The fascinating continuation of the best-selling Persepolis, “one of the freshest and most original memoirs of our day” (Los Angeles Times).Marjane Satrapi dazzles with her heartrending graphic memoir about growing up in Iran during the Islamic Revolution.

In 1984, Marjane flees fundamentalism and the war with Iraq to begin a new life in Vienna. Once there, she faces the trials of adolescence far from her friends and family, and while she soon carves out a place for herself among a group of fellow outsiders, she continues to struggle for a sense of belonging.

Finding that she misses her home more than she can stand, Marjane returns to Iran after graduation. Her difficult homecoming forces her to confront the changes both she and her country have undergone in her absence and her shame at what she perceives as her failure in Austria. Marjane allows her past to weigh heavily on her until she finds some like-minded friends, falls in love, and begins studying art at a university. However, the repression and state-sanctioned chauvinism eventually lead her to question whether she can have a future in Iran.

As funny and poignant as its predecessor, Persepolis 2 is another clear-eyed and searing condemnation of the human cost of fundamentalism. In its depiction of the struggles of growing up—here compounded by Marjane’s status as an outsider both abroad and at home—it is raw, honest, and incredibly illuminating.

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

My style is a sort of literal surrealism or magical realism, and yet I believe very strongly in clarity. If I could ask one thing of a reader or listener, it would be to really try to picture what I’m describing in my poetry. Like Chagall’s figures who float through the air, I am trying to capture a world that is both clear and real but also strange and magical – ordinary and extraordinary all at once – as though perhaps these two things are not as different as we assume. 

I received a BA in creative writing from Bard College at Simon’s Rock and an MFA in poetry from the University of Maryland. I served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Petropavlovsk, Kazakhstan; I have also worked as a teacher, a librarian, a bookkeeper, and as the archivist for the Wisconsin Fellowship of Poets. My work has appeared in numerous literary journals, including Ruminate, The Georgetown Review, the anthology The Lake Is Mother To Us All, and Creative Wisconsin.

Jesse Brunette is a Sheboygan resident who stumbled into collage art as a "scrappy accident" in early 2025. After seeing a collage workshop event on Facebook, she got curious and decided to try to make one of her own. Over a glass of wine while watching Jeopardy, she created a fictional character, Iris.

From that night on, she was obsessed, pouring a glass of wine and sitting down each evening to create a new portrait, each with a fictional bio, storylines often subtly overlapping. She shared her creations with family and friends on social media. Before long, she started creating pet portraits, landscapes and more, and her brand "Scrappy Hour" was born.

She now offers commissioned pieces, teaches collage workshops, and mobile collage party workshops, Scraps on Tap.

Jesse is a Registered Nurse who left healthcare in 2024. She and her husband own a construction company and an outdoor adventure rental business. She has 4 children and 2 dogs, and an unhealthy obsession with thrifted books and art.

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

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

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.

Amy E. Casey is an author and arts advocate. Her debut novel The Sturgeon's Heart earned Honorable Mention in the Chicago Writers Association Book of the Year Awards and the Northeastern Minnesota Book Awards. Her short fiction and poetry have been published in literary journals throughout the United States. She is passionate about building community and sharing knowledge in creative spaces. Learn more at amyecasey.com, or follow her on Instagram at @amy_e_casey 

A New York Times Book of the Year · Nebula Award nominee · Featuring an introduction by Gloria Steinem

From the pioneering New York Times bestselling science fiction author of Kindred.

The radically speculative odyssey of a young Black woman in a post-apocalyptic America and the community she cultivates despite the horrors of climate change and social inequality

The time is 2025. The place is California, where small, walled communities must protect themselves from hordes of desperate scavengers and roaming bands of people addicted to a drug that activates an orgasmic desire to burn, rape, and murder.

When one small community is overrun, Lauren Olamina, an 18-year-old Black woman with the hereditary train of “hyperempathy”—which causes her to feel others’ pain as her own—sets off on foot along the dangerous coastal highways, moving north into the unknown.

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

“A lovely, affecting paean to the power of books and enduring love.”—People

A woman receives an unexpected gift from the man she loved and lost—a year of books, one for every month—launching a reading-inspired journey to live, dream, and love again in this glimmering and heart-stopping novel.

Twelve books. Twelve months. One chance to heal her heart…

When Tilly Nightingale receives a call telling her there’s a birthday gift from her husband waiting for her at her local bookshop, it couldn’t come as more of a shock. Partly because she can’t remember the last time she read a book for pleasure. But mainly because Joe died five months ago....

When she goes to pick up the present, Alfie, the bookshop owner with kind eyes, explains the gift—twelve carefully chosen books with handwritten letters from Joe, one for each month, to help her turn the page on her first year without him.

At first Tilly can’t imagine sinking into a fictional world, but Joe’s tender words convince her to try, and something remarkable happens—Tilly becomes immersed in the pages, and a new chapter begins to unfold in her own life. Monthly trips to the bookstore—and heartfelt conversations with Alfie—give Tilly the comfort she craves and the courage to set out on a series of reading-inspired adventures that take her around the world. But as she begins to share her journey with others, her story—like a book—becomes more than 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

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.

Jodi Picoult, bestselling author of My Sister's Keeper and Small Great Things, pens her most riveting book yet with a startling and poignant story about the devastating aftermath of a small-town tragedy.

Sterling is an ordinary New Hampshire town where nothing ever happens--until the day its complacency is shattered by a school shooting. Josie Cormier, the daughter of the judge sitting on the case, should be the state's best witness, but she can't remember what happened before her very own eyes--or can she? As the trial progresses, fault lines between the high school and the adult community begin to show--destroying the closest of friendships and families. Nineteen Minutes asks what it means to be different in our society, who has the right to judge someone else, and whether anyone is ever really who they seem to be.

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.

Town & Country's Must Read Books of Winter 2026 | Most Anticipated in Autostraddle, Literary Hub, and Debutiful | Book Riot's Best Queer Books of January 2026

A woman haunted by a dark inheritance returns to the woods where her mother vanished, in this queer Gothic novel.

Sam, finally sober and stable with a cat and a long-term boyfriend in Brooklyn, returns alone to Hemlock, her family’s deteriorating cabin deep in the Wisconsin Northwoods. But a quick, practical trip takes a turn for the worse when the rot and creak of the forest starts to creep in around the edges of Sam’s mind. It starts, as it always does, with a beer.

As Sam dips back into the murky waters of dependency, the inexplicable begins to arrive at her door and her body takes on a strange new shape. As the borders of reality begin to blur, she senses she is battling something sinister—whether nested in the woods or within herself. 

Hemlock is a carnal coming-of-addiction, a dark sparkler about rapture, desire, transformation, and transcendence in many forms. What lives at the heart of fear—animal, monster, or man? How can we reject our own inheritance, the psychic storm that’s been coming for generations, and rebuild a new home for ourselves? In the tradition of Han Kang’s The Vegetarian, Hemlock is a butch Black Swan and a novel of singular style, with all the edginess of a survival story and a simmering menace that glints from the very periphery of the page.