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Book Excerpt: Rick Bragg’s My Southern Journey

October 7, 2015 “I listen for the past, but I cannot hear it. The juke joints fall silent, cotton mills wind down to a final, solitary thread, and a last buck dancer shuffles off into the mountain mist. Then I see my brother Mark in his garden, and know that not everything must fade away.” Rick Bragg will discuss My Southern Journey on October 10, 2015, at noon in Conference Room 1 of the Nashville Public Library. The event, part of the Southern Festival of Books, is free and open to the public.

Mapping the Pathways of the Heart

October 2, 2015 Phyllis Tickle, influential author of more than two dozen books about faith and religion, died of lung cancer on September 22, 2015, at her home in Lucy, Tennessee. She was eighty-one.

Musical Journey

October 2, 2015 In a book that includes lavish illustrations and a twenty-track CD, Fiona Ritchie, creator and host of the long-running public radio program The Thistle and Shamrock, and Doug Orr, founder of the Swannanoa musical workshops, have produced an authoritative history of traditional American music. The pair will discuss Wayfaring Strangers: The Musical Voyage from Scotland and Ulster to Appalachia during the Southern Festival of Books, held in Nashville on October 9-11, 2015.

Musical Journey

Time Marches On

September 30, 2015 In his new memoir Bobby Braddock: A Life on Nashville’s Music Row, Country Music Hall of Famer Bobby Braddock looks back over a life that coincides with some of the South’s most significant social and political changes. Braddock will discuss the book at three Nashville events: on October 3, 2015, at the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum; on October 9, 2015, at the Southern Festival of Books; and October 19, 2015, at Barnes & Noble at Vanderbilt.

Time Marches On

Scrambled Starts

Scrambled Starts

Scrambled Starts

Jenny Youngman

Upper Room Books
96 pages
$9.99

“Jenny Youngman’s honesty and practicality will help families pray in a face-paced world. I can’t wait to pray through this book with my daughters.”

— Jacob Armstrong

Passing it On

Passing it On

Passing It On

Kara Oliver

Upper Room Books
96 pages
$9.99

“Compassionate, wise, and funny, Kara Lassen Oliver is a gracious guide for families who want to create space for faith nurture, even those who aren’t sure where to begin. I have been using this resource with my own three children—who are not the type to sit quietly and receive instruction!”

–Rev. Elise Erikson Barrett

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