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Wednesday, January 23, 2013
Signing - 5:00 pm
Reading - 5:30 pm
Tenth of December: Stories
Add to Cart, $26.00
Tenth of December: Stories
New York: Random House (2012).
First Edition. Signed. $26.00

One of the most important and blazingly original writers of his generation, George Saunders is an undisputed master of the short story, and "Tenth of December" is his most honest,... (more)

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Ambushed
Reserve, $19.95
Saturday, June 22, 2013
Signing - 1:00 pm

Ambushed
by Wil Tustin

We will all be ambushed at some point in our lives. The ultimate query is how we will react to this event. This novel focuses on how Paul, a self-driven man, dealt with his life changing... (more)

Some Kinds of Love: Stories
Reserve, $19.95
Tuesday, June 25, 2013

Reading - 6:30 pm

Some Kinds of Love: Stories

THIS EVENT WILL BE AT THE LIBRARY LOUNGE IN THE FAIRVIEW INN! Sometimes the opposite of love is not hate, but depravity. In these twelve stories set in the Missouri Ozarks, New Orleans, and... (more)

The Son
Reserve, $27.99
Wednesday, June 26, 2013
Signing - 5:00 pm
Reading - 5:30 pm

The Son
by Philipp Meyer

Philipp Meyer, the acclaimed author of American Rust, returns with The Son an epic of the American West and a multigenerational saga of power, blood, land, and oil that follows the rise of one... (more)

Whistling Past the Graveyard
Reserve, $26.00
Monday, July 08, 2013
Signing - 5:00 pm
Reading - 5:30 pm

Whistling Past the Graveyard
by Susan Crandall

From an award-winning author comes a wise and tender coming-of-age story about a nine-year-old girl who runs away from her Mississippi home in 1963, befriends a lonely woman suffering loss and... (more)

The Resurrectionist
Reserve, $25.95
Saturday, July 13, 2013
Signing - 5:00 pm

The Resurrectionist

***The Resurrectionist is here! We have signed copies and we are shipping!***If you would like a personalized copy please feel free to let us know! If you would like to reserve a copy for in-store... (more)

Down and Out in Bugtussle: The Mad Fat Road to Happiness
Reserve, $15.00
Monday, July 15, 2013
Signing - 5:00 pm
Reading - 5:30 pm

Down and Out in Bugtussle: The Mad Fat Road to Happiness

"New York Times" bestselling author Stephanie McAfee delivers another irreverent, laugh-out-loud page-turner about the (mis)adventures of plus-size spitfire Graciela "Ace"... (more)

Big Girl Panties
Reserve, $26.99
Wednesday, July 17, 2013
Signing - 5:00 pm
Reading - 5:30 pm

Big Girl Panties
by Stephanie Evanovich

Big Girl Panties by Stephanie Evanovich is a rollicking and poignant romantic comedy about a young widow who decides to get in shape...and winds up getting her groove back--and a whole lot... (more)

Scotty and Elvis: Aboard the Mystery Train
Reserve, $25.00
Saturday, July 20, 2013
Signing - 1:00 pm

Scotty and Elvis: Aboard the Mystery Train
by Scotty Moore
with James Dickerson

This signing is part of the Sartoris Literary Group Book and Music Festival learn more by clicking here! When Elvis Presley first showed up at Sam Phillips's Memphis-based Sun Records studio,... (more)

Team Renaissance
Reserve, $24.95
Saturday, August 03, 2013
Signing - 1:00 pm

Team Renaissance
by Richard Spoon
and Jan Risher

Team Renaissance is an unconventional collection of applicable narratives, individual/team exercises and sound management insights inviting personal growth for everyone from business executives... (more)

A Company Man by Marc-Antoine Caillot
Reserve, $40.00
Wednesday, August 07, 2013
Signing - 5:00 pm
Reading - 5:30 pm

A Company Man by Marc-Antoine Caillot
by Erin M. Greenwald

Recently rediscovered and never before published, Marc-Antoine Caillot's buoyant memoir recounts a young man's voyage from Paris to the port city of Lorient, across the Atlantic to Saint... (more)

The Realm of Last Chances
Reserve, $25.95
Thursday, August 08, 2013
Signing - 5:00 pm
Reading - 5:30 pm

The Realm of Last Chances

In a captivating departure from the Deep South setting of his previous fiction, Steve Yarbrough now gives us a richly nuanced portrait of a marriage being reinvented in a small town in the... (more)

Wiggle Room
Reserve, $19.95
Tuesday, August 13, 2013
Signing - 5:00 pm
Reading - 5:30 pm

Wiggle Room

Brad Cummins is an Air Force surgeon who returns from overseas deployment after serving four months at the height of the Iraq War, during which he fails to save an injured soldier but mends... (more)

Tell about Night Flowers: Eudora Welty's Gardening Letters, 1940-1949
Reserve, $45.00
Wednesday, August 14, 2013
Signing - 5:00 pm

Tell about Night Flowers: Eudora Welty's Gardening Letters, 1940-1949
by Julia Eichelberger

"Tell about Night Flowers" presents previously unpublished letters by Eudora Welty, selected and annotated by scholar Julia Eichelberger. Welty published many of her best-known works in... (more)

Long Division
Reserve, $15.00
Thursday, August 15, 2013
Signing - 5:00 pm
Reading - 5:30 pm

Long Division
by Kiese Laymon

Kiese Laymon's debut novel is a Twain-esque exploration of celebrity, authorship, violence, religion, and coming of age in Post-Katrina Mississippi, written in a voice that's alternately funny,... (more)

The Sweetest Hallelujah
Reserve, $15.95
Saturday, August 17, 2013
Signing - 1:00 pm

The Sweetest Hallelujah
by Elaine Hussey

An unforgettable story of two courageous women brought together by one extraordinary little girl Betty Jewel Hughes was once the hottest black jazz singer in Memphis. But when she finds herself... (more)

No Regrets, Coyote
Reserve, $25.95
Monday, August 19, 2013
Signing - 5:00 pm
Reading - 5:30 pm

No Regrets, Coyote

On Christmas Eve in Eden, Florida, Wylie "Coyote" Melville, therapist and forensic consultant, is summoned to a horrific crime scene. Five members of the Halliday family have been... (more)

Mississippi Hill Country Blues 1967
Reserve, $40.00
Wednesday, August 21, 2013
Signing - 5:00 pm
Reading - 5:30 pm

Mississippi Hill Country Blues 1967
by George Mitchell

These photographs document George Mitchell's trip to Mississippi, where he searched for then unrecorded blues musicians including R. L. Burnside, Jessie Mae Hemphill, and Othar Turner. This journey... (more)

Lookaway, Lookaway
Reserve, $25.99
Wednesday, September 25, 2013
Signing - 5:00 pm
Reading - 5:30 pm

Lookaway, Lookaway
by Wilton Barnhardt

Jerene Jarvis Johnston and her husband Duke are exemplars of Charlotte, North Carolina's high society, a world where old Southern money and the secrets behind it meet the new wealth of bankers,... (more)

The Tilted World
Reserve, $25.99
Wednesday, October 02, 2013
Signing - 5:00 pm
Reading - 5:30 pm

The Tilted World


Fear and What Follows: The Violent Education of a Christian Racist, a Memoir
Reserve, $28.00
Friday, October 11, 2013
Signing - 5:00 pm
Reading - 5:30 pm

Fear and What Follows: The Violent Education of a Christian Racist, a Memoir

"Fear and What Follows" is a riveting, unflinching account of the author's spiral into racist violence during the latter years of desegregation in 1960s and 1970s Baton Rouge. About the... (more)

Restrike
Reserve, $12.00
Tuesday, October 15, 2013
Signing - 5:00 pm
Reading - 5:30 pm

Restrike
by Reba White Williams

Money and murder go hand in glove in the rarified art world of Reba WhiteWilliams's exciting first novel, Restrike. Cousins Coleman and Dinah Greene moved from North Carolina to New York after... (more)

Local Souls
Reserve, $25.95
Wednesday, October 16, 2013
Signing - 5:00 pm
Reading - 5:30 pm

Local Souls

Offering his first book in a decade, Allan Gurganus returns us to Falls, North Carolina, mythic site of his immortal Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All. With three linked, darkly funny... (more)

The Funeral Dress
Reserve, $16.00
Monday, October 21, 2013
Signing - 5:00 pm
Reading - 5:30 pm

The Funeral Dress

A deeply touching Southern story filled with struggle and hope. Emmalee Bullard and her new baby are on their own. Or so she thinks, until Leona Lane, the older seamstress who sat by her side at... (more)

Men We Reaped: A Memoir
Reserve, $26.00
Wednesday, October 23, 2013
Signing - 5:00 pm
Reading - 5:30 pm

Men We Reaped: A Memoir

""We saw the lightning and that was the guns; and then we heard the thunder and that was the big guns; and then we heard the rain falling and that was the blood falling; and when we... (more)

This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage
Reserve, $28.99
Wednesday, December 04, 2013
Signing - 5:00 pm
Reading - 5:30 pm

This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage

The New York Times bestselling author of State of Wonder and Bel Canto examines her deepest commitments: to writing, family, friends, dogs, books, and her husband. Together these essays,... (more)

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