Summer’s Never Over by Darby Bozeman offers the kind of scary story campers tell when they gather around the fire. In this tale, the camp itself goes up in flames, taking the life of a dazzling young counselor. Was it an accident or murder? Darby Bozeman will discuss Summer’s Never Over at Union Ave. Books in Knoxville on June 9.
Ann Patchett’s subtle, spirited new novel follows one 53-year-old woman as she reckons with her half-forgotten childhood and considers parenthood in a fresh light. Patchett will appear at Harpeth Hall School in Nashville on May 31.
Seventeen-year-old Stella Bohdan is a medium in 1912 New York City who finds her connection to the spirit world a dubious distinction: “I am never alone, never, and yet I’m the loneliest person I know, dead or alive,” Stella complains in The Spiritualists, the debut YA novel by Kristin O’Donnell Tubb. The author will appear at Bound Booksellers in Franklin on June 6 and Ernest Tubb Record Shop in Nashville on June 11.
A Fortune of Sand, the lively debut adult novel by bestselling YA author Ruta Sepetys, dives into the wealth, glamour, and corruption of 1920s Detroit. Sepetys will appear at Parnassus Books in Nashville on May 26.
Joe Bond’s troubled teens come alive in real and heartrending ways in his debut novel, Hope House.
Leslie Baird’s debut novel, Salomé, offers a genre-defying tale: a bildungsroman wrapped in layers of intrigue, gothic mysticism, and a reimagined classic femme fatale. Set in the quiet French village of Châteaubriant, it’s a mind-bendingly good read. Leslie Baird will discuss the book at The Lipstick Lounge in Nashville on May 26 at 6 p.m.
