Domestic violence is at the center of Kimberly Belle’s Dear Wife
Kimberly Belle’s Dear Wife tells a story of domestic abuse from multiple points of view: a wife on the run, an angry husband, and a detective determined to find answers.
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A girl and a ghost take on a poltergeist in Victoria Schwab’s Tunnel of Bones
In Tunnel of Bones, the second book in Victoria Schwab’s middle-grade City of Ghosts series, Cassidy Blake and her ghostly best friend, Jacob, encounter a poltergeist in Paris. Schwab will discuss Tunnel of Bones at Parnassus Books in Nashville on September 8.
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A bibliophile confronts her stash of unread books
My unread books had all survived several cullings, which meant that I must have repeatedly decided they were worth reading. So it seemed time to do just that.
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Secrets affect three generations of a family in Bethlehem
A wife finds that her husband’s family mansion contains old secrets and new temptations in Karen Kelly’s Bethlehem.
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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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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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