Fountain Bookstore June / July 2016 Summer Reads for the Young (at Heart) Wink Poppy Midnight by April Genevieve Tucholke Every story needs a hero, a villain, and a secret. Wink is the odd, mysterious neighbor girl, wild red hair and freckles. Poppy is the blond bully and the beau- tiful, manipulative high school queen bee. Midnight is the sweet, uncertain boy caught between them. Wink. Poppy. Midnight. Three voices that burst onto the page in short, sharp, bewitching chapters, and spiral swiftly and inexorably 1312 E. Cary Street toward something terrible or tricky or tremendous. Perfect for fans of Holly Shockoe Slip Black, We Were Liars, and The Virgin Suicides, this mysterious tale will leave you Richmond, VA 23219 entranced. Dial $17.99. 804-788-1594 When We Collided fountainbookstore by Emery Lord @gmail.com Jonah Daniels’s father has died. With a mother lost in depression, Jonah and his five siblings struggle to keep their home and the restaurant their dad left behind. Store Hours But at the start of summer, Vivi Alexander comes to town. Vivi is in love with life and refuses to be held down by the medicine she’s told should make her feel bet- Monday-Saturday 10-6 ter. But it’s not long before Vivi’s zest for life falters. Her adventurousness Sunday 12-5 becomes danger-seeking, and Vivi and Jonah’s love is put to the test. What hap- pens when love simply isn’t enough? Bloomsbury $17.99. Extended hours for events and by appointment The Square Root of Summer www.fountainbookstore.com by Harriet Reuter Hapgood Gottie H. Oppenheimer is losing time. Literally. When the fabric of the universe around her seaside town begins to fray, she’s hurtled through worm- Find us on holes to her past: to last summer, Look Inside For ... when her grandfather Grey died. To Social Media! Fountain Fabulousness with Food . 2 the afternoon she fell in love with Fantastic Tales, Fictional Lives . 3 Jason, who wouldn’t hold her hand Exciting New Fantasy, Thrilling Crime . .4 at the funeral. To the day her best Hot New Picks in YA . 5 friend Thomas moved away and left Tales for Tots . 6 her with a scar on her hand and a Kids, Tweens, and Teens . .7 black hole in her memory. Grey is New in Paperback, Graphic Novels . 8 still gone, but Jason and Thomas The World Around Us . 9 are back, and Gottie’s past, present, Memoirs, Summer Cooking . 10 and future are about to collide. Fountain Bookstore Events . 11 Roaring Brook $17.99. From Our Friends at Mulholland Books, Hot Picks for Summer . 12 Howdy! Thank You Ah… summer! Maggie Stiefvater! Actually… not a fan. I make sure the bookstore AC is serviced and in tip top running order. So, come on in for some relief from the heat. We keep it nice and chilly! I used to be a penguin. The best thing about summer and the best thing about not being a penguin anymore is that penguins can’t read and summer brings us the best books! Hopefully, we have a little more time to read Thank you, Maggie Stiefvater them: poolside, by the river, on the river, at the for making us your online home beach, on the porch, or sitting right next to the for signed copies! air conditioner vent in the kitchen looking out Wear the old coat and the window at all the bees that are not stinging you and admiring the beautiful flowers and Celebrating the last book in vegetables that someone you love is watering The Raven Cycle: buy the new book. daily because you gave up in May. The Raven King — Austin Phelps I want to thank Mulholland books for inviting me to a great dinner in D.C. with my fellow booksellers and some media folks. I was so impressed by authors Joe Ide (book IQ not coming out until October! Sob!), Ben H. Fountain Fabulousness with Food Winters (already a favorite!), and David Swinson (new, shiny favorite!!), that I wanted Harper Lee Theme Dinner Have Lunch with to dedicate part of this newsletter to Mulholland. No, you can’t buy me dinner and with Charles Shields Elin Hilderbrand! get books in the newsletter. The books actually Wednesday, June 15, 6:30 pm Friday, June 17, 12:30 pm have to be amazing too. Location: Camden’s Dogtown Market, Location: Sam Miller’s Restaurant, Congratulations to New York Times bestseller 201 W. 7th Street 1210 E. Cary Street Cathy Maxwell for another huge selling series • TICKETED EVENT (includes book) • • TICKETED EVENT (includes book) • off to a great start! In this issue we say a BIG thank you to Maggie Stiefvater and her fans for taking us on the ride of our lives by being Maggie’s bookseller of choice for the exclusive editions of her books we sell online through fountainbookstore.com. We had to rent warehouse space for two months to ship them all. And I MUST thank my amazing booksellers, temps, and volun- teers. Enjoy a discussion about the controversy surround- Enjoy a delicious lunch with the hilarious New York And thanks to all of you for being part of what ing the publication of Go Set a Watchman led by the Times bestselling author Elin Hilderbrand including makes the Fountain Family special whether you author of the newly updated Mockingbird: A Portrait a copy of her latest book Here’s to Us. Elin is incred- live with us in beautiful RVA, shop with us of Harper Lee from Scout to Go Set a Watchman. ibly entertaining in person and we’re getting ready online, or are just visiting our fair city for busi- Shields will present his research on the last chapter for beach/balcony/porch/park reading season. I can’t ness or pleasure. of Lee’s life and then take questions and comments think of a more fun way to kick off the summer! So, in a private presentation room above the restaurant. bring your gal pal, your best friend, your book club, Cheers, Then we’ll all go downstairs for a Harper Lee your daughter/mom and have a “lady date”! Tickets themed dinner prepared by Chef Andy Howell are on sale now. You will be sent an email with a inspired by food shared and talked about in the choice of lunch preferences before the event once Kelly books. Get your tickets and more information at they have been finalized. fountainbookstore.com. 2 Provocative New Fiction What is Not Yours is Not Yours The Summer Guest by Helen Oyeyemi by Alison Anderson From the award-winning author of Boy, Snow, Bird and Mr. What if Anton Chekhov, undisputed master of the short story, Fox comes an enchanting collection of intertwined stories. actually wrote a novel and the manuscript still existed? This Playful, ambitious, and exquisitely imagined, What Is Not tantalizing possibility drives The Summer Guest, a spellbinding Yours Is Not Yours is cleverly built around the idea of keys, narrative that draws together—across two centuries—the lives literal and metaphorical. The key to a house, a heart, a of three women through a diary written in 1888 and discov- secret—Oyeyemi not only unlocks elements of her characters’ ered in 2014. The diary suggests that Chekhov wrote a novel lives, she promises further labyrinths on the other side. that has since been lost. What follows is an obsession to “Flawless… another masterpiece from an author who seems find the lost novel and the discovery that the manuscript is incapable of writing anything that’s less than brilliant.” –NPR. not the only mystery contained within the diary’s pages. Riverhead $27. Harper $27.99. Wilde Lake The Girls by Laura Lippman by Emma Cline NYT bestselling author Laura Lippman challenges our Northern California, during the violent end of the 1960s. At notions of memory, loyalty, responsibility, and justice in this the start of summer, a lonely and thoughtful teenager, Evie evocative story about a long-ago death that still haunts a Boyd, sees a group of girls in the park, and is caught by their family. Luisa Lu Brant is the first female state’s attorney of freedom, their careless dress, their aura of abandon. Soon, Howard County, Maryland and sees an opportunity to make Evie is in thrall to Suzanne, a mesmerizing older girl, and is her name by trying a man accused of beating a woman to drawn into the circle of a soon-to-be infamous cult and the death. But as she learns about the case, questions arise. man who is its charismatic leader. As her obsession with What does it mean to be a man or woman of one’s times? Suzanne intensifies, Evie does not realize she is coming clos- Why do we ask our heroes of the past to conform to the pre- er to unthinkable violence, and to that moment when every- sent’s standards? Morrow $26.99. thing can go horribly wrong. Random House $27. Avail. 6/14 Inherited Disorders The Defense by Adam Ehrlich Sachs by Steve Cavanagh A son receives an inheritance from his father and tries to Former con-artist-turned-lawyer Eddie Flynn gave up the dispose of it before it destroys him. Inherited Disorders tells law a year ago after a disastrous case, and he vowed never to this elemental story in over 100 hilarious, witty variations, step foot in a courtroom again. But now he doesn’t have a laying bare the thwarted affection and mutual bafflement choice. The head of the Russian mob in New York City, on that have characterized the filial bond since the days of trial for murder, has kidnapped Eddie’s ten-year-old daugh- Davidic kings.