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Inferno: Chronicles of Nick

By Sherrilyn Kenyon

Inferno: Chronicles of Nick

Inferno: Chronicles of Nick

By Sherrilyn Kenyon
St. Martin’s Griffin
464 pages
$18.99

“Nick has his driver’s license and he’s not afraid to use it. But turning sixteen isn’t what he thought it would be. While other boys his age are worried about prom dates and applying for college, Nick is neck deep in enemies out to stop him from living another day.”

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Throat of the Night

By Karyn Henley

Throat of the Night

Throat of the Night

By Karyn Henley
Andon Press
248 pages
$9.99

“Lies, Deceit, Kidnapping, Treason. When friends can’t be trusted, and courage becomes costly, can Malai and Trevin trust their love to hold?

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The Vulture

By Gil Scott-Heron

The Vulture

The Vulture

By Gil Scott-Heron
Cannongate UK
244 pages
$10.50

“A tense and intriguing murder mystery . . . a fascinating portrait of late ’60s New York.”

Mojo

A Very Close Deal

Novelist Jay McInerney and editor Gary Fisketjon have been collaborating on books—and drinking Jack Daniel’s together—for the last thirty-nine years

April 3, 2013 Legendary Knopf editor Gary Fisketjon and acclaimed writer Jay McInerney have been friends since their college days, and Fisketjon has been McInerney’s editor since the publication Bright Lights, Big City. In fact, as McInerney tells Chapter 16 in this interview, he wrote the first page of the novel after coming home to Fisketjon’s apartment at five in the morning, after a long night on the town. McInerney and Fisketjon will appear on April 7 at the Nashville Public Library in a program of the Nashville Writer’s Circle hosted by John Seigenthaler and William M. Akers. A reception begins at 2 p.m. with the program following at 2:30. Both are free and open to the public.

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Twisted Tales

Jamie Quatro’s stunning debut collection portrays Lookout Mountain in stories that are haunting, provocative, and delightfully weird

April 2, 2013 There is little danger that Jamie Quatro’s stunning debut collection, I Want to Show You More will ever be shelved with science fiction. The New York Times, the San Francisco Chronicle, The New Yorker, and many other publications have hailed Quatro as a significant new voice in American literature and rightly so. Yet her odd and beautiful stories are built on the devices of science fiction: a couple who sleep in a bed divided by the decomposing corpse of the wife’s distant lover, a runner who must carry a heavy government-provided trophy through a marathon, a young athlete with a whirlpool in his heart. On April 11 at 6:30 p.m., Jamie Quatro will discuss I Want to Show You More at Parnassus Books in Nashville, where she will appear with Jessica Francis Kane, author of This Close. Quatro will also appear on April 18 at the Chattanooga Public Library on April 18 at 9 a.m. as part of the Celebration of Southern Literature, and on April 27 at 2 p.m. at Union Ave. Books in Knoxville.

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