October 2026 Birthday Party and Book News | | | | |
The Little Bookshop turns 10!!
Come celebrate with us!
Saturday, October 17th
4:00pm - 6:00pm
Food and drink and 10% off your purchase!
I can't believe it's been ten years since I opened the bookstore. Time flies and crawls all at the same time! Thank you for all your support and for the many, many books you have purchased over these ten years -- I couldn't have done it without all of you! A special thank you to my husband Mark and my children for all the help they have given me (and still do, ha ha, stuck with me!) and to many friends, including Laura, who helped me so much along the way.
I hope you can stop by, I'd love to see you!
Mary
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Fall 2026 Book Clubs
It's the best book club in town -- come join us!!
All participants must purchase the book from TLB 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.
Book clubs meet at The Little Bookshop.
Questions? Call or send an email to:
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October 2026
Up On Cove Mountain
by Earl Swift
Virginia Author!!
Memoir / Nature / True Crime
Hardback, $32.50
Day Group meets: Mon., Oct. 12th at 1:00pm
Evening Group meets: Tues., Oct. 20th at 6:30pm
“Hiking the 2200 miles of the Appalachian Trail is an arduous adventure. Earl Swift did it as a young man, and it changed his life. But, a double murder along the way still haunts him. Thirty-five years later, he returned to the trail to rediscover lost youth and to search for answers. A fascinating story and a helluva book." - John Grisham
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November 2026
Fallen for France by Elizabeth Letts
Historical Fiction / WWI
Hardback $32
Day Group meets: Mon., Nov. 9th at 1:00pm
Evening Group meets: Tues., Nov. 17th at 6:30pm
An exquisite Arabian mare. A small boy leaving home. A young woman in France fighting to survive. The #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Ride of Her Life braids a sweeping novel of love, war, empire, and the power of kindness in a world descending into darkness. (publisher mkting)
Fallen For France is a testament of the kindness and love that can only be found in hope, rendered from an unforgettable cast of strangers.”—Kim Michele Richardson, New York Times author of The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek
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AUTHOR EVENT WITH VIRGINIA AUTHOR
PAM WEBBER
who will be discussing and signing copies
of her new book: Massawa
Thursday, October 29 at 6:00pm
This is a seated, ticketed event. Tickets are $22 and include a copy of the book. Please call to pay or swing by the store. Seating is limited.
Pam is a wonderful Virginia author and I loved this book! She is a great speaker and the history components of this historical fiction story are fascinating. This is the first of a new series where we meet Kit, a young agent with the newly created OSS, on an undercover assignment investigating a conspiracy by Nazi sympathizers in Northern Africa in 1942.
Please come out and support your local bookstore and a great Virginia author!
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Book News
The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion volumes 1-8 are coming in soon from Penguin Random House. Thank you to all who have contacted me for copies. Call or email if you would like to place orders or have questions.
October 4 - 10th is national Banned Books Week which brings awareness of book censorship across the country. I always have a display of some banned and challenged titles, come check it out.
Many children in our community need books. This November TLB will again be collecting new books for The Chesterfield Colonial Heights Christmas Mother so get ready to do a little book shopping! There will be more information about this in the November/Holiday email.
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Fiction
Virginia author!
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Demon Copperhead, a story of a brief, passionate, life-changing love affair, wrapped up in what might be the greatest romance of all: our eternal human longing for art and beauty. (publisher mkting)
"A fierce belief that great art is for everyone joins Kingsolver’s familiar preoccupations with class distinctions, social injustice, and the complex bonds of family and community in a tender denouement." - Kirkus (starred review)
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Fiction / Fantasy
Virginia author and winner of the Hugo Award and the Locus Award for The Everlasting
The definitive short story collection from Alix E. Harrow, the New York Times bestselling author of Starling House and The Everlasting, including five never-seen-before stories. (publisher mkting)
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Fiction
From New York Times bestselling author of Ask Again, Yes, a sweeping multi-generational saga inspired by the author's own family history, following eleven brothers torn apart and set on different paths between Ireland, England, Montana, and New York. (publisher mkting)
“A deeply insightful family saga… Keane evokes each setting beautifully… It’s a revelation.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review)
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Fiction
The Tulip Poplars is a gorgeous and moving novel spanning most of the 20th century, centering on four people trying to find happiness in a world that demands conventional choices. House tells a deeply intimate story of faith and doubt, race and class, sexual desire and the longing to be good when you’ve been taught that you are evil for loving who you love. Based on the story of an ancestor, House’s new novel takes us from NYC to Southern cities to Appalachia and will leave you with a bigger heart. (publisher mkting)
"A masterful storyteller, House has crafted an ambitious and utterly beautiful love story so attuned to the minute moments in which a life can change.” —Kevin Wilson, author of Run for the Hills
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Fiction
The #1 New York Times bestselling author of Lessons in Chemistry returns with an irresistible, hilarious, and tender story about a young man whose life turns upside down when he is hired by the most prestigious, secretive, and dysfunctional poetry journal in the world: the renowned Peck & Peck of New York City. (publisher mkting)
"[A] joyous ode to finding one’s calling… a funny, tender tale.” —Library Journal (starred review)
"Prepare to be charmed.” —Boston Globe
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Fiction
A magnetic, undeniably clever debut perfect for fans of Sally Rooney and Emily Henry that captures the tender ache of two people caught between criticism and connection. (publisher mkting)
"A once-in-a-lifetime read about truth, art, vulnerability and all the sticky places they intersect. Bad Words left me buzzing.” - Emily Henry, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Great Big Beautiful Life
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Fiction / Mystery
Chief Inspector Gamache Novel (#21)
"Exceptional...While readers will be entranced by the wide circle of suspects, Penny gives this entry its power through her empathic exploration of her characters' humanity, with many key plot points hinging on thorny questions of individual morality. The author's combination of tight plotting and psychological depth continues to place her in a class of her own."-- Publishers Weekly, starred review
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Historical Fiction
As the eighteenth century nears its end, John Field and Adelaide Percheron are two musicians on the rise, destined to be husband and wife, traveling from Ireland and India to Russia to fuel their limitless artistic ambitions. Music Against the Night brings these two real-life figures, and the Romantic era they inhabited, to vivid life. (publisher mkting)
"Music Against the Night may well be the most perfectly constructed, moving, and beautiful novel I've ever read. Yiyun Li is the best of all of us." -- Ann Patchett, author of Whistler
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Nonfiction
In the waning days of the antebellum South, millions of African Americans were suddenly released from enslavement. But they soon realized that "freedom" was not free; they were subject to hundreds of laws aimed at preventing them from voting and, in many cases, learning. Were it not for the work of an exceptional group of women--activists, educators, mothers, organizers--the foundations for Black education might never have been laid. From bestselling author Celeste Headlee, an urgent and eye-opening story of the women who risked everything to ensure a generation of Black Americans had the right to read. (publisher mkting)
A stirring contribution to America's historical narrative."--Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
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Nonfiction
National Book Award winner and Pulitzer Prize finalist Nathaniel Philbrick, author of In the Heart of the Sea and Mayflower, reveals how California's Gold Rush forged the modern United States-and lit the long fuse to civil war. (publisher mkting)
“Like a concentrated beam of light refracted into a brilliant spectrum, Nathaniel Philbrick masterfully illuminates the forces great and small unleashed by the 1848 gold strike at Sutter’s Mill. This richly researched, vividly told narrative captures the rapacious, lawless quest for land and treasure that helped destabilized a fractured Union—and the astonishing human drama that came with it. —Doris Kearns Goodwin, Pulitzer Prize–winning historian and author of Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
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Poetry
Losing a child is one of the most unreconcilable griefs. In Cloud Runner, Joy Harjo reckons with the unspeakable pain of losing her daughter: “Reason has no home in this hour,” she writes. Despite a devasting loss, Harjo constructs a shrine to human resilience, reminding us that the most profound revelations can appear in our darkest hours: “I now know why we construct ceremonial epics of mystery and beauty, / Of enemy and failure: it is so we can pick up our burdens / And go on.” (publisher mkting)
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Nonfiction
Maria Edgeworth, known to her contemporaries as “the Great Maria,” was one of the most important authors of the Regency era, envied by Lord Byron, admired by Jane Austen, and read avidly by the British royalty. But she was more than just a novelist and a society fixture: She was also a covert economist, working just after Adam Smith and alongside her friends David Ricardo and Thomas Malthus. As the earliest economists established their philosophies on production and investment, Edgeworth published dozens of stories, many with lessons on finance, society, and trade tucked into their plots. Through her fiction, Edgeworth delivered new ideas to a broader public, stretching the boundaries of what a woman of her time could achieve and captivating an empire in the process. (publisher mkting)
“Smialek, with the analytical rigor and narrative drive that made her one of the finest economics journalists of her generation, has rescued Maria Edgeworth from a historical amnesia that was, as this book makes clear, far from accidental.” —Janet Yellen, Former Chair of the Federal Reserve and United States Secretary of the Treasury
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Nonfiction
It's time to get cozy!!
A follow-up to the hugely popular The Country Commonplace Book, Miranda Mills has given us another lovely book filled with poetry, recipes, quotes, book excerpts, and books lists to look through, read and enjoy.
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Nonfiction
Perfect for stationery lovers, scrapbookers, paper crafters, memory collectors and anyone looking for a more thoughtful way to stay connected, The Art of Snail Mail will inspire you to create heartfelt post, celebrate life's little moments and find the lasting joy of sending something truly personal. (publisher mkting)
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Young Adult Fiction / Age 13+
A funeral home. A flower shop. A first love that will change them forever. (publisher mkting)
"This poignant novel of young love by Newbery Medalist Watson. . . will grab readers by the heart and not let go. Watson’s masterful storytelling. . . is compelling and deeply satisfying. An intensely emotional and beautifully written narrative." —Kirkus Reviews, starred review
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Young Adult Fantasy / Age 12+
Timed to the 75th anniversary of Disney’s enduring classic Alice in Wonderland, this young adult sequel follows teenaged Alice on a curious new adventure down the rabbit hole, many years after her first visit to Wonderland. Heather Fawcett, known for her bestselling Emily Wilde series, brings her beloved cozy-fantasy voice to Alice. (publisher mkting)
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Fiction / Age 10+
Book 3 in one of my favorite series!
Lunar and the Dread Knights must defeat a deadly new enemy to save their solar system in this third book in the New York Times bestselling sci-fi and fantasy mash-up The Dragonships series, sure to delight fans of Skandar and Eragon! (publisher mkting)
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Fiction/ Age 10+
A brave girl and a horse no one believes can be tamed: it’s a tale as old as time, brought to sizzling new life through Nash’s one-of-a-kind voice. Amy Alznauer weaves cowboy bravado, growing pains, and Deaf culture inspired by life in her Deaf-hearing family into a debut middle grade novel that will lasso you tight by the heart. (publisher mkting)
This breathtaking triumph of a novel has it all: luminous prose, a gripping plot, and characters you’ll love forever. Step aside, Black Stallion. There’s a new classic in town.
—Katherine Applegate, Newbery Medal–winning author of The One and Only Ivan
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Fiction / Age 4+
The newest entry in one of my all-time favorite series for children: Mouse's Adventures.
Join Mouse on a new adventure as he leaves the urban bustle of a busy railroad station and makes his way to a remote and majestic mountain peak. (publisher mkting)
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Nonfiction / Age 4+
From the critically acclaimed team behind Love in the Library comes a picture book written in haiku, offering a window into the serene and relaxing world of the snow monkeys of Nagano, Japan. (publisher mkting)
A serene, exquisite ode to togetherness—and a gentle gateway to haiku for young readers. — Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
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Fiction / Age 3+
It's wintertime, and old friends Cow and Sow are bored of being cooped up inside. When the two take a walk and literally stumble onto a frozen pond, they discover the thrills of skating — the gliding, the spinning, the jumping! But as their newfound fun takes a competitive turn, things heat up. Soon it isn’t just the ice that’s beginning to crack . . . (publisher mkting)
"What starts as a slapstick lark deepens into a wise meditation on new skills and old friends. . . . It’s a gentle landing that lets this deftly turned book glide into something very much like grace." —starred review, Publishers Weekly
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