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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 12, 2018

Date Time Venue Title Authors 12 OCT 2018

12:00-1:00 pm

NPL Conf Room 1A

Masters of the Form: Short Story Collections

Lee Conell, Kevin Wilson

12 OCT 2018

12:00-1:00 pm

NPL Auditorium

Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo"

Deborah G. Plant

12 OCT 2018

12:00-1:00 pm

NPL Children's Program Room

They Persisted: Three Picture Books on American Change-Makers

Alice Faye Duncan, Rita Lorraine Hubbard, Susan Wood

12 OCT 2018

12:00-1:00 pm

NPL Special Collections Room

Freedom Fighters and Hell Raisers: A Gallery of Memorable Southerners

Hal Crowther

12 OCT 2018

12:00-1:00 pm

Nashville Public Library Commons Room

Songs from An Imperfect Life Ron York

12 OCT 2018

12:00-1:00 pm

NPL Teen Center

Heroes Come in All Forms: Middle Grade Novels

Molly Brooks, Amy Ignatow, Tommy Greenwald

12 OCT 2018

12:00-1:00 pm

NPL Banner Room

Patchwork: A Bobbie Ann Mason Reader

Bobbie Ann Mason

12 OCT 2018

12:00-1:00 pm

NPL Teen Studio

The Monster Detector (Big Foot and Little Foot #2)

Ellen Potter

12 OCT 2018

12:00-1:00 pm

Music Stage Cariad Harmon

12 OCT 2018

12:00-1:00 pm

Youth Stage The Ukedelics: This little instrument can really swing!

12 OCT 2018

1:00-2:00 pm

NPL Conf Room 3

Alabama in Poetry: New Collections Lana K.W. Austin, Virginia Gilbert, Harry V. Moore

12 OCT 2018

1:00-2:00 pm

NPL Conf Room 1A

Music from a Memphis Duplex to the Court of the Crimson King: Blues, Soul, Rock and Prog

David Weigel, Robert Gordon

12 OCT 2018

1:00-2:00 pm

NPL Conference Room 1B

The Thin Light of Freedom: The Civil War and Emancipation in the Heart of America

Edward L. Ayers

12 OCT 2018

1:00-2:00 pm

NPL Auditorium

Ancient Voices, Long Memories: Transgenerational Novels

Dana Chamblee Carpenter, Kathleen Kaufman, Wayetu Moore

12 OCT 2018

1:00-2:00 pm

NPL Children's Program

Daddy, Did You Hear the News? Sanya Whittaker Gragg

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Room 12 OCT 2018

1:00-2:00 pm

NPL Special Collections Room

The Heft of History: Novels of Personal and Monumental Decisions

Jane Lorenzini, Ariel Lawhon, Thomas McConnell

12 OCT 2018

1:00-2:00 pm

NPL Banner Room

I Will Be Complete: A Memoir Glen David Gold

12 OCT 2018

1:00-2:00 pm

Nashville Public Library Commons Room

"The Lost Country" by William Gay Sonny Brewer

12 OCT 2018

1:00-2:00 pm

NPL Teen Studio

FBI, CIA and the Thrill of the Chase: Spy Novels for Young Readers

James Ponti, Mike Lowery

12 OCT 2018

1:00-2:00 pm

Music Stage Joseph Bradshaw

12 OCT 2018

1:00-2:00 pm

Artober Performing Arts Stage

Red House Imaginarium: A Carnival of Creativity

12 OCT 2018

1:00-2:30 pm

NPL Teen Center

The Kids Are Alright: YA Novels on Teenage Resilience

Helene Dunbar, Sarah Nicole Lemon, Farrah Penn, Destiny Soria

12 OCT 2018

2:00-3:00 pm

NPL Conf Room 3

Physical Disobedience: An Unruly Guide to Health and Stamina for the Modern Feminist

Sarah Hays Coomer

12 OCT 2018

2:00-3:00 pm

NPL Special Collections Room

The Man Who Caught the Storm: The Life of Legendary Storm Chaser Tim Samaras

Brantley Hargrove

12 OCT 2018

2:00-3:00 pm

NPL Auditorium

Instructions for Not Giving Up: Novels of Survival

Silas House, Hannah Pittard, Kathryn Schwille

12 OCT 2018

2:00-3:00 pm

NPL Banner Room

Stolen Days: Novels of Transcending Captivity

Madison Smartt Bell, Bernice L. McFadden

12 OCT 2018

2:00-3:00 pm

Nashville Public Library Commons Room

Journeys to and Through Motherhood: Three Memoirs

Bonnie Tinsley, Jamie Sumner, Kumiko Makihara

12 OCT 2018

2:00-3:00 pm

NPL Teen Studio

The Rebel Librarian and the Story Collector: Middle Grade Books for Book Lovers

Kristin O'Donnell Tubb, Allison Varnes

12 OCT 2018

2:00-3:00 pm

NPL Children's Program Room

Love and suicide in literature with Kim Hooper, author of Cherry Blossoms: A Novel

Kim Hooper

2018 SOUTHERN FESTIVAL OF BOOKS SCHEDULE (as of 10/10/18) Check On-Site Signage for Further Changes

12 OCT 2018

2:00-3:00 pm

Music Stage Anana Kaye

12 OCT 2018

2:00-3:00 pm

NPL Conf Room 1A

Can Democracy Work?: A Short History of a Radical Idea, from Ancient Athens to Our World

James Miller

12 OCT 2018

2:00-3:00 pm

Artober Performing Arts Stage

Ashley Mintz: Art, Words & Music

12 OCT 2018

3:00-4:00 pm

NPL Conf Room 3

Lyrical Women: Three Poets Marilyn Kallet, KB Ballentine, Stephanie McCarley Dugger

12 OCT 2018

3:00-4:00 pm

NPL Conf Room 1A

Going Deeper: New Research Into American Slavery

Richard Blackett, Bill Carey, Jim Jordan

12 OCT 2018

3:00-4:00 pm

NPL Auditorium

Southern Writers on Writing Susan Cushman, River Jordan, Lee Smith, Niles M. Reddick

12 OCT 2018

3:00-4:00 pm

NPL Special Collections Room

The Cadaver King and the Country Dentist: A True Story of Injustice in the American South

Radley Balko, Tucker Carrington

12 OCT 2018

3:00-4:00 pm

NPL Banner Room

My Father's Business: The Small-Town Values That Built Dollar General into a Billion-Dollar Company

Cal Turner, Jr., Rob Simbeck

12 OCT 2018

3:00-4:00 pm

Nashville Public Library Commons Room

Wake Up and Smell the Whiskey...and Scotch: New Guides

Kathleen Purvis, Clay Risen

12 OCT 2018

3:00-4:00 pm

NPL Teen Center

Fantasy with a Vengeance! Lisa Maxwell, Laura Sebastian

12 OCT 2018

3:00-4:00 pm

NPL Teen Studio

Destroy All Monsters: The Last Rock Novel

Jeff Jackson

12 OCT 2018

3:00-4:00 pm

NPL Conference Room 1B

Can American Capitalism Survive? Why Greed is Not Good, Opportunity is Not Equal, and Fairness Will Not Make Us Poor

Steven Pearlstein

12 OCT 2018

3:00-4:00 pm

Youth Stage Silly Grandpa: Songs, Stories & Serious Silliness

12 OCT 2018

3:00-4:30 pm

NPL Children's Program Room

The Leaving and the Coming Home: New Poetry Collections

Sara Pirkle Hughes, Chanda Feldman, Ryan Guth, Eve Hoffman

2018 SOUTHERN FESTIVAL OF BOOKS SCHEDULE (as of 10/10/18) Check On-Site Signage for Further Changes

12 OCT 2018

3:30-4:00 pm

Artober Performing Arts Stage

Erin Kouwe: Dance

12 OCT 2018

4:00-5:00 pm

Artober Performing Arts Stage

Southern Word

12 OCT 2018

4:00-5:00 pm

Music Stage Eve Maret

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 13, 2018

13 OCT 2018

9:30-11:00 am

NPL Auditorium

Women's National Book Association Presents Coffee with Authors

Rebecca Makkai, Alexander Chee, Wayetu Moore, Abigail DeWitt

13 OCT 2018

10:00-11:00 am

NPL Conf Room 1A

See What Can Be Done: Essays, Criticism, and Commentary

Lorrie Moore, Ron Charles

13 OCT 2018

10:00-11:00 am

NPL Conf Room 3

Roadside Attractions: Tourism in the South

Graham Hoppe, Douglas Reichert Powell

13 OCT 2018

10:00-11:00 am

NPL Banner Room

Tear Me Apart J.T. Ellison

13 OCT 2018

10:00-11:00 am

NPL Conference Room 1B

(Re) Framing the Movement: Two Stories of Inside and Outside the Fight for Civil Rights

Adam Parker, Marc Perrusquia

13 OCT 2018

10:00-11:00 am

NPL Children's Program Room

Growing Bigger and Braver: Two Picture Books

Jonathan Voss, Susan Eaddy

13 OCT 2018

10:00-11:00 am

NPL Special Collections Room

The Storied South: New Fiction Andy Plattner, Nick White, Charles Dodd White

13 OCT 2018

10:00-11:00 am

Nashville Public Library Commons Room

A Light in the Distance: Two Poets Beth Bachmann, Blas Falconer

13 OCT 2018

10:00-11:00 am

NPL Teen Center

Big Kids, Big Problems: Middle Grade Novels

Kate Beasley, Patti Kim

13 OCT 2018

10:00-11:00 am

NPL Teen Studio

The Animals Speak: Picture Books with Favorite Creatures

Alex Beard, Grant Maloy Smith, Laura Joy Pewitt

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13 OCT 2018

10:30-11:30 am

War Memorial Auditorium

The Best Cook in the World: Tales from My Momma's Table

Rick Bragg

13 OCT 2018

11:00-12:00 noon

NPL Conf Room 3

Writing Your Way Out: Two Memoirs

Sandra Gail Lambert, Kelly J. Beard

13 OCT 2018

11:00-12:00 noon

NPL Banner Room

Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom

David Blight

13 OCT 2018

11:00-12:00 noon

NPL Auditorium

The House of Broken Angels Luis Alberto Urrea

13 OCT 2018

11:00-12:00 noon

NPL Special Collections Room

It Starts in the Heart: Memoirs of Compassion Activated

Renee Hodges, Kathy Izard

13 OCT 2018

11:00-12:00 noon

Nashville Public Library Commons Room

Fantasy Worlds for Young Readers Cressida Cowell, Tracy Barrett

13 OCT 2018

11:00-12:00 noon

NPL Teen Center

Journeys Within and Without: Middle Grade Tales

Ronald Kidd, Ellen Wittlinger, Vince Vawter

13 OCT 2018

11:00-12:00 noon

NPL Teen Studio

Portals Glennray Tutor

13 OCT 2018

11:00-12:00 noon

NPL Children's Program Room

A Hard Rain: America in the 1960s, Our Decade of Hope, Possibility, and Innocence Lost

Frye Gaillard

13 OCT 2018

11:00-12:00 noon

Artober Performing Arts Stage

Girls Up Loud

13 OCT 2018

11:00-12:00 noon

Music Stage Jon Byrd and Byrd's Auto Parts

13 OCT 2018

11:00-12:00 noon

Youth Stage Bill Crosby and the Bahama Llama Orchestra

13 OCT 2018

11:00-12:30 pm

NPL Conf Room 1A

Telling Our Stories in Words and Art

Maggi Britton Vaughn, Nancy Ellen Kensy, Becky Shelton, Carole Brown Knuth

13 OCT 11:00- NPL Grand Divisions: Podcast Recording Joel Ebert, Arthur

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2018 12:30 pm

Conference Room 1B

Lupia, Mariah Cole, Jennifer Kavanagh, Natalie Allison

13 OCT 2018

12:00-12:30 pm

Artober Performing Arts Stage

DancEast Company

13 OCT 2018

12:00-1:00 pm

NPL Children's Program Room

Preserving Home in an Encroaching World: New Fiction

Eric Barnes, Robert Gipe, Lee Martin

13 OCT 2018

12:00-1:00 pm

NPL Conf Room 3

Rush: A Novel Lisa Patton

13 OCT 2018

12:00-1:00 pm

NPL Auditorium

If Landscapes Could Talk: Two Novels of Places Called Home

Kevin Powers, Caleb Johnson

13 OCT 2018

12:00-1:00 pm

NPL Special Collections Room

Atticus Finch: A Biography Joseph Crespino, Jonathan Haupt

13 OCT 2018

12:00-1:00 pm

Nashville Public Library Commons Room

Let's Pretend History Doesn't Hang On Our Bodies

Tiana Clark, Jason McCall, David Daniel

13 OCT 2018

12:00-1:00 pm

NPL Teen Center

The Heart of the Matter: YA Novels of Life and Love

Rachael Allen, Jen Doll

13 OCT 2018

12:00-1:00 pm

NPL Teen Studio

Campfire Shawn Sarles

13 OCT 2018

12:00-1:00 pm

NPL Banner Room

The Atlas Obscura Explorer's Guide for the World's Most Adventurous Kid

Dylan Thuras

13 OCT 2018

12:00-1:00 pm

Music Stage Les Kerr and His Bayou Band

13 OCT 2018

12:30-1:30 pm

NPL Conference Room 1B

The Public and Private Lives of Andrew Jackson

Mark Cheathem, Tony Turnbow

13 OCT 2018

1:00-2:00 pm

NPL Conf Room 1A

Frame by Frame: Telling Stories Through Drawing

John Hendrix, Maximilian Uriarte

13 OCT 2018

1:00-2:00 pm

NPL Teen Center

Sailing the Seas: Adventure Novels for All Ages

Dewey W. Lambdin, II, Barry Wolverton

13 OCT 2018

1:00-2:00 pm

War Memorial Auditorium

Turning Pages: My Life Story Justice Sonia Sotomayor

13 OCT 2018

1:00-2:00 pm

Artober Performing Arts Stage

Nashville Poets: Honest Lewis, Ciona Rouse, Christine Hall, Morgan Christopher

13 OCT 1:30- NPL Power, Politics & Promise: Public Loka Ashwood,

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2018 2:30 pm Conference Room 1B

Policy Plays out in Democracy Katie Cahill

13 OCT 2018

2:00-3:00 pm

NPL Conf Room 1A

HATE: Why We Should Resist It with Free Speech, Not Censorship (Inalienable Rights)

Nadine Strossen, Emily Siner

13 OCT 2018

2:00-3:00 pm

NPL Conf Room 3

They've All Come to Look for America: Poetry Collections

Lindsey Alexander, Rebecca Morgan Frank

13 OCT 2018

2:00-3:00 pm

NPL Auditorium

Small Animals: Parenthood in the Age of Fear

Kim Brooks

13 OCT 2018

2:00-3:00 pm

NPL Children's Program Room

Go Before It's Gone: Weighing the Impact of Ecological Tourism

Mike Gunter, Jr., Earl Swift

13 OCT 2018

2:00-3:00 pm

Nashville Public Library Commons Room

The Ballad of Bob: Nashville, Southern Music, and Dylan

Daniel Wolff, Daryl Sanders, Charlie McCoy, Dave Marsh

13 OCT 2018

2:00-3:00 pm

NPL Teen Center

The Friends You Need: New YA Fiction

David Arnold, Adib Khorram, Monica Hesse

13 OCT 2018

2:00-3:00 pm

NPL Teen Studio

Michael Osborn on Metaphor and Style

Michael Osborn

13 OCT 2018

2:00-3:00 pm

NPL Special Collections Room

The Pulse of Living: Fearless New Fiction

Jamie Quatro, JM Holmes

13 OCT 2018

2:00-3:00 pm

Artober Performing Arts Stage

Southern Word

13 OCT 2018

2:00-3:30 pm

NPL Banner Room

Sisters in Crime Phyllis Gobbell, Lisa Wysocky, Kelly Oliver, Karen Robards

13 OCT 2018

2:30-3:30 pm

NPL Conference Room 1B

Beautiful Country Burn Again: Democracy, Rebellion, and Revolution

Ben Fountain

13 OCT 2018

3:00-3:30 pm

Artober Performing Arts Stage

Black Queer Hoe Britteney Black Rose Kapri

13 OCT 2018

3:00-3:30 pm

Youth Stage Happy 20th Birthday Harry Potter Party!

13 OCT 2018

3:00-4:00 pm

NPL Teen Studio

Back to Life's Drawing Board: Memoirs of Self-Discovery

Tessa Fontaine, Nell Irvin Painter

13 OCT 3:00- NPL Conf Evolution and Ekphrasis: Two Sarah Rose

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2018 4:00 pm Room 3 Poets Nordgren, Adam Vines

13 OCT 2018

3:00-4:00 pm

NPL Conf Room 1A

Voting in the Volunteer State Eric Barnes, Dawn Schluckebier, Debby Gould

13 OCT 2018

3:00-4:00 pm

NPL Auditorium

Gunslingers, Mysteries, and Wonderland: New YA Heroines

Lyndsay Ely, L.L. McKinney, Shawn Sarles

13 OCT 2018

3:00-4:00 pm

NPL Children's Program Room

Penelope Lemon: Game On! Inman Majors

13 OCT 2018

3:00-4:00 pm

NPL Special Collections Room

To the Ends of the Earth: Novels of Family

Abigail DeWitt, Jennifer Haupt, Tiffany Quay Tyson

13 OCT 2018

3:00-4:00 pm

Nashville Public Library Commons Room

Strangers and Friends at the Welcome Table: Contemporary Christianities in the American South

James Hudnut-Beumler

13 OCT 2018

3:00-4:00 pm

War Memorial Auditorium

Depth of Winter: A Longmire Mystery

Craig Johnson

13 OCT 2018

3:00-4:00 pm

NPL Teen Center

The Legacy of Will Campbell Webb Campbell, Tom Royals

13 OCT 2018

3:30-4:00 pm

Artober Performing Arts Stage

Citizen Illegal Jose Olivarez

13 OCT 2018

3:30-4:30 pm

NPL Conference Room 1B

Have You Talked to So and So? Discovering Small-Town Stories

Karida L. Brown, John Lingan

13 OCT 2018

3:30-4:30 pm

NPL Banner Room

Those Who Dream By Day: New Picture Books

Tony DiTerlizzi, Marla Frazee

13 OCT 2018

4:00-5:00 pm

NPL Conf Room 1A

The Den of Forever Frost (Bears of the Ice #2)

Kathryn Lasky

13 OCT 2018

4:00-5:00 pm

NPL Auditorium

Our Prince of Scribes: Writers Remember Pat Conroy

Cynthia Graubart, Cliff Graubart, Bren McClain, Jonathan Haupt

13 OCT 2018

4:00-5:00 pm

Nashville Public Library Commons Room

From Meister Eckhart to Modern Liturgy: Non-Fiction Works on Progressive Christianity

Kevin Brown, Joel Harrington

13 OCT 2018

4:00-5:00 pm

NPL Teen Center

A Long Line of Cakes Deborah Wiles

13 OCT 4:00- NPL life on mars: what to know before David Weintraub

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2018 5:00 pm Children's Program Room

we go

13 OCT 2018

4:00-5:00 pm

NPL Conf Room 3

The Nashville Way: Tourism and Community Life

Tom Adkinson, Mark Deutschmann

13 OCT 2018

4:00-5:00 pm

NPL Teen Studio

Historical Novels with Southern Roots

Marjorie Herrera Lewis, Elaine Neil Orr

13 OCT 2018

4:00-5:00 pm

Artober Performing Arts Stage

Third Coast Comedy

13 OCT 2018

4:00-5:30 pm

NPL Special Collections Room

Third Man Books Poetry Reading Ciona Rouse, Betsy Phillips, Dan Hoy, Caroline Randall Williams

13 OCT 2018

4:30-5:30 pm

NPL Conference Room 1B

Reverberations of Racism: Memoirs of Personal Freedom

Kiese Laymon, Rae Paris, Rochelle Riley

13 OCT 2018

4:30-5:30 pm

NPL Banner Room

Writing the Storm Out: Two Memoirs

Alexander Chee, Terese Marie Mailhot

SUNDAY, OCTOBER 14, 2018

14 OCT 2018

12:00-1:00 pm

NPL Conf Room 3

99 Ways to Die Ed Lin

14 OCT 2018

12:00-1:00 pm

NPL Conference Room 1B

Beyond the Flashpoint: Examining Events of the Civil Rights Movement

Elliott Gorn, Christopher Schmidt

14 OCT 2018

12:00-1:00 pm

NPL Banner Room

City of Ghosts Victoria Schwab

14 OCT 2018

12:00-1:00 pm

NPL Children's Program Room

Crash, Splash or Moo! Bob Shea

14 OCT 2018

12:00-1:00 pm

Nashville Public Library Commons Room

Lorraine Ketch Secor, Higgins Bond

14 OCT 2018

12:00-1:00 pm

NPL Teen Center

Cricket and Clancy: Characters That Jump Off the Page (and Out of Airplanes)

Tracy Barrett, Jo Watson Hackl

14 OCT 2018

12:00-1:00 pm

NPL Teen Studio

American Cookie: The Snaps, Drops, Jumbles, Tea Cakes, Bars &

Anne Byrn

2018 SOUTHERN FESTIVAL OF BOOKS SCHEDULE (as of 10/10/18) Check On-Site Signage for Further Changes

Brownies That We Have Loved for Generations

14 OCT 2018

12:00-1:00 pm

NPL Special Collections Room

People Only Die of Live in Movies: Film Writing by Jim Ridley

Steve Haruch

14 OCT 2018

12:00-1:00 pm

Artober Performing Arts Stage

The Journey to Wholeness: Two Poets

Lisa Dordal, Bryanna Licciardi

14 OCT 2018

12:00-1:00 pm

War Memorial Auditorium

Varina: A Novel Charles Frazier, Jonathan Haupt

14 OCT 2018

12:00-1:00 pm

Youth Stage Lackland Theatre: Improvise with me!

14 OCT 2018

12:00-1:30 pm

NPL Conf Room 1A

Uncommon Grace: The Life of Flannery O'Connor Film Screening and Discussion

Bridget Kurt

14 OCT 2018

12:00-1:30 pm

NPL Auditorium

The Great American Read James Mustich, Ron Charles, Joelle Herr, Bernice L. McFadden, Mary Laura Philpott

14 OCT 2018

1:00-2:00 pm

NPL Conf Room 3

Girl Squads: 20 Female Friendships That Changed History

Sam Maggs

14 OCT 2018

1:00-2:00 pm

NPL Conference Room 1B

Polarization and the Polls: How Consumer Choices Reflect Our Politics

John Geer, Marc Hetherington, Ken Blake

14 OCT 2018

1:00-2:00 pm

NPL Children's Program Room

Every Picture Tells a Story: Engaging New Readers

Tammi Sauer, Mary Reaves Uhles, Jessica Young, Daniel Wiseman

14 OCT 2018

1:00-2:00 pm

NPL Special Collections Room

come and Get It, Y'all: Southern Cookbooks

Jennifer Brule, Cynthia Graubart, Perre Coleman Magness

14 OCT 2018

1:00-2:00 pm

Nashville Public Library Commons Room

The Mountain Speaks for Itself: Poetry from Our Natural World

Jesse Graves, William Wright, Emily Rosko

14 OCT 2018

1:00-2:00 pm

NPL Teen Center

Smart Girl Power: Children’s Fiction Stacy McAnulty, Shanda McCloskey

14 OCT 2018

1:00-2:00 pm

NPL Teen Studio

A Call to Caring: Stories of Foster Parenting

Deborah Gold, Wendy Welch

14 OCT 2018

1:00-2:00 pm

Music Stage Karen Leipziger

14 OCT 1:30- NPL What Happens After the Worst Has Jeremy Finley, Lou

2018 SOUTHERN FESTIVAL OF BOOKS SCHEDULE (as of 10/10/18) Check On-Site Signage for Further Changes

2018 2:30 pm Auditorium Happened: New Thrillers Berney 14 OCT 2018

1:30-2:30 pm

NPL Conf Room 1A

She Can Go Her Own Way: YA Novels

Rachel Hawkins, Tiffany Schmidt

14 OCT 2018

1:30-3:00 pm

NPL Banner Room

"After Coal: Stories of Survival in Appalachia and Wales" Film screening and discussion

Thomas Hansell

14 OCT 2018

2:00-02:45PM

Artober Performing Arts Stage

Sankofa African Drum and Dance Company

14 OCT 2018

2:00-3:00 pm

NPL Conference Room 1B

Reagan: An American Journey Bob Spitz

14 OCT 2018

2:00-3:00 pm

Nashville Public Library Commons Room

The Thrifty Guide to Ancient Greece: A Handbook for Time Travelers

Jonathan Stokes

14 OCT 2018

2:00-3:00 pm

NPL Conf Room 3

Whispering in the Daylight: The Children of Tony Alamo Christian Ministries and Their Journey to Freedom

Debby Schriver

14 OCT 2018

2:00-3:00 pm

NPL Children's Program Room

Every Parent's Worst Nightmare: Three Thrillers

Kimberly Belle, Rea Frey, Mike Mullin

14 OCT 2018

2:00-3:00 pm

NPL Teen Center

Bound by Blood: Epic Fantasy for Young Adults

Alex London, Anna-Marie McLemore

14 OCT 2018

2:00-3:00 pm

NPL Teen Studio

Queen's Promise, The Broken Kingdom

Brenda R. Vantrease

14 OCT 2018

2:00-3:00 pm

War Memorial Auditorium

Top of the Charts: In Conversation with Celeste Ng and Tayari Jones

Celeste Ng, Tayari Jones

14 OCT 2018

2:00-3:00 pm

Music Stage Grant Malloy Smith with Special Guest Emi Sunshine

14 OCT 2018

2:00-3:30 pm

NPL Special Collections Room

Icons, Artists, and the High Lonesome: Nashville Music History

Michael D. Doubler, Terry Wait Klefstad, Barbara Martin Stephens, Don Cusic

14 OCT 2018

2:30-3:30 pm

NPL Auditorium

All-of-a-Kind Family Hanukkah Paul Zelinsky

14 OCT 2018

2:30-3:30 pm

NPL Conf Room 1A

Using Children’s Literature to Address Bullying & Foster Empathy

Trudy Ludwig

14 OCT 2018

3:00-4:00 pm

NPL Banner Room

The Collector's Apprentice: A Novel B.A. Shapiro

14 OCT 3:00- NPL New South Indians: Tribal Christopher Oakley

2018 SOUTHERN FESTIVAL OF BOOKS SCHEDULE (as of 10/10/18) Check On-Site Signage for Further Changes

2018 4:00 pm Conference Room 1B

Economics and the Eastern Band of Cherokee in the Twentieth Century

14 OCT 2018

3:00-4:00 pm

NPL Conf Room 3

What It Cannot Hold Runs Wild: Poetry of Home and Place

Catherine Moore, Sandy Coomer, James A. Autry

14 OCT 2018

3:00-4:00 pm

Nashville Public Library Commons Room

The Field of Blood: Violence in Congress and the Road to Civil War

Joanne Freeman

14 OCT 2018

3:00-4:00 pm

NPL Children's Program Room

The Traitor's Game Jennifer Nielsen

14 OCT 2018

3:00-4:00 pm

NPL Teen Center

Space is the Place: New Sci-Fi Scott Reintgen, Drew Williams

14 OCT 2018

3:00-4:00 pm

NPL Teen Studio

Free to Make Mistakes: Novels of Growing Up

Meg Leder, Laura Geringer Bass

14 OCT 2018

3:00-4:00 pm

Artober Performing Arts Stage

"Bard in the Round" - Nashville Shakespeare Festival

14 OCT 2018

3:00-4:00 pm

Music Stage The Gwen Holt Duo

14 OCT 2018

3:00-4:00 pm

Youth Stage Bob Shea Makes Books Bob Shea

14 OCT 2018

3:30-4:30 pm

NPL Auditorium

Hazardous Tales and the Dactyl Hill Squad: Adventure Stories

Nathan Hale, Daniel Jose Older

14 OCT 2018

3:30-4:30 pm

NPL Conf Room 1A

The Power of We the People: Practicing Democracy and Balancing Power

Alan Wiseman, Dana Nelson

14 OCT 2018

3:30-4:30 pm

NPL Special Collections Room

Ghost Writing for Beginners Rob Simbeck