Celebrate Independent Bookstore Day in Western North Carolina!

Independent Bookstore Day is this Saturday, April 27, 2019. If you live in or near Western North Carolina, please get out to support one of our fantastic booksellers! Links go to more information for the day.

Adventure Bound Books 
134 N. Sterling St., Morganton, NC

Giveaways, while supplies last, to every customer who spends $50 or more (excluding gift certificates) in a single purchase this Saturday (April 27th). Supplies are limited, and once they’re gone, they’re gone - don’t miss out! In addition, every $10 purchase increment earns you an entry into drawings for more free stuff - t-shirts, tote bag, books. And everyone who has an account with LibroFM by or on Saturday, gets free audiobooks! 

City Lights Bookstore
3 East Jackson St., Sylva, NC 28779

Celebrating with storytime, a storewide sale, giveaways, and exclusive merchandise sure to delight readers.  Also offering exclusive day-of merchandise created especially for Independent Bookstore Day by major publishers and authors. 

Beware: Shares a day with Greening Up the Mountains, a spring festival in Sylva

Firestorm Bookstore & Co-op
610 Haywood Rd, Asheville, NC

Highland Books
36 West Main Street, Brevard, NC

Main Street Books
126 S. Main St., Davidson, NC

• 9:30 a.m. — Free Donut with purchase (while supplies last)
• 10 - 10:30 a.m — Special story time hosted by Davidson Mayor Rusty Knox
  • This special story time will be part of Currents Kids series, for which MSB partners with Lake Norman Currents
• 10:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. — Craft activity stations with Queen Girls authors Claire Tomkinson and Sol Gonzalez-Fe
• 1 - 2:30 p.m. — Puzzle swap
  • Main Street Books will be accepting puzzle donations starting April 15th.
  • Receive a ticket for each puzzle you drop off. Spend a ticket on a new puzzle at the Swap.
  • There will be a $5 fee to shop the swap for folks who have not brought puzzles to swap (maximum of one puzzle per $5 shopper); entry fee will be donated to a local nonprofit.
• 3:30 - 4:30 p.m. — Teas and bees with Jodi Helmer
  • Jodi Helmer is the author of Protecting Pollinators, an exploration of the survival outlook of bees and the critical role they play in ecosystems, and Growing Your Own Tea Garden, which offers practical instructions for producing your own teas. Join her at Main Street Books for a tea tasting, insect hotel construction activity, and book signing! This event is free but guests must RSVP by end-of-day Monday, April 22nd.

RSVP

• 5 - 7 p.m. — Literary cocktails and live entertainment
  • Join the Main Street Books staff in celebrating another Independent Bookstore Day with free literary cocktails, plus performances from Davidson College’s slam poetry group FreeWord and the ever-lovely musical stylings of Jamie Hofmeister-Cline.

Malaprop's Bookstore/Cafe
55 Haywood St. Asheville, NC

Special items for sale just for IBD, no reservations taken.

Park Road Books

4139 Park Road, Charlotte, NC 28209

Sassafras on Sutton

108 Sutton Avenue, Black Mountain, North Carolina 28711

Celebrate Independent Bookstore Day in Upstate SC!

Independent Bookstore Day is this Saturday, April 27, 2019. If you live in or near the upstate of South Carolina, please get out to support one of our fantastic booksellers! Links go to more information for the day.

As the Page Turns
21 Plaza Dr D, Travelers Rest, SC 29690

While not an official participant, this bookstore is offering a BOGO sale for all books, April 26-27.

Fiction Addiction
1175 Woods Crossing Rd. #5, Greenville, SC 29607 (in the Shops by the Mall center behind Haywood Mall, alongside Jimmy John's) 

-Exclusive signed editions of Adjustment Day, an Indie Bookstore Day special printing of Chuck Palahniuk’s first novel in four years
-A ‘Fight Evil, Read Books’ enamel pin, the perfect accessory to face our world
-Exclusive signed editions of Why Don’t You Write My Eulogy Now So I Can Correct It? by Roz Chast and Patricia Marx, featuring an exclusive Indie Bookstore Day-only book jacket
–What to Eat With What You Read, a companion to last year’s Indie Bookstore Day bestseller The Bookclub Journal, featuring reading lists, recipes, and menu suggestions from 25 of our favorite authors
-Literary Luminary Pins, the perfect way to show off your favorite authors with these laser-cut wooden pins. An Indie Bookstore Day exclusive from Letter Craft!
-Signed prints from Maggie Steifvater
-Exclusive signed editions of The Girl Who Drank the Moon, featuring exclusive high quality vinyl stickers

Items free with a purchase-
-“Overheard on the Titanic” print, a clever blackout poem from Austin Kleon’s newest book, Keep Going
–Poems to Keep in Your Pocket, a hardcover mini-book of classic poems by Kipling, Wordsworth, Pope, Shakespeare, Dickinson, and more
-The Flora of Middle Earth postcard by Graham Judd, a frame-worthy large postcard, featuring the natural landscape that is so vital to Tolkien’s works

Also, all Libro.fm account holders will receive a free audiobook!

Hub City Bookshop
186 W Main Street, Spartanburg, SC 29306

10am-2pm: Sidewalk Sale of Used Books
Get a deal on all of our used books!

11am-Noon: The Great Gatsby Mimosa Hour
Browse around the bookshop with a mimosa in hand. We will be offering select hardbacks at 35% off during this hour as well!

Noon-2pm: Blind Date with a Book
With every purchase of a new book, customers will get to choose a wrapped "blind date" pick of not-yet-released galley books.

2pm-3pm: Southern Fiction Cocktail Hour with George Singleton
Southern Fiction books will be 10% off and local author George Singleton will be signing books, including his new short story collection STAFF PICKS. Guests will get a staff-made Southern cocktail with the purchase of a book during this hour!

4pm-5pm: Poetry Hour
All poetry is 10% off and every customer who buys a book will receive a one line poem from a local poet!

In addition:
--> Every fifth customer will receive a free Independent Bookstore Day tote bag with the purchase of new book while supplies last.
--> One lucky customer will win a READ WRITE SOUTH tote full of 2019 popular titles in galley version.
--> There will also be a treasure chest full of goodies on hand for young readers all day.
--> We will be giving away free copies of Jason Reynold’s Ghost to visiting middle readers while supplies last!

M. Judson Books 
130 South Main Street, Greenville, SC

A day just for us and people like us!  Huzzah! Come down to M. Judson on Saturday, April 27 to celebrate Independent Book Store Day!  We'll have special stuff going on all day long (9 am - 9 pm.) Here's a sample of some of the amazing people who will help us celebrate.  We hope you will, too!

• Author Stephanie Morgan will host story time, sharing from her Tails from the Trail series.
• Beth Ables will be here with her cookbook/magazine, A Place Here, thoughts and recipes for gathering at the table.
• Our very own Ashley Warlick will be here with her book, The Arrangement.

Also you can get exclusive IBD items only available on the day! A bookish tote illustrated by the amazing Jane Mount is *free* with purchases over $100! 

Disclaimer:
I am not an official promoter of IBD or any of these bookstores. I just thought it would be nice to help promote their fun events.  

Read in September: Books 234 - 256 of 2017

Pictured: 5-star reads for September 2017

234. Ember by Brock Adams *** (eARC from publisher through Edelweiss; my review)
235. Eat Only When You're Hungry by Lindsay Hunter **** (BOTM selection; my review)
236. Love Her Wild: Poems by Atticus ** (audioARC from publisher; my review)
237. The Glass Eye: A Memoir by Jeannie Vanasco **** (ARC from publisher; my review)
238. The Mountain by Paul Yoon **** (eARC from publisher through NetGalley; my review)
239. Out on the Wire by Jessica Abel ***** (library book; my review)
240. Sea Girl by Ethel Johnston Phelps **** (HOOPLA eBook through library; my review)
241. What We Lose by Zinzi Clemmons *** (eARC from publisher through NetGalley; my review)
242. Solar Bones by Mike McCormack *** (eARC from publisher through Edelweiss; my review)
243. By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept by Elizabeth Smart **** (interlibrary loan; my review)
244. When I Grow Up I Want To Be a List of Further Possibilities by Chen Chen ***** (library eBook; my review)
245. The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead *** (library eBook; my review)
246. Ties by Domenico Starnone **** (eBook; my review)
247. Second Person Singular by Sayed Kashua **** (personal copy; my review)
248. New People by Danzy Senna **** (eARC from publisher through Edelweiss; my review)
249. Mrs. Fletcher by Tom Perrotta **** (audioARC from publisher; my review)
250. The Secret History by Donna Tartt ***** (personal copy; my review)
251. After the People Lights Have Gone Off by Stephen Graham Jones ***** (interlibrary loan; my review)
252. We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson **** (personal copy audiobook; my review)
253. From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death by Caitlin Doughty **** (ARC from publisher; my review)
254. Dinner at the Center of the Earth by Nathan Englander **** (eARC from publisher; my review)
255. Seven Days of Us by Francesca Hornak *** (eARC from publisher through NetGalley; my review)
256. I Will Love You for the Rest of My Life: Breakup Stories by Michael Czyzniejewski **** (interlibrary loan; my review)

For the Man Booker Prize - McCormack, Whitehead.
For the National Book Award - Chen (also I bailed on the Jennifer Egan which is not represented in this list)
For the Newest Literary Fiction buddy reads - Hunter, Clemmons, Starnone
For the Reading Envy Readalong - Tartt