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Commons Democracy 

Fordham University Press
232 pages
$9.92


“Commons Democracy is an exhilarating and compelling account of early U.S. forms of participatory democracy that have largely disappeared from critical view behind the shadow of the dominant account of the Founders’ creation of formal electoral democracy.”

-Elizabeth Maddock Dillon Northeastern University

Real Artists Don’t Starve 


$24.99


“Jeff Goins has established himself as a fresh and dynamic voice inspir­ing us to get out of our own way and produce our best work. Real Artists Don’t Starve is the work of angels: a book every aspiring writer, artist, and creative must read.” 

-Steven Pressfield, bestselling author of The War of Art

Cherry Bomb

Dogwood Press
256 pages
$24.95


“My kind of story. Cushman depicts the South as it is, not the sentimental claptrap some people want it to be.”

-Harrison Scott Key, author of The World’s Largest Man

Trey’s Company

Sartoris Literary Group
177 pages
$19.95


“Love a little, die a little, and break the law. Trey Milligan did them all in one summer, and before his 14th birthday”

-from the Publisher

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

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