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TennCare: One State’s Experiment with Medicaid Expansion

TennCare: One State’s Experiment with Medicaid Expansion

TennCare: One State’s Experiment with Medicaid Expansion

Christina Juris Bennett

Vanderbilt University Press
248 pages
$34.95

“A history of the struggle among competing stakeholders in one of the oldest and most controversial experiments in US health care policy, a precursor to Obamacare. In 1993, Tennessee launched a reform initiative designed to simultaneously expand the proportion of residents with health insurance and curtail cost increases.”

–From the Publisher

Recipes and Road Stories

Recipes and Road Stories

Recipes and Road Stories

HanaLena

Sartoris Literary Group
230 pages
$19.95

“Recipes and Road Stories: Life on the Road with Sisters Hannah and Caroline Melby of the duo HanaLena blends touching and rollicking road stories with an assortment of tasty recipes, and then tops everything off with plenty of exciting photographs.”

–From the Publisher

Each Shining Hour

Each Shining Hour

Each Shining Hour

Jeff High

NAL Trade
432 pages
$15

“A young doctor, marking time until he can leave a somnolent farm town for the bustle of a big city, finds more excitement in Watervalley than he bargained for…Each Shining Hour kept me reading far into the night hours!”

–Ann B. Ross, author of the Miss Julia Novels

The Miracle of Kurdistan

The Miracle of Kurdistan

The Miracle of Kurdistan

Stephen Mansfield

Worthy Publishing
272 pages
$22.99

“Hundreds of thousands of Kurds were murdered under the tyrannical regime of Saddam Hussein. Some four thousand Kurdish villages were destroyed…Then came the Kurdish Miracle, that combination of ancient wisdom and modern economic genius that is now making the Kurdish homeland one of the most prosperous places on earth. Many experts predict that this homeland will soon be the world’s newest nation.”

–From the Publisher

Our Great Big American God

Our Great Big American God

Our Great Big American God

Matthew Paul Turner

Jericho Books
256 pages
$20

“With wit and captivating narrative style, Turner takes a historical look at the ways Americans have been shaped by our faith and how the development of the American empire has affected our perception of God. His work offers a deeper look at what it means to be a Christian in the United States.”

–Relevant Magazine

All My Days Are Saturdays

All My Days Are Saturdays

All My Days Are Saturdays

Sam Pickering

University of Missouri
200 pages
$19.95

“Distinctive and unmistakable, Pickering’s style deftly mixes the colloquial language of everyday life with references to a lifetime of extensive reading. The seamless blend of these two worlds in his writing is indicative of how they fuse together in his daily life.”

–From the Publisher

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