Read It Again

Read It Again Bookstore is excited to welcome Amanda Plumb to our online author series. Join us June 30th at 6pm for a conversation about Unique Eats and Eateries of Atlanta. Yum! You can buy your copy here: https://www.read-it-again.com//unique-eats-and-eateries-at Unique Eats and Eateries of Atlanta-... While many of Atlanta’s world famous southern restaurants boast the best fried chicken recipe, its burgeoning global identity has brought a breadth to its food scene like never before. You’ll find peppercorn-crusted kangaroo from Down Under all the way to street food from Malaysia, Mexico, and Venezuela. In Unique Eats: Atlanta you’ll discover the common ingredient uniting these diverse and innovative restaurantsthe people who pour their heart and soul into the dishes they create. Curated in this guide are their stories of family, failure, and reinvention. Learn how a K-Pop star ended up running a BBQ joint in Georgia or how a college professor sold burritos out of a van to make ends meet. Take a peek behind the scenes at the making of fresh bagels that rival any in New York City or figure out why the Silver Skillet’s bathrooms are in the kitchen. Don’t miss the heartfelt stories of the southern mainstays, some of which have been integral in launching the careers of artists, musicians, and Civil Rights heroes. Local author and underground restaurant host Amanda Plumb provides pro-tips on the meals, the menus, and the must-tries throughout the city. Let the Gate City of the South be your gateway to a most unique, southern and international culinary experience. Amanda Plumb- Amanda Plumb loves food almost as much as she loves her adopted hometown of Atlanta. For several years, along with fellow members of the Buford Highway Supper Club, she explored the international dining options along that congested thoroughfare. In 2017, she co-founded Chow Club Atlanta, a monthly underground restaurant showcasing the talents of local home cooks with international roots. Chow Club Atlanta has been featured in the Atlanta Magazine, the AJC, Creative Loafing, and other media. In her first book "Unique Eats and Eateries of Atlanta," Amanda shares the stories of more than 80 local culinary institutions. Event date: Wednesday, June 30, 2021 - 6:00pm

Read It Again Bookstore is turning 18!! We're planning on having a sale right after Thanksgiving to celebrate. November 27th to the 30th. All new books are an extra 10% off! All gifts are 20% off! If you spend $10 you can get a free ARC! ARCs are books the publishers give us to review. We can't sell them, but we can give them to you. One ARC per family please. Supplies are limited.

Oh no! Scooby Doo co-creator Ken Spears dies at age 82. https://www.dailymail.co.uk//Scooby-Doo-creator-Ken-Spears

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BOOK RECOMMENDATION!! She Come By It Natural: Dolly Parton and the Women Who Lived Her Songs by Sarah Smarsh The National Book Award finalist and New York Times bestselling author of Heartland focuses her laser-sharp insights on a working-class icon and one of the most unifying figures in American culture: Dolly Parton. Growing up amid Kansas wheat fields and airplane factories, Sarah Smarsh witnessed firsthand the particular vulnerabilitiesand strengthsof women in working... poverty. Meanwhile, country songs by female artists played in the background, telling powerful stories about life, men, hard times, and surviving. In her family, she writes, country music was foremost a language among women. It’s how we talked to each other in a place where feelings aren’t discussed. And no one provided that language better than Dolly Parton. Smarsh challenged a typically male vision of the rural working class with her first book, Heartland, starring the bold, hard-luck women who raised her. Now, in She Come By It Natural, originally published in a four-part series for The Journal of Roots Music, No Depression, Smarsh explores the overlooked contributions to social progress by such womenincluding those averse to the term feminismas exemplified by Dolly Parton’s life and art. Far beyond the recently resurrected Jolene or quintessential 9 to 5, Parton’s songs for decades have validated women who go unheard: the poor woman, the pregnant teenager, the struggling mother disparaged as trailer trash. Parton’s broader careerfrom singing on the front porch of her family’s cabin in the Great Smoky Mountains to achieving stardom in Nashville and Hollywood, from girl singer managed by powerful men to leader of a self-made business and philanthropy empireoffers a springboard to examining the intersections of gender, class, and culture. Infused with Smarsh’s trademark insight, intelligence, and humanity, She Come By It Natural is a sympathetic tribute to the icon Dolly Pa

Read It Again Bookstore is excited to welcome Kyandreia Jones, author of two Choose Your Own Adventure books! Join us November 9th at 4pm to find out about the lives of James Armistead Lafayette and Mary Bowser! You can buy Kyandreia Jones books here- https://www.read-it-again.com//choose-your-own-adventure-o Kyandreia Jones-...Continue reading

BOOK RECOMMENDATION! Ex Libris: 100+ Books to Read and Reread by Michiko Kakutani Pulitzer Prizewinning literary critic Michiko Kakutani shares 100 personal, thought-provoking essays about books that have mattered to her and that help illuminate the world we live in todaywith beautiful illustrations throughout.... An ebullient celebration of books and reading.Publishers Weekly (starred review) In the introduction to her new collection of essays, Ex Libris: 100+ Books to Read and Reread, Michiko Kakutani writes: In a world riven by political and social divisions, literature can connect people across time zones and zip codes, across cultures and religions, national boundaries and historical eras. It can give us an understanding of lives very different from our own, and a sense of the shared joys and losses of human experience. Readers will discover novels and memoirs by some of the most gifted writers working today; favorite classics worth reading or rereading; and nonfiction works, both old and new, that illuminate our social and political landscape and some of today’s most pressing issues, from climate change to medicine to the consequences of digital innovation. There are essential works in American history ( The Federalist Papers, The Writings and Speeches of Martin Luther King, Jr.); books that address timely cultural dynamics (Elizabeth Kolbert’s The Sixth Extinction, Daniel J. Boorstin’s The Image, Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale); classics of children’s literature (the Harry Potter novels, Where the Wild Things Are); and novels by acclaimed contemporary writers like Don DeLillo, William Gibson, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, and Ian McEwan. With richly detailed illustrations by lettering artist Dana Tanamachi that evoke vintage bookplates, Ex Libris is an impassioned reminder of why reading matters more than ever.

Josh Funk writes silly stories such as the Lady Pancake & Sir French Toast series, the How to Code with Pearl and Pascal series, the It's Not a Fairy Tale series, the A Story of Patience & Fortitude series in conjunction with the New York Public Library, Dear Dragon, Albie Newton, Pirasaurs!, A Night at the Bookstore: A Barnsie & Noble Adventure, and more coming soon! Since the fall of 2015, Josh has visited (or virtually visited) over 400 schools, classrooms, and libraries a...nd he is a board member of The Writers' Loft in Sherborn, MA. Josh grew up in New England and studied Computer Science in school. Today, he still lives in New England and when not writing Java code or Python scripts, he drinks Java coffee and writes manuscripts. Josh is the host of Funk & Friends a show where he interviews members of the children's literature community. Short & Sweet (Lady Pancake & Sir French Toast Book 4) Lady Pancake and Sir French Toast are back with a twist: they've been transformed into small children. Now it's a race against the clock to turn our favorite duo into grown-ups again! Lady Pancake is aching; Sir French Toast's looking pale. Could they be going . . . STALE? Maybe a visit to Professor Biscotti's lab for her despoiling procedure will help. But instead of beautifying them, Biscotti accidentally transforms the two treats into toddlers! Frightened of the now gargantuan (to them) Baron von Waffle, the mini breakfast foods scamper off on an adventure in the fridge, visiting everywhere from the Bran Canyon to Limes Square. Will Baron von Waffle and Professor Biscotti figure out a way to turn them back into a grown Lady and Sir? Or will they stay short & sweet forever? Event date: Sunday, November 8, 2020 - 11:00am

osh Funk Josh Funk writes silly stories such as the Lady Pancake & Sir French Toast series, the How to Code with Pearl and Pascal series, the It's Not a Fairy Tale series, the A Story of Patience & Fortitude series in conjunction with the New York Public Library, Dear Dragon, Albie Newton, Pirasaurs!, A Night at the Bookstore: A Barnsie & Noble Adventure, and more coming soon! Since the fall of 2015, Josh has visited (or virtually visited) over 400 schools, classrooms, and li...braries and he is a board member of The Writers' Loft in Sherborn, MA. Josh grew up in New England and studied Computer Science in school. Today, he still lives in New England and when not writing Java code or Python scripts, he drinks Java coffee and writes manuscripts. Josh is the host of Funk & Friends a show where he interviews members of the children's literature community. Short & Sweet (Lady Pancake & Sir French Toast Book 4) Lady Pancake and Sir French Toast are back with a twist: they've been transformed into small children. Now it's a race against the clock to turn our favorite duo into grown-ups again! Lady Pancake is aching; Sir French Toast's looking pale. Could they be going . . . STALE? Maybe a visit to Professor Biscotti's lab for her despoiling procedure will help. But instead of beautifying them, Biscotti accidentally transforms the two treats into toddlers! Frightened of the now gargantuan (to them) Baron von Waffle, the mini breakfast foods scamper off on an adventure in the fridge, visiting everywhere from the Bran Canyon to Limes Square. Will Baron von Waffle and Professor Biscotti figure out a way to turn them back into a grown Lady and Sir? Or will they stay short & sweet forever? Event date: Sunday, November 8, 2020 - 11:00am