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  The Bloomsbury Handbook to Toni Morrison

  Kelly Reames Editor and Linda Wagner-Martin editor

  The most substantial collection of critical essays on Morrison to appear since her death in mid-2019, this book contains previously unpublished essays which both acknowledge the universal significance of her writing even as they map new directions. Essayists include pre-eminent Morrison scholars, as well as scholars who work in cultural ...Read More

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  The Finalists

  David J. Bell

  On a beautiful spring day, six college students with nothing in common besides a desperate inability to pay for school gather to compete for the prestigious Hyde Fellowship.

  The six of them must surrender their devices when they enter Hyde House, an aging Victorian structure that sits in a secluded ...Read More

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  Navigating Women's Friendships in American Literature and Culture

  Kristi Branham Editor and Kelly Reames Editor

  This volume presents a collection of critical essays that center women’s friendship in women’s literary and artistic production. Analyzing cultural portrayals of women’s friendships in fiction, letters, and film, these essays collectively suggest new models of literary interpretation that do not prioritize heterosexual romance. Instead, this book represents friendships as ...Read More

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  Kill All Your Darlings

  David Bell

  From the Publishers website:

  After years of struggling to write following the deaths of his wife and son, English professor Connor Nye publishes his first novel, a thriller about the murder of a young woman.
  
  There’s just one problem: Connor didn’t write the book. His missing student did. And then ...Read More

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  The Request

  David J. Bell

  From the Publishers website:

  Ryan Francis has it all—great job, wonderful wife, beautiful child—and he loves posting photos of his perfect life on social media. Until the night his friend Blake asks him to break into a woman’s home to retrieve incriminating items that implicate Blake in an affair. Ryan ...Read More

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  Learning a Foreign Language: Understanding the Fundamentals of Linguistics

  Alex Poole

  From publishers website:

  This text helps monolinguals achieve their dream of learning another language. Each chapter explains and exemplifies issues inherent in the language learning process that readers need to understand. These include maintaining motivation, dealing with errors, being strategic, and assessing progress. Readers receive advice on the practical steps ...Read More

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  Learning from the Talk of Persons with Dementia: A Practical Guide to Interaction and Interactional Research

  Trini Stickle Editor

  From the publishers website:

  This book offers an in depth analysis of the interactional challenges that arise due to various dementias and in a variety of social contexts. By assessing conversations between persons with dementia and their family members, caregivers, and clinicians, it shares insights into both the language and ...Read More

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  Things You Would Know If You Grew Up Around Here

  Nancy Wayson Dinan

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  "2015. 18-year-old Boyd Montgomery returns from her grandfather's wedding to find her friend Isaac missing. Drought-ravaged central Texas has been newly inundated with rain, and flash floods across the state have begun to sweep away people, cars, and entire houses as every river breaks its banks. ...Read More

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  Smith, C., Costa, J., & Collard, D. (2019). An Alfred Russel Wallace companion .

  Charles H. Smith, James T. Costa, and David A. Collard

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  Although Alfred Russel Wallace (1823–1913) was one of the most famous scientists in the world at the time of his death at the age of ninety, today he is known to many as a kind of “almost-Darwin,” a secondary figure relegated to the footnotes of Darwin’s prodigious insights. But this diminution could hardly be less justified. Research into the life of this brilliant naturalist and social critic continues to produce new insights into his significance to history and his role in helping to shape modern thought.

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  Fragile

  Cheryl Hopson

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  Cheryl R. Hopson’s poetry shows the influence of years of reading, living, thinking through and imagining what it means to be a girl and woman, a person of color, a Southerner, a feminist scholar of working-class origins, and a poet. The daughter of a mother who was and continues to be an enthusiastic and avid reader, Cheryl understood early on the beauty and significance of the written word. She began writing and reading poetry at twelve years old, after discovering the fiction of Maya Angelou and the poetry of Nikki Giovanni.

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  That Perfect Feeling in the Air

  Jonathan Jeffrey, Gilbert T. Calhoun, and Mary M. Lucas

  That Perfect Feeling in the Air relays the riveting story of Victor Herbert Strahm, who exhibited great personal courage, heroism, and gallantry during the grim reality of WWI and WWII. The son of a German immigrant, Victor left college in 1917 to answer his nation’s call to arms by joining ...Read More

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  The Indian Ladies' Magazine, 1901–1938

  Deborah Anna Logan

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  This book examines the varied influences and accomplishments of the Indian Ladies’ Magazine, the first Indian magazine established and edited by an Indian woman—Kamala Satthianadhan—in English, written by women, for women. Influences include Victorian, Edwardian, and Modern literature and culture as well as traditional Indian literature ...Read More

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  Since She Went Away

  David Bell

  From David Bell—bestselling author of Somebody I Used to Know and Cemetery Girl—comes a chilling novel of guilt, regret, and a past which refuses to die…
  
  Three months earlier, Jenna Barton was supposed to meet her lifelong best friend Celia. But when Jenna arrived late, she found that Celia had ...Read More

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  The State That Springfield is In

  Tom Hunley

  Inspired by America's most prominent hallmark of modern pop culture, The Simpsons, poet Tom C. Hunley shares his narratives––autobiographical or allegorical––by channeling the eccentric personas of residents in the animated sitcom's town, Springfield, and trusting their voices to speak on his behalf, resulting in true poetic entertainment. As author Denise ...Read More

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  Appalachian Murders & Mysteries

  Jonathan Jeffrey, Contributor; James M. Gifford, Editor; and Edwina Pendarvis, Editor

  Appalachian Murders & Mysteries: True Stories from West Virginia, Kentucky, and Southern Ohio, 23 stories by 17 authors compiled and edited by James M. Gifford and Edwina D. Pendarvis. The tragic events described in this book could have happened anywhere, but they happened here in central Appalachia. They are a part of our history. Together, these stories create a literary “mourning quilt,” commemorating the innocent and the guilty and piecing together significant remnants of 200 years of life in eastern Kentucky, southern Ohio, and West Virginia.

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  The Library's Role in Supporting Financial Literacy for Patrons

  Jennifer Joe, Contributor and Carol Smallwood, Editor

  Library Roles in Achieving Financial Literacy among its Patrons is a collection of articles from 25 librarians in different parts of the U.S. and Canada, each contributing 3,000-4,000 words: concise chapters with sidebars, bullets, and headers; there is an introduction. Contributors were selected for the creative potential in their topics, ...Read More

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  Una Merkel: The Actress with Sassy Wit and Southern Charm

  Sean Kinder

  Once hailed by acclaimed director D. W. Griffith as “the greatest natural actress now in pictures,” Una Merkel (1903-1986) was a rare individual in Hollywood’s Golden Age. Humble, self-effacing, and egoless, she confessed to having great insecurities and an inferiority complex. Never aspiring to be a star, she was more ...Read More

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  Memorials of Harriet Martineau by Maria Weston Chapman

  Deborah Logan, Editor

  Memorials of Harriet Martineau by Maria Weston Chapman was published in 1877 as volume three of Harriet Martineau’s Autobiography. While the triple-decker was a popular format of the era, the configuration of a two-volume autobiography authored by one and a one-volume biography written by another is unusual. Indeed, the work’s ...Read More

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  Mose Rager Kentucky's Incomparable Guitar Master

  Nancy Richey and Carlton Jackson

  Mose Rager: Kentucky’s Incomparable Guitar Master is the story of this true Kentucky music legend who preferred living the quiet life to the fame he could have earned playing the country music circuit. There are many country guitar legends, Chet Atkins, Merle Travis, and Eddie Pennington, to name a few, ...Read More

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  Different Carmela

  Haiwang Yuan, Translator

  Each of the 12 books describes an adventure by brother and sister chickens with their lamb friend. The adventures introduce to young readers great people like Columbus, Galileo, Aesop, the Montgolfier Brothers, and Sir Lancelot – one of the Knights of the Round Table, and even Martians! Without their even knowing it, young readers will learn from these adventurous stories how to be curious and courageous, and how to treat fairly those who look different from us

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  Somebody I Used to Know

  David Bell

  When Nick Hansen sees the young woman at the grocery store, his heart stops. She is the spitting image of his college girlfriend, Marissa Minor, who died in a campus house fire twenty years earlier. But when Nick tries to speak to her, she acts skittish and rushes off.
  
  The next ...Read More

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  Plunk

  Tom Hunley

  “BLURBS”

  My manuscript got picked up like a hitchhiker, bedraggled
  and haggard, and I need words to cover the back cover.
  I don’t want to rouse any of my poet friends from their
  lonely fame. They should be writing poems, not blurbs.
  They should be jogging or having prescriptions filled.
  We can all ...Read More

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  Creative Writing Pedagogies for the Twenty-First Century

  Tom Hunley and Alexandria Peary

  The creative writing workshop: beloved by some, dreaded by others, and ubiquitous in writing programs across the nation. For decades, the workshop has been entrenched as the primary pedagogy of creative writing. While the field of creative writing studies has sometimes myopically focused on this single method, the related discipline ...Read More

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  Hidden Heroes of the Big Sandy Valley

  Jonathan Jeffrey, Contributor and James Gifford, Editor

  "This book contains twenty-two biographical essays and one cultural essay by seventeen authors. The people who are profiled in this book are true representatives of millions of people who have populated the Big Sandy Valley for more than two hundred years. I invite you to read their stories and discover the reality of a great regional people." - See more at: http://www.jsfbooks.com/products/hidden-heroes-of-the-big-sandy-valley#sthash.lwPTCTM4.dpuf

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  Every Leaf a Mirror: A Jim Wayne Miller Reader

  Mary Ellen Miller, Editor and Morris Allen Grubbs, Editor

  Jim Wayne Miller (1936–1996) was a prolific writer, a revered teacher and scholar, and a pioneer in the field of Appalachian studies. During his thirty-three-year tenure at Western Kentucky University, he helped build programs in the discipline in Kentucky, Tennessee, and Ohio, and worked tirelessly to promote regional voices by ...Read More