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The Good Dream

The Good Dream
  • Author(s): Donna VanLiere
  • Location(s): Tennessee
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1950s

1950 Tennessee, a time and place that straddles the past and present. Ivorie Walker is considered an old maid by the town (though she’s only in her early thirties) and she takes that label with good humour and a...

Summer in the South

Summer in the South
  • Author(s): Cathy Holton
  • Location(s): Woodburn
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical, Romance
  • Era(s): 1930s and 1980s

After a personal tragedy, Chicago writer Ava Dabrowski quits her job to spend the summer in Woodburn, Tennessee, at the invitation of her old college friend Will Fraser and his two great-aunts, Josephine and Fanny Woodburn. Her charming hosts...

The Client

The Client
  • Author(s): John Grisham
  • Location(s): Tennessee
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Modern

An eleven-year-old has discovered a secret that not even an adult should know. A US State Senator is dead, and Mark Sway is the only one who knows where the body is hidden. The FBI want him to tell...

The Cove

The Cove
  • Author(s): Ron Rash
  • Location(s): Tennessee
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): 1910s

In their little cabin set in the shadow of a deep cove, Laurel Shelton and her brother Hank have built a home. The locals whisper about the cove being cursed and perhaps it is: good fortune rarely seems to...

the Improper Life of Bezellia Grove

the Improper Life of Bezellia Grove
  • Author(s): Susan Gregg Gilmore
  • Location(s): Nashville, Tennessee
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1950s, 1960s

Nobody in Nashville has a bigger name to live up to than Bezellia Grove. As a Grove, she belongs to one of city’s most prominent families and is expected to embrace her position in high society. That means speaking...

The Orchard Keeper

The Orchard Keeper
  • Author(s): Cormac McCarthy
  • Location(s): Tennessee
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1920-1940

Set in a small, remote community in rural Tennessee in the years between the two world wars, The Orchard Keeper is a classic from one of America’s finest and most celebrated authors. It tells of John Wesley Rattner, a...

Well with my Soul

Well with my Soul
  • Author(s): Gregory G Allen
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC), Tennessee
  • Era(s): Late 1970s/1980s

Jacob and Noah Garrett are brothers harboring a lifelong resentment towards each other while dealing with their own compulsive obsessions. One is a liberal gay man who forsakes his family and moves to New York City from Tennessee where...

The Lost Saints of Tennessee

The Lost Saints of Tennessee
  • Author(s): Amy Franklin-Willis
  • Location(s): Charlottesville, Tennessee
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1940s - mid 80s

The story about a family, its tragedies, mistakes and endings: its magical moments, strengths and fresh beginnings and secrets and growth – it is told through several voices.

What happens in Nashville

What happens in Nashville
  • Author(s): Angela Britnell
  • Location(s): Nashville
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

‘What happens in Nashville, stays in Nashville!’ Claire Buchan is hardly over the moon about the prospect of her sister’s hen party; travelling from the UK to Nashville, Tennessee, for a week of honky-tonks, karaoke and cowboys. Certainly not...

A Death in the Family

A Death in the Family
  • Author(s): James Agee
  • Location(s): Tennessee
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Early 20th century

On a sultry summer night in 1915, Jay Follet leaves his house in Knoxville, Tennessee, to tend to his father, whom he belives is dying. The summons turns out to be a false alarm, but on his way back...

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