The Southeastern Young Adult Book Festival gives students first access to authors
The Southeastern Young Adult Book Festival—or SE-YA—will draw thousands of readers to the Middle Tennessee State University campus in Murfreesboro on March 11 for an all-ages celebration of reading and writing that features appearances by more than forty children’s and YA authors. The event is free and open to the public.
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Lynn Frierson Faust shares her passion for bioluminescent beetles—a.k.a. lightning bugs
Lynn Frierson Faust’s new book, Fireflies, Glow-worms, and Lightning Bugs, is an accessible, beautiful, and comprehensive guide to fireflies and their cousins. Faust will discuss her work at the University of Tennessee Arboretum Society in Oak Ridge on March 9 at 6:30 p.m. The event is free and open to the public, and Union Ave. Books will be on hand for book purchases.
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Maggie Shipstead’s Astonish Me illuminates the ballet world’s relentless pursuit of perfection
The ballet dancers in Maggie Shipstead’s novel, Astonish Me, are engaged in a daily war against their mortal limitations. Shipstead will discuss Astonish Me at the John C. Hodges Library at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville on March 6 at 7 p.m. The event is free and open to the public.
Michael Knight’s Eveningland centers on life in and around Mobile Bay
Eveningland, the new collection of linked stories by Knoxville writer Michael Knight, focuses closely on the lives of affluent families in and around Mobile Bay. Knight will discuss Eveningland at Union Ave. Books in Knoxville on March 7 and at Parnassus Books in Nashville on April 8.
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Dana Chamblee Carpenter reminds readers that you can’t pick your family
It’s no picnic being the daughter of Satan, especially if you’re disinclined toward evil. Just ask Mouse, the 700-year-old protagonist of The Devil’s Bible, the new novel by Dana Chamblee Carpenter. Carpenter will appear at Parnassus Books in Nashville on March 9 at 6:30 p.m.
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Jeff Zentner’s new YA novel explores loss by celebrating life
Celebrated YA author Jeff Zentner will discuss his second novel, Goodbye Days—the story of teenager Carver Briggs and the moment that changed his life—on March 7 at Parnassus Books in Nashville at 6:30 p.m.
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