Monday, March 31, 2014 - 5:00pm
Having dodged a bullet when Cherico's city council granted her a
one-year reprieve in which to prove that her library was a vital town
institution, spunky librarian Maura Beth Mayhew is dismayed to learn
that her nemesis, councilman Sparks, still has another round of ammo
left in his chamber. Determined to divert library funds to pay for an
industrial park that will bear his name, Sparks plants a ringer to spy
on the regular meetings of the library's burgeoning Cherry Cola Book
Club. But Mayhew discovers she has an unimpeachable insider of her own
when Sparks' former secretary joins the group. While romantic
entanglements otherwise distract most of the club members and prey upon
Mayhew herself, it takes an act of God to bring the standoff between the
librarian and the politician to a head. The challenges of keeping any
library anywhere open and effectively serving its patrons is a problem
facing most communities. Lee (The Cherry Cola Book Club, 2013) brings
these salient topics to light in an unpredictably entertaining
series.
Ashton Lee was born in historic Natchez, Mississippi, into a
large, extended Southern family which gave him much fodder for his
fiction later in life. His father, who wrote under the pen name of R.
Keene Lee right after WWII, was an editor and writer in New York of what
is now called pulp fiction. As a result, Ashton inherited a love of
reading and writing early on and did all the things aspiring authors are
supposed to do, including majoring in English when he attended The
University of the South, affectionately known as Sewanee. While there,
he studied Creative Writing under Andrew Lytle, then editor of the
Sewanee Review, and a member of the Southern Agrarians in the 1920s.
About:
Ashton Lee was born in historic Natchez, Mississippi, into a
large, extended Southern family which gave him much fodder for his
fiction later in life. His father, who wrote under the pen name of R.
Keene Lee right after WWII, was an editor and writer in New York of what
is now called pulp fiction. As a result, Ashton inherited a love of
reading and writing early on and did all the things aspiring authors are
supposed to do, including majoring in English when he attended The
University of the South, affectionately known as Sewanee. While there,
he studied Creative Writing under Andrew Lytle, then editor of the
Sewanee Review, and a member of the Southern Agrarians in the 1920s.
Ashton lives in Oxford, MS, enjoying the amenities of a university town that many writers have called home.
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ISBN: 9780758273420
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Published: Kensington - March 25th, 2014