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River of Glass

The Permanent Press
288 pages
$29


”In Terrell’s solid third Jared McKean mystery, the Nashville PI takes on a case with an unexpected family connection. When Khanh, a scarred Vietnamese woman around his age, shows up one day at his door, claiming to be his half-sister, Jared is forced to concede that his soldier father may have had a second family overseas . . . In addition to the story’s emotional rewards, Terrell offers insights into the mechanics of domination and submission.”

–Publishers Weekly

River of Glass

Facing the Music

Howard Books
304 page
$24


“Facing the Music is a fascinating read on so many levels. Knapp is brutally honest about herself, about what she experienced, and what was happening in her head and her heart as she grew in her relationship with music, Christianity, and her sexual orientation. It pulls back the curtain on the Christian music industry to look at the business behind the worship and the squeaky clean image. It’s a story that many of us will be able to relate to, in our own way, and readers of Facing the Music will find not only Knapp’s story, but their own as well.”

–Ross Murray, Director of News, GLAAD

Facing the Music

TennCare: One State’s Experiment with Medicaid Expansion

Vanderbilt University Press
248 pages
$34.95


“A history of the struggle among competing stakeholders in one of the oldest and most controversial experiments in US health care policy, a precursor to Obamacare. In 1993, Tennessee launched a reform initiative designed to simultaneously expand the proportion of residents with health insurance and curtail cost increases.”

–From the Publisher

TennCare: One State’s Experiment with Medicaid Expansion

Recipes and Road Stories

Sartoris Literary Group
230 pages
$19.95


“Recipes and Road Stories: Life on the Road with Sisters Hannah and Caroline Melby of the duo HanaLena blends touching and rollicking road stories with an assortment of tasty recipes, and then tops everything off with plenty of exciting photographs.”

–From the Publisher

Recipes and Road Stories

The League of Seven

Starscape
352 pages
$16.99


“This hybrid of steampunk and alternate American history features a hell-raising girl’s school, Atlantis, and three highly likable leads in a yarn rip-roaring from start to finish…. Moments of humor and pathos enliven the history and fantasy. Though the main plot concerning Archie’s parents is resolved, there is plenty to address and discover in a sequel.”

–Booklist

The League of Seven

Each Shining Hour

NAL Trade
432 pages
$15


“A young doctor, marking time until he can leave a somnolent farm town for the bustle of a big city, finds more excitement in Watervalley than he bargained for…Each Shining Hour kept me reading far into the night hours!”

–Ann B. Ross, author of the Miss Julia Novels

Each Shining Hour

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