AS OF DECEMBER 18, 2024 THE NAMES OF ROOMS AT THE WESTSIDE COMMUNITY CENTER HAVE CHANGED.

Lunchroom is now Mesquite Room.

The ESL Room is now Pecan Room.

The Arts and Crafts Room is now Mockingbird Room.

The Gym is now Armadillo Hall.

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Books on Tap In-Person

Visit us at local wineries and breweries to discuss sci-fi, fantasy, and horror books each month! This month we'll be at Faust Brewing Company.

August's Pick is The Warm Hands of Ghosts by Katherine Arden

During the Great War, a combat nurse searches for her brother, believed dead in the trenches despite eerie signs that suggest otherwise, in this hauntingly beautiful historical novel with a speculative twist, from the author of The Bear and the Nightingale.

January 1918. Laura Iven was a revered field nurse until she was wounded and discharged from the medical corps, leaving behind a brother still fighting in Flanders. Now home in Halifax, Canada, Laura receives word of Freddie’s death in combat, along with his personal effects—but something doesn’t make sense. Determined to uncover the truth, Laura returns to Belgium as a volunteer at a private hospital, where she soon hears whispers about haunted trenches and a strange hotelier whose wine gives soldiers the gift of oblivion. Could Freddie have escaped the battlefield, only to fall prey to something—or someone—else?

November 1917. Freddie Iven awakens after an explosion to find himself trapped in an overturned pillbox with a wounded enemy soldier, a German by the name of Hans Winter. Against all odds, the two form an alliance and succeed in clawing their way out. Unable to bear the thought of returning to the killing fields, especially on opposite sides, they take refuge with a mysterious man who seems to have the power to make the hellscape of the trenches disappear.

As shells rain down on Flanders and ghosts move among those yet living, Laura’s and Freddie’s deepest traumas are reawakened. Now they must decide whether their world is worth salvaging—or better left behind entirely.

January 16: The Clockmaker's Daugher by Kate Morton

February 20: Fireborne by Rosaria Munda

March 20: God of Neverland by Gamma Ray Martinez

April 17: The Spellshop by Sarabeth Durst

May 15: A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers

June 26: The Pallbearer's Club by Paul Tremblay

July 17: Vampires of El Norte by Isabel Canas

August 21: The Warm Hands of Ghosts by Katherine Arden

September 18: Dreadful by Caitlin Rozakis

October 16: Tales from the Hinterlands by Melissa Albert

November 20: Nettle & Bone by T. Kingfisher

December 19: Bring ideas for 2026!