with feelings of his own, and as the two grow closer and take on the ups and downs of high school, they come to understand the surprising and delightful ways in which love works.

Registration is strongly encouraged in order to have adequate seating.

1st Thursday: Creative Writing

Sometimes the hardest part about writing is actually getting yourself to sit down and, you know, write.

That’s what Writing Club is for: a dedicated time each month when you can shut out other distractions and sit down at our community table to create whatever you’d like to create. Come in with your own project to work on if you’d like, but we’ll also have a bunch of different writing prompts to choose from to spark your imagination. You can put in earbuds and zone out for an hour and a half, or commiserate with your fellow creatives about the plots and characters that refuse to cooperate. There’s no pressure to stay for the whole time or share your work with anyone.

Younger writers are welcome as long as they’re accompanied by a parent.

Because the store will be open until 8pm on Thursday evenings, registration is required as seats are limited to 10 people a session.

Songs and stories for our littlest readers!

Little Bees is held on the first Friday of the month.

Our current group of attendees is primarily around the age of 2 so we tend to select books for that age range. We can easily pivot to include more titles geared toward the 0-1 crowd, especially as many of our regulars have children of both age groups.

Join us to discuss The Dandelion & The Thistle—by friend of the Golden Bee, Pip Dolyn!

Welcome to the Makers Market, your stop for high-quality, local, handcrafted art. Meet the artists as you browse. You never know what you'll find.

Addison Baird has been a staple figure at the Makers Market. Known as the (un)official mayor of the market, he's who everyone goes to when they have a problem, but when he experiences a disaster of his own, who does he turn to?

Colin Jameson is new to the Makers Market this year and has aspirations to take his ceramic art to a new level, but he's dealing with a creative block. When a frazzled vendor comes up to his booth with a problem he is uniquely qualified to solve, Colin wonders if he's finally found his muse.

Throughout the summer, Colin and Addison grow closer as they navigate the art world and face the pasts that haunt them. Will their budding relationship be uprooted or will they find healing and truly begin to blossom?

Registration is requested to ensure adequate seating.

2nd Thursday: Letter Writing/Making with Olivia

Do you love getting mail? Let's share that joy with others! In this group we will write letters to a different group each month to give attention to those who would benefit from it. Everyone from older adults to little kids should know there is someone out there who cares for them and what they do. Supplies will be provided, but feel free to bring your own supplies to jazz things up.

Because the store will be open until 8pm on Thursday evenings, registration is required as seats are limited to 10 people a session.

Join us at our new cozy book club to discuss The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared, by Jonas Jonasson!

After a long and eventful life, Allan Karlsson ends up in a nursing home, believing it to be his last stop. The only problem is that he’s still in good health—and tomorrow is his hundredth birthday. A big celebration is in the works, but Allan really isn’t interested, and he’d like a bit more control over his vodka consumption. So he decides to escape.

He climbs out the window in his slippers and embarks on a hilarious and entirely unexpected journey, involving, among other surprises, a suitcase stuffed with cash, some unpleasant criminals, a friendly hot-dog stand operator, and an elephant.

Quirky and utterly unique, The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed out the Window and Disappeared has charmed millions of people around the world.

Registration is recommended to ensure adequate seating.

SAVE THE DATE!
June: Savory Bakes

This club is WELCOME TO ALL, from amateur home cooks on up. Did your dish go horribly wrong? We won't judge! Did it not get enough seasoning? We won't scream at you or throw a pot at your head! We are not aspiring to be Michelin chefs here; we're just a bunch of people who want to cook for fun, try new foods, and meet some new friends along the way.  

For June, we'll be sharing savory bakes. Check out Savory Baking: Recipes for Breakfast, Dinner, and Everything in Between for inspiration!

Check back for the sign-up link.

3rd Thursday: Make a Thing with Casey

It can be hard to pick up a fun new hobby when there’s not enough time in the day. Join Casey and the occasional guest host for an hour each month to learn something or make something. Creative exploration meets casual socializing. Some events will allow for more socializing than others.

Because the store will be open until 8pm on Thursday evenings, registration is required as seats are limited to 10 people a session.

Golden Bee is proud to be the official Liverpool chapter of Silent Book Club! We host Silent Book Club on the 4th Wednesday of every month.

Unlike your typical book club, Silent Book Club is more about the actual act of reading than the discussion of books. Come for an hour and read without the interruptions and nagging “should-dos” that often plague us elsewhere. Then chat with your fellow attendees for a half hour, or book it out the door without needing to say a word.

Registration is strongly encouraged in order to ensure adequate seating!

4th Thursday: Puzzle Party!

Are you freaked out all the time by the state of the world and all the stress in your own life?

Of course you are! A lot of things are terrible!

Maybe a puzzle will help? Or some pleasant socializing? Or both?

Take a break from the outside world and come unwind with us. We’ll open a new puzzle at the Community Table and chat while we work on it. It’s fun and low stakes and relaxing and satisfying and a nice way to wrap up the day and you can bring a nice little snack and warm drink to enjoy and doesn’t that sound nice? Of course it does! See you then!

Registration is requested to ensure adequate seating.

1st Thursday: Creative Writing

Sometimes the hardest part about writing is actually getting yourself to sit down and, you know, write.

That’s what Writing Club is for: a dedicated time each month when you can shut out other distractions and sit down at our community table to create whatever you’d like to create. Come in with your own project to work on if you’d like, but we’ll also have a bunch of different writing prompts to choose from to spark your imagination. You can put in earbuds and zone out for an hour and a half, or commiserate with your fellow creatives about the plots and characters that refuse to cooperate. There’s no pressure to stay for the whole time or share your work with anyone.

Younger writers are welcome as long as they’re accompanied by a parent.

Because the store will be open until 8pm on Thursday evenings, registration is required as seats are limited to 10 people a session.

Songs and stories for our littlest readers!

Little Bees is held on the first Friday of the month.

Our current group of attendees is primarily around the age of 2 so we tend to select books for that age range. We can easily pivot to include more titles geared toward the 0-1 crowd, especially as many of our regulars have children of both age groups.

Join us to discuss Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt!

Shots rang out in Savannah's grandest mansion in the misty, early morning hours of May 2, 1981. Was it murder or self-defense? For nearly a decade, the shooting and its aftermath reverberated throughout this hauntingly beautiful city of moss-hung oaks and shaded squares. John Berendt's sharply observed, suspenseful, and witty narrative reads like a thoroughly engrossing novel, and yet it is a work of nonfiction. Berendt skillfully interweaves a hugely entertaining first-person account of life in this isolated remnant of the Old South with the unpredictable twists and turns of a landmark murder case.

It is a spellbinding story peopled by a gallery of remarkable characters: the well-bred society ladies of the Married Woman's Card Club; the turbulent young redneck gigolo; the hapless recluse who owns a bottle of poison so powerful it could kill every man, woman, and child in Savannah; the aging and profane Southern belle who is the "soul of pampered self-absorption"; the uproariously funny black drag queen; the acerbic and arrogant antiques dealer; the sweet-talking, piano-playing con artist; young blacks dancing the minuet at the black debutante ball; and Minerva, the voodoo priestess who works her magic in the graveyard at midnight. These and other Savannahians act as a Greek chorus, with Berendt revealing the alliances, hostilities, and intrigues that thrive in a town where everyone knows everyone else.

Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil is a sublime and seductive reading experience. Brilliantly conceived and masterfully written, this true-crime book has become a modern classic.

Registration is strongly encouraged in order to have adequate seating.

Join us to discuss The Night Ends With Fire by K.X. Song!

The Three Kingdoms are at war, but Meilin’s father refuses to answer the imperial draft. Trapped by his opium addiction, he plans to sell Meilin for her dowry. But when Meilin discovers her husband-to-be is another violent, ill-tempered man, she realizes that nothing will change for her unless she takes matters into her own hands.

The very next day, she disguises herself as a boy and enlists in her father’s place.

In the army, Meilin's relentless hard work brings her recognition, friendship—and a growing closeness with Sky, a prince turned training partner. But has she simply exchanged one prison for another? As her kingdom barrels toward destruction, Meilin begins to have visions of a sea dragon spirit that offers her true power and freedom, but with a deadly price.

With the future of the Three Kingdoms hanging in the balance, Meilin will need to decide whom to trust—Sky, who inspires her loyalty and love; the sea dragon spirit, who has his own murky agenda; or an infuriating enemy prince who makes her question everything she once knew—about her kingdom and about her own heart.

Registration is recommended to ensure adequate seating.

2nd Thursday: Letter Writing/Making with Olivia

Do you love getting mail? Let's share that joy with others! In this group we will write letters to a different group each month to give attention to those who would benefit from it. Everyone from older adults to little kids should know there is someone out there who cares for them and what they do. Supplies will be provided, but feel free to bring your own supplies to jazz things up.

Because the store will be open until 8pm on Thursday evenings, registration is required as seats are limited to 10 people a session.

SAVE THE DATE
July: Pie!!!

This club is WELCOME TO ALL, from amateur home cooks on up. Did your dish go horribly wrong? We won't judge! Did it not get enough seasoning? We won't scream at you or throw a pot at your head! We are not aspiring to be Michelin chefs here; we're just a bunch of people who want to cook for fun, try new foods, and meet some new friends along the way.  

For July, we'll be sharing pie—check Sister Pie by Lisa Ludwinski for recipe inspiration!

3rd Thursday: Make a Thing with Casey

It can be hard to pick up a fun new hobby when there’s not enough time in the day. Join Casey and the occasional guest host for an hour each month to learn something or make something. Creative exploration meets casual socializing. Some events will allow for more socializing than others.

Because the store will be open until 8pm on Thursday evenings, registration is required as seats are limited to 10 people a session.

Join us the discuss Wolf Hour by Jo Nesbo!

Minneapolis, Minnesota, 2016. When a small-time criminal and gun dealer is shot down in the street, all signs point to Tomas Gomez, a quiet man with a mysterious past—and deep connections to a notorious gang—who has seemingly vanished into thin air. Other murders soon follow, and it appears Gomez is only getting started. Meanwhile, Bob Oz, a down-and-out suspended police officer with a dubious past of his own, becomes fascinated by the case: he is obsessed with the notion of hunting down a serial killer who only he can understand, a killer with a story as tragic as his own.

Minneapolis, Minnesota, 2022. An enigmatic Norwegian man with ties to Minneapolis—a self-described crime writer—has traveled to the United States to research the Gomez case, in the hopes of writing a book about it. But as his investigation progresses, the writer’s seemingly neutral position reveals itself to be more complicated than the reader is initially led to believe.

Wolf Hour is a twisty and unforgettable thriller in classic Jo Nesbø style, which bears out Vanity Fair’s observation that “Nesbø explores the darkest criminal minds with grim delight and puts his killers where you least expect to find them. . . . His novels are maddeningly addictive.”

Registration is recommended in order to ensure adequate seating.

Golden Bee is proud to be the official Liverpool chapter of Silent Book Club! We host Silent Book Club on the 4th Wednesday of every month.

Unlike your typical book club, Silent Book Club is more about the actual act of reading than the discussion of books. Come for an hour and read without the interruptions and nagging “should-dos” that often plague us elsewhere. Then chat with your fellow attendees for a half hour, or book it out the door without needing to say a word.

Registration is strongly encouraged in order to ensure adequate seating!

4th Thursday: Puzzle Party!

Are you freaked out all the time by the state of the world and all the stress in your own life?

Of course you are! A lot of things are terrible!

Maybe a puzzle will help? Or some pleasant socializing? Or both?

Take a break from the outside world and come unwind with us. We’ll open a new puzzle at the Community Table and chat while we work on it. It’s fun and low stakes and relaxing and satisfying and a nice way to wrap up the day and you can bring a nice little snack and warm drink to enjoy and doesn’t that sound nice? Of course it does! See you then!

Registration is requested to ensure adequate seating.

5th Thursday: TBD