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        Travel Through Time With Altadena Library’s Heartthrob Hangouts

        • Melanie Hooks
          • August 8, 2026
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      Interior of the Bob Lucas Memorial Library and Literacy Center ((Photo – Deb Halberstadt)

      What better time than summer to find your next great romance read? Altadena Library has unearthed the extra-worldly This Is How You Lose the Time War for Thursday, August 13, at 4:30 pm.

      By Melanie Hooks

      The aptly named Heartthrob Hangouts Book Club has taken up a new mid-month spot on the Altadena Library’s monthly calendar, and the multiple award-winning novel This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone has filled it.

      Set amid a war fought across time, the novel’s resulting passions have won the Hugo, Locus, and Nebula Awards for Best Novella. At just over 200 pages, it’s a great weekend read—perfect for a fun midsummer book club chat.

      Award-winning authors Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone, both celebrated writers and bestsellers in their own right, bring the conflict’s competing agents to life. Each is responsible for gaining an advantage for their respective side—an advantage that only time travel, and the resulting changes, can provide. Talk about a next-level enemies-to-lovers plot.

      Gather at the Bob Lucas Memorial Library & Literacy Center, 2659 Lincoln Ave., Altadena, for an entertaining connection with your neighbors in the present on August 13 at 4:30 pm.

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