Remembering Memphis novelist Mark Behr, who died on November 27
December 11, 2015 Mark Behr’s classes were a thing apart. His students entered his classroom with one identity and finished the semester with another. He was formidable and transformative. On five continents. If you were lucky enough to be one of his students, he routinely promised to destroy you, to fail you, to go for the jugular. To change your life.
Patricia Cornwell
HarperLuxe
640 pages
$28.99
“Dr. Kay Scarpetta, who keeps us coming back to Patricia Cornwell’s sprawling crime novels, is one tough broad. . . . Once Scarpetta decides to ferret out Lucy’s secrets, the novel becomes more of a psychological thriller…”
–New York Times Book Review
Rebecca Cooper
Turner
224 pages
$14.95
“Hey, God? Yes, Charles. is a rare narrative of the beauty of life and the endlessness of love, all told from the perspective of intimate, humorous and poignant conversations between Charles Cooper and God.”
–From the publisher
Tasha Alexander
Minotaur Books
63 pages
$1.99
“Complete with the vivid descriptions and period detail Lady Emily fans have come to expect from this series, That Silent Night is a delicious morsel of a mystery, with an irresistible ghost story at its heart.”
–Jacqueline Winspear, New York Times bestselling author of the Maisie Dobbs series
Leslie Lytle’s first novel chronicles a Tennessee woman’s fight against factory farming
December 9, 2015 A single mother in central Tennessee struggles to save a family farm threatened by a (barely) fictional corporate-poultry giant in Chicken Stock, a first novel by Tracy City journalist Leslie Lytle. Although Lytle is clearly a proponent of sustainable farming, the book deftly avoids becoming a poultry polemic.
B.A. Shapiro’s new historical novel eerily evokes the refugee crisis of today
December 4, 2015 While a storm rages in our world over the fate of Syrian refugees, B.A. Shapiro’s The Muralist reminds us that history too often repeats itself. The novel is set in pre-WWII New York, where a young Jewish artist desperately tries to obtain American visas for family members living in France and Germany. Shapiro will appear at Parnassus Books in Nashville on December 9, 2015, at 6:30 p.m.
