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14 Books to Keep Young Readers Happily Busy (For at Least a Few Days)

If you’ve got voracious young readers in your house, you may already be looking to refresh their stack of summer reads. And if you have not-so-voracious readers? Well, maybe they just haven’t met the right book yet. Either way, now’s the perfect time to look into the latest favorites from our kid-lit specialists. Here are a few — and […]

Fathers’ Day Gifts Recommended by Our Work-Dad

Some people have a work-spouse. We have a work-dad. Andy Brennan is more than our esteemed store manager. He’s the keeper of order; the wearer of the khaki pants; and the patient trainer of new staffers. He doles out tough love when we mess up (COFFEE CUPS ARE NOT DECORATIONS, PEOPLE. WASH YOUR DISHES), and […]

Books We Love So Much, We’re Reading Them in Our Off-Time

Want to know what the bookworms of Parnassus are reading and loving in their spare time? We’ll open up our book-bags and show you — right here: (Click any title to get your own copy and read along with us!) Recommended by Ann Do Not Become Alarmed By Maile Meloy I’m pretty sure that what […]

Notes from Ann: Maile

I met Maile Meloy around the time Miley Cyrus was going into the first grade, a point I make only because their first names are pronounced the same way and now you’ll always remember. I knew Maile before she’d published her first book, before she’d had her first story in The New Yorker, and the […]

Coming Soon to a School Near You: The Authors and Illustrators Behind Your Favorite Kids’ Books

Attention, please! Could we all take a moment to shower thanks and praise upon teachers and school librarians who bring the love of reading into young people’s lives?  Excellent! Now, Nashville parents: many of your local schools have sent us their summer reading lists. We’ve put those lists on display in our special summer reading section, and […]

“At Once Spectacular and Familiar” – Daniel Wallace and Grant Ginder on Creating Characters We Root For

Don’t you love eavesdropping? We do. That’s why we connected authors Daniel Wallace and Grant Ginder and invited them to chat with each other over email and let us follow along. After all, who better to interview the writers of two fun summer reads — Extraordinary Adventures and The People We Hate at the Wedding — than the writers themselves? […]

Authors in Real Life: Lisa Ko and Weike Wang

On the surface, The Leavers by Lisa Ko and Chemistry by Weike Wang are two very different books. The Leavers takes place over a decade, telling the story of a young man searching for his mother after being separated from her as a child in New York and raised by adoptive parents. It won the 2016 PEN/Bellwether Award for Socially […]