A young couple with very different career goals navigates Obama-era D.C.
In Jennifer Close’s The Hopefuls a young married couple moves to Washington, D.C., and becomes enmeshed with the lives of a budding politician and his appealing wife. Close will discuss her new novel at Parnassus Books in Nashville on June 27 at 6:30 p.m.
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Amanda K. Morgan takes readers on a wild ride in her latest young adult novel
Amanda K. Morgan’s second young-adult release, Such a Good Girl, is a suspense-filled story with a surprise ending that will have readers going back to the novel for days afterward. Morgan will be at Parnassus Books in Nashville on June 24 at 2 p.m.
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Ben Anderson chronicles a year in the Smokies
Veteran backcountry volunteer Ben Anderson spent 2016 hiking one million steps—more than 430 miles—on seventy-one different trails in Great Smoky Mountains National Park. In Smokies Chronicle, he writes an intimate portrait of each day hike he took in the number-one most visited national park in the country.
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Angela Palm’s memoir, Riverine, reckons with the lingering effects of growing up in Nowhere, Indiana
In her memoir of childhood along the Kankakee River, Angela Palm recalls her love for the boy next door, who went to prison before he could escape their dead-end home. Palm will discuss Riverine at Refinery Nashville on June 24 at 6 p.m. The event, sponsored by the Porch Writers’ Collective, is free and open to the public.
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Scholars ponder Let Us Now Praise Famous Men on its seventy-fifth anniversary
In Let Us Now Praise Famous Men at 75, a transatlantic group of scholars reconsiders James Agee’s classic Depression-era account of three Alabama sharecropping families and the problem of representing them in words and images.
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Kristin O’Donnell Tubb’s new middle-grade novel asks whether a pit bull with a past can become an American hero
Kristin O’Donnell Tubb’s A Dog Like Daisy follows one dog’s struggle to overcome her own unhappy past and ease the pain of a veteran with PTSD. The launch party for A Dog Like Daisy will be held June 22 at 4 p.m. at the Kings’ Chapel Clubhouse in Arrington.
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