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A Season of Darkness (Berkley True Crime)

Berkley
368 pages
$7.99


“When nine-year-old Marcia Trimble was murdered n 1975, her parents believed justice would be served. But it would take more than thirty years before the case finally came to its shocking, unexpected, and long-awaited concusion.”

–From the Publisher

Degrees of Elevation: Short Stories of Contemporary Appalachia

Bottom Dog Press
186 pages
$18


“16 stories of Appalachia today by some of our top writers. This collection brings us into the present with its struggles and beauty. Human character remains strong in these stories of life in Appalachia. Writers include: Rusty Barnes, Sheldon Lee Compton, Jarrid Deaton, Richard Hague, Silas House, Chris Holbrook, Denton Loving, Mindy Beth Miller, John McManus, Jim Nichols, Valerie Nieman, Chris Offutt, Mark Powell, Ron Rash, Alex Taylor, Crystal Wilkinson.”

–From the Publisher

Divining Rod

Grove Press
208 pages
$14


“In the lineage of writers such as Flanner O’Connor and Eudora Welty… Knight is without a doubt a new writer of considerable talent and promise.”

San Francisco Chronicle

Democracy’s Lawyer: Felix Grundy of the Old Southwest

Louisiana State University Press
357 pages
$45


“A central political figure in the first post-Revolutionary generation, Felix Grundy (1775-1840) epitomized the ‘American democrat’ who so famously fascinated Alexis de Tocqueville. Born and reared on the isolated frontier, Grundy rose largely by his own ability to become the Old Southwest’s greatest criminal lawyer and one of the first radical political reformers in the fledgling United States. In Democracy’s Lawyer, the first comprehensive biography of Grundy since 1940, J. Roderick Heller reveals how Grundy’s life typifies the archetypal, post-founding fathers generation that forged America’s culture and institutions.”

–From the Publisher

So Close the Hand of Death

Mira
416 pages
$7.99


“Those who like plots about a desperate effort to catch multiple serial killers before they can add to their body count will welcome Ellison’s sixth Taylor Jackson thriller (after The Immortals). A Nashville homicide lieutenant, Jackson has no time to breathe between psychopaths. Having foiled the savage killer known as Snow White, she must now contend with Snow White’s protégé, the Pretender, who’s arranged for several murderers to commit crimes around the country patterned on those of the Boston Strangler, Son of Sam, and the Zodiac Killer. As so often happens in such books, Jackson and her team get a handle on the Pretender’s likely true identity early on, then try to figure out what mask he’s been hiding behind to escape detection.”

Publishers Weekly

So Close the Hand of Death

A Picture Of Freedom (Dear America)

Scholastic Press
240 pages
$12.99


“The Dear America diaries represent the best of historical fiction for any age.”

Chicago Tribune

A Picture Of Freedom (Dear America)

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