UPCOMING EVENTS

Join Bel Canto Books as we welcome Long Beach illustrator Christina Forshay 

to read from her children's book A Morning with Grandpa. 

In this sweet, slice-of-life story, a curious and active 

Asian American girl spends the day learning tai chi from her grandfather, 

and in turn tries to teach him how to do yoga.

Signed copies of her book are available here to purchase. 

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Free to join; please email belcantobooks@gmail.com 

to receive Zoom meeting link.

Pour yourself a glass of your favorite beverage and join Bel Canto Books

 owner and head booknerd Jhoanna for “Wine-ing About Books,” 

an online book talk and happy hour for bookish adults.

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SPECIAL GUESTS

• Wed 4/1 - Memoirist Kimberly Davis Basso - click here to purchase her new book, Birth and Other Surprises
• Wed 4/8 - Novelist Laurel Brett - click here to purchase her new book, The Schrodinger Girl
• Wed 4/15 - Novelist Melissa Rivero - click here to purchase her new book, The Affairs of the Falcons
• Wed 4/29 - Memoirist Grace Talusan - click here to purchase her new book, The Body Papers

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Free to join; please email belcantobooks@gmail.com 

to receive Zoom meeting link.

Join Bel Canto Books owner and head booknerd Jhoanna 

for our Book of the Month (BOTM) online book club. 

On 4/14, we will discuss A Woman Is No Man by Etaf Rum. 

Highly acclaimed debut author Rum tells the story of three generations 

of Palestinian-American women struggling to express 

their individual desires within the confines of their Arab culture 

in the wake of shocking intimate violence in their community. 

Please click here to purchase a copy of the book.

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Free to join; please email belcantobooks@gmail.com 

to receive Zoom meeting link.

Welcome to the Burning Issues Book Club, founded by @renatebakes! 

This book club has been formed to help facilitate our education 

on important topics facing humanity. Humans have historically been 

(and continue to be) horrible to each other, to our home, and to the other organisms that share this planet with us. We know things need to change, 

but many people aren’t sure where to start. This book club is a place for learning and personal growth within a safe online community to help us navigate and implement positive social change in the real world.

Our April book is Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer.  Drawing on 

her life as an indigenous scientist, and as a woman, Kimmerer shows 

how other living beings—asters and goldenrod, strawberries and squash, salamanders, algae, and sweetgrass—offer us gifts and lessons, 

even if we've forgotten how to hear their voices.

Please click here to purchase a copy.

Kindly RSVP to belcantobooks@gmail.com to receive Zoom meeting link!