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A note from Mary
Readers rejoice! It's fall and new books are pouring in. And hopefully, a little cool air too! Where is your favorite outdoor reading spot? Mine is the screened porch where I can keep one eye (and sometimes two) on the bird feeder. Wherever it is, I hope you enjoy a quiet reading moment or two before the hustle and bustle of the holidays arrives.
Do you love a good book list? I certainly do! It's like catnip! Have you checked out The New York Times 100 Best Books of the 21st Century? I'm going to have a display throughout the fall centered on these titles. Come find a new favorite book or author!
And speaking of favorites, do you have a favorite book from the summer? If so, come into the store this September and let me know and enter the drawing for a store gift certificate. I'll let you know in October who our winner is.
Happy September, see you soon!
Mary
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TLB will be closed Friday Sept. 20th and Saturday Sept. 21st. | |
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TLB Fall Book Club
It's the best book club in town -- come join us!!
All participants must purchase the book from our store in order to confirm your sign-up. You can pay for the book in-store or by phone. 804-464-1244. You will receive an email from the store when the books are available for pick-up.
Questions? Call us or send an email to:
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September Selection:
The Lion Women of Tehran by Marjan Kamali
hardcover, $28.99
Daytime group: Monday, Sept. 16 at 1:00pm
Evening group: Tuesday, Sept. 24 at 6:30pm
From the nationally bestselling author of the "powerful, heartbreaking" (Shelf Awareness) The Stationery Shop, a heartfelt, epic new novel of friendship, betrayal, and redemption set against three transformative decades in Tehran, Iran.
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October Selection:
Forgotten on Sunday by Valerie Perrin
hardcover, $28.00
Daytime group: Monday, Oct. 14 at 1:00 pm
Evening group: Tuesday, Oct. 22 at 6:30 pm
"A deeply emotional, intergenerational saga about family secrets and the enduring power of love.... An engrossing work about love and loss; ideal for fans of Jojo Moyes and Kate Morton."--Booklist
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November Selection:
North Woods by Daniel Mason
paperback, $18.00
Daytime group: Monday, Nov. 11 at 1:00 pm
Evening group: Tuesday, Nov. 19 at 6:30 pm
"North Woods is a love poem to the human and natural history of Western Massachusetts . . . wise, profound, chilling, carnal and funny." --BookPage
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AUTHOR EVENT
WITH LOCAL AUTHOR
KRIS SPISAK
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 3RD AT 6:00PM
Please join us in October when local author Kris Spisak returns to our store to discuss and sign copies of her new book: Becoming Baba Yaga: Trickster, Feminist, and Witch of the Woods.
"Explore the folklore of the trickster, villain, and rescuer known as Baba Yaga in a new light. With Becoming Baba Yaga, Kris Spisak presents a robust work of scholarship. Baba Yaga is a wily shapeshifter, nearly impossible to pin down-but Spisak miraculously transforms alongside her, ever keeping up." -from the foreword by GennaRose Nethercott, bestselling author of Thistlefoot
October is the perfect time of year for such a great event! I can't wait to hear Kris share her great insights and research into this fascinating subject.
Please sign-up by phone or email for this event so that I know you are coming. I can't wait to see all of you at this fun fall evening at TLB!!
We will have books for sale prior to and at the event.
paperback, $16.95
Questions? Contact us:
804-464-1244
info@thelittlebookshopva.com
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Banned Books Week
Sept. 22 - 28
Come check out our display and read a banned book or two!
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Fiction / Mystery
Richard Osman, author of The Thursday Murder Club series has a new series for us to try and it's getting great reviews!
"Bestseller Osman (the Thursday Murder Club mysteries) launches a promising new series with this sprightly tale . . . Osman pulls off the tricky task of making his leads both zany and human, with a sufficiently brain-teasing mystery to boot. This series is sure to garner a loyal following."
--Publishers Weekly (starred review)
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Fiction / Literary / Sept. 3rd
From Rachel Kushner, a Booker Prize finalist, two-time National Book Award finalist, and "one of the most gifted authors of her generation" (The New York Times Book Review), comes a new novel about a seductive and cunning American woman who infiltrates an anarchist collective in France--a propulsive page-turner of glittering insights and dark humor. (publisher marketing)
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Fiction / Literary / Science Fiction
"What looks like magic is simply a part of life we don't understand yet..." When retired math teacher Grace Winters is left a run-down house on a Mediterranean island by a long-lost friend, curiosity gets the better of her. She arrives in Ibiza with a one-way ticket, no guidebook and no plan. Among the rugged hills and golden beaches of the island, Grace searches for answers about her friend's life, and how it ended. What she uncovers is stranger than she could have dreamed. But to dive into this impossible truth, Grace must first come to terms with her past. Filled with wonder and wild adventure, this is a story of hope and the life-changing power of a new beginning.
"An instantly engrossing, page-turning delight. . . well worth reading for anyone who wants a hopeful, warm, very human journey that crackles with magic." --BookPage
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Fiction / Family Life / Thriller
Sept. 10th
If you were told you only had a certain amount of time left to live, would you do things differently? Would you try to dodge your destiny?Liane Moriarty's Here One Moment is a brilliantly constructed tale that looks at free will and destiny, grief and love, and the endless struggle to maintain certainty and control in an uncertain world. A modern-day Jane Austen who humorously skewers social mores while spinning a web of mystery, Moriarty asks profound questions in her newest I-can't-wait-to-find-out-what-happens novel. (publisher marketing)
A fresh, funny, ambitious, and nuanced take on some of our oldest existential questions." ―Kirkus Reviews, starred review
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Fiction / Literary / Sept. 24th
An exquisitely moving story about grief, love, and family--but especially love--from the global phenomenon Sally Rooney.
--publisher marketing
"Bestseller Rooney returns with a boldly experimental and emotionally devastating story of estrangement . . . The novel's deliberate pacing veers from the propulsiveness of Normal People and the deep character work contrasts with the topicality of Beautiful World, but in many ways this feels like Rooney's most fully realized work, especially as she channels the modernist styles of James Joyce and Virginia Woolf . . . Even the author's skeptics are liable to be swept away by this novel's forceful currents of feeling."
--Publishers Weekly (starred review)
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Nonfiction / AI / Sept. 10th
Nexus looks through the long lens of human history to consider how the flow of information has shaped us, and our world. Taking us from the Stone Age, through the canonization of the Bible, early modern witch-hunts, Stalinism, Nazism, and the resurgence of populism today, Yuval Noah Harari asks us to consider the complex relationship between information and truth, bureaucracy and mythology, wisdom and power. He explores how different societies and political systems throughout history have wielded information to achieve their goals, for good and ill. And he addresses the urgent choices we face as non-human intelligence threatens our very existence.Information is not the raw material of truth; neither is it a mere weapon. Nexus explores the hopeful middle ground between these extremes, and in doing so, rediscovers our shared humanity. -- publisher marketing
"Confronting the avalanche of books on the prospects of AI, readers would do well to begin with this one." --Kirkus Reviews, starred review
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Nonfiction / Cooking / Sept. 3rd
There's one word to describe this cookie cookbook: Yum!
There are countless ways to make a cookie. Whether it’s thin and crispy or soft and cakey, everyone has a different version they crave. In Zoë Bakes Cookies, Zoë François shares the classic cookie recipes every home baker wants to master and adds in some personal favorites from different eras in her life.
-- publisher marketing
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Nonfiction / Essays / Sept. 10th
"The author of Heartland returns with a collection of pieces that illuminate the plights and humanity of her working-class subjects. This collection's impact is staggering, and [with] a distinct style, Smarsh's voice is constant, studied, and compassionate. This powerful reckoning with the costs of being poor should be required short-form nonfiction reading."
--Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
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Fiction / ages 4-8 / Sept. 3rd
Local author Meg Medina is a Newbery Medalist and the Library of Congress's 2023-2024 National Ambassador for Young People's Literature.
From author Meg Medina comes a poignant salute to the caregivers who enter a child's tender world.
--publisher marketing
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Fiction / ages 2-4 / Sept. 3rd
This is adorable!
A new board book from Matthew Van Fleet where toddlers can touch, press, pull, and lift to discover a group of animal friends getting ready for bed. -- publisher marketing
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Fiction / ages 3-5 / Sept. 24th
A new Sherri Rinker book!
The construction crew is back and ready to help renovate! In this latest picture book in the New York Times bestselling series, everyone's favorite construction crew is teaming up on a new and exciting adventure: cleaning up a neighborhood that needs some love. -- publisher marketing
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Fiction / ages 3-7 / Sept. 24th
These illustrations are so cute!!
Pavlo does not feel like going to the park. Not today. He does not want to go swimming. He even says no to the movies. What's going on, Pavlo? Pavlo has the grumps. Though Mama suggests one fun activity after another, Pavlo doesn't want to do any of them. Can anything cheer him up on this down day?
--publisher marketing
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Fiction / ages 5-8 / Sept. 3rd
Book 11 in this favorite series is now out!!
The Princess in Black may know how to handle all kinds of monsters, but a kitten set on destruction? Me-OW! -- publisher marketing
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Mystery / Humor / graphic novel / ages 7-10 / Sept. 24th
Book 8 in this fun series!
The InvestiGators are back...to school?! Mango and Brash have always been a class act but can these alligator detectives convincingly go undercover as average middle-school students? -- publisher marketing
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Fiction / middle grade / Sept. 3rd
A new series from the wonderful James Ponti!
In the tradition of Nancy Drew, four kids and one grandfather in Miami tackle a decades-old mystery. -- publisher marketing
"With an eye for atmosphere, history, and lively humor, Ponti brings the South Florida setting, as well as its quick-witted inhabitants, to vivid life, making for a worthy successor to classic kid mysteries that's entertaining, educational, and exciting." -- Publishers Weekly, starred review
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Fantasy / ages 10+ / Sept. 10th
Several starred reviews for this new fantasy novel by British author Katherine Rundell
Christopher discovers the Archipelago, a world where mythological creatures were secreted away by magic long ago, but those creatures are now dying, and it is up to Christopher and Mal, a girl from the Archipelago, to save both of their worlds. -- publisher marketing
"An instant classic from one of the most gifted storytellers of our time, Impossible Creatures is an astonishing miracle of a book." --Katherine Applegate, Newbery Medal Winner for The One and Only Ivan
"An epic fantasy with timeless themes and unforgettable characters." -- Kirkus Reviews, starred review
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Mythology and Fantasy / middle grade / Sept. 24th
A new Percy Jackson novel!
In his continuing quest to earn college recommendation letters from the gods, Percy has to pet sit the goddess Hecate's polecat and giant mastiff during Halloween week. What could go wrong? -- publisher marketing
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Nonfiction / Birds / ages 8-12 / Sept. 3rd
I love this beautiful series by publisher Magic Cat: In Our Nature. This newest entry in the series is about birds all around the world and features more than 150 birds. Not just a wonderful guide but a visual treat! This is a book for all family members to enjoy.
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Young Adult 14+ / Sept. 24th
This is a sweeping, mulit-generational story of family, and love that's infused with magical realism. With road trips, rivalries, family curses, love stories within love stories within love stories, and sorrows and joys passed from generation to generation, this is the intricate, luminous tale of a family's complicated past and present. And only in telling their stories can they hope to rewrite their futures.
--publisher marketing
"Intricately rendered...Profound and satisfying." -- Publishers Weekly starred review
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Young Adult 13+ / Sept. 17th
Knives Out meets The Inheritance Games with magic in this standalone supernatural thriller: 13 witches, a locked-room murder, and two non-magical sisters trapped in a deadly game of Clue.
--publisher marketing
"Offers a compelling take on the classic locked-room mystery. The plot unfolds at a measured pace and well-developed clues and red herrings keep readers guessing until the very end....A well-crafted, fantastical thriller."
-- Kirkus Reviews
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