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by Greg Iles


Release date:
March 28, 2017

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by John Grisham


Release date: October 25, 2016

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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. 

 
Paul Freedman in conversation 
with John T. Edge

Monday, September 26th at 5pm


Whether charting the rise of our love affair with Chinese food through San Francisco's fabled The Mandarin, evoking the richness of Italian food through Mamma Leone's, or chronicling the rise and fall of French haute cuisine through Henri Soule's Le Pavillon, food historian Paul Freedman uses each restaurant to tell a wider story of race and class, immigration and assimilation. Lavishly designed with more than 100 photographs and images, including original menus,
Ten Restaurants That Changed America is a significant and highly entertaining social history. Mr. Freedman will be speaking with John T. Edge, a food writer and the 
director of the Southern Foodways Alliance
  at the  University of Mississippi.

 
Thomas Mullen


It is 1948 and the city of Atlanta has hired its first black police officers. Two of the recruits quickly learn their greatest battles will not be against criminals but the inherent racism of the vast majority of their fellow members on the police force. Thomas Mullen skillfully blends a mystery with an outstanding chronicle of a quickly growing city in the era of Jim Crow and  the nascent civil rights movement. -- BC

Thomas Mullen is the author of  The Last Town on Earth, which was named Best Debut Novel of 2006 by  USA TODAY. He was also awarded the James Fenimore Cooper Prize for excellence in historical fiction for  The Many Deaths of the Firefly Brothers and  The Revisionists.  



An epic account of one remarkable woman's quest for justice from the  New York Times bestselling author of  The Widow of the South and  A Separate Country. In the years following the Civil War, Mariah Reddick, former slave to Carrie McGavock--the "Widow of the South"--has quietly built a new life for herself as a midwife to the women of Franklin, Tennessee. But when her ambitious, politically-minded grown son, Theopolis, is murdered, Mariah--no stranger to loss--finds her world once more breaking apart. How could this happen? Who wanted him dead? Mariah's journey to uncover the truth leads her to unexpected people--including George Tole, a recent arrival to town, fleeing a difficult past of his own--and forces her to confront the truths of her own past. 

 
Now taking lunch orders for a 
Bookstore Luncheon with Winston Groom

Friday, October 14th at noon

Two $10 lunch options will be available, 
provided by Shelter. 

(Spinach, Sprouts, Cucumber, Avocado, Shallots, Cream Cheese in a Whole Wheat Wrap)

( Carrots, Roasted Peppers, Golden Raisins, and Almonds on Whole Wheat Bread)

Both will come with a drink and cookie. Please contact Square Books by October 7th to place your order. Lunch is optional; the event is free.
662-236-2262


by Winston Groom
(Liveright, $27.95)

Long fascinated with the Mexican Revolution and the vicious border wars of the early twentieth century, best-selling author Winston Groom brings to life a much-forgotten period of history in this episodic saga set in six parts. His first novel since Forrest Gump brings to life a crucial moment in history and, in the process, becomes an indelible portrait of the American Southwest in the final days of the wild frontier.
 
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Thursday, 10/6
Tuesday,  10/4

Friday, 10/7
 



Monday, 10/10



Tuesday, 10/11

Wednesday, 10/12
Thursday, 10/13



Friday, 10/14
Monday, 10/17


  










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