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Join Our Book Signings, Monthly Book Clubs, and Group Meetings
Flights of Fantasy Book Club
Flights of Fantasy is a monthly book club for lovers of Fantasy and Magical Realism. We meet the second Monday of each month from 6-7:30 at Harbor Books. May’s read will be Vampires of El Norte by Isabel Cañas. Copies available for purchase at Harbor Books (purchase not required for participation).
Author Talk with Cate Ivers
Every Rescue Has a Story is a heartfelt memoir about compassion in action, where saving animals becomes a mirror for saving people, and faith quietly guides a life shaped by empathy, loss, and love. Join author Cate Ivers and her dogs at Harbor Books for a conversation about everyday choices to show up, help, and love without condition.
Artist and Author David Done
Please join author and artist David Done at Harbor Books. David will have a selection of his artwork and books for sale.
All-Genre Book Club
All-Genre Book club meets the last Sunday of the month from 11-1 to discuss the book selected by group members the previous month. May’s read is Tilt by Emma Pattee. This book is available for purchase in store (no purchase necessary to participate.)
Hoquiam Writers Group
This group is open to all writers who want to attend: writers, poets, journalists, wordsmiths, and storytellers. The group meets monthly on the first Thursday 6-8 p.m.
Flights of Fantasy Book Club
Flights of Fantasy is a monthly book club for lovers of Fantasy and Magical Realism. We meet the second Monday of each month from 6-7:30 at Harbor Books. June’s read will be Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil by V. E. Schwab. Copies available for purchase at Harbor Books (purchase not required for participation).
Grays Harbor Open Studios Tour (ghOST)
Harbor Books will be one of the galleries on this year’s Grays Harbor Open Studios Tour June 20-21. Artist Amber Buck will exhibit her acrylic landscapes and provide painting demonstrations. She will also offer a hands-on create-your-own northwest fauvist landscape workshop. In addition, Harbor Books carries works of local authors in fiction, poetry, memoir, and children’s books. We also have greeting cards featuring images by several local artists.
Visit https://www.graysharboropenstudiostour.com/ for more information.
All-Genre Book Club
All-Genre Book club meets the last Sunday of the month from 11-1 to discuss the book selected by group members the previous month. June’s read is A Resistance History of the United States by Tad Stoermer. This book is available for purchase in store (no purchase necessary to participate.)
Reading with Brian Anderson, Author of Ragged in the Rain
When his best friend’s sister disappears with a man known for his drug habit, a Minneapolis private investigator heads to Seattle to help find her.
Ragged in the Rain is Brian Anderson’s latest installment in the Lyle Dahms mystery series.
Hoquiam Writers Group
This group is open to all writers who want to attend: writers, poets, journalists, wordsmiths, and storytellers. The group meets monthly on the first Thursday 6-8 p.m.
Hoquiam Writers Group
This group is open to all writers who want to attend: writers, poets, journalists, wordsmiths, and storytellers. The group meets monthly on the first Thursday 6-8 p.m.
All-Genre Book Club
All-Genre Book club meets the last Sunday of the month from 11-1 to discuss the book selected by group members the previous month. April’s read is The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime by Mark Haddon. This book is available for purchase in store (no purchase necessary to participate.)
Independent Bookstore Day Exclusive Items
Saturday, April 25th is Independent Bookstore Day! Celebrate with us at the store and shop Indie Bookstore Day Exclusive Items! Limited Edition books, bags, stickers and so much more. (Click the event photo to see a complete list of items.)
Celebrate With Harbor Books
Celebrate Independent Bookstore Day at Harbor Books. Enjoy treats and freebies, discounts on your purchases, and exclusive merchandise.
Reading with Poet Jessika Satori
Dr. Jessika Satori is an educator, entrepreneur, poet, consultant, and adventurer. She has lived and worked in Russia, South Korea, UAE, and Madagascar teaching and consulting and has presented at conferences for global audiences. ROY G BIV, a mnemonic of the colors of the rainbow, highlights the meetings of the author with eminent scientists such as Carl Sagan, Edgar Mitchell, and Roald Fryxell. Other poems celebrate science education, wonders of the natural world, spirituality, and memoir.
Flights of Fantasy Book Club
Flights of Fantasy is a monthly book club for lovers of Fantasy and Magical Realism. We meet the second Monday of each month from 6-7:30 at Harbor Books. April’s read will be Companions of the Night by Vivian Vande Velde. Copies available for purchase at Harbor Books (purchase not required for participation).
Hoquiam Writers Group
This group is open to all writers who want to attend: writers, poets, journalists, wordsmiths, and storytellers. The group meets monthly on the first Thursday 6-8 p.m.
All-Genre Book Club
All-Genre Book club meets the last Sunday of the month from 11-1 to discuss the book selected by group members the previous month. March’s read is Assumption by Percival Everett. This book is available for purchase in store (no purchase necessary to participate.)
Flights of Fantasy Book Club
Flights of Fantasy is a monthly book club for lovers of Fantasy and Magical Realism. We meet the second Monday of each month from 6-7:30 at Harbor Books. March’s read will be The Deathless One by Emma Hamm. Copies available for purchase at Harbor Books (purchase not required for participation).
Hoquiam Writers Group
This group is open to all writers who want to attend: writers, poets, journalists, wordsmiths, and storytellers. The group meets monthly on the first Thursday 6-8 p.m.
All-Genre Book Club
All-Genre Book club meets the last Sunday of the month from 11-1 to discuss the book selected by group members the previous month. February’s read is Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier. This book is available for purchase in store (no purchase necessary to participate.)
Flights of Fantasy Book Club
Flights of Fantasy is a monthly book club for lovers of Fantasy and Magical Realism. We meet the second Monday of each month from 6-7:30 at Harbor Books. February’s read will be Greenteeth by Molly O’Neill. Copies available for purchase at Harbor Books (purchase not required for participation).
Hoquiam Writers Group
This group is open to all writers who want to attend: writers, poets, journalists, wordsmiths, and storytellers. The group meets monthly on the first Thursday 6-8 p.m.
All-Genre Book Club
All-Genre Book club meets the last Sunday of the month from 11-1 to discuss the book selected by group members the previous month. January’s read is Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Isiguro. This book is available for purchase in store (no purchase necessary to participate.)
Flights of Fantasy Book Club
Flights of Fantasy is a monthly book club for lovers of Fantasy and Magical Realism. We meet the second Monday of each month from 6-7:30 at Harbor Books. January’s read will be Howl’s Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones. Copies available for purchase at Harbor Books (purchase not required for participation).
Hoquiam Writers Group
This group is open to all writers who want to attend: writers, poets, journalists, wordsmiths, and storytellers. The group meets monthly on the first Thursday 6-8 p.m. NOTE: We will meet on the 2nd Thursday this month due to the New Year’s holiday.
New Year's Sale
Shop our after holidays sale! 20% off new books, 50% off used books, and $1 bargain books—or fill a bag of bargain books for $10. (Discount applies to books only.)
All-Genre Book Club
All-Genre Book club meets the last Sunday of the month from 11-1 to discuss the book selected by group members the previous month. December’s read is The Rent Collector by Camron Wright. This book is available for purchase in store (no purchase necessary to participate.) At this month’s meeting we’ll also have our annual white elephant gift exchange. Bring a wrapped book (used is fine) to exchange with another member of the group (we’ll have extras on hand if you don’t have one to bring).
Artist and Author David Done
Please join author and artist David Done at Harbor Books. David will have a selection of his artwork and books for sale.
Holiday Hours
We will be open daily December 15-20 and 22-23 from 11-5. We will be closed December 24-31. Join us for our annual New Year’s Day sale on January 1 from 11-5.
Sharon Annable Book Signing
Please join Sharon Annable, author of My Journey with Jack: How I Learned to Speak Dementia, for a book signing at Harbor Books.
Flights of Fantasy Book Club
Flights of Fantasy is a monthly book club for lovers of Fantasy and Magical Realism. We meet the second Monday of each month from 6-7:30 at Harbor Books. December’s read will be When Among Crows by Veronica Roth. Copies available for purchase at Harbor Books (purchase not required for participation).
John Bowen Book Signing
Please join John Bowen, author of I Befriended an AI, for a book signing at Harbor Books.
Hoquiam Writers Group
This group is open to all writers who want to attend: writers, poets, journalists, wordsmiths, and storytellers. The group meets monthly on the first Thursday 6-8 p.m.
All-Genre Book Club
Book club meets the last Sunday of the month from 11-1 to discuss the book selected by group members the previous month. November’s read is Everything that Rises Must Converge by Flannery O’Connor. This book is available for purchase in store (no purchase necessary to participate.)
Jan Swan Book Signing
Please join Jan Swan, author of Photographs From the Street: Aberdeen Cats (Volume 2), for a book signing at Harbor Books.
Holiday Bazaar at Stevens Elementary
Come shop Harbor Books and other amazing vendors selling their items for the holiday season. Stevens Elementary PTO is hosting this event. Come enjoy a festive day out, and take advantage of childcare while you browse! Plus, enter to win a turkey dinner. Don’t miss this fun holiday event for the whole family.
Flights of Fantasy Book Club
Flights of Fantasy is a monthly book club for lovers of Fantasy and Magical Realism. We meet the second Monday of each month from 6-7:30 at Harbor Books. November’s read will be This Fatal Kiss by Alicia Jansinska. Copies available for purchase at Harbor Books (purchase not required for participation).
Hoquiam Writers Group
This group is open to all writers who want to attend: writers, poets, journalists, wordsmiths, and storytellers. The group meets monthly on the first Thursday 6-8 p.m.
All-Genre Book Club
Book club meets the last Sunday of the month from 11-1 to discuss the book selected by group members the previous month. October’s read is Frankenstein by Mary Shelley. This book is available for purchase in store (no purchase necessary to participate.)