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One Kid's Trash

Atheneum Books for Young Readers
240 pages
$17.99


“From the acclaimed author of Roll with It and Tune It Out comes a funny and moving middle grade novel about a boy who uses his unusual talent for decoding people’s trash to try to fit in at his new school.”

~from the publisher

A Final Call: A Stacy Tavitt Thriller

Headline Books
344 pages
$19.95


“Eliot Parker’s eye for detail is on full display in A Final Call as a simple missing persons case turns deadly. Protagonist Stacy Tavitt is damaged and complicated and has the relentless drive to find the truth that forces you to root for her.”

~Matt Coyle, author of the award-winning Rick Cahill series

The Reluctant Patriot: A Novel Based on a True Story of the Civil War in Tennessee

Aubade Publishing
284 pages
$19.95


“In the course of his war, he will lose a son, plumb a daughter’s love, and form a strange bond with the region’s most controversial figure, W. G. Brownlow. Unremarked by history, Harry experienced, firsthand, the serial betrayals and surprising loyalties of a bloody war on his doorstep. How he survived — and what he became — is a suspenseful and moving tale of a soul’s reformation.”

~from the publisher

Every Deep-Drawn Breath: A Critical Care Doctor on Healing, Recovery, and Transforming Medicine in the ICU

Scribner
352 pages
$27


“A world-renowned critical care doctor offers hope for ICU patients and their families in this timely, urgent, and compassionate narrative.”

~from the publisher

Finding the Good

Thomas Nelson
176 pages
$17.99


“In the vein of Tuesdays with Morrie comes a powerful story of a black man in the brutal South who rose to the rank of mayor and the young reporter whose life he touched as he learned of the transforming power of forgiveness and love.”

~from the publisher

Solomon's Porch

Elk Lake Publishing, Inc.
310 pages
$14.99


“A broken and forgotten man fighting the demons of dementia, he longs for the past when both he and his beloved military town of Ginger Ridge once thrived.”

~from the publisher

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