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BOOK SIGNINGS THIS WEEK
Unless otherwise indicated, author events usually begin with an informal reception at 5 pm, followed by the author's presentation at 5:30, with book signing both before and after the reading/talk. 
 
5 pm, Tuesday, Jan. 19 - Off Square 


Abby Geni 
signs
(Counterpoint, hd. 25.00)

Some of the best novels start with the most unlikely and most unappealing premises...
The Lightkeepers is such book...Part murder mystery, part psychological thriller, part ode to one of the western world's wildest landscapes, this dark, compelling tale is an astonishingly ambitious debut. -  Chicago Tribune; click  here to read the full review.

"A book that never loosens it's spell..." - 
The San Francisco Chronicle
   
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
THE TOP 100 LIST
Our 100 bestselling books of 2015



Our friends at Nautilus here in Oxford put four books on our list this year, with Al Povall's A Tapestry of Red & Blue   (#16), Robert Khayat's  Education of a Lifetime  (#24), Jeffrey Stayton's novel,  This Side of the River  (#83), and Billy Watkins' book on
Bo Wallace (#7).   As always, writers with the local connection do well for Square Books, including John Hailman and his two 
Guntown books (43 & 68), Ace Atkins'  T he Redeemers ( 46), Lisa Howorth's  Flying Shoes  (69), Curtis Wilkie's  Fall of the House of Zeus  (31)  and  his  Assassins, Eccentrics, Politicians  (28), Alysia Burton Steele's  Delta Jewels  (33), Bill Boyle's  Death Don't Have No Mercy  (79),  Troutmouth  by Ron Borne (51), Wright Thompson's edition of the  2015 Best American Sports Stories  (44),  How To Slowly Kill Yourself and Others by Kiese Laymon  (96),  Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter  by Tom Franklin (56), Barry Hannah's durable  Airships  (95),  Turn Around  by Leigh Anne Tuohy (41),  In the Sanctuary of Outcasts  by Neil White (30), William Faulkner (3 titles, beginning at #37),  Every Day by the Sun  by Dean Faulkner Wells (67),  Soul Food Love  by Caroline Williams and Alice Randall (43),  Murder in the Grove  by Michael Henry (41),  Bright Fields  by Bruce Levingston (39),  Soil  by Jamie Kornegay (7), UM grads Harrison Scott Key's 
The World's Largest Man (61) and M. O. Walsh's My Sunshine Away  (71),  Riot  (25) by Ed Meek, and John Currence, whose  Pickles, Pigs and Whiskey  (5) remains strong in its third year.   Read more.
 
SAVE THE DATE 
for upcoming events:
Unless otherwise noted, all events will be at Off Square 

Tuesday 1/26
Friday 1/29
Thursday 2/4
















Thursday 2/4
Wednesday 2/10
Thursday 2/11














Friday 2/12
Friday 2/12
Wednesday 2/19














Thursday 2/18
Friday 2/19
Tuesday 2/23














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scheduled events.
   Events are always free and wheelchair accessible.

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