Chapter 16
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Mountain Meanderings

Ben Anderson chronicles a year in the Smokies

…junctions he encountered on each hike, but he also recalls earlier treks along the same route—memories of his sons’ childhoods and the times he stood with his wife at a…

Of Sharks and Men

With The Shark Club, Ann Kidd Taylor delivers the quintessential beach read

…Shark Club, I felt the heat and light and color and salt wind coming off the water, and I suspect many readers will enjoy these same sensations alongside the actual

A Cape Canaveral of the Soul

Patrick Ryan’s new stories place buoyant, striving characters in a small patch of Florida

…vital, and these fictional people are believably resilient. Peggy Burch was books editor at The Commercial Appeal in Memphis for ten years, and she also worked as a deputy metro…

Contracts with the Devil

In Jennifer Haigh’s new novel, Heat and Light, energy companies choose profits over safety

…of all the forces at work in environmental disasters. The novel is set in Bakerton, Pennsylvania, in the Saxon Valley, a region that has been sustained by the energy industry…

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