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First Things First...
4/19: Keating Scholarship Application Deadline (more info) 4/22: ABA Session on Unpacking Microagressions (more info) 4/24: Independent Bookstore Day (
learn more) 4/27: Reader Meet Writer with Jaclyn Moriarty, The Stolen Prince (more info) 5/6: Reader Meet
Writer with Josephine Caminos Oria, Sobramesa (more info) 5/11: Reader Meet Writer with Laura Dave, The Last Thing He Told Me (more info)
5/13: Reader Meet Writer with Bob Drury & Tom Calvin, Daniel Boone and the Fight for America's First Frontier (more info) 5/19: Bloomsbury Glorious Girls
Summer Celebration (Register)
SIBA’s 21-Day Racial Equity Challenge began on Monday, April 12. 90 booksellers
and book industry professionals from across the country are participating. Challenge prompts can be accessed on the Challenge homepage, to read and share with colleagues. We’re
hosting a Challenge Bulletin Board where participants can share links and post comments. So far, the response has been inspiring. We've also compiled a list of resources to
check out as well, for future reading.
Putting together this programming required a lot of staff time and professional guidance. To that end SIBA has created a Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Fund dedicated
to supporting DEI programming and training to its members, and supporting and amplifying BIPOC voices our membership and industry. We're deeply grateful to Sasquatch Books, Sourcebooks, and HarperCollins for their early and generous
support for this initiative.
SIBA is seeking nominations for candidates for the SIBA Board. Nominees must be from a SIBA member store in good standing, and self-nominations are encouraged.
When this call is sent out each spring, we usually say something like "SIBA Board members are a hard working bunch. Serving on the board is both rewarding and enlightening." This past year has demonstrated just how true
that is. If SIBA has been at all helpful or a resource for your store during the pandemic crisis then you have felt the leadership of its board in action.
SIBA functions under the Carver Method. Board members attend a training session and three meetings per year. They are not paid for service but expenses are reimbursed.
Do you have or know someone with the leadership skills SIBA needs?
Glorious Girls: A Southern Summer Reading Celebration
Bloomsbury Kids invites SIBA booksellers to meet two MG authors with Southern roots, Gillian McDunn and Ellen Hagan. Pour a glass of iced tea or coffee, and enjoy hearing about their fabulous new books, poised to be summer handsells
to middle-graders and teachers. Hosted by Kimberly Daniels Taws of The Country Bookshop in Southern Pines, NC. Wednesday, May 19, at 3:00 PM EST (Register)
Gillian McDunn is the author ofCaterpillar Summer,The Queen Bee and Me,andThese Unlucky Stars. She has lived in California, Missouri, and North Carolina, and is a fan of both the Pacific
and the Atlantic Oceans. She currently lives near Raleigh, NC, with her family. www.gillianmcdunn.com | Instagram: gillianmcdunn | Twitter: gillianmcdunn
Ellen Hagan is a writer, performer, and educator. She is the co-author with Renée Watson of Watch Us Rise. Her poetry collections include Blooming Fiascoes, Hemisphere, and Crowned. Her work
can be found in ESPN Magazine, She Walks in Beauty, and Southern Sin. Ellen is the Director of the Poetry & Theatre Departments at the DreamYard Project and directs their International Poetry Exchange
Program with Japan, South Korea and the Philippines. She co-leads the Alice Hoffman Young Writer's Retreat at Adelphi University. Raised in Kentucky, she now lives in New York City with her family. www.ellenhagan.com | Twitter: ellenhagan | Instagram: ellenhagan
In Brief:
A Letter from Binc to SIBA Bookstores As spring approaches, we wanted to take this opportunity to give you an update on the state of your foundation. As with all of you, here at the Binc Foundation, 2020 was
all about COVID. The pandemic led to a record breaking amount of assistance reaching owners and employees of bookstores and comic shops quickly and efficiently...If you know someone who needs help - encourage them to call Binc.
You can also refer a colleague or employee through our website form as well. This is your safety net, your foundation and we want to hear from you. Read more
Jill Hendrix's next Bookseller Mastermind Group: Co-op The next Mastermind Group from Jill Hendrix will begin on May 10 and occur
weekly for 12 weeks on Mondays at 10am EST. The focus will be co-op. Participants don't need any previous experience with coop, but do need to have a standard brick-and-mortar bookstore and returnable accounts already setup with
the big 5 publishers.. (Sign Up)
GLIBA Bookseller Chat: Amazon Class Action Lawsuit Q&A and Discussion Join us for Q&A and discussion of the Amazon Class Action Lawsuit.
We will be joined by attorney, Eamon Kelly. Mr. Kelly is a litigator. He represents plaintiffs and defendants in a broad range of matters, including trade secret, investor, partner, patent, antitrust, and customer-contract
disputes. This event is geared towards answering bookseller questions and concerns about the lawsuit and due to the sensitive nature of the conversation only booksellers from regional associations are invited to participate. (
Register)
Reader Meet Writer: April/May
Are you interested in joining the circle of bookstores sending invites to their customers? Please email Linda-Marie and we'll discuss what's involved.
The Stolen Prince of Cloudburst with Jaclyn Moriarty Tue Apr 27th 7:00pm - 8:00pm | REGISTER
Jaclyn Moriarty is the award-winning author of uniquely creative and readable books for adults and young readers including The Year of Secret Assignments, the Colors of Madeleine trilogy, and
The Extremely Inconvenient Adventures of Bronte Mettlestone. One of the talented and popular Moriarty sisters (including Liane and Nicola), Jaclyn lives in Sydney, Australia. She is very fond of chocolate, blueberries,
and sleep.
Sobremesa: A Memoir of Food and Love in Thirteen Courses with Josephine Caminos Oría Thu May 6th 7:00pm - 8:00pm | REGISTER
Josephine Caminos Oría is an Argentine-American cookbook author, entrepreneur and mom. It was in her early 40s, with five young children in tow, that Josephine took a chance on herself, leaving a C-level career
to make dulce de leche. Today, Josephine, along with her Argentine husband, Gastón, is the founder of La Dorita Cooks, an all-natural line of dulce de leche products and Pittsburgh’s first resource-based
kitchen incubator for start-up and early stage food makers (see www.ladorita.net for more information). In addition, Josephine is the author of Dulce de Leche: Recipes, Stories, and Sweet Traditions (Burgess
Lea Press, February 2017).
This week on Circle of Sites
Read more about SIBA's Circle of Sites Program (aka the "banner for dues" program) and find out whether your store is eligible to participate and
receive free membership dues.
From the first paragraph, I felt drawn into this world- I was pulled parallel alongside the descriptions of the house in which the story is set. It felt like falling down a spiraling hole in the floor. --Aimee Keeble, Main Street Books in
Davidson, NC
This is so sinuously addictive you will find yourself tied in knots trying to figure out what is happening. It's the story of two sisters growing up in a house of rooms with different stories attached to the games the sisters play,
stories that later take on a life of their own years later as buried memories come to the fore. Tricky good! -- Pete Mock, McIntyre's Fine Books,
Pittsboro, NC
Mirrorland is a modern day Gothic where every page brings a new surprise. A surprise which will have you wondering what is real and what isn’t in this unusual, scary and surprisingly atmospheric novel. --Nancy McFarlane,
Fiction Addiction in Greenville, SC
This fast-moving and well-written book tells the story of three girls, and how they dealt with the three boys in their lives (one’s twin brother, one’s ex-boyfriend, and one’s crush). After the boys die in a freak
plane accident where they were the pilots, the girls work together to figure out what really happened. This book also dives into the deeper themes of the pressures put on high school students when it comes to grades and athletics,
mental health, and the social image that a student is trying to uphold.
The Sky Above Us by Natalie Lund (List Price: $18.99, Philomel Books, 9780525518037, 4/13/2021) Reviewed by Angie Tally, The Country Bookshop in
Southern Pines, North Carolina
A fantastic new novel from an incredible writer. I loved every moment of Creatures of Passage and was hooked from the first page. Full of myth and mysticism, this is a complex web of stories that intersect in a way that
slowly and gracefully unfolds. Complicated family relationships, systemic poverty and privilege, the transformative destruction of abuse, all of these themes and more create a beautiful and tragic look at the Anacostia neighborhood
of DC.
Linda-Marie: Reading:Blackout by Dhonielle Clayton, Tiffany D. Jackson, et al, a YA collaboration “of swoony love stories between Black teenagers of different backgrounds, set against
the atmospheric backdrop of darkened New York neighborhoods," and Excuse Me While I Ugly Cry by Joya Goffney, a YA centered around a journal that gets into the wrong hands and results
in threats to reveal its secrets. But could this actually be a good thing? Listening: Joni Mitchell station on Pandora Watching: The Music of Strangers: Yo-Yo Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble, an absolutely beautiful and inspiring documentary.
SP: Reading: Back to reading The Snow Ball by Brigid Brophy. Listening: to my dogs bark. Watching:The Hot Heiress. A pre-Code musical comedy from 1931 with this incredible description: A riveter strikes a debutante's fancy when he chases a hot bolt into her bedroom.
Lucy: Reading:Crazy Stupid Bromance by Lyssa Kay Adams - Hilarious, swoony, and full of men trying to breakdown their internalized toxic masculinity. Oh, and there’s cats! Listening: Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen - I’m super familiar with this story but have never actually read it until now. That being said, I’m hooked and thus devour this audiobook anytime
I’m able as it’s addictive and I must know the particulars! Watching: Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist - I’ve loved this show since the very beginning, and it’s producing excellent episode after excellent episode this season. The music is great, sure, but
the beauty of this show lies in its characters, its exploration of what it means to be alive, and (arguably most importantly) what it means to care for each other while we’re here.
Nicki: Reading: The Source of Self Regard by Toni Morrison, who is so wise she seems like the Oracle at Delphi or something, Matrix by Lauren Groff, The Whisperers by Orlando Figes Listening:Akoe: Nuevas Musicas Antiguas from the Taracea ensemble. Watching: CNN, but only in brief 10-minute bits, which is about all I can stand.
1. The Hill We Climb Amanda Gorman, Viking, $15.99, 9780593465271 2.
The Midnight Library Matt Haig, Viking, $26, 9780525559474 3. Klara and the Sun Kazuo Ishiguro, Knopf, $28, 9780593318171 4.
The Paris Library Janet Skeslien Charles, Atria, $28, 9781982134198 5. Hamnet Maggie O'Farrell, Knopf, $26.95, 9780525657606
HARDCOVER NONFICTION
1. The Code Breaker Walter Isaacson, S&S, $35, 9781982115852 2. Broken (in the best possible way) Jenny Lawson, Holt, $27.99, 9781250077035 3. The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse Charlie Mackesy, HarperOne, $22.99, 9780062976581 4. Caste Isabel Wilkerson, Random House, $32, 9780593230251 5. Broken Horses: A Memoir Brandi Carlile, Crown,
$28, 978059323724
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SIBA’s 21-Day Racial Equity Challenge began on Monday, April 12. 90 booksellers
and book industry professionals from across the country are participating. Challenge prompts can be accessed on the 
The Stolen Prince of Cloudburst with Jaclyn Moriarty
Sobremesa: A Memoir of Food and Love in Thirteen Courses with Josephine Caminos Oría
The Sky Above Us by Natalie Lund 
