A wife finds that her husband’s family mansion contains old secrets and new temptations in Karen Kelly’s Bethlehem.
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Lies of Omission
Secrets affect three generations of a family in Bethlehem
Faye Jones
How the Other Half Lived
Cecelia Tichi’s What Would Mrs. Astor Do? peeks into the lives of the Gilded Age rich
Vanderbilt professor Cecelia Tichi considers high society, nineteenth-century style, in What Would Mrs. Astor Do? The Essential Guide to the Manners and Mores of the Gilded Age. Tichi will appear at Parnassus Books in Nashville on February 10.
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Love, Betrayal, and War
In England’s civil war, Brenda Rickman Vantrease finds a mesmerizing story
Brenda Rickman Vantrease returns to the English civil war in A Far Horizon. The novel explores the way people manage to carry on, even as their country is being torn apart. Vantrease will speak at the Women’s National Book Association on February 7.
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Mayhem in Memphis
Peter Ash takes on both gangs and white supremacists in Nick Petrie’s most recent thriller
The trip to Memphis was supposed to be healing for combat veteran Peter Ash. Then he gets on the wrong side of both a powerful gang and a psychotic white supremacist. Nick Petrie will discuss Tear It Down at Novel in Memphis on January 22.
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The Christmas Ornament
Not all holiday mementos are joyful
Yes, he broke my heart, but I survived it. And the ornament was a symbol of that survival.
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Overcoming the Worst
In Courtney Stevens’s latest YA novel, young survivors learn to face (and enjoy) life again
In Four Three Two One, Nashville YA novelist Courtney Stevens explores what it’s like to be a young survivor of senseless violence. Stevens will appear at Parnassus Books in Nashville on November 16.
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