Lee Conell’s debut story collection, Subcortical, explores the brain’s strange connections
In her debut story collection, Subcortical, Lee Conell depicts smart characters who are mysteries to themselves. The book’s title provides an accurate index for the wit and sophistication to be found in this volume. Conell will appear on November 29 at Barnes & Noble at Vanderbilt at 6 p.m.
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Michael Bishop’s A Murder in Music City tells a tale of murder, corruption, and a search for justice
Nashvillian Michael Bishop spins a web of murder, corruption, unforgiven sins, and a search for the truth in his debut true-crime book, A Murder in Music City.
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David Madden’s Marble Goddesses and Mortal Flesh, a collection of novellas, explores a writer’s journey
David Madden’s new collection of novellas, Marble Goddesses and Mortal Flesh, traces the arc of an artist’s journey and testifies to the power of a veteran writer who continues to find innovative ways to entertain and instruct readers.
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In Bryn Chancellor’s Sycamore, a small town reckons with the eruption of a long-buried mystery
For the characters of Bryn Chancellor’s accomplished debut novel, Sycamore, the image of a vanished girl has come to embody the instability marking their lives. Once a new arrival discovers human remains outside town, their pasts suddenly press into the present.
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Despite climate calamities unfolding daily around the globe, Al Gore finds hope for the future
An Inconvenient Sequel unpacks the latest scientific data about climate change and spotlights ongoing advocacy efforts around the world. For this book Al Gore focuses on three simple questions: “Must we change?” “Can we change?” “Will we change?”
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Naturalist Stephen Lyn Bales considers a dozen exceptional species in Ephemeral by Nature
In his collection of essays, Ephemeral by Nature, naturalist Stephen Lyn Bales is deeply philosophical about our burdened planet. He makes a convincing case for joy and curiosity despite—or perhaps because of—the transience of all living things.
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