Gary Gaston and Christine Kreyling
Vanderbilt University Press
352 pages
$35
“Nashville is already a national leader in the health care industry, but I want nothing less than for us to be a national leader in health. As a physician and a policymaker, my mantra has become ‘make the healthy choice the easy choice.’ Shaping the Healthy Community is about just that.”
–from the Preface by Senator William H. Frist, MD
Ronnie Douglas
William Morrow Paperbacks
307 pages
$11.44
“When the daughter of one of the Southern Wolves gets a flat in the middle of a thunderstorm, there’s only one thing to do—strip down to her underwear and get a little muddy. But when Alamo, the sexy biker shows up to rescue Ellen yet again, things are bound to get a whole lot dirtier.”
–From the publisher
Lin Stepp
Kensington
352 pages
$15
“Lin Stepp paints a charming portrait of the Smokies, their people, and a wonderful way of life.”
–Deborah Smith, New York Times bestselling author
Arne Weingart
New American Press
124 pages
$15.95
“Weingart’s poems are mordantly witty, intelligently skeptical, understated in the best sense, and incisively accurate.”
–From the publisher
Jeff Hardin
Aldrich Press
74 pages
$14
“In Small Revolution Jeff Hardin is a day-to-day wizard, a shaman of moments. He praises those who converse with dragon flies, willows and people no longer here; those who are off “studying moss,/finger-nudging an ant,/shrugging at evidence,/believing/otherwise.” “
–Bill Brown, author of The News Inside and Elemental
Dewey Lambdin
Thomas Dunne Books
352 pages
$26.99
“Check the log, shipmate: Dewey Lambdin has left Alexander Kent and C. S. Forester hull-down in an ocean of words and is closing on Patrick O’Brian as the most prolific historical novelist to celebrate a Royal Navy mariner during the age of sail.”
–The Washington Post
