Barking Bee After Dark - November 2025

Barking Bee Cafe will host their November After Dark Book Club on Thursday, November 20th at 6:30 PM. 

November's book selection is Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt.

"After Tova Sullivan's husband died, she began working the night shift at the Sowell Bay Aquarium, mopping floors and tidying up. Keeping busy has always helped her cope, which she's been doing since her eighteen-year-old son, Erik, mysteriously vanished on a boat in Puget Sound over thirty years ago. Tova becomes acquainted with curmudgeonly Marcellus, a giant Pacific octopus living at the aquarium. Marcellus knows more than anyone can imagine but wouldn't dream of lifting one of his eight arms for his human captors--until he forms a remarkable friendship with Tova. Ever the detective, Marcellus deduces what happened the night Tova's son disappeared. And now Marcellus must use every trick his old invertebrate body can muster to unearth the truth for her before it's too late."

Request a physical copy of the book via the Jefferson County Library Cooperative

Read the Ebook on Libby
​Listen to the Audiobook on Libby

Read the Ebook on Hoopla*
Listen to the Audiobook on Hoopla*

*available to residents of the City of Pinson