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Three books about women on the verge of a breakthrough
Is there a part of your past that won’t leave you alone? Do you ever retrace your steps, shifting and rearranging the pieces, trying to find some shred of salvation in the outcome? In three new novels, three very different women reexamine who they were at points in their lives ...
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CRIME“The Broken Places” by Ace Atkins. Since 2011’s “The Ranger,” Sheriff Quinn Colson, veteran of Iraq and Afghanistan, has been waging war on crime in his hometown of Jericho, Miss., where meth dealers and gun-runners and the occasional turnip thief always know right where to find him. In Atkins’ third ...
June Juggernaut
“Ladies’ Night” by Mary Kay AndrewsMary Kay Andrews is the pen name for Kathy Hogan Trocheck, 58, a former AJC reporter and author of 20 books, seven of them bestsellers. She lives in Atlanta with her husband, Tom Trocheck. They have two grown children and two grandchildren.Elevator PitchIt’s about a ...
Curses, ghosts and miracles enliven ‘Kings and Queens of Roam’
“Once upon a time” is probably the most seductive phrase in the language of books. Add a forest, a witch, a giant and a princess, and children are enchanted beyond any reasonable doubt: No need to know the story’s setting (it’s a kingdom!) or the king’s reasons for beheading his ...
3 fun things at DeKalb County libraries
STONE MOUNTAIN “Lincoln” at Stone Mountain-Sue Kellogg Library If all you know about President Abraham Lincoln comes from a $5 bill, then this movie may be for you. The Academy Award-winning film, directed and produced by Steven Spielberg in 2012, stars Daniel Day-Lewis as the country’s 16th president. Tommy Lee ...
Pulitzer Prize winning poet to read at Emory
The last time you read a poem, did you read it to yourself silently? If so, poet W.S. Merwin believes there’s no way you could have fully detected its true meaning. To do that, a poem must be read aloud. Maybe read aloud only to yourself, but read aloud nonetheless. ...
Atlanta author offers insight into tragedy
Three years after his disappearance from his hometown of Atlanta at age 11, Caleb Vincent is found very much alive, attending school and living with a doctor who claims to have rescued the boy from a pedophile ring. Caleb, renamed Nicky, calls the man his father. Charles Lundy, aka “Jolly,” ...
A hardscrabble life in rural W.V.
“The best way to do anything,” writes Scott McClanahan in his new memoir, “is to get a bunch of poor people to do it.” And “Crapalachia” is the place to find them. You may know it better as Appalachia. Home to coal mining companies whose abuse of their workers and ...
3 fun things in Alpharetta, Dunwoody, Lawrenceville
DUNWOODY The Atlanta Balalaika Society Orchestra at Dunwoody United Methodist Church These Russian and Eastern European folk musicians wear traditional outfits while playing equally traditional instruments. Audience members will watch as conductor David C. Cooper shows his soloing ability on the balalaika, a three-stringed instrument with a fretboard and triangular ...
“Hopper” bio sketches troubled rebel
Like a stoned Forrest Gump, Dennis Hopper always managed to be where the action was in American pop culture history. When James Dean was inventing the Angry Young Man in “Rebel Without a Cause,” Hopper was on the set (and in the movie). When Andy Warhol was turning the art ...
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