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How Could I Ask for More: Stories of Blessings, Battles, and Beauty

Worthy Inspired
224 pages
$14.99


“Award winning singer-songwriter Cindy Morgan’s best-selling song celebrates the appreciation of the small blessings that make up a rich, full life. “

–From the publisher

How Could I Ask for More: Stories of Blessings, Battles, and Beauty

Empty Houses and American Renditions

Aldrich Press
138 pages
$17


“This book captures the intensity of absence in the most profound and beautiful way. Ralph Monday is a remarkable wordsmith. Empty Houses and American Renditions will trigger emotions you never knew you could feel.”

—Jessica Bell, publisher of Vine Leaves Literary Journal

Empty Houses and American Renditions

The Hidden History of Tennessee Politics

The History Press
144 pages
$21.99


“Glad-hand influential figures like Andrew Jackson and Kate Bradford Stockton, the state’s first female gubernatorial candidate. Pick through filibusters and fiercely partisan quarrels as James B. Jones navigates the twists and turns of Tennessee’s political heritage.”

–From the publisher

The Hidden History of Tennessee Politics

Spy Guy: The Not-So-Secret Agent

HMH Books for Young Readers
40 pages
$16.99


“Spy Guy is a spy—but not a very good one. He’s too loud, too squeaky, and in need of a good disguise. All Spy Guy wants is to figure out the secret to spying. But as the Chief says, that he must discover for himself. With a lot of trial and even more error, can Spy Guy figure out the secret to spying?”

–From the publisher

Spy Guy: The Not-So-Secret Agent

Chicken Stock

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

Chicken Stock

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

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

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

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