Writers Circle at WordHaven BookHouse offers local writers a comfortable place to share and develop their work, receive feedback and guidance, encourage and support other writers, and discuss all aspects of the writing process. Open to all forms of writing and all experience levels. Free to attend.

Writers Circle will meet at WordHaven the first Tuesday of each month, from 6-8pm. The circle will be led by published author and award-winning book designer, Erika Block, owner of Gray House Publishing.

One of Esquire's 50 Best Sci-Fi Books of All Time
“A brilliant novel.… [A] savage satire on the distortions of the single and collective minds.”―New York Times

In Anthony Burgess’s influential nightmare vision of the future, where the criminals take over after dark, the story is told by the central character, Alex, a teen who talks in a fantastically inventive slang that evocatively renders his and his friends’ intense reaction against their society. Dazzling and transgressive, A Clockwork Orange is a frightening fable about good and evil and the meaning of human freedom. This edition includes the controversial last chapter not published in the first edition, and Burgess’s introduction, “A Clockwork Orange Resucked.”

This is a facilitated community book club that invites open, thoughtful conversation around death, dying, grief, and the many ways these experiences shape our lives. Through shared reading and guided discussion, we create space to explore topics that are often avoided, yet deeply human.

Books are selected in advance and shared ahead of time, allowing participants to join when a particular title or theme resonates with them. You are welcome to attend regularly or drop in based on interest in the current reading.

This group is open to all and welcomes a wide range of perspectives and lived experiences. Mortal Matters is not a grief support or counseling group, but rather a reflective, discussion-based gathering centered on curiosity, connection, and learning together.

Held on the last Saturday of the month from 11am - 1pm

Meet an extraordinary father and son in this captivating, heart-wrenching speculative debut.

It’s a day like any other when Scott Treder first jumps forward through time. One moment, he’s on his way to work, fingers drumming the steering wheel. The next, he’s tumbling head-long down the road, his car gone, a dozen panicked voicemails from his wife waiting on his cell.

7:51am. Monday, April 13th.

A blink of an eye.

7:52am. Tuesday, April 14th.

An entire 24 hours, gone.

This one moment—this first spontaneous slip—marks a change in the course not only of Scott’s future, but that of the world. From this point on, at precisely 7:52am every morning, Scott inexplicably travels forward in time in ever-doubling intervals. First one day lost in a blink, then two, then four, until weeks, even years, are passing him by in an instant.

Meanwhile, his wife is left to pick up the pieces of the life they once shared together alone, and, before long, Lyle, Scott’s genius seven-year-old son, will surpass him in age.

Because while his dad is rocketing forward in time, Lyle is growing up – graduating early, studying at Berkeley, becoming the foremost scholar of quantum physics, all in an attempt to bring his father back.

The Traveler is the story of a reluctant time-traveler and his son, and the bond between them that even millennia cannot break. An adventure full of heartbreak, hope, and futures beyond imagination.

Practice reading and using tarot spreads! You may bring your own decks and books. If you don’t have a deck to use, one can be provided.

Hosted by Amanda Bergemann from COLORFLOW Healing

This is the record of a fight. A fight with addiction. A fight with the law. And a fight with himself.

Written behind bars and finished minutes before release, A Vision of Hope is Andrew Drasen’s unflinching account of nearly two decades lost to addiction and the justice system, and the stubborn hope that finally made change possible. It does not clean up the hard parts or hand you an easy arc. It shows the relapses, the losses, and the slow, daily work of rebuilding a life.

People in recovery see themselves in it. People who have never lived that story come away understanding it, because it puts a human face on a subject that usually gets judgment instead. That is why it has earned a Readers’ Favorite 5-star review, IndieReader Approved recognition, and a National Indie Excellence Awards Finalist spot in Addiction and Recovery, and why treatment centers and reentry programs use it to start conversations that statistics cannot.

Read it if you are fighting your own version of this, if you love someone who is, or if you have ever wondered whether redemption is still within reach. It is Volume 1 of a trilogy, with Reflections for deeper reflection and The Workbook for a structured 90-day practice. As the author reminds us, “Everyone has something to recover from.”

Andrew Drasen is an author, speaker, and recovery advocate based in Franklin, Wisconsin. He wrote A Vision of Hope during incarceration, then founded A Vision of Hope Media and created ReturnPath, an identity-based curriculum now used in recovery and reentry programs. He writes and speaks from lived experience, on addiction, incarceration, and the long work of rebuilding a life with purpose.

Alison Hayes holds a degree in Political Science from DePaul University. She’s an Account Manager in the chemical industry and has been writing in her spare time for many, many years. TAKE MY PATTY is her debut picture book, dedicated to her Grandmother Marie Werner, whose love never faded even when her memory was gone. Alison lives in Delafield, Wisconsin with her kids and an oversized cat named Felix. When she isn't scribbling her next story, you'll find her wandering through bookstores and libraries. She also loves great food, traveling, and exploring the outdoors with her fiancé.

Willa Cooper has spent the last two years building up walls from heartbreak, while Theo Reeves has uprooted his life to solve a hit-and-run that took everything from him. Finding themselves in Honey Oak Harbor, a small town where there are secrets hidden under friendly faces, an awful first impression takes them on a whirlwind journey of healing and finding themselves the light within themselves. 

Mary B Gould is a romance writer who loves to sprinkle in mystery with every love story. She is a mother of two and a wife who lives in Wisconsin.  Her love of fantasy and romance books, plus a gentle push from her husband, inspired her to write a love story of her own. 

Practice reading and using tarot spreads! You may bring your own decks and books. If you don’t have a deck to use, one can be provided.

Hosted by Amanda Bergemann from COLORFLOW Healing

Katrina Serwe, PhD, worked as a therapist, professor, and researcher in the field of occupational therapy for over two decades. She started poemwalking (a made-up hobby that is exactly what it sounds like) after a delightful midlife crisis and wrote two related books of poetry. First Steps (Brain Mill Press, 2025) won the Brain Mill Press + Wisconsin Fellowship of Poets Chapbook Contest. A Thousand Miles of Poetry: Poemwalking Wisconsin’s Ice Age National Scenic Trail will be released April 2026 with WWA Press. You can follow her journey at www.katrinaserwe.com.

Edgar Ulloa Lujan, Ph.D., is Assistant Professor of Spanish and Interdisciplinary Studies at Lakeland University. He holds a Ph.D. in Spanish Literature and Cultural Studies from Georgetown University and an MFA in Creative Writing in Spanish from New York University.

He is a bilingual poet, composer, and multimedia artist whose work brings together music, writing, and performance. His creative project Mi Juaritos explores memory, identity, and border experience through poetry, sound, and digital media.

As an educator, he focuses on language, culture, and community, and is especially interested in creating inclusive spaces where people can learn Spanish through conversation, cultural exploration, and shared creative experience.

Writers Circle at WordHaven BookHouse offers local writers a comfortable place to share and develop their work, receive feedback and guidance, encourage and support other writers, and discuss all aspects of the writing process. Open to all forms of writing and all experience levels. Free to attend.

Writers Circle will meet at WordHaven the first Tuesday of each month, from 6-8pm. The circle will be led by published author and award-winning book designer, Erika Block, owner of Gray House Publishing.

A traditional American woman, a “tradwife” influencer, suddenly awakens in the brutal reality of 1855—where she must unravel whether this living nightmare is an elaborate hoax, a twisted reality show, or something far more sinister in this sensational debut novel.

My name was Natalie Heller Mills, and I was perfect at being alive.

Natalie lives a traditional lifestyle. Her charming farmhouse is rustic, her husband a handsome cowboy, her six children each more delightful than the last. So what if there are nannies and producers behind the scenes, her kitchen hiding industrial-grade fridges and ovens, her husband the heir to a political dynasty? What Natalie’s followers—all 8 million of them—don’t know won’t hurt them. And The Angry Women? The privileged, Ivy League, coastal elite haters who call her an antifeminist iconoclast? They’re sick with jealousy. Because Natalie isn’t simply living the good life, she’s living the ideal—and just so happens to be building an empire from it.

Until one morning she wakes up in a life that isn’t hers. Her home, her husband, her children—they’re all familiar, but something’s off. Her kitchen is warmed by a sputtering fire rather than electricity, her children are dirty and strange, and her soft-handed husband is suddenly a competent farmer. Just yesterday Natalie was curating photos of homemade jam for her Instagram, and now she’s expected to haul firewood and handwash clothes until her fingers bleed. Has she become the unwitting star of a ruthless reality show? Could it really be time travel? Is she being tested by God? By Satan? When Natalie suffers a brutal injury in the woods, she realizes two things: This is not her beautiful life, and she must escape by any means possible.

A gripping, electrifying novel that is as darkly funny as it is frightening, Yesteryear is a gimlet-eyed look at tradition, fame, faith, and the grand performance of womanhood.

Three women. One dog park. Things are about to get messy.

Val Caruso, Alex Reed, and June Kennerson come from completely different worlds—Val is a tough-talking private investigator; Alex is reticent, nervous and on the run from her past; and June is an athlete turned housewife whose true love is her pup.

When Val is hired by June’s husband to find out if June is cheating on him, it sets these three women on a collision course. Amid a colorful cast of characters who spend time at the shabby but beloved Hamilton Dog Park, they find they have more in common than they thought. Soon June is brave enough to aim for what she wants, Alex finds excitement she never expected, and Val is reluctantly opening her heart to the most high-maintenance dog she’s ever met. But when their secrets catch up with them, will their newfound friendships be able to withstand the pressure? Or will they find themselves in the doghouse?  

Social Animals is a funny and sharp social commentary on community, privilege, dog ownership, and the ultimate power of finding your people (and your pets).

Meet an extraordinary father and son in this captivating, heart-wrenching speculative debut.

It’s a day like any other when Scott Treder first jumps forward through time. One moment, he’s on his way to work, fingers drumming the steering wheel. The next, he’s tumbling head-long down the road, his car gone, a dozen panicked voicemails from his wife waiting on his cell.

7:51am. Monday, April 13th.

A blink of an eye.

7:52am. Tuesday, April 14th.

An entire 24 hours, gone.

This one moment—this first spontaneous slip—marks a change in the course not only of Scott’s future, but that of the world. From this point on, at precisely 7:52am every morning, Scott inexplicably travels forward in time in ever-doubling intervals. First one day lost in a blink, then two, then four, until weeks, even years, are passing him by in an instant.

Meanwhile, his wife is left to pick up the pieces of the life they once shared together alone, and, before long, Lyle, Scott’s genius seven-year-old son, will surpass him in age.

Because while his dad is rocketing forward in time, Lyle is growing up – graduating early, studying at Berkeley, becoming the foremost scholar of quantum physics, all in an attempt to bring his father back.

The Traveler is the story of a reluctant time-traveler and his son, and the bond between them that even millennia cannot break. An adventure full of heartbreak, hope, and futures beyond imagination.

One of Esquire's 50 Best Sci-Fi Books of All Time
“A brilliant novel.… [A] savage satire on the distortions of the single and collective minds.”―New York Times

In Anthony Burgess’s influential nightmare vision of the future, where the criminals take over after dark, the story is told by the central character, Alex, a teen who talks in a fantastically inventive slang that evocatively renders his and his friends’ intense reaction against their society. Dazzling and transgressive, A Clockwork Orange is a frightening fable about good and evil and the meaning of human freedom. This edition includes the controversial last chapter not published in the first edition, and Burgess’s introduction, “A Clockwork Orange Resucked.”

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE • The Testaments is a modern masterpiece, a powerful novel that can be read on its own or as a companion to Margaret Atwood’s classic, The Handmaid’s Tale.

More than fifteen years after the events of The Handmaid’s Tale, the theocratic regime of the Republic of Gilead maintains its grip on power, but there are signs it is beginning to rot from within. At this crucial moment, the lives of three radically different women converge, with potentially explosive results.

Two have grown up as part of the first generation to come of age in the new order. The testimonies of these two young women are joined by a third: Aunt Lydia. Her complex past and uncertain future unfold in surprising and pivotal ways.

With The Testaments, Margaret Atwood opens up the innermost workings of Gilead, as each woman is forced to come to terms with who she is, and how far she will go for what she believes.

This is a facilitated community book club that invites open, thoughtful conversation around death, dying, grief, and the many ways these experiences shape our lives. Through shared reading and guided discussion, we create space to explore topics that are often avoided, yet deeply human.

Books are selected in advance and shared ahead of time, allowing participants to join when a particular title or theme resonates with them. You are welcome to attend regularly or drop in based on interest in the current reading.

This group is open to all and welcomes a wide range of perspectives and lived experiences. Mortal Matters is not a grief support or counseling group, but rather a reflective, discussion-based gathering centered on curiosity, connection, and learning together.

Held on the last Saturday of the month from 11am - 1pm