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Second Hand Rose: A Smoky Mountain Novel (Book Five)

Canterbury House Publishing
256 pages
$15.95


“A compelling story with homegrown flavor. Lin Stepp’s words flow across the page like a soft spring breeze in the Smokies, leaving behind traces of wildflowers and wood smoke. For me, reading her books is like going home.”

Andrea Chapman, author of Reading Lark

Second Hand Rose: A Smoky Mountain Novel (Book Five)

Scotty and Elvis: Aboard the Mystery Train

University Press of Mississippi
304 pages
$49.50


“With both Bill Black and Elvis gone, Scotty Moore is the only one left to tell the story of how Elvis and Scotty transformed popular music and how Scotty created the sound that became a prototype for so many rock guitarists to follow. Thoroughly updated, this edition delivers guitarist Scotty Moore’s story as never before.”

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Scotty and Elvis: Aboard the Mystery Train

Sacred Scripture, Sacred War: The Bible and the American Revolution

Oxford University Press
256 pages
$27.95


“With its remarkable research and deft insights, Sacred Scripture, Sacred War represents a major breakthrough in the study of religion and the American Founding. Never before have we had such a systematic investigation of how the Patriots actually used the Bible. Anyone interested in the Revolution will have to contend with Byrd’s book.”

John Ferling, author of Independence: The Struggle to Set America Free

Sacred Scripture, Sacred War: The Bible and the American Revolution

Rethinking Shiloh: Myth and Memory

University of Tennessee Press
208 pages
$38.95


“This book contributes to a more complete and ‘total’ appreciation of the Shiloh campaign in all of its many ramifications.”

James Lee McDonough, author of Shiloh: In Hell Before Night

Rethinking Shiloh: Myth and Memory

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

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