Booksellers
The Country Bookshop
The Country Bookshop is a locally-owned and operated bookshop in the heart of downtown Southern Pines, North Carolina. We are known for small-town atmosphere, and a friendly, knowledgeable staff. We are the avid readers’ paradise; we carry a large selection of classics, bestsellers, and every genre under the sun. New books arrive daily! You’ll also find unique gifts, cards, and knick-knacks. There’s so much to discover- come see us to explore the joy shopping local!
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Etna by Paul Yoon
Etna is a story about continuing on when everything you have known and loved is lost and gone forever. We follow Etna as he strives towards the coast where he was a puppy before enduring the harsh realities of being a working dog in a devastating war that ravaged his country. The land is forever changed, and other animals are now a rare sight. Most notably, there is an absence of birds in the country. The missing birds bring into sharp focus the lack of peace and the total disruption to a way of life. Nothing will ever be the same. All Etna has left is a memory of that coastal place where he once had a mother and siblings, and he clings to the possibility of a future in the last place he knew safety and happiness in the past. The novel ends with the hopeful message that we can endure terrible things and yet, in the ruins, there is always new life waiting for us if we are strong enough to accept what has occurred and move forward with a sense of hope for the future, even if that new life is a different life, a stranger to us. With time, a strange life, like a stranger, can become as familiar to us and as much our home as that echo of the past.
Etna by Paul Yoon, (List Price: $28, Scribner, 9781668020821, August 2026)
Reviewed by Savannah, The Country Bookshop in Southern Pines, NC
The Country Bookshop
140 NW Broad Street
Southern Pines, NC 28387
(910) 692-3211
information.thecountrybookshop@gmail.com
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novel.
The next chapter of independent bookselling in Memphis. We are here, we are listening, and we want to be engaged, and involved, working with Memphis and the Mid-South to enrich our community.
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In the Days of My Youth I Was Told What It Means to Be a Man by Tom Junod
It is a difficult and rare thing for any of us to try to fully know our parents as the entire, whole, often complicated, sometimes messy, humans that they were. Tom Junod elegantly shows us the man who was his father with an impressive honesty and vulnerability, digging through the layers of his legacy and its impact on him and those around him — a beautiful and powerful read.
In the Days of My Youth I Was Told What It Means to Be a Man by Tom Junod, (List Price: $32, Doubleday, 9780375400391, March 2026)
Reviewed by Nicole, novel. in Memphis, Tennessee
novel.
387 Perkins Ext.
Memphis, TN 38117
(901) 922-5526
info@novelmemphis.com
Malaprop’s Bookstore/Café
Malaprop’s Bookstore/Café is an independent bookstore founded in Asheville, NC in 1982. We bring books, writers, and readers together in an environment that nurtures community and the joy of reading. We carry a carefully curated selection of books for adults, children, and young adults, as well as a large array of gift items. Our cozy café offers tasty treats from local bakeries and coffee roasted locally.
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Malaprop’s Bookstore/Café
55 Haywood Street
Asheville, NC 28801
(828) 254-6734
info@malaprops.com
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Bookmarks
Bookmarks is a literary arts nonprofit organization and independent bookstore that works to ignite the love of reading. We are passionate about connecting our community with books and authors.
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Feeling Like an ADHD Alien: A Graphic Novel by Pina Varnel
I have read so many books on ADHD, and this sweet graphic novel absolutely made me feel more seen than any of them. This so perfectly depicts what it is like to be INSIDE of the ADHD experience and how alienating it feels to not know why everyone around you seems so much more capable. Capable of things everyone expects to be automated levels of easy. Honestly, every single person who loves a person with ADHD needs to read this. And to my fellow ADHDers, I hope this helps heal your inner child. It’s truly perfect.
Feeling Like an ADHD Alien: A Graphic Novel by Pina Varnel, (List Price: $17.99, Rocky Pond Books, 9780593325568, September 2026)
Reviewed by Jenny, Bookmarks in Winston-Salem, NC
Bookmarks
634 W. Fourth St. #110
Winston-Salem, NC 27101
(336) 747-1471
info@bookmarksnc.org