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Radical: Fighting to Put Students First

Harper Paperbacks
320 pages
$15.99


“Throughout her career, Michelle Rhee has fought for every student to receive a quality education. In Radical, Rhee describes her experiences in the trenches, her challenges and her successes, but what she has learned through it all is that we must always put our students first.”

Condoleezza Rice

Radical: Fighting to Put Students First

Prisoner B-3087

Scholastic Press
272 pages
$16.99


“Gratz ably conveys Yanek’s incredulity (‘Not long ago, all these half-dead creatures around me had been people’), fatalism, yearning, and determination in the face of the unimaginable.”

Publishers Weekly

Prisoner B-3087

Park City: A Knoxville Neighborhood History

The History Press
160 pages
$19.99


“Longtime Park City resident and local historian Margery W. Bensey tracks the history of its development from village to vibrant residential neighborhood. From stories of the first settlers and community events to the dramatic tale of a neighborhood duel, this is the complete Park City chronicle.”

The Morristown Citizen Tribune

Park City: A Knoxville Neighborhood History

My Father is Still Dying

Flutter Press
18 pages
$7


“Corey Mesler’s heartfelt chapbook, My Father is Still Dying, conveys the special relationship between father and son and the memories of his father.”

From the publisher

My Father is Still Dying

More Things in Heaven and Earth

NAL Trade
464 pages
$11.25


“The best of small-town Americana and the eccentrics who live there are brought to life in More Things in Heaven and Earth. This story warmed me, made me laugh and then kept a smile on my face. It’s delightful, compassionate, humorous, tightly woven. If you’re looking for a feel-good read, spend an afternoon with Jeff High’s novel.”

Charles Martin, New York Times-bestselling author of Unwritten and When Crickets Cry

More Things in Heaven and Earth

Mitmensch

Folded Word Press
48 pages
$8.50


“In this chapbook, Corey Mesler invokes the specter of a man known only as Mitmensch. Poem by poem, a variety of speakers construct a shadowy portrait of this man. Frustrated artist. Ruthless businessman. Demi-god. Mitmensch’s ‘shifting geography’ leaves all who come into contact with him guessing. Mesler’s wit and evocative language enhance this mystery, making Mitmensch rise from the pages ‘slowly, like a uniform unfolding’ to reveal himself to those brave enough to seek him.”

From the publisher

Mitmensch

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