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Spotlight on Bookstores: *Politics and Prose* in Washington, DC

This installment of the “Spotlight on Bookstores” series is written by Jennifer Miller, author of the debut novel The Year of the Gadfly, out from Houghton-Mifflin-Harcourt in May 2012. I’m chomping at the bit for its publication – the book’s setting is an ultra-competitive private school in Massachusetts, where the adolescent protagonist is mentored by the [...]

Spotlight on Bookstores: two on Boston's Newbury Street

I had the great pleasure of meeting up with two book bloggers for lunch and bookstore shopping last Friday!  Sandy from You’ve GOTTA Read This was in town, and we connected with Marie from Boston Bibliophile.

It was a gorgeous September day, truly not a cloud in the sky.  The perfect day for reliving memories and [...]

Spotlight on Bookstores: Third Place Books in Lake Forest Park, Washington

I’m so happy to introduce Stasia Ward Kehoe to readers of She Is Too Fond of Books today! Stasia grew up in New England, comfortable acting and dancing on stage; her love of these arts carried her to a Master’s in Performance Studies from the Tish School at NYU. After working for years at a [...]

Spotlight on Bookstores: BookPeople in Austin, Texas

Oh, my, goodness! Sit back and prepare to be entertained, dazzled, and maybe a little bit exhausted reading about the wonderfulevents BookPeople in Austin has thrown for novelist Sarah Bird.  While most stores have the attitude of “if the author’s happy, the reading is well-attended, and we sell a good number of books …it’s a [...]

Spotlight on Bookstores: Laurel Book Store in Oakland, California

Today it is my pleasure to introduce you to Kelly Dorfman, author of What’s Eating Your Child?

Kelly has been called a “nutrition detective,” helping parents and caregivers find possible connections between a child’s food intake and common ailments including recurrent ear infections, stomachaches, picky eating, rashes, anxiety, and ADHD

You can read an excerpt (in fact, download Chapter 1 as a [...]

Spotlight on Bookstores: Prairie Lights in Iowa City, Iowa

A few weeks ago I introduced you to author Jane Roper when she generously shared a copy of her debut novel, Eden Lake, for a giveaway on this blog.  Eden Lake takes place at a utopian summer camp in Maine, as the adult siblings must decide the next steps for the property, now that their [...]

Spotlight on Bookstores: *Nantucket Bookworks*

Ah, this is definitely a “take me away!” Spotlight post – who wants to join me for an excursion to Nantucket to visit Elin Hilderbrand’s pick of bookstores?!

Elin Hilderbrand is a name familiar to many of you, I’m sure.  She is the author of eight previous novels set on Nantucket  - including The Castaways which [...]

Spotlight on Bookstores: *Buttonwood Books* in Cohasset, Mass.

If you’ve been reading She Is Too Fond of Books for a while, you know that this “Spotlight on Bookstores” series started back in 2008 when I posted about our local bookstore, the Concord Bookshop.  Since that time, I’ve written a half dozen or so posts about various bookstores that I’ve visited, mostly local shops. [...]

Spotlight on Bookstores: *Wild Hare Books* in Signal Mountain, Tennessee

A great big SITFOB welcome to author Cathy Holton!

Cathy Holton’s fourth novel, Summer in the South, is recently available in hardcover. This is the story of a Chicago writer fleeing her troubled past who stumbles upon a sixty-year-old murder mystery in a small Southern town. As a guest of the prominent Woodburn clan, keepers [...]

Spotlight on Bookstores: *Chester County Books & Music* in West Chester, Pennsylvania

I’m pleased to welcome author Mariah Stewart to She Is Too Fond of Books today, with a lovely spotlight on a special bookseller at Chester County Books & Music.

Mariah Stewart is the award-winning New York Times bestselling author of twenty-nine (yes, 29 – wow!) novels of contemporary romance and romantic suspense.  When I read the publisher’s [...]
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