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Can Southern Girls Go Home Again?

In Yankee Doodle Dixie, Lisa Patton brings her popular protagonist back to Memphis

October 25, 2011 In Yankee Doodle Dixie, Franklin resident Lisa Patton brings her popular character Leelee Satterfield home to Memphis after a tumultuous and cold year in Vermont. Leelee believes that all will be well once she returns to Tennessee. But will she be able to settle back into her old life? Does she want to? Patton will read from and discuss the book as part of the Evening with an Author series at the University Club of Nashville on October 27 at 6 p.m.

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Murder on Music Row: A Music Industry Thriller

Murder on Music Row: A Music Industry Thriller

Stuart Dill
John F. Blair
344 pages
$14.95

“Dill, who has served as personal manager for Minnie Pearl, Billy Ray Cyrus and other notables in the Nashville country music world, brings his insider’s expertise to his solid debut, a mystery thriller…The conclusion is stunning.”

Publishers Weekly

Listen: Twenty Nine Short Conversations

Listen: Twenty Nine Short Conversations

Listen: Twenty Nine Short Conversations

Corey Mesler
Kuboa
202 Pages
$4.95

“Corey Mesler’s page-turning collection offers readers conversation: here is a deeply engaging mode which delights the intelligence while also registering on the nervous system of its readers – a combination that will wake you right up. These pieces also return us to the essence of the gift of conversation itself: that we might learn to live with it – the mysteries and gaps that haunt the human experience. This is an exciting new work from a writer who knows how to position himself in order to truly listen and mercifully invites his readers to do the same.”

— Selah Saterstrom, author of The Meat and Spirit Plan

Flipped Out: A Do-It-Yourself Mystery

Flipped Out: A Do-It-Yourself Mystery

Jennie Bentley
Berkley
304 pages
$7.99

*Just added to the NYT Bestseller list!* Avery and her hunky handyman boyfriend are renovating a house belonging to a local news anchor who’s thrilled to be filmed as part of a home renovation show. But cable television fame proves fleeting when the man is murdered and Avery faces the task of nailing the killer.

— From the Publisher

The Isle of Blood

The Isle of Blood

The Isle of Blood

Rick Yancey
Simon & Schuster
560 pages
$18.99

“Articulately literary, horrifically grotesque and mind-bendingly complex, Yancey’s trilogy conclusion might be the best of the Monstrumologist trilogy. His 19th-century dialogue and descriptions run even smoother than the previous two titles, and his characters have grown deeply complex. He deftly blurs lines between science and the supernatural, and what results is a long, dark-night-of-the-soul journey for both Will Henry and Pellinore that is certain to turn the hearts and the stomachs of every reader who dares open its pages.”

Kirkus Reviews, starred review

A Stranger Comes to Town

In Sightseeing, Rattawut Lapcharoensap explores the tension between tourists and locals

October 19, 2011 Set in modern Thailand, the seven stories in Rattawut Lapcharoensap’s debut collection, Sightseeing, offer glimpses of the country’s pressure points: the tension between tourists and natives, between citizens and government, and within families. While Lapcharoensap turns an eye to the seamier side of Bangkok and Thai outposts, his characters are often innocents, gentle spirits who are keenly aware of the pain of the world that surrounds them. Lapcharoensap will give a reading at Vanderbilt University in Nashville on October 20.

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