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		<title>It’s Wild</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jennifer Puryear]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Nov 2026 18:09:13 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[It’s wild… it happened when I wasn’t looking or hoping or dreaming or dreading it. I was just living my life you know… Take the...]]></description>
		
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		<title>Josie: A True Story of Race, Rescue, and Resilience</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2026 13:44:55 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[What do you do with an extraordinary family story? Nashvillian Todd Smith has written a novel that stays close to the extraordinary facts. The story...]]></description>
		
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		<title>Southern Festival of Books Special: Amy Grant and Sean Kinch</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2026 00:52:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Alice Martin]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Underlake]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Our beloved Nashville treasure Amy Grant needs no introduction. She constantly gives back in our community, with a loving spirit, radiant energy, and great good...]]></description>
		
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		<title>Southern Festival of Books: Top Ten</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jennifer Puryear]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Oct 2026 11:29:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Allegra Goodman]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[David George Haskell]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Elizabeth Kostova]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Forest Time]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Go Gentle]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[How Flowers Made Our World]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jeremy Lloyd]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lokelani Alabanza]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Maria Semple]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Mystery Play]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Pimento Cheese]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Saved by the Beauty of the World]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Shannon Sanders]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sheri Lea Sellmeyer]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[The Great Wherever]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Ice Cream Queen]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[This is Not About Us]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Varina Buntin Willse]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Have you looked at the schedule for this year’s Southern Festival of Books, friends? Some of the year’s biggest authors are taking the main stage...]]></description>
		
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		<title>Wendell Berry: My Last Breath</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jennifer Puryear]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Sep 2026 12:22:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Annie Trost]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Beasley]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Poet, novelist, thinker, farmer &#8211; lover of God and people and his Kentucky home &#8211; Wendell Berry died on August 31, 2026. Other lives well...]]></description>
		
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		<title>A Love Story, feat. Laurie Rice</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jennifer Puryear]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Sep 2026 21:46:39 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I’ve had a longstanding secret crush on the Jewish faith. It started in college, when I had close Jewish friends, several of the male variety....]]></description>
		
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		<title>Beneath and Between</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jennifer Puryear]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Aug 2026 23:45:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Margaret Renkl]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Varina Buntin Willse left an advance copy of her lovely new book in my mailbox the other day &#8211; “Beneath and Between: And Other Overlooked...]]></description>
		
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		<title>Coat of Many Colors</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jennifer Puryear]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2026 01:04:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Dolly Parton]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[I was driving a loaner vehicle in Green Hills when I heard the news. My car’s AC is being repaired at an outrageous price because...]]></description>
		
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		<title>14/10</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jennifer Puryear]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Aug 2026 14:58:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Elspeth Barker]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Maggie O'Farrell]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[O Caledonia]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[O Caledonia, by Elspeth Barker, takes you into the mind and heart of a girl growing up in the wilds of Scotland long ago. If...]]></description>
		
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