It’s time for our next workshop, and this one’s pretty CHEESY
Join @aubreyreddnutrition as she leads our first Cheeses & Chapters event on Friday, June 12! Find out which cheeses (& wines) pair with some of your favorite books🧀📚 and then take home your own mini charcuterie board! A perfect date or girls night out👽🛸

Tickets can be found here.

On Sunday, we’re hosting another children’s storytime with Maple Tree Literacy! This week’s book is Dragons Love Tacos, and there will be a fun activity for kids, too!

Our anniversary weekend continues Saturday with:

Free ARC giveaways (while supplies last,) MORE treats from Whisk & Whimsy, mocktails, and a charm bar with The Charming Churchmouse! Plus enjoy 10% off purchases of $25 or more!

Join us as we celebrate our first year in business!

The fun kicks off with a very special First Friday featuring:

Debut local fantasy author V. Sanz, a mobile coffee bar from Cafe Calle, Fused 4 Good permanent jewelry, face painting with kristacore, sweets from Whisk & Whimsy, pizza, wine, and other things I’m definitely forgetting. It all starts at 5, and we’re partying until 9!

We’ll also have some limited edition FAB stickers and bookmarks!

Join us for the June meeting of our Romance Book Club!

We will be discussing “Into the Blue” by Emma Brodie.

Come for 6, discussion starts at 6:30

Local author J.L. Beers will be at Friendly Alien Books for a signing on Saturday, May 23, from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Join us for the May meeting of our Rotating Genre Book Club!
We will be discussing “With a Vengeance" by Riley Sager.
Come for 6, discussion starts at 6:30!

Join us for a special children’s storytime with local children’s author, Tara Atkins, as she reads “Found: A Potcake Puppy Story.”

The story follows a stray puppy in Nevis, who gets adopted. This event is free to the public.

Join us for a THRILLING book bedazzling workshop! You bring your favorite books, we provide the rest. Plus trivia, prizes, and giveaways! Space is limited. Tickets are $30 and can be purchased here.

We are so excited to host our first Independent Bookstore Day!

Join us for a day of celebration and shopping small!

What’s on tap:

-Exclusive indie editions of books, tote bags, and more!

-Free bookmarks, stickers, and ARCs for shoppers while supplies last

-MYO spritz bar

-Sweets from Whisk & Whimsy

-Pop-up shop with The Charming Churchmouse

-10% off all orders!

Friendly Alien Books will host the Anthracite Journal’s April meeting. All creatives welcome!

There will be light refreshments served.

Join authors who were featured in The Perfect Blend: A Coffee Shop-Inspired Sweet Romance Anthology. Listen to them read portions of their stories, ask them questions about their writing and publishing journeys, and get your books signed!

FREE to attend. Books will be for sale.

Authors in attendance will be:

• Stacy Shaffer, author of “Scents of Reminiscence”

Bring your gently used, pre-loved books and give them new life by swapping with other readers! All genres welcome- from children’s books, fantasy, historical fiction, romance, non-fiction, and more!

Join us for the April meeting of our Rotating Genre Book Club!

We will be discussing “A Psalm for the Wild-Built” by Becky Chambers.

Come for 6, discussion starts at 6:30!

Pop-up Shop: artist and illustrator Jessica Nowakowski will be at FAB for a pop-up shop

Join us for a book launch and signing with local author Logan Chace for his new collection of poetry, “The Hoarder.” Chace earned an M.F.A. in Creative Writing (Poetry) from Hollins University, and currently teaches English and Creative Writing to high school students at Wyoming Seminary in Kingston.

Friendly Alien Books is excited to host Pop Culture historian Thom Shubilla for a book signing on Sat., April 4.

Shubilla is the author of “Primetime 1966–1967: The Full Spectrum of Television’s First All-Color Season,” “James Bond and the Sixties Spy Craze,” and "King Kong vs. Godzilla: The Most Colossal Conflict the Screen Has Ever Known.” Shubilla is a professor at Luzerne County Community College in the Humanities Department.

Join us for April First Friday!

We will be featuring the exhibit "Magical Canvas" by MaryAnn McLean - plus light refreshments!

Join us for the April meeting of our Romance Book Club!

We will be discussing “Rings of Fate” by Melissa de la Cruz.

Come for 6, discussion starts at 6:30!

Join us for another relaxing morning yoga class among the stacks!

Local instructor Gianna Cancelli will lead the class.

All levels are welcome! Space is limited. Tickets are $12 and can be purchased here.

In tandem with the Scranton Fringe production of THE GLASS MENAGERIE (April 9–11), Fringe is launching a new Drama Book Club—and starting with one of the most iconic American plays of the 20th century: A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE.

About the play:
When Blanche DuBois arrives in New Orleans to stay with her sister Stella and brother-in-law Stanley, the cramped apartment becomes a pressure cooker. Old stories clash with hard truths. Desire, pride, class, and survival collide—until what’s said (and what’s hidden) can’t stay contained anymore. It’s funny, brutal, tender, and relentlessly alive. Please be aware that this play features/discusses such topics as sexual violence, mental health, and other mature themes.

About the author:
Tennessee Williams wrote with uncommon empathy for people on the edge—dreamers, outsiders, and anyone trying to keep their dignity intact while the world tightens around them. His plays are rich with lyric language, sharp humor, and characters who feel painfully human.

Join us at Friendly Alien Books for a lively, welcoming discussion—plus we’ll read aloud select scenes together, so get your actor voices ready (no experience needed)!

FREE AND OPEN TO ALL!

Friendly Alien Books will host the Anthracite Journal’s February Open Mic. All creatives welcome!

There will be light refreshments served.

Join us for the March meeting of our Rotating Genre Book Club!

We will be discussing “Our Wives Under the Sea” by Julia Armfield.

Come for 6, discussion starts at 6:30!

Pop-up vendor shop: Creations by Chris Greeting Cards.

Find a card for every holiday and season!

Artist Monica Noelle Simon will showcase her exhibit, “Uncontainable Waters,” at Friendly Alien Books from 5 to 9 p.m. Friday, March 6.

Cafe Calle will also set up a mobile coffee bar!

Join us for the March meeting of our Romance Book Club!

We will be discussing “The Favorites” by Layne Fargo.

Come for 6, discussion starts at 6:30!

Friendly Alien Books will host the Anthracite Journal’s February Open Mic. All creatives welcome!

Light refreshments will be provided

It’s going to be a bloody good Galentine’s Day

Bring your friends for a night of romance bookish fun, with an emo twist! It is FREE to get in- vendors will handle their own payments.

Bookish charm bar

Tattoo flash (DM for appts. from 12-3; walk-ins 4-8)

Lip scrubs

Spritz bar!

Author Kenna DeValor will be at Friendly Alien Books for a day of pop-up poetry and book signing for their poetry collection, “Disco Fruit!”