Tuesday, June 2, 2020 | at 5:30PM CST
Virtual Event with Elliot Ackerman | Instagram LIVE 
Elliot Ackerman reads from Red Dress in Black and White on our Instagram LIVE! Join us here: @LemuriaBooks From the widely acclaimed author of Waiting for Eden: a stirring, timely new novel that unfolds over the course of a single day in Istanbul: the story of an American woman attempting to leave behind her life in Turkey—to leave without her husband. Catherine has been married for many years to Murat, an influential Turkish real estate developer, and they have a young son... Read More...
Thursday, June 4, 2020 | at 12:00PM CST
Virtual Event with Susan Berfield | RSVP ONLY EVENT 
Susan Berfield reads from The Hour of Fate | This is an RSVP ONLY event! Please RSVP to HILLARY@LEMURIABOOKS.COM before Wednesday, June 3rd! You will be sent the link and password to join the event the day before. It seemed like no force in the world could slow J.P. Morgan’s drive to power. In the summer of 1901, the financier was assembling his next mega-deal: Northern Securities, a scheme that would give him mastery of railroads throughout the vast American West—and their vast profits... Read More...
Saturday, June 6, 2020 | at 10:00AM CST
Virtual Storytime with Kelly Jordan | Instagram LIVE 
Kelly Jordan reads from The Little Blue Cottage on our Instagram LIVE! Join us here: @LemuriaBooks A timeless and universal tale that celebrates the bond created between a little girl and the special place she returns to year after year—and how their relationship changes as she grows up. The little blue cottage waits each year for summer to arrive—and with it, the girl. Through sunny days and stormy weather, the cottage and the girl keep each other company and wile away the long days and nights together. Until one year, and then another, the cottage is left waiting and empty season after season. In this heartfelt story about change, Kelly Jordan’s lilting text and Jessica Courtney-Tickle's lush art captures the essence of cherishing a favorite place... Read More...
Monday, June 15, 2020 | In-store Event
Signing 5:00 | Reading 5:30
John F. Marszalek signs Coming Out of the Magnolia Closet University Press of Mississippi (05/2020) In Coming Out of the Magnolia Closet: Same-Sex Couples in Mississippi, John F. Marszalek III shares conversations with same-sex couples living in small-town and rural Mississippi. In the first book of its kind to focus on Mississippi, couples tell their stories of how they met and fell in love, their decisions on whether or not to marry, and their experiences as sexual minorities with their neighbors, families, and churches. Their stories illuminate... Read More...
Friday, July 31, 2020 | In-store event
Signing 5:00 | Reading 5:30
Natasha Trethewey signs Memorial Drive Harper Collins (07/2020) At age nineteen, Natasha Trethewey had her world turned upside down when her former stepfather shot and killed her mother. Grieving and still new to adulthood, she confronted the twin pulls of life and death in the aftermath of unimaginable trauma and now explores the way this experience lastingly shaped the artist she became. With penetrating insight and a searing voice that moves from the wrenching to the elegiac, Pulitzer Prize–winning poet Natasha Trethewey investigates this profound... Read More...
Wednesday, August 12, 2020 | IN-STORE EVENT
Signing 5:00 | Reading 5:30
Jill McCorkle signs Hieroglyphics Algonquin (06/2020) Lil and Frank married young, launched into courtship when they bonded over how they both—suddenly, tragically—lost a parent when they were children. Over time, their marriage grew and strengthened, with each still wishing for so much more understanding of the parents they’d lost prematurely. Now, after many years in Boston, they have retired in North Carolina. There, Lil, determined to leave a history for their children, sifts through letters and notes and diary... Read More...
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Martha Hall Foose and Amy C. Evans signs A Good Meal Is Hard to Find Chronicle Books (4/2020) A Good Meal Is Hard to Find is more than just a cookbook: it's a love letter to the women and food of the Deep South. With charming narratives, visual storytelling, and delectable recipes, A Good Meal Is Hard to Find is everything you've ever wanted in a Southern cookbook. Inside are 60 go-to recipes organized into five chapters—Morning's Glories, Lingering Lunches, Dinner Dates & Late-Night Takes, Afternoon Pick-Me-Ups, and Anytime Sweets. Recipes written by award-winning cookbook author and Southern food expert Martha Hall Foose, as part of a collaboration with Amy C. Evans.... Read More...
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Matthew Van Meter signs Deep Delta Justice Little Brown (05/2020) The unforgettable story of one lawyer and his defendant who together changed American law during the height of the Civil Rights era. In 1966 in a small town in Louisiana, a 19-year-old black man named Gary Duncan pulled his car off the road to stop a fight between a group of four white kids and two of Gary's own cousins. After putting his hand on the arm of one of the white children, Duncan was arrested for assault. A member of the local branch of the NAACP... Read More...
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Katherine St. John signs The Lion's Den Grand Central Publishing (05/2020) A dream vacation on a luxurious yacht turns deadly in this pulse-pounding beach read and perfect book club pick about glamour, friendship, romance, and betrayal on the Riviera. Belle likes to think herself immune to the dizzying effects of fabulous wealth. But when her best friend, Summer, invites her on a glamorous girls' getaway to the Mediterranean aboard her billionaire boyfriend's yacht, the only... Read More... |
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