Read on: Looking for some summer book recs? New page-turners from Bruce Holsinger and Corban Addison are sure to boost your beach reading experience. On Thursday, UVA professor Holsinger celebrates the release of his fourth novel, The Displacements, a suspenseful tale of privilege lost in the wake of natural catastrophe. Friday, hear from Addison about Wastelands: The True Story of Farm Country on Trial—an account of a small rural community in North Carolina fighting against one of the world’s most powerful companies. “Wastelands is a story I wish I had written,” says John Grisham.
Thursday 7/7 and Friday 7/8. Free, 7pm. New Dominion Bookshop, 404 E. Main St., Downtown Mall. ndbookshop.com