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First Things First...
5/9: Application deadline for Binc "Survive to Thrive" grants (more info) 5/11: Reader Meet Writer with Laura Dave, The Last Thing He Told Me (more info)
5/12: RAMP Summer Emails Information Session (register) 5/13: Reader Meet Writer with Tom Clavin & Bob Drury, Daniel Boone and the Fight for America's First
Frontier (more info) 5/19: Bloomsbury Glorious Girls Summer Celebration (register) 5/20:
Coffee with the Board (register) 5/31: Nomination deadline for SIBA Board (
here) 5/31: Deadline to submit ABACUS Survey (more info)
Welcome, new SIBA members!
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SIBA Office Hours on Zoom: by appointment
SIBA's Office Hours is taking a summer hiatus, but meetings are available by request. 803-994-9530 | siba@sibaweb.com
Next week's Reader Meet Writer
Book is A Reese Witherspoon Book Club Selection for May!
The Last Thing He Told Me with Laura Dave Tue May 11th 7:00pm - 8:00pm | REGISTER
This is a great opportunity to bring Laura Dave to your customers. If your store is not part of the Reader Meet Writer Program, contact Linda-Marie to sign up: lindamarie@sibaweb.com
RAMP Launches New Portal, Summer Email Program
New for 2021: RAMP Emails
Orders are now being taken for the newly-launched Summer Email Campaign via the new bookseller and publisher portal at Rampbooks.com
Booksellers, sign up RIGHT NOW for the first Summer Email Campaign on "Wellness" titles, launching MAY 21.
Building on the success of 2020’s newly-added direct mail campaigns, 2021 promises to be even stronger with 8 new Summer and Winter Email campaigns direct-to-consumer.
Did you know roughly 80% of marketers have reported an increase in email engagement over the past 12 months. (HubSpot, 2020)
Attend an information session with RAMP Director Suzanne Shoger!
May 12 at 2 PM EST/1 PM CST
This chat will focus on the brand new Summer Digital Catalog, plans for the future and our annual Winter Catalog. We will be joined by RAMP Director of Marketing and Promotion, Suzanne Shoger, to discuss the project and answer questions.
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)
More about the authors:
Gillian McDunn is the author of Caterpillar 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: @illianmcdunn
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
Graceland, At Last : Notes on Hope and Heartache From the American South by
Margaret Renkl
On Sale Date: September 14, 2021 9781571311849
Hardcover $26.00
Literary Collections / Essays Nature / Essays Travel / United States / South / East South Central (AL, KY, MS, TN) Political Science / Civics & Citizenship
From New York Times contributing opinion writer and author of the TODAY Show book club pick Late Migrations Margaret Renkl comes a selection of her beloved weekly essays for the Times, presenting a multifaceted
view of the contemporary American South, forthcoming this September.
“People have often asked me how it feels to be the ‘voice of the South,’” writes Renkl in her introduction. “But I’m not the voice of the South, and no one else is, either.” There are many
Souths—red and blue, rural and urban, mountain and coast, Black and white and brown—and no one writer could possibly represent all of them. In Graceland, At Last, Renkl writes instead from her own experience about the
complexities of her homeland, demonstrating along the way how much more there is to this tangled region than many people understand.
In a patchwork quilt of personal and reported essays, Renkl also highlights people who are fighting for a better future for the region. A group of teenagers who organized a youth march for Black Lives Matter. An urban shepherd whose
sheep remove invasive vegetation. Church parishioners sheltering the homeless. Throughout, readers will find the generosity of spirit and deep attention to the world, human and nonhuman, that keep readers returning to her columns
each Monday morning.
This new regular section will feature useful tools for booksellers designed
to foster diversity, equity, and inclusion within their stores and in their communities.
How much does a book list really change things?
Almost a year ago, just as anti-racist books began to dominate the bestseller lists (and promptly sold out), Ashley Dennis wrote a great account of "the original anti-racist reading list": We Build Together: A Reader’s Guide to Negro Life was a pamphelet created in 1941by Charlemae Rollins, the children’s librarian at the George Cleveland Hall Branch of the Chicago Public Library. It sought to create a reading list that portrayed Black life truthfully, and
eschewed stereotypes.
"In Rollins’s view, books that met these standards would boost black children’s self-esteem and foster respect for black people among white children. She argued books had the power to reverse the dehumanization of racial minorities."
Indie Shindig Returns SIGN UP for INDIE SHINDIG—The Coolest Virtual Event Series that Benefits Binc and We Need Diverse Books! Workman Publishing, Sourcebooks, Chronicle Books, Candlewick Press, Bloomsbury Publishing, Abrams Books, The Book
Industry Charitable (Binc) Foundation and We Need Diverse Books (WNDB) have partnered together for the continuation of the virtual event series for indie booksellers Indie Shindig this summer!(read more)
US Book Show from Publisher's Weekly May 25-27 Editors' picks panels, keynotes and author panels, education for librarians, publishing industry professionals, and booksellers. Keynote by Elizabeth Warren. Guest appearance by Ijeoma Oluo, author of 'So You Want to Talk About Race,' who
will be in conversation with her new editor, Rakesh Satyal (register)
Edelweiss Bookfest June 8-9 Education, keynotes, author panels, Edelweiss-specific programming. Keynote presentations by Tayari Jones and Anthony Doerr. (register)
The Reader Meet Writer Schedule for next month is jam-packed with great writers, including Will Johnson, the dynamic duo of Christine Hobbes and Lauren Billings, aka "Christina Lauren," Chris Offutt, and Terry Roberts.
Be a part of the longest-running, most-respected virtual author series in the South.
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.
Coming up next on Reader Meet Writer:
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).
NEW EVENTS!
The Last Thing He Told Me with Laura Dave Tue May 11th 7:00pm - 8:00pm | REGISTER
A Reese Witherspoon Book Club Selection for May!
Laura Dave is the national and international bestselling author of Eight Hundred Grapes and other novels. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times; O, The Oprah Magazine; Ladies’ Home Journal; Glamour; Redbook; Self;
and The New York Observer. Dave has appeared on the CBS Early Show, The Modern Love Podcast, and NPR’s All Things Considered; and Cosmopolitan named her a “Fun and Fearless Phenom” of the
year. She resides with her family in Santa Monica.
Blood and Treasure : Daniel Boone and the Fight for America's First Frontier with Tom Clavin Thu May 13th 7:00pm - 8:00pm | REGISTER
Bob Drury and Tom Clavin are the #1 New York Times bestselling authors of The Heart of Everything That Is, Lucky 666, Halsey's Typhoon, Last Men Out,
and The Last Stand of Fox Company, which won the Marine Corps Heritage Foundation's General Wallace M. Greene Jr. Award. They live in Manasquan, New Jersey, and Sag Harbor, New York, respectively.
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.
This book was an epic gift from Maggie Shipstead to the world. When I finished it I turned right back to the first page and started again. --Kimberley Daniels, The Country Bookshop in Southern Pines, NC Buy from The Country Bookshop
This book. What a stunner. This is the kind of book that makes you listless after you finish because you miss the characters so much. -- Chelsea Bauer, union ave books in Knoxville, TN Buy from union ave books.
I got lost in this big novel that truly is magical as the best fiction is. Stellar characters who sparkle and pop and a storyline that is epic and strong.. --Jean Lewis, Copperfish Books in Punta Gorda, FL Buy from Copperfish Books
Stacey Swann spawns a unique cast of characters that erupts on the opening page: the prodigal son returns to town after a cooling-off period, but two years has not cooled his lust for his brother’s wife nor his brother’s
rage at their affair. If that weren’t enough powder-keg tension, there’s an “accidental murder” a few pages later. These events set this family adrift as they scatter, then return in unfamiliar patterns.
Swann takes her impetus from the Bible, but more so from Greek mythology, as the title teases. June (Juno) is married to Peter (Zeus) and abides his philandering to the point of treating his illegitimate adult twins as her
own. Part of the enjoyment of reading Olympus, Texas, is guessing which character has a match in the mythology. However, familiarity with the myths is not a necessity; the story stands by itself. Olympus, Texas is an entertaining
and engaging read.
Linda-Marie: Reading:Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata, a disturbing and provocative look at conformity in a restrictive culture, and The Newcomer by
Mary Kay Andrews, the perfect bedtime read. Listening: A 1940s playlist on Pandora, Watching: The Great British Baking Show “Early Seasons” because I obviously can’t get enough of it.
Lucy: Reading:A Vindication of the Rights of Women Listening: Persuasion by Jane Austen Watching:Younger
Nicki: Reading: Walter Isaacson's Code Breaker, A Celtic Miscellany, translated and edited by Kenneth Hurlstone Jackson, Irish Fairy Tales by James Stephenson Listening: Waiting for an Echo, Solas (What can I say? I'm in an Irish mood) Watching: A storm blowing in. It's too lovely to spoil by turning on the TV
SP: Reading: I just got a copy of Sylvia Townsend Warner’s After the Death of Don Juan in the mail. Who knows when I will have time to read it. Listening: Lots of Laura Marling and Angel Olsen lately. Really love both of them. Watching: The last movies I watched were Passion Fish and The Red Shoes. Both absolutely fantastic movies and the respective directors at the very top of their game.
1. The Hill We Climb Amanda Gorman, Viking, $15.99, 9780593465271 2. Sooley John Grisham, Doubleday, $28.95, 9780385547680 3.
The Four Winds Kristin Hannah, St. Martin's, $28.99, 9781250178602 4. The Midnight Library Matt Haig, Viking, $26, 9780525559474 5. Whereabouts Jhumpa Lahiri, Knopf, $24, 9780593318317
HARDCOVER NONFICTION
1. The Bomber Mafia: A Dream, a Temptation, and the Longest Night of the Second World War Malcolm Gladwell, Little, Brown, $27, 9780316296618 2. World Travel Anthony
Bourdain, Laurie Woolever, Ecco, $35, 9780062802798 3.
The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse Charlie Mackesy, HarperOne, $22.99, 9780062976581 4. Crying in H Mart Michelle Zauner, Knopf, $26.95, 9780525657743 5.
Dusk, Night, Dawn Anne Lamott, Riverhead Books, $20, 9780593189696
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Next week's Reader Meet Writer
Book is 
This new regular section will feature useful tools for booksellers designed
to foster diversity, equity, and inclusion within their stores and in their communities.
Sobremesa: A Memoir of Food and Love in Thirteen Courses with Josephine Caminos Oría
Blood and Treasure : Daniel Boone and the Fight for America's First Frontier with Tom Clavin
