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Torn Between Love and Adventure

Dewey Lambdin’s Captain Lewrie has it all: new love and the chance to command an offense against France

A Fine Retribution is Dewey Lambdin’s twenty-fourth historical naval adventure featuring Captain Alan Lewrie. The intrepid captain is now forty-six, knighted, and fresh from a major victory against the French….

Summer Love

Mary Alice Monroe’s new novel sets beach-read romance on an actual beach

…many other bestsellers rely. Ralph Bowden, who holds a Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina, has worked as an electrical engineer, history professor, home builder, alternative-energy consultant, and technical

Mountain Meanderings

Ben Anderson chronicles a year in the Smokies

…more than 11 million visitors in 2016, the centennial of America’s National Parks system, the Smokies are well known, perennially the most visited park in the United States. But despite…

Of Sharks and Men

With The Shark Club, Ann Kidd Taylor delivers the quintessential beach read

…to place that is typical of the best travel writing, gracefully drawing Maeve’s character through her observations of the sun-splashed beaches and waters of the Southern Gulf Coast. Reading The…

What is Love Without Longing?

Sheba Karim’s meditation on desire and distance embraces and enlarges the YA genre

…her good-hearted mother carries her own burdens, her often uncommunicative father has a romantic streak, her best friend is angry but trustworthy, and her great uncle, whose tragic past she…

Brand-New Bookstores

In East Nashville, Her Bookshop and Atomic Nashville offer two new buy-local options

…with his wife, Kerry. Like all independents, Atomic carries a unique but wide-ranging selection of titles. But where Her Bookshop skews toward “beautiful books,” as Herr calls them, the focus…

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