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FEATUReD
For details about our Featured books, go to our Featured page here.
Featured Books thru August 21
Books Celebrating Metro Detroit Black Restaurant Week (8/21-27) & the 8/21 Solar Eclipse
The African and Middle Eastern Cookbook
By Josephine Bacon & Jenni Fleetwood
Empire of Things
By Any Means Necessary
A Revolutionary Guide for Black Women Who Want to Eat Great, Get Healthy, Lose Weight, and Look Phat
By Tracye Lynn McQuirter, MPH
The Cooking Gene
A Journey Through African American Culinary History in the Old South
By Michael W. Twitty
The Edna Lewis Cookbook
By Edna Lewis & Evangeline Peterson
Food Health and Happiness
115 On-Point Recipes for Great Meals and a Better Life
By Oprah Winfrey
High on the Hog
A Culinary Journey from Africa to America
By Jessica B. Harris
Princess Pamela's Soul Food Cookbook
A Mouth-Watering Treasury of Afro-American Recipes
By Pamela Strobel
A Real Southern Cookbook
In her Savannah Kitchen
By Dora Charles
The Seasoned Life
Food, Family, and the Joy of Eating Well
By Ayesha Curry
For info about Metro Detroit Black Restaurant Week - www.blackmetroeats.com.
American Eclipse
A Nation’s Epic Race to Catch the Shadow of the Moon and Win the Glory of the World
By David Baron
Astrophysics for People in a Hurry
By Neil deGrasse Tyson
Seven Brief Lessons on Physics
By Carlo Rovelli
Steven Hawking
A Graphic Guide
By J.P. McEvoy & Oscar Zarate
EVENTS At-A-Glance
For details about our Events, see our Events page & calendar.
Saturday, August 19
10 a.m.
Tai Chi w/Ted
We're here at 10 a.m. each Saturday, except holidays, with our Mind, Body & Spirit Classes. Check out the class schedule on our Events page here.
Coming Up!
8/25, 6 p.m. - Book/Author Talk w/Darryl “DMC’ McDaniels’ (from Run-DMC) feat. Ten Ways Not to Commit Suicide
Bookish News & info
Source Booksellers Recommends: Expand Reading Horizons!
Alert! Alert! For bibliophiles! Check out LeVar Burton Reads podcast for some juicy stories for your ears.
During the first week of August, we welcomed a visit from our neighbors to the South in Windsor, ONT, bookstore and publisher Biblioasis (link to website). They gifted us with two of their publications - Bookshops A Cultural History by Jorge Carrión, and Eleanor A Spiritual Biography The Faith Of the 20th Century's Most Influential Women by Harold Ivan Smith - and we gifted them with two of the titles we carry - Once in a Great City and numerous free publications that we carry. Check then out http://biblioasis.com.
Source Booksellers is honored to be featured in Shelf Awareness, the website for Daily Enlightenment for the Book Trade. Check out the article here.
With the release of the paperback version of Lawrence Hill's The Illegal, we were pleasantly surprised to find Source Booksellers' Janet Jones quoted in the Praise For The Illegal section in the front of the book!
Source Booksellers made Huffington Post's list of 50 Of The Best Indie Bookstores In America. Check it out here - we're #47.
Thank you to the American Booksellers Association for featuring Source Booksellers in its current newsletter. Read it here.
We're so thankful to the Detroit Bus Company for featuring Source Booksellers in its recent Behind the Counter podcast. Have a listen here.
Source Booksellers was featured in the AARP magazine! Check it out here.
Photo by Tim Leon for PARKVIEW MAGAZINE
We now carry The Atlantic
As Ta-Nehisi Coates' Between the World and Me" continues to rise, hear from Coates in this interview with Robin D. G. Kelley here.
Source Booksellers on the air & in print!
Look for us in the new episode of The Heart of Detroit on WDIV- Channel 4, online at clickondetroit.com, mitchalbom.com, and theheartofdetroit.com.
You can also find us listed in the Locals section of the beautiful new publication, Parkview.
Source Booksellers on the air
Independent bookstores are on the rise despite digital competition
March 10, 2015 Janet Jones was featured on Michigan Public Radio's Stateside with Cynthia Canty. You can listen to it here.
Natural Awakenings - Check it out here on page 12.
Source Booksellers in Model D
Model D's guide to shopping local this holiday season
Read the story here in Model D.
Holiday season brings good tidings of new Detroit bookstores
Check out the story here in Model D Media.
Yahoo Travel Guide on shopping local in Detroit
The story, which you can read here mentions A Detroit Anthology, available in the store.
Indie Bookstore News!
Did you know indie bookstores are on the rise?
Find out more here in this article from Slate Magazine.
Source Booksellers' Owner on WDET - 101.9
On Monday, Sept. 29, Source Booksellers' owner Janet Webster Jones had the awesome opportunity to be an on air panelist on WDET - 101.9's show Detroit Today "Aging Together" segment. Led by Laura Weber Davis, panelists included Randal Charlton, and Dennis Archambault. Listen to the podcast here.
Source Booksellers is featured in model D:
'Encore entrepreneurs' add vibrance to Detroit's small business scene.
Check out the story here.
Special Note:
For our customers who travel Woodward, the M-1 Rail Project is well underway.
As you travel to visit us in Midtown and around the area, stay up-to-date with the construction project and traffic redirects here.