Corner Bookstore • Winder, Georgia

The Black Friday Special at Corner Bookstore Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday is buy TWO Christmas books (from existing stock) and receive two Christmas books FREE (from existing stock).

The 2011 National Book Award Winners Announced The winners of the National Book Awards were announced tonight, November 16, at the National Book Foundation’s 62nd National Book Awards Ceremony and Benefit Dinner at Cipriani Wall Street in New York City. This year’s winners are: Fiction Jesmyn Ward, Salvage the Bones (Bloomsbury USA) Nonfiction Stephen Greenblatt, [...]

Good to see Sally Russell again.  She signed books and chatted with friends and family from 1-4:00 p.m on Nov. 4th.  Thanks to the Barrow County Historical Society and Cathy White, President, for helping with refreshments.  Sally’s new book, her fifth, is a look at the personal side of Senator Richard B. Russell, Jr.

Left Neglected: A Novel, by Lisa Genova (Gallery, $25, 9781439164631) “Sarah is the typical working mother — too busy, multi-tasking, trying to be all things to her family and her co-workers. While driving on a busy, rain-slickened highway, she fumbles with her cellphone and, glancing up, sees nothing but red brake lights in front of [...]