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06/09/2026

Happy New Release Tuesday! Which books are you adding to your TBR?! 📚

06/08/2026

Emma is back with us for the summer! Check out her staff pick, DOLLY ALL THE TIME by Annabel Monaghan! Emma describes it as "such a great summer read! New England summer yachts and of course... unexpected romance!"

ABOUT THE BOOK| "A hardworking single mom returns to her seaside hometown and stumbles into a fake dating situationship with a wealthy, workaholic scion."

06/06/2026

When your bosses get you a new toy… Thanks Sarah and Marc!!!!!

06/05/2026

Happy Pride Month! Check out these fun facts about q***r literature! 📚🏳️‍🌈

06/04/2026

The last of Elisa's Indie Introduce titles, GOLDENBORN by Ama Ofosua Lieb, is out now! A Good Morning America Book Club pick, Elisa says this is a "thrilling and fantastical world inspired by West African mythology! You will be BEGGING for more at the end of this. Ama Ofosua Lieb is an author to watch!"

ABOUT THE BOOK| A girl with a mission. A god with a deal. A story that could change everything.

When 17-year-old Akoma Addo stumbles into a world of ancient gods and modern magic, she’ll have to choose between saving her father… or staying true to everything she’s ever believed.

06/03/2026

Guys.. It's official, AXOLOTL-ELLA, written by Kate Messner and illustrated by Lian Cho, is on shelves NOW!

"Bestselling author Kate Messner has created a funny, empowering retelling of the Cinderella story with a confident heroine who's way too practical for glass slippers. Complemented with laugh-out-loud illustrations by award-winning illustrator Lian Cho, and filled with amusing axolotl facts, Axolotl-Ella is destined to become a storytime favorite."

Stop by the store or order online to get your SIGNED copy before they're all gone!

06/02/2026

Happy New Release Tuesday! Our shelves are stocked and ready for you, book lovers!

06/01/2026

Check out the podcast interview between our bookseller, Elisa, and debut author of The Last Dragon House, LIV MAE MORRIS!!

Liv Mae Morris is the author of THE LAST DRAGON HOUSE, a Winter/Spring 2026 Indies Introduce selection. 🐲 🏡

Here, Morris and Elisa McIntosh of The Bookstore Plus discuss the book.

Read the interview ➡️ https://www.bookweb.org/news/indies-introduce-qa-liv-mae-morris-1632854

05/31/2026

Check out these bangin' books coming out this July! Don't forget to preorder to secure your future reads! 📚

05/30/2026

Check out Sarah's latest staff pick, THE RADIANT DARK by Alexandra Oliva!

"Set in Keene, New York! It's 1980, and a family learns about a distant planet trying to reach out to us."

ABOUT THE BOOK |
"In the wake of First Contact, one mother upends her life and her children’s futures, as humanity reckons with its place in the universe.

It’s March 1980, and Carol Girard and her husband are living an ordinary life in a small town in the Adirondacks. They have just had their first child, and though Carol is struggling with the challenges of new motherhood, her future seems clear. Until something extraordinary happens: an inexplicable flickering of light in the sky, which is ultimately determined to be communication from intelligent life on another planet. But these beings are eleven light-years away, and nothing is known about them other than the fact that they seem to know we exist, too.

As humanity reels from a shifting understanding of its place in the universe, we follow the stories of the Girard family: Carol, whose fascination with this other life sparks a desperate search for spiritual meaning; Michael, her loyal son, who finds solace not in the stars above his head but in the ground beneath his feet; and Ro, Carol’s bright and ambitious daughter, whose childhood goal to work in interstellar communication will evolve into something far grander."