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Once We Were


352 pages
$17.99


“Zhang’s concept is original and provocative; the deep bond between Eva and Addie (the shifts between I, we, and she in Eva’s narration are especially haunting) and the mystery about why their society is so desperate to ‘fix’ hybrids are riveting.”

–Publishers Weekly

Once We Were

Thorazine Beach

Anvil Press
120 pages
$16


“Jack Minyard is a private eye down on his luck. He’s badly overweight and on the wrong side of sixty. He’s lost his marriage, and maybe a little of his mind, too. After narrowly escaping charges in a statewide fraud and money laundering scandal, Jack has been working private contracts and counting on the kindness of strangers (not to mention a pile of prescription drugs) to get by. In a last-ditch play to resurrect his career, Jack takes on a case that puts him on the wrong side of the tracks and in the midst of some of the roughest trade going.”

–from the publisher

Thorazine Beach

Fiddlehead

Tor Books
368 pages
$14.99


“Young ex-slave Gideon Bardsley is a brilliant inventor, but the job is less glamorous than one might think, especially since the assassination attempts started. Worse yet, they’re trying to destroy his greatest achievement: a calculating engine called Fiddlehead, which provides undeniable proof of something awful enough to destroy the world. Both man and machine are at risk from forces conspiring to keep the Civil War going and the money flowing.”

–from the publisher

Fiddlehead

The Greatest Speech, Ever

History Publishing Company LLC
475 pages
$18.95


“Cotton’s meticulously researched, and lovingly crafted story of Lincoln and the Gettysburg Address, joins the many that examines the speech, and its creator. The author interprets a remarkable and complex period in American history and does so with knowledge that the reader’s journey will be one of discovery and enlightenment.”

–Steven Wilson, Author, President Lincoln s Spy and President Lincoln s Secret

The Greatest Speech, Ever

A Spark Unseen

Scholastic Press
352 pages
$17.99


“Utterly original, romantic, and spellbindingly imaginative.”

–USA Today

A Spark Unseen

To Do This, You Must Know How: Music Pedagogy in the Black Gospel Quartet Tradition

University Press of Mississippi
468 pages
$75


“A landmark study tracing the current of music education that gave form and style to the black gospel quartet tradition.”

–from the publisher

To Do This, You Must Know How: Music Pedagogy in the Black Gospel Quartet Tradition

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