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True Brit – Beatrice, 1940

True Brit – Beatrice, 1940

True Brit - Beatrice, 1940

Rosemary Zibhart

Artemesia Publishing
212 pages
$12.95

“What makes Rosemary Zibart’s True Brit most engaging is the attention to detail, from descriptions of mud homes and pinon trees to ‘A-okay’ American slang. Beatrice’s journal entries add more insight into her evolution from a privileged girl to the beginnings of a modern woman.”

— Angela Leeper, Bookpage

I'll Give You Something to Cry About: A Gathering of Stories

I'll Give You Something to Cry About: A Gathering of Stories

I'll Give You Something to Cry About: A Gathering of Stories

Corey Mesler

Queen's Ferry Press
172 pages
$14.95

“This is what a collection of stories should be, rich and varied, playful, daring, poignant and always entertaining. Corey Mesler’s children and adults move about American locales both familiar and exotic and the result is an experience as broad and interesting as life itself.”

— Robert Lopez, author of Kamby Bolongo Mean River and Asunder

Writer M.D.: The Best Contemporary Fiction and Nonfiction by Doctors

Writer M.D.: The Best Contemporary Fiction and Nonfiction by Doctors

Writer M.D.: The Best Contemporary Fiction and Nonfiction by Doctors

Edited by Leah Kaminsky

Vintage
272 pages
$15

“When it was time to hang pictures in our new house in San Antonio, my wife asked me to buy a studfinder. As a husband I demurred; as an internist, I flat-out refused. We internists make it our business to devine the stutters and stumbles of lungs, hearts, brains, adrenals, guts, gonads – hence the term ‘internal medicine.’ Once upon a time, doctors examined patients not with CAT scans of MRIs but with their senses. ‘Surely’ I said, ‘skills that can find pus behind the chest wall can find a stud behind drywall.’”

— excerpt from Abraham Verghese’s “Bedside Manners”

The Portable Son

The Portable Son

The Portable Son

Barrett Hathcock

Aqueous Books
200 pages
$14

“The ghosts of the Old South are present throughout, even while the main characters’ struggles are distinctively contemporary. It’s all here, the awkwardness of reconnecting with childhood friends, the impossibility of integrating your youth with your adulthood, the longing for home when home is a time and not a place: Hathcock writes haunting, unforgettable stories.”

Publishers Weekly

End of Summer

End of Summer

End of Summer

Michael Potts

WordCrafts Press
264 pages
$14.99

“A deeply moving and passionate book, Michael Potts’ End of Summer is a poignant literary novel about childhood and memory. This is contemporary Southern fiction at its best. In textured language and with heartfelt attention to detail, Potts’ nuanced portrayal of rural life in southern Appalachia and a young boy’s initial encounter with death reminds us that life at the economic margins can be culturally and spiritually rich, and that even as absences and losses sometimes damage us, these can also strengthen and redeem.”

— Michael Colonnese, Ph.D.

Catching Jordan

Catching Jordan

Catching Jordan

Miranda Kenneally

Sourcebooks Fire
288 pages
$8.99

“What girl doesn’t want to be surrounded by gorgeous jocks day in and day out? Jordan Woods isn’t just surrounded by hot guys, though–she leads them as the captain and quarterback of her high school football team. They all see her as one of the guys and that’s just fine. As long as she gets her athletic scholarship to a powerhouse university. But everything she’s ever worked for is threatened when Ty Green moves to her school. Not only is he an amazing QB, but he’s also amazingly hot. And for the first time, Jordan’s feeling vulnerable. Can she keep her head in the game while her heart’s on the line?”

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