LITERARY EVENTS
BY DAVE HOWELL
Special to The Press
BARNES & NOBLE
2960 Center Valley Parkway, Center Valley. 610-791-3261, www.barnesandnoble.com
Author Event: “Too Blessed to Stress,” Alli Hoff Kusik and “Followers,” Megan Angelo, 2 p.m. March 28
Book Club: “Lake Effect,” By Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney, 7 p.m. April 14
Southmont Plaza, 4445 Southmont Way, 610-515-0376, www.barnesandnoble.com
Author Event: “Rebel Secrets,” Stephanie Julian, 1 p.m. April 4
Author Event: “We Met At a Halloween Party,” Marcus R. Ferrell, 1 p.m. April 11
Author Event: “Wedding Challenges!,” Robert Winton, 1 p.m. April 12
Author Event: “It’s Sauce, Not Gravy!,” J.A. Marz, 1 p.m. April 18
Author Event: “Patchtown,” J.A. Stein, 1 p.m. April 25
BELL TOWER CULTURAL CENTER
2904 Church Road, Martins Creek, 610-360-3737, www.belltowerculturalcenter.org
Book Club at the Bell: “Endurance,” By Alfred Lansing, 6:30 p.m. April 9
Out to Lunch: Elvira Woodruff, “How I Fell in Love with Writing Historical Fiction,” 11:30 a.m. April 13
BETHLEHEM AREA PUBLIC LIBRARY
11 W. Church St., Bethlehem. 610-867-3761, www.bapl.org
Lehigh Valley Book Festival: noon, March 28
Taste and Tell Cookbook Club: 6 p.m. April 7. Registration required
Bethlehem Book Club: “Go Tell it on the Mountain,” By James Baldwin, 6 p.m. April 7
Mary Pat Beebe Book Club: “Live From Cairo,” By Ian Bassingthwaighte, 10 a.m. April 10, Zoom. Registration required
BOOK AND PUPPET CO.
161 Northampton St., Easton. 484-544-4738, www.bookandpuppet.com
Project 2025 Book Club: 5 p.m. March 26, April 2, April 9
The Self-Care Book Club: “The Uncared Self,” Joanie Scott, 1:30 p.m. March 28
Shut Up and Write!: 6:30 p.m. March 31, April 7
EASTON PUBLIC LIBRARY
515 Church St., Easton. 610-258-2917, www.eastonpl.org
Writing Room Afternoon: Silent writing followed by one hour of meeting and greeting fellow writers and writers-wannabes, 2 p.m. April 1
EASTON PUBLIC LIBRARY PALMER BRANCH
1 Weller Place, Easton. 610-258-7492, www.eastonpl.org
Forever Young Adult Book Group: “Unseelie,” By Ivelisse Housman, 6 p.m. April 15
Tuesday Night Book Club: “My Friends,” By Fredrik Backman, 6 p.m. April 28
EMMAUS PUBLIC LIBRARY
11 E. Main St., Emmaus. 610-965-9284, www.emmauspl.org
Daytime Book Group: “The Midnight Library,” By Matt Haig, 2 p.m. April 7
Evening Book Group: “Mr. Mac and Me” By Esther Freud, 6:45 p.m. April 14
Memoir Writing: 1 p.m. April 28, virtual. Registration online
EVERTRUE LUTHER CREST RETIREMENT COMMUNITY
800 Hausman Road, Allentown. 610-398-8011, www.lssliving.org/communities/luthercrest
Senior Book Club: “Middlemarch,” By George Eliot, 3 p.m. April 14
HELLERTOWN LIBRARY
409 Constitution Avenue, Hellertown, 610-838-8381, www.hellertownlibrary.org
Book Club: 6 p.m. April 13
LEPOCO PEACE CENTER
53 E. Lehigh St., No. 1, Lower Level, Bethlehem. 610-691-8730, www.lepoco.org
LEPOCO Book Club: “Azadi: Freedom, Fascism, Fiction,” By Arundhati Roy, 6 p.m. April 7
LEHIGH VALLEY HERITAGE MUSEUM
432 W. Walnut St., Allentown. 610-435-1074. www.lehighcountyhistoricalsociety.org
Lecture and Book Signing: “Threshold To Valley Forge,” Sheilah Vance, 1 p.m. March 28
MORAVIAN BOOK SHOP
428 Main St., Bethlehem. 610-866-5481, www.facebook.com/MoravianBkShop
Book Signing Event: “The Midnight Show,” Lee Kelly and Jennifer Thorne, 1 p.m. April 10
Book Signing Event: Larry Deibert, 1 p.m. April 11
NORTHAMPTON COMMUNITY COLLEGE
3835 Green Pond Road, Bethlehem, 610-861-5300, www.northampton.edu
NCC Humanities Lecture: Annette Gordon-Reed, 7 p.m. April 14
PARKLAND COMMUNITY LIBRARY
4422 Walbert Avenue, Allentown. 610-398-1361, www.parklandlibrary.org
PCL Book Club: “Happy Land,” By Dolen Perkins-Valdez, 10:30 a.m. March 25. Registration required
Java Joy Coffee and Conversation Club: 10 a.m. April 7. Registration requested
Short Story Society: “Train,” By Joy Williams, 2 p.m. April 9. Registration required
SORCERY AND SCRIPTS
74 W. Broad St. Suite 110, Bethlehem, www.facebook.com/SorceryandScripts
Acotar Book Club: “A Court of Thorns and Roses,” By Sarah J. Maas, 6 p.m. March 29
Romantasy Book Club: “The Everlasting,” By Alix Harrow and “The Knight and the Moth,” By Rachel Gillig,” 6 p.m. March 30
Midnight Society Book Club: “The Hollow Places,” T. Kingfisher, 6 pm. April 14
THE END
3055 W. Tilghman St., Allentown. 610-871-3949, https://theendbooks.co
Lehigh Valley Book Festival: schedule at www.theendbooks.co/lehigh-valley-book-festival, March 26 - March 29
Coffee and Classics Book Club: “Don Quixote,” By Cervantes, 9 a.m. April 4
THE TIPSY CROW AT THE SILK MILL
669 N. 13th St., Easton. 610-438-2531, www.countyseatspirits.com
Good Librations Silent Book Club, 5:30 p.m. March 30
“Literary Events” is a listing of authors’ book-signings, book-readings and events in the Lehigh Valley. To request a listing, email: Paul Willistein, Focus editor, pwillistein@tnonline.com








