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PoetryAimee Nezhukamatathil in conversation with Margaret Renkl10/17/261:00 PM2:00 PMIn her latest poetry collection, Aimee Nezhukumatathil plumbs the depths of nighttime, crafting a series of nocturnes that explore the magic, sensuality, and life that emerge as the rest of the world goes to bed.Sequatchie Room: Museum
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FictionAlexandra Oliva, Deb Olin Unferth10/17/2612:00 PM1:00 PMHumanity reels from a shifting understanding of its place in the universe in these two novels that explore what might happen when Earth is not our home.Harpeth Room: Library
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HistoryAlex Wright10/17/2611:00 AM12:00 PMIn Empire of Ink, Alex Wright tells the story of how an unruly young democracy found its voice--shaped by the interplay of new technologies, bold public policies, and a distinctly American zeal for free expression that unleashed the greatest outpouring of print the world had ever seen.Nolichucky Room: Library
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FictionAllegra Goodman10/18/262:00 PM3:00 PMWhen their beloved sister passes away, Sylvia and Helen Rubinstein are unmoored. A misunderstanding about apple cake turns into a decade of stubborn silence. Busy with their own lives--divorces, dating, career setbacks, college applications, bat mitzvahs and ballet recitals--their children do not want to get involved. As for their grandchildren? Impossible.Sequatchie Room: Museum
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Young AdultAmanda Foody, C.L. Herman, M.J. Hastings10/17/261:00 PM2:00 PMThese novels are perfect for fans of fans of dark YA fantasy, trope subversions, and enemies to lovers stories.Caney Fork Room: Library
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Middle Grade,Non-FictionAmisha Padnani10/18/261:00 PM2:00 PMAdapted from the New York Times' acclaimed "Overlooked" column, this collection of ten true stories about dreamers and doers, from scientists to stuntwomen, celebrates larger-than-life heroes who have gone unappreciated--until now!Wolf Room: Museum
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FictionAnn Patchett10/17/262:00 PM3:00 PMWhen Daphne Fuller and her husband Jonathan visit the Metropolitan Museum of Art, they notice an older, white-haired gentleman following them. The man turns out to be Eddie Triplett, her former stepfather, who had been married to her mother for a little more than year when Daphne was nine. Now fifty-three, Daphne hasn't seen Eddie for many years, not since the fateful event that changed the direction of both their lives. Meeting again, time falls away; while their relationship was brief, it had a profound impact on them both, and now that they are reunited, they have no intention of ever being separated again.Cumberland Tent
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FictionAnthony Cavender, Buck Turner10/18/263:00 PM4:00 PMThe American South is among the most globally recognizable cultures, thanks in large part to the fiction that keeps its culture and traditions alive. Cavender and Turner continue that tradition with novels set in communities of place.Wolf Room: Museum
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CookbookArnold Myint10/18/2611:00 AM12:00 PMIn Family Thai, Arnold breaks down an often-intimidating cuisine into accessible building blocks for every home cook, beginning with pantry staples--what's fish sauce? what are the differences between soy sauces?--and moving on to teaching readers essential skills like how to steam the perfect sticky rice or how to make their own noodles if they can't find them stocked nearby.Cumberland Tent
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PoetryAsa Drake, Ian Hall, Jeff Hardin10/17/2611:00 AM12:00 PMJoin three poets for readings and conversation about the craft of writing poems and the subjects that have inspired them.Obion Room: Library
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FictionAyad Akhtar10/17/261:00 PM2:00 PMWhen a hit-and-run shatters more than his body, a writer is plunged into a spiritual awakening he can't tell from madness. In its grip, he's drawn to a brilliant campus colleague by an uncanny pull, and into a scandal that threatens to destroy them both. What begins as a provocative portrait of academic and cultural warfare deepens into erotic entanglement, the exposure of a family secret, and the mystery surrounding the narrator's accident--both the violence and its aftermath.Nolichucky Room: Library
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RomanceB.B. Reid10/17/263:00 PM4:00 PMAurelia George was prepared to let the world believe she was dead. Tangled in the arms of her mountain men and bound only by the rules they make, the twice disgraced pop star had found her happily ever after. Or so she thought.Harpeth Room: Library
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Autobiography/MemoirBelle Burden10/17/263:00 PM4:00 PMIn March 2020, Belle Burden was safe and secure with her family at their house on Martha's Vineyard, navigating the early days of the pandemic together--building fires in the late afternoons, drinking whisky sours, making roast chicken. Then, with no warning or explanation, her husband of twenty years announced that he was leaving her. Overnight, her caring, steady partner became a man she hardly recognized. He exited his life with her like an actor shrugging off a costume.Cumberland Tent
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FictionBen Fountain10/17/2610:00 AM11:00 AMReporter Clarence Thomas Jr. is looking for a great story, former country music teen star Faith Spack has parlayed her fame into a job at the White House, and the two-term incumbent president is campaigning for a constitutionally dubious third term.Nolichucky Room: Library
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Picture BookBilly Renkl and Margaret Renkl10/17/269:30 AM10:30 AMIf you were a hungry squirrel in the weedy garden, where would you find an acorn? If you were a cottontail rabbit, where would you hide your bunnies? And if you were a child, sitting still and listening, what would the weedy garden say to you? Margaret Renkl, a beloved regular contributor to The New York Times and two-time recipient of the Southern Book Prize, writes beautifully about our changing natural world. In her debut picture book, she asks questions that draw young readers deeper and deeper into the garden, inviting observation and conversation along the way. Each page turn introduces a new plant or animal friend, buzzing and dancing with quiet wonder. The fine artist Billy Renkl, Margaret Renkl's brother and frequent collaborator, brings the weedy garden to life through his signature mixed-media collages. Includes backmatter with more information about the residents of the garden, eco-friendly gardening tips, and instructions on how to make your own collage art project at home or in school. With evergreen themes of patience and respect for the natural world, The Weedy Garden will appeal to readers of Plant the Tiny Seed, On Meadowview Street, and Peter Brown's The Curious Garden.Cumberland Tent
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FictionBradley Sides, George Singleton10/17/2612:00 PM1:00 PMAbsurdity surrounds us in both the extraordinary and the mundane. This session explores the absurd through Southern lives and suggests that the beauty of humanity is the ability to uncover the miracles in this crazy world.Caney Fork Room: Library
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Middle GradeCaroline Brooks DuBois, Amy Sarig King10/18/2611:00 AM12:00 PMThese middle grade novels traverse two searches for justice and discover how much further the search can go when people come together.Wolf Room: Museum
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HistoryCaroline Hallemann10/17/264:00 PM5:00 PMFor nearly a century, two families an ocean apart have captured the world's collective imagination: the British Windsors and the American Kennedys. Much ink has been spilled on their individual trysts, tragedies, and triumphs over the years, but no one has examined their powerful and intertwined legacies. Until now.Caney Fork Room: Library
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PoetryCharles Ghigna10/17/263:00 PM4:00 PMSpanning five decades of poetic mastery, The Lost Book of Life: New and Selected Poems is the definitive collection from Charles Ghigna, a beloved and influential voice in contemporary Southern poetry. Drawing from fourteen previous volumes and featuring thirty-seven new poems, this landmark collection captures the full arc of Ghigna's creative evolution, from his early meditations on nature and family to his later reflections on memory, mortality, and the enduring power of love.Wolf Room: Museum
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Mystery/ThrillerChris Pavone10/17/2612:00 PM1:00 PMChicky Diaz is everyone's favorite doorman at the Bohemia, the most famous apartment house in the world, home of celebrities, financiers, and New York's cultural elite. Up in the penthouse, Emily Longworth has the perfect-looking everything, all except her husband, whom she'd quietly loathed even before the recent revelations about where all the money comes from. But his wealth is immense, their prenup is iron-clad, and Emily can't bring herself to leave him. Yet.Nolichucky Room: Library
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FictionErin Miller Reid10/17/264:00 PM5:00 PMBlooming from the seeds of author Erin Miller Reid's family history, But for Fortune follows two women fifty years apart as they attempt to give voice to their own silenced realities. What unfolds is a whirling intergenerational exploration of mental illness, discrimination, and the insidious nature of family secrets. Writing in lush prose and drawing on her own experiences as a doctor, Reid weaves together a story that is at once incisive, heartfelt, and deeply human.Harpeth Room: Library
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Graphic Novel,Middle GradeChristina Soontornvat, DK Yingst10/18/2611:00 AM12:00 PMTwo step-sisters have very different views toward living together. A little sister tries to get her family to stick to their New Year's promises. These illustrated books about sisterhood explore what it takes to bring and keep a family together.Sequatchie Room: Museum
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FictionChristopher Hebert, David Wesley Williams10/17/2610:00 AM11:00 AMA young athlete feels the weight of the world's expectations. A newspaperman looks back on the life that flew by. These novels about men take up the question of how to have a life well-lived.Caney Fork Room: Library
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FictionClaudia Rankine10/17/264:00 PM5:00 PMClaudia Rankine has widened contemporary literature with her consciousness-raising, genre-defying works. In her first book after her celebrated American trilogy, presented with full-color visuals, Rankine shifts into sustained narrative, memory, criticism, and essay to offer her most personal and emotionally resonant writing yet.Sequatchie Room: Museum
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MusicColin Asher10/18/2612:00 PM1:00 PMIn American popular music, we often glorify rebellious artists and "outlaws." But in The Midnight Special, Colin Asher tells a deeper story about the criminal justice system's impact on our musicians, explored through compelling portraits of five artists whose careers span the twentieth century.Hiwassee Tent: Museum (C-SPAN)
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Picture BookDanica McKellar10/18/262:00 PM3:00 PMAs a mother and son move through their day, Mom counts up all the many moments and reasons that she loves her kiddo--while helping the reader learn to count up to 100! Whether the duo is playing with toy boats, swinging, or cleaning up messes, there is no shortage of love.Cumberland Tent
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Mystery/ThrillerDaniel G. Miller, Miranda Smith10/17/2611:00 AM12:00 PMFresh starts go south when people start disappearing. These mysteries throw their heroines into a fight for their survival, and pull their readers into a suspenseful night in.Caney Fork Room: Library
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BiographyDave Zirin10/18/2611:00 AM12:00 PMYork Times bestselling author Dave Zirin, The People's Historian is a deeply researched biography of Howard Zinn, the beloved author of the classic national bestseller with more than four million copies sold, A People's History of the United States.Hiwassee Tent: Museum (C-SPAN)
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NatureDavid Haskell10/17/263:00 PM4:00 PMWe live on a floral planet, yet flowers don't get the credit they deserve. We admire them for their aesthetics, not their power. In this examination of the role flowers played in creating the world we know today, David George Haskell observes, smells, and studies flowers such as magnolias, orchids, and roses, as well as fascinating but less celebrated flowers such as seagrasses and tea to show us what we've been missing.Hiwassee Tent: Museum (C-SPAN)
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Autobiography/MemoirDonna Mintz10/18/263:00 PM4:00 PMWeaving essay, memoir, and natural history with biography, STARS AT NOON is one artist's pilgrimage through a book and a love letter to its author, James Agee, whose untimely death becomes the thread connecting it all.Nolichucky Room: Library
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PoetryDonovan McAbee, Justin Wymer10/18/263:00 PM4:00 PMTwo poets discuss trauma, grief, memory and the search for beauty both in life and through the art of poetry.Conasauga Room: Library
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Autobiography/MemoirDorothy Roberts10/18/264:00 PM5:00 PMFrom Dorothy Roberts, author of Killing the Black Body and a writer who "has brilliantly illuminated the Black experience in America for decades" (Bryan Stevenson), comes a spirited and riveting memoir of growing up in an interracial family in 1960s Chicago and a daughter's journey to understand her parents' marriage--and her own identity.Nolichucky Room: Library
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Graphic Novel,Middle GradeDrew Brockington10/18/262:00 PM3:00 PMThe bestselling CatStronauts series continues in the eighth hiss-terical book about a special cat that gets stranded in space!Wolf Room: Museum
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Autobiography/MemoirEiman Jahangir10/18/2610:00 AM11:00 AMIn this bold and heartfelt story of ambition and belonging, Eiman Jahangir charts a path from immigrant beginnings to historic spaceflight--and challenges readers to aim higher than they ever thought possible.Conasauga Room: Library
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Historical FictionElizabeth Kostova10/18/261:00 PM2:00 PMAfter his beloved mother passes away suddenly, Jay Turner finds himself at a crossroads. She was always secretive, and when he returns to their Boston home to clear out her possessions, he finds an unusual item: a partially burned scrap of newspaper bearing the name "Gael Brogan." Soon after, a deliveryman leaves behind a package containing a small antique volume bound in leather--and two bloody footprints.Sequatchie Room: Museum
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FictionEmily Nemens10/17/2611:00 AM12:00 PMFive friends, twenty years, one reunion trip. As undergrads, Gregg, Reba, Hillary, Bella, and Carson formed the kind of rare bond that college brochures promise--friendship that lasts a lifetime. Two decades later, the women are spread across the country but remain firmly tethered through their ever-unfurling group chat. They've made it through COVID and childbirth and midcareer challenges, but no one can anticipate what's coming down the pike. The five women converge on Palm Springs for a long overdue reunion: Gregg, who has forged a path as a progressive Texas legislator, is facing a huge decision about her political future. Reba, who moved back to the Bay Area after decades away, is deep in IVF treatments while caring for her aging parents and navigating a San Francisco she hardly recognizes. Hillary's medical career in Chicago is going great--but at home, her husband's struggles with addiction have derailed their life. In New York City, Bella faces the biggest case in her career as a litigator while her home life crumbles around her, and across the river in Brooklyn, Carson is working on a new novel as well as forging a possible relationship with the father she's never met. Twenty years into their shared friendship, the stakes are higher than ever, and they must help one another reconcile professional ambition with personal tumult. Clutch is a big, beautiful, and deeply absorbing novel that asks how much space and heart we can give to our friends and our families, and what space we can save for ourselves.Conasauga Room: Library
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Non-FictionEric Hendrikx in Conversation with Jake Kiszka10/18/262:00 PM3:00 PMIn Motorcycle Life, author and journalist Eric Hendrikx brings together more than 100 riders from across the globe in a visually rich exploration of what draws people to two wheels--and why they never leave. Through intimate interviews and striking photography, the book captures a wide spectrum of voices, from actors and builders to racers, designers, and everyday riders.Nolichucky Room: Library
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FictionErin L. McCoy, Alice Martin, Deb Olin Unferth10/18/2611:00 AM12:00 PMThe powerful pull of water is centered in these two atmospheric novels. McCoy explores an underworld community, while Martin writes of women pulled via an invisible force toward the ocean. In Unferth's novel, the ocean plays a role in the question of what Earth may look like in the future.Nolichucky Room: Library
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PoetryFilm Screening: Mary Oliver: Saved by the Beauty of the World10/17/264:00 PM5:30 PMCelebrate the life and career of Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Mary Oliver. Shaped by a solitary childhood and rising literary fame, Oliver published more than 30 collections of poetry and essays on nature, beauty, and love.Obion Room: Library
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Creativity Land ActivtyGet Your Illustrated Portrait Made + Tell Your Story10/17/269:00 AM5:00 PMWith Illustrator Savannah Allen!Big Fiery Gizzard and Little Pigeon's Creativity Land
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Creativity Land ActivtyGet Your Illustrated Portrait Made + Tell Your Story10/18/2610:00 AM5:00 PMWith Illustrator Savannah Allen (and Drew Brockington will be there ~11am to 1pm!)!Big Fiery Gizzard and Little Pigeon's Creativity Land
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HistoryIsaac Fitzgerald10/17/262:00 PM3:00 PMAs a child, Isaac Fitzgerald was captivated by Johnny Appleseed, drawn to the legend by family ties, his father's larger-than-life stories, and a shared restlessness to leave home and discover what lay beyond.Caney Fork Room: Library
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Mystery/ThrillerJ.T. Ellison10/18/2611:00 AM12:00 PMIt's the holidays, and photographer Brooklyn Locke is bound for Italy with her husband, Trey, and their two children. But when Trey vanishes from the airport, missing their connecting flight, their impromptu vacation--and life as she knows it--begins to unravel.Harpeth Room: Library
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Autobiography/Memoir,Robert Penn Warren Reconciliation Themed TrackJ. Vanessa Lyon10/17/2612:00 PM1:00 PMThe daughter of the WASP mother who raised her and a Black father she has never known, J. Vanessa Lyon delivers a candid memoir across thirteen uniquely structured chapters in conversation with enduring, often damaging, mis/representations of so-called race mixing in fine art and popular media.Hiwassee Tent: Museum (C-SPAN)
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Non-FictionJ.W. Mason [CANCELED, ALAS!]10/18/2610:00 AM11:00 AMIn this revelatory book, economists J. W. Mason and Arjun Jayadev explain how and why money is so deeply misunderstood by the world it dominates--as well as the dangerous social implications of this misunderstanding.Obion Room: Library
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MusicJamie Fisher, Emily Lordi10/18/2610:00 AM11:00 AMFrom the explosive superstardom of Whitney Houston to the powerful legacy of Elliot Smith, these music biographies tell the stories of beloved musicians. Both artists struggled with fame, and both biographers explore these legacies in loving depth.Sequatchie Room: Museum
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Autobiography/Memoir,Robert Penn Warren Reconciliation Themed TrackJayne Anne Phillips in conversation with Alice Randall10/17/2612:00 PM1:00 PMJayne Anne Phillips grew up in the small town of Buckhannon, West Virginia. The distinctly American landscape of Appalachia--dense with forests and small churches, rich in history and misunderstandings--has been the great setting for her fiction, even as she and her boundless imagination have traveled to other times and places. In her distinctive first-person voice, Phillips brings us into her childhood and family, most movingly her closeness with her mother. She re-creates the place she calls home, its foundational truths and the densely woven ties among the women of the town. She traces her journeys across the country and her discovery of writing and reading as tools for both survival and revelation, offering insights into the fellow writers and touchstones that moved and influenced her. From the local beauty salon to the legendary Hatfield-McCoy feud, from Jean Shrimpton and Barbara Stanwyck to Stephen Crane and Breece D'J Pancake, Phillips ponders her relationship with inspiration, spirituality, culture, and the troubled annals of the last American centuries.Sequatchie Room: Museum
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Non-FictionJeremy Lloyd, Zackary Vernon10/18/262:00 PM3:00 PMAfter encountering the mountains, these authors investigate our relationship to the earth through the lenses of eating and living.Conasauga Room: Library
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History,Robert Penn Warren Reconciliation Themed TrackJim Emison10/17/2611:00 AM12:00 PMMurder on the Hatchie uncovers one of the earliest and most consequential crimes in America's long struggle for Black voting rights: the 1940 lynching of Elbert Williams in Brownsville, Tennessee. A founding member of the local NAACP, Williams was murdered for attempting to register Black voters, decades before the more famous murders of Emmett Till and Medgar Evers.Hiwassee Tent: Museum (C-SPAN)
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FictionJoe Bond, Christy Scott Cashman, Kayla Rae Whitaker10/18/262:00 PM3:00 PMSet in the American Southeast in the 1980's, these books tell stories of making a home through courage, care, and honesty.Caney Fork Room: Library
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HistoryJoe Pagetta, Sheri Lea Sellmeyer10/18/2612:00 PM1:00 PMFrom an early priest who built churches across the state to the newest citizens shaping Nashville's future, this session explores the history that shaped us and where we might be headed.Wolf Room: Museum
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HistoryJohn Garrison Marks, Susan Eva O'Donovan, Gautham Rao10/18/263:00 PM4:00 PMFrom the earliest days of the United States before it existed as a nation, slavery was upheld by written law. These histories explore those laws from George Washington through the Civil War, and how slaves developed the knowledge to assist in attaining their freedom.Hiwassee Tent: Museum (C-SPAN)
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HistoryJohn Vile10/17/264:00 PM5:00 PMPresidents have numerous attempts to say hello, not simply when they give a victory speech on election night, but also when they announce their candidacies, accept their party's nominations, and otherwise campaign throughout the nation. Opportunities for saying goodbye are less regular, in part because presidents are sometimes struck down before the completion of their terms and in part because not all choose to do so in a formal speech. When presidents do choose to give a formal farewell address, however, the speech is an invaluable glimpse into not only the figure who gave it but also the larger political landscape of the time. This book details the evolution of the presidential farewell address, documenting how the genre has shifted and become more institutionalized over time.Wolf Room: Museum
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Non-FictionJordan Ritter Conn, Bill Friskics-Warren, Paul Shupe10/18/261:00 PM2:00 PMThe loneliness epdemic and our fragmented society have had a profound impact on men.. The session reveals study of men affected by our isolated world and a group of men who have defied the stereotype with a decades-long friendship.Hiwassee Tent: Museum (C-SPAN)
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Autobiography/MemoirJulianna Glasse, Emilee Hackney, Josiah Hesse10/17/264:00 PM5:00 PMThree memoirs speak in conversation with one another about evangelical religious trauma, as these authors share their individual stories of reclaiming freedom through education and questioning.Hiwassee Tent: Museum (C-SPAN)
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FictionKathryn Stockett10/17/261:00 PM2:00 PMAbandoned by her mother one Christmas Eve, eleven-year-old Meg Lefleur has learned the hard way to rely on no one. Now one of the unadoptable "big girls" at the Lafayette County Orphan Asylum, she fights each day to keep her spirit unbowed. Birdie Calhoun, unmarried and outspoken, has come to Oxford to ask her socialite sister to help the struggling family she's left behind. But as the Depression tightens its grip, Birdie discovers her sister's seemingly charmed life is a tapestry of lies.Cumberland Tent
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Music,Non-FictionKeith O'Brien, Erin Osmon10/18/261:00 PM2:00 PMThese tales from the Heartland explore sports and music as cultural forces that shape how we view ourselves and our societies. O'Brien is the biographer of heartland hero Larry Bird. Osmon delves into the legacy of heartland rock music.Wolf Room: Museum
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Graphic Non-Fiction,Middle Grade,Multi-Genre,Non-Fiction,Young AdultKelli Anderson10/18/263:00 PM4:00 PMEver wonder how we ended up with so many different styles of letters? Open any text editor, email client or design app and you will immediately be bombarded with a buffet of typographic choices. Serif or sans serif? Display or text? Classical or contemporary? Formal or casual?Sequatchie Room: Museum
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Young AdultKelsey Day, Kristin Tubb10/17/262:00 PM3:00 PMRevenge and betrayal saturate the lives of young adults in any world: fantastical or real. Set on the backdrops of clairvoyants and psychics or virtual worlds, teens struggle with friendship and the extent they're willing to go to get their revenge.Conasauga Room: Library
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Non-Fiction,Picture BookKim Holderness, Penn Holderness10/17/264:00 PM5:00 PMHi there! I'm Squeaky McGee. I am a squirrel who has ADHD. Maybe you have a brain that's like mine? I love an adventure all of the time! But do chores get you down--do you find them a bore? Like brushing your teeth or mopping the floor? I'll help you do them! I've got your back! There's this new thing, I call it a HACK. Written in playful rhyme and filled with humor, this engaging picture book will help all young readers successfully tackle that boring list of household to-do's that challenge us all!Cumberland Tent
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Non-Fiction,Robert Penn Warren Reconciliation Themed TrackKristin Kobes du Mez10/17/263:00 PM4:00 PMIn her "paradigm-influencing" (Christianity Today) bestseller Jesus and John Wayne, which has changed how countless Americans understand their faith, historian Kristin Kobes Du Mez showed how evangelicals made Jesus into an idol of rugged masculinity and Christian nationalism. Now she uncovers the roots of today's glittering, Instagram-ready culture of white Christian femininity.Sequatchie Room: Museum
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FictionKristy Woodson Harvey10/18/2610:00 AM11:00 AMEldest sister Caroline has never been happier. The family business is thriving, her kids are great, and her sister Emerson's hunky costar has absolutely swept her off her feet. But when her not-quite-ex-husband decides it's high time he begged Caroline for a second chance, she is thrown into the midst of a love triangle she never saw coming.Harpeth Room: Library
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PoetryKwoya Fagin Maples, Amy Speace10/18/2611:00 AM12:00 PMTogether these poetry collections span from sea to sky, weaving threads through everything in between and emerging as an anthem of the power, love and longing of American women.Conasauga Room: Library
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TravelLawrence Wells10/18/2612:00 PM1:00 PMFor every published article there is a backstory of behind-the-scenes adventures. Between 1980 and 2000, Dean Faulkner Wells and Lawrence Wells traveled coast to coast on magazine assignments. Backstory: A Literary Life on the Run reveals how unexpected events played a major role in each article. The collection of twenty-five articles begins with Dean's interview with Willie "Suicide" Jones, her late father's wing walker and fellow barnstormer, and ends with Dean's fond recollection of a childhood Christmas at Rowan Oak, home of her uncle William Faulkner.Harpeth Room: Library
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Non-FictionLaura Hutson Hunter, Sai Clayton, Katie Delmez, Shaun Giles10/18/264:00 PM5:00 PMIn Her Place charts a network of artists working at a high caliber with deceptively specific criteria--they are all women, and they all work in Nashville, Tennessee. The plurality of styles, subjects, and media they choose to work in is so diverse that grouping them together proves that, if anything, there are as many differences among these artists as there are similarities.Harpeth Room: Library
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FictionLauren Acampora, Devon Halliday10/18/261:00 PM2:00 PMLives naturally interconnect in a small town, especially when that small town includes eclectic people prone to the entwining of rumors and secrets. This session explores the beauty in the ordinary and fragile web of lives American neighborhoods create.Conasauga Room: Library
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Mystery/ThrillerLauren Nossett, Gin Phillips, Henry Wise10/17/263:00 PM4:00 PMThree atmospheric mysteries use the landscape, history, and people of the South to tell gripping stories.Caney Fork Room: Library
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True CrimeLeon Alligood, Kem Hinton, Kathy Turner10/18/263:00 PM4:00 PMTennesseans love a good yarn, and these two books spin fasciating and true ones. Turner and Alligood unearthed the story of a banker who faked his death to escape fraud charges. Hinton spend decades tracking down the true story of a former classmate turned embezzler.Harpeth Room: Library
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CookbookLinda Carman, Mindy Merrell, R.B. Quinn10/18/2610:00 AM11:00 AMSelf-Rising: The Magic Rise Behind Biscuit and Cornbread Culture reveals how a combination of simple ingredients sparked a quiet culinary and cultural revolution. Self-rising flour and corn meal―premixed blends of flour or meal, baking powder, and salt―freed home cooks from the guesswork of from-scratch baking and transformed everyday cooking.Caney Fork Room: Library
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Non-FictionLindsay Owens10/17/261:00 PM2:00 PMEverywhere you turn, Americans are getting ripped off: Online ticket sellers hide behind exorbitant extra fees. Landlords use software to band together and organize artificial rent hikes. Ride-sharing apps spike their fares when it rains. And car companies install software that reports your driving behavior to auto insurance companies so that they can hike your premiums. Surveillance pricing, algorithmic price fixing, and other high-tech forms of price gouging are the latest frontiers in corporate profiteering--and they're gutting the American economy and your wallet.Hiwassee Tent: Museum (C-SPAN)
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Non-Fiction,Robert Penn Warren Reconciliation Themed TrackLisa E. Davis10/17/262:00 PM3:00 PMWhen we think about the things that have barred success for African Americans, intellectual property law is hardly the first thing that comes to mind, if we even think of it all. We certainly don't think of it as the launching pad for building generational wealth in the Black community, so it follows that we don't see our favorite pop stars as revolutionary race warriors.Hiwassee Tent: Museum (C-SPAN)
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History,Robert Penn Warren Reconciliation Themed TrackLokelani Alabanza, Blair LM Kelley, Otis Sanford10/18/2610:00 AM11:00 AMBlack excellence is not celebrated enough in our culture. Through biography, memoir, and a celebration of Juneteenth, these black writers bring us stories of remarkable achievement and reason for celebration.Hiwassee Tent: Museum (C-SPAN)
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HistoryLucas L. Johnson10/18/2612:00 PM1:00 PMAs we approach the 50th anniversaries of Alex Haley's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel Roots (1976) and its landmark television adaptation (1977), journalist and storyteller Lucas L. Johnson II reflects on the enduring legacy of Haley's work through the voices of those it continues to move, including scholars, artists, genealogists, students, and original cast members like LeVar Burton and Ben Vereen.Conasauga Room: Library
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Middle GradeLuke Pounder, Tristan Tales10/18/2610:00 AM11:00 AMThree mechanically created siblings set out to uncover the truth behind their inventor mother's disappearance in this whimsical mystery adventure from renowned social media storytellers Tristan Tales and Luke Pounder. Perfect for fans of The Swifts and A Series of Unfortunate Events.Wolf Room: Museum
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Fiction,Non-Fiction,Robert Penn Warren Reconciliation Themed TrackLydi Conklin, Zane McNeill10/18/263:00 PM4:00 PMIn fiction and nonfiction, LGBTQ writers give voice to the struggle for equality. McNeill is an activist, providing specific ways that the community and its allies can bring equality. Conklin's novel is an exploration of queer identity and the role of art in becoming ones self.Obion Room: Library
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FictionMaria Semple10/17/2612:00 PM1:00 PMAdora Hazzard has it all figured out. A Stoic philosopher and divorcée, she lives a contented life on New York City's Upper West Side. Having discovered that the secret to happiness is to desire only what you have, she's applied this insight to blissful effect: relishing her teenage daughter, the freedom of being solo, and her job as a moral tutor for the twin boys of an old-money family. She's even assembled a "coven"--like-minded women who live on the same floor in the legendary Ansonia--and is making active efforts to grow its membership. Adora's carefully curated life is humming along brilliantly until a chance meeting with a handsome stranger.Cumberland Tent
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CookbookMark Johnson, Rebecca Lang, Jimmy Proffitt10/18/261:00 PM2:00 PMFrom bacon to pimento cheese to Appalachian cuisine, these books explore how history shapes our food and how our food shapes our history.Harpeth Room: Library
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BiographyMax Boot in Conversation with Lamar Alexander10/17/262:00 PM3:00 PMIn this "monumental and impressive" biography, Max Boot, the distinguished political columnist, illuminates the untold story of Ronald Reagan, revealing the man behind the mythology.Harpeth Room: Library
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Science FictionMax Dosser, Sheree Renée Thomas10/17/262:00 PM3:00 PMSpeculative fiction imagines impossible futures and alternative pasts, alien species and angelic monsters, technological marvels and magical solutions. Dosser and Thomas are experts in this emerging field and will discuss current and future trends.Wolf Room: Museum
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HorrorMicaiah Johnson, Yah Yah Scholfield10/17/264:00 PM5:00 PMOne house is haunted one house is not, but both tell stories of making peace with ghosts.Conasauga Room: Library
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Middle GradeMichael Buckley, Greg Howard, Marissa Macy10/17/263:00 PM4:00 PMThese kids discover that they won't only be adjusting to new homes, towns, or guardians after moving, but to magic, spells, ghosts, creepy manors, and the unknown. But with teams of friends by their sides, the weirdness might be manageable.Conasauga Room: Library
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CookbookMolly Irani10/18/261:00 PM2:00 PMMolly Irani, the visionary cofounder of the James Beard Award-winning restaurant Chai Pani, shares her passion for hospitality and story of building a thriving business that puts people first.Caney Fork Room: Library
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MusicMusic Stage Schedule10/17/2610:00 AM6:00 PM10:00am-11:00am Duette
11:00am-12:00pm Tim Gartland Three
12:00pm-1:00pm Vanderbilt University New Music Society
1:00pm-2:00pm Les Kerr
2:00pm-3:00pm Marta Palombo
3:00pm-4:00pm Nora Belle
4:00pm-5:00pm Carla Gover
5:00pm-6:00pm Jessica Breanne and The Nashville Sweethearts
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MusicMusic Stage Schedule10/18/2610:00 AM4:00 PM10:00am-11:30am Emily and George Williamson
12:00pm-1:00am Vanderbilt University Reed Quartet: Ensemble created by Blair School of Music"
2:00pm-3:00pm Gwen Holt
3:00pm-4:00pm Alicia Gail		Music Stage
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Performing ArtsPerforming Arts Stage Schedule10/17/269:00 AM6:00 PM10:30am-11:30am AfricaNashville’s Yeti Ensemble
12:00pm-1:00 pm Poetry in the Boro: 10th Anniversary Anthology Reading
1:00pm-2:00 pm Vanderbilt University MFA Faculty Reading: Su Cho. Didi Jackson, Rick Hille
3:30pm-4:30 pm Legacy: A Poetry Reading from the anthology "Objects in This Mirror," from writer/students of Richard Jackson
4:30pm-5:30 pm Fire Phoenix Belly Dance		Performing Arts Stage
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Performing ArtsPerforming Arts Stage Schedule10/18/2610:00 AM5:00 PM11:30am-12:30pm Fire Phoenix Belly Dance
1:00pm-2:00pm Vanderbilt University MFA Student Reading
2:00pm-3:00pm Southern Word
3:30pm - 4:30pm "Stories that Connect Us" Vanderbilt University students		Performing Arts Stage
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PoetryNikki Grimes, Carla Gover10/17/2610:00 AM11:00 AMHow do we become who we are? These books unearth a treasure of untold stories about family history and the history of the regions that shape us.Harpeth Room: Library
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FictionOlivie Blake, Nathaniel Rich10/18/2612:00 PM1:00 PMWhen the world pushes you to your limits, you push back. Set in the world of underground L.A. and data centers gobbling up the land, these exquisite novels give you someone, and something, to root for.Caney Fork Room: Library
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Non-FictionOwen D. Jones10/17/261:00 PM2:00 PMAn eye-opening exploration of natural selection's power and how it can help human society flourish. Most of us learned about natural selection in our school days and remember the basics of how it drives evolution, plus a few of its everyday implications, like the risks of overusing antibiotics. Yet deep misconceptions about evolution and natural selection abound―even, studies show, among medical students and high school biology teachers, not to mention the rest of us. In Force of Nature, professor of law and biology Owen D. Jones reveals how these misunderstandings cost us opportunities, undermine our goals, and even imperil lives―and shows how a deeper understanding of natural selection is far more useful and powerful than we think. Jones argues that natural selection is not merely a historical process that shaped relationships between species in the past, but an underused framework for navigating today's most pressing challenges. By sharpening our understanding of how natural selection actually operates―its speed, scale, and profound influence on human and animal behavior―we can make better decisions across a wide range of fields. Drawing on examples from medicine, psychology, and artificial intelligence to economics, agriculture, law, and beyond, Force of Nature demonstrates how evolutionary thinking can open new horizons in cancer treatment and space exploration, create faster machines and more agile robots, and even help design more effective and just laws. Along the way, readers tour some of animals' most remarkable behaviors, such as the archerfish's prowess at precision-firing missiles of water and geckos' ability to walk upside-down―on glass. Enlightening and inspiring, Force of Nature invites us to appreciate natural selection as a dynamic force we can better understand―and harness―to build smarter technologies, wiser policies, and a more resilient future.Wolf Room: Museum
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FantasyMadeline Taylor10/18/262:00 PM3:00 PMBlessed with the power of illusion, Iverson Pomeroy has many tricks up her sleeve. However, none of them are a match for the enchanted collar at her throat that keeps her bound as assassin and mistress to a ruthless king. Forced to play the role of his obedient pet, she plots in secret to destroy him and claim the freedom she has always been denied.Harpeth Room: Library
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PoetryPatricia Lockwood10/18/2612:00 PM1:00 PMMany have called Patricia Lockwood a wordsmith, but in the latest iteration of her life, she has become, quite literally, a metalsmith too. Stones, gems, metals, fossils--she forges them into bodies, faces, and, with her typical irreverence, vaginas. In these poems, a robot dog discovers the Lascaux caves in France. Jane Austen shoots a perfect game. A rock gets a girlfriend. The Pope blesses McLovin (kind of). Lockwood's most indelible work of metal- and word-smithing yet is her blend of the Internet world with the natural one, as she sifts meme references and literary echoes into evocations of geological time, explorations of organic bodies, and observations of youth.Nolichucky Room: Library
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HistoryPaul Stob10/17/261:00 PM2:00 PMAn absorbing tale of science and showmanship, ideology and enterprise, that provides not just a fascinating history of our country, but also crucial insight into the deep currents that continue to propel modern lifeObion Room: Library
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Non-FictionRamona Ausubel10/17/2610:00 AM11:00 AMCritically acclaimed, award-winning author and beloved teacher Ramona Ausubel offers 101 exercises that promise to welcome you back to the page again and again; to reinvigorate your process and help you see your writing through to the end. Full of personal stories and hard-earned wisdom of a veteran writer, Unstuck is written in the first person, human to human, writer to writer. Practical, clear, and welcoming, Unstuck offers immediately useable strategies for beginning, continuing, and finishing a piece of writing.Obion Room: Library
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NatureRichard Schweid10/17/2612:00 PM1:00 PMIn 2021, the London School of Economics found that octopuses are sentient beings, capable of experiencing pain, distress, and happiness, and that high-welfare farming of them would therefore be impossible. But the enormous international demand for octopus meat continues to grow even as wild octopus populations decline, prompting a race to bring the first farm-raised product to market. At the same time, firestorms of protest in Europe and the United States over the ethics of farming such an intelligent creature are pressuring lawmakers to ban the practice altogether.Wolf Room: Museum
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Graphic Novel,Middle GradeRobbi Behr, Matthew Swanson10/18/262:00 PM3:00 PMThe extraordinary tale of a curious boy sent to live on the moon, the wondrous discoveries he makes, and the courage it takes to speak a truth no one wants to believe. The first rule of life on the moon is: There is no life on the moon. The second rule is: Don't ask questions. 12-year-old Leo gets a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to join the very first Moon colony.Obion Room: Library
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Historical FictionRuta Sepetys10/18/263:00 PM4:00 PMMarjorie Lennox is the youngest daughter of a powerful Detroit dynasty--a family rich in money and poor in charm. Creative, reckless, and never quite what they wanted, Marjorie has spent her life overlooked by her controlling father and self-absorbed siblings. But when she secretly applies to an elite arts program backed by a mysterious patron, she grabs the chance to finally step out of her family's shadow.Cumberland Tent
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FictionSadeqa Johnson, Shannon Sanders, Stephanie Soileau10/17/261:00 PM2:00 PMThese novels explore through diverse casts of characters how love is the web that weaves family, history, and the earth together to form who we are.Harpeth Room: Library
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FantasySarah Beth Durst10/17/262:00 PM3:00 PMBetrayed by love, she lives and works as a supply runner, sailing from island to island, delivering an array of goods with Perri the sea serpent and Ree the sailor shrub as her crew. On one of her routine trips to the capital, Alyssium, Marin finds a revolution underway--and her friend Dax in the line of fire. What starts as a rescue evolves into a deal: She will keep Dax on as a member of her crew if he pretends to be her boyfriend at the End-of-Harvest Festival back home. But against her better judgment, Marin finds herself intrigued by his stubbornness, his passion for stories, his charming smile--and realizes that perhaps she isn't saving him. Maybe it's the other way around.Sequatchie Room: Museum
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Non-FictionSarah Goodyear, Doug Gordon10/18/2612:00 PM1:00 PMWhen the very first cars rolled off production lines, they were a technological marvel, predicted to make life easier and better for all Americans; yet a hundred years later, that dream is running on empty. Instead of unbounded freedom, the never-ending proliferation of automobiles has delivered a host of costs, among them the demolition of our neighborhoods, towns, and cities to make way for car infrastructure; an epidemic of violent death; countless hours lost in traffic; isolation from our fellow human beings; and the ongoing destruction of the natural world. Globally, SUVs alone now emit more carbon than the nations of Germany, South Korea, or Japan.Obion Room: Library