Cleveland, OH – September 28, 2024 – Rebel Readers Cleveland is excited to announce its upcoming book club season, offering an inspiring selection of memoirs and non-fiction focused on personal storytelling.
Co-founded by Dahlia Fisher and Felicia Haney, two women from different backgrounds with shared values, the book club enters its second year of amplifying diverse voices and exploring intersecting identities, to build bridges through books.
This season’s discussions are hosted in partnership with bookseller Toni Thayer of Loganberry Books (13015 Larchmere Blvd, Shaker Heights) from 3:00 to 4:30 pm on the third Sunday of each month. All rebel reads are 10% off in-store and online.
To register for one or more of these free events, please visit www.rebelreaderscle.com
2024-2025 Season Lineup:
October 20 – Honoring Breast Cancer Awareness Month: The Bright Hour: A Memoir of Living and Dying by Nina Riggs, featuring special guests Catherine Holloway, Breast Cancer Survivor, and Liza Shapiro, Death Doula.
November 17 – Honoring Veterans Day: AUTHOR TALK & BOOK SIGNING – Remote Outpost: Fighting with the US Army in Afghanistan by Travis Harman, featuring the author reading selections from his 2024 debut release.
December 15 – Honoring People with Disabilities Day: Easy Beauty by Chloe Cooper Jones, featuring special guest Nikki Fuggett Dobbens, disabilities advocate and blind since birth.
January 19 – Honoring Holocaust Remembrance Day: The Light of Days: The Untold Story of Women Resistance Fighters in Hitler’s Ghettos by Judy Batalion.
February 16 – Honoring Black History Month: How We Fight for Our Lives by Saeed Jones, sponsored by the LGBT Center of Greater Cleveland.
March 16 – Honoring Women’s History Month: Uncultured by Daniella Mestyanek Young, featuring special guest and co-author, Brandi Larson, who takes us behind the scenes while writing and publishing this acclaimed non-fiction work.
April 20 – Honoring Arab Heritage Month: The Return: Father, Sons, & the Land In Between by Hisham Matar, Pulitzer Prize-winning author.
May 18 – Honoring Jewish Heritage Month: The Color of Love: Story of a Mixed Race Jewish Girl by Marra B. Gad.
June 22 – Honoring PTSD Awareness Month: What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma by Stephanie Foo.
Keeping with the club’s ethos, each meeting will feature special guests, including authors, survivors, and advocates, who offer their perspectives and insights, layering the discussions with deeper meaning and understanding.
“At Rebel Readers, we believe in the power of storytelling to break down walls and build bridges,” said Dahlia Fisher.
Join Rebel Readers Cleveland: Membership is free and open to all. Readers are invited to explore books by authors they may or may not discover on their own and become part of a reading community that seeks to engage in civil discourse at a time when society is quick to cast judgments. Even if members don't have time to read the books before the meet-ups, they are encouraged to come for the conversation.
"Even if you don't have time to read the books," said Felicia Haney, "Come anyway because you will still get something out of the conversations."
Cofounded by Dahlia Fisher and Felicia Haney, two women from different backgrounds with shared values, Rebel Readers Cleveland lifts voices of diverse authors and explores stories of intersecting identities to build bridges between cultures and communities.
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