May 25, 2016 Jolina Petersheim’s latest novel The Alliance, explores what it means to be moral when the world ends as you know it. While no zombies roam rural Montana, the residents of the Old Order Mennonite community there must face some hard choices that put their faith and their lives to the test. Jolina Petersheim will discuss The Alliance at Parnassus Books in Nashville on June 3, 2016 at 6:30 p.m.
Jill McCroskey Coupe
She Writes Press
324 pages
$16.95
“With intricate story lines involving murder, library research, road trips, and [a] quest for justice, and motifs including motherhood, love, marriage, betrayal, and true friendship, there is something for everyone in this light/dark Southern novel by a writer to watch.”
–Library Journal
Brad Thor
Atria/Emily Bestler Books
352 pages
$27.99
Rocks from page one … I didn’t put it down until the last page. If you are a fan of Brad Thor, this book is one not to miss.”
–Men Reading Books
Sally Kilpatrick
Kensington
320 pages
$15
“Don’t miss this quirky, fun love story. I couldn’t put it down.”
–Haywood Smith, New York Times bestselling author
Ashley Herring Blake
HMH Books for Young Readers
352 pages
$17.99
“Debut author Blake puts the teens in a near-impossible situation, adeptly showing how Sam and Hadley can be more adult in handling the complications of romance than all four of their parents . . . Readers will be left thinking about the ways love can both hurt and heal.”
—Publishers Weekly
May 23, 2016 With Everybody’s Fool, Richard Russo returns to North Bath, New York, stomping grounds of Donald “Sully” Sullivan, one of recent fiction’s most endearing heroes. In this sequel to Nobody’s Fool, the gang’s all back, ten years older but no less susceptible to the slings and arrows of hardscrabble life in Bath. Russo will give a free public reading at the Nashville Public Library on May 31, 2016, at 6:15 p.m.
