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The Stones River and Tullahoma Campaigns: This Army Does Not Retreat

The Stones River and Tullahoma Campaigns: This Army Does Not Retreat

The Stones River and Tullahoma Campaigns: This Army Does Not Retreat

Christopher L Kolakowski
The History Press
160 pages
$17.99

“This is an excellent, concise account of two critically important campaigns that normally do not receive a great deal of attention. Both the beginning student who is unfamiliar with the events in Tennessee in 1862 and 1863 and the knowledgeable scholar who needs a quick, easily read refresher will find this work to be of great value.”

— Jeff Patrick, Civil War News

Appalachian Tales & Heartland Adventures

Appalachian Tales & Heartland Adventures

Appalachian Tales & Heartland Adventures

Bill Landry
Celtic Cat Publishing
200 pages
$25

Appalachian Tales & Heartland Adventures (Celtic Cat Publishing) is a 187-page coffee table book full of everything from moonshining to the natural beauty of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park to a tourist who wanted to ride an elk.”

Knoxville News Sentinel

Beyond Politics: Inspirational People of Israel

Beyond Politics: Inspirational People of Israel

Beyond Politics: Inspirational People of Israel

By Ronda Robinson
Mazo Publishers
146 pages
$16.95

Beyond Politics calls us to expand our understanding of ‘what is going on in Israel today’ by focusing not on our current events, but on the lives of people—individuals living today in Israel—immigrants from different parts of the world and those born there. It is a must read for anyone who cares deeply about the future of Israel and the Jewish people and seeks to foster dialogue, cooperation, and shalom in the Middle East. Reading Beyond Politics was a joy that enhanced and enriched my own understanding of Israel—and I live there! If you want to understand the true face of Israel—in all its diversity and depth—Beyond Politics is a must read.”

The International Fellowship of Christians and Jews

A Father’s Journey

August 22, 2012 In Buzz Bissinger’s Father’s Day: A Journey into the Mind & Heart of My Extraordinary Son a ten-day road trip across America is the backdrop for a haunting and brutally honest account of a father’s struggle to understand the adult his special-needs child has become. Bissinger, the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author of Friday Night Lights, presents an unforgettable portrait of his son Zach, a cognitively disabled man in his mid-twenties who speaks in nonstop non sequiturs, can name and give the birthday of every person he has ever met, and memorizes maps so accurately that his family refers to him as a “human GPS.” Bissinger will discuss Father’s Day at the twenty-fourth annual Southern Festival of Books, held October 12-14 at Legislative Plaza in Nashville. All events are free and open to the public.

A New Birth of Freedom

August 16, 2012 The Emancipation Proclamation is regarded by some as America’s second Declaration of Independence and is denigrated by others as hollow and cynical, a political ploy from a master manipulator. So which is it? Lincoln scholar Harold Holzer asks that question in his latest work, Emancipating Lincoln: The Proclamation in Text, Context, and Memory. Harold Holzer will speak about emancipation at the twenty-fourth annual Southern Festival of Books, held October 12-14 at Legislative Plaza in Nashville. All events are free and open to the public.

What the World Could Be

August 10, 2012 In her first book, Magdalene House: A Place about Mercy Sarah VanHooser Suiter, writes about the “winding journey of healing and recovery” as she researched a residential community in Nashville for women with histories of addiction and prostitution. The women of Magdalene House envision “the world that could be,” Suiter writes: “a place where people love without judgment, care for their neighbors, support one another regardless of circumstance, and defend human dignity.” Sarah VanHooser Suiter will discuss Magdalene House at the twenty-fourth annual Southern Festival of Books, held October 12-14 at Legislative Plaza in Nashville. All events are free and open to the public.

What the World Could Be

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