Wednesday, June 28, 2017
Signing 5:00
edited by Lorie Watkins Jackson, MS: University Press of Mississippi (2017). Hardback. Signed. As new in dust jacket. The first comprehensive history of literature from a state with perhaps the nation's richest literary lode... Read More...
Thursday, June 29, 2017
Story Time and Signing 11:00
by Amy Young New York, NY: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (2017). First Edition. Signed. As new in dust jacket. More Sparkle to love! Here's a new picture book starring Sparkle and Lucy about what happens when your best friend makes a new pal. In A Unicorn Named Sparkle, Lucy found out that the unicorn she thought she didn't want was the exact right unicorn for her. In this new story, Lucy makes a new friend and Sparkle is worried that means she doesn't care about him anymore. What happens when two's company but three's a crowd? Read More...
Thursday, June 29, 2017
Signing 5:00
by Lucy Buffett New York, NY: Grand Central (2017). First Edition. Signed. As new in dust jacket. Since she was a young girl, Lucy Buffett has believed in the power of gumbo-the stirring, the transformation of the roux, the simple ingredients cooking up into something much better than just the sum of its parts. It's only fitting that she signs her name with "Gumbo Love" and that she makes a living feeding people the most delicious, soul-satisfying food... Read More...
Tuesday, July 18, 2017
Signing 5:00 | Reading 5:30
by Akhil Sharma New York, NY: W. W. Norton (2017). First Edition. Signed. As new in dust jacket. “There’s a great duality to these stories: simple but complex, funny enough to laugh out loud at but emotionally devastating, foreign yet familiar. What an exciting and original writer this is, and what a knock-out collection.” —David Sedaris. Hailed as a storyteller whose fiction is “a glowing work of art” (Wall Street Journal), Akhil Sharma is possessed of a narrative... Read More...
Thursday, July 27, 2017
Signing 5:00
by Allen D. Boyer Naval Institute Press (2017). Hardback. Signed. In Rocky Boyer’s War, Allen Boyer offers a wry, keen-eyed, and occasionally disgruntled counterpoint history of the hard-fought, brilliant campaign that won World War II in the Southwest Pacific. Based in part on an unauthorized diary kept by the author's father, 1st Lt. Roscoe “Rocky” Boyer, this narrative history offers the reader an account of Allied air commander Gen. George Kenney's "air blitz" offensive as it was lived both in the cockpit and on the ground... Read More...
Friday, July 28, 2017
Event at the Eudora Welty House
Signing 5:00 | Reading 5:30 
by Gin Phillips New York, NY: Viking (2017). First Edition. Signed. As new in dust jacket. An electrifying novel about the primal and unyielding bond between a mother and her son, and the lengths she’ll go to to protect him. The zoo is nearly empty as Joan and her four-year-old son soak up the last few moments of playtime. They are happy, and the day has been close to perfect. But what Joan sees as she hustles her son toward the exit gate minutes before closing time sends her sprinting back into the zoo, her child in her arms. And for the next... Read More...
Tuesday, August 8, 2017
Signing 5:00 | Reading 5:30
by Susan Cushman Brandon, MS: Dogwood (2017). First Edition. Signed. As new in dust jacket. By the tender age of sixteen, Mary Catherine Henry has lived through enough horror to last a lifetime. Sexual abuse at the hands of her cult-leading father, abandonment by her drug-addicted mother (who nicknamed her Mare), and several spirit-crushing years with a dysfunctional foster family convince her that life on the streets will be easier, somehow, than what she’s always known... Read More...
Monday, September 18, 2017
Signing 5:00 | Reading 5:30
by Daren Wang New York, NY: Thomas Dunne (2017). First Edition. Signed. As new in dust jacket. "Splendid—a distinctive clear-eyed perspective on a fresh corner of The Civil War." Charles Frazier, author of Cold Mountain. A novel rooted in the remarkable, but little-known, true history of the only secessionist town north of the Mason Dixon Line. When escaped slave Joe Bell collapses in her father’s barn, Mary Willis must ward off Confederate guerrillas and spies, Joe’s vengeful owner... Read More...
Tuesday, September 26, 2017
Signing 5:00 | Reading 5:30
by Jesmyn Ward New York, NY: Scribner (2017). First Edition. Signed. As new in dust jacket. A searing and profound Southern odyssey by National Book Award–winner Jesmyn Ward. In Jesmyn Ward’s first novel since her National Book Award–winning Salvage the Bones, this singular American writer brings the archetypal road novel into rural twenty-first-century America. Drawing on Morrison and Faulkner, The Odyssey and the Old Testament,... Read More...
Friday, October 6, 2017
Signing 5:00 | Reading 5:30
by Nathan Englander New York, NY: Knopf (2017). First Edition. Signed. As new in dust jacket. The best work yet from the Pulitzer finalist and best-selling author of For the Relief of Unbearable Urges—a political thriller that unfolds in the highly charged territory of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and pivots on the complex relationship between a secret prisoner and his guard. A prisoner in a secret cell. The guard who has watched over him a dozen years... Read More... |
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