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Bookstores with reviews in this week's newsletter:

• Nancy McFarlane, Fiction Addiction in Greenville, South Carolina
• Rosemary Pugliese, Malaprop’s in Asheville, North Carolina
• Kelley Dykes, Main Street Reads in Summerville, South Carolina
• Baldwin Bookseller, Baldwin & Co. in New Orleans, Louisiana
• Doron Klemer, Octavia Books in New Orleans, Louisiana
• Amanda Depperschmidt, Fountain Bookstore in Richmond, Virginia
• Brent Bunnell, Fiction Addiction in Greenville, South Carolina
•  Jennifer Jones, Bookmiser in Marietta, Georgia
• Courtney Ulrich Smith, Underbrush Books in Rogers, Arkansas 
• Janisie Rodriguez, Copperfish Books in Punta Gorda, Florida
• Jessica Nock, Main Street Books in Davidson, North Carolina
• Catherine Pabalate, Epilogue Books Chocolate Brews in Chapel Hill, North Carolina
• Jan Blodgett, Main Street Books in Davidson, North Carolina
• Ashley White, Cavalier House Books in Denham Springs, Louisiana
• Megan Bell, Underground Books in Carrollton, Georgia
• Katlin Kerrison, Story on the Square in McDonough, Georgia
• Kate Towery, Fountain Bookstore in Richmond, Virginia

Book Buzz Feature: A Song to Drown Rivers by Ann Liang
I wrote A Song to Drown Rivers when I was twenty-one—a time when I could feel my world changing shape around me, when my teenage years were starting to feel increasingly distant but adulthood still felt like an abstract concept I hadn’t fully grasped yet—but the seeds for this book were planted long before that. It began with the myths my mother told me when I was a child. Stories about women so beautiful they could bring kingdoms to their knees, about first and final loves so fierce they lived on even in death, and kings as cruel as they were cunning. Even then, the tale of Xishi—the girl, the concubine, the spy—stood out to me. What was it like, I found myself wondering, to have to conceal your true thoughts at every turn? To be tasked with the tremendous mission of making the man you loathe fall in love with you? –Ann Liang, Letter from the author

Decide For Yourself Banned Book Feature:
Furyborn by Claire Legrand
This book is full of my favorite kind of character- strong, stubborn, and super-flawed. Told alternately, Furyborn is about two women separated by time but full of magic, fury and secrets and a connection that becomes clearer as the story unfolds. The wait for the next book in the series is going to be torture, but I’ll endure!
― Kate Towery, Fountain Bookstore in Richmond, Virginia

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