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SUMMARY:Reading and Q&A with Lora Beth Johnson\, YA author of The Goddess in the Machine
DESCRIPTION:Join Scuppernong Books for a virtual reading of one of the hottest sci-fi YA releases of the summer with debut author LORA BETH JOHNSON and her novel Goddess in the Machine.  She will be joined in conversation by SCOTT REINTGEN\, author of the Nyxia series and Ashlords. Get your copy of Goddess in the Machine at Scuppernong Books! \nHow to Watch\nZoom.us/join\nMeeting ID: 841 2282 4166\nPassword: 3367631919 \nLORA BETH JOHNSON\, Goddess in the Machine\n \n\nHEN ANDRA WAKES UP\, SHE’S DROWNING. \nNot only that\, but she’s in a hot\, dirty cave\, it’s the year 3102\, and everyone keeps calling her Goddess. When Andra went into a cryonic sleep for a trip across the galaxy\, she expected to wake up in a hundred years\, not a thousand. Worst of all\, the rest of the colonists— including her family and friends—are dead. They died centuries ago\, and for some reason\, their descendants think Andra’s a deity. She knows she’s nothing special\, but she’ll play along if it means she can figure out why she was left in stasis and how to get back to Earth. \nZhade\, the exiled bastard prince of Eerensed\, has other plans. Four years ago\, the sleeping Goddess’s glass coffin disappeared from the palace\, and Zhade devoted himself to finding it. Now he’s hop- ing the Goddess will be the key to taking his rightful place on the throne—if he can get her to play her part\, that is. Because if his people realize she doesn’t actually have the power to save their dying planet\, they’ll kill her. \n\n\nWith a vicious monarch on the throne and a city tearing apart at the seams\, Zhade and Andra might never be able to unlock the mystery of her fate\, let alone find a way to unseat the king\, espe- cially since Zhade hasn’t exactly been forthcoming with Andra. And a thousand years from home\, is there any way of knowing that Earth is better than the planet she’s woken to? \n\nAs an only child\, Lora Beth Johnson grew up telling herself stories and reading past her bedtime. She spent her adulthood collecting degrees\, careers\, and stamps in her passport before realizing her passion for creating fictional worlds. When she’s not writing\, she’s teaching college Eng \nlish and learning new languages. She lives in Davidson\, NC with her little roommate\, Colocatire the Yorkipoo. Goddess in the Machine is her first book. \nSCOTT REINTGEN  is the author of scince fiction and fantasy books. He wrote the Nyxia trilogy\, as well as Saving Fable\, Escaping Ordinary (Fall 2020)\, Ashlords and Bloodsworn (2021). He began his career as an English and Creative Writing teacher in North Carolina. He strongly believes that every student who steps into the classroom deserves to see themselves\, vibrant and victorious and on the page. It’s his hope to encourage a future full of diverse writers. He currently lives in North Carolina with his wife Katie and his two boys\, Henry and Thomas. \n  \n  \n 
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SUMMARY:Author Panel with Molly Dektar\, Elizabeth Chiles Shelburne\, and Carter Sickels
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a panel discussion with debut authors Elizabeth Chiles Shelburne and Molly Dektar\, and Carter Sickels. Get your copies of Holding On To Nothing\, The Ash Family\, and The Prettiest Star at Scupperong Books! \nHOW TO WATCH\nZoom.us/join\nMeeting ID: 860 3238 6749\nPassword:  3367631919 \nShare on Facebook \nELIZABETH CHILES SHELBURNE\, Holding On To Nothing\nLucy Kilgore has her bags packed for her escape from her rural Tennessee upbringing\, but a drunken mistake forever tethers her to the town and one of its least-admired residents\, Jeptha Taylor\, who becomes the father of her child. Together\, these two young people work to form a family\, though neither has any idea how to accomplish that\, and the odds are against them in a place with little to offer other than tobacco fields\, a bluegrass bar\, and a Walmart full of beer and firearms for the hunting season. Their path is harrowing\, but Lucy and Jeptha are characters to love\, and readers will root for their success in a novel so riveting that no one will want to turn out the light until they know whether this family will survive. \nIn luminous prose\, debut novelist Elizabeth Chiles Shelburne brings us a present-day Appalachian story in the tradition of Lee Smith\, Silas House\, and Wiley Cash\, cast without sentiment or cliché\, but with a genuine and profound understanding of the place and its people. \n\nElizabeth Chiles Shelburne grew up reading\, writing\, and shooting in East Tennessee. After graduating from Amherst College\, she became a writer and a staff editor at The Atlantic Monthly. Her nonfiction work has been published in The Atlantic Monthly\, Boston Globe\, Boston Magazine\, and GlobalPost\, among others. She is a graduate of Grub Street’s MFA-level Novel Incubator program\, under Michelle Hoover and Lisa Borders\, where Holding On To Nothing was workshopped. She lives in Cambridge\, MA with her husband and four kids aged eight and under\, any one of whom will be the death of her\, depending on the day. \nMOLLY DEKTAR\, The Ashe Family\nWhen a young woman leaves her family—and the civilized world—to join an off-the-grid community headed by an enigmatic leader\, she discovers that belonging comes with a deadly cost\, in this lush and searing debut novel. \nAt nineteen\, Berie encounters a seductive and mysterious man at a bus station near her home in North Carolina. Shut off from the people around her\, she finds herself compelled by his promise of a new life. He ferries her into a place of order and chaos: the Ash Family farm. There\, she joins an intentional community living off the fertile land of the mountains\, bound together by high ideals and through relationships she can’t untangle. Berie—now renamed Harmony—renounces her old life and settles into her new one on the farm. She begins to make friends. And then they start to disappear. \nThrilling and profound\, The Ash Family explores what we will sacrifice in the search for happiness\, and the beautiful and grotesque power of the human spirit as it seeks its ultimate place of belonging.\n\nMolly Dektar  is from North Carolina and lives in Brooklyn. A graduate of Brooklyn College’s MFA program and Harvard College\, she is the recipient of the Dakin Fellowship from the Sewanee Writers’ Conference and the Brooklyn College Scholarship for Fiction. At Harvard\, she was the recipient of the Louis Begley Fiction Prize. The Ash Family is her first novel. \nCARTER SICKELS\, The Prettiest Star\nSmall-town Appalachia doesn’t have a lot going for it\, but it’s where Brian is from\, where his family is\, and where he’s chosen to return to die.  Six short years after Brian Jackson moved to New York City in search of freedom and acceptance\, AIDS has claimed his lover\, his friends\, and his future. With nothing left in New York but memories of death\, Brian decides to write his mother a letter asking to come back to the place\, and family\, he was once so desperate to escape. The Prettiest Star is told in a chorus of voices: Brian’s mother Sharon; his fourteen-year-old sister\, Jess\, as she grapples with her brother’s mysterious return; and the video diaries Brian makes to document his final summer. \nThis is an urgent story about the politics and fragility of the body\, of sex\, and shame. Above all\, Carter Sickels’s stunning novel explores the bounds of family and redemption. It is written at the far reaches of love and understanding\, centering on the moments where those two forces stretch toward each other and sometimes touch \nCarter Sickels is the author of the novel The Prettiest Star\, forthcoming with Hub City Press in 2020. His debut novel The Evening Hour (Bloomsbury 2012)\, an Oregon Book Award finalist and a Lambda Literary Award finalist\, was adapted into a feature film that premiered at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival. His essays and fiction have appeared in a variety of publications\, including Oxford American\, Poets & Writers\, BuzzFeed\, Guernica\, and the Bellevue Literary Review. Carter is the recipient of the 2013 Lambda Literary Emerging Writer Award\, and earned fellowships from the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference\, the Sewanee Writers’ Conference\, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts\, and the MacDowell Colony. He is an assistant professor of English at Eastern Kentucky University.
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