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Wrap Your Heart Around It

Wrap Your Heart Around It

Wrap Your Heart Around It

LynnMarie Rink
Post Hill Press
250 pages
$15

“LynnMarie’s strength and conviction shows the reader that they too can discover what keeps them stuck in their destructive patterns, understand why they feel they can’t get let go of fear and hurt and move forward in their own lives, how they can untangle their messes, and live in the now.”

–From the publisher

Shaping the Healthy Community: The Nashville Plan

Shaping the Healthy Community: The Nashville Plan

Shaping the Healthy Community: The Nashville Plan

Gary Gaston and Christine Kreyling
Vanderbilt University Press
352 pages
$35

“Nashville is already a national leader in the health care industry, but I want nothing less than for us to be a national leader in health. As a physician and a policymaker, my mantra has become ‘make the healthy choice the easy choice.’ Shaping the Healthy Community is about just that.”

–from the Preface by Senator William H. Frist, MD

A Sacred Whole

February 29, 2016 We all hold something sacred, even if it’s only the right to hold nothing sacred. In Life’s Too Short to Pretend You’re Not Religious, David Dark sets out to wring some deeper truth from this facile notion and find possibilities for connection hidden within the very beliefs that appear to divide us. Dark will appear at Parnassus Books in Nashville on March 4, 2016, at 6:30 p.m.

To Tell the Truth, Slants and All

February 26, 2016 In Crooked Letter i, a collection of coming-out stories from Southern writers, the truth is best delivered straight but discovered through multiple angles. Contributor B. Andrew Plant will discuss his essay at Union Ave. Books in Knoxville on March 3, 2016, at 6 p.m.

Someone Take the Wheel

February 24, 2016 Trouble Boys: The True Story of the Replacements by Memphis writer Bob Mehr is a tale of heartbreak, triumph, and rock’n’roll rebellion. Mehr will appear in conversation with Robert Gordon at The Booksellers at Laurelwood in Memphis on March 1, 2016, at 6:30 p.m.

Longing for Tribe

February 22, 2016 In A Cup of Water Under My Bed, Daisy Hernandez explores the pain and contradictions of growing up in an immigrant family. Hernandez will give a free public reading at Vanderbilt University in Nashville on February 25, 2016, at 7 p.m.

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