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Dream More: Celebrate the Dreamer in You

Dream More: Celebrate the Dreamer in You

Dream More: Celebrate the Dreamer in You

Dolly Parton

Putnam Adult
128 pages
$19.95

“From one of the legends of our time, Dream More is an honest and uplifting anthem for all who want to take charge of their lives and forge a future on their own terms.”

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Bluegrass Bluesman: A Memoir

Bluegrass Bluesman: A Memoir

Bluegrass Bluesman: A Memoir

Josh Graves

University of Illinois Press
176 pages
$21.95

“A fascinating look at the musical culture of the South…Thoroughly Southern, spicy, real, and lots of fun.”

Library Journal

Luck or Something Like It: A Memoir

Luck or Something Like It: A Memoir

Luck or Something Like It: A Memoir

Kenny Rogers

William Morrow
304 pages
$27.99

“Rogers is an exquisite storyteller, able to get across a range of ideas and emotions in songs like ‘Lucille’ and ‘The Gambler.’ That breezy, conversational tone comes across on the page.”

Entertainment Weekly

A Year of Biblical Womanhood: How a Liberated Woman Found Herself Sitting on Her Roof, Covering Her Head, and Calling Her Husband "Master"

A Year of Biblical Womanhood: How a Liberated Woman Found Herself Sitting on Her Roof, Covering Her Head, and Calling Her Husband "Master"

A Year of Biblical Womanhood: How a Liberated Woman Found Herself Sitting on Her Roof, Covering Her Head, and Calling Her Husband "Master"

Rachel Held Evans

Thomas Nelson
352 pages
$15.99

“With just the right mixture of humor and insight, compassion and incredulity, A Year of Biblical Womanhood is an exercise in scriptural exploration and spiritual contemplation. What does God truly expect of women, and is there really a prescription for biblical womanhood? Come along with Evans as she looks for answers in the rich heritage of biblical heroines, models of grace, and all-around women of valor.”

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Rituals of Movement in the Writing of Judith Ortiz Cofer

Rituals of Movement in the Writing of Judith Ortiz Cofer

Rituals of Movement in the Writing of Judith Ortiz Cofer

Edited by Lorraine López and Molly Crumpton Winter

Caribbean Studies Press
308 pages
$24.50

“Ortiz Cofer has been illuminating the Puerto Rican community’s journeys back and forth between the Caribbean island and the U.S., between rural landscapes and urban landscape, and between Spanish and English.”

Rigoberto Gonzalez

You Be Sweet: Sharing Your Heart One Down-Home Dessert at a Time

You Be Sweet: Sharing Your Heart One Down-Home Dessert at a Time

You Be Sweet: Sharing Your Heart One Down-Home Dessert at a Time

Patsy Caldwell, Amy Lyles Wilson

Thomas Nelson
272 pages
$24.99

“In this compilation of stories and sweet treats, Patsy Caldwell and Amy Lyles Wilson peek in on those occasions special enough to demand something decadent, and memorable enough to be repeated time and again.”

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