Friends of the Longmont Library is giving away $3 books when gift certificates of $25 or more are purchased in December; friendsofthelongmontlibrary.org.
John Vanderpoel will discuss “Full Chase Mode: Big Year of Birding in North America” at 7 p.m. Dec. 17 at Inkberry Books; inkberrybooks.com
The Longmont Book Club will discuss “Stoner” by John Williams at 10:30 a.m. Dec. 18 at Barbed Wire Books; meetup.com/thelongmontbookclub.
Jenny Shank will discuss “Mixed Company” with Boulder Book Store’s Arsen Kashkashian and KGNU’s Maeve Conran on the air at KGNU at 9 a.m. Dec. 23; boulderbookstore.net.
Read Woke Book Club, for teens in grades sixth through 12, will discuss “ Who Put This Song On?” by Morgan Parker at 4:15 p.m. Dec. 28 as part of its December theme of social injustice at the Erie Community Library, 400 Powers Street, Erie; bit.ly/eriereadwoke.
Game of Thrones Book Group meets at 6 p.m. every first and third Wednesday (Jan. 5 and Jan. 19) at Barbed Wire Books, barbedwirebooks.net.
First Thursdays Book Group meets the first Thursday of each month and will discuss “Deep Creek: Finding Hope in the High Country” by Pam Houston at 2 p.m. Jan. 6 at Longmont Library, 409 Fourth Ave, Longmont; bit.ly/3yntJIT.
Second Mondays Book Group meets at the second Monday of each month and will discuss “This Tender Land: A Novel” by William Kent Krueger at 6:30 p.m. Jan. 10 at the Longmont Library, 409 Fourth Ave., Longmont; bit.ly/3yntJIT.
Pints and Pages, an adult book club, meets at various restaurants and breweries in the Erie area once a month on the second Tuesday; 5:30 p.m. Jan. 11, Erie Community Library, 400 Powers Street, Erie; mylibrary.us/erie.
Leah Angstman will discuss “Out Front the Following Sea” at 6:30 p.m. Jan. 11 at Boulder Book Store; $5; boulderbookstore.net.
Brian Buma will discuss “The Atlas of a Changing Climate: Our Evolving Planet Visualized with More Than 100 Maps, Charts, and Infographics” at 6:30 p.m. Jan. 12 at Boulder Book Store; $5; boulderbookstore.net.
Keith Villa will discuss “Brewing with Cannabis: Using THC and CBD in Beer” at 6:30 p.m. Jan. 13 at Boulder Book Store; $5; boulderbookstore.net.
The Longmont Book Club will discuss “Big Book: Pachinko” by Min Jin Lee (part one of three) at 10:30 a.m. Jan. 15 at Barbed Wire Books; meetup.com/thelongmontbookclub.
Caroline Fausel will discuss “Prep, Cook, Freeze: A Paleo Meal Planning Cookbook” at 6:30 p.m. Jan. 18 at Boulder Book Store; $5; boulderbookstore.net.
David Chernikoff will discuss “Life, Part Two: Seven Keys to Awakening with Purpose and Joy as You Age” at 6:30 p.m. Jan. 19 at Boulder Book Store; $5; boulderbookstore.net.
Simone Marchi will discuss “Colliding Worlds: How Cosmic Encounters Shaped Planets and Life” at 6:30 p.m. Jan. 20 at Boulder Book Store; $5; boulderbookstore.net.
From Our Shelves, a Boulder Book Store fiction book club, will be discussing “The Mountains Sing” by Nguyen Phan Que Mai at 7 p.m. Jan. 26 at Boulder Book Store’s Upper North Room; boulderbookstore.net.
Astronomer and professor Emily Levesque will discuss “The Last Stargazers” at 7 p.m. Jan. 28 at the Fiske Planetarium, 2414 Regent Drive, Boulder; colorado.edu/fiske
Virtual events
The World’s Best Books Bookclub, a Boulder Book Store classics book club, will be discussing “A House for Mr. Biswas” by V. S. Naipaul at 7 p.m. Jan. 27 via Zoom; boulderbookstore.net.
The Living Poets Society will discuss “Sight Lines” by Arthur Sze at 5 p.m. Jan. 11 via Zoom; boulderbookstore.net.
Longmont librarians will discuss “Golem Girl: A Memoir” by Riva Lehrer on the Book Chatter Podcast on Jan. 8; via podcast apps.
Boulder County book stores
•Barbed Wire Books, 504 Main St., Longmont, 303-827-3620, barbedwirebooks.org, new and used titles
•Barnes and Noble, 2999 Pearl St., Boulder, barnesandnoble.com, new titles
•Beat Book Shop, 1200 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-444-7111, beatbookshop.com, used and antique titles
•The Bookworm, 3175 28th St., Boulder, 303-449-3765, boulderbookworm.com, used titles
•Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder; 303-447-2074, boulderbookstore.net, new titles
•Inkberry Books, 7960 Niwot Road, Suite B-3, Niwot, 720-412-1548, inkberrybooks.com; new and used titles
•Juniper Books, 1501 Lee Hill Drive, Boulder, 303-946-1494; juniperbooks.com; new titles, hand-assembled
•Lighthouse Bookstore, 1201 Pearl St. Mall, Boulder, 303-939-8355, lighthousebookstoreofboulder.com; metaphysical titles
•The Read Queen Bookstore and Cafe, 129 N. Harrison Ave., Lafayette, 303-974-5978, thereadqueen.com, new and used titles
•Trident Booksellers and Cafe, 940 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-443-3133, tridentcafe.com, new and used titles
•Used Book Emporium, 346 Main St., Longmont, 303-776-6561, usedbookemporium.net, new and used titles
•The Wandering Jellyfish, 198 2nd Ave., Niwot, bookshop.org/shop/twjbookshop, young adult and children’s new titles
Interested local authors can submit new books to the Author Spotlight at bit.ly/BoulderCountyAuthors. Book stores can submit book events to features@prairiemountainmedia with “book event” in the subject line.
