Chapter 16 - Part 46

She Loved Baseball

Andrea Williams tells the story of Effa Manley in Baseball’s Leading Lady

By Tracy Barrett | February 24, 2023

FROM THE CHAPTER 16 ARCHIVE: Nashville author Andrea Williams formerly worked in marketing and development for the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum in Kansas City, Missouri. Her wide knowledge of the subject is evident in her first book for young readers, Baseball’s Leading Lady: Effa Manley and the Rise and Fall of the Negro Leagues, an account of the only woman in the Baseball Hall of Fame.

One Mississippi, Two

I can’t forget my client’s final phone call

By Sophia Laurenzi | February 23, 2023

Thirty-six hours after my client was executed, I drove along the highway in the direction opposite the prison for my wisdom teeth extraction. The throb ballooning at the back of my gums had become a rhythmic, welcome distraction from the grief scratching my throat ragged.

Pack Man

Michael Nelson analyzes FDR’s ill-fated court-packing plan of 1937

By Aram Goudsouzian | February 22, 2023

In Vaulting Ambition, Michael Nelson explains the flawed decisions that led to one of Franklin D. Roosevelt’s greatest missteps: his 1937 plan to add new justices to the Supreme Court. Nelson will appear in conversation with Joe Birch at Novel in Memphis on March 5.

A Disaster and a Dauntless Town

Meet the heroes and martyrs of the Waverly Train Disaster in Walk Through Fire

By Peggy Burch | February 21, 2023

Dr. Yasmine S. Ali’s Walk Through Fire: The Train Disaster That Changed America creates a gripping drama about dark days in her hometown’s history. Ali will appear at Parnassus Books in Nashville on February 27, the Humphreys County Public Library in Waverly on March 3, the Dickson County Public Library on March 9, and the Tennessee State Museum in Nashville on April 8.

A March to the Mountaintop

Alice Faye Duncan’s picture book tells the story of MLK’s last days in Memphis

By Sarah Carter | February 17, 2023

FROM THE CHAPTER 16 ARCHIVE: Alice Faye Duncan’s award-winning 2018 picture book, Memphis, Martin, and the Mountaintop, offers children an account of the 1968 Memphis sanitation workers’ strike and the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.

No Gray Area

Mark Greaney’s Gray Man delivers action and drama in Burner

By G. Robert Frazier | February 16, 2023

Burner, the 12th volume in Mark Greaney’s popular Gray Man series, is another high-octane dose of excitement and thrills to rival the best James Bond or Jack Reacher yarns. Greaney will celebrate the release of Burner at Charlie Vergos’ Rendezvous in Memphis on February 25.

Isabel and the Invisible World

By Alan Lightman, illustrated by Ramona Kaulitzki
MIT Kids Press
40 pages
$18.99

“In simple, engaging language, complemented by luminous artwork from best-selling illustrator Ramona Kaulitzki, author and physicist Alan Lightman unveils the hidden world of light waves—the ones you can see and the ones you can’t.”

~ the publisher