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Hero on a Mission: A Path to a Meaningful Life

HarperCollins Leadership
224 pages
$24.99


New York Times bestselling author Donald Miller shares the plan that led him to turn his life around. This actionable guide will teach you how to do the same through journaling prompts and goal-planning exercises.”

~ from the publisher 

Islomanes of Cumberland Island

Addison & Highsmith Publishers
246 pages
$29.99


“Bourke’s telling of the history of Cumberland Island evolves naturally from the discoveries, during her and her daughter’s annual, adventurous visits, of the remnants of its glory days.”

~ Cynthia Williams, writer and independent journalist

On Rising Ground: The Life and Civil War Letters of John M. Douthit, Fifty-Second Georgia Volunteer Infantry Regiment

Mercer University Press
176 pages
$27


“Elaine Palencia has written a richly-researched, and, in the end, poignant account of a Confederate foot soldier from the mountains of North Georgia.”

~ W. Clifford Roberts, Jr., president of the General Barton Stovall Association

Crowned with Glory

WaterBrook
40 pages
$12.99


“An ode to Black hair and Black girl joy, this joy-filled rhyming picture book invites young readers into the world of a young Black girl as she rocks her God-given beauty.”

~ from the publisher

The Ways We Get By

Black Lawrence Press
190 pages
$19.95


“With equal measures of hilarity and heartache, Joe Dornich collects the stories of America’s middle-class cast-offs: the under-employed, the under-appreciated, and most devastatingly, the under-loved.” 

~ Jenny Irish, author of Tooth Box 

Through the Mountains: The French Broad River and Time

The University of Tennessee Press
283 pages
$34.95


“…For 14,000 years the French Broad and its tributaries have nurtured human habitation. What must we start doing now to ensure it will continue to nourish future generations?”

~ from the publisher

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