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Ascension 

Aletha Press
272 pages
$9.99


“Life is supposed to be perfect after Cheyenne Lane’s Ascension ceremony, but it turns out awakening her vampire half only complicates things more.”

-from the Publisher

Don’t Date Baptists and Other Warnings from My Alabama Mother

Third Lung Press
280 pages
$16.95


“Within this collection, we see Barr working to make sense of what the Drive-By Truckers labeled ‘the duality of the Southern Thing.”

-Dr. Molly McGehee, Professor of Southern Studies, Emory at Oxford College

An Unforeseen Life

Nautilus Publishing
320 pages
$24.95


“Cry, laugh, and applaud as you relive the remarkable life of Mary Ann Strong Connell beloved daughter, wife, mother, friend, and gifted writer.”

-Robert Khayat author of The Education of a Lifetime

The South’s Best Butts

Oxmoor House
288 pages
$26.95


“Moore acts as a guide and mentor, explaining why certain ingredients and techniques work, offering a handful of iconic regional sauces, and addressing the unforgivable sin of including liquid smoke. This terrific tour is sure to inspire readers to fire up the smoker.”

Publishers Weekly

How to Be a Hepburn in a Kardashian World

Center Street
240 pages
$20


“Though fashions may change, certain things never go out of style–like your favorite little black dress that can take you from a business meeting to a dinner party to a night on the town. But what makes it work is not the dress, it’s how you present yourself while wearing it.”

-from the Publisher

Charles Ellis Johnson and the Erotic Mormon Image

University Of Chicago Press
192 pages
$45


“A beautiful meditation on the agency of photographs, this book on the Mormon photographer Charles Ellis Johnson is also a remarkable account of American sexuality, its rituals, and its prohibitions, down to the last strap unfurled from the last shoulder in that photograph earmarked for an eager customer in Fresno.”
-Alexander Nemerov, author of Soulmaker

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