Current Newsletter: More beach reads from the bestsellers

Bookstores with reviews in this week's newsletter:

• Makayla Summers, Main Street Reads in Summerville, South Carolina
• Jill Hendrix, Fiction Addiction in Greenville, South Carolina
• Emily Lessig, The Violet Fox Bookshop in Virginia Beach, Virginia
• Kelli Dynia, Copperfish Books in Punta Gorda, Florida
• Jennifer Jones, Bookmiser in Marietta, Georgia
• Jodi Laidlaw, Blue Cypress Books in New Orleans, Louisiana
• Land Arnold, Letters Bookshop in Durham, North Carolina
• Pete Mock, McIntyre’s Books in Pittsboro, North Carolina
• Lynne Phillips, Wordsworth Books in Little Rock, Arkansas
• Kathy Clemmons, Sundog Books in Santa Rosa Beach, Florida
• Preet Singh, Eagle Eye Book Shop in Decatur, Georgia
• Morgan Holub, E. Shaver bookseller in Savannah, Georgia
• Mallory Sutton, Bards Alley in Vienna, Virginia
• Angie Tally, The Country Bookshop in Southern Pines, North Carolina
• Kate Storhoff, Bookmarks in Winston-Salem, North Carolina
• Mikey LaFave, Avid Bookshop in Athens, Georgia

Book Buzz Feature: Spotlight On: The Lost Boy of Santa Chionia by Juliet Grames
As a child, I was intensely proud of my Italian origins, as I understood them from the cultural products my wonderful grandparents bestowed upon me. It was only as I grew up and tried to read and learn more about Calabria and what it meant to be Calabrian that I realized how misunderstood and under-celebrated my grandmother’s homeland was. I became fixated on the idea of offering another perspective.― Juliet Grames, Interview, Italics Magazine

Decide For Yourself Banned Book Feature:
Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo
Leigh Bardugo’s Ninth House is all about what it means to be the outcast in the particularly cut-throat world of the Ivy League, but does so through magic, ghosts, and monsters. Alex “Galaxy” Stern has had a rough few years, but that all changes when she gets admitted to Yale unexpectedly (right???). This is full of secret societies, New England ghosts, and the occult with a tinge of horror. Alex is a tenacious and gripping character thrust into a world in which she doesn’t feel at home by circumstance rather than by choice. Once I started this, I couldn’t put it down!
Reviewed by Mikey LaFave, Avid Bookshop in Athens, Georgia

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