Piper Addison has three problems: a broken espresso machine, malfunctioning magic, and a dead body. Guess which one she doesn’t see coming?

One month from forty, Piper Addison thinks she finally has life figured out. Sure, her bank account could be fuller and the cafe she opened with the last of her savings could use some help, but what’s a few kinks for an Orchard Hollow witch?

Too bad Piper can’t witch to save her life, which is exactly what she might need to do when a dead body is discovered in the alley behind her cafe. To make matters worse, all the evidence points to Piper and the local sheriff is not too keen on the town’s paranormal inhabitants.

When a mysterious envelope lands on Piper’s doorstep, she has a decision to make: go behind the sheriff’s back and try to clear her name, or spend her fortieth birthday in a prison cell.

A Grave Roast is a paranormal cozy mystery complete with an unlucky witch, a ghost familiar, and a feisty raccoon with a talent for getting into sticky situations.

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Learn the art of visible mending—a joyful, meditative, and restorative practice—to repair the clothes and belongings you love!

Mending Life, a beautiful modern sewing and mending guide with vibrant, full-color illustrations woven throughout, encourages us to break free from the fast fashion industry by repairing our clothes rather than discarding them. Along with DIY and how-to illustrations and tutorials, you’ll find heartfelt stories by authors Nina and Sonya Montenegro (creators of the popular @TheFarWoods) that encourage you to change your consumption habits, celebrate a sustainable, intentional lifestyle, demonstrate mending as a powerful act that not only strengthens the object we are repairing, but ourselves as well. 

6:00 PM - 6:30 PM
Exclusive Shopping Experience
Arrive up to 30 minutes before the event for after-hours shopping, available to all guests looking for exclusive time to shop and browse.

6:30 PM - 7:00 PM
Instructions & Questions
Demo and instructions given during this time. We will guide you through the process and give tips and tricks.

7:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Hands-On DIY
The group divides and begins the building process. Plant and create while you take the time to build your garden. Hosts are available for questions and the store will remain open for continued shopping.

This year's soiree is modeled after the famous Midnight Dinners!

What you can expect:
-A beautiful selection of food from Blueberries and Lace
-A hot chocolate bar
-Two magical mocktails sure to delight the senses
-Tarot readings from Liz at The Healing Hearth
-Beautiful decor
-Great conversations
-A limited edition gift to take home from BeeKind

Welcome to Skill-Building Month! This sign-up form is for the event on Wednesday, October 16th, at 6:30pm when we will be cooking from and discussing Salt Fat Acid Heat by Samin Nosrat.

Join us for an evening of fun conversation and cookies and cream ice cream.

When a chance encounter sparks an unlikely bond between rival murderers Sloane and Rowan, they find something elusive—the friendship of two like-minded, pitch-black souls who just happen to enjoy killing other serial killers.

From small-town West Virginia to upscale California, and from downtown Boston to rural Texas, the two hunters collide in an annual game of blood and suffering, one that pits them against the most dangerous monsters in the country.

But as their friendship develops into something more, the restless ghosts left in their wake are only a few steps behind, ready to claim more than just their newfound love.

Can Rowan and Sloane dig themselves out of a game of graves?
Or have they finally met their match?

Stéphane Bréitwieser is the most prolific art thief of all time.

He pulled off more than 200 heists, often in crowded museums in broad daylight.
His girlfriend served as his accomplice.
His collection was worth an estimated $2 billion.
He never sold a piece, displaying his stolen art in his attic bedroom.
He felt like a king.

Until everything came to a shocking end.

In this spellbinding portrait of obsession and flawed genius, Michael Finkel gives us one of the most remarkable true-crime narratives of our times, a riveting story of art, theft, love, and an insatiable hunger to possess beauty at any cost.

Join us at Golden Bee Bookshop for an evening with Soma Mei Sheng Frazier beginning with the author in conversation, followed by a book signing. Books will be available for purchase during the event.

A captivating debut following a cross-country road trip that will make you believe in the goodness of people, Off the Books sheds light on the power in humanity during the most troubled of times.

Recent Dartmouth dropout Mei, in search of a new direction in life, drives a limo to make ends meet. Her grandfather convinces her to allow her customers to pay under the table, and before she knows it, she is working as a routine chauffeur for sex workers. Mei does her best to mind her own business, but her knack for discretion soon leads her on a life changing trip from San Francisco to Syracuse with a new client.

Handsome and reserved, Henry piques Mei’s interest. Toting an enormous black suitcase with him everywhere he goes, he’s more concerned with taking frequent breaks than making good time on the road. When Mei discovers Henry's secret, she does away with her usual close-lipped demeanor and decides she has no choice but to confront him. What Henry reveals rocks her to her core and shifts this once casual, transactional road trip to one of moral stakes and dangerous consequences.

An original take on the great American road trip, Off the Books is a beautifully crafted coming of age story that showcases the resilience of the human spirit and the power of doing the right thing. The spirit of Frazier’s characters will stay with readers long after they have arrived at their destination.

Golden Bee is proud to be the home of the Liverpool Chapter of Silent Book Club! 

Instead of a traditional book club (where you read the book in advance and discuss what you’ve read) Silent Book Club centers around reading at the each meeting, with an option to talk to no one at all should you choose. Purchase or bring any book you want for an hour of silent reading, followed by half an hour of optional socializing where you’ll have the opportunity to chat about your book or simply browse the shop in a private setting.

This is the perfect way to fight the Sunday scaries, or read in peace without the people and things in your household demanding your attention.

Tickets are donation based with the intent of encouraging those who signup to commit to attending as this event is in high demand. All proceeds will be used to purchase books from the shop to be donated to Book VanGo. Tickets are limited to 25 people.

In addition to awesome medallions for the winning team, there will be a prize pot of 50% of all ticket sales. (If we get 30 attendees, that’s $150 for the winning team.)
You don’t have to be a book expert to enjoy playing!

Details:
A maximum of 4 players per team
If you’re joining us solo, you can play independently or be added to a team of other individuals on the night of the event.

Golden Bee will be at Woznica Orchards as part of a special after-hours event!
Attendance is free and open to the public. A wide variety of vendors from the local community will be present.

Welcome to Show and Tell Project Bakes Month! This sign-up form is for the event on Wednesday, September 18th, at 6:30pm when we will be baking choose-your-own-difficulty recipes from wherever you like! Need a suggestion? How about something project-y and complicated from:

Bake Joy, Baking with Kim-Joy, or Bake Me A Cat, by Kim-Joy

Or something simpler from:

Snacking Bakes or Snacking Cakes by Yossy Arefi 

OR choose your own recipe and bring the cookbook/source along to share and discuss!

When Ann Stilwell arrives in New York City, she expects to spend her summer working as a curatorial associate at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Instead, she finds herself assigned to The Cloisters, a gothic museum and garden renowned for its medieval art collection and its group of enigmatic researchers studying the history of divination.

Desperate to escape her painful past, Ann is happy to indulge the researchers’ more outlandish theories about the history of fortune telling. But what begins as academic curiosity quickly turns into obsession when Ann discovers a hidden 15th-century deck of tarot cards that might hold the key to predicting the future. When the dangerous game of power, seduction, and ambition at The Cloisters turns deadly, Ann becomes locked in a race for answers as the line between the arcane and the modern blurs.

A haunting and magical blend of genres, The Cloisters is a gripping debut that will keep you on the edge of your seat.

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This club is for those in the LGBTQ+ community who are interested in reading Queer books to explore our history and our present experiences through fiction, nonfiction, and conversation. While we appreciate our allies, this is a group for those who identify as LGBTQ+.

We have seasonal meetings, with a book discussion for spring, summer, autumn, and winter.
For March we are read Stonewall: The Definitive Story of the LGBTQ Rights Uprising that Changed America by Martin Duberman, and in June we read Special Topics in Being a Human By S. Bear Bergman and illustrated by Saul Freedman-Lawson.

For September we are reading and discussing Light From Uncommon Stars by Ryka Aoki.

We encourage attendees to complete their reading of the book in order to have the most robust conversation possible.

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Widower Mukesh lives a quiet life in the London Borough of Ealing after losing his beloved wife. He shops every Wednesday, goes to Temple, and worries about his granddaughter, Priya, who hides in her room reading while he spends his evenings watching nature documentaries.

Aleisha is a bright but anxious teenager working at the local library for the summer when she discovers a crumpled-up piece of paper in the back of To Kill a Mockingbird. It’s a list of novels that she’s never heard of before. Intrigued, and a little bored with her slow job at the checkout desk, she impulsively decides to read every book on the list, one after the other. As each story gives up its magic, the books transport Aleisha from the painful realities she’s facing at home.

When Mukesh arrives at the library, desperate to forge a connection with his bookworm granddaughter, Aleisha passes along the reading list… hoping that it will be a lifeline for him too. Slowly, the shared books create a connection between two lonely souls, as fiction helps them escape their grief and everyday troubles and find joy again. 

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Little Bees Storytime is open to kiddos 0-2 and their grownups.
Join us for half an hour of books, songs, and socializing most Fridays (holidays and cancelations happen!) No registration is required, join us whenever you’re able.

Tennis (and a little murder), anyone?
This month Play Reading Club is back on the Agatha Christie train with our reading of Towards Zero. Join us and find out what happens when a group of house guests gathers at Gull's Point, Lady Tressilian's cliffside home on the sea. It's a Christie play-- what could go wrong?

Liverpool Play Reading Club is a gathering place for all those who love theater and anyone who just wants to widen the breadth of their reading list. Once a month we get together to read a play out loud as a group -- discovering these stories the way they were meant to be read! Anyone may participate -- from actors who want to work on their skills in a no-pressure environment to readers who have never performed in a play before. You are not required to sign-up for a role if you would just like to attend, listen, and participate in discussion.

Little Bees Storytime is open to kiddos 0-2 and their grownups.
Join us for half an hour of books, songs, and socializing most Fridays (holidays and cancelations happen!) No registration is required, join us whenever you’re able.

Golden Bee is proud to be a part of Novels at Night, a summer social event series for book lovers in collaboration with Wandercuse and Emerald Cocktail Kitchen.

Grab your favorite book and gather on the rooftop of Emerald Cocktail Kitchen for signature cocktails, mocktails, and reading under the stars. This event will be hosted on June 4th, July 9th, and August 6th.

We’ll be onsite with a popup bookshop offering a selection of books.

We will be discussing Summer Fridays by Suzanne Rindell while we enjoy an ice cream social!

Summer Fridays
Summer 1999: Twentysomething Sawyer is striving to make it in New York. Between her assistant job in publishing, her secret dreams of becoming a writer, and her upcoming wedding to her college boyfriend, her is plate full. Only one problem: She is facing an incredibly lonely summer as her fiancé has been spending longer and longer hours at work . . . with an all-too-close female colleague, Kendra. 

When Kendra’s boyfriend, Nick, invites Sawyer to meet up and compare notes about their suspicions, the meeting goes awry. She finds Nick cocky and cynical, and he finds her stuck in her own head. But then Nick seeks out Sawyer online to apologize, and a friendship develops.

Soon, Sawyer’s lonely summer takes an unexpected turn. She and Nick begin an unofficial ritual—exploring New York City together every summer Friday. From hot dogs on the Staten Island Ferry and Sea Breezes in a muggy East Village bar to swimming at Coney Island, Sawyer feels seen by Nick in a way that surprises her. He pushes her to be braver. To ask for what she wants. Meanwhile, Sawyer draws Nick out of his hard shell, revealing a surprisingly vulnerable side. They both begin living for their Friday afternoons together. 

But what happens when the summer is over?

In order to reserve your spot please use the form below to select what item you will be bringing to contribute to the ice cream social. We are starting with a range of 11 items and more will be added if our numbers are larger than that.

August theme: Comedy
Book: Quietly Hostile by Samantha Irby

Samantha Irby’s career has taken her to new heights. She dodges calls from Hollywood and flop sweats on the red carpet at premieres (well, one premiere). But nothing is ever as it seems online, where she can crop out all the ugly parts.

Irby got a lot of weird emails about Carrie Bradshaw, and not only is there diarrhea to avoid, but now—anaphylactic shock. She is turned away from restaurants for being inappropriately dressed and looks for the best ways to cope, i.e., reveling in the offerings of QVC and adopting a deranged pandemic dog. Quietly Hostile makes light as Irby takes us on another outrageously funny tour of all the gory details that make up the true portrait of a life behind the screenshotted depression memes. Relatable, poignant, and uproarious, once again, Irby is the tonic we all need to get by.

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Golden Bee Book Trivia is back!
And dare I say, better than ever. In addition to awesome medallions for the winning team, there will be a prize pot of 50% of all ticket sales. If we get 30 attendees, that’s $150 for the winning team.

Details:
Sign up at the counter in the bookshop and pay your $10 fee in cash before 8/1/2024
A maximum of 4 players per team
If you’re joining us solo, you can play independently or sign up to be added to a team of other individuals.
We will be capping the event at 32 attendees so the sooner you are able to come in, the more likely it is that you’ll get a spot.

Join us for a special visit from Mary Jumbelic, M.D. on Saturday!

From the author: “I'll have my book available for sale and signing, and I'm glad to answer all of your questions about authoring books, publishing, forensic pathology — and I may even take a "stab" at any other topic you throw my way!”

Little Bees Storytime is open to kiddos 0-2 and their grownups.
Join us for half an hour of books, songs, and socializing most Fridays (holidays and cancelations happen!) No registration is required, join us whenever you’re able.

Little Bees Storytime is open to kiddos 0-2 and their grownups.
Join us for half an hour of books, songs, and socializing most Fridays (holidays and cancelations happen!) No registration is required, join us whenever you’re able.

Welcome to Pie Month! This sign-up form is for the event on Wednesday, July 17th, at 6:30pm when we will be cooking recipes from 50 Pies, 50 States by Stacey Mei Yan Fong and Pie Is Messy by Rebecca Grasley, or choose your own pie recipe and bring the cookbook/source along to share and discuss.

In the latest jaw-dropping thriller from New York Times bestselling author Riley Sager, a man must contend with the long-ago disappearance of his childhood best friend—and the dark secrets lurking just beyond the safe confines of his picture-perfect neighborhood.

The worst thing to ever happen on Hemlock Circle occurred in Ethan Marsh’s backyard. One July night, ten-year-old Ethan and his best friend and neighbor, Billy, fell asleep in a tent set up on a manicured lawn in a quiet, quaint New Jersey cul-de-sac. In the morning, Ethan woke up alone. During the night, someone had sliced the tent open with a knife and taken Billy. He was never seen again.

Thirty years later, Ethan has reluctantly returned to his childhood home. Plagued by bad dreams and insomnia, he begins to notice strange things happening in the middle of the night. Someone seems to be roaming the cul-de-sac at odd hours, and signs of Billy’s presence keep appearing in Ethan’s backyard. Is someone playing a cruel prank? Or has Billy, long thought to be dead, somehow returned to Hemlock Circle?

The mysterious occurrences prompt Ethan to investigate what really happened that night, a quest that reunites him with former friends and neighbors and leads him into the woods that surround Hemlock Circle. Woods where Billy claimed ghosts roamed and where a mysterious institute does clandestine research on a crumbling estate.  

The closer Ethan gets to the truth, the more he realizes that no place—be it quiet forest or suburban street—is completely safe. And that the past has a way of haunting the present.

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