Beyond the Book, A Literary Experience

Bookstore • Coffee • Podcast Studio Step into Beyond the Book, a cozy literary haven where stories, coffee, and community come together. More than a bookstore, we’re a creative hub for readers and writers—celebrating diverse authors, hosting inspiring workshops, and nurturing the next generation of storytellers. From our South Suburban Literary Book Award to our Aspiring Authors Workshop, we honor the power of words to connect and transform. Whether you’re writing your first page or sipping your favorite brew, you’ll find your place, and your story, Beyond the Book. Through collaborations with thought leaders, nonprofits, and corporations, Beyond the Book weaves together a community where the love of reading, writing, and authorship is celebrated and cultivated with intention.

Cook County

Lauren Traut

Chicago Metropolitan Area

Homewood-Flossmoor

Illinois

Bookstore • Coffee • Podcast Studio Step into Beyond the Book, a cozy literary haven where stories, coffee, and community come together. More than...

Teach your kids they can achieve the impossible!

Mindsee.it

Featured in the Telepathy Tapes podcast.  Mindsee.It is a quick and mind-blowing tutoring program for children that teaches them to see through a blindfold - really!    

New York County

Miranda Levingston

New York City Metropolitan Area

Upper East Side

New York

Featured in the Telepathy Tapes podcast. Mindsee.It is a quick and mind-blowing tutoring program for children that teaches them to see through a...

Police charged all eight attendees of last week's Dolton dog fighting bust with class 4 felonies. Cops caught the men after receiving a tip about a dog fight at the 1500 block of 142nd Street on the night of Dec. 6. One of the men, Willie McCray, 26, of Calumet City has a no-bond warrant for "Murder, Strong Probability Death/Injury." South Suburban Humane Society investigators rescued seven dogs from the scene. They are now recovering at the Chicago Heights facility. READ: Dogs Rescued from 'Face of Evil' Recovering at Chicago Heights Shelter

Police charged all eight attendees of last week's Dolton dog fighting bust with class 4 felonies.

Cops caught the men after receiving a tip about a dog fight at the 1500 block of 142nd Street on the night of Dec. 6. One of the men, Willie McCray, 26, of Calumet City has a no-bond warrant for "Murder, Strong Probability Death/Injury."

South Suburban Humane Society investigators rescued seven dogs from the scene. They are now recovering at the Chicago Heights facility. READ: Dogs Rescued from 'Face of Evil' Recovering at Chicago Heights Shelter

All attendees of the Dec. 6 bust were charged with attending and patronizing a dog fight.