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.

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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!

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.

Katie Risor returns with the second book in the Welcome to the Forest series!
When Fiona's friend, Sue Ellen, invites Fiona and the gang to come visit her at Lake Sunny Splash, Mossman and Wallace are eager to see a new place and meet a new face! Lake Sunny Splash is full of surprises, and Wallace and Mossman never could have guessed what Sue Ellen would be like. Join the Forest gang as they experience the ups and downs of road tripping, survive a surprising fishing adventure, and celebrate summer with an island picnic.

Join us for an afternoon of reading and learning about making your own illustrations with Katie!
A purchase of one copy of the book is required in order to attend, but not required for every attendee.

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.

Stop into the shop between 11 and 3 to meet area authors Mary Jumbelic, M.D. and Corwin Michaels! Books will be available for purchase and signing.

Mary Jumbelic has led a storied career as a board-certified forensic pathologist, author, and educator. Her most recent book, “Speak Her Name: Stories from a Life in True Crime,” was released in July.

Corwin Michaels is the author of the Dreamon War Saga. So far he has published two books in this fantasy coming-of-age series: “Second Soul” and “Shattered Soul.” 

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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.

Stop into the shop between 11 and 3 to meet local authors/creators Pip Dolyn and Katie Vaz! Books will be available for purchase and signing.

Pip Dolyn is a queer and trans romance author who writes love stories about other queer and trans people. Pip is inspired to tell these stories of imperfect people loving imperfectly but still finding their happy ending. 

Katie Vaz is an illustrator, author, and hand-letterer who creates books and artwork that promote gentle self-kindness through cozy living. She has published books including Tiny Joys: A Guide to Embracing Your Inner Coastal Grandmother.

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

We’ll be doing things a little differently this month!

Our theme for August is banned children’s books. Choose your own banned children’s book to read ahead of book club.

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 Magic & Mischief at the Wayside Hotel by Elizabeth Everett!

When a magical hotel appears smack-dab in the middle of the most unmagical of worlds, the last thing the residents expect is to fall in love.

Manager of the Number Five Wayside Inn and World Travel Hub, Pax Nomen has one of the easiest jobs in all the known universes, unless you count the occasional plumbing disaster. When Number Five Wayside gets stranded on a non-magical world, even Pax's trusty Wayside Handbook can’t help him. How is he going to “reboot” the hotel and keep it on its magical journey?

Josie LaChusia is a single mom experiencing debt, having parenting doubts, and tipping dangerously toward depression when an ad pops up on her phone that an apartment is available in a building she’s never seen before.

Pax needs a new guest to restart his hotel, and Josie needs a nudge to restart her life. In a building occupied by faeries, gargoyles, and a gnome with a bad attitude, two souls from very different places come together to create a home like no other.

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 We’ll Prescribe You a Cat, by Syou Ishida!

A cat a day keeps the doctor away…

Discover the award-winning, bestselling Japanese novel that has become an international sensation in this utterly charming, vibrant celebration of the healing power of cats.

Tucked away in an old building at the end of a narrow alley in Kyoto, the Kokoro Clinic for the Soul can only be found by people who are struggling in their lives and genuinely need help. The mysterious clinic offers a unique treatment to those who find their way there: it prescribes cats as medication. Patients are often puzzled by this unconventional prescription, but when they “take” their cat for the recommended duration, they witness profound transformations in their lives, guided by the playful, empathetic, occasionally challenging yet endearing cats.

Throughout the pages, the power of the human-animal bond is revealed as a disheartened businessman finds unexpected joy in physical labor, a young girl navigates the complexities of elementary school cliques, a middle-aged man struggles to stay relevant at work and home, a hardened bag designer seeks emotional balance, and a geisha finds herself unable to move on from the memory of her lost cat. As the clinic’s patients navigate their inner turmoil and seek resolution, their feline companions lead them toward healing, self-discovery, and newfound hope.

Registration is recommended to ensure adequate seating.

SAVE THE DATE!
August: Sauces & Dips

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 August, we'll be sharing sauces and dips. Check out Saucy by Ashley Boyd 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.

Join us to discuss The Glass Castle by Jeanette Walls!

The Glass Castle is a remarkable memoir of resilience and redemption, and a revelatory look into a family at once deeply dysfunctional and uniquely vibrant. When sober, Jeannette's brilliant and charismatic father captured his children's imagination, teaching them physics, geology, and how to embrace life fearlessly. But when he drank, he was dishonest and destructive. Her mother was a free spirit who abhorred the idea of domesticity and didn't want the responsibility of raising a family.

The Walls children learned to take care of themselves. They fed, clothed, and protected one another, and eventually found their way to New York. Their parents followed them, choosing to be homeless even as their children prospered.

The Glass Castle is truly astonishing--a memoir permeated by the intense love of a peculiar but loyal family.

Registration is strongly encouraged in order to have adequate seating.

Join us to discuss Dungeon Crawler Carl by Matt Dinniman!

You know what’s worse than breaking up with your girlfriend? Being stuck with her prize-winning show cat. And you know what’s worse than that? An alien invasion, the destruction of all man-made structures on Earth, and the systematic exploitation of all the survivors for a sadistic intergalactic game show. That’s what.

Join Coast Guard vet Carl and his ex-girlfriend’s cat, Princess Donut, as they try to survive the end of the world—or just get to the next level—in a video game–like, trap-filled fantasy dungeon. A dungeon that’s actually the set of a reality television show with countless viewers across the galaxy. Exploding goblins. Magical potions. Deadly, drug-dealing llamas. This ain’t your ordinary game show.

Welcome, Crawler. Welcome to the Dungeon. Survival is optional. Keeping the viewers entertained is not.

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.

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.

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 the discuss The Unknown by Riley Sager!

This book will be released on August 4th and will be available in the shop after that. Please contact us if you’d like to preorder a copy.

In 1926, five women disappeared from a remote island in Vermont. Now, one hundred years later, it’s happening again.

Struggling actress Marin Keane is shocked when she lands a role in a major motion picture about the unsolved mystery of New Avalon, an island on sprawling Lake Faraday in Vermont. She’s even more surprised when she learns that the role requires a weeklong research trip to that very spot.

Because New Avalon isn’t your ordinary island. A century ago, it was a commune for spiritual mediums—until they all vanished in 1926. The only trace of them was five dresses hanging from the branches of an old oak tree in the middle of the island, one for each missing woman. Some locals say they simply left. Others think they were murdered. But the prevailing opinion, thanks to a diary left behind by one of the vanished, a young woman named Daisy Rue, is that a séance gone wrong conjured something supernatural that took them all one by one.

Not long after arriving, Marin and her castmates, including legendary actress Violet Wright and white-hot director Ronan Peters, begin to realize all is not right with New Avalon. They hear strange noises in the night and notice mysterious symbols left behind by the island's previous occupants. And after a sudden health emergency leaves Marin, Ronan, and the other actors stranded on the island, the disappearances begin again.

Is it the work of someone trying to derail the movie? Or is the island’s alleged supernatural past catching up with the present? As fear and suspicion mount, Marin turns to Daisy’s diary, hoping it holds the key to figuring out what really happened to the women of New Avalon—and how to keep the island’s terrible history from repeating itself.

Registration is recommended in order to ensure adequate seating.

SAVE THE DATE!
Theme: Struggle September

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.  

This month our theme is Struggle September. Check out Milk Street: Simple and Milk Street: Cook What You Have for (easy) 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.