Ripe for Excitement
With City of Girls, Elizabeth Gilbert delivers a perfect by-the-pool book, full of spectacle, glitz, and bygone glamour. Gilbert will appear at Montgomery Bell Academy in Nashville on June 17.
Book Reviews
Secrets for Sale
What would happen if cyber thieves managed to hack the CIA? That’s the terrifying premise of Tom Clancy Enemy Contact, the third novel in the Jack Ryan Jr. suspense series from Knoxville writer Mike Maden. Maden will appear at Union Ave. Books in Knoxville on June 15.
A World on Fire
Eric Barnes’ Above the Ether follows characters who survive flood, fire, and pestilence in an attempt to start anew in the burned-out shell of an industrial city. Eric Barnes will discuss Above the Ether at Novel in Memphis on June 11.
A Queendom Under the Sea
Illustrator Janet K. Lee will celebrate the release of the graphic novel Sea Sirens, her collaboration with comic book writer Amy Chu, at Parnassus Books in Nashville on June 11.
Where Food Meets Science
Nashville author Amanda Little traveled the globe—touching down in orchards, fields, oceans, and science labs—to research her new book The Fate of Food: What We’ll Eat in a Bigger, Hotter, Smarter World. She’ll appear at Parnassus Books in Nashville on June 13.
This Land is Our Land
In a new collaboration, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jon Meacham and Grammy Award-winning musician Tim McGraw explore music’s influence on the American soul, telling the story of our nation through the works of poets, composers, gospel choirs, folk singers, and rock-and-rollers.
