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For our second Staff Pick Sunday, we have some of Eliza’s recent reads and favorite books — and her favorite reading buddy, Tess!

Shopping for a horsebacker rider or horse lover? Stop by our horse display for horse books, toys, figurines, and more!

Looking for some reading motivation this summer? Join the National Book Foundation's Summer Reading Adventure to celebrate 75 years of the National Book Awards! Complete the different activities for a chance to win prizes, or complete all of them for a chance to win the grand prize — two tickets to the 75th National Book Awards Ceremony in NYC. Learn more at: https://www.nationalbook.org/adventure/

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The Nature of Disappearing by Kimi Cunningham Grant

Ever since Emlyn’s life imploded three years ago, she doesn’t let herself think about the past. She definitely doesn’t think about how she and her best friend, Janessa, don’t speak anymore. Nor does she think about Tyler, her ex-boyfriend, who she hasn’t spoken to since he left her half dead on the side of the road. But the simplicity and safety of the new life she’s built for herself shatters when Tyler shows up with the news that Janessa is missing. As the pair track Janessa’s path deeper into the wilderness, Emlyn begins to suspect that the woods are home to a darker truth — and that Janessa isn’t the only one in danger.

Happy Juneteenth! Learn more about this holiday & celebrate black authors by checking out the Juneteenth display here at Innisfree.

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Lula Dean’s Little Library of Banned Books by Kirsten Miller

In the small town of Troy, Georgia, Lulu Dean is on a mission to rid the public libraries of all inappropriate books — despite the fact that she’s never actually read any of the books she’s challenging. To replace the “pornographic” books she’s challenged at the local library, she starts a lending library in front of her house with Lulu-approved books. What Lulu doesn’t know is that a local troublemaker has stolen her approved books, removed their dust jackets, and replaced her library with banned books: literary classics, LGBTQIA+ romances, Black history, and Judy Blume novels, to name a few. As neighbors borrow books from Lulu’s lending library, they find not only their lives, but the lives of everyone in Troy, changed in unexpected ways.

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The Midnight Feast by Lucy Foley

It’s the opening night, and a night of opulence awaits the guests at The Manor. But under the summer sun, secrets and tensions bubble to the surface as old friends and enemies circulate among the crowd. By the Sunday of the opening weekend, the police have been called. Not only has there been a fire, but a body has been discovered. The story of this murder begins 15 years prior, and the past has finally caught up with the present in this new mystery from bestselling author Lucy Foley.

Calling all Swifties! With our Taylor Swift display, you can pick your next summer read based on your favorite Taylor song, or based on whatever reading era you're in. Whether you're feeling folklore, reputation, Midnights, or anything in between, we've got a book for you!

Happy Father's Day from Innisfree Bookshop!

Looking for a last minute Father's Day card or gift? Innisfree has you covered!

It's official – Find Waldo Local will be back at Innisfree Bookshop this July! Both the Meredith & Laconia stores will be participating, along with 20 local business in each area.

Stop by our Waldo section to practice searching with Where's Waldo books before the scavenger hunt begins on July 1!

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How to Age Disgracefully by Clare Pooley

Lydia takes a job running the Senior Citizens’ Social Club, thinking it will mostly involve card games and sipping tea. Members of the Social Club, however, are not what she pictured. They look deceptively benign, but hiding secrets gets easier with the shield of age. When the city council threatens to sell the community center building, the Social Group needs to work together using, admittedly unorthodox, methods to have a chance to save the building. Bestselling author Clare Pooley’s newest book features an ensemble cast of quirky characters that tugs at the heartstrings.

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Assassins Anonymous by Rob Hart

Mark, known as the Pale Horse, is the world’s most lethal assassin. After realizing that his chosen line of work left him feeling more like a monster than a man, he gives up his life of crime and enrolls in a 12 step program for reformed killers. But while he may be done with the violent life, it appears the violent life is not quite done with him….

After being attacked by an unknown assailant, Mark is forced on the run. As he tries to solve the mystery of his pursuer, he has to put his new skills from his program to the test and try not to kill anyone — or get himself killed.

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One of Our Kind by Nicola Yoon

Jasmyn and King Williams move to Liberty, CA, a planned Black utopia, with the aim to find community and a place where their young family can thrive. Once the couple arrives, they react to the realities of Liberty differently; King embraces the wellness-driven Liberty ethos, while Jasmyn struggles with the community's insulation from the racial disparities facing the world outside. When Jasmyn discovers a secret about Liberty and its founders, the truth threatens to destroy her world and her loved ones. One-part thriller and one-part social commentary, this new novel explores the complications of freedom and being Black in America.

The 2024 Nebula Winners have been announced! The winner of the Nebula Award for Best Novel is The Saint of Bright Doors, by Vajra Chandrasekera. Congrats to the winner & all the nominees!
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Smokey sometimes helps me decide what to read next....

Introducing Innisfree's Sunday Staff Picks! This week's features Bev's (and Smokey's) summer read suggestions!

The 59th Annual Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers Association Nebula Awards Ceremony is today! Stop by our Nebula Awards display to check out some of this year's nominations, as well as previous winners and nominations.
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Happy National Donut Day! Celebrate the day of this sweet treat with a-dough-able donut plushies and puzzles — and don't forget to treat yourself to the real thing!

New This Week!
Swift River by Essie Chambers

This debut novel follows the story of Diamond Newberry living in the New England town of Swift River during the summer of 1987. Ever since her father disappeared seven years prior, Diamond stands out in Swift River as the only Black person in the town. Things shift for Diamond when she receives a letter from an unknown relative that reveals key details about her fathers life and introduces her to two generations of African American Newberry women. As Diamond learns more about her past, one question becomes clear: How will this knowledge change her future?

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Service Model by Adrian Tchaikovsky

This new novel by the author of Children of Time explores the potentially dark future of the relationship between man and machine. Humanity is in decline and increasingly reliant on artificial labor to survive. The tenuous relationship is exposed when one robot gets a few new lines of code added to their core programming, kills their master and runs away. Experiencing the wider world for the first time, they enter a new robot ecosystem emerging from the code originally intended for service.

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Fire Exit by Morgan Talty

This spellbinding debut novel from the author of Night of the Living Rez follows Charles, a white man navigating an eviction from the Native reservation in Penobscot, Maine where he has lived his entire life. Charles’ expulsion becomes a means of exploring his hereditary and cultural entanglements, including a secret, now adult, child he had with a Penobscot woman. As Charles looks back upon his childhood on the reservation and his secret love affair amid the present struggles of his best friend’s alcoholism and his mother’s dementia, what unfolds is an uncompromising examination of family, legacy and inheritance.
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It's National Garden Week, and the Mill Falls Marketplace is in bloom!
Visit our Gardening section for books to help you show your own garden some extra love. Or check out our flower-themed spring display for some on-theme books to read during Garden Week!

It's another sunny day at Innisfree Bookshop! Stop by to pick up your next book to read in the sun!

Happy Pride Month! To read with pride this month, check out our Pride display featuring LGBTQIA+ stories & authors!

Where do you learn to make ice cream? Sundae School!

It's that time of year to celebrate the Dads & Grads in your life! Stop by Innisfree's Father's Day and Graduation display for cards and books to show your appreciation (and maybe find some more dad jokes....)

New This Week!
Housemates by Emma Copley Eisenberg

After Bernie answers Leah’s ad for a new roommate, the two develop an uncategorizable relationship based on their shared belief in art and one another. When Leah decides to accompany Bernie from Philadelphia to her parents’ home in rural Pennsylvania, the trip turns into an ambitious mission to document America through writing and photography. Rambling through the countryside, they capture a sense of a fractured nation and embrace what they are truly capable of, both artistically and romantically.

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A Good Life by Virginie Grimaldi (translated by Hildegarde Serle

Humor and passion coalesce in a story of two estranged sisters’ reunion in this beloved contemporary French novelist’s American debut. Emma and Agathe’s grandmother, Mima, was often their sole source of security and affection throughout their fraught childhood, and her country home (soon to be sold to new owners) provides a sentimental backdrop to the exploration of their pasts. Told in alternating first-person points of view and encompassing their lives from childhood to their current middle-age, Grimaldi uses the complicated bond of these sisters to examine themes of remembrance, reconciliation and healing.
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Evocation by S.T. Gibson

David, a former psychic prodigy, is now content to practice law in Boston and moonlight as a medium for a secret society. When the Devil arrives to collect on an ancestral deal, however, David reluctantly seeks out the only person he knows he can trust: his ex-boyfriend and current occult rival, Rhys. With the only way to get to Rhys being through his wife, Moira, the three of them quickly become emotionally entangled. In a q***r urban fantasy intimate in scope, the trio races to understand buried passions and new feelings for each other as they work to save David from evil ends.

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Today we take time remember the sacrifices of those who served.

Miss the perfect photo op while out on the water? Have no fear, Meredith community member and photographer Bob Kozlow got it for you! Stop by Innisfree to browse his iconic postcards and photobooks.