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PoetryLife 2023: Celebrating Heritage
Each year since 2012 PoetryLife, a project of Bookstore1Sarasota, has been bringing the best of the world’s poets to Sarasota. PoetryLife...
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Dec 11, 20223 min read
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Our Favorite Books of the Year: 2022 Edition
It's our biggest book list of the year! We moved the store this year, which was a very big deal, but we all still found time for reading....
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Nov 28, 20221 min read
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Long Books for Shorter Days
I like to call it nighttime brain: the way your mind seems to function on a different frequency than it does during daylight hours -...
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Nov 21, 20222 min read
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Books Make Great Gifts -- Teen Edition
Teens can be difficult to buy for, but we know there's a book for everyone! Here are 12 recent young adult works that we recommend for...
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Nov 21, 20221 min read
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Books Make Great Gifts
After all, the best part of a holiday is perhaps not so much to be resting yourself, as to see all the other fellows busy working. ~...
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Nov 14, 20221 min read
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Our Most Anticipated Books: December 2022 - February 2023
There are some great books coming out this winter. Here is a selection that we are excited about, including Jane Smiley, Salman Rushdie,...
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Nov 14, 20223 min read
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It's Children's Book Week!
Children's Book Week is back! This year's second dedicated week of celebration takes place November 7-13 with the theme, "How do you...
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Nov 7, 20221 min read
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Short and Satisfying
It’s the time of year when those of us who set annual reading goals start to get nervous. It’s also the time of year when holiday...
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Oct 31, 20222 min read
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October is Cookbook Month!
No one who cooks, cooks alone. Even at her most solitary, a cook in the kitchen is surrounded by generations of cooks past, the advice...
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Oct 10, 20222 min read
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It's Book Award Season!
It’s time for literary prizes and awards. The Nobel Prize for Literature has been awarded and the Booker Prize, Kirkus Prize and National...
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Oct 10, 20221 min read
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New Sci Fi and Fantasy to Get Away From it All!
Sometimes there is nothing like a good science fiction or fantasy novel to really sweep you away from the world. These seven recent...
Bookstore1Sarasota
Oct 4, 20222 min read
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Lives Well Lived
After a certain number of years, our faces become our biographies. ~Cynthia Ozick Some great biographies and memoirs have been published...
Bookstore1Sarasota
Sep 26, 20222 min read
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Read Banned Books!
Censorship is the child of fear and the father of ignorance. ~Laurie Halse Anderson, Speak It's Banned Books Week, a time to champion our...
Bookstore1Sarasota
Sep 19, 20222 min read
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Banned Books We Love -- Read a Banned Book Today!
The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame.” —Oscar Wilde / The Picture of Dorian Gray...
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Sep 1, 20225 min read
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Chilling Thrillers for Hot Summer Days
Summertime is still in full effect in Sarasota and what could be a better distraction from the heat than a chilling thriller? These seven...
Bookstore1Sarasota
Aug 29, 20221 min read
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Elsie Loves Romance!
Today is Bookstore Romance Day, a day designed to give independent bookstores an opportunity to celebrate Romance fiction—its books,...
Bookstore1Sarasota
Aug 15, 20221 min read
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Our Most Anticipated Books: September - November 2022
There are some great books coming out this autumn. Here is a selection that we are excited about, including Stephen King, Michelle Obama,...
Bookstore1Sarasota
Aug 8, 20223 min read
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Read Around the World
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes. ~Marcel Proust~ Air travel is hard right...
Bookstore1Sarasota
Aug 1, 20222 min read
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It's the Dog Days of Summer!
Since we are in the dog days of summer, here are some bark-worthy books to put on your radar. These 12 books are all about dogs: fiction,...
Bookstore1Sarasota
Jul 18, 20221 min read
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Let's Dine Out!
If you know Andrea, then you know that she loves to read books in which restaurants play a big part. She loves to imagine the clinking of...
Bookstore1Sarasota
Jul 11, 20222 min read
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