Memoirist Daisy Hernandez examines her life between worlds
February 22, 2016 In A Cup of Water Under My Bed, Daisy Hernandez explores the pain and contradictions of growing up in an immigrant family. Hernandez will give a free public reading at Vanderbilt University in Nashville on February 25, 2016, at 7 p.m.
In Katy Simpson Smith’s Free Men, three uncommon bandits commit a violent crime in the wilds of eighteenth-century Alabama
February 18, 2016 In Free Men, by Katy Simpson Smith, a runaway slave, a Creek Indian, and a poor white man make their way west toward the Mississippi River as a French tracker attempts to bring them to justice for a brutal crime. Smith will discuss her new novel at The Booksellers at Laurelwood in Memphis on February 24, 2016, at 6:30 p.m. and at Parnassus Books in Nashville on February 25, 2016, at 6:30 p.m.
V.E. Schwab twists time and space in A Gathering of Shadows
February 17, 2016 With A Gathering of Shadows, V.E. Schwab brings readers back to the fascinating world of alternate Londons in a story as compulsively readable as its predecessor, A Darker Shade of Magic. Schwab will appear at Parnassus Books in Nashville on February 23, 2016, and at the inaugural Southeastern Young Adult Book Festival, held in Murfreesboro March 11-12, 2016.
Ariel Lawhon’s Flight of Dreams re-imagines the final voyage of the Hindenburg
February 16, 2016 Ariel Lawhon’s new novel, Flight of Dreams, is a historical mystery that imagines the real cause of the Hindenburg’s explosion. While private drama occupies the foreground of Lawhon’s story, the specter of Hitler is never far from the characters’ minds. Lawhon will appear at Parnassus Books in Nashville on February 24, 2016, at 6:30 p.m.
Chris Grabenstein’s eccentric librarian, Mr. Lemoncello, returns to test rival teams of young bibliophiles
February 11, 2016 The nonstop action in Mr. Lemoncello’s Library Olympics will captivate middle-grade readers, and the puzzles and challenges posed to its young heroes (and anti-heroes) will keep them guessing until the end. Chris Grabenstein will discuss his sequel to the New York Times-bestselling Escape from Mr. Lemoncello’s Library at Barnes & Noble Booksellers in Brentwood on February 16, 2016, at 6:30 p.m.
C.J. Redwine’s latest YA novel breaks from her Defiance series and introduces a new heroine
February 10, 2016 Nashville’s C.J. Redwine peppers her new fantasy novel with themes that touch on responsibility, the power of compassion, cooperation with the natural environment, and moving on from difficult experiences, in addition to the suspense and a cast of entertaining characters for which her fiction is known. She will appear at Parnassus Books in Nashville on February 18, 2016, and at the Southeastern Young Adult Book Festival, held in Murfreesboro March 11-13, 2016.
