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Welcome to Island Bookstore!  
It's SUMMER! And it's hot, get out of the heat and into our stores for the A/C and excellent titles!

RESERVE 'BREAKING DAWN' and mark your calendar for our Midnight release parties in all three Island Bookstore locations. Parties begin August 1st at 11PM with the book going on sale at 12:01 AM August 2nd. Are you ready?

Are you new to our website? Well, thanks for coming! Throughout our site we've featured titles that we have in stock, ones that the staff like, and perennial favorites. New to our site this year, certain books make available for free download their first twenty pages. Just look for the BROWSE SAMPLE PAGES and click! You can now also purchase E-Books from our site. When checking out, choose to purchase the book as a download and follow the steps.

Something important to remember about our site: we don't carry all the books you find here in our store. Always drop us an email or phone call to double-check. Just because it's not in the store, doesn't mean we can't get it for you.

Store Picks  
Everyone loves a little direction, and we have tons to give. Check out staff picks and recommendations, games, new adult and children's titles, reading groups, and more!! (Read More!)

True Green @ Work: 100 Ways You Can Make the Environment Your Business True Green @ Work: 100 Ways You Can Make the Environment Your Business
by McKay, Kim, Bonnin, Jenny
Now, from the authors of the quintessential how-to-go-green guide for individuals and households, this definitive do-it-yourself manual is for the working world--businesses, workers, and day-to-day life at the office. Positive and practical, "True Green at Work" tells everyone who holds a job, from top executives on down the ladder, how to help minimize their company's carbon footprint. The book is accessible and actionable, with its signature, crisp design and lively text. Each page contains a single tip for reducing waste, making it easy for anyone in any job to take small steps toward a healthier planet. Suggestions run the gamut, from obvious recycling to innovative strategies that encourage sustainability.
Authors McKay and Bonnin draw on their extensive industry expertise to address corporate culture, branding, and marketing and to profile American businesses on the leading edge of green--inspiring stories that are sure to motivate any company and employee. Timely and smart, "True Green at Work" is one business book that will pay dividends.

Outer Banks Interest  
We have hundreds of thousands of visitors to the Outer Banks every year - and with good reason. Our history, beaches, lighthouses, wild horses, and remote location make the Outer Banks a wonderful place to visit. Many, many books have been published about our beautiful home. If you don't find what you're looking for or have any questions, please call us or drop us an email. (Read More!)

A New World: England's First View of America A New World: England's First View of America
by Sloan, Kim
In 1585 John White joined a group of Englishmen sent by Sir Walter Raleigh to found a colony in 'Virginia' along the tidewaters of Coastal North Carolina. This book reproduces in full the celebrated but rarely seen British Museum collection of watercolours made by this relatively unknown gentleman-artist. It also tells the tale of his five voyages to 'Virginia' and his role as Governor of the 'Lost Colony' of Roanoke, which preceded Capt. John Smith's more successful settlement at Jamestown twenty years later.

Indie Next List  
Unique and provocative selections from a great diversity of voices...all personally recommended by the independent booksellers of America. (Read More!)

What Was Lost What Was Lost
by O'Flynn, Catherine
With irreverent wit and sharp insight, O'Flynn weaves a mesmerizing tale of a precocious missing girl and the people who surround her. By tapping into emotions with ease and grace, this book wonderfully weaves together characters and the love that even loss can't affect.--Meaghan Leenaarts, Island Bookstore (Corolla, NC)


Quote of the Day

"Books are the best of things, well used; abused, among the worst. What is the right use? What is the one end which all means go to effect? They are for nothing but to inspire."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The American Scholar
From The Quotable Book Lover (Lyons Press)


Author Birthday

Nathaniel Hawthorne was born on this date in 1804.


Island Bookstore Info

Get what you need to know, fast! Our location and directions, hours, t-shirts and totes, gift certificates, and more!! (Read More!)




News and Articles

Each month we send out an email newsletter listing hot new titles. If you didn't get the newsletter, or want a refresher, check out the featured titles below.

Bill writes book reviews regularly for local newpapers. We also send out an email newsletter and here have listed our picks from each edition. (Read More!)

Somewhere Off the Coast of Maine
by Hood, Ann
"Brilliant.... The Vietnam era] is vividly captured by Ann Hood."--"New York Times Book Review"
In 1969, as Peter, Paul and Mary croon on the radio and poster paints are splashing the latest antiwar slogans, three friends find love. Suzanne, a poet, lives in a Maine beach house awaiting the birth of a child she will call Sparrow. Claudia, who weds a farmer during college, plans to raise three strong sons. Elizabeth and her husband marry, organize protests, and try to rear two children with their hippy values. By 1985, things have changed: Suzanne, now with an MBA, calls Sparrow "Susan." Claudia spirals backward into her sixties world--and into madness. And Elizabeth, fatally ill, watches despairingly as her children yearn for a split-level house and a gleaming station wagon. Reading group guide included.