Nonfiction

“As combat escalated, the bloody Battle of Stones River and the Nashville Campaign brought more destruction. Yet at war’s end, the resilient locals remained and rebuilt their town from the rubble. Authors and Civil War historians Michael Bradley and Shirley Farris Jones track the tumult of the proceedings to recount the compelling story of Murfreesboro during the Civil War.”

“I cannot recall a book that has excited me more than Transforming Places. This work is a major step forward in the study of social change, our understanding of ‘free spaces,’ and local resistance – how people get power and how they can use it to get more.”

“Years ago Shacklett’s Photography founder Richard Shacklett began collecting pictures. Some were his own work; others were found or brought in to his shop. He amassed more than 30,000 images he considered of significance. His children, who now run the Shacklett’s business, turned the collection over to the Rutherford County Archives, where Lodl is director…From these images, 82 were chosen to be published for the book. Then Lodl and Shacklett painstakingly re-shot the photos as the city looks today from the same locations and angles, and even time of day, as the originals. Those additional 82 photos were paired up to create the meat of Murfreesboro: Then and Now.“

“Tennessee’s Dixie Highway: The Cline Postcards traces the path of the Dixie Highway along its western and eastern branches through the state, showcasing the works of photographers Walter M. Cline Sr. and Jr.”

“Heather Armstrong first wrote to her daughter when Leta was just eight weeks old. For the next five years, Heather wrote a letter every month, capturing the ups and downs of motherhood and chronicling the milestones and surprises of their lives together. These are letters that we wish we had written for our own children: disarmingly honest, self-deprecating, heartwarming, and irreverently funny.”

“The book is beautifully written and tightly edited. It is the kind of intervention one sees more often in the French public debate than in our academically over determined Anglo-American publishing world. It is also meaningfully illustrated by Quinby’s own photographs that explore the post metropolitan ecologies on their own terms.”