Hills & Hamlets Bookshop

We are now open for in-person browsing Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays 11-4. Masks required. HOW TO SUPPORT HILLS & HAMLETS BOOKSHOP AT THIS TIME: -shop new books at https://bookshop.org/shop/undergroundbooks... -shop audiobooks at https://libro.fm/undergroundbooks -shop vintage/antiquarian books and Underground Books t-shirts, merch, and gift cards at https://www.undergroundbooks.net/ Most of our ecommerce options are set up through our sister store, Underground Books, which is why most of these links are to them. Thank you all so much for the generous outpouring of support during this challenging period! We have been receiving many online orders and kind messages of support and it means the world to us!

Do you ever feel like the bookstore’s calling your name?

The greatest children’s books are truly works of art for all ages, and this new debut picture book written by Brainpickings founder Maria Popova and illustrated by Ping Zhu is a masterpiece and a meditation on science and the poetry of existence; about time and chance, genetics and gender, love and death, evolution and infinity, all through the true story of a garden snail named Jeremy! About The Snail with the Right Heart: Based on a real scientific event and inspired b...y a beloved real human in the author’s life, this is a story about science and the poetry of existence; about time and chance, genetics and gender, love and death, evolution and infinity concepts often too abstract for the human mind to fathom, often more accessible to the young imagination; concepts made fathomable in the concrete, finite life of one tiny, unusual creature dwelling in a pile of compost amid an English garden. Emerging from this singular life is a lyrical universal invitation not to mistake difference for defect and to welcome, across the accordioning scales of time and space, diversity as the wellspring of the universe’s beauty and resilience. See more

Thank you for all the readers you inspired, Beverly Cleary.

Our sister store Underground Books in Carrollton opened 10 years ago on March 20th. This fall will be 5 years for Hills & Hamlets. Time flies!!!

Our friend Sybil Rosen has penned a delightful story for all ages in Carpenter's Helper, her debut picture book out now from Penguin Random House, with charming... illustrations by Camille Garoche! In this video, Sybil reads Carpenter's Helper to us from her porch in Whitesburg, Georgia. Buy your signed copy of Carpenter's Helper from us here: https://www.undergroundbooks.net//carpenters-helper-signed ABOUT CARPENTER’S HELPER: A warm, wonderful picture book that gently reminds us of the importance of respecting our natural world and highlights the joys and rewards of helping others. Join a girl as she helps a mama and papa bird build a nest in her bathroom, hatch their eggs, and teach their babies to fly away. Renata and her Papi are hard at work at renovating their bathroom. Renata can’t wait to build castles of bubbles in the deep, old-fashioned bathtub. But one morning, she finds dried leaves and pine needles heaped on a shelf in the corner. How did they get there? She soon realizes that a bird has built a nest on the shelf, and inside it are four rosy eggs! Weeks pass, and Renata watches as the wrens come and go, building a home in her bathroom until, one day, with a little help from Renata, the birds are ready to fly. PRAISE FOR CARPENTER'S HELPER: Renata’s wren encounter proves magical, one most children could only wish to experience outside of this lovely story. Kirkus Reviews, Starred Review

HOW TO SUPPORT HILLS & HAMLETS BOOKSHOP AT THIS TIME: -shop new books at https://bookshop.org/shop/undergroundbooks -shop audiobooks at https://libro.fm/undergroundbooks... -shop vintage/antiquarian books and Underground Books t-shirts, merch, and gift cards at https://www.undergroundbooks.net/ Most of our ecommerce options are set up through our sister store, Underground Books, which is why most of these links are to them. Thank you all so much for the generous outpouring of support during this challenging period! We have been receiving many online orders and kind messages of support and it means the world to us!

Looking forward to this! We love Mahogany L. Browne - Writer!!! The Serenbe Institute for Arts, Culture & the Environment AIR Serenbe

A selection of this week’s new arrivals! We are back open Saturdays and Sundays 11-4.

For a limited time, pre-order A Promised Land by Barack Obama through our sister store Underground Books , and you’ll receive a free audiobook from Libro.fm ! Simply order the book at https://bookshop.org/a/45/9781524763169 and then forward the email receipt to [email protected] and you'll receive a link to a free audiobook download!

What is a book but a world of pure imagination? #bookfacefriday #undergroundbookfaces

Did you hear the news? We are open for in-person browsing in the shop again, Saturdays and Sundays only (for now), from 11am to 4pm, masks required. Due to concerns about supply chain disruptions in the book world, indie bookstores around the country are urging supporters to start your gift shopping early. If you can’t visit us in-person yet, browse our Bookshop page available 24/7 at https://bookshop.org/shop/undergroundbooks

Now open for in-person browsing on Saturdays and Sundays 11-4! Masks required!

Celebrate Banned Books Week by browsing the American Library Association's list of the most frequently challenged titles of the last year. Can you spot a common theme? https://bookshop.org/li/the-top-10-challenged-books-of-2019

Is there anything more auspicious than Hobbit Day, the first day of Fall, and National Voter Registration Day all falling on the same day this year? We’re takin...g it as a sign to get our hairy feet out the door, take a big deep breath of Autumn air, and double check that we’re registered to votethe last day to register to vote is October 5th! Buy this beautiful edition of Tolkien’s The Hobbit, illustrated by Jemima Catlin: https://bookshop.org/a/45/9780544174221 Register to vote or check that you’re registered to vote in the state of Georgia here: https://registertovote.sos.ga.gov

LAST CHANCES to enter the #AIRSerenbeLife Nature Photo Contest. Deadline is this Labor Day, Mon Sept 7. Be sure to tag #AIRSerenbeLife. We have over 100 entries, keep them coming! 1st and 2nd place win a gift certificate from co-sponsor Hills & Hamlets Bookshop.... Adult / 14 and under: 1st prize $100 2nd prize $50 ///// The winner grants AIR Serenbe rights for promotional use of their images(s) in our materials. Winner retains the right for other uses. This contest is in no way sponsored, endorsed or administered by, or associated with, Instagram. We took this picture of a moth on the bookstore window last summer.

Our nature photo contest is still underway! Deadline for submissions is Labor Day, September 7. Share the community of Serenbe through YOUR eyes. Be sure to tag... #AIRSerenbeLife on Instagram! 1st and 2nd place win a gift certificate from co-sponsor Hills & Hamlets Bookshop. Photo courtesy of Serenbe. ///// The winner grants AIR Serenbe rights for promotional use of the image(s) in our materials. Winner retains the right for other uses. This contest is in no way sponsored, endorsed or administered by, or associated with, Instagram.

You know what they say, there’s nothing new under the sun (and out in the open air)! Open-Air Schools, published in 1911, is American educator Leonard Porter Ay...res‘ enthusiastic and professional study of the outdoor school movement. First started in 1904, these open-air schools were originally founded to teach and cure ailing students at the same time. Though students with a variety of maladies, as well as those in perfectly good health, were served by open-air schools, the initial urgency behind the founding of such schools was the tuberculosis epidemic and indeed many open-air schools were modeled after tuberculosis sanatoriums. Open-Air Schools explores the origin and development of the outdoor and open-air school movement and contains studies of open-air schools in Germany, England, and the United States, an analysis of physical results in children's health due to open-air schools from weight gain to haemoglobin tests, a survey of open-air school lunch menus, cost analysis, construction and clothing guidelines, a sampling of physical records, and a final assertion of the need for open-air schools summarizing their results, fully illustrated in 65 photographs of open-air schools around the world. Open-air schools faded out of mainstream education by the 1970s; now with grave concerns over reopening schools in the midst of the Coronavirus pandemic, many are calling for safer, open air alternatives to schooling in America and beyond. Perhaps as Ayres concluded in his introduction to this 1911 book on the subject: "It is entirely too soon to prophesy what the future of the open-air school may be....it seems not improbable that the open-air school will be recognized by future historians of education not merely as a therapeutic agent, but rather as marking one long step toward that school of the future..." Message us for more information!

Thanks to Disney Plus, we don't have to fend for ourselves. Now you'll find us retreatin' and readin' every treatise on the shelf.

Happy #bookfacefriday! We have the most talented neighbors at Serenbe, all around us and right next door at Serenbe’s resident artist studio, The Paint Space! Our friend Malinda Lively painted this portrait of Megan, which she surprised us with when we dropped by to say hi after doing our weekly porch deliveries! Need a place to paint, a supportive community, or lessons, check out our friends at The Paint Space!

123 Birds of Serenbe is a new booklet by twenty year old naturalist and avid birder Sam Murray. Sam has been visiting Serenbe ever since his grandparents Dr. Herndon and Wendy Murray moved to the community in 2006. A native of Augusta, GA Sam has been photographing birds since 2012. He is currently a Biology major at Sewanee: The University of the South and he hopes this guide will encourage residents and visitors of all ages to get outside and experience the wonderful world of wildlife! https://www.hillsandhamletsbookshop.com//123-birds-of-sere