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Learning the Hard Way
The music industry can be a cutthroat business when it comes to recording contracts, shady promoters, and new talent desperate to make it big. It can also be murder. Ezra MacRae learns that the hard way in Streets of Nashville, the new crime thriller from poet, novelist, and songwriter Michael Amos Cody.
Laughter in the Face of Despair
A scholar of Jewish mysticism, a village idiot, and a beautiful girl walk into a haunted library. Sounds like the beginning of a particularly bad joke, right? With a setup like that, readers might be forgiven for wondering how there could be a coherent punchline. In A Fool’s Kabbalah, Memphis native Steve Stern has generated cohesion where none should exist, creating connections between the ridiculous and the sublime.
No Fairy Godmother Here
It has been said that if an author wants to create interest in a character, send them up a tree. If that isn’t enough, throw stones at them. Bé, 9 years old at the 1962 opening of Doan Phuong Nguyen’s Mèo and Bé, is subject to a nonstop barrage of metaphorical stones. Bé, whose original name is Thương, lives with her mother in a South Vietnamese village.
She Loved Baseball
FROM THE CHAPTER 16 ARCHIVE: This review originally appeared on January 5, 2021. It has been updated with new publication details. *** In 2006, Effa Manley was inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame and is still the only woman so honored. This would not have surprised her. As the co-owner and manager of a baseball team, Effa was used to being surrounded by men.
Everything Here Is Dead
In the acknowledgments section of his most recent middle-grade novel, The Visitors, Greg Howard says that this was “the most challenging story” he’s written. It’s easy to see why. The novel includes sensitive themes (slavery, sexual orientation and identity, bullying, betrayal, abuse, suicide); the main character is unable to remember anything about his life; and the narrative fits into multiple genres: coming-of-age, mystery, the supernatural.
Gratitude
When the coronavirus pandemic hit full force in March of 2020, I suspect most of us never thought we'd still be in the midst of it almost two years later, yet here we are. In the face of so much hardship and loss, the disruptions to publishing and literary culture can seem pretty unimportant, but they're of a piece with the struggles we've all been facing, and it's only right to recognize how hard many folks have worked to get books in readers' hands and keep the conversation going.
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Michael Aronovitz Author of ALICE WALKS and THE PHANTOM EFFECT Appearances 11/13/14 - Listen here 2/11/16 - Listen here Peter Atkins Bestselling author and screenwriter of HELLRAISER 2, 3, and 4 Appearances 10/8/15 - Halloween party (with Glen Hirshberg) - Listen here 1/21/16 - Listen here 1/24/19 - Listen here 10/24/19 - Rolling Darkness Revue Halloween party (with Glen Hirshberg) - Listen here Loyd Auerbach Paranormal expert and author Appearances 3/12/15 - Listen here Tracy Barrett (Tracy...
Greg Howard's 'Middle School’s a Drag: You Better Werk!' is a fun tale of self-discovery
Tracy Barrett and Chapter16.org, Special to the News Sentinel Published 6:00 a.m. ET Feb. 7, 2020 This is the 5th and final tiny book the Bronte Parsonage Museum hopes to acquire. Buzz60 Greg Howard’s second middle-grade novel, "Middle School’s a Drag: You Better Werk!," features a pre-teen boy coming to terms with the realization that he’s gay.
Book review: 'Better Than the Best Plan' tells young adult story of change, trust
Tracy Barrett and Chapter16.org , Special to the News Sentinel Published 10:00 a.m. ET Aug. 9, 2019 The American Booksellers Association said there are 2,321 independent bookstores in the U.S. Wochit, Wochit When Maryville native Lauren Morrill’s fifth young adult novel, "Better Than the Best Plan," opens, 17-year-old Maritza has been secretly living on her own.
Chattanooga author Meredith Russo's new YA novel asks what you should do when everyone who 'knows' you is wrong
"Birthday" by Meredith Russo / Flatiron Books Image "Birthday" by Meredith Russo / Flatiron Books Image Photo by Contributed Photo /Times Free Press. "BIRTHDAY" by Meredith Russo (Flatiron Books, 320 pages, $19). In her second YA novel, "Birthday," Chattanooga writer Meredith Russo chronicles the difficult, heartbreaking and ultimately uplifting journey of a teenager's quest for self-recognition and acceptance.
In 'The Whispers' by Greg Howard, boy searches for mother with help of mysterious beings
Tracy Barrett and Chapter16.org, Special to the Knoxville News Sentinel, USA TODAY NETWORK - Tennessee Published 8:00 a.m. ET Jan.
Signed YA Books | Parnassus Books
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In new middle-grade novel 'Lord of the Mountain,' boy’s journey leads to understanding
In "Lord of the Mountain," set in the 1920s, Nashville historical novelist Ronald Kidd takes middle-grade readers on a journey that recalls the travels of Huckleberry Finn and Toby Tyler. Thirteen-year-old Nathan Owens knows his family is different. “We were an unusual group,” he says, “odd to look at, odder still in what we did.” Nate’s father is a preacher whose “Church of Consecrated Heaven and Satan’s on the Run” meets in a mail-order tent.
A neglected girl finds a home in Kimberly Brubaker Bradley’s 'The War I Finally Won'
Ada Smith is in a good place at the end of Kimberly Brubaker Bradley’s Newbery Honor-winning "The War That Saved My Life," but her situation is still precarious. She’s not sure whether she and her little brother, Jamie, can remain with Susan, who has finally given them the stability and love they’ve never before experienced. Meanwhile, England continues to be under attack by German bombers.
10 of Our Most Anticipated Indie YA Books of 2018
Capping off this fantastic preview season is a look at the most exciting of the next six months’ indies, i.e. upcoming releases across all genres by independent publishers. Indies might be a little more likely to go under the radar because they come from smaller houses, but don’t let these ten go under yours! See all 2018 previews here.
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