Chapter 16 - Part 10

Letters to a Younger Sister

Doan Phuong Nguyen’s A Two-Placed Heart conveys her family’s story in verse

By Bianca Sass | September 20, 2024

When Doan Phuong Nguyen was in elementary school, her family immigrated to Nashville from Vietnam. This complicated transition inspired Nguyen’s new book, A Two-Placed Heart, a lightly embellished autobiographical, epistolary story told in verse. Nguyen will appear at Parnassus Books in Nashville on September 24 and the 2024 Southern Festival of Books in Nashville on October 26-27.

Protecting What We Love

This Is How a Robin Drinks makes the case for urban nature

By Sara Beth West | September 19, 2024

In This Is How a Robin Drinks, Joanna Brichetto makes the case that urban landscapes can be perfect places to fall in love with the wonders of nature. Brichetto will appear at Parnassus Books in Nashville on September 23 and the 2024 Southern Festival of Books in Nashville on October 26-27.

Memory and Forgetting

Wright Thompson’s The Barn reckons anew with the infamous murder of 14-year-old Emmett Till

By Odie Lindsey | September 18, 2024

Wright Thompson’s latest book, The Barn: The Secret History of a Murder in Mississippi, revisits what is often considered the most galvanizing event of the civil rights era: the 1955 murder of 14-year-old Emmett Till in rural Sunflower County, Mississippi. Thompson will discuss the book at Novel in Memphis on October 3 and Barnes & Noble in Brentwood on October 4.

A Magical Mountain Fairy Tale

Natalie Lloyd demonstrates the power of friendship against a backdrop of legend and loss

By Tina Chambers | September 17, 2024

Chattanooga author Natalie Lloyd’s latest tale of heartbreak and hope for middle school readers is The Witching Wind. Roxie Darling and Grayson Patch become friends as incoming sixth graders at Camelot Middle School in fictional Silas County, Tennessee. And, as is always the case in a Natalie Lloyd book, fantastical adventures are soon afoot.

Quietly Determined

A young woman finds her way in Margot Livesey’s The Road from Belhaven

By Susannah Felts | September 16, 2024

Margot Livesey’s The Road from Belhaven follows a gifted girl’s passage from child to adult. Livesey will appear at the 2024 Southern Festival of Books in Nashville, October 26-27.

Liar, Liar

Joseph Hayden explains the long history of disinformation in American politics and journalism

By Aram Goudsouzian | September 13, 2024

From hoaxes to demagogues to unthinking media prejudices, disinformation has long infected American politics and media. Joseph Hayden traces that history.

Camilla and the Caterpillars

By Frances Figart, illustrated by Matt Brass
Smokies Life
68 pages
$14.95

A young girl’s encounter with an extraordinary caterpillar in the Great Smoky Mountains leads her and her family on a quest to plant a national park right in their own backyard.

This environmentally themed chapter book for ages 6 through 11 introduces young readers to important ecological concepts including habitat loss and the interdependence of native species and offers a compelling grassroots solution through native-plant gardening that invites anyone to take part in addressing the growing biodiversity crisis.

~the publisher