Tyler J. Kelley chronicles great American rivers and a century of effort to control them
The Mississippi, the Ohio, the Missouri, and the Arkansas rivers loom large in American history. Since colonial times, they have served as essential highways for the country’s crops and freight,…
Hell on the Border continues the true story of a larger-than-life lawman
In Follow the Angels, Follow the Doves, Sidney Thompson told the coming-of-age story of an enslaved Arkansan, Bass Reeves, who is pressed into service for the Confederate army. After surviving…
A Window to Heaven chronicles the first ascent of Denali by an Episcopal priest with a Tennessee past
In A Window to Heaven, Patrick Dean chronicles the adventurous life of Hudson Stuck, a Sewanee graduate and Episcopal priest. By turns a cowboy, telegraph lineman, literature professor, master of…
Robert Gipe’s Appalachian trilogy concludes with Pop: An Illustrated Novel
…Dawn has begun to fray a bit at the edges. She spends most of her time online, eating junk food and drinking soda — regionally known as “pop,” as in…
Ace Atkins keeps the action going in Robert B. Parker’s Someone to Watch Over Me
…an encounter with Spenser’s mysterious nemesis, the Gray Man. While Atkins delights in resurrecting characters and occasionally updating side plots from Parker’s original books, it is his spot-on knack for…
In M.O. Walsh’s endearing new novel, a strange machine disrupts life in a small Southern town
With the opening line of his second novel, The Big Door Prize, M.O. Walsh asks, “How can you know that your whole life will change on a day the sun…
