Book Swaps Near Me

Book Bedazzle & Book Swap Day

Book Club's Second event will be a Book Bedazzling craft day with an optional book swap! What to bring: \- 1 book you would like to bedazzle -$25 is the craft fee per person, to cover materials, this can be paid upon arrival by Zelle, PayPal, or cash. \*Optional\* 1-3 books you no longer want that you would like to swap for other books. Most books will be used, just make sure they are not too damaged for others to enjoy. There will be a table for everyone to put their book(s) on that they no longer want, & you can take home however many books you bring for this. -Feel free to stop by just for the book swap!! Please do not RSVP here if you will not be participating in the craft, and just coming to trade books. -Trying out a new location just for this event, it will be held at the Hilliard Library, Meeting room 2A. -Please update your RSVP if you no longer plan to go but are marked as attending.

Book Club! Extra, Extra Read All About It

Come join us for the first book club meeting this August 16th. We'll be looking at Bones Beneath My Skin by TJ Klune and talking about next reads and plans for the group over coffee!

August Book Club Meetup

Welcome, readers! Our August read is ***Less: a novel*** ***by Andrew Sean Greer***. We follow Arthur Less, a struggling, middle-aged novelist who embarks on a comical, round-the-world literary tour to avoid attending the wedding of his former lover. The trip becomes an inadvertent, poignant journey of self-discovery and accepting life’s unavoidable heartbreaks. Looking forward to discussing with everyone! We will meet at Zaftig Brewing Co in their event room in the back. We are welcome to bring in our own food, but **all** **drinks must be purchased at the bar.** Happy reading! 📖

Bad Girls Book Club August 2026

**Our August novel is: *The Swallows* by Lisa Lutz** **This month’s novel combines mystery and thriller elements with dark humor. It’s a psychological story with moments of comedy, focused on women’s experiences, and it builds steady suspense throughout. The book is 432 pages in print and 11 hours on audiobook.** When Alexandra Witt joins the faculty at Stonebridge Academy, she’s hoping to put a painful past behind her. Then one of her creative writing assignments generates some disturbing responses from students. Before long, Alex is immersed in an investigation of the students atop the school’s social hierarchy—and their connection to something called the Darkroom. She soon inspires the girls who’ve started to question the school’s “boys will be boys” attitude and incites a resistance. But just as the movement is gaining momentum, Alex attracts the attention of an unknown enemy who knows a little too much about her—and what brought her to Stonebridge in the first place. Meanwhile, Gemma, a defiant senior, has been plotting her attack for years, waiting for the right moment. Shy loner Norman hates his role in the Darkroom, but can’t find the courage to fight back until he makes an unlikely alliance. And then there’s Finn Ford, an English teacher with a shady reputation, who keeps one eye on his literary ambitions and one on Ms. Witt. As the school’s secrets begin to trickle out, a boys-versus-girls skirmish turns into an all-out war, with deeply personal—and potentially fatal—consequences for everyone involved. Lisa Lutz’s blistering, timely tale of revenge and disruption shows us what can happen when silence wins out over decency for too long—and why the scariest threat of all might be the idea that sooner or later, girls will be girls.

Paint by Numbers (Dire Bound by Sable Sorenson)

Join us to discuss our August read, Dire Bound, as we paint small canvases! Book description: Fourth Wing meets The Hunger Games in this spicy, page-turning romantasy where humans and direwolves forge unbreakable bonds and fight for survival at all costs. Only the worthy survive the Bonding Trials. She’ll risk her life—and her heart—to be one of them. Meryn Cooper has always hated the Bonded, elite warriors who form mental links with the massive, vicious direwolves they ride. While they live in luxury, Meryn struggles to keep her family out of poverty. When her little sister, Saela, is kidnapped—stolen across the border by the immortal monsters her country has spent centuries fighting—Meryn’s world falls apart. Desperate to cross the front and save her sister, Meryn enlists in the army and is thrown into the deadly Bonding Trials, where any mistake will cost her life. Now Meryn must survive four months of training at the castle. She is bound to a feral direwolf who refuses to communicate. The other trainees would love to spill her common blood. And her cold and beautiful instructor, Stark Therion, is eager to punish any weakness. Everything is a competition, and everyone is out to get her—everyone except the dangerously handsome crown prince, whose attention adds another target to her back. In the castle, every smile hides a knife…and the halls hide dark secrets. It’s bond or bleed. Duel or die. Failure is ruin.

LGBT Reads: August Book Discussion

Join us for our August Book Club gathering where we will come together to discuss [Lucky Day](https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250398659/luckyday/) by Chuck Tingle in a safe and welcoming environment. Make new friends who share your passion for books and connect with fellow LGBTQ book enthusiasts. Links: [at Columbus Metro Libaries](https://cml.bibliocommons.com/v2/search?query=lucky+day+chuck+tingle) [at Worthington Libraries](https://catalog.clcohio.org/polaris/search/searchresults.aspx?ctx=34.1033.0.0.13&type=Keyword&term=lucky%20day%20chuck%20tingle&by=KW&sort=MP&limit=TOM=*&query=&page=0&searchid=1)

Monthly Meet Up (Kill The Beast)

This month we’ll be reading Kill The Beast by Serra Swift! Feel free to come even if you don’t finish the book.

Pop-up Book Club 6: Flannery O'Connor: The Complete Stories

Let's meet and discuss some of Flannery O'Connor's stories! Selections are from The Complete Stories anthology, available at local libraries. I am adding a second tranche of stories: The Turkey; The Lame Shall Enter First; The Enduring Chill; A Good Man Is Hard to Find. The first four stories are: The River; Good Country People; Everything that Rises Must Converge; Revelation.

August Book Club: Yesteryear

Badass Book Club

Saturday Mornings @ East Market

Let's grab some coffee/food and share a morning chat! The East Market has an ample parking lot and outdoor and indoor seating. Grab a cup of coffee from Winston's Coffee & Waffles or on your way to East Market and meet us on the second floor - table behind or east of the elevator. Per what this group is about: "Everyone is welcome! International transplants to Columbus who want to improve language skills, Columbus residents who enjoy talking to people from other countries, and those who would like to discuss international travel and culture, and who enjoy getting together for good conversations."

HAPPY HOUSE HUNTERS JOIN COIN

**HAPPY HOUSE HUNTERS JOIN THE CENTRAL OHIO INVESTOR NETWORK [COIN}** \* Time: 5 pm‎ - ‎8 pm‎ ‎ [Eastern Time] Every Third Tuesday \* Where: Pastimes Pub at Grandview Yard, 775 Yard St., Columbus 43212 \* Description: Join Us for the Ultimate Real Estate Meet and Greet! Flip, Buy and Hold, Long-Term Rentals, Mid-Term Rentals & Short-Term B&B! Are you passionate about real estate investments or curious about the world of long-term rentals, mid-term rentals, or short-term rentals? Look no further because the "Happy House Hunters" and "The Inns and Outs of a B&B" invite you to come together with COIN for exciting monthly Meet and Greet events for all real estate investors! We look forward to seeing you there!