July 2020

Charlie Jane Anders, the nationally bestselling author of All the Birds in the Sky deliveers a brillant new novel set in a hauntingly strange future.
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January is a dying planet—divided between a permanently frozen darkness on one side, and blazing endless sunshine on the other. Humanity clings to life, spread across two archaic cities built in the sliver of habitable dusk.

But life inside the cities is just as dangerous as the uninhabitable wastelands outside.

Sophie, a student and reluctant revolutionary, is supposed to be dead after being exiled into the night. Saved only by forming an unusual bond with the enigmatic beasts who roam the ice, Sophie vows to stay hidden from the world, hoping she can heal.

But fate has other plans—and Sophie's ensuing odyssey and the ragtag family she finds will change the entire world.

Anders's Choir Boy was a finalist for the 2006 Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction and won the Lambda Literary Award. In 2011, Six Months, Three Days won the Hugo Award and in 2017 Anders won a Nebula Award for All the Birds in the Sky.​​ This year Anders has won the ​Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel for The City in the Middle of the Night and the Locus Award for Best Short Story for The Bookstore at the End of America.

If this sounds like something you'd like to read, you can get your copy of the book from the store or online with a 15% discount through the end of July. Remember, you can have it shipped directly to you or come pick it up curbside!

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Reviews & Interviews
Big Ideas Lead To Big Upheavals -- NPR
Even Further Afield -- Los Angeles Review of Books
​The City in the Middle of the Night -- Kirkus Review
Charlie Jane Anders on The City in the Middle of the Night -- Book Riot

We're still meeting online for book clubs this month. Our meeting will be July 30th at 6:30pm and you can join via this link. Come join us to discuss the book, even if you weren't able to completely finish it or if you didn't like it. You can see the Facebook event & find more information here. Read on!​