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The Forever Young Book Club is for individuals who like to read Young Adult and New Adult literature and are a little more "A" than "Y." Monthly books will be a mix of forgotten favorites (out in paperback) and newly-released titles (available in hardcover).
Run by Wendy, we meet each month on every third Thursday at 7 p.m. at Quail Ridge Books. Check out our group discussion guidelines. When purchasing book club titles from Quail Ridge Books, let staff know it's for book club and get a 21% discount. For online orders, add the information to the note field on the order form and the discount will be applied before your payment is processed.
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Upcoming events (4+)
See all- YA Book Club: THE GIRL WHO FELL BENEATH THE SEA by Axie OhQuail Ridge Books, Raleigh, NC
Please join us for a discussion of THE GIRL WHO FELL BENEATH THE SEA by Axie Oh.
Book club members receive 21% off the book when purchasing it at Quail Ridge Books for the book club.
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Publisher Description:
Deadly storms have ravaged Mina’s homeland for generations. Floods sweep away entire villages, while bloody wars are waged over the few remaining resources. Her people believe the Sea God, once their protector, now curses them with death and despair. In an attempt to appease him, each year a beautiful maiden is thrown into the sea to serve as the Sea God’s bride, in the hopes that one day the “true bride” will be chosen and end the suffering.Many believe that Shim Cheong, the most beautiful girl in the village—and the beloved of Mina’s older brother Joon—may be the legendary true bride. But on the night Cheong is to be sacrificed, Joon follows Cheong out to sea, even knowing that to interfere is a death sentence. To save her brother, Mina throws herself into the water in Cheong’s stead.
Swept away to the Spirit Realm, a magical city of lesser gods and mythical beasts, Mina seeks out the Sea God, only to find him caught in an enchanted sleep. With the help of a mysterious young man named Shin—as well as a motley crew of demons, gods and spirits—Mina sets out to wake the Sea God and bring an end to the killer storms once and for all.
But she doesn’t have much time: A human cannot live long in the land of the spirits. And there are those who would do anything to keep the Sea God from waking…
- YA Book Club: STALKING JACK THE RIPPER by Kerri ManiscalcoQuail Ridge Books, Raleigh, NC
Please join us for a discussion of STALKING JACK THE RIPPER by Kerri Maniscalco.
Book club members receive 21% off the book when purchasing it at Quail Ridge Books for the book club.
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Publisher Description:
Seventeen-year-old Audrey Rose Wadsworth was born a lord's daughter, with a life of wealth and privilege stretched out before her. But between the social teas and silk dress fittings, she leads a forbidden secret life.Against her stern father's wishes and society's expectations, Audrey often slips away to her uncle's laboratory to study the gruesome practice of forensic medicine. When her work on a string of savagely killed corpses drags Audrey into the investigation of a serial murderer, her search for answers brings her close to her own sheltered world.
- YA Book Club: THE LUMINARIES by Susan DennardQuail Ridge Books, Raleigh, NC
Please join us for a discussion of THE LUMINARIES by Susan Dennard.
Book club members receive 21% off the book when purchasing it at Quail Ridge Books for the book club.
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Publisher Description:
Hemlock Falls isn't like other towns. You won't find it on a map, your phone won't work here, and the forest outside town might just kill you.Winnie Wednesday wants nothing more than to join the Luminaries, the ancient order that protects Winnie's town—and the rest of humanity—from the monsters and nightmares that rise in the forest of Hemlock Falls every night.
Ever since her father was exposed as a witch and a traitor, Winnie and her family have been shunned. But on her sixteenth birthday, she can take the deadly Luminary hunter trials and prove herself true and loyal—and restore her family's good name. Or die trying.
But in order to survive, Winnie enlists the help of the one person who can help her train: Jay Friday, resident bad boy and Winnie’s ex-best friend. While Jay might be the most promising new hunter in Hemlock Falls, he also seems to know more about the nightmares of the forest than he should. Together, he and Winnie will discover a danger lurking in the forest no one in Hemlock Falls is prepared for.
Not all monsters can be slain, and not all nightmares are confined to the dark.
- YA Book Club: CURIOUS TIDES by Pascale LacelleQuail Ridge Books, Raleigh, NC
Please join us for a discussion of CURIOUS TIDES by Pascale Lacelle.
This book club meeting will be combined with the SCI-FI/FANTASY BOOK CLUB.
Book club members receive 21% off the book when purchasing it at Quail Ridge Books for the book club.
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Publisher Description:
Emory might be a student at the prestigious Aldryn College for Lunar Magics, but her healing abilities have always been mediocre at best—until a treacherous night in the Dovermere sea caves leaves a group of her classmates dead and her as the only survivor. Now Emory is plagued by strange, impossible powers that no healer should possess.Powers that would ruin her life if the wrong person were to discover them.
To gain control of these new abilities, Emory enlists the help of the school’s most reclusive student, Baz—a boy already well-versed in the deadly nature of darker magic, whose sister happened to be one of the drowned students and Emory’s best friend. Determined to find the truth behind the drownings and the cult-like secret society she’s convinced her classmates were involved in, Emory is faced with even more questions when the supposedly drowned students start washing ashore— alive —only for them each immediately to die horrible, magical deaths.
And Emory is not the only one seeking answers. When her new magic captures the society’s attention, she finds herself drawn into their world of privilege and power, all while wondering if the truth she’s searching for might lead her right back to Dovermere…to face the fate she was never meant to escape.
