Friday, August 17, 2018
Signing 12:00
by Stephen Mack Jones New York, NY: Soho Crime (2018). Paperback. Signed. From the wealthy suburbs to the remains of Detroit’s bankrupt factory districts, August Snow is a fast-paced tale of murder, greed, sex, economic cyber-terrorism, race and urban decay. Tough, smart, and struggling to stay alive, August Snow is the embodiment of Detroit. The son of an African-American father and a Mexican-American mother, August grew up in the city’s Mexicantown and joined the police force only to be drummed out by a conspiracy of corrupt cops and politicians. But August fought back... Read More...
Tuesday, August 21, 2018
Signing 5:00 | Reading 5:30
by Brenda Travis Montgomery, AL: NewSouth Books (2018). Paperback. Signed. In 1961, 16-year-old Brenda Travis was a youth leader of the NAACP branch in her hometown of McComb, Mississippi. She joined in the early stages of voter registration, and when the Freedom Rides and direct action reached McComb, she and two SNCC workers sat-in at the local bus station. That led to her first arrest and jailing, which resulted in her being expelled and leading a protest walkout from her high school. Thrown in jail for a second time, she was eventually released on the condition that she leave the state... Read More...
Thursday, August 23, 2018
Signing 4:30 | Reading 5:30
by Allie Ware Jackson, MS: LifeStory Publishing (2018). Picture book. Signed. Milly Mills Reporting Live is the first children’s book by well-known local TV morning anchor Allie Ware. Milly is a young girl who grows up dreaming of becoming a TV anchor. Facing many challenges, Milly perseveres and reaches her goal! Allie majored in journalism at the University of Mississippi and enjoys her role as a local morning anchor. Now she wants to help young people and parents alike through the medium of writing... Read More...
Wednesday, September 5, 2018
Signing 5:00 | Reading 5:30
by Lisa Patton New York, NY: St. Martin's Press (2018). First Edition. Signed. As new in dust jacket. Bestselling author Lisa Patton digs deep into exciting new territory with Rush, a story about mothers and daughters, sisterhood, tradition, and doing the right thing. When Lilith Whitmore, the well-heeled House Corp President of Alpha Delta Beta—the premiere sorority at Ole Miss—appoints recent empty-nester Wilda to the Rush Advisory Board, Wilda can hardly believe her luck. What’s more, Lilith suggests their daughters, both incoming freshman, room together! ... Read More...
Monday, September 10, 2018
Signing 5:00 | Reading 5:30
by Drew Williams New York, NY: Tor Books (2018). First Edition. Signed. As new in dust jacket. Perfect for fans of Firefly and James S. A. Corey's Expanse series, The Stars Now Unclaimed is a fun, adventure-filled ride around a far-future galaxy from southern bookseller Drew Williams. Jane Kamali is an agent for the Justified. Her mission: to recruit children with miraculous gifts in the hope that they might prevent the Pulse from once again sending countless worlds back to the dark ages... Read More...
Tuesday, September 18, 2018
Signing 5:00 | Reading 5:30
by Stephen Markley New York, NY: Simon & Schuster (2018). First Edition. Signed. As new in dust jacket. The debut of a major talent; a lyrical and emotional novel set in an archetypal small town in northeastern Ohio—a region ravaged by the Great Recession, an opioid crisis, and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan—depicting one feverish, fateful summer night in 2013 when four former classmates converge on their hometown, each with a mission, all haunted by the ghosts of their shared histories... Read More...
Saturday, September 22, 2018
Picture Book Event | Signing & Story Time 10:00
by Jared Chapman New York, NY: Chronicle (2018). First Edition. Signed. As new in dust jacket. When two hungry dinosaurs jump into a time machine, they're transported to an unbelievable, magical, surreal future: RIGHT HERE, RIGHT NOW! On the T. Rexes' madcap voyage into the unknown, they encounter the many wonders of the modern world: Police cars! Phones! Microwaves! They don't know how they'll get home—but why would they want to? Acclaimed author and illustrator Jared Chapman combines two favorite kid topics—time travel and dinosaurs—with bold colors, big jokes... Read More...
Saturday, September 22, 2018
Signing 4:00 | Reading 4:30
by Adair Sanders Createspace (2018). Paperback. Signed. Fifteen months after the death of her husband, Judge Jim Kaufman, young lawyer Allison Parker takes on her first case in her husband’s old courtroom. The case—workplace sexual harassment—pits Parker against her legal nemesis, Jack Striker. Meanwhile, FBI agent Jake Cleveland informs private investigator Frank Martin and local sheriff Toby Trowbridge of a possible terrorist cell operating in Alabama... Read More...
Wednesday, September 26, 2018
Signing 5:00 | Reading 5:30
by William Boyle New York, NY: Pegasus (2018). First Edition. Signed. As new in dust jacket. In this masterful work of neo-noir, William Boyle expertly captures the grit and desperation of a neighborhood in flux, and spotlights the neighbors who find themselves caught up in the crimes of the past. Some worship him and some want him dead, but either way, tensions run high when “Ray Boy” Calabrese is released from prison. It’s been sixteen years since Ray Boy’s actions led to the death of a young man. The victim's brother, Conway D'Innocenzio, is a 29-year-old Brooklynite wasting away at a local Rite Aid... Read More...
Tuesday, October 2, 2018
Signing 5:00 | Reading 5:30
by Marc R. Matrana & Robin S. Lattimore Jackson, MS: University Press of Mississippi (2018). Hardback. Signed. As new in dust jacket. An illustrated exploration of the legacies and restoration of historic antebellum homes in the South. Few things evoke thoughts and memories of the past more than a house from a bygone era, and few places are identified and symbolized more by historic dwellings than the American South. Plantation houses built with columned porticos and wide porches, stout chimneys, large rooms, and sweeping staircases survive as legacies of both a storied and troubled past... Read More...
Saturday, October 6, 2018
Middle Grade Event | Signing & Reading 2:00
by Ally Condie New York, NY: Bloomsbury (2018). First Edition. Signed. As new in dust jacket. NYT bestselling powerhouses Ally Condie and Brendan Reichs pen a new suspenseful MG series that's Stranger Things meets The Goonies. When a bullying incident sends twelve-year-old Nico over a cliff and into Still Cove, where no one ever goes, friends Tyler and Ella—and even “cool kid” Opal—rush to his rescue…only to discover an island hidden in the swirling mists below. Shrouded by dense foliage and protected by dangerous tides, the eerie island is far from paradise... Read More...
Monday, October 8, 2018
Signing 5:00 | Reading 5:30
by Eric Jay Dolin New York, NY: Liveright (2018). First Edition. Signed. As new in dust jacket. Set against the backdrop of the Age of Exploration, Black Flags, Blue Waters reveals the dramatic and surprising history of American piracy’s “Golden Age”—spanning the late 1600s through the early 1700s—when lawless pirates plied the coastal waters of North America and beyond. Best-selling author Eric Jay Dolin illustrates how American colonists at first supported these outrageous pirates in an early display of solidarity against the Crown, and then violently opposed them... Read More...
Tuesday, October 9, 2018
Signing 5:00 | Reading 5:30
by Wayétu Moore New York, NY: Graywolf (2018). First Edition. Signed. As new in dust jacket. A novel of exhilarating range, magical realism, and history—a dazzling retelling of Liberia’s formation. Way&etu Moore’s powerful debut novel, She Would Be King, reimagines the dramatic story of Liberia’s early years through three unforgettable characters who share an uncommon bond. Gbessa, exiled from the West African village of Lai, is starved, bitten by a viper, and left for dead, but still she survives. June Dey, raised on a plantation in Virginia, hides his unusual strength until a confrontation with the overseer forces him to flee... Read More...
Tuesday, October 9, 2018
Young Adult Event | Signing & Reading 5:00
by Megan Shepherd Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (2018). First Edition. Signed. As new in dust jacket. Seventeen-year-old Anouk envies the human world, where people known as Pretties lavish themselves in fast cars, high fashion, and have the freedom to fall in love. But Anouk can never have those things, because she is not really human. Enchanted from animal to human girl and forbidden to venture beyond her familiar Parisian prison, Anouk is a Beastie: destined for a life surrounded by dust bunnies and cinders serving Mada Vittora, the evil witch who spelled her into existence... Read More...
Wednesday, October 10, 2018
Signing 5:00 | Reading 5:30
by Hampton Sides New York, NY: Doubleday (2018). First Edition. Signed. As new in dust jacket. From the New York Times bestselling author of Ghost Soldiers and In the Kingdom of Ice, a chronicle of the extraordinary feats of heroism by Marines called on to do the impossible during the greatest battle of the Korean War. On October 15, 1950, General Douglas MacArthur, Supreme Commander of UN troops in Korea, convinced President Harry Truman that the Communist forces of Kim Il-sung would be utterly defeated by Thanksgiving. The Chinese, he said with near certainty, would not intervene in the war... Read More...
Thursday, October 11, 2018
Middle Grade Event | Signing & Reading 5:00
by Marie Miranda Cruz New York, NY: Starscape (2018). First Edition. Signed. As new in dust jacket. An uplifting young reader debut about perseverance, hope, and family, Everlasting Nora follows a girl living in the real-life shanty town inside the Philippines’ Manila North Cemetery. After a family tragedy results in the loss of both father and home, twelve-year-old Nora lives with her mother in Manila’s North Cemetery, which is the largest shantytown of its kind in the Philippines. When her mother disappears mysteriously one day, Nora is left alone... Read More...
Wednesday, October 17, 2018
Signing 5:00 | Reading 5:30
by Kiese Laymon New York, NY: Scribner (2018). First Edition. Signed. As new in dust jacket. In this powerful and provocative memoir, genre-bending essayist and novelist Kiese Laymon explores what the weight of a lifetime of secrets, lies, and deception does to a black body, a black family, and a nation teetering on the brink of moral collapse. Kiese Laymon is a fearless writer. In his essays, personal stories combine with piercing intellect to reflect both on the state of American society and on his experiences with abuse, which conjure conflicted feelings of shame, joy, confusion and humiliation... Read More...
Monday, October 22, 2018
Signing 5:00 | Reading 5:30
by Elliot Ackerman New York, NY: Knopf (2018). First Edition. Signed. As new in dust jacket. From the National Book Award finalist, a breathtakingly spare and shattering new novel that traces the intersection of three star-crossed lives. Eden Malcom lies in a bed, unable to move or to speak, imprisoned in his own mind. His wife Mary spends every day on the sofa in his hospital room. He has never even met their young daughter. And he will never again see the friend and fellow soldier who didn’t make it back home—and who narrates the novel. But on Christmas, the one day Mary is not at his bedside... Read More...
Thursday, October 25, 2018
Signing 5:00 | Reading 5:30
by Elizabeth Heiskell New York, NY: Southern Living (2018). First Edition. Signed. As new in dust jacket. From the Southern Living arbiter of Southern food and lifestyle, and caterer, TV personality, and cooking teacher Elizabeth Heiskell, comes this revamp of the number one best-selling Southern Living cookbook of all time, Southern Living Party Cookbook (1972). This essential guide to entertaining is divided by occasion and offers multiple menus and party ideas for each one, so that you have a template for every celebratory scenario life serves up. All the great advice is delivered with classic Southern flair and in Elizabeth's say-it-like-it-is, irreverent style... Read More...
Saturday, October 27, 2018
Signing 2:00 | Reading 4:00
by Erin & Ben Napier New York, NY: Gallery Books (2018). First Edition. Signed. As new in dust jacket. From Ben and Erin Napier, the stars of the hit HGTV show Home Town, comes Make Something Good Today, a memoir that tells us all to seek out the good in life, celebrate the beauty of family and friends, and prosper within our communities because everything we need in life to be happy, is within our grasp. Long before their hugely popular TV show, an expanding family, or demolition day on their dream home, Erin began keeping a daily online journal to help her stay focused on the positive and count her blessings in life... Read More... |
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