READ: "The Bookbinders Secret"/EVENT: Book Binding Workshop

This month, we'll be exploring the art of book binding. This will be a hands-on event with the instructor, Bria, from Build-A-Book, LLC. The workshop includes all materials and instructions needed to bind your own hard cover book.

I will provide lunch, (salad, soup and/or sandwiches) snacks and drinks. I'm really looking forward to this one.

We'll have lunch and book discussion at 12:00 and Bria will arrive at 12:30 to begin the workshop.

LOCATION: North East Library, 485 Mauldin Avenue, North East, MD

FEE: $65 per person, which includes all materials and instructions
1/2 ($32.50) is payable when you register to attend to:

Venmo: @diane-flemming-2 (last four of phone number: 8037) or
PayPal: @dianeflemming

The remainder will be paid directly to the instructor the day of the event.

Please read the refund policy below.

LUNCH: I'll provide, lunch, snacks and drinks. (Please provide any foods you won't eat or any allergies in the question section below)

NOVEL: The Bookbinders Secret by A.D. Bell
GENRE: Historical Fiction
From Amazon:

Every book tells a story. This one tells a secret.

A young bookbinder begins a hunt for the truth when a confession hidden beneath the binding of a burned book reveals a story of forbidden love, lost fortune, and murder. Now a USA Today bestseller!

Lilian ("Lily") Delaney, apprentice to a master bookbinder in Oxford in 1901, chafes at the confines of her life. She is trapped between the oppressiveness of her father’s failing bookshop and still being an apprentice in a man’s profession. But when she’s given a burned book during a visit to a collector, she finds, hidden beneath the binding, a fifty-year-old letter speaking of love, fortune, and murder.

Lily is pulled into the mystery of the young lovers, a story of forbidden love, and discovers there are more books and more hidden pages telling their story. Lilian becomes obsessed with the story but she is not the only one looking for the remaining books and what began as a diverting intrigue quickly becomes a very dangerous pursuit.

Lily's search leads her from the eccentric booksellers of London to the private libraries of unscrupulous collectors and the dusty archives of society papers, deep into the heart of the mystery. But with sinister forces closing in, willing to do anything for the books, Lilian’s world begins to fall apart and she must decide if uncovering the truth is worth the risk to her own life.

Happy Reading,

Diane and Kelly