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The Hammond Organ: An Introduction to the Instrument and the Players Who Made it Famous

Hal Leonard
390 pages
$29.99


“Scott Faragher’s account of the demise of the original company, its limbo, and its rebirth is supplemented by many observations from former and current employees of both the original and the new companies. Also included is a comprehensive buyers’ guide telling where to find and buy a vintage organ, what to look for, which models to avoid, and what to pay, as well as important technical tips.”

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The Hammond Organ: An Introduction to the Instrument and the Players Who Made it Famous

True Brit - Beatrice, 1940

Artemesia Publishing
212 pages
$12.95


“What makes Rosemary Zibart’s True Brit most engaging is the attention to detail, from descriptions of mud homes and pinon trees to ‘A-okay’ American slang. Beatrice’s journal entries add more insight into her evolution from a privileged girl to the beginnings of a modern woman.”

— Angela Leeper, Bookpage

True Brit – Beatrice, 1940

Sundays Will Never Be the Same: Racing, Tragedy, and Redemption--My Life in America's Fastest Sport

Free Press
256 pages
$24.99


“The author—a three-time winner of the NASCAR Series Cup and winner of the 1989 Daytona 500, a race he describes as NASCAR’s ‘Super Bowl’—was in the broadcast booth for the 2001 edition, cheering on his younger brother Michael, the eventual victor. That victory was overshadowed, however, by the death of driver Dale Earnhardt in a final-lap crash, and Waltrip’s chilling description of the race and its aftermath are the entry point into an exploration of the author’s life behind the wheel…”

Kirkus Review

Sundays Will Never Be the Same: Racing, Tragedy, and Redemption–My Life in America's Fastest Sport

Encyclopedia of Country Music, 2nd Edition

Oxford University Press, USA
640 pages
$65


“This thoroughly revised new edition includes more than 1,200 A-Z entries covering nine decades of history and artistry, from the Carter Family recordings of the 1920s to the reign of Taylor Swift in the first decade of the twenty-first century. Compiled by a team of experts at the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum, the encyclopedia has been brought completely up-to-date, with new entries on the artists who have profoundly influenced country music in recent years, such as the Dixie Chicks and Keith Urban.”

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Encyclopedia of Country Music, 2nd Edition

I'll Give You Something to Cry About: A Gathering of Stories

Queen's Ferry Press
172 pages
$14.95


“This is what a collection of stories should be, rich and varied, playful, daring, poignant and always entertaining. Corey Mesler’s children and adults move about American locales both familiar and exotic and the result is an experience as broad and interesting as life itself.”

— Robert Lopez, author of Kamby Bolongo Mean River and Asunder

I'll Give You Something to Cry About: A Gathering of Stories

Writer M.D.: The Best Contemporary Fiction and Nonfiction by Doctors

Vintage
272 pages
$15


“When it was time to hang pictures in our new house in San Antonio, my wife asked me to buy a studfinder. As a husband I demurred; as an internist, I flat-out refused. We internists make it our business to devine the stutters and stumbles of lungs, hearts, brains, adrenals, guts, gonads – hence the term ‘internal medicine.’ Once upon a time, doctors examined patients not with CAT scans of MRIs but with their senses. ‘Surely’ I said, ‘skills that can find pus behind the chest wall can find a stud behind drywall.’”

— excerpt from Abraham Verghese’s “Bedside Manners”

Writer M.D.: The Best Contemporary Fiction and Nonfiction by Doctors

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