Briefly Noted | Chapter 16

Chicken Stock

Leslie Lytle
Hedgehog and Fox
288 pages
$16.95

“A stunning muckraker for our times, this brilliant novel delivers to us rural America’s struggle against corporate agriculture through the eyes of one woman, a wife and young mother catapulted unwillingly to the front lines by her husband’s dying words: “Promise me, Berta, promise me you’ll keep the farm going.” Locked in a David and Goliath conflict with powers well beyond her control, a fatherless child to provide for, and their own survival dependent upon the fragile lives of thousands of baby chicks, Berta must find a path forward where her son can know and love the farm the way his father had.”

–From the publisher

America's Historically Black Colleges and Universities: A Narrative History, 1837-2009

Bobby L. Lovett
Mercer University Press
256 pages
$25

“This narrative provides a comprehensive history of America’s Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs). The book concludes that race, the Civil Rights movements, and black and white philanthropy had much affect on the development of these minority institutions.”

–From the publisher

In the Beginning: The Martin Luther King Jr. International Chapel at Morehouse College

Echol Nix Jr.
Mercer University Press
240 pages
$35

“In the Beginning highlights the history of the world’s largest religious memorial to the legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr. Inspired essays on education, social justice, nonviolence, peace, ecumenism, and civil and human rights are offered in honor of Lawrence Edward Carter, Sr., founding dean of the Martin Luther King, Jr. International Chapel. This book is a lasting tribute and valuable contribution to the history and educational mission of Morehouse College.”

–From the publisher

We're In This Together: Public-Private Partnerships in Special and At-Risk-Education

Mark T. Claypool and John M. McLaughlin
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
130 pages
$22

“The book offers grounded and thought provoking perspectives on: the legal framework of PL94-142 and its successor IDEA; the disconnect between the needs of young children with autism and public school special education services; and the significant size of the at-risk population and the shortcomings of efforts to serve those students. “

–From the publisher

In the Kingdom of Ice: The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeannette

Hampton Sides
Anchor
480 pages
$16.95

“For all their human weaknesses, the book’s larger-than-life characters…pull the reader into the story, and the grandeur of the polar landscape—as well as the terrible struggle for survival—keeps them there… In the Kingdom of Ice is a book to make readers nostalgic for the late-nineteenth century’s golden age of arctic exploration, even as it makes reviewers nostalgic for the late-twentieth century’s great magazine adventure writing. Hampton Sides has captured the best of both, turning history into nail-biting suspense.”

–Michael Ray Taylor’s review for Chapter 16

Tuckaleechee Cove: A Passage through Time

Boyce N. Driskell, Robert Norrell
University of Tennessee Press
$24.95

“Nestled amid the western slopes of the Great Smoky Mountains in East Tennessee, bisected by the Little River, and including the community of Townsend, Tuckaleechee Cove is known today as “the peaceful side of the Smokies.” Celebrated for its natural beauty, the area is also the site of human habitation dating back at least 13,000 years.”

–From the publisher