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The week of June 6, 2022 Our Dads. “I believe that what we become depends on what our fathers teach us at odd moments, when they aren’t trying to teach us. We are formed by little scraps of wisdom.” ―Umberto Eco, Foucault’s Pendulum
Sankofa by Chibundu Onuzo Razorblade Tears by S. A. Cosby Shaking the Gates of Hell by John Archibald Magic Season by Wade Rouse Read This Now | Read This Next | The Bookseller Directory |
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Time Shelter by Georgi Gospodinov Adult Fiction, Visionary & Metaphysical Nostalgia, memory loss and the European Union walk into a bar… Every section of this book feeds into the next like those nights where you wake up six times and experience the same dream, mutated sixfold. And just like the day after the dream, this book hasn’t ended for me, since I think fondly of it long after completion, sewing the remembered bits together as best I can into my own narrative (it’s minty mental mouthwash and lord knows I need it). Reviewed by Ian McCord, Avid Bookshop in Athens, Georgia |
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Spotlight on: Forging Silver Into Stars by Brigid Kemmerer
“There are a lot of layers to realistic romance. For me, I always start with an initial attraction. Physical attributes are obvious, and they do play a small role, but what I really mean is something that catches the other person’s attention in a surprising way. Is it an unexpected skill? Their tone of voice? The way they treat animals? All of the above? And then there are the opposites: challenges to overcome. Is someone stubborn? Angsty? Aloof? Are these challenges worth looking past? Just like people are multi-faceted, characters should be, too.” –Brigid Kemmerer, interview, Beyond the Read What booksellers are saying about Forging Silver Into Stars 
About Brigid Kemmerer Brigid Kemmerer is the author of the New York Times bestseller Defy the Night, the New York Times bestselling Cursebreaker series, which includes A Curse So Dark and Lonely, A Heart So Fierce and Broken, and A Vow So Bold and Deadly, and Forging Silver into Stars. She has also written the contemporary young adult romances Call It What You Want, More Than We Can Tell, and Letters to the Lost, as well as paranormal young adult stories, including the Elemental series and Thicker Than Water. A full-time writer, Brigid lives in the Baltimore area with her family. http://www.brigidkemmerer.com @BrigidKemmere |
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Learning Korean by Peter Serpico Adult Nonfiction, Cooking, Korean, Regional & Ethnic Born in South Korean, Peter Serpico was adopted by an American family when he was two, and only started to discover the cooking of his native country as an adult. Full of practical home cooking for American families, this cookbook is a great introduction to one of the world’s most wonderful cuisines. Reviewed by Anne Peck, Righton Books in St Simons Island, Georgia |
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Sunday Pancakes by Maya Tatsukawa Childrens, Cooking & Food, Friendship The thing I love about a great picture book is the way anything can become magical. (Please note: this is not a book about literal magic pancakes. It’s a book about the magic of friendship while making pancakes together!) Cat, Rabbit, and Moonbear spend the day together making pancakes, eating pancakes, and taking a post-pancakes nap. The simplicity of their shared day reminds me of the power of sharing a special tradition with friends, even one as simple as Sunday pancakes. Reviewed by Kate Storhoff, Bookmarks in Winston-Salem, North Carolina |
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The Cherry Robbers by Sarai Walker Adult Fiction, Literary Fiction Do you believe in ghosts? The Cherry Robbers is about so much more than the haunting that frightens on every page. In 1950 Iris Chapel has five sisters and lives in a Victorian mansion isolated from much of the world. Tragedy after tragedy befalls every sister after they find love as their mother has predicted. But this story is about so much more than the apparitions that live with this family. Through Iris Chapel/Sylvia Wren, the reader will experience sadness and loss surely but find art and love and sexuality as an essential part of this haunting story. My prediction is that the reader will never truly leave the world of the Chapel sisters. Reviewed by Nancy Pierce, Bookmiser in Marietta, Georgia |
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Melt With You by Jennifer Dugan Young Adult, Humorous Stories Fallon would rather forget about her hookup with her BFF Chloe right before Chloe left for college, but her mom’s ice cream truck business has other plans. Fallon is a protagonist who is easy to cheer for, and I was so invested in the rivals-to-lovers, will-they-won’t-they romance. This is a delightful, perfect novel for summer, made even better by the ice cream puns. Reviewed by Chelsea Stringfield from Parnassus Books in Nashville, TN |
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Woman of Light by Kali Fajardo-Anstine Adult Fiction, Hispanic & Latino, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction A June 2022 Read This Next! Selection I haven’t been so taken with a debut novel in some time. The story, the characters, the writing all combine to immerse the reader in a world so vivid that one can experience the smells, colors, and sounds which abound within. It’s a multi-generational tale of an Indigenous Chicano family, artfully told and ultimately centering around young Luz Lopez who lives a hard but full life in Denver in the 1930s while attempting to grasp her gifts as a seer of visions and simultaneously bearing witness to the atrocities that have been brought down upon her people for hundreds of years. Unforgettable, at times heartbreaking yet shot through with love and resilience this is definitely a book not to be missed. Reviewed by Cody Morrison from Square Books in Oxford, Mississippi |
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Parting Thought “I’m a firm believer that language and how we use language determines how we act, and how we act then determines our lives and other people’s lives.” |
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