Our friends at Tattered Cover recently shared this breakup letter. Given it’s a new year, we can’t think of a better time to end that “one” relationship. It’s the one that you’ve been avoiding, but know needs to happen. We know breakups can be tough. Hopefully this letter makes it just a little bit easier to make the switch. We can’t think of a better reason or a better time to support your local bookstore.
Online shopping, and one large online retailer in particular, has taken over the retail world, but there is one category of brick-and-mortar business that is thriving…independent bookstores. From 2009 to 2018, they grew by almost 50%.
At the end of 2018, we received an email from Howard about how Libro.fm and partner store RJ Julia Booksellers has impacted his Aunt Nell. Thank you, Howard, for sharing your story! Hello Libro and RJ Julia people, I want to let you know how the Libro.fm service has literally changed a life. This past summer, […]
Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens is one of our Top Ten Audiobooks of 2018. Kya Clark, the “Marsh Girl,” has survived for years alone in the marsh that she calls home, finding friends in the gulls and lessons in the sand. But when handsome Chase Andrews is found dead, Kya is immediately under suspicion.
The Woman in the Window by A. J. Finn, one of our Top Ten Audiobooks of 2018, is a psychological thriller about an agoraphobic woman who spies on her neighbors through her camera lens…until gazing out her window one night, she sees something she shouldn’t.
Barracoon by Zora Neale Hurston is one of our Top Ten Audiobooks of 2018. This never-before-published audiobook, narrated by Robin Miles, tells the true story of one of the last known survivors of the Atlantic slave trade—abducted from Africa on the last “Black Cargo” ship to arrive in the United States.
An American Marriage by Tayari Jones is one of our Top Ten Audiobooks of 2018. The idea for this novel came to Jones in an Atlanta mall. Jones says in an interview with NPR: “I overheard a couple arguing. He looked fine, but she looked great. And she said to him, ‘Roy, you know you wouldn’t have waited on me for seven years.’ And he said, ‘I don’t know what you’re talking about; this wouldn’t have happened to you in the first place!’”
In this episode of The Literary Life, Mitchell Kaplan speaks with National Book Award-nominee Jason Reynolds about his journey: from his early life as a kid who really did not like to read, to becoming a best-selling author and literary star.
Tomi Adeyemi’s debut novel, Children of Blood and Bone, is inspired by West African mythology, and her world of dark magic, danger, and power is brought to life by Bahni Turpin’s narration.
There There by Tommy Orange is the story of twelve characters—Urban Indians that are all attending the Big Oakland Powwow. As we learn the reasons that each person is attending—some generous, some fearful, some joyful, some violent—momentum builds toward a shocking yet inevitable conclusion that changes everything.
Michelle McNamara’s true-crime audiobook, I’ll Be Gone in the Dark, is based on the true story of The Golden State Killer, a serial rapist and murder, that terrorized California in the 70s and 80s. McNamara was determined to find the violent psychopath; she pored over police reports, interviewed victims, and embedded herself in the online communities that were as obsessed with the case as she was. McNamara was writing I’ll Be Gone in the Dark at the time of her sudden death.
Michelle McNamara’s true-crime audiobook, I’ll Be Gone in the Dark, is based on the true story of The Golden State Killer, a serial rapist and murder, that terrorized California in the 70s and 80s. McNamara was determined to find the violent psychopath; she pored over police reports, interviewed victims, and embedded herself in the online communities that were as obsessed with the case as she was. McNamara was writing I’ll Be Gone in the Dark at the time of her sudden death.