Briefly Noted | Chapter 16

Bitch? Please! How Nice Girls Can Succeed in a Bitch's World

Megan Munroe

Turner Publishing
236 pages
$24.95

“Honestly, I wish Bitch? Please! was around when I entered the workforce because it offers practical tips on how to deal with difficult women. I now wonder if I would be in a different place in my career if I had access to the advice. The book is an enjoyable read, almost as though it was written by a personal friend specifically for me. Moving forward, I’ll be implementing Munroe’s tips and embracing the nice girl image and hope you will, too.”

— Jennifer Huber, Solotravelgirl.com

The Amphibians of Tennessee

Matthew Niemiller and R. Graham Reynolds

University of Tennessee Press
$39.95

Brimming with color photographs and reflecting the latest scientific research, this book is the definitive guide to the rich diversity of frogs and salamanders found throughout Tennessee. Featuring detailed accounts of all eighty of the state’s species of amphibians, it will delight and inform the professional scientist and amateur naturalist alike.

— From the Publisher

Murder on Music Row: A Music Industry Thriller

Stuart Dill

John F. Blair
344 pages
$14.95

“Dill, who has served as personal manager for Minnie Pearl, Billy Ray Cyrus and other notables in the Nashville country music world, brings his insider’s expertise to his solid debut, a mystery thriller…The conclusion is stunning.”

— Publishers Weekly

Listen: Twenty Nine Short Conversations

Corey Mesler

Kuboa
202 Pages
$4.95

“Corey Mesler’s page-turning collection offers readers conversation: here is a deeply engaging mode which delights the intelligence while also registering on the nervous system of its readers – a combination that will wake you right up. These pieces also return us to the essence of the gift of conversation itself: that we might learn to live with it – the mysteries and gaps that haunt the human experience. This is an exciting new work from a writer who knows how to position himself in order to truly listen and mercifully invites his readers to do the same.”

— Selah Saterstrom, author of The Meat and Spirit Plan

Be the People: A Call to Reclaim America's Faith and Promise

Carol Swain

Thomas Nelson
336 pages
$24.99

Drawing on her training in political science and law, Dr. Swain thoughtfully examines the religious significance of the founding of our nation and the deceptions that have infiltrated our daily lives and now threaten traditional families, unborn children, and members of various racial and ethnic groups-as well as national sovereignty itself–and provides action points for the people of this country to make the political system more responsive.

— From the Publisher

Flipped Out: A Do-It-Yourself Mystery

Jennie Bentley

Berkley
304 pages
$7.99

*Just added to the NYT Bestseller list!* Avery and her hunky handyman boyfriend are renovating a house belonging to a local news anchor who’s thrilled to be filmed as part of a home renovation show. But cable television fame proves fleeting when the man is murdered and Avery faces the task of nailing the killer.

— From the Publisher