Monthly Highlights: SEPTEMBER |
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Word of the month BOOKARAZZI: Slang for someone who takes photos of their books and posts them online. |
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Hello Readers! It's time for fall and that leads us to cozy season where we like to get our comfy sweaters on, a cup of coffee or tea, and a good book. Stop by the store, we have books, coffee cups, and tea! The Book Shoppe is a one stop shop for your cozy season needs. :-) Our next events are: Fall Fest in Mt. Carmel on October 19th & Trick or Treat is October 26th. The bookstore and bookstand gives out free kids books during trick or treat at the Farmer's Market and at our shop on Oak St. Follow us on Facebook for more information. & Our 5 Year Anniversary/Small Business Saturday on November 30th Book bingo will be making an appearance during our anniversary :-) During Fall Fest and our 5 year anniversary the bookstore we will be open from 10-5. Keep an eye out to see what raffles and other events we will have going on. |
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Featured Author: Barbara Kingsolver |
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Barbara Kingsolver will be awarded the 2024 Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters (DCAL) during the 75th National Book Awards Ceremony & Benefit Dinner on November 20th, 2024. The recipient of this award is an author that has been deemed to have enriched our literary heritage over a life of service, or a corpus of work. The recipient is awarded $10,000 in addition to the medal. “Barbara Kingsolver’s writing embraces the personal and the political, examining complex issues of social justice, exalting the natural world, and exploring progressive social change with care and specificity,” said Ruth Dickey, Executive Director of the National Book Foundation. “For Kingsolver, writing is a tool for community activism—a way of shining a light on some of the most intricate environmental and social injustices of our time, and an art form through which she can share stories of her beloved Appalachia with the world. We have all benefited from her brilliance, and it is a gift to celebrate her remarkable literary accomplishments with the 2024 Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters.” Barbara's works include fiction, nonfiction, poetry, investigative journalist, and science writing. Her latest novel Demon Copperhead, was the recipient of the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and was also an Oprah Book Club selection. Previous recipients of this award include: Walter Mosley, Edmund White, Isabel Allende, Robert A. Caro, John Ashbery, Ursula K. Le Guin, Toni Morrison, Adrienne Rich, Karen Tei Yamashita, Art Spiegelman, and most recently, Rita Dove. Nominations for this award are made by former National Book Award Winners, Finalists, judges, and other writers and literary professionals. Kingsolver was born in Annapolis, Maryland in 1955. She grew up in rural Kentucky and currently resides in southwestern Virginia. She is a trained biologist. Read more on the award and Barbara below. |
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New Arrivals at the Shoppe - Sneak Peek |
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September contains Banned Books Week. Banned Books Week is September 22-28, 2024. Let Freedom Read Day is September 28th, 2024. The theme: Liberate Banned Books (#SetBooksFree). As we work to feature books that are challenged or banned we have come across so many articles, news stories, opinion pieces, and data on the fight. Check out Publisher's Weekly's The Freedom to Read Issue: All Our Coverage. This link contains multiple articles that cover the fight happening to free books and allow them to remain on shelves across America. Read about authors, librarians, independent booksellers, (like the Book Ladies) who are working hard to keep access to books for all. "In the following pages, we dig into the scope and scale of this historic wave of censorship attempts and talk with those who are doing the vital work of fighting back. Have you ever met a librarian who has been so horrifically harassed that she’s afraid to leave her house? You’re about to." Click the button below to read on: |
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The International Booker Prize is the world's most influential prize for a single work of fiction. It is awarded every year for the single finest work of fiction from around the world which was translated into English and published in the UK and/or Ireland. This year the books to the left shown in this picture were shortlisted and includes the largest number of women in the prize's 55-year history. 5 out of 6 of the authors are female. The winner will be announced on November 12th. |
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Want a unique way to display your coats, keys, or other items? Make yourself a one of a kind coat/bag/key rack! A book that may be a rough around the edges or missing a few pages can find new life as your trusty coat hanger! |
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Works of Author's Past and Present |
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Check out this article written by our very own Book Lady Eileen | | |
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Book Lady Picks at Bookshop.org. Shop New Books Today! Click the images to learn more. |
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Book Lady Picks at Libro.fm Shop Audiobooks Today! Click the images to learn more. |
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Located inside the Mount Carmel Farmer's Market we have an extensive discount bookstand. We recently expanded even more and now have a Quarters Corner-this area all books are 4 quarters or less :-) Stop in on Saturdays from 8-2. | | |
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Mention the word of the month when you shop and get 15% off! *Can't stack words of the month :-) |
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