May Newsletter 2019 from Byrd's Books

May 4th, 2019

Byrd's Books May Newsletter

Thanks to all of you who came to celebrate Independent Bookstore Day with us. It was a great celebration of books and reading with friends!

Also, the Connecticut Bookstore Crawl was a huge success! Qualifying prizes and coupons coming soon.

Upcoming Events

In Celebration of National Nurses' Week, join us, our Poet Laureate Cortney Davis and others for a reading from a new anthology "Learning to Heal: Reflections on Nursing School in Poetry and Prose" on Friday May 10, 2019 7 p.m .

Tony Abbott May 11th

Byrd's Books welcomes Tony Abbot on Saturday May 11th back to Byrd's Books to talk about and sign copies of his new book, The Great Jeff (ages 8-12). To save a spot, or save a copy of the book, click the link. Read more...

Spring Poetry Series Volume III

Byrd’s Books celebrates poetry on Sunday May 19th at 2:00pm with an opportunity to hear poets read their own work. Poets include: Newbury Honor winner Gail Carson Levine, Jen Sage-Robison, Donna Marie Merritt, Tony Abbott and Sydney Eddison.

Bookmark Contest

Our annual Bookmark Contest is here for the month of May. To get a contest form click HERE .

New books in hardcover and paperback

An elementary school principal turned YouTube celebrity, using both humor and wisdom, offers inspiration and practical advice for educators to tackle the challenges they face day-in and day-out.

Digital audiobook

Documents the remarkable story of 1970s Alabama serial killer Willie Maxwell and the true-crime book on the Deep South's racial politics and justice system that consumed Harper Lee in the years after To Kill a Mockingbird .

Digital audiobook

The thrilling story behind the American pilots who were secretly recruited to defend the nation’s desperate Chinese allies before Pearl Harbor and ended up on the front lines of the war against the Japanese in the Pacific. New to paper.

Digital audiobook

Book Groups

HISTORY BOOK GROUP: Meets Thursday May 9th at 7:30pm - all are welcome

The spectacular, true story of a scrappy teenager from New York’s Lower East Side who stowed away on the most remarkable feat of science and daring of the Jazz Age, The Stowaway is “a thrilling adventure that captures not only the making of a man but of a nation” (David Grann, bestselling author of Killers of the Flower Moon ).

Digital audiobook

BOOK GROUP:

Meets Thursday May 16th

at 7:30pm - all are welcome

Living with his grandparents and toddler sister on a Gulf Coast farm, Jojo navigates the challenges of his mother's addictions and his grandmother's terminal cancer before the release of his father from prison prompts a road trip.

AB. K. LJ. NYT. PW. National Book Award winner.

Digital audiobook

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Future Events

Sunday May 5th, 3:30pm: Writing Workshop (call to save a spot)

Thursday June 6th, 7pm: Manifest Your Year with Melanie Barnum

Friday June 7th, 5:30pm: Educator Night

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