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Local Author
River Jordan
discussing & signing
The Miracle of Mercy Land
Tuesday, September 7
at 7:00 pm
A reporter in 1930s Alabama, Mercy Land comes across the biggest news story of her life, and she can't print a word. The publisher has come into possession of a curious book that maps the lives of everyone in Bay City, and soon Mercy and Doc are consumed by the mystery.
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New York Times Betselling Author
Jeannette Walls
discussing & signing
Half Broke Horses: A True-Life Novel
Thursday, September 9
at 7:00 pm
Walls reimagines the life of her grandmother, Lily Casey, who by age six was helping her father break horses. At 15, she left home to teach in a frontier town--riding 500 miles on her pony to get to her post. She learned to drive a car, fly a plane, and with her husband, managed a vast ranch in Arizona, surviving tornadoes, droughts, floods, and the Great Depression.
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Event Location: Sheraton Nashville Downtown Hotel
Multi AMA Nominee
Rosanne Cash
signing
Composed: A Memoir
Friday, September 10 from noon-1 pm
After 30 years as a critically acclaimed singer and songwriter, Rosanne Cash shares her recollections growing up as Johnny Cash’s eldest daughter and coming into her own as a performer, daughter, and mother in a long-awaited memoir, entitled Composed (Viking), which will go on sale August 10th, 2010. Composed has already attracted praise from Kirkus, which called it “beautifully written meditations on love, death, family, and redemption” in its starred review, and Publishers Weekly, which called it “a rare treat” that “sheds clear light on her talent and drive” in its starred review.
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Meghan McCain
discussing & signing
Dirty Sexy Politics
Tuesday, September 14 at 7:00 pm
McCain, one of the Republican party's most outspoken--and well-known--young members writes about her experiences on the presidential campaign trail with her father, John McCain, how the party has veered so far off track, and why she is still a Republican. Meghan McCain is a blogger who documents life on the campaign trail with her father and muses about fashion, music, and pop culture. Check out her blog at McCainBlogette.com.
Gives Back Members get the chance to meet the author first! This is a line ticketed event. Line tickets are free with the purchase of Dirty Sexy Politics from Davis-Kidd Booksellers.
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Jennifer L. Knox, Peter Davis, & Shanna Compton
discuss & sign
their latest releases from Bloof Press
Wednesday, September 15 at 7:00 pm
Meet 3 poets from Bloof Press as they discuss & signs their latest releases. Books include They Mystery of the Hidden Driveway, Drunk by Noon, A Gringo Like Me, Poetry! Poetry! Poetry!, Hitler's Mustache, The Seam Rovers, For Girls & Others, and Down Spooky.
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Jim Minick
discussing & signing
The Blueberry Years: A Memoir of Farm and Family
Friday, September 17
at 3:00 pm
"The Blueberry Years "is a mouth-watering and delightful memoir based on Jim Minick's trials and tribulations as an organic blueberry farmer. This story of one couple and one farm shows how our country's appetite for cheap food affects how that food is grown, who does or does not grow it, and what happens to the land. But this memoir also calls attention to the fragile nature of our global food system and our nation's ambivalence about what we eat and where it comes from.
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Local Author
Anne Alexandra Vincent
discussing & signing
The Way to Stillness: Powerful Tools for Those in Helping Professions
Saturday, September 18
at 2:00 pm
Gayle Alexander looks back over a fifty-year career as a master counselor, gifted teacher, and minister. Gayle and her daughter, Anne, share her unique approach to connecting with others at a deep level, offering a practical guide that anyone might use as a manual on their spiritual journey.
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Local Author
Becca Stevens
discussing & signing
The Walking Series
Tuesday, September 21
at 7:00 pm
The Walking Series is a collection of three short books: The Path of Peace, The Path of Justice and The Path of Love. They each contain short readings and meditations designed to be a 'field guide' for the study of Scripture while walking through nature (or life in general).
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Sam Girgus
discussing & signing
Levinas and the Cinema of Redemption: Time, Ethics, and the Feminine
Wednesday, September 22
at 7:00 pm
In an original commingling of philosophy and cinema study, Sam B. Girgus applies Levinas's ethics to a variety of international films. His efforts point to a transnational pattern he terms the "cinema of redemption" that portrays the struggle to connect to others in redeeming ways.
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Matt Dellinger
discussing & signing
Interstate 69: The Unfinished History of the Last Great American Highway
Friday, September 24
at 2:00 pm
"New Yorker" contributor and decade-long staffer Dellinger uses the controversy surrounding Interstate 69 as a lens through which to examine middle America's current political, social, and economic landscape.
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New York Times Betselling Author
Chelsea Handler
signs
Chelsea Chelsea Bang Bang
Friday, September 24
at 5:00 pm
In the hilarious new book from the #1 "New York Times"-bestselling author of "Are You There, Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea," the comedian mines the wealth of material that is her family, her sex life, and her distinctively outrageous worldview.
Gives Back members get the chance to meet the author first! This is a line ticketed event. Line tickets are free with the purchase of Chelsea Chelsea Bang Bang from Davis-Kidd Booksellers! One book per person. No posed photos.
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James Dickerson
discussing & signing
Inside America's Concentration Camps: Two Centuries of Internment and Torture
Saturday, September 25 at 2:00 pm
Xenophobia, paranoia, and racism have long challenged democracy, a battle played out dramatically in the concentration camps that were built, staffed, and filled with adults and children under the orders of the U.S. government. Beginning in the nineteenth century with the imprisonment of Native Americans, camps reappeared during World War II with the roundup of Japanese Americans, German Americans, Italian Americans, and Jews fleeing Nazi Germany. They resurfaced recently when Homeland Security awarded a major contract to a subsidiary of Halliburton for the construction of new camps.
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Local Author
J.T. Ellison
discussing & signing
The Immortals
Tuesday, September 28 at 7:00 pm
It is Samhain – the Blood Harvest. Nonbelievers call it Hallowe’en. The night when eight Nashville teenagers are found dead, with occult symbols carved into their naked bodies. It’s a ritual the killers believe was blessed by Death himself.
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