Local author launches her excellent third magical reality novel with a reading at Malaprop’s.
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Book Report: The Many Deaths of the Firefly Brothers
Danger, intrigue, guns, girls, Robinhood righteousness and Bourne Identity audacity: Thomas Mullen’s bank robbing Fireson Brothers have it all.
Book Report: Requiem by Fire
In his new novel, local author Wayne Caldwell returns to Cataloochee as the area’s residents are forced out by the creation of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park.
Book Report: Bloodroot
To spend a couple hours with Bloodroot by Amy Greene, is to descend into a world both wildly beautiful and brutally violent.
Book Report: High Anxiety
The latest novel by South Carolina writer Charlotte Hughes is a dizzying work of high energy, high speed, high spirited and highly entertaining hijinx.
Book Report: The Well and The Mine
Sensitive, sweet and real (yet blissfully light in all the places it so easily could be dark), Gin Phillips’ The Well and The Mine moves with the ease of a beach read yet offers the pithy substance of a time-tested classic.
Book Report: Bobo County
Local author Gary Allen Duke’s Bobo County is the tale of a boy and his dog, but also an account of growing up in the wild countryside of the American Southwest.
Book Report: Love Child
A memoir by Allegra Huston, daughter of film director John and sister of actress Anjelica. Huston makes a Saturday stop at Malaprop’s.
Book Report: Four to read
Our local authors deserve a good read and there’s no shortage (the potential avalanche on my desk attests to this) of material. Here are few worthy options.
Book Report: Nutcase
Charlotte Hughes’ latest novel reads at a breathless, breakneck pace but also provides plenty of fluffy, fun escape.
Book Report: The Help
Kathryn Stockett’s debut novel is ambitious. Through a chain of events, the three women find themselves drawn together on a secret project that will reveal the never discussed relationships between Jackson, Mississippi’s black and white women who live and work side by side and yet never truly know one another.
Book Report: Literary events in March
Take your pick: A reading by a renowned poet, a selection of book clubs, new releases and an Akashic Books author coming to Asheville.
Book Report: The Frontier Nursing Service
This is the story of Mary Breckinridge, the intrepid health care provider who founded the The Frontier Nursing Service in rural Kentucky during the 1920s. She single-handedly lowering one of the nation’s highest maternal mortality rates to one of the country’s lowest.
Book Report: Rare Birds
Local writers Thomas Rain Crowe and Nan Watkins capture six renowned jazz and classical composers in this collection of interviews.
Book Report: The Relationship Sutras
Local spiritual teacher Michael Mamas shares insights on love and relationships (just in time for Valentine’s Day) in a collection of small-but-mighty poems.
Book Report: Literary events in February
February is shaping up to be a very literary month, what with all the readings. And book signings. And book clubs. And author birthdays.
Book Report: The Life of the Skies
Bestselling author Jonathan Rosen comes to Asheville to discuss his atypical birding book.
Book Report: Around Biltmore Village
Bill Alexander’s Around Biltmore Village offers a charming closer look—along with plenty of rare images and little-known facts—into the evolution of one of Asheville’s iconic areas.
Book Report: American Thighs
The Sweet Potato Queen returns with a new book of essays dealing with women, the aging process and “preserving your assets.” Jill Conner Browne — the Queen herself — makes an Asheville stop next week.
Book Report: See You In A Hundred Years
Looking for a great book to set the tone for 2009? Regional author Logan Ward offers a thought-provoking and surprisingly funny memoir in See You In A Hundred Years, out in paperback for January.
Book Report: Cabins & Castles
This year saw the re-release of 1981’s Cabins & Castles, an historic retrospective of Buncombe County architecture. Need a late holiday gift idea, or something to buy with your Malaprop’s gift card? This might be just the book.