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Men of Diverse Character

February 18, 2016 In Free Men, by Katy Simpson Smith, a runaway slave, a Creek Indian, and a poor white man make their way west toward the Mississippi River as a French tracker attempts to bring them to justice for a brutal crime. Smith will discuss her new novel at The Booksellers at Laurelwood in Memphis on February 24, 2016, at 6:30 p.m. and at Parnassus Books in Nashville on February 25, 2016, at 6:30 p.m.

A Game of Elements

February 17, 2016 With A Gathering of Shadows, V.E. Schwab brings readers back to the fascinating world of alternate Londons in a story as compulsively readable as its predecessor, A Darker Shade of Magic. Schwab will appear at Parnassus Books in Nashville on February 23, 2016, and at the inaugural Southeastern Young Adult Book Festival, held in Murfreesboro March 11-12, 2016.

Explosive Passions

February 16, 2016 Ariel Lawhon’s new novel, Flight of Dreams, is a historical mystery that imagines the real cause of the Hindenburg’s explosion. While private drama occupies the foreground of Lawhon’s story, the specter of Hitler is never far from the characters’ minds. Lawhon will appear at Parnassus Books in Nashville on February 24, 2016, at 6:30 p.m.

It’s Good To Be Back Home, Where They Want to Kill You

February 12, 2016 Mark Greaney’s assassin, Court Gentry, is unremarkable in his physical appearance, and he uses this natural camouflage to his advantage in the fifth installment of the Gray Man series. Greaney will launch Back Blast at The Booksellers at Laurelwood in Memphis on February 20, 2016, at 2 p.m.

It’s Good To Be Back Home, Where They Want to Kill You

A Hard, Cruel Shore

A Hard, Cruel Shore

A Hard, Cruel Shore

Dewey Lambdin

Thomas Dunne Books
352 pages
$26.99

“Check the log, shipmate: Dewey Lambdin has left Alexander Kent and C. S. Forester hull-down in an ocean of words and is closing on Patrick O’Brian as the most prolific historical novelist to celebrate a Royal Navy mariner during the age of sail.”

–The Washington Post

No. 731 Degraw-street, Brooklyn, or Emily Dickinson's Sister

No. 731 Degraw-street, Brooklyn, or Emily Dickinson's Sister

No. 731 Degraw-street, Brooklyn, or Emily Dickinson's Sister

Claudia Barnett

Carnegie Mellon
136 pages
$16.95

‘I like the look of agony, because I know it’s true,’ says the murderous heroine of the new play No. 731 Degraw-street, Brooklyn. If you recognize that line as Emily Dickinson, then this Victorian-set, true-crime drama is for you.”

—Nelson Pressley, Washington Post

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