Re-re-re-opening
Dear friends,
It's time to get back in action at the bookstore! With your help, we are ready to reopen Friendly City Books tomorrow in our new location at 109 5th Street North.
We can't wait to show y'all the new and improved bookstore next to Coffee House on 5th. Get the first look, explore the new store with our scavenger hunt, and celebrate with us at our reopening extravaganza!
Tomorrow is the day to spend any Friendly City Bucks coupons you've earned this year, and Frequent Flyers will get their 20% off monthly discount plus a free cup of joe from our friends at Coffee House on 5th.
We're also going to do something a little special for our friends in far places. Everyone who made a purchase from us online through Bookshop.org or Libro.fm during the month of February will be entered to win a raffle for a free FCB t-shirt. There's still time today and tomorrow to purchase a new book, ebook, or audiobook and get your name in the drawing!
We couldn’t have done it without all of you. Over 40 volunteers turned out to our first moving day, and we got all of the books and all of the furniture moved in just two hours! Our families even pitched in, coming from as far as the Coast.
Our staff has been hard at work transforming the building into a cozy, welcoming space with something for everyone. Emily O. did an amazing job designing the layout, and Rachel even repainted the mural in the kids’ section that Pediatric Dentistry of Columbus sponsored.
We are so grateful for all of your support, and we can't wait to see y'all at the new shop!
Happy reading,
Emily
New and Notable
The Irish Goodbye
By Beth Ann Fennelly
The brand new collection of micro-memoirs by the inventor of the form, Beth Ann Fennelly – our friend and a former Mississippi Poet Laureate.
What can we learn from an ordinary life observed with extraordinary skill? In The Irish Goodbye, Beth Ann Fennelly writes of the small moments that shape a life, whether moving or perplexing or troubling or gladdening, in the process dignifying the diminutive through the act of attention.
And Now, Back to You
By B.K. Borison
New from bestselling author B.K. Borison. Two competing meteorologists are forced to find common ground in this opposites attract When Harry Met Sally inspired romance.
Wuthering Heights
By Emily Bronte
The prettiest book cover you ever did see. Get this classic as a shelf trophy, or download the ebook to cram before or after you see the movie.
The Correspondent
By Virginia Evans
#1 New York Times Bestseller! An intimate novel about the transformative power of the written word and the beauty of slowing down to reconnect with the people we love.
Operation Bounce House
By Matt Dinniman
The brand new novel from FCB favorite Matt Dinniman, the creator of the Dungeon Crawler Carl series. This one is a standalone!
A man must fight for his planet against impossible odds when gamers from Earth attempt to remotely annihilate it in this epic, fast-paced novel.
Isles of the Emberdark
By Brandon Sanderson
Brandon Sanderson is back with Cosmere Novel #5, the newest installment in The Secret Projects.
In Isles of the Emberdark, Sanderson expands his thrilling novella Sixth of the Dusk into a mythic novel of legends, lore, and warring galactic superpowers.
When It's Darkness on the Delta
By W. Ralph Eubanks
FCB friend Ralph Eubanks' newest book about the Mississippi Delta's past, present, and future.
For readers of The Sum of Us and South to America, an essential new look at the roots of American inequality—and the seeds of its transformation.
Theo of Golden
By Allen Levi
Emily's currently reading Theo of Golden, the word-of-mouth phenomenon that's swept the nation.
A beautifully crafted novel about the power of creative generosity, the importance of wonder to a purposeful life, and the invisible threads of kindness that bind us to one another.
Night Owl
By Aimee Nezhukumatathil
This is not a drill: Aimee Nezhukumatathil is back!
From the New York Times bestselling author of World of Wonders and Bite by Bite, Aimee Nezhukumatathil’s new collection of poetry explores love, nature, and the transformative powers of the night.
The Calamity Club
By Kathryn Stockett
Don't miss one of the most anticipated books of the year!
The multimillion-copy-selling author of The Help returns with a bold, big-hearted novel about a group of unbreakable women, fighting for what's rightfully theirs--and the power of friendship to change everything.