Coffee in the Country: Aug. Berne Book Club

Anyone is welcome to join us for our summer monthly Berne Book Club events! Please register so we know you plan to attend!

Enjoy a beautiful morning in Berne for our monthly Berne Book Club event! We'll have the honor of discussing this month's pick, By Any Other Name, with the author, Kate Laack. The book can be purchased online on Amazon and Barnes and Noble as well as at Berne Wood-Fired Pizza on our Artisan Market night, July 15th. If you would like to reserve a spot for you or your entire book club, please register here on Eventbrite! Coffee and pastries will be available onsite from Papa's Roast. Want to know more about this novel? Read below:

Fresh out of her MFA program, she's bombed an interview at Columbia, collected a stack of rejections from agents and publishers, and stalled out in a spiral of writer's block. Meanwhile, her best friend is thriving in a PhD program, and her boyfriend is climbing the tech ladder.

Then a delayed flight pushes Jordan into an airport bookstore, and everything changes. On the shelf, she finds a debut novel: The Unbearable Weight of Secrets by Beatrice Mitchell. Just a few paragraphs in, her exhaustion turns to shock. The book isn't just familiar. It's hers: a manuscript she drafted, revised, and workshopped years earlier, but never published.

Stunned, Jordan launches a desperate search for answers. Who stole her work, and why? A critique partner who read an early draft? An ambitious classmate eager for a leg up? Her mentor, with the most access to her writing but the most to lose by risking her own, successful career? Or someone else entirely, a stranger who inexplicably knows Jordan's voice as well as she does?

To reclaim her story, Jordan must be willing to risk everything: her relationship, her future career, and her already fragile belief in herself. Because unmasking Beatrice Mitchell isn't just about justice. It's about proving, once and for all, that Jordan Marlowe isn't just chasing the dream of being a writer. She already is one.