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Plumbing the Depths of the Heart -- Novels Inspired By History

Friday Oct 14, 12:00pm - 1:00pm
Room 30, Legislative Plaza

Avenging Despicable Acts -- Two Novels

Friday Oct 14, 12:00pm - 1:00pm
Room 31, Legislative Plaza

The Informationist

Friday Oct 14, 12:00pm - 1:00pm
Room 12, Legislative Plaza

A Small Hotel

Friday Oct 14, 12:00pm - 1:00pm
House Chambers

All Shall Be Well--Helping Ourselves-And Others--Grieve

Friday Oct 14, 12:00pm - 1:00pm
Senate Chambers

Southern Light: Twelve Contemporary Southern Poets

Friday Oct 14, 12:00pm - 1:30pm
Old Supreme Court Room

David Olney

Friday Oct 14, 12:00pm - 1:00pm
Chapter 16 Stage

The Heretic's Wife

Friday Oct 14, 12:00pm - 1:00pm
Room 16, Legislative Plaza

Finding Mother Nature When Family Fails -- Two Novels

Friday Oct 14, 12:00pm - 1:00pm
Room 29, Legislative Plaza

Mary James

Friday Oct 14, 12:00pm - 1:00pm
Cafe Stage

The Letters and Gardens of Eudora Welty

Friday Oct 14, 1:00pm - 2:30pm
Room 16, Legislative Plaza

Where the Spirit Moves You -- True Stories of Faith in Change

Friday Oct 14, 1:00pm - 2:30pm
Room 29, Legislative Plaza

Emily, Alone

Friday Oct 14, 1:00pm - 2:00pm
House Chambers

Hard Knocks to Hit Factories -- A Look Inside the Chitlin' Circuit and American Studios

Friday Oct 14, 1:00pm - 2:00pm
Senate Chambers

Nashville after Desegregation: Two Views

Friday Oct 14, 1:00pm - 2:00pm
Capitol Library

Yankee Doodle Dixie

Friday Oct 14, 1:00pm - 2:00pm
Room 30, Legislative Plaza

Tennessee Writers' Alliance Showcase

Friday Oct 14, 1:00pm - 2:30pm
Chapter 16 Stage

A Life of Control: Stories of Living with Diabetes

Friday Oct 14, 1:00pm - 2:00pm
Room 31, Legislative Plaza

Break the Skin

Friday Oct 14, 1:00pm - 2:00pm
Room 12, Legislative Plaza

Grasslands: A History of the Southern Grasslands Hunt and Racing Foundation 1929-1932

Friday Oct 14, 1:30pm - 2:30pm
Old Supreme Court Room

Diana Darby

Friday Oct 14, 1:30pm - 2:30pm
Cafe Stage

Civil War Generals in the West--Eleven Rebels and One Murdered Yankee

Friday Oct 14, 2:00pm - 3:30pm
Room 30, Legislative Plaza

Do Not Open: The Discarded Refrigerators of Post-Katrina New Orleans

Friday Oct 14, 2:00pm - 3:00pm
Room 31, Legislative Plaza

Falling Together: A Novel

Friday Oct 14, 2:00pm - 3:00pm
Room 12, Legislative Plaza

Scarlett's Legacy -- Two Southern Belles for the 21st Century

Friday Oct 14, 2:00pm - 3:00pm
House Chambers

Blood Work: A Tale of Medicine and Murder in the Scientific Revolution

Friday Oct 14, 2:00pm - 3:00pm
Senate Chambers

This Accumulated Life -- Poems and the Persistence of Memory

Friday Oct 14, 2:00pm - 3:30pm
Capitol Library

Cuentos Frescos -- Fresh Fiction by Latina Writers

Friday Oct 14, 2:30pm - 4:00pm
Old Supreme Court Room

The Story of Charlotte's Web: E.B. White's Eccentric Life in Nature and the Birth of an American Classic

Friday Oct 14, 2:30pm - 3:30pm
Room 29, Legislative Plaza

Boys' Lives -- Debut Novels

Friday Oct 14, 2:30pm - 4:00pm
Room 16, Legislative Plaza

Working South: Paintings and Sketches by Mary Whyte

Friday Oct 14, 3:00pm - 4:00pm
Room 31, Legislative Plaza

Righting Wrongs on the Road to Reform -- Two Alabama Memoirs

Friday Oct 14, 3:00pm - 4:00pm
Senate Chambers

The Girl in the Blue Beret

Friday Oct 14, 3:00pm - 4:00pm
House Chambers

My Long Trip Home: A Family Memoir

Friday Oct 14, 3:00pm - 4:00pm
Room 12, Legislative Plaza

A Conversation Between Stephen Usery and Tom Piazza

Friday Oct 14, 3:00pm - 4:00pm
Chapter 16 Stage

Shelby Bottom String Band

Friday Oct 14, 3:00pm - 4:30pm
Cafe Stage

No Remorse: The Rise and Fall of the Killer John Wallace

Friday Oct 14, 3:30pm - 4:30pm
Room 29, Legislative Plaza

Not About Madonna: My Little Pre-Icon Roommate and Other Memoirs

Friday Oct 14, 3:30pm - 4:30pm
Room 30, Legislative Plaza

Rattling the Shutters of Conformity--Three Poets

Friday Oct 14, 3:30pm - 5:00pm
Capitol Library

The Ripple Effect -- Poems and Prose in the Wake of War

Friday Oct 14, 4:00pm - 5:00pm
Room 31, Legislative Plaza

When We Were Strangers

Friday Oct 14, 4:00pm - 5:00pm
Room 12, Legislative Plaza

The Devil All the Time

Friday Oct 14, 4:00pm - 5:00pm
House Chambers

Rural, Southern and Literate -- Biographies of Larry Brown and Harry Harrison Kroll

Friday Oct 14, 4:00pm - 5:00pm
Senate Chambers

The Inuit, the Circus and the Family Meeting -- Three Debut Novels

Friday Oct 14, 4:00pm - 5:30pm
Old Supreme Court Room

Youth Speaks Nashville

Friday Oct 14, 4:30pm - 5:30pm
Chapter 16 Stage

Attainable Saint: Practical Spirituality for Healing

Friday Oct 14, 4:30pm - 5:30pm
Room 29, Legislative Plaza

Annie and the Ripper

Friday Oct 14, 4:30pm - 5:30pm
Room 30, Legislative Plaza

Brigitte DeMeyer

Friday Oct 14, 5:00pm - 6:00pm
Cafe Stage

Blood Red Road

Saturday Oct 15, 9:00am - 10:00am
Old Supreme Court Room

The Day Dirk Yeller Came to Town

Saturday Oct 15, 9:30am - 10:30am
Room 29, Legislative Plaza

Conductor Jack and The Zinghoppers

Saturday Oct 15, 9:30am - 10:00am
Youth Stage

Women's National Book Association presents Breakfast with Authors

Saturday Oct 15, 9:30am - 11:00am
Nashville Public Library Auditorium

Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President

Saturday Oct 15, 10:00am - 11:00am
Room 12, Legislative Plaza

The Dry Grass of August

Saturday Oct 15, 10:00am - 11:00am
Room 30, Legislative Plaza

Appalachian Tales and Heartland Adventures

Saturday Oct 15, 10:00am - 11:00am
Room 31, Legislative Plaza

Voices of Tennessee Poets

Saturday Oct 15, 10:00am - 11:00am
Chapter 16 Stage

Don't Forget This Song: Four Writers Celebrate the Carter Family and Other Roots Musicians

Saturday Oct 15, 10:00am - 11:30am
Room 16, Legislative Plaza

Reading My Father: A Memoir

Saturday Oct 15, 10:00am - 11:00am
House Chambers

Devil Sent the Rain: Music and Writing in Desperate America

Saturday Oct 15, 10:00am - 11:00am
Senate Chambers

The Other Latin@: Writing Against a Singular Identity

Saturday Oct 15, 10:00am - 11:30am
Old Supreme Court Room

A Historical Dictionary of the Kurds

Saturday Oct 15, 10:00am - 11:00am
Capitol Library

The Night Strangers: A Novel

Saturday Oct 15, 10:00am - 11:00am
War Memorial Auditorium

Chris Gay

Saturday Oct 15, 10:00am - 11:00am
Cafe Stage
Saturday Oct 15, 10:00am - 11:00am
Chapter 16 Stage

Lyric and Rhyme -- Creating Memorable Books for Young Readers

Saturday Oct 15, 10:30am - 11:30am
Room 29, Legislative Plaza

Conductor Jack and The Zinghoppers

Saturday Oct 15, 10:30am - 11:00am
Youth Stage

Encyclopedia Mythologica: Dragons & Monsters

Saturday Oct 15, 11:00am - 12:00pm
House Chambers

Are We Nearing the End of the Print Age? Four Perspectives on the Future of the Written Word

Saturday Oct 15, 11:00am - 12:30pm
Room 30, Legislative Plaza

Amazing Baseball Heroes: Inspirational Negro League Stories

Saturday Oct 15, 11:00am - 12:00pm
Capitol Library

Living and Remembering After the Civil War -- Biography and Recollections

Saturday Oct 15, 11:00am - 12:00pm
Room 31, Legislative Plaza

No Biking in the House without a Helmet

Saturday Oct 15, 11:00am - 12:00pm
Room 12, Legislative Plaza

Come Together! Riiigght Now...Over Books -- Perspectives on Beatlemania and Beatle Business

Saturday Oct 15, 11:00am - 12:00pm
Senate Chambers
Saturday Oct 15, 11:00am - 12:30pm
War Memorial Auditorium

The Nashville Zoo presents Getting in Touch with Tennessee

Saturday Oct 15, 11:15am - 12:00pm
Youth Stage

The Real World -- Teens Coping with Grown-Up Issues

Saturday Oct 15, 11:30am - 12:30pm
Room 29, Legislative Plaza

From the South to the Screen -- Lynn Bari and Margaret Mitchell

Saturday Oct 15, 11:30am - 12:30pm
Room 16, Legislative Plaza

The Gorilla Man and the Empress of Steak

Saturday Oct 15, 11:30am - 12:30pm
Old Supreme Court Room

Les Kerr and the Bayou Band

Saturday Oct 15, 11:30am - 12:30pm
Cafe Stage

Translating Wild Dreamers -- The Pitfalls and Delights of Translating Surrealist and/or Contemporary Poets

Saturday Oct 15, 12:00pm - 1:30pm
Capitol Library

The West Meade Conservancy Reads Noah and the Arc

Saturday Oct 15, 12:00pm - 12:45pm
Youth Stage

Merlin: The Book of Magic

Saturday Oct 15, 12:00pm - 1:00pm
House Chambers

Revisiting the Family -- Looking Back to Move Forward

Saturday Oct 15, 12:00pm - 1:00pm
Room 31, Legislative Plaza

Lions of the West

Saturday Oct 15, 12:00pm - 1:00pm
Room 12, Legislative Plaza

Washed in the Blood

Saturday Oct 15, 12:00pm - 1:00pm
Senate Chambers
Saturday Oct 15, 12:30pm - 1:30pm
Old Supreme Court Room

Graphic Novelists At The Top Of Their Game

Saturday Oct 15, 12:30pm - 1:30pm
Room 29, Legislative Plaza

Remembering George Scarbrough -- Poetry and Biography

Saturday Oct 15, 12:30pm - 2:00pm
Room 30, Legislative Plaza

The Pleasures and Perils of Entertainment Journalism

Saturday Oct 15, 12:30pm - 2:00pm
Room 16, Legislative Plaza

The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey

Saturday Oct 15, 12:30pm - 1:30pm
War Memorial Auditorium

The Ukedelics

Saturday Oct 15, 12:45pm - 1:45pm
Youth Stage

Singing Cowboys, Outlaw Women, and the Greatest Song Ever Written -- Stories Behind the Music

Saturday Oct 15, 1:00pm - 2:30pm
Room 31, Legislative Plaza

The Night Circus

Saturday Oct 15, 1:00pm - 2:00pm
House Chambers

Amphibians of Tennessee

Saturday Oct 15, 1:00pm - 2:00pm
Room 12, Legislative Plaza

A Promise in Haiti: A Reporter's Notes on Families and Daily Lives

Saturday Oct 15, 1:00pm - 2:00pm
Senate Chambers

Ghosts and Haunts of Tennessee

Saturday Oct 15, 1:00pm - 2:00pm
Chapter 16 Stage

Irene Kelley

Saturday Oct 15, 1:00pm - 2:00pm
Cafe Stage

The Original Princesses of Power -- YA Historical Fiction

Saturday Oct 15, 1:30pm - 2:30pm
Old Supreme Court Room

The Near Side of Dead -- Living With a Good Mystery

Saturday Oct 15, 1:30pm - 2:30pm
Room 29, Legislative Plaza

Memory and Longing -- Two Poets

Saturday Oct 15, 1:30pm - 2:30pm
Capitol Library

A Conversation Between Ann Patchett and Edith Pearlman

Saturday Oct 15, 1:30pm - 2:30pm
War Memorial Auditorium

The Writer's Life--A Memoir and Essays

Saturday Oct 15, 2:00pm - 3:00pm
Room 30, Legislative Plaza

Bird in a Box

Saturday Oct 15, 2:00pm - 3:00pm
Room 12, Legislative Plaza

Elizabeth and Hazel: Two Women of Little Rock

Saturday Oct 15, 2:00pm - 3:00pm
Room 16, Legislative Plaza

Grand Central Winter

Saturday Oct 15, 2:00pm - 3:00pm
Senate Chambers

Gingerbread Man Loose in the School

Saturday Oct 15, 2:00pm - 3:00pm
Youth Stage

Between Shades of Gray

Saturday Oct 15, 2:00pm - 3:00pm
House Chambers

Strange Gifts and Shape Shifts -- Novels of the Supernatural

Saturday Oct 15, 2:30pm - 3:30pm
Room 29, Legislative Plaza

Silver Sparrow

Saturday Oct 15, 2:30pm - 3:30pm
Old Supreme Court Room

Supernatural Appalachia -- Two Novels

Saturday Oct 15, 2:30pm - 3:30pm
Room 31, Legislative Plaza

Ways of Interpreting the World -- Two Poets

Saturday Oct 15, 2:30pm - 3:30pm
Capitol Library

The Leftovers

Saturday Oct 15, 2:30pm - 3:30pm
War Memorial Auditorium

1861 Project

Saturday Oct 15, 2:30pm - 3:30pm
Cafe Stage

Tennessee Young Writers' Workshop

Saturday Oct 15, 2:30pm - 3:30pm
Chapter 16 Stage

Nightwoods

Saturday Oct 15, 3:00pm - 4:00pm
House Chambers

The Color of Night

Saturday Oct 15, 3:00pm - 4:00pm
Senate Chambers

The Happy Table of Eugene Walter

Saturday Oct 15, 3:00pm - 4:00pm
Room 30, Legislative Plaza
Saturday Oct 15, 3:00pm - 4:30pm
Room 12, Legislative Plaza

Inconvenienced Sleuths -- Intrigue from Out of the Blue

Saturday Oct 15, 3:00pm - 4:30pm
Room 16, Legislative Plaza

Creating through Illustration with Matt Phelan

Saturday Oct 15, 3:00pm - 4:00pm
Youth Stage

Fantasy, Murder, and Romance -- First Books In Multi-Genre Series

Saturday Oct 15, 3:30pm - 4:30pm
Room 29, Legislative Plaza

Surviving Divorce and Preventing Parental Alienation

Saturday Oct 15, 3:30pm - 4:30pm
Room 31, Legislative Plaza

Tribulation and Triumph in New African-American Fiction

Saturday Oct 15, 3:30pm - 4:30pm
Capitol Library

A Plainspoken Grace -- Short Story Collections

Saturday Oct 15, 3:30pm - 4:30pm
Old Supreme Court Room

Magic Boxes, Hijinks, and Trying To Make Things Right -- YA Novels

Saturday Oct 15, 4:00pm - 5:00pm
Room 30, Legislative Plaza

Kristi Rose and Fats Kaplin

Saturday Oct 15, 4:00pm - 5:00pm
Cafe Stage

Llama Llama's Birthday Party

Saturday Oct 15, 4:00pm - 4:30pm
Youth Stage

Tennessee Repertory Theater presents

Saturday Oct 15, 4:00pm - 5:00pm
Chapter 16 Stage
Saturday Oct 15, 4:30pm - 5:30pm
Youth Stage

God's Eye

Saturday Oct 15, 4:30pm - 5:30pm
Room 31, Legislative Plaza

In Pursuit of What Matters -- Writing for Middle Grade Readers

Saturday Oct 15, 4:30pm - 5:30pm
Old Supreme Court Room

Beyond Seeing Ghosts -- Writing the Supernatural for YA Readers

Saturday Oct 15, 4:30pm - 5:30pm
Room 29, Legislative Plaza

The Butterfly's Daughter

Saturday Oct 15, 4:30pm - 5:30pm
Room 12, Legislative Plaza

To Timbuktu: Nine Countries, Two People, One True Story

Saturday Oct 15, 4:30pm - 5:30pm
Room 16, Legislative Plaza

Fedora Brothers

Saturday Oct 15, 5:00pm - 6:00pm
Cafe Stage

ZooZical

Sunday Oct 16, 12:00pm - 1:00pm
War Memorial Auditorium

Meet Me in the Kitchen -- Recipes for the New World Cook

Sunday Oct 16, 12:00pm - 1:30pm
Room 30, Legislative Plaza

Sisters in Crime presents Masters of the Mystery

Sunday Oct 16, 12:00pm - 1:30pm
Room 12, Legislative Plaza

Something's Rising: Appalachians Fighting Mountaintop Removal

Sunday Oct 16, 12:00pm - 1:00pm
Room 16, Legislative Plaza

The Family Fang

Sunday Oct 16, 12:00pm - 1:00pm
House Chambers

The Invisible Line: Three American Families and the Secret Journey from Black to White

Sunday Oct 16, 12:00pm - 1:00pm
Senate Chambers

Hard Lives on the Road -- Two Novels

Sunday Oct 16, 12:00pm - 1:00pm
Old Supreme Court Room

Masters of Voice and Technique -- Two Poets

Sunday Oct 16, 12:00pm - 1:00pm
Capitol Library

Bluebeard: Tales from Around the World

Sunday Oct 16, 12:00pm - 1:00pm
Chapter 16 Stage

The Gap Year

Sunday Oct 16, 12:00pm - 1:00pm
Room 31, Legislative Plaza

Stories of the Titanic for Adults and Children

Sunday Oct 16, 12:00pm - 1:00pm
Room 29, Legislative Plaza

Star Wars Origami with Tom Angleberger

Sunday Oct 16, 12:15pm - 1:15pm
Youth Stage

Ethereal Supplication -- Poems of the Mystical and Natural

Sunday Oct 16, 1:00pm - 2:00pm
Capitol Library

When Pen Meets Paintbrush -- Author/Illustrators Discuss Their Craft

Sunday Oct 16, 1:00pm - 2:00pm
Room 29, Legislative Plaza

Jane Austen: A Life Revealed

Sunday Oct 16, 1:00pm - 2:00pm
Room 31, Legislative Plaza

Southern Appalachian Celebration: In Praise of Ancient Mountains, Old-Growth Forests, and Wilderness

Sunday Oct 16, 1:00pm - 2:00pm
Room 16, Legislative Plaza

Curating the Human Experience -- Short Stories

Sunday Oct 16, 1:00pm - 2:00pm
House Chambers

Be the People: A Call to Reclaim America's Faith and Promise

Sunday Oct 16, 1:00pm - 2:00pm
Senate Chambers

Is It True What They Say About Dixie? Memory, History, and Popular Culture

Sunday Oct 16, 1:00pm - 2:00pm
Old Supreme Court Room

To the Ends of the Earth -- Novels of Missing Children

Sunday Oct 16, 1:30pm - 2:30pm
Room 30, Legislative Plaza

The Night Train

Sunday Oct 16, 1:30pm - 2:30pm
War Memorial Auditorium

King for a Day The Story of Stories. Learn to draw with Mark Wayne Adams

Sunday Oct 16, 1:30pm - 2:30pm
Youth Stage

A Season of Darkness

Sunday Oct 16, 1:30pm - 2:30pm
Room 12, Legislative Plaza

A City of Ghosts

Sunday Oct 16, 1:30pm - 2:30pm
Chapter 16 Stage

Leipers Fork Bluegrass Band

Sunday Oct 16, 1:30pm - 3:00pm
Cafe Stage

I Made A Funny! -- Creating Comedy For Kids

Sunday Oct 16, 2:00pm - 3:30pm
Room 29, Legislative Plaza

It All Depends on Friends -- Three Novels

Sunday Oct 16, 2:00pm - 3:30pm
Room 31, Legislative Plaza

Money, Power and Fame -- Two Murder Mysteries

Sunday Oct 16, 2:00pm - 3:00pm
Room 16, Legislative Plaza

The Gospel and the Mind: Recovering and Reshaping the Intellectual Life

Sunday Oct 16, 2:00pm - 3:00pm
Capitol Library

Wonkenstein

Sunday Oct 16, 2:00pm - 3:00pm
House Chambers

Time and Tradition: A Poetry Anthology

Sunday Oct 16, 2:00pm - 3:30pm
Senate Chambers

A World of Wonders -- Nurturing the Creative Instinct

Sunday Oct 16, 2:30pm - 4:00pm
Room 30, Legislative Plaza

How Old is the Universe?

Sunday Oct 16, 2:30pm - 3:30pm
Room 12, Legislative Plaza

Little Critter's Birthday Party

Sunday Oct 16, 2:45pm - 3:15pm
Youth Stage

Secret Commonwealth

Sunday Oct 16, 3:30pm - 4:30pm
Cafe Stage