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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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In which her ladyship, the editor, prepares for a storm, Ms Karen Zacharias returns to a well-loved place, Ms. Heather Bell Adams makes things up and ends up with a novel, and ticks are very, very scary. |
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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.
Sponsored by the wonderful and indefatigable women at She Reads, and featuring Christina Baker Kline and Joshilyn Jackson. Click here to purchase your tickets and to see other confirmed authors. |
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Lady Banks' Pick of the Week |
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Noteworthy poetry and prose from her ladyship's bedside reading stack. |
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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
 "In her debut fiction novel she allowed herself the freedom to make everything up and see where it took her."
keep reading: Redemption in small Appalachian town |
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Read This! Books with Street Cred Recommended reading from Southern Indie Booksellers |
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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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keep reading: Asheville and Durham and deadly ticks
keep reading: Lee Bros. bring soul food cookbook back in print |
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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.
 The Southern Book Prize |  A SIBA Okra Pick |  Special to the Southern List Printable versions (PDF): Hardcover | Paperback | Children's
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What's happening at Southern Indies across the South? See the full calendar | Find a Southern Indie Bookstore near you. |
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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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