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Wednesday
February 8
12:00 Noon
Joshilyn Jackson
When
a long-hidden grave is unearthed in the backyard, headstrong young Mosey Slocumb is determined to investigate. What she learns could
cost her family everything…
New York
Times Bestselling novelist Joshilyn Jackson lives in
Georgia with her husband, their two children, and way too many feckless
animals. She is the author of five novels: gods in Alabama, Between, Georgia,
The Girl Who Stopped Swimming, Backseat Saints, and, in January of 2012, A
Grown-Up Kind of Pretty. Her books have been translated into a dozen languages,
won SIBA’s novel of the year, twice been a #1 Book Sense Pick, and been
shortlisted for the Townsend prize.
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Thursday
February 9
2:30- 4:00
Doug Segrest
In the summer of 1963 in a small, East Alabama town,
the two teens find themselves caught in a vicious crossfire -- between George
Wallace, the KKK, state troopers and memories of a grisly murder they witnessed
as young boys. Neither they nor the town of Takasaw
will ever be the same.
Doug Segrest is a veteran Southern journalist and the winner of numerous sports writing awards with The Nashville
Banner and The Birmingham News. He's also the co-host of the highly rated
"The Zone" talk show. A father of two teen-agers, he lives in Shelby
County, Alabama, in the suburbs of Birmingham, where he balances fatherhood,
work and coaching baseball.
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Wednesday
February 15
12 Noon
Stephanie
McAfee
With a sharp and distinctive voice,
McAfee delivers a hilarious and fast-paced tale about Ace Jones and her two
best friends--thick as thieves and tough as nails--navigating Southern
small-town politics and prejudices, finding love, and standing up for each
other all the way.
From Stephanie:
Like Elvis, I was born in Tupelo, Mississippi. And while I'm
not the King (or Queen) of anything that I know of, I do have a white steed, a
noble knight, and a royal court.
Ok, I'm lying. I have a brown chiweenie, a
buck wild toddler, and if we line our "Cars" cars up just
right...
I have a B.A. in English from the University of Mississippi and I'm a life-long
fan of the Ole Miss Rebels (despite their current rash of ridiculous and
embarrassing problems). I also have an M.A. in Secondary Education from the
University of Alabama, which gives me the right yell “Roll Tide!” every now and
then. Despite my solid educational background, my work history is what you
might call checkered (if you wanted to be nice). It ranges from dispatching at
my father’s trucking company to teaching high school Spanish to temping at a
technology consulting firm in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
Another thing about me: One day, I decided to write a book. Ten years later, I
wrote it. It’s called Diary of a Mad Fat Girl and I think it’s pretty funny.
Maybe you might think it's funny too! Now let's move on to the almost
unbelievable part of the story: I self-published Diary of a Mad Fat Girl on
Christmas Day of 2010, then listed it on Barnes & Noble’s Pubit! and Smashwords
a few weeks later. In March of 2011, it
showed up at #31 on the New York Times Bestseller list in combined print and
e-book fiction where it lasted two weeks. That same week, it debuted at #17 in
e-book fiction, and hung on there for twelve weeks.
How’s that for crazy? Now I write full-time, along with taking care of the
buck-wild toddler of mine.
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Saturday
February 15
11:30-1:00
Isabel Hill
There's a wonderful "history" and
"story" to discover about every building in Building Stories-- a rich
collection of photographs and facts, all told in rhyming verse to delight young
readers. Captivating and curious images on building facades from musical
instruments to a pencil, a phone, a big wheel with wings, and others will
engage children to want to learn more about the characters, plots and settings
of these amazing buildings and of buildings all around them.
Come to the city and you will find, animals,
animals of every kind! Discover donkeys on grilles, boars guarding stoops, and
elephants supporting flagpoles. The fantastic architectural animals and playful
illustrations in this rhyming book will introduce children to the fanciful
world of our built environment. Isabel Hill draws on her years of experience in
the Building Conservation Department to offer a new perspective on cityscapes.
Young children will enjoy the game of identifying animals, while older children
and adults will pause over the quirky architectural details. This book includes
a glossary of terms with simple, clear definitions that will empower children
with new words and phrases about architecture.
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2012 Events
Gin Phillips
2011 Events
Carole King & Karen Pell | Daphne Simpkins |
George McGovern | John
Besh
Mark Hainds | Stuart Dill | Lisa Patton | Don Goodman &
Thomas Head
Wayne Flynt | Missy Mercer & Browne Mercer | Bart
Barton | Deborah Vogelgesang | Robert Day
Carolyn Haines | Ace Atkins | Martha Hall Foose | River
Jordan | Josh Krach | Alabama Book Festival, 2011
Mark Childress | Tim Dorsey | Valerie Gribben |
Barbara Wiedemann | Wayne Greenhaw
2010 Events
Baynard Woods | Tom Segev | Martin Fletcher | Miles
Demott | Tom Franklin | Deborah Moebes | Sena Jeter Naslund
Susan Gregg Gilmore | Mark Leslie | Carole King &
Karren Pell | K.T. Archer | Nancy Bone Goff |
Bobby McAlpine | The
Howard Frank Mosher | Brad Watson | Melinda Rainey
Thompson | Martha Hawkins
2009
Chris Hastings | John Besh |
Kirk Curnutt | Anne Byrn
Justin Allen
| Brooke & Keith Desserich | Charlie Lucas, Chip
Cooper, & Ben Windham
Lisa Patton | Rick Bragg & Sonny Brewer | Toni
& Hillary from Random House Recommend Books
James Braziel | Gin Phillips
| Margaret Fenton | Chris Lilly (Big Bob Gibson’s BBQ)
George McGovern | Jeanie Thompson |
Phyllis Hoffman | 54 Writers at the
Wayne Greenhaw | Clark Walker | Foster
Dickson | Val Downes | Jill Conner Browne
2008
Frank Stitt | Governor John Patterson & Warren Trest | Judy Oliver | Bobby Cole | The Church Ladies
Dr.Gaylon McCollough | Rabbi Harold
S. Kushner | Tom Chaffin | Trudier Harris | Val McGee
| Jan Crawford Greenburg
Mary Anna Evans | Carolyn Jourdan
|Bobby Cole | Carolyn Haines | Karren Pell and William Goss
Rick Bragg | Jonathan Harrington | Gin Phillips | Sara
Dubose | The
Joe Formichella & Suzanne Hudson | Barbara Wiedemann | Kerry
Madden | Mark Childress | Kirk Curnutt
Tim Dorsey | Jill Conner Browne (The Sweet Potato
Queen)
2007
Michael Knight
| Kathryn Tucker
Donald McCaig | Melinda Rainey Thompson |Wayne Greenhaw
Jennifer Davis
| Sonny Brewer | Phyllis Hoffman | Elizabeth Spencer
Louise Shaffer | Justin Allen | Homer Hickam | Jack Deloney | Brad Vice
David Rose | Cassandra King | David Margolick | Doug Marlette
Carl T. Smith |
Denise Hamilton | Julia Spencer-Fleming
Mary Anna Evans | Frank Turner Hollon
| Mary Palmer Dargan | Jill Conner Browne
2006
Tom Bailey |Robert Inman
John Sledge | Judy Oliver | Melinda Rainey Thompson |
Joey Brackner|
Tom Franklin and Beth Ann Fennelly
| Joshilyn Jackson
Mark Childress | Sonny Brewer | Mills
Ron Rash | Tom Chaffin | Rhys Bowen & Mary Anna
Evans | Clea Koff
Robert Barmettler & Jean
Shaffer | Carlos Eire | Taylor Branch |
C-
2005
Allen Barra | Alabama Chief
Justice Drayton Nabers, Jr. | Bruce Feiler
Steve Roberts | Wayne Greenhaw & Donnie Williams
Frank Turner Hollon | Paul
Hemphill | Naomi Rosenblatt | Silas House | Bev Marshall |
Mary Anna Evans | Helen Scully |
Bart Barton | Suzanne Hudson & Joe Formichella | Susan Waggoner | Ronda Rich
Don Noble & the Cheaha
Writers: Kathleen Thompson, Laura Hunter, Mike Burrell,
Loretta Cobb, Ben Erickson, Bart Barton, Jim Gilbert, Kirk Curnutt,
John Cottle, Suzanne Hudson, Joe Formichella,
Janet Nodar and Janet Mauney
Kerry Madden | Sonny
Brewer | Joshilyn Jackson| Kathryn Tucker
Julia Spencer-Fleming | Cassandra King and Pat Conroy
| Tim Dorsey | Minnie Lamberth
Con Lehane | Mike Stewart
2004
Fannie Flagg | Wayne Flynt | Kathryn Tucker
Frank Stitt | Clint McCown |Warren St. John | Ron Rash | Andrew Exum | Carolyn Haines
Cassandra King | Patricia Sullivan |Tim Dorsey | Ace
Atkins | Lawrence Block
Phyllis Alesia Perry | David
Warner | Julia Spencer-Fleming | Jim Carrier | Tom Franklin | Dan Carter
2003
Marlin
“Bart” Barton | Kirk Curnutt | Alan Grady | Wayne Greenhaw
| Valerie Gribben
Jennifer
Horne | Suzanne Hudson | Karren Pell | Elizabeth Schafer | Jeanie Thompson
& Jay Lamar
Carolyn
Haines | Valerie Gribben | Karren Pell | Daphne Simpkins | Steve Oney | Michael
Morris |
Homer
Hickam | Sena Jeter Naslund | Elizabeth Schafer
| Mary Anna Evans | Tom Franklin | Bart Barton
Stephen
Marion | Melinda Haynes | Carolyn Haines | Louise
Shaffer |
Tim
Dorsey | Daniel Wallace | Jack Johnson | Julia Spencer-Fleming | Robert
Guillaume
2002
Tom
Fitzpatrick | Kathryn Tucker
Whitney
J. LeBlanc | Norman McMillan | Jim Carrier Nanci
Kincaid | Mary Kay Andrews
Carolyn
Haines | Helen Norris | Phyllis Perry | William Cobb | Willie G. Moseley and
Bill Ingalls,Jr. Bishop John
Shelby Spong | Martin Marty |
2001
Dot
Jeanie
Thompson | Jeanie Daniel Duck |Tim Dorsey | Ann B. Ross | Scott Bruner
Melinda Haynes | The Sweet Potato
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