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This week at RJ Julia Booksellers, we're highlighting:
Memorial Day Weekend Store Hours
As we enjoy the unofficial start of summer this Memorial Day weekend, we also pause to remember those who have sacrificed their lives protecting our freedom. 
  • Friday & Saturday, May 26 & 27: 10am-8pm
  • Sunday, May 28: 10am-6pm
  • Monday, May 29, Memorial Day: 10am to 5pm
STAFF SUGGESTIONS
STAFF SUGGESTION It’s not long after these well-to-do city dwellers disembark from the ferry at Fire Island’s marina that their “bad” behavior begins. Every summer, the same group of people arrive in Salcombe to enjoy three-months of heaven on this small, remote island but this summer is different... Read more.
STAFF SUGGESTION After losing both their spouses in a tragic accident, Sloane Chase and Senator Whit Montgomery have found each other. To help Sloane manage her upcoming surgery, they’ve hired experienced home health aide Athena Karras. But instead of recovering, Sloane’s health is quickly deteriorating, leaving her exhausted and frightened... Read more.
STAFF SUGGESTION My first summer read of the year, and just what I wanted. Is blood thicker than grease paint? Are family ties stronger than the call of stage, screens, and social media? Will a season of summer theater on Block Island culminate in a standing ovation or the end of holiday dinners forever?...  Read more.
STAFF SUGGESTION Lushly evoking summer heat and stifled desires, Cursed Bread is both a compelling take on a real-life historical mystery and a pleasing sinister beach read... Read more.
STAFF SUGGESTION New in paperback! I LOVE Kate Atkinson! Everything she writes is such a treat. Set in London, in the seedy underground of nightclubs during prohibition, enters a bright, shining ex-Army nurse searching for two runaway girls... Read more.
STAFF SUGGESTION New in paperback! An unnamed narrator begins, “Oh, I can’t speak for the dead,” setting up what reminded me of an inverted And Then There Were None. Featuring a Hollywood cast and the Serengeti, both its beauty and lurking dangers, this is a rollercoaster of a read... Read more.
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CELEBRATING GRADUATES
Congratulate the grad in your life or treat yourself to a job well done. Browse our Graduation Day titles below. Click here for additional selections.
   
NEW AND NOTEWORTHY NONFICTION
Discover the stories behind the stories with new memoirs, biographies, and more nonfiction. Explore the truth of how we live our lives and what makes up the world around us.
UPCOMING EVENTS
On January 28, 1742, a ramshackle vessel of patched-together wood and cloth washed up on the coast of Brazil. Inside were thirty emaciated men, barely alive, and they had an extraordinary tale to tell. Click here for more. | Signed copies.
Please join us at Mercy High School for a special book launch event! Kristan, a Connecticut local and Mercy High alumna, is celebrating the release of her new novel A Little Ray of SunshineClick here for more | Signed copies.
LITHUB BOOK MARKS
Check out Book Marks - LitHub’s “Rotten Tomatoes” for Books
Book Marks aggregates reviews from over 70 sources and is the perfect way to learn about new books. Scroll to the very bottom of any book page at rjjulia.com to read Book Marks. 
POSITIVE This book is the kind of compelling that will literally have you unable to focus on anything else until you’ve finished. Yellowface is a dark satire story that highlights the many issues in the publishing world. Read more.
POSITIVE The Postcard is a vivid portrait of twentieth-century Parisian intellectual and artistic life, an enthralling investigation into family secrets, and poignant tale of a Jewish family devastated by the Holocaust and partly restored through the power of storytelling. Read more.
Roxanne Recommends: The Postcard
RAVE Hailed by the New York Times as "the new definitive biography," King mixes revelatory new research with accessible storytelling to offer an MLK for our times. Read more.
RAVE Set against the hot, tumultuous months when the city’s desegregation of its public schools exploded in violence, Small Mercies is a superb thriller, a brutal depiction of criminality and power, and an unflinching portrait of the dark heart of American racism. Read more
JUST THE RIGHT BOOK PODCAST
Listen to Roxanne Coady, founder of RJ Julia Booksellers, interview the very best nonfiction authors. This week on Just the Right Book, Roxanne Coady revisits her interview with Cheryl Strayed, author of Wild and Tiny Beautiful Things, whose popular advice column Dear Sugar inspired the podcast, Dear SugarsTiny Beautiful Things has been turned into a TV series streaming now on Hulu.
NOW A HULU ORIGINAL SERIES • NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK • An anniversary edition of the bestselling collection of "Dear Sugar" advice columns written by the author of #1 bestseller Wild—featuring a new preface and six additional columns.
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