Hometown Heroes

William M. Akers, Your Screenplay Sucks!: 100 Ways to Make It Great (nonfiction)
Sunday 3-4 p.m., Room 12

Darnell Arnoult, Sufficient Grace: A Novel (fiction)
Friday 3:30-4:30 p.m., Old Supreme Court Room
Longshot Miracles

Houston A. Baker Jr., Betrayal: How Black Intellectuals Have Abandoned the Ideals of the Civil Rights Era (nonfiction)
Sunday 2-3 p.m., Senate Chambers

Don Beisswenger, Locked Up: Letters and Papers of a Prisoner of Conscience (nonfiction)
Friday noon-1 p.m., Old Supreme Court Room
The Price of Dissent

Bill Brown, Origins, Destinations and Intersections; Late Winter (poetry)
Sunday 2:30-4:30 p.m., Room 16
Memory and Mourning

Marshall Chapman, Goodbye, Little Rock and Roller (memoir)
Saturday 3-5 p.m., House Chambers

Ashley Crownover, Wealtheow: Her Telling of Beowulf (fiction)
Saturday 9-11 a.m., Room 29
Beowulf Through the Eyes of Women

Tony Earley, The Blue Star (fiction)
Friday 3-4 p.m., Room 16
Family Jewels

Susannah Felts, This Will Go Down on Your Permanent Record (fiction)
Sunday 3-4 p.m., Capitol Library
Look at Me

Kip Gayden, Miscarriage of Justice (fiction)
Friday 1-2:30 p.m., Room 31
Murder He Wrote

Susan Gregg Gilmore, Looking for Salvation at the Dairy Queen (fiction)
Saturday 11 a.m.-noon, Senate Chambers
Goin' Down to Georgia

Michael Glasgow, The Bridge—Murder, Intrigue and a Struggle for Justice in Nicaragua (nonfiction)
Friday 3-4 p.m., Room 30

Michael Gunter, The Kurds Ascending: The Evolving Solution to the Kurdish Problem (nonfiction)
Saturday 2-3 p.m., Room 31

Robert Hicks, A Guitar and a Pen (nonfiction)
Saturday 3-5 p.m., House Chambers
Catchy Even If It Doesn't Rhyme

Janis Ian, Society's Child: My Autobiography (memoir)
Friday noon-1 p.m., Room 12; Saturday 3-5 p.m., House Chambers
A Survivor's Self-Portrait

Joseph B. Ingle, Last Rights: Thirteen Fatal Encounters With the State's Justice (nonfiction)
Friday noon-1 p.m., Old Supreme Court Room

Bill Ivey, Arts, Inc.: How Greed and Neglect Have Destroyed Our Cultural Rights (nonfiction)
Friday 1-2 p.m., Room 29
Beyond Piss Christ

Joy Jordan-Lake, Blue Hole Back Home (fiction)
Saturday 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m., Capitol Library

Carolyn Jourdan, Heart in the Right Place: A Memoir (nonfiction)
Sunday 2:30-3:30 p.m., Room 29

Barry Kitterman, The Baker's Boy (fiction)
Saturday 9-11 a.m., Room 29
The Staff of Life

Bob McDill, A Guitar and a Pen (nonfiction)
Saturday 3-5 p.m., House Chambers

Kelly Oliver, Women as Weapons of War: Iraq, Sex and the Media (nonfiction)
Friday 2-3 p.m., Room 12

Ann Patchett, Run (fiction)
Sunday 2-3 p.m., House Chambers
When Father Doesn't Know Best

Alice Randall, My Country Roots: The Ultimate MP3 Guide to America's Original Outsider Music (nonfiction)
Saturday 2-3 p.m., Room 12
Turning Literature (and History, and Music, and Racism, and Motherhood) Upside Down

Ann Shayne, Mason-Dixon Knitting Outside the Lines: Patterns, Stories, Pictures, True Confessions, Tricky Bits, Whole New Worlds, and Familiar Ones, Too (nonfiction)
Saturday 3-4 p.m., Room 12
Pens and Needles

Minton Sparks, White Lightning (fiction)
Friday 1-2 p.m., Room 16
Love. Death. Sex. Sin.

Becca Stevens, Find Your Way Home: Words From the Street, Wisdom From the Heart (nonfiction)
Saturday 10-11 a.m., Senate Chambers
What to Do When Hell Is Dickerson Road

Brenda R. Vantrease, The Mercy Seller (fiction)
Friday noon-1 p.m., Senate Chambers
Late Bloomer

Kay West, Around the Opry Table: A Feast of Recipes and Stories From the Grand Ole Opry (cookbook)
Saturday 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m., Food Stage
Goodness Gracious, It's Good

Steven Womack, By Blood Written (fiction)
Sunday 3-4 p.m., Room 12
Publish and Perish

Lisa Wysocky, Horse Country: Nashville's Biggest Stars (nonfiction)
Sunday 3:30-4:30 p.m., Room 29