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SEPTEMBER 3, 2017 The Commonplace Book | Read This! | The List | A Letter from Leah Weiss | Okra Picks | Southern Indie Bestsellers | Events |
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At the bottom of this missive you will find a list of the week's upcoming upcoming events at independent bookstores throughout the South. With Hurricane Irma approaching the eastern shores all too rapidly, her ladyship, the editor, cautions her readers to double check with the venues to see if events have been cancelled or rescheduled. For the same reason, her ladyship will not be sending out the secondary calendar of events email either this week or next. Her ladyship begs her readers to be safe, evacuate to shelter when the authorities advise it, and prays that each of you weathers the storm without difficulty or undue damage. Read Independently (by candlelight, if necessary)! And shop local.
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I struggle to my geet, straighten my back, lift my chin, then he hits me again. This time I fall down and stay down while he counts, ". . .eight, nine, ten." He walks out hte trailer door and slams it hard. The latch don't catch, and the foor pops open. I lay on the floor and watch Roy Tupkin cross the dirt yard and disappear into the woods. My world's gone sideways again. "Sadie girl." daddy's spirit voice comes soft from behind my open eyes. "You got yourself in a pickle this time. No two ways about it. That husband of yours won't stop till you and your baby draw your last breath. You don't even look like yourself no more. He broke about every piece of sweet in you. You gonna let him break your spirit, too? You gonna do nothing?" Leah Weiss, If the Creek Don't Rise (Sourcebooks Landmark, 2017) 9781492647454 Meet the author:
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keep reading: Author returns to sanctuary in new novel
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American Girls by Alison Umminger ($9.99*, Flatiron Books), recommended by Hills & Hamlets Bookshop, Chattahoochee Hills, GA.
Recommended for readers of Christopher Moore's historical novels and lovers of Monty Python. The Gentleman by Forrest Leo ($16.00*, Penguin Books), recommended by Fountain Bookstore, Richmond, VA.
Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman ($26.00*, Pamela Dorman Books), recommended by Quail Ridge Books, Raleigh, NC. |
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The List: Ten Books That Changed My Life by Leah Weiss |
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Last February, Dave and I left our Lynchburg, Virginia home and drove 3000 miles through the south on a pre-launch book tour and to visit friends. We wound our way along the coast, down to sunny Florida and back up through Georgia and the Carolinas. Along that Snow Bird journey, we stopped at independent bookstores where I gifted ARCs of IF THE CREEK DON'T RISE, and bags of Moon Pies. Dave took photos of me with some of you, and in a matter of minutes we became friends that I look forward to seeing again. What I discovered on that pleasure trip was that the world of Indies in the south is humming with life! With the help of our GPS, Dave and I found our way to your bookstores in quaint buildings and quirky houses in historic downtowns and to special sanctuaries in shopping malls and side streets. Some of those places were home to well-mannered cats and dogs who warmed my heart as only they can do. I am naturally drawn to places with a sense of clean energy, welcoming smiles, comfortable chairs, steady mugs of good coffee, and enlightened book knowledge. Like my marvelous Indie in Lynchburg (Givens Books and Little Dickens with its festive exterior and thirty year history), your stores are special, intentional places. Havens for bibliophiles. It is clear to say that, thanks to you and the mission of the southern alliance you support, independent bookstores are thriving. Throughout that trip south, I caught glimpses of the work that you do. The ongoing tasks you perform to stay current in the ever changing book industry, and I commend all of you for your passion and purpose. You make what you do look effortless because it comes from your heart. But I know now that you sift through trades and read interviews every day looking for tomorrow's best sellers. That you read the ARCs and write advance reviews that help the reader and your fellow booksellers. That you give great thought to the layout of your lovely store spaces with the "browser" on the hunt in mind. That you provide a plethora of events as varied as your readers who frequent your stores like the family they are. In short: your work is never done. Thank you for searching for and supporting the best southern books and for putting them front and center for readers to discover. Thank you for keeping your thumb on the pulse of modern literature and debut voices like mine. For your unquenchable desire to bring educated insight about tomorrow's classics. And, in particular, I thank you for responding so positively to IF HE CREEK DON'T RISE and for selecting it as a coveted Okra Pick. I am overjoyed and honored to stand beside the best. With deep gratitude, Leah Weiss |
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Sadie Blue has been a wife for fifteen days. That's long enough to know she should have never hitched herself to Roy Tupkin, even with the baby. Sadie is desperate to make her own mark on the world, but in remote Appalachia, a ticket out of town is hard to come by, and hope often gets stomped out. When a stranger sweeps into Baines Creek and knocks things off kilter, Sadie finds herself with an unexpected lifeline...if she can just figure out how to use it. This intimate insight into a fiercely proud, tenacious community unfolds through the voices of the forgotten folks of Baines Creek. With a colorful cast of characters that each contribute a new perspective, If the Creek Don't Riseis a debut novel bursting with heart, honesty, and homegrown grit. If the Creek Don't Rise by Leah Weiss | Sourcebooks | 9781492647454 | Read the first chapter
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For the week ending August 27. Books on the Southern Indie Bestseller List that are southern in nature or have been recently recommended by southern indie booksellers.
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Ferrill Gibbs (author appearance) Avid Poetry Series: Sabrina Orah Mark and Deirdre Sugiuchi (author appearance) An Evening with Authors Louise Penny - GLASS HOUSES - and Trudy Nan Boyce - OUT OF THE BLUES (author appearance) Jessamyn Stanley Yoga (author appearance) Jamie Ford Eat & Greet (author appearance) Robert Hicks, a Fiction Reading (author appearance) Jancee Dunn: Girls' Night Out (author appearance) James Costa with Darwin's Backyard (author appearance) Sonia Belasco discusses her debut YA novel Speak of Me As I Am (author appearance) Jenny Zervakis, The Complete Strange Growths, 1991-1997 (author appearance) Alice Ratteree Launch party (author appearance) Sean Keefer Author of The Solicitor (author appearance) Author Meet and Greet: Dorothy Scarbrough (author appearance) Local Author Dac Crossley: The Hand of Lou Diamond (author appearance) Kathryn K. Fontenot at the Crescent City Farmers Market – The Lousiana Urban Gardener: A Beginners Guide to Growing Vegetables and Herbs (author appearance) John Feinstein Eat & Greet (book festival) McIntyre's Books Author Events Sheri Castle – Sugar Butter Flour: The Waitress Pie Book (author appearance) Author Event: Dawn Reno Langley (author appearance) MEET THE AUTHOR (author appearance) Local Author Event: Lois Simon - Bogey the Golfball (author appearance) Southern Author Event: Terry Barr - Don't Date Baptists (author appearance) Drew Daywalt and Mike Myers - Star Wars: BB-8 on the Run (author appearance) Andre Vann, African Americans of Durham County (author appearance) Strangers to Temptation with Scott Gould (author appearance) Concert and Booksigning featuring Kathryn Scheldt and Frye Gaillard (author appearance) Southern Author Panel Talk & Signing (author appearance) Author event with Rebecca Green, author of How to Make Friends with a Ghost (author appearance) Meet the Author: Candice Ransom (author appearance) Football, Florida, and the Soul of College Sports - An Exclusive Conversation with Mike McIntire (author appearance) Carol Leifer - How to Succeed in Business Without Really Crying (author appearance) Robin Sloan - Sourdough (author appearance) Historian & Author W. Jeff Bishop at Chatt Hills History Club (author appearance) Book Signing of She Stands with author Stacey Wilson (author appearance) A Lee Brothers Brunch (author appearance) Diana Gabaldon - Bookmarks Keynote Closing Event (author appearance) Book Reading & Signing (author appearance) Betty Adcock - Rough Fugue (author appearance)
Author Meet and Greet: Ken Gaddy (author appearance) Author Event: D.J. Butler - Witchy Eye (author appearance) Noah Strote - Lions and Lambs: Conflict in Weimar and the Creation of Post-Nazi Germany (author appearance) Author event with Jon Acuff, author of Finish (author appearance) An After Hours Event with Ross Hudgins (author appearance)
Chantel Acevedo (author appearance) Ronnie Virgets: Saints and Lesser Souls: The New Orleans Views of Ronnie Virgets (author appearance) Kathleen Wickham with WE BELIEVED WE WERE IMMORTAL (author appearance) Michael S. Erwin discusses his book Lead Yourself First (author appearance) Manoush Zomorodi - Bored and Brilliant (Offsite Event at NCSU Hunt Library) (author appearance) Catherynne Valente - The Glass Town Game (author appearance) Benjamin Rachlin: Ghost of the Innocent Man (author appearance) Charleston Author Series Luncheon with Dorothy St. James the Southern Chocolate Shop Mysteries (author appearance)
Margarita Engle and Mike Curato at Chickasaw Public Library (author appearance) Author & Musician Peter McDade and Kim Ware: The Weight of Sound (author appearance) Thomas Mullen with LIGHTNING MEN (author appearance) Eleanor Henderson discusses her novel The Twelve-Mile Straight (author appearance) Local Author Event: Leigh Ann Walker Young - Finding My Father's Voice (author appearance) Scott Reintgen - Nyxia (author appearance) PRESCHOOL STORY TIME with Amy Godfrey! (author appearance) M DRESSLER, The Last to See Me: A Novel (author appearance) Catherynne Valente: Glass Town Game (author appearance) Salon@615 with RL Stine and Marc Brown (author appearance) The Making of A Hero-Princess: Geanna Culbertson & The Crisanta Knight Series (author appearance)
Will Schwalbe with BOOKS FOR LIVING (author appearance) Heather Adams - Maranatha Road (author appearance) Nancy W. Poling, Before It Was Legal: A Black-White Marriage (1945-1987) (author appearance) Reading and Signing with Author Michael Bishop (author appearance) Author event with Billy Bragg, author of Roots, Radicals and Rockers (author appearance) Victoria Landis Booksigning (author appearance) Matthew Baker's New Book on His Mountain Heroes (author appearance) Craig Johnson - The Western Star: A Longmire Novel (author appearance) Jim Fergus Author of The Vengeance of Mothers: The Journals of Margaret Kelly & Molly McGill: A Novel (author appearance) Conversations at NPL presents Dr. Ibram X. Kendi (author appearance) Author event with Will Schwalbe author of Books for Living (author appearance) Ruth Hartman Berge and Prudy Taylor Board (author appearance) Roger Johns, Dark River Rising with Trudy Nan Boyce & Tracee de Hahn (author appearance) Robert Beatty - SERAFINA (author appearance) Sharyn McCrumb to Present Her New Novel (author appearance) Book Event with Illustrator: Matt Myers - Infamous Ratsos (author appearance) Author Event: Eric Braeden - I'll Be Damned (author appearance) Mike Lupica - Lone Stars (author appearance) Author Pop-Up with Dr. Laurel Shaler (author appearance) An After Hours Event with Dr. Michael Marcades (author appearance) Author Event: Ana Homayoun - Social Media Wellness (author appearance) MINDFUL PARENTING: From Chaos to Calm -- with Sumi Loundon Kim (author appearance) David Burnsworth Launch Party (author appearance) Author event with Crystal Day, author of Mason the Bull (author appearance) Author event with Stuart Gibbs, bestselling children's book author (author appearance) Author Meet & Greet: John Sledge (author appearance) Maryn McKenna - Big Chicken (author appearance) Jim Fergus - The Vengeance of Mothers (author appearance)
James Ponti at Winter Park Public Library (author appearance) Celeste Headlee - We Need to Talk (author appearance) Property Brothers - It Takes Two: Our Story (author appearance) Sonny Seals & George Hart: Historic Rural Churches of Georgia (author appearance) Book Launch Party and Mandala Workshop (author appearance) Christopher Kelly: America Invaded: A State by State Guide to Fighting on American Soil. (author appearance) Buddy Roemer - SCOPENA: A Memoir of Home (author appearance) Mark Bray discusses his book Antifa: The Anti-Fascist Handbook (author appearance) AN EVENING OF SPECULATIVE FICTION & FANTASY with Becca Gomez Farrell, Mur Lafferty, & James Maxey (author appearance) Dr. Mary Jane Ingui (author appearance) Jimmy Webb - The Cake and The Rain (author appearance) Author Maryn McKenna: BIG CHICKEN (author appearance)
Karen Zacharias, Christian Bend (author appearance) Panny Mayfield with LIVE FROM THE MISSISSIPPI DELTA (author appearance) Double Author Event: Brock Adams & Holly Goddard Jones (author appearance)
John Sledge (author appearance) Author and Journalist Celeste Headlee: WE NEED TO TALK (author appearance) Cliterati Open No Mic Featuring Andrea Jurjević (author appearance) Patty Friedmann: An Organized Panic: A Novel (author appearance)
Eileen Myles with AFTERGLOW (author appearance) Coffee with the Poet Featuring Kelly Lenox (author appearance) Local Author Event: Alessandra Macaluso - Real Deal Bridal Bible (author appearance) Emily Herring Wilson - The Three Graces of Val-Kill: Eleanor Roosevelt, Marion Dickerman, and Nancy Cook in the Place They Made Their Own (author appearance) Michael Hardt, Assembly (author appearance) Author event with Jamie Ford author of Love and Other Consolation Prizes (author appearance) Book Reading and Signing with Brian L.Tucker (Swimming the Echo) (author appearance)
An After Hours Event with Jim Nesbitt (author appearance) Annalee Newitz, Founding Editor of iO9, Presents Autonomous (author appearance) |
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SEPTEMBER 10, 2017 The Commonplace Book | Read This! | The List | {Book} Trailer Park | Okra Picks | Southern Indie Bestsellers | Events |
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In which Mr. Jeff Klinenberg risks giving journalism a good name, Mr. Daren Wang finds a printing press in his basement, and her ladyship, the editor takes a working vacation and gloats more than a little bit. |
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Her ladyship, the editor, is writing today from the forty-ninth floor of her hotel in New Orleans. Not that she enjoys the full benefit of the view -- heights make her ladyship, well, "swimmy-headed," as her Aunt Ruth used to say. But from a safe distance from the windows, the harbor is beautiful. This weekend is the annual Discovery Show for the Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance in New Orleans. It is a weekend spent talking to authors about their new books, publishers about their fall and winter lists, and booksellers about the books they are most excited about. Some of the authors coming to the show Envious? No doubt next week her ladyship will also be writing about all the new and forthcoming books she can't wait to read, by writers she met and found utterly charming. Envious now? Did she mention this event is held in New Orleans' French Quarter? How about now? Good books. Good food. Great people. This is her ladyship's idea of a working vacation. Read Independently! And shop local.
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The shoes had been sound when he set out, but the frozen fields and mountain crossings had worn through the soles, tearing apart the stitching at the heels and toes. Joe had bound them together three nights earlier with a length of rough twine he found by the side of the road and had not taken them off since, afraid they would fall apart and leave him nothing. Every step broke the crust of snow with a crackling noise and the fine powder beneath sifted into his shoes through the holes and the split seams. The faint sound echoed across the frozen meadow. He felt as if he'd been hungry forever. He had spent the day hiding in a luggage car under a horse blanket, and the crust of bread he'd eaten had been so dry it had made his gums bleed. The porter, a freedman named Mayfield, had brought it to him along with instructions: "Get off at Alden. The stop after that is Town Line, and the station agent there is a serious one. Checks for stowaways most every night. When we slow down, get yourself off the back of the train so no one will notice you. Stay away from the road. Head west and look for a barn with a white horseshoe. About three miles. Keep your head low. Don't mess around with no one else. "Is there a sign for Alden?" Joe asked. "You read?" Mayfield asked, surprise in his voice. "Yes." Daren Wang, The Hidden Light of Northern Fires (Thomas Dunne Books, 2017) 9781250122353 Meet the author:
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If the Creek Don't Rise by Leah Weiss ($15.99*, Sourcebooks Landmark), recommended by Fountain Bookstore, Richmond, VA.
My Absolute Darling by Gabriel Tallent ($27.00*, Riverhead Books), recommended by Quail Ridge Books, Raleigh, NC.
The Salt Line by Holly Goddard, ($2600*, GP Putnam's Sons), recommended by Flyleaf Books, Chapel Hill, NC. |
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The List: Eight Fabulous Fall Books, from Parnassus Books, Nashville, TN |
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"A wise and timely book." ―Ron Rash, New York Times bestselling author of Serena Rooted in the history of the only secessionist town north of the Mason Dixon Line, The Hidden Light of Northern Fires tells a story of redemption amidst a war that tore families and the country apart. Mary Willis has always been an outcast, an abolitionist in a town of bounty hunters and anti-Union farmers. After college, she dreams of exploring the country, but is obligated to take over the household duties and management of her family's farm, while her brother Leander avoids his own responsibilities. Helping runaways is the only thing that makes her life in Town Line bearable. When escaped slave Joe Bell collapses in her father's barn, Mary is determined to help him cross to freedom in nearby Canada. But the wounded fugitive is haunted by his vengeful owner, who relentlessly hunts him up and down the country, and his sister, still trapped as a slave in the South. As the countryside is riled by the drumbeat of civil war, rebels and soldiers from both sides bring intrigue and violence of the brutal war to the town and the farm, and threaten to destroy all that Mary loves. The Hidden Light of Northern Fires by Daren Wang | Thomas Dunne Books | 9781250122353 | Read the first chapter
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M. Evelina Galang in conversation with Edwidge Danticat (author appearance) Victoria Landis Booksigning (author appearance) Matthew Baker's New Book on His Mountain Heroes (author appearance) Craig Johnson - The Western Star: A Longmire Novel (author appearance) Jim Fergus Author of The Vengeance of Mothers: The Journals of Margaret Kelly & Molly McGill: A Novel (author appearance) Conversations at NPL presents Dr. Ibram X. Kendi (author appearance) Author event with Will Schwalbe author of Books for Living (author appearance) Margarita Engle (author appearance) Claudia Molina (author appearance) David Uribe (author appearance) Ruth Hartman Berge and Prudy Taylor Board (author appearance) Roger Johns, Dark River Rising with Trudy Nan Boyce & Tracee de Hahn (author appearance) Robert Beatty - SERAFINA (author appearance) Sharyn McCrumb to Present Her New Novel (author appearance) Book Event with Illustrator: Matt Myers - Infamous Ratsos (author appearance) Author Event: Eric Braeden - I'll Be Damned (author appearance) Mike Lupica - Lone Stars (author appearance) Phil Cohen - The Jackson Project: War in the American Workplace (author appearance) Author Pop-Up with Dr. Laurel Shaler (author appearance) An After Hours Event with Dr. Michael Marcades (author appearance) Author Event: Ana Homayoun - Social Media Wellness (author appearance) MINDFUL PARENTING: From Chaos to Calm -- with Sumi Loundon Kim (author appearance) David Burnsworth Launch Party (author appearance) Author event with Crystal Day, author of Mason the Bull (author appearance) Author event with Stuart Gibbs, bestselling children's book author (author appearance) Author Meet & Greet: John Sledge (author appearance)
Maryn McKenna - Big Chicken (author appearance) Jim Fergus - The Vengeance of Mothers (author appearance) Reading and Signing with Sharyn McCrumb (author appearance)
Alastair Gordon in conversation with Bart Voorsanger (author appearance) James Ponti at Winter Park Public Library (author appearance) Celeste Headlee - We Need to Talk (author appearance) Property Brothers - It Takes Two: Our Story (author appearance) Sonny Seals & George Hart: Historic Rural Churches of Georgia (author appearance) Book Launch Party and Mandala Workshop (author appearance) Christopher Kelly: America Invaded: A State by State Guide to Fighting on American Soil. (author appearance) Buddy Roemer - SCOPENA: A Memoir of Home (author appearance) Mark Bray discusses his book Antifa: The Anti-Fascist Handbook (author appearance) AN EVENING OF SPECULATIVE FICTION & FANTASY with Becca Gomez Farrell, Mur Lafferty, & James Maxey (author appearance) Nancy Learned Haines, We Answered With Love (author appearance) Dr. Mary Jane Ingui (author appearance) Anaïs Depommier (author appearance) Jimmy Webb - The Cake and The Rain (author appearance) Author Maryn McKenna: BIG CHICKEN (author appearance)
Karen Zacharias, Christian Bend (author appearance) Panny Mayfield with LIVE FROM THE MISSISSIPPI DELTA (author appearance) Double Author Event: Brock Adams & Holly Goddard Jones (author appearance)
John Sledge (author appearance) Author and Journalist Celeste Headlee: WE NEED TO TALK (author appearance) Cliterati Open No Mic Featuring Andrea Jurjević (author appearance) Patty Friedmann: An Organized Panic: A Novel (author appearance)
Eileen Myles with AFTERGLOW (author appearance) Coffee with the Poet Featuring Kelly Lenox (author appearance) Local Author Event: Alessandra Macaluso - Real Deal Bridal Bible (author appearance) Emily Herring Wilson - The Three Graces of Val-Kill: Eleanor Roosevelt, Marion Dickerman, and Nancy Cook in the Place They Made Their Own (author appearance) Michael Hardt, Assembly (author appearance) Author event with Jamie Ford author of Love and Other Consolation Prizes (author appearance) Book Reading and Signing with Brian L.Tucker (Swimming the Echo) (author appearance)
An After Hours Event with Jim Nesbitt (author appearance) Annalee Newitz, Founding Editor of iO9, Presents Autonomous (author appearance) |
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SEPTEMBER 17, 2017 The Commonplace Book | Read This! | The List | {Book} Trailer Park | Okra Picks | Southern Indie Bestsellers | Events |
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In which Ms. Georgann Eubanks becomes a food pilgrim, Mr. Isaac Asimov writes story about a stable marriage -- between three inter-dimensional aliens, Ms. Jesmyn Ward ponders the closeness of history in the South, and Ms. Faust laments the slow disappearance of fireflies. |
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Her ladyship, the editor, spent the previous week in the lovely New Orleans (which, as an aside, is a difficult place to be for a vegetarian) for the annual SIBA Discovery Show -- the big book industry trade show that showcases all the forthcoming fall and winter books. This was the result:
Among the books her ladyship is most looking forward to are Wiley Cash's new novel The Last Ballad, a historical novel about the all-but-forgotten balladeer and union organizer from Gastonia, North Carolina (and the woman Pete Seeger called "one of America's greatest songwriters"); The Woman's Hour by Elaine Weiss, a gripping history of the final battle for women's right to vote, fought in a long hot summer in Tennessee; Tayari Jones' forthcoming novel An American Marriage (not due until February, alas) -- inspired by a young couple's argument the author overheard in a mall food court; and Beth Ann Fennelly's Heating & Cooling: 52 Micro-Memoirs, which is due out next month. It's a deceptively short book that covers quite a lot of ground -- sometimes in a couple paragraphs, sometimes in a couple pages, and sometimes in a couple sentences:
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I like to think I know what death is. I like to think that it's something I could look at straight. When Pop tell me he need my help and I see that black knife slid into the belt of his pants, I follow Pop out the house, try to keep my back straight, my shoulders even as a hanger; that's how Pop walks. I try to look like this is normal and boring so Pop will think I've earned these thirteen years, so Pop will know I'm ready to pull what needs to be pulled, separate innards from muscle, organs from cavities. I want Pop to know I can get bloody. Today's my birthday. Jesmyn Ward, Sing, Unburied, Sing (Scribner, 2017) 9781501126062 Meet the author!
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keep reading: Jesmyn Ward on reading history
 "You start noticing things in a different way when you know you're going to lose 'em," Faust recalled, as we gazed at the desolate, glass-strewn patch of cleared forest where she'd grown up."
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Read This! Books with Street Cred Recommended reading from Southern Indie Booksellers |
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The Western Star by Craig Johnson ($28.00*, Viking), recommended by Quail Ridge Books, Raleigh, NC.
The title is the first thing I noticed about this book, but it definitely wasn't what kept me reading it--the writing itself took care of that. This entire novel is ONE sentence. This is a book meant to be devoured in one sitting--you may not stop to catch your breath. Hrabal is a master and he does something really special here.
Learn how a mechanical man helped write America's Declaration of Independence. Track the course of the Living Dead virus from Africa to Europe and on to the New World. Alternate Histories of the World by Matthew Buchholz (Perigee Trade) Recommended by Will at Fountain Bookstore Richmond VA |
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keep reading: Ms. Pat: It's no crime to be funny
keep reading: On becoming a food pilgrim
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The List: Kent Brant's Top Ten(-ish), from Quail Ridge Books, Raleigh, NC |
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"I think in the South most people are hyper-aware of how close history feels" |
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In Jesmyn Ward's first novel since her National Book Award–winning Salvage the Bones, this singular American writer brings the archetypal road novel into rural twenty-first-century America. Drawing on Morrison and Faulkner, The Odyssey and the Old Testament, Ward gives us an epochal story, a journey through Mississippi's past and present that is both an intimate portrait of a family and an epic tale of hope and struggle. Ward is a major American writer, multiply awarded and universally lauded, and in Sing, Unburied, Sing she is at the height of her powers. Jojo and his toddler sister, Kayla, live with their grandparents, Mam and Pop, and the occasional presence of their drug-addicted mother, Leonie, on a farm on the Gulf Coast of Mississippi. Leonie is simultaneously tormented and comforted by visions of her dead brother, which only come to her when she's high; Mam is dying of cancer; and quiet, steady Pop tries to run the household and teach Jojo how to be a man. When the white father of Leonie's children is released from prison, she packs her kids and a friend into her car and sets out across the state for Parchman farm, the Mississippi State Penitentiary, on a journey rife with danger and promise. Sing, Unburied, Sing grapples with the ugly truths at the heart of the American story and the power, and limitations, of the bonds of family. Rich with Ward's distinctive, musical language, Sing, Unburied, Sing is a majestic new work and an essential contribution to American literature. Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward | Scribner Book Company | 9781501126062
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For the week ending September 17. Books on the Southern Indie Bestseller List that are southern in nature or have been recently recommended by southern indie booksellers.
The Southern Book Prize | A SIBA Okra Pick | Special to the Southern List Printable versions (PDF): Hardcover | Paperback | Children's
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András Simonyi (author appearance) A staged reading of JUNGLE LOVE a new romantic comedy by Stephanie Ansin (other event) Christian Writer Gail Pallotta Signs September 22! (author appearance) Author Walter Biggins: Bob Mould's Workbook (author appearance) Jared Yates Sexton: The People Are Going to Rise Like The Waters Upon Your Shores (author appearance) Doug Woodward's New Book on Family Adventuring (author appearance) Annalee Newitz discusses her debut sci-fi novel Autonomous (author appearance) TEACH-IN: Food, Power, Labor, and Health through the lens of chicken. MARYN MCKENNA presents BIG CHICKEN and BRYANT SIMON presents THE HAMLET FIRE (author appearance) Piedmont Land Conservancy Event with author Randy Johnson (author appearance) Dana Ridenour Author of Beyond the Cabin (author appearance) YA author event with Kristin Cashore, author of Graceling and Jane, Unlimited (author appearance) Author Meet & Greet: Martin Wilson (author appearance) Nancy J. Cohen and Alyssa Maxwell Booksigning (author appearance) Mark Bray - Antifa: The Anti-Fascist Handbook (author appearance) Meet T.M. "Mike" Brown, author of Sanctuary (author appearance) Blue Cole (author appearance) Storytime with author Karen Wallsten featuring The Adventures of Shiko & Walter: A Southeastern Louisiana Backyard Tale (author appearance) An Afternoon with Jeffrey Meyer (author appearance) Author Event: Garth Stein (author appearance) Author Event: E.E. St. Ores - HI Passion (author appearance) Sidra Owens, A Haven Amidst Perdition (author appearance) Sean Keefer Author of The Solicitor (author appearance) Reading and Signing with Nicole Seitz (author appearance)
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Workshop: Debbie Moose (author appearance) Kristin Cashore - Jane, Unlimited (author appearance) Author event with Sam Lightner Jr., author of Heavy Green (author appearance) Author Meet & Greet: Katie Lamar Jackson (author appearance) John Capouya (author appearance) Celeste Ng - Little Fires Everywhere (author appearance) Nancy Cavanaugh - ELSIE MAE HAS SOMETHING TO SAY (author appearance)
YA EVENT!: STEPHANIE PERKINS presents THERE'S SOMEONE INSIDE YOUR HOUSE and KRISTIN CASHORE presents JANE, UNLIMITED (author appearance) John Staddon, The Englishman: Memoirs of a Psychobiologist (author appearance) Bryant Simon, The Hamlet Fire: A Tragic Story of Cheap Food, Cheap Government, and Cheap Lives (author appearance) YA author event with Leigh Bardugo, author of The Language of Thorns (author appearance) Marie Benedict (author appearance) Charles Todd (author appearance) Daniel Bongino presents Protecting The President (author appearance) Nelson DeMille - Cuban Affair (author appearance) Alicia Malone - Backwards and in Heels (author appearance) Super Special Release Party for Author Caleb Zane Huett: TOP ELF (author appearance) Nancy J. Cavanaugh, Elsie Mae Has Something to Say (author appearance) The Other Night School: Why Is There So Much Religion in American Politics? (author appearance) William Barnwell - ANGELS IN THE WILDERNESS (author appearance) Michelle Kuo / Reading with Patrick (author appearance) Steve Robertson / Flim Flam (author appearance)
DENISE KIERNAN launches THE LAST CASTLE, in Conversation with Karen Abbott (author appearance) Bryant Simon, The Hamlet Fire: A Tragic Story of Cheap Food, Cheap Gov't, and Cheap Lives (author appearance) Invictus Release Party with Ryan Graudin (author appearance) Salon@615 Special Edition featuring Brené Brown discussing Braving the Wilderness (author appearance)
James McBride - Five-Carat Soul (author appearance) LEIGH BARDUGO'S Midnight Tales Tour! (author appearance) Nelson DeMille presents The Cuban Affair (author appearance)
Alex Lemon & Sabrina Orah Mark for Feverland: A Memoir in Shards (author appearance) Ronald J. Drez - PREDICTING PEARL HARBOR (author appearance) CELESTE NG presents LITTLE FIRES EVERYWHERE in Conversation with Tommy Hays (author appearance) Maura Way, Another Bungalow, Book Launch (author appearance) 4 on 4th Local Author Series (author appearance) Author event with William Kent Krueger, author of Sulfur Springs (author appearance) Sulfur Springs by William Kent Krueger (author appearance) Poetry at Tech - The Bourne Poetry Reading (author appearance) Kerri Maniscalco & Nicole Castroman, Young Adult Authors (author appearance) Errol Laborde, Peggy Laborde, and the following contributors: Angus Lind, Sally Asher, and John Magill – New Orleans: The First 300 Years (author appearance) Angel Adams Parham - AMERICAN ROUTES: Racial Palimpsests and the Transformation of Race (author appearance) Michelle Kuo with READING WITH PATRICK (author appearance) Jessica Cluess and Scott Reintgen discuss A Poison Dark and Drowning and Nyxia, their new YA novels (author appearance) An Evening with Brock Adams (author appearance)
Corey Mesler (author appearance) Author event with Celeste Ng and Shanthi Sekaran in conversation with Mary Laura Philpott (author appearance) |
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SEPTEMBER 24, 2017 The Commonplace Book | Read This! | The List | {Book} Trailer Park | Okra Picks | Southern Indie Bestsellers | Events |
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In which Mr. Wendell Berry reminds us that nature has more votes than either Republicans or Democrats, a bookstore closes and another gets ready to open, and Mr. Kwame Alexander wants to make shrimp and grits for his friends. |
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One of the highlights of the SIBA Discovery Show in New Orleans earlier this month was the announcement that Kwame Alexander had been selected as the inaugural recipient of the 2018 Conroy Legacy Award. The award was created to recognize writers who, like the author it was named in honor of, have created a lasting impact on their communities, been an advocate of independent bookstores, supported other writers, and written about their own home place. Writers, like indie bookstores, like Mr. Pat Conroy himself, are forces for change and for good in their communities. The Conroy Legacy Award honors this spirit, so ingrained in Southern literary culture. Kwame Alexander was chosen to be the first Conroy Legacy Award winner by a jury of Southern independent booksellers. Alexander is the author of 24 books, including The Crossover, which received the 2015 John Newbery Medal for the Most Distinguished Contribution to American literature for Children, the Coretta Scott King Author Award Honor, The NCTE Charlotte Huck Honor, the Lee Bennett Hopkins Poetry Award, and the Paterson Poetry Prize. Kwame writes for children of all ages and believes poetry can change the world. "He makes a point of coordinating when possible with the local indie bookstores to provide the books at his events," says Hillary Barrineau of Hooray 4 Books in Alexandria, Virginia, "The year he won the Newbery, he attended our bookstore's "Grand Expansion Party," driving here directly from his daughter's wedding earlier that day." And Alexander is active in literacy programs world-wide. He created the Page to Stage Writing Workshop, which is run in schools in the US, Canada, and the Caribbean. Alexander also recently organized an initiative to bring 20 writers and activists to Ghana, where they built and stocked a library and trained teachers to promote literacy in the country. All of which is to say, he is a man who believes in the power of the written word, who thinks one of the best things you can do to get kids reading is put them in a room full of books:
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As I sit and write this, I look over at your blue-black eyes and copper smile. You are the happiest seven-year-old I've ever seen. You're reading comics and practicing guitar with your dad. And, I'm sad. I'm sad, because if you're reading this, it means I'm gone. I know you'll wonder why we never told you your story before now. Blade, sometimes it's difficult to explain family and secrets and why you want to keep some things sacred and sealed until the right time. Perhaps there will never be a right time, or maybe right now it is just when you'll need to read this. I love you, son. Your father loves you. Kwame Alexander, Solo (Blink, 2017) 978031061839 top | share this |
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Kwame Alexander talks poetry, family, feeding the imagination, and the importance of the independent bookstore. |
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When a pre-school classmate knocked over his carefully constructed tower of blocks, Alexander expressed his understandable anger not with shoves, but with rhymes repurposed from Dr. Seuss's Fox in Socks. Now the poet/novelist/speaker draws on a lifetime reading and writing books and poetry not to intimidate with his words, but to connect, encourage, and inspire. In a thoughtful interview at the #SIBA17 Discovery Show in New Orleans with Erica Merrell, SIBA board member and owner of Wild Iris Books in Gainesville, Alexander shared his love of literature, the power of poetry to tame the rowdy tween, the importance of family, and his deep admiration of Pat Conroy. And like Conroy, or any true master of words, he wove each strand into a compelling whole. Growing up in a book centered family--his parents wrote, taught, sold books--Alexander had to be lovingly persuaded to share his parents' enthusiasm. "I hated books. I hated them because I was immersed in them," he said. However, early encounters with activism and social justice led him to discover the power of his own voice. When his father took him to march on the Brooklyn Bridge to protest police violence, Alexander felt his initial fear subside as his connection to the crowd and its message grew. "I began to find my voice. I began to raise my voice. I'm an activist, because I'm a human being." When asked about the impact Pat Conroy had on his writing and life, Alexander recalls reading Conroy's cookbook and feeling drawn to the author's expansive, inclusive view of friends, family, and the writing community. "I want to live that life," he said, laughing. "I want to make shrimp and grits for my friends." Alexander also noted Conroy's tireless work on behalf of other writers, and commitment to building the literary community. But perhaps most of all, Alexander valued Conroy's bone-deep authenticity, and the way his voice informed all of his writing. After quoting passages from the poet Pablo Neruda, Alexander commented about both the poet and Conroy, "You cannot read either writer and how they make the words dance on the page, and not know them." In his book-centered family, he found plenty to read that fired his imagination and focused his voice, particularly in poetry. As a student at Virginia Tech University, Alexander studied with Nikki Giovanni. Though he wryly described their relationship as complex, Giovanni deeply informed his work, first as a challenging teacher and then powerful mentor, and finally as a friend. In his youthful quest to follow in Langston Hughes's footsteps after the publication of The Weary Blues in 1926, Alexander self-published his own poetry collection and criss-crossed the country to read and sell his work.
But soon, Alexander's poetry expanded into prose, and just as he found his voice when lifting it in protest, his work found new purpose as it spoke directly to young people--especially young people whose own voices and experiences were often ignored or rejected. Since the publication of his Newbery award-winning novel, The Crossover, in 2014, Alexander has made hundreds of school appearances. Follow-up books for children, middle-grade readers, and young adults (his novel-in-verse Solo came out August 2017) embody his belief that the best way to connect to and inspire young people is with literature, especially those who seem the hardest to reach. "Find a way to keep them in the room," he said. "Books are doing the work to reach them--find kids where they are, make literature available." When asked how to reach young boys in particular, Alexander immediately recommended poetry. "It's concise, it's action oriented, it's easy to connect to excitement." Alexander was also quick to highlight the role of independent bookstores in creating and sustaining an accessible community of writers, readers, young people, and adults. "Bookstores bridge the gap between community and commerce," he said. "Bookstores mean community and home--the spirit of community and home." Family, home, community, books, and making the words dance on the page: the things that Kwame Alexander brings to his work and his world.
keep reading: Documentary of Wendell Berry to be screened at Music Hall
"The primary goal of the Southeastern Young Adult Book Festival is to encourage and develop literacy in young adults by connecting them with authors, thereby advancing education in the community. What better way to do that than to have a little fun?" keep reading: The Southeastern YA Book Fest announces 2018 line-up "The combination of books, gifts, music, art, wine, coffee, and fresh food in a lively, friendly space will make Story & Song a favorite destination for friends and neighbors" keep reading: Story and Song Bookstore to open in Fernandina Beach
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Wait, What? And Life's Other Essential Questions by James E. Ryan ($19.99, HarperOne), recommended by Fountain Bookstore, Richmond, VA.
Forest Dark by Nicole Krauss ($27.99, Harper), recommended by Flyleaf Books, Chapel Hill, NC.
Want a laugh-out-loud book about depression? A feel-good book about LSD? An engaging look at chemistry, history, and law? Look no further. Waldman is difficult and she knows it. She's trying to get better. We root for her every step of the way. A Really Good Day: How Microdosing Made a Mega Difference in My Mood, My Marriage, and My Life By Ayelet Waldman ($24.95, Knopf Publishing Group), recommended by Ann, Parnassus Books, Nashville, TN. |
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keep reading: Ban This Book is a lesson in censorship
"The owners and volunteers have given their hearts and their labor to make sure feminist bookselling had a voice in Florida, but the time has come and we can no longer keep the store afloat," co-owner Erica Merrell wrote in a post on the store's website. "We have some opportunities behind the scenes that may lead to a Wild Iris 2.0 and we hope to bring you good news in the next couple of months" keep reading: Wild Iris Books to close
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" Just as Avid is different from a Barnes & Noble, each publishing house has its own personality. Tin House was the first press that made me realize that. They turn out really eclectic works; that's how I think of Tin House: a powerhouse of creativity." - Rachel Kaplan
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"I wanted to write about love, I wanted to write a love story. About this idea of...if you want to receive it, you've got to give it. And if you want to give it, you gotta have it." |
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How far will they go for their freedom--once they decide what freedom really means? In an unspecified future, the United States' borders have receded behind a salt line--a ring of scorched earth that protects its citizens from deadly disease-carrying ticks. Those within the zone live safe, if limited, lives in a society controlled by a common fear. Few have any reason to venture out of zone, except for the adrenaline junkies who pay a fortune to tour what's left of nature. Those among the latest expedition include a popstar and his girlfriend, Edie; the tech giant Wes; and Marta; a seemingly simple housewife. Once out of zone, the group find themselves at the mercy of deadly ticks--and at the center of a murderous plot. They become captives in Ruby City, a community made up of outer-zone survivors determined to protect their hardscrabble existence. As alliances and friendships shift amongst the hostages, Edie, Wes, and Marta must decide how far they are willing to go to get to the right side of the salt line. The Salt Line by Holly Goddard Jones | G.P. Putnam's Sons | 9780735214316
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For the week ending September 24. Books on the Southern Indie Bestseller List that are southern in nature or have been recently recommended by southern indie booksellers.
The Southern Book Prize | A SIBA Okra Pick | Special to the Southern List Printable versions (PDF): Hardcover | Paperback | Children's
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Soman Chainani (author appearance) Michael Bishop Signs A Murder in Music City (author appearance) Jenny Sadre-Orafai - Malak (author appearance) Author Kristen Iskandrian: Motherest (author appearance) The Explorer by Katherine Rundell (author appearance)
An Evening with Author Jen Sincero *Ticketed In Store Event (author appearance) Author Event: Anysia Marcell Kiel - Discovering the Healer Within (author appearance) Book signing with Charles and Caroline Todd (author appearance) Johnathon Scott Barrett Author of Cook & Tell (author appearance) Author event with Jim Dees, author of The Statue and the Fury, and special guests (author appearance) An After Hours Event with Carter F. Smith (author appearance) Blackwing Live -with Local Artist Rachel Baeder (author appearance) Storytime with author Rosalind Bunn (author appearance) Tui Sutherland: Darkness of Dragons (author appearance) Bren McClain – One Good Mama Bone (author appearance) E.E. ST. Ores - HI Passion (author appearance) Author Event: Jen Sincero - You are a Badass at Making Money (author appearance) Kelly Starling Lyons & Vanessa Brantley-Newton - Jada Jones Launch Party (Signing Line Ticket event) (author appearance) Bill Morris, American Berserk (author appearance) Southern Women Author Panel and Talk (author appearance) Nancy Cavanaugh, Author of a New Classic Middle-Grade Novel Discusses Reading and Writing MG Fiction (author appearance) Robert Watson Booksigning (author appearance) POETRIO (author appearance) Book Signing: Tui. T. Sutherland (author appearance) Local Author Event: Kelly Starling Lyons & Vanessa Brantley Newton - Jada Jones (author appearance) Sundry Poets w/ Sam Barbee, Bennett Myers, and Susan Spalt (author appearance) Karen Spears Zacharias (author appearance) Muhammad Yunus (author appearance) Chef Allen's Monday Night Farm-to-Table Dinner: DEARLY DEPARTED – Emily Brontë (other event) Denise Kiernan - The Last Castle (author appearance) Eli J. Finkel discusses his book The All-Or-Nothing Marriage: How the Best Marriages Work (author appearance) Jillian Weise presents the 10th anniversary edition of THE AMPUTEE'S GUIDE TO SEX with special guest Patricia Lockwood (author appearance) Southern Author Event: Daren Wang - The Hidden Light of Northern Fires (author appearance) E. Lockhart - Genuine Fraud (author appearance) Anysia Marcell Kiel Talk and Signing (author appearance) Robert Gandt - Angels in the Sky: How a Band of Volunteer Airmen Saved the New State of Israel (author appearance) Robert Olmstead (author appearance) Norman Van Aken (author appearance) Book Launch for Author Jordan A. Rothacker: My Shadow Book (author appearance) Russell Banks at the Depot (author appearance) Katharine Wilkinson signs DRAWDOWN (author appearance) LIBBA BRAY presents BEFORE THE DEVIL BREAKS YOU (author appearance) Wiley Cash presents THE LAST BALLAD launch at UNCA (author appearance) WOMEN IN LIVELY DISCUSSION BOOK CLUB (WILD) (book club) Diane Chamberlain - The Stolen Marriage (author appearance) MARC BRETTLER and AMY-JILL LEVINE, The Jewish Annotated New Testament (author appearance) Discussion with Denise Kiernan (author appearance) Debut Novelist Daren Wang Presents The Hidden Light of Northern Fires (author appearance) Savage Country by Robert Olmstead (author appearance) Nathan Englander with DINNER AT THE CENTER OF THE EARTH (author appearance) EMILY NUNN presents THE COMFORT FOOD DIARIES: MY QUEST FOR THE PERFECT FOOD TO MEND A BROKEN HEART (author appearance) Author Event: Nanette Kirsch - Denial; Abuse, Addiction and a Life Derailed (author appearance) Rick Riordan - The Ship of the Dead (author appearance) Howard E. Covington, Jr. with Martin Eakes: Lending Power: How Self-Help Credit Union Turned Small-Time Loans into Big-Time Change (author appearance) Dan Leach Book Launch (author appearance) Reading with Wiley Cash (author appearance) October Story Slam with TWA (other event)
Russ Herman: The Topography of Life, Love and Travel (author appearance) Robert Olmstead with SAVAGE COUNTRY & Bob Mehr with TROUBLE BOYS (author appearance) KL Pereira discusses her story collection A Dream Between Two Rivers: Stories of Liminality (author appearance) Memoirists Kimberly Childs and Sharon Harrigan (author appearance) Author Event: David Collins - Accidental Activists (author appearance) Rob Buyea - The Perfect Score (author appearance) Wendall Thomas, Lost Luggage (A Cyd Redondo Mystery) (author appearance) Natasha Boyd Talk and Book Signing (author appearance) |
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A heroic reconstruction of the forgotten life of a wrongfully convicted man whose story becomes an historic portrait of the Jim Crow South.
- The Pat Conroy Southern Book Prize | 
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When writer Paul Stewart heads to the idyllic Italian town of Montalcino to finish his already late book, it seems like the perfect escape from stressful city life. Upon landing, however, things quickly take a turn for the worse when he discovers his hired car is nowhere to be found. With no record of any reservation and no other cars available it looks like Paul is stuck at the airport. That is, until an enterprising stranger offers him an unexpected alternative. While there may be no cars available there is something else on offer: a bulldozer. With little choice in the matter, Paul accepts and so begins a series of laugh out loud adventures through the Italian countryside, following in the wake of Paul and his Italian Bulldozer. A story of unexpected circumstance and lesson in making the best of what you have, My Italian Bulldozer is a warm holiday read guaranteed to put a smile on your face.
The Potlikker Papers tells the story of food and politics in the South over the last half century. Beginning with the pivotal role of cooks in the Civil Rights movement, noted authority John T. Edge narrates the South's journey from racist backwater to a hotbed of American immigration. In so doing, he traces how the food of the poorest Southerners has become the signature trend of modern American haute cuisine. This is a people's history of the modern South told through the lens of food.
Kay Byer is well known among Southerners for her poetry, and for her advocacy and activism on behalf of the arts. She was our Poet Laureate between 2005-2009, and during that time one of her great missions was to encourage young people to write -- writers grades "K through Infinity!" is how she would put it. Her books have been frequently on Southern bookstore lists -- "Catching Light" was a SIBA Book Award Winner, "Descent" a finalist. And she was also a thorn in the sides and pain in the tookus of state politicians who wanted to reduce funding for public education and the arts. Kay was fearless like that.
The haunting tale of a desolate cottage, and the hair-thin junction between this life and the next, from bestselling National Book Award finalist Gail Godwin.
What Made Me Write About a Boy
"Dunn bucks documentary convention and uses the film to weave together Berry's own words with stunning cinematography and, per the film's official synopsis, "the testimonies of his family and neighbors, all of whom are being deeply affected by the industrial and economic changes to their agrarian way of life. "
Two families, generations apart, are forever changed by a heartbreaking injustice in this poignant novel, inspired by a true story, for readers of Orphan Train and The Nightingale.
Sixteen-year-old Gradle Bird has lived her entire life with her Grandpa, Leonard, at a seedy motel and truck stop off Georgia's I-16. But when Leonard moves her to a crumbling old house rumored to be haunted by the ghost of Ms. Annalee Spivey, Gradle is plunged into a lush, magical world much stranger and more dangerous than from the one she came.
One failed marriage. Two jobs lost. Three maxed out credit cards. "Schex" Schexnaydre was a failure as a lawyer. Until three weeks ago, he had no clients and no cash — no clients except for infamous toxic waste entrepreneur G.G. Guidry, who's just been murdered, and no cash, except for the $4,452,737 Guidry had stashed with him for safekeeping.
In this thrilling new novel for fans of Adam Johnson's Fortune Smiles and Denis Johnson's The Laughing Monsters, four people's lives converge as they are consumed by the dangers of the world, both real and imagined.
Richard Hugo wrote: "I forget the names of towns without rivers." I feel the same way about towns without bookstores. So it was with some trepidation that I accepted a job offer with Appalachian State University in Boone, North Carolina, in April 2016. I had visited. I knew the town, loved the town—the restaurants and bars and miles of trails that thread the area. But, so far as I could tell, there was no independent bookstore.
The first week of July is especially hard on, or especially fruitful, for the TBR stack. On July 1st the Summer Okra Picks are announced, and then a few days later on Independence Day the winners of the Southern Book Prize are revealed. The first are the books coming out over the next couple months that booksellers are especially excited about, the second are the Southern books from last year they liked the best.
In the thrilling fifth book in the critically acclaimed series that's "edgy, dangerous, but pulsing with life" (Bill Ott, Booklist), a Mardi Gras parade turns deadly.
The women who spent their childhood summers in a small southern town discover it harbors secrets as lush as the marshes that surround it...
A truly explosive novel, boldly written, raw at time, of epic proportion. A wild roller-coaster ride, highs and lows, ups and downs, dizzying at times. You will love this character, you'll pull for him to succeed. You'll laugh with him, and you'll cry with him. And hope the book never ends...
With empathy, grace, humor, and piercing insight, the author of Gods in Alabama pens a powerful, emotionally resonant novel of the South that confronts the truth about privilege, family, and the distinctions between perception and reality---the stories we tell ourselves about our origins and who we really are.
Vivian Howard, star of PBS's A CHEF'S LIFE, celebrates the flavors of North Carolina's coastal plain in more than 200 recipes and stories.
JOSEF is a Jewish boy living in 1930s Nazi Germany. With the threat of concentration camps looming, he and his family board a ship bound for the other side of the world...
From a former marine and Yale Law School graduate, a powerful account of growing up in a poor Rust Belt town that offers a broader, probing look at the struggles of America's white working class
In the middle of his senior year at the Blackburne School in Virginia, Matthias Glass's roommate and best friend Fritz Davenport runs off into the woods after the two boys have an argument--and vanishes without a trace. Ever since, Matthias has felt responsible, thinking that their fight, about a betrayal of the school's honor code, led to Fritz's disappearance.
Set in the distant future amidst a feudal interstellar society in which noble houses, in control of individual planets, owe allegiance to the Padishah Emperor, Dune tells the story of young Paul Atreides, whose noble family accepts the stewardship of the desert planet Arrakis. As this planet is the only source of the "spice" melange, the most important and valuable substance in the universe, control of Arrakis is a coveted--and dangerous--undertaking. The story explores the multi-layered interactions of politics, religion, ecology, technology, and human emotion, as the forces of the empire confront each other in a struggle for the control of Arrakis and its "spice."
When an agribusiness facility producing genetically engineered food releases a deadly toxin into the environment, seventeen-year-old Tempest Torres races to deliver the cure before time runs out.
"A brilliant mosaic of an African American family and a love song to New Orleans...written with deep insight and devastating honesty but also with grace and beauty." ―Dana Johnson, author of Elsewhere, California
The first interstellar sight ever impressed upon her ladyship's mind was an evening many (many, many) years ago when she was a little girl, and her daddy took her to the natural history museum to view the rings of Saturn through the big telescope there. She has never forgot the image of that strange, silvery, beautiful planet hung in the vast emptiness of black space, nor the feeling or vertigo that came over her, to know she was looking at something so, so very far away. Her ladyship felt so small, in such a vast universe.
"Like many other readers, I quickly got swept up in Gabrielle Zevin's The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry, and I was similarly helpless against Young Jane Young's charms. Zevin's talent is to take characters we think we know--the smitten intern, the wife who stays with her cheating husband--and to give them wholly original life. This book will have you marveling at Zevin's ingenuity and sharp ear as you compulsively turn the pages."
A remarkably bold and inspiring story of crime, motherhood, and redemption—not since Cupcake Brown's A Piece of Cake has there been a memoir this unforgettable.
Dear Wonderful Southern Independent Booksellers,
He's gonna be sorry he ever messed with me and Loretta Lynn
"Splendid―a distinctive clear-eyed perspective on a fresh corner of the Civil War." ―Charles Frazier, New York Times bestselling author of Cold Mountain
A searing and profound Southern odyssey by National Book Award–winner Jesmyn Ward.
As the winner of the inaugural 
In the spirit of Station Eleven and California, award-winning novelist Holly Goddard Jones offers a literary spin on the dystopian genre with this gripping story of survival and humanity about a group of adrenaline junkies who jump "the Salt Line."