Bantam 6/27/2023. New paperback. On sale 6/27/23. Pre-order today! Store pick: Newly minted British secret agent Emma Makepiece has 12 hours to convince a young doctor (the son of a Russian nuclear physicist who gave Russian secrets to the British) that his life is in danger. For some reason, after years of living peacefully in London friends and colleagues of his mother are being killed and the British are sure that she is the real target and that they will use Michael to get to her. What ensues is a 12-hour run through London ? literally, they ran for most of the book ? through a city with ... View More...
Anchor Books 4/25/2023. New paperback. Store pick: Vigil Harbor is the name of a New England coastal village that has provided a safe harbor from the pandemic, terrorist acts and environmental changes that populate the near future. Divorce, however, disrupts this idyllic setting and brings to light a number of secrets. The arrival of two strangers is the catalyst for those secrets to change forever the quiet facade of the village. Julia Glass has crafted a sprawling novel told in alternating voices that reveals a future of constant change and just enough magic to inspire hope. -Mary Jane, st... View More...
University of South Carolina Press 5/24/2022. New paperback. Store pick: In her lovely memoir, Judy Goldman reflects on what it was like to be a young Jewish girl raised by a Black nanny in the 1940s and 50s south. Mattie Culp became a part of the Kurtz family: sleeping in young Judy?s bedroom, using the family bathroom, celebrating holidays with them?things unheard of in the Jim Crow south. Now in her 80s, Goldman reflects on what Mattie had to give up?including her own child?in order to make the Kurtz family?s life so much easier. -Linda H., store volunteer View More...
Forge Books 5/31/2022. New paperback. Store pick: Set in Beaufort, SC Carolina Moonset is a story about love, family, friendship, and murder in a small town. A murder that took place over 50 years ago and a murder that takes place in current time. Marshall Green left Beaufort to go to IL to college and remained in IL after marrying and finishing med school. Other than family vacations he had not spent much time in Beaufort since he was in high school. He returned to Beaufort with his wife to live in his old family home when he was diagnosed with dementia at age 70. When his son Joey comes to ... View More...
Clarion Books 5/9/2023. New hardcover. in Brand New jacket. Store pick: A beautifully illustrated book that's perfect for baby showers. -Jill Hendrix, store owner View More...
CROWN FORUM 1/24/2023. New hardcover. in Brand New jacket. In stock! Trey is local to us and we are your source for signed copies (signature only, no personalizations). Store pick: It's always fun to get behind-the-scenes insight into famous people and Trey uses his great storytelling ability to not only captivate but to educate -- to get the reader to think about the power of decisions and what makes a great life. This book is a great read for the new year or for anytime you are entering a new chapter of your life -- whether as a grad, switching careers, becoming a parent, or once your kids ... View More...
Penguin Books 3/25/2014. New paperback. Store pick, recommended by Jill: Reading Give and Take is a mind-opening process as Adam Grant takes the conventional wisdom and turns it on its head to prove that people with honesty and integrity who believe in a 'pay it forward' system are some of the most successful Americans and that 'greed is good', only-out-for-themselves takers lose out over the long run. -Jill Hendrix, store owner View More...
Celadon Books 10/17/2023. New paperback. On sale 10/17/23. Pre-order today! Store pick: This lushly written thriller takes the reader inside Savannah...the good, the bad, and the unseen ugly. George Dawes Green introduces us to an extensive cast of eclectic, eccentric and in some cases downright scary characters that paint a picture of a Savannah that the casual tourist will never see. From the scions of society to the wealth of colorful characters that make up the homeless population, we are introduced to them all after a well known and much loved homeless man is found dead, the apparent vic... View More...
Crooked Lane Books 7/11/2023. New hardcover. in Brand New jacket. On sale 7/11/23. Pre-order today! Store pick: I really enjoy books about secluded mountain towns and the people who live there. The traditions are so rich, the community and family connections so strong. Like any town, especially one somewhat isolated from the outside, your fate and reputation might be established before you are born. Cheyenne is an Ashby, and the Ashby's hold a relationship with the forest. Rituals are established to keep children safe from the forest, silver in your pockets, and dirt in your shoes. The ritual... View More...
Berkley 4/25/2023. New paperback. Store pick: I have never been disappointed by a Laura Griffin book. The characters are engagingly human, lots of complexity in the plots, and a fast pace. The latest series, The Texas Murder Files, are very engaging. Complex crimes and sophisticated criminals don't only exist in big cities. The Breda family has plenty of law enforcement members, but Leyla wants to run her cafe and catering business without her brothers interfering. That plan is lost when one of her employees is murdered outside the cafe. What ensues is a cartel and enabler setting up a sophis... View More...
Atria Books 6/6/2023. New hardcover. in Brand New jacket. Store pick: Kathleen Grissom is a master storyteller! Crow Mary had me from the beginning, pulling for the title character and her adjustment to the white man?s world. Mary can never abandon her Crow heritage, much to the dismay of her husband, Farwell. Her bravery and resolve carries her through the good times and bad. Grissom?s imagery makes the buffalo and western trails come alive. Based on a true story, Crow Mary is an amazing account of life for the Crow and Yellow Eyes in the late 1800s. A treasure of a novel for book clubs! -L... View More...
William Morrow 6/20/2023. New paperback. On sale 6/20/23. Pre-order today! Store pick: A twisted story of two women with secrets they would rather keep hidden. Lore finds herself in love and married to two very different men until murder leaves just one husband by her side. Cassie is a true crime writer who would do anything to rise above the ranks of blog posts with a life changing book deal. Cassie's relentless pursuit of what really happened the night of the murder threatens to expose her own deeply buried past. This debut novel is a suspenseful look at double lives and the difficult choic... View More...
Marysue Rucci Books 8/8/2023. New hardcover. in Brand New jacket. On sale 8/8/23. Pre-order today! Store pick: Shark Heart will pull you into a world of love, loss and mutation. In the world of Lewis and Wren it is possible for humans to mutate into animals. A transformation that leaves families in the human world while their loved one navigates their new animal life on their own. In Lewis's case, he will slowly mutate into a great white shark. Hard to imagine? Maybe so, but Emily Habeck's creative and imaginative writing will make you a believer. If you have ever dealt with a life altering s... View More...
Dell Yearling 7/30/2019. New paperback. Author is local and can personalize books. Store pick: Like my childhood favorite From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler, Smack Dab in the Middle of Maybe is an art mystery, but with a Southern twist. Instead of running away to NYC's Metropolitan Museum of Art, our heroine Cricket Overland hides out in a tree house on the edge of a lumber ghost town that holds the clues to discovering The Bird Room her mother has been looking for for years. This touching coming-of-age novel mixes Southern dialect, woodscraft, puzzle-solving, and art into a... View More...
St. Martin's Griffin 3/14/2023. New paperback. Store pick: A heartbreaking story set during the Dust Bowl following the Great Depression, about womanhood and motherhood, about the desire to love and be loved, and most of all about learning to love oneself. -Melissa O., store employee View More...
St. Martin's Griffin 9/24/2019. New paperback. Store pick: The Allbright family has barely managed to survive since Ernt returned from a prisoner of war camp in Viet Nam. 13 year old Leni loves her mother Cora unconditionally and she tries really hard to love her father but she doesn?t understand why her mother accepts the abuse and the cruelty her father dishes out when one of ?his moods? comes on. In a last attempt to fit into society in a post Viet Nam era the family moves to what is at the time the wilderness of Alaska. They are totally unprepared for what they are about to endure but wit... View More...
Flatiron 1/31/2023. New hardcover. in Brand New jacket. Store pick: As usual Jane Harper?s new novel, Exiles, is a slow burn of a read as she so beautifully describes yet another region of Australia, south Australia?s wine region. And, once again gives us a cast of characters so well developed that you feel like you really know them. The book is about a small town with two unsolved events which have haunted the close-knit inhabitants. One the hit and run death of a well-liked accountant and the other the disappearance of a new mother who supposedly left her 6 week old child unattended at the ... View More...
Berkley 1/3/2023. New paperback. Store pick: Nina is the down-to-earth one of her witchy family, which is saying a lot considering her appreciation for the finer things in life. But after a disastrous breakup, she's ready for something different, so she lets her best friend pick out someone on a dating app who isn't anything NIna would normally go for on her own. The date is...awkward, to say the least, especially when it comes out that Nina's family has been trying to buy Morty's family's bar out from under them. But then something happens, and Nina's power gets a huge surge -- accompanied b... View More...
Entangled: Amara 5/23/2023. New paperback. Store pick: Cassidy is just trying to get to her sister's wedding and prove to everyone that she's not the disappointment they've come to expect. But a canceled flight is the least of her problems when Luke shows up, cutting her off and taking the last rental car. Now they're sharing a car, and it's everything they can do not to kill each other. Except as they get to know each other, even amid disasters that seem designed to delay them as much as possible, Cassidy sees Luke's sweet side, and Luke starts to think that maybe he might want more from his... View More...
