YA Author Heather Smith Meloche at Cupcake Station, Mon. Oct. 10th!
Local YA author Heather Smith Meloche will be at the Cupcake Station in Rochester Hills on Monday, October 10th, 2016 from 3:00 to 4:30 PM. She will be reading from and signing copies of her new book, Ripple. This event is free and open to the public. Books will be able for purchase at the signing courtesy of Book Beat. For more information, to have a book held, or to have a book signed if you are unable to make the event, please call Book Beat at (248) 968-1190. A poster for the event can be downloaded and shared here: cupcake-station-flyer-2
Photographer John Sobczak at Book Beat , Sun., Oct. 16
Photographer John Sobczak will be joining us at Book Beat (26010 Greenfield Rd, Oak Park, MI 48237) on Sunday, October 16 from 3:00-4:00pm to sign and discuss his latest book of photography, Portraits in Motion. Books will be available to purchase at the event. If you have any questions, please call Book Beat (248) 968-1190.
Click here to view some of the images included in Portraits in Motion
Paula McLain at Authors to the Pointe, Sat. Oct. 22nd
Bestselling author Paula McLain (The Paris Wife, Circling the Sun) will be featured at this year’s Authors to the Pointe on Saturday, 
October 22 from 1:00-4:00pm at the Edsel and Eleanor Ford Estate, along with Lauren Willig, author of the Pink Carnation series of historical romance/spy novels. Authors to The Pointe combines a classic English tea with a doubling exciting author visit. Tickets for Authors to The Pointe are $30 per person and will go on sale on Thursday, September 22nd at 10am. Ticket sales are in-person only, by cash or check, exclusively at our newly remodeled Central Branch (10 Kercheval Avenue, Grosse Pointe Farms, MI 48236). For more information, please call the Grosse Pointe Library (313) 343-2074.
October Reading Group Selection
The Book Beat Reading Group selection for October is Slade House by David Mitchell. The Reading Group will meet on Wednesday, October 26 at 7pm in the Goldfish Tea Room (117 W 4th St #101, Royal Oak, MI 48067). Reading Group selections are discounted 15% at Book Beat. For more information, please call (248) 968-1190. All are welcome!
“A ripping yarn . . . Like Shirley Jackson’s Hill House or the Overlook Hotel from Stephen King’s The Shining, [Slade House] is a thin sliver of hell designed to entrap the unwary. . . . As the Mitchellverse grows ever more expansive and connected, this short but powerful novel hints at still more marvels to come.”—San Francisco Chronicle
Rhonda Gowler Greene Book Launch at Huntington Woods Lib., Sat., Nov. 5th!
Rhonda Gowler Greene will be at the Huntington Woods Library (26415 Scotia Rd, Huntington Woods, MI 48070) on Saturday, November 5th from 3 to 4:30 PM. It will be the book launch for her new book, Push! Dig! Scoop! A Construction Counting Rhyme. Book Beat and the Huntington Woods Library are co-sponsoring the event. This event is free and open to the public. Books will be able for purchase at the signing courtesy of Book Beat. For more information, to have a book held, or to have a book signed if you are unable to make the event, please call Book Beat at (248) 968-1190
Rhonda is a local author, living in West Bloomfield with her family. She is the author of 24 books and counting and her first book, Barnyard Song, has been in print for almost 20 years.