Under the Covers in April and May
Two months full of authors with engaging stories to tell, Under the Covers.
Here’s what’s coming Under the Covers on Fridays in April:
Apr. 3 M.L. Huie “Spitfire”
The book takes us back in time, shortly after the end of WWII, England, where we meet female spy Livy Nash, given the code name “Spitfire” by the Nazis. The war has betrayed and wounded her emotionally and she is living an unexciting life when she meets the infamous Ian Fleming and gets a new chance to do something meaningful, a top secret assignment but one that has her retracing old steps that may destroy her.
Apr. 10 Leslie Hooton “Before Anyone Else”
“Before Anyone Else” examines the complicated relationship between love and ambition and explores how our earliest relationships and experience, shape us into who we ultimately become.
Apr. 17 Matthew Duffus “Swapping Purples for Yellows”
“Swapping Purples for Yellows” is equal parts campus novel and family drama. It centers on an academic family, the Sutherlands, as they endure Homecoming weekend and try to mend the rifts that have appeared between its four members. The novel depicts the dangers of dwelling on the past and encourages the characters to take advantage of the opportunities presented to them to keep from repeating such mistakes.
Apr. 24 Belinda Smith-Sullivan “Just Peachy”
“Just Peachy,” explores the history of peaches, peach varietals, peach festivals and canning and freezing and then opens up to a delicious array of photographs and recipes that will have the peach-loving-mouth salivating for a taste.
Here’s what’s coming Under the Covers on Fridays in May:
May 1 Jan Notzon “The Id Paradox”
“The Id Paradox,” is the story of three friends, Jake, Artie and Connors whose bond was forged during an almost fatal canoe trip in which only Artie’s genius for survival kept them alive. It follows their ill-fated attempt to pass Artie’s family across the border, his capture by a drug cartel and Jake and Connors’s harrowing rescue attempt from a Mexican prison and then from the prison of madness.
May 8 Rachael Brooks “Beads”
“Beads: A Memoir About Falling Apart and Putting Yourself Back Together Again” is a true life story of a rape survivor. Through both her writing and speaking engagements, Rachael’s goal is to raise awareness and provide support for survivors and victims of assault, as well as generally offer tips and best practices for making it to the other side of trauma.
May 15 Michael Croley “Any Other Place”
“Any Other Place” is a collection of stories about everyday life. In the story “Slope,” which is featured on the show, a failed relationship forces a man to confront the echoes of his past and the silence of his future.
May 22 Donna Love Wallace “Between Stones”
1 in 8 women will experience invasive breast cancer sometime during their life. With candor and a full range of emotion, Wallace navigates her way in poetry through disparate places and the people that occupy them: the biopsy suite, the grocery store, her closet and a tattoo parlor 350 miles from home.
May 29 Caleb Johnson “Treeborne
Caleb Johnson brings us a book set in a small Southern town that is an honorable mention for the Southern Book Prize and longlisted for The Crook’s Corner Book Prize, an exploration of how the past gets mixed up in thoughts of the future and of how home is a story as much as a place.