Chasing the Dream
An aspiring Nashville singer/songwriter finds a world of trouble in Caroline Frost’s new novel, The Last Verse. Frost will discuss the book at The Bookshop in Nashville on March 14.
Falling Back in Love with October
FROM THE CHAPTER 16 ARCHIVE: In Alabama, October was the first month that you could trust cooler weather was coming to stay. Occasionally, I could even wear a sweater in the morning, and although it was wrapped around my waist by afternoon, the heat was not overbearing. Finally, at night, I could snuggle under a sheet and fall asleep. To make a good thing even better, the month began with my father’s birthday and ended with Halloween. There was nothing bad about October in my eyes.
Summer Reading
FROM THE CHAPTER 16 ARCHIVE: For a child in small-town Alabama, books provided solace in summers without friends and activities.
Emily’s Way
“I can certainly use these for Poetry Month,” I’ll say to no one in particular, as if strangers might look askance at a person buying five books of poetry but not at a woman talking to herself.
Where’s Bitsy?
In Gone Missin’, the second installment in Peggy O’Neal Peden’s Nashville mystery series, travel agent Campbell Hale is not surprised when her friend Bitsy Carter decides to escape a dreary winter in Nashville for sunny Mexico. Trouble is, no one has seen Bitsy since the day she checked in at the resort. Peden will appear at a virtual event hosted by Parnassus Books in Nashville on January 24.
A Place Where Nobody Knows Your Name
A young woman, desperate to escape marriage in 18th-century France, makes a deal with one of the old gods in The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue. The results are frightening, heartbreaking, and inspiring.
