Quatrefoil Library

CANCELLED: Twin Cities Lesbian Fiction Book Club
2024-04-17 19:00 - 21:00 (America/Chicago) | Online Events
THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED: WE WILL BE READING INTEGRITY FOR THE MAY MEETING
Virtual Book Club that meets online via Zoom – please direct all questions and requests for the Zoom link to jchandlerauthor@gmail.com
You are welcome to attend even if you didn’t read the book, or didn’t like it. We enjoy staying in touch with our friends!
Book of the month and description:
April — Integrity—Book 1 in the Halcyon Division Series by E.J. Noyes
April Book
It’s an ordinary workday when intelligence analyst Lexie Martin learns about a horrific chemical weapon attack abroad. Just an ordinary day…until a stranger breaks into her house and warns her to forget what she saw and heard, setting off a chain of events Lexie thought only happened in movies. Falsely accused of stealing intelligence and unsure of who to trust, Lexie quickly realizes the significance of the intel, and that she must do everything she can to keep it safe. And as she runs—maybe for her life—Lexie knows she needs something, or someone, to help her.
There’s a place for truths and lies, and sometimes you need both to get what you want. Lexie convinces the woman she’s only just started dating to “go on vacation” with her, hoping a constant companion and witness will keep Them at a distance, and the intel safe. But when she develops feelings for the beautiful and sweet Sophia Flores, she wonders if a relationship built on a foundation of secrets can ever work. That might not even matter, because when Lexie uncovers the truth, the price of it could be her freedom.
Book One in the Halcyon Division Series.
Get the book from Bella. Order from Amazon. Or request it at your local library if they don’t have it.Or order from your (or, really mine and Judy’s) favorite bookstore! Once Upon a Crime is a fantastic, queer-owned Indie bookstore. While they specialize in mysteries, Devin, the coolest boss ever, can order anything and ship it if you don’t want to make the trip into Mpls. Also, if you’re looking for queer/lesbian etc mysteries, she’s your numero uno resource!

Twin Cities Lesbian Fiction Book Club
2024-05-15 19:00 - 21:00 | Online Events
Virtual Book Club that meets online via Zoom – please direct all questions and requests for the Zoom link to jchandlerauthor@gmail.com
You are welcome to attend even if you didn’t read the book, or didn’t like it. We enjoy staying in touch with our friends!
Book of the month and description:
May — Integrity—Book 1 in the Halcyon Division Series by E.J. Noyes
May Book
It’s an ordinary workday when intelligence analyst Lexie Martin learns about a horrific chemical weapon attack abroad. Just an ordinary day…until a stranger breaks into her house and warns her to forget what she saw and heard, setting off a chain of events Lexie thought only happened in movies. Falsely accused of stealing intelligence and unsure of who to trust, Lexie quickly realizes the significance of the intel, and that she must do everything she can to keep it safe. And as she runs—maybe for her life—Lexie knows she needs something, or someone, to help her.
There’s a place for truths and lies, and sometimes you need both to get what you want. Lexie convinces the woman she’s only just started dating to “go on vacation” with her, hoping a constant companion and witness will keep Them at a distance, and the intel safe. But when she develops feelings for the beautiful and sweet Sophia Flores, she wonders if a relationship built on a foundation of secrets can ever work. That might not even matter, because when Lexie uncovers the truth, the price of it could be her freedom.
Book One in the Halcyon Division Series.
Get the book from Bella. Order from Amazon. Or request it at your local library if they don’t have it.
June—Shanghai Murder by Jessie Chandler
July—Out at the Plate by Lynn Ames (Bio of one of the best softball catchers of all time) I’m going to try and see if the author would join us for this meeting!
August—Devil’s Slide by Stacy Lynn Miller (if we liked FUZE, I thought we could read this adventure romance and compare and contrast the writing style and substance with FUZE, the March book. Also, it’s possible I might be able to arrange for Stacy to visit us during this zoom.
September—The Senator’s Wife by Jen Lyon (It’s well recommended romance)

Twin Cities Lesbian Fiction Book Club
2024-06-19 19:00 - 21:00, 2024-07-17 19:00 - 21:00, 2024-08-21 19:00 - 21:00, 2024-09-18 19:00 - 21:00 | Online Events
Virtual Book Club that meets online via Zoom – please direct all questions and requests for the Zoom link to jchandlerauthor@gmail.com
You are welcome to attend even if you didn’t read the book, or didn’t like it. We enjoy staying in touch with our friends!
Book of the month and description:
May—To Be Determined
June—Shanghai Murder by Jessie Chandler
July—Out at the Plate by Lynn Ames (Bio of one of the best softball catchers of all time) I’m going to try and see if the author would join us for this meeting!
August—Devil’s Slide by Stacy Lynn Miller (if we liked FUZE, I thought we could read this adventure romance and compare and contrast the writing style and substance with FUZE, the March book. Also, it’s possible I might be able to arrange for Stacy to visit us during this zoom.
September—The Senator’s Wife by Jen Lyon (It’s well recommended romance)

Queer Jewish Folklore Book Club
2024-07-24 19:00 - 21:00 | Quatrefoil Library, 1220 East Lake Street, Minneapolis, MN, 55407, United States
Quarterly book club centered on interpretations of Jewish folklore with queer stories and characters.
Book Selection: From Dust, A Flame By Rebecca Podos
Hannah’s whole life has been spent in motion. Her mother has kept her and her brother, Gabe, on the road for as long as she can remember, leaving a trail of rental homes and faded relationships behind them. No roots, no family but one another, and no explanations.
All that changes on Hannah’s seventeenth birthday when she wakes up transformed, a pair of golden eyes with knife-slit pupils blinking back at her from the mirror—the first of many such impossible mutations. Promising that she knows someone who can help, her mother leaves Hannah and Gabe behind to find a cure. But as the days turn to weeks and their mother doesn’t return, they realize it’s up to them to find the truth.
What they discover is a family they never knew and a history more tragic and fantastical than Hannah could have dreamed—one that stretches back to her grandmother’s childhood in Prague under the Nazi occupation, and beyond, into the realm of Jewish mysticism and legend. As the past comes crashing into the present, Hannah must hurry to unearth their family’s secrets in order to break the curse and save the people she loves most, as well as herself.
The e-book and audiobook are both available through MELSA as well!
Contact:
Hunter Wengersky
Pronouns: They/Them/Theirs
J-Pride Coordinator
952-417-2122 Hwengersky@jfcsmpls.org

Twin Cities Lesbian Fiction Book Club
2024-10-16 19:00 - 21:00, 2024-11-20 19:00 - 21:00, 2024-12-18 19:00 - 21:00, 2025-01-15 19:00 - 21:00 | Online Events
Virtual Book Club that meets online via Zoom – please direct all questions and requests for the Zoom link to jchandlerauthor@gmail.com
You are welcome to attend even if you didn’t read the book, or didn’t like it. We enjoy staying in touch with our friends!
Book of the month:
2024
October—CLOUDED WATERS by Dianna Hunter
November—DARING DUPLICITY by Edale Lane
December—A GRAVE Talent by Laurie R. King
2025
January—CHRISTMASSED by Blythe H. Warren
February—DEVIL’S BREATH by Anna Paxton
March—JONES by Gerri Hill

Rainbow Reads
2024-11-03 11:00 - 13:00, 2024-12-01 11:00 - 13:00, 2025-01-05 11:00 - 13:00, 2025-02-02 11:00 - 13:00, 2025-03-02 11:00 - 13:00, 2025-04-06 11:00 - 13:00 | Quatrefoil Library, 1220 East Lake Street, Minneapolis, MN, 55407, United States
Queer reading party (not a book club) that meets in the Library on the first Sunday of every month. This group allows people to share what they have been reading and interested in, rather than discuss one book everyone has read.

North Country Gaylaxians Book Club (Online)
2025-02-11 19:00 - 20:30, 2025-03-11 19:00 - 20:30, 2025-04-08 19:00 - 20:30 | Quatrefoil Library, 1220 East Lake Street, Minneapolis, MN, 55407, United States
The meeting of the Twin Cities chapter of the Gaylactic Network, an organization for the GLBT fan community, whether it be science fiction, fantasy, horror, comics, or gaming. We read and discuss books of speculative fiction with GLBT or similar content or by GLBT authors. We meet the second Tuesday of the month at 7:00 pm on Zoom. Also, monthly gaming get-togethers in a private home.

Info on events can be found on their Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/groups/NorthCountryGaylaxians/

Moon Palace Queer Book Club
2025-02-12 19:00 - 20:00 | Quatrefoil Library, 1220 East Lake Street, Minneapolis, MN, 55407, United States
Event by Moon Palace Books
Public · Join us for Queer Book Club every second Wednesday from 7-8pm at Quatrefoil Library, 1220 East Lake Street, Minneapolis, MN 55407! (Please note that in the summer we will only meet at Quatrefoil if it rains. Otherwise we will meet at Brackett Park.)

Queer Book Club February

Wednesday Feb 12th, 2025

7:00 PM

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8:00 PM

Quatrefoil Library, 1220 East Lake Street, Minneapolis, MN 55407

Join us for Queer Book Club on Wednesday, February 12th, at 7:00pm at Quatrefoil Library, 1220 East Lake Street, Minneapolis, MN 55407. We’ll be discussing Wild Geese by Soula Emmanuel. Anyone is welcome to join whether you’ve read the whole book or just skimmed a few pages. We meet the second Wednesdays of every month!
Phoebe Forde has a new home, a new name, and is newly thirty. An Irish transplant and PhD candidate, she’s overeducated and underpaid, but finally settling into her new life in Copenhagen. Almost three years into her gender transition, Phoebe has learned to move through the world carefully, savoring small moments of joy. After all, a woman without a past can be anyone she wants. But an unexpected visit from her ex-girlfriend Grace brings back memories of Dublin and the life she thought she’d left behind. Over the course of a weekend, their romance rekindles into something sweet and radically unfamiliar as Grace helps Phoebe navigate the jagged edges of nostalgia and hope.
Written with wit and warmth, Wild Geese is a tale of dislocations and relocations, encounters, and accidents: a novel of past lives, messy feelings, and the desire to start afresh.

Twin Cities Lesbian Fiction Book Club (Online)
2025-02-19 19:00 - 21:00, 2025-03-19 19:00 - 21:00, 2025-04-16 19:00 - 21:00 | Online Events
Virtual Book Club that meets online via Zoom – please direct all questions and requests for the Zoom link to jchandlerauthor@gmail.com
You are welcome to attend even if you didn’t read the book, or didn’t like it. We enjoy staying in touch with our friends!
Book of the month:
2025
January—CHRISTMASSED by Blythe H. Warren
February—DEVIL’S BREATH by Anna Paxton
March—JONES by Gerri Hill
April—HALF IN by Felice Cohen
May—PULL OF THE STARS by Emma Donoghue
June—FALLS FROM GRACE by Ruby Landers
July—LAST CHANCE CHICAGO by Diana DiGangi
August—SCORCHED GRACE by Margo Douaihy
September—WATERLOGGED by Nance Sparks
October—THE SAFEKEEP by Yael Van der Wouden (in hardcover now, but will be out in paperback May 27th)

Prime Timers Bookclub
2025-02-22 13:15 - 15:15 | Quatrefoil Library, 1220 East Lake Street, Minneapolis, MN, 55407, United States
This monthly book club is a subgroup of the Twin Cities Prime Timers Club, which is affiliated with the state and national organizations. It meets each third Saturday of the month at Quatrefoil from 1:15pm – 3:15pm.
February Book of the Month: Gay Bar By Jeremy Atherton Lin

Transgender Book Club
2025-02-23 13:00 - 14:00, 2025-03-23 13:00 - 14:00 | Quatrefoil Library, 1220 East Lake Street, Minneapolis, MN, 55407, United States
The Transgender Book Club meets the fourth Sunday of the month from 1-2pm to discuss books by and about trans people. We welcome people of all genders, orientations, and backgrounds!
2025 Meeting Calendar:
1/26 Bitter by Akwaeke Emezi2/23 Lunar Boy by Jes and Cin Wibowo3/23 Bluff by Danez Smith4/27 Pageboy by Elliot Page5/25 Girlmode by Magdalene Visaggio6/22 We Won’t Be Here Tomorrow by Margaret Killjoy7/27 A Shore Thing by Joanna Lowell8/24 The Dawnhounds by Sascha Stronach9/28 Just Happy to Be Here by Naomi Kanakia10/26 Dead Collections by Isaac Fellman11/23 Marley’s Pride by Joelle Retener

Moon Palace Queer Book Club
2025-03-12 19:00 - 20:00 | Quatrefoil Library, 1220 East Lake Street, Minneapolis, MN, 55407, United States
Event by Moon Palace Books
Public · Join us for Queer Book Club every second Wednesday from 7-8pm at Quatrefoil Library, 1220 East Lake Street, Minneapolis, MN 55407! (Please note that in the summer we will only meet at Quatrefoil if it rains. Otherwise we will meet at Brackett Park.)

Queer Book Club March

Wednesday Mar 12th, 2025

7:00 PM

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8:00 PM

Quatrefoil Library, 1220 East Lake Street, Minneapolis, MN 55407

Join us for Queer Book Club on Wednesday, March 12th, at 7:00pm at Quatrefoil Library, 1220 East Lake Street, Minneapolis, MN 55407. We’ll be discussing Hell Followed With Us by Andrew Joseph White. Anyone is welcome to join whether you’ve read the whole book or just skimmed a few pages. We meet the second Wednesdays of every month!
Sixteen-year-old trans boy Benji is on the run from the cult that raised him—the fundamentalist sect that unleashed Armageddon and decimated the world’s population. Desperately, he searches for a place where the cult can’t get their hands on him, or more importantly, on the bioweapon they infected him with.
But when cornered by monsters born from the destruction, Benji is rescued by a group of teens from the local Acheson LGBTQ+ Center, affectionately known as the ALC. The ALC’s leader, Nick, is gorgeous, autistic, and a deadly shot, and he knows Benji’s darkest secret: the cult’s bioweapon is mutating him into a monster deadly enough to wipe humanity from the earth once and for all.
Still, Nick offers Benji shelter among his ragtag group of queer teens, as long as Benji can control the monster and use its power to defend the ALC. Eager to belong, Benji accepts Nick’s terms…until he discovers the ALC’s mysterious leader has a hidden agenda, and more than a few secrets of his own. Perfect for fans of Gideon the Ninth and Annihilation.

Prime Timers Book Club
2025-03-15 13:15 - 15:15 | Quatrefoil Library, 1220 East Lake Street, Minneapolis, MN, 55407, United States
This monthly book club is a subgroup of the Twin Cities Prime Timers Club, which is affiliated with the state and national organizations. It meets each third Saturday of the month at Quatrefoil from 1:15pm – 3:15pm.
March Book of the Month: Shortest Way Home By Peter Buttigieg

Moon Palace Queer Book Club
2025-04-09 19:00 - 20:00 | Quatrefoil Library, 1220 East Lake Street, Minneapolis, MN, 55407, United States
Event by Moon Palace Books
Public · Join us for Queer Book Club every second Wednesday from 7-8pm at Quatrefoil Library, 1220 East Lake Street, Minneapolis, MN 55407! (Please note that in the summer we will only meet at Quatrefoil if it rains. Otherwise we will meet at Brackett Park.)

Queer Book Club April

Wednesday Apr 9th, 2025

7:00 PM

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8:00 PM

Quatrefoil Library, 1220 East Lake Street, Minneapolis, MN 55407

Join us for Queer Book Club on Wednesday, April 9th, at 7:00pm at Quatrefoil Library, 1220 East Lake Street, Minneapolis, MN 55407. We’ll be discussing Blood Orange by Mx. Yaffa. Anyone is welcome to join whether you’ve read the whole book or just skimmed a few pages. We meet the second Wednesdays of every month!
“Blood Orange” is a highly emotional, important and timely poetry collection by Mx. Yaffa (They/She), a trans Muslim displaced Indigenous Palestinian. Their writings probe the yearning for home, belonging, mental health, queerness, transness, and other dimensions of marginalization while nurturing dreams of utopia against the background of ongoing displacement and genocide of indigenous Palestinians.
This highly charged and cathartic body of work confronts the anguish and loss inflicted by genocide but also embraces a vision of a world free of it. The poems within “Blood Orange” were a means of working through and processing the grief caused by recent events and serve as an act of protest and defiance against settler colonialism as a whole.

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