Summer reading is year-round on Sanibel, but especially nice as Labor Day rolls around and you can relax in the Gulf breeze with a wonderful book.

We’re hosting two book signings in August.

Aug. 16 Carla Brooks Johnston, former mayor of Sanibel, has written Raising Myself, a memoir about her teenage years. Orphaned at 13 and growing up under difficult circumstances, she relates the gripping, inspirational story of her young life.

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Aug. 20 Film buff Andrew Schanie brings his extensive Hollywood knowledge to bear in Movie Confidential, a book about “sex, scandal, murder and mayhem in the film industry.” From mysterious deaths to mistakes in filmmaking and a multitude of other sordid tales, this book dishes the dirt on the stars of past and present.

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Another fine recent addition to our shelves is the line of beautiful sea-theme note cards created by Sanibel resident Pam Kirby Rambo. If you were in our store last Christmas you may remember her best-selling “Shellebrate the Season” Christmas cards, each adorned with a glittery shell (“Visions of SCALLOP SHELLS danced in their heads…”). Her newly released note cards—16 different designs—not only have adorable illustrations of sea life creatures, but each one has a whimsical and interesting fun fact to go along with it. Did you know a sand dollar breathes through its feet? Or that a roseate spoonbill gets pinker by eating shrimp? They come in boxes of eight cards of four designs each.

You can order any of these items by emailing MacIntoshBooks@gmail.com. We will happily ship them to you.