Chapter 16

Into the Unknown with Captain Cook

Hampton Sides examines the final voyage of one of the great explorers

By Chris Scott | April 10, 2024

In The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook, Hampton Sides brings to life all the excitement, drudgery, politics, and cultural complications of one of the greatest, and most tragic, voyages of discovery. Sides will discuss the book in events at Parnassus Books in Nashville on April 17 and at Novel in Memphis on April 18.

Good Old-Fashioned Murder

Michael Sims’ new anthology of short fiction presents antique whodunit gems

By Chris Scott | November 13, 2023

In his latest anthology of Victorian-era fiction, The Penguin Book of Murder Mysteries, Michael Sims presents the evolution of the short-form murder mystery.

Toward the Trail of Tears

Peter Cozzens’ new history describes the largest war between the United States and Native Americans

By Chris Scott | April 25, 2023

The vicious Creek War determined control of the Southeast. In A Brutal Reckoning: Andrew Jackson, the Creek Indians, and the Epic War for the American South, Peter Cozzens places Old Hickory at the war’s epicenter.

The Quiet General

Jack Hurst reveals the secret of Ulysses S. Grant’s success

By Chris Scott | January 26, 2023

In America’s Hardscrabble General: Ulysses S. Grant from Farm Boy to Shiloh, Jack Hurst shows how Grant’s upbringing and life’s struggles perfectly prepared him for achieving greatness as a leader in America’s bloodiest war.

How Right Made Might

Jon Meacham highlights Abraham Lincoln’s moral code in a new, essential biography

By Chris Scott | October 17, 2022

Pulitzer Prize winner Jon Meacham continues his exploration of moral leadership and America’s search for a more perfect union in And There Was Light: Abraham Lincoln and the American Struggle. Meacham will discuss the book at Montgomery Bell Academy in Nashville on October 23.

The Games of Life

Fight like hell and then forgive, but don’t forget

By Chris Scott | December 6, 2021

Everyone in my family played something. Dad loved word games, dice games, and pool. Mom was a fierce competitor at Monopoly, rummy, and double solitaire, during which, in her motherly way, she would trash talk her offspring to gain psychological advantage.

Behind the Seams: My Life in Rhinestones

By Dolly Parton with Holly George-Warren, curated by Rebecca Seaver
Ten Speed Press
336 pages
$50

“Featuring behind-the-scenes stories from Dolly Parton’s life and career, and the largest reveal of her private costume archive, this gorgeously photographed book spotlights her most unforgettable looks from the 1960s to now.”

~ the publisher