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The only writer permitted to observe the sensational trial of a mass murderer, Frank Corso learns that his photojournalist close friend, Meg, has been hospitalized after a run-in with a pair of hoods and becomes alarmed when he realizes the two cases are related. Violence and some strong language. Ford On the road to investigate an unsolved bombing case involving a possible suicide bomber, writer Frank Corso uncovers the possibility that the supposed bomber may have been a victim himself, forced to strap explosives on by a cruel mastermind.

Also available as RC Franklin , Roslyn, Washington. Twelve-year-old Slava Petrovich is upset that he must soon leave school to help support the remaining members of his coal mining family. Joining other boys in stealing grapes from a yearly freight train, he and a friend decide that riding the rails back to California might offer them their best chance at well-paid work. Grade 5 through adult. Annie just doesn't do anything the way others do. It's not easy for Stacy to be friends with someone who says potatoes are for breakfast. Then she tries some for herself and discovers it is fun to be different.

Coretta Scott King Award. A Comprehensive Survey for the Concerned Citizen by Eric Groddy Topics include basic concepts of chemical and biological agents, brief history of chemical and biological warfare, control and disarmament, and threats and responses. The eagle survived and was given the name Freedom.

It became Jeff's healer after he was diagnosed with cancer. Edith Goodnough, the courageous daughter of homesteaders, finds herself bound by duty, love, and obligation to her crippled father and younger brother. Sacrificing her chance for happiness with the man she loves, she assumes the task of maintaining the family farm.

His co-worker, later his lover, convinces two old rancher brothers to take in an outcast pregnant student. Used to having his way and operating on instinct and cunning, Jack commits unspeakable crimes that nearly destroy the town. Pat Arbuckle, editor of the local newspaper, records the action but is himself unable to act. Victoria, the single mother taken in by the McPheron brothers, begins college. An engrossing, moving novel of small town life. The crime went unsolved. Seattle Police Department detectives Leah Harris and Frank Milkovich have only 48 hours to make a charge stick against a suspect about to be released from prison on an unrelated crime.

But new evidence and a new murder plunge the detectives into a life-and-death game with a deadly opponent. Leah Harris is shocked to find a picture of John Darby, also a Seattle cop and Leah's lover, on the victim's dresser. Is the motive blind jealousy, or is she dealing with dirty cops and illegal drugs? Jess retires early to build a dream home on the shores of Loon Lake, near Spokane, Washington. His wife supports him in the search for the truth that lies behind his early retirement from the public sector. A Fictional Memoir by Ernest Hemingway Hemingway recounts his wife Mary's obsession with tracking down and killing a black-maned lion.

He also writes of his devotion to Debba, an African woman he wants to take as a second wife. Hemingway's son Patrick edited this fictional memoir begun after Hemingway's last safari in Africa in the s. Emphasizes information about vineyards, wineries and tasting rooms. Includes nearby dining and tourist activities and recipes that use local wines. The results are comic but not for poor Arthur.

Her stories can make even eating vegetables fun! She also tells family stories about growing up on Vancouver Island that they never hear from their dad -- especially the tale of the trolls. Poems by Christopher Howell This work contains 49 lyrical and narrative poems on the themes of internal struggles, history, and grief.

Braille and vision loss are mentioned in several of the poems. The author lives in Spokane and is a professor of English and creative writing at Eastern Washington University. Bremerton's Legendary Columnist by John C. Hughes Adele Ferguson was known as an outspoken and respected political columnist for the Bremerton Sun.

She knew the major figures in Washington state government from the s through ,and had strong opinions about all of them. Most of the book is made up of interviews with her. Includes some of her columns. We are all in there somewhere, in how we value versatility and hearken to the mystery of growth, how we both shun and are drawn to the backbreaking labor and long contemplative silences of working on the land -- how we stand apart, tilling our thoughts.

However, their own conflicts and misunderstandings about each other's beliefs must be addressed first, leading to a candid dialogue as their "Faith Club" meets to find common ground. Thereafter, Owen believes himself to be an instrument of God. What happens to the two pals after that accident is extraordinary and terrifying. The Story of Varian Fry by Sheila Isenberg n , Varian Fry, with only three thousand dollars and a list of names, went on a secret mission to Marseilles, to help those who had fled Nazi Germany and were now trapped in southern France.

The list he took included most of the premier writers, painters, and scientists of Europe. Only in the past decade has the world begun to honor Fry for his accomplishments. She held the position of star geisha of the Gion Kobu until retirement at the age of twenty-nine. This story seeks to explain what it is really like to be a geisha and clear up misunderstandings about it. Long before the building of Redwall Abbey, the inhabitants of Mossflower are under the cruel domination of Tsarmina, a brutal, tyrannical wildcat.

With the arrival of a mouse named Martin the Warrior, the woodland creatures muster the courage and fortitude to band together to break Tsarmina. Jance Seattle writer J. Retired Seattle homicide detective J. Beaumont accompanies his newly-wed grandmother on a honeymoon cruise to Alaska. But his expected rest and recreation are interrupted by two apparent murders, and the FBI is involved. A Papago wise woman, a mysterious blind prophet, and a local police detective help Diana to prepare for the approaching menace. The beautiful woman who came to the little girl's funeral was irresistible to detective J.

Beau won't rest until he finds out who killed the little girl and what is going on at the religious cult in Ballard. Jance Number eight in the Joanna Brady series.

A week before her wedding in Cochise County, Arizona, sheriff Joanna Brady is inundated with personal problems and crime. First her elderly neighbor dies suspiciously. Then a local teen disappears and the girl's mother - newly released convict - is murdered. Joanna discovers more secrets as preparations for the big event continue. Jance Number nine in the Joanna Brady series. On a late-night hike in the Arizona wilderness, two young Girl Scouts stumble across something they should not have seen--the body of a murdered Phoenix heiress.

Now Joanna must deal with the traumatic damage to her daughter, as well as setting out on the trail of the dead woman's husband, who cleaned out their accounts before he vanished. Jance Cochise County sheriff Joanna Brady, an exhausted new mother, juggles the investigations of four mysterious deaths. An elderly couple purposefully drives over a cliff, an ill man dies in a mobile home fire, and the remains of a developmentally delayed young woman are found after a flood. Jance Former anchorwoman Ali Reynolds, from Edge of Evil BRW is in the midst of renovating her Sedona house for a television show when her contractor, Bryan Forester, is accused of murdering his wife.

Ali's rush to prove Bryan's innocence puts her in the path of a serial killer. Some violence and some strong language. A body is found lying naked and dead in a dumpster. The victim, a high school coach, was lynched, leaving behind a very pregnant wife with a very dangerous secret. And a sixth sense developed over twenty years on the job tells Homicide detective J.

Beaumont that this investigation is going to the lethal extremes of the wrong kind of love and the worst kind of justice. Beaumont of Seattle and Joanna Brady of the Arizona sheriff's department combine forces to find the murderer of an artist who had been in a witness protection program. Jance When a dentist is killed, Detective J.

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Beaumont discovers that he has plenty of suspects, all of them with a motive to get rid of the victim. Jance Number one in the Joanna Brady series. Joanna Brady tries to prove that her husband Andy, a candidate for sheriff of Cochise County, Arizona, did not commit suicide. Jance When a childhood friend recently diagnosed with ALS apparently commits suicide, former TV journalist Alison Reynolds launches an online blog as therapy.

When threatening posts begin appearing, Ali realizes she might be in danger. Jance The bloody corpses stashed in the broom closet of the Seattle School District were lovingly entwined. Beaumont of the Seattle Police Dept. Jance Given a classified assignment involving the true fate of a deceased ex-con, Seattle investigator J. Beaumont discovers that the victim had recently attempted to turn his life around and had been murdered for the effort.

Jance Number two in the Joanna Brady series. A body, barely cold, is lying in an abandoned mine shaft. Next to it are the decayed remains of a man everyone in Ccochise County has long forgotten--a murder victim who died long before Joanna Brady was born. The incoming sheriff Joanna faces an intensely hostile male-dominated police department. A border patrol officer finds the mutilated body of Brad Evans, an ex-con convicted of killing his wife, whose remains were never found.

Also, an animal control officer is brutally beaten while on stakeout. Jance In the seventeenth J. Beaumont mystery, Beau, currently a homicide investigator for the Washington State Attorney volume 1 , volume 2 , volume 3 , volume 4 , volume 5 Day of the Dead by J. Jance For more than thirty years, the brutal murder of a local Papago girl has gone unsolved. Brandon Walker, former sheriff of Pima County, Arizona, feels retirement has drained his life of purpose.

Then he is invited to join "The Last Chance," an exclusive fraternity of former cops who investigate unsolved murders. Ali, her son Chris, and her high school friend Dave Holman, now a homicide detective, investigate. Jance Number four in the Joanna Brady series. Arizona sheriff Joanna Brady investigates the murder of a convicted drunk driver and is caught in a maelstrom of danger and deception.

Jance Former anchorwoman Ali Reynolds is the new media-relations officer for the sheriff in Sedona, Arizona. Her first case involves an amnesiac woman badly burned in an arson fire. Ali attempts to unravel the mystery with the help of a nun who advocates for unidentified hospital patients. How Can One Sell the Air? Contains Chief Seattle's well-known speech. Disappearing paintings and oddly-behaving bike messengers are clues to a mystery. Strange neighborhood break-ins, in which existing items are moved around and items are added rather than taken away, provide an intriguing new mystery for Hannah to solve.

A Sasquatch Award nominee. Also has some historical data. Wanda Schultz, a young woman with a broken heart, has come west to find her wayward boyfriend. As the two women begin a tentative friendship, dark secrets emerge and barriers start to crumble. As a result of a family curse, Penelope has the snout of a pig. The curse can be broken if someone of rank loves her, so her parents line up suitors hoping someone will fall in love before they see her face.

The Famous Authors Cookbook by King County Library System Ninety authors each contribute a favorite recipe, which range from comfort food to elegant desserts. The authors explain their reasons for choosing their recipes. Includes brief biographical notes about the authors. King After the deaths of her husband and daughter, Rae Newborn, a celebrated artist, moves to the remote and uninhabited island of Folly where she begins the work of rebuilding a house and rebuilding her life.

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She finds herself struggling with sadness, lonliness, panic and paranoia that she is being watched. This book describes the beauty and complexity of its rich, vibrant ecosystem. Discusses how the eye works, common eye problems, age-related eye problems, visual aids, diabetes, and neurologic conditions affecting vision. Explains eye surgeries, enucleation, and visual aids. Gogol's name is a constant burden to him, so he legally changes it to Nikhil. Yet as a first-generation American stumbling along the path to maturity, he remains defined by the name Gogol.

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Police chief David Brame, distraught over his impending divorce, shot his wife to death in a busy public parking lot. Then, with the couple's two children only feet away, he turned the gun on himself. Soren the owl is born into the tranquil forest kingdom of Tyto. Soren is captured and taken to a dark and forbidding canyon, from which the only way out is up. To escape, he and his friends must do something they have never done before -- fly. Soren and his friends seek out the Great Ga'Hoole Tree, a mythic place where each night an order of owls rises to perform noble deeds.

They will be sorely tested and face challenges they never imagined. If they succeed and learn from their leaders and from one another, they will soon become true Ga'Hoolian owls -- honest and brave, wise and true. Ever since Soren was kidnapped and taken to the school for orphaned owls, he has longed to see his sister, Eglantine, again. Now she's back in his life, but she's been through a terrible ordeal. And Ezylryb, Soren's mentor, has disappeared. There must be a connection between these mysterious events. Soren must embark upon a perilous quest. Meanwhile, Soren is ordered to lead a mission to St.

Aegolius Academy for Orphaned Owls - the place from which he had escaped and hoped never to see again. He and his crew must slip in as spies and, once their work is done, excape again! Soren's sister, Eglantine, after falling under the spell of a strange nightly dream, suddenly disappears. The dreams become a deadly waking nightmare that endangers the Great Tree of Ga'Hoole. Soren must lead the Chaw of Chaws to rescue his sister. Thus begins the next battle between the owls of Ga'Hoole and the evil Pure Ones. Le Guin A collection of poems from the award-winning Northwest writer.

Many of the short poems are in rhymed tetrameter or trimeter. Le Guin Modern Science Fiction. The Victoria Colony was a savage, lawless prison world dominated by criminals. A woman called Luz leaves her father to lead the People Of Peace in a perilous quest to discover a new world of hope, a place they would call Heron. Practical Advise for the Grammatically Challenged by Richard Lederer Mixing humor with rigor, the authors have created an offbeat, enlightening guide to proper English usage. Leighton The Northwest was a frontier in the s and s.

Leighton left New York for San Francisco in and continued her travels throughout California and the Pacific Northwest for the next 14 years. She explored many places and witnessed many sights that no white woman had yet experienced. Love A scullery maid called Mouse does kitchen chores in Lord Dunston's castle in medieval England until she gains the courage to follow her dreams and change her fortune. Watching a puppet play inspires her to become an apprentice to the puppeteer, who turns out to possess deadly secrets. Stories are linked by the travels of a wooden toy horse who is passed from child to child.

While struggling with becoming a local sensation who some people think is a prophet, he continues to clumsily court his former babysitter, nurse his elderly psychic friend, and search for the words that will keep his parents together. Everyday Life in America by Stephen J. A Memoir by Gregory Martin This quirky, heart-wrenching memoir looks at family secrets, truth and reconciliation, acceptance and forgiveness.

As Martin struggles to come to terms with revelations of his father's homosexuality following an attempted suicide, he relates humorous stories about parenting two young sons mixed with memories of his own happy childhood with the father he thought he knew. Some strong language and descriptions of sex. Problems at school and her cat's death lead Mia to discoveries about herself and synesthesia. Pretty, spoiled and childish Princess Rosalynn gives no thought to anyone else until invaders from the enormous kingdom across the Bridge conquer the royal castle.

She sets out on foot to find her father; she finds the bridge and crosses it, and meets a wise woman with whom she faces enemy soldiers, wicked outlaws, and the wilds of the river. The main character is Princess Rosewyn, the brave, reckless daughter of the protagonist of the first title, "The Bridge. Seven-year-old Krea is a slave in a traveling circus. An old woman is following the troupe and has her eye on Krea. Krea learns of love, comfort, companionship, and excitement spiced with danger. But with their father working far away in Afghanistan, a neighbor's unexpected illness, and best friend problems, Sprig realizes she may need Dakota after all.

First sold by her impoverished father, she changed hands until she ended up in a Central Idaho mining camp during the years of anti-Chinese racism. She eventually married Charlie Bemis and became a respected and beloved member of the community. But she inspires her third-grade classmates to undertake an award-winning, environment-saving project.

But her third-grade teacher Mr. Todd makes the day fun. And Judy loves the first class assignment--to create a "me" collage about what is important to her. She discovers that doing something for others -- without trying to be famous -- is the best way to feel good about herself. Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality by Donald Miller A young evangelical Christian's autobiographical essays examine the relevance of faith in our post-modern culture. Includes many legends and stories about him told by Indians and early pioneers. Morgan provides us with "a narrative of early Tacoma and the southern Sound.

But they are not alone: Unable to find her, he decides to build a white bear out of snow to keep him company while he waits. All his forest friends arrive to help, but as darkness falls, their mothers call them home. After a night alone, the little bear wakes to find his mother reassuringly beside him. Molly and Amanda Moore and their friends Shawn and Peichi decide to turn their cooking hobby into a business during their summer vacation. But they run into many obstacles, like parents, money, and Natasha, who wants to wreck their plans.

Molly and Amanda and their best friends are making money with their summer cooking business. But things get complicated. A forbidden trip to Chinatown, a mysterious antique necklace, too many orders, and not enough cooks spell trouble! Twins Molly and Amanda Moore are tired of eating take-out every night, so they decide to learn to cook. But they then have to deal with nasty Natasha and a tragedy in a local family. A small mill town votes to quarantine itself against the virulent influenza epidemic. Philip Worthy, the year-old adopted son of the town founder, is one of the citizens posted to enforce the quarantine.

When a cold, hungry, and possibly sick soldier begs him for entry into the town, Philip makes a life-changing decision. Murphy Skeptical Seattle cop Joanne Walker comes to the aid of a woman claiming to be hunted by Cernunnos, an ancient Celtic god. After a confrontation with Cernunnos, Joanne has three days to harness her newly awakened shamanic powers and save the world. Murphy When Seattle beat cop Joanne Walker, a reluctant shaman who saved humankind three months ago, stumbles upon a plot to unleash armageddon, she must learn to control her powers when she accidentally unleashes Lower World demons while trying to save humanity.

Mohun Biswas, a tenderhearted fellow with a thirst for books, struggles for independence from his wife's domineering family. The family recently immigrated to Seattle, and father hopes that the children's performance at a recital will bring him more students. Yingtao makes friends with Matthew, who plays the violin well, but whose father would rather he play baseball, at which Yingtao now excels. It's Ron who's always participated in Scottish folk dancing because he looks the part, but Fiona, with her more Chinese features, is the one who really loves the dances.

Global Reading Challenge Title. Catherine is an independent spirit, fiercely loyal to both her faith and her family. And both will be tested when a Knight Templar is discovered brutally murdered in their home when Catherine and her family return to France after a long absence. Nims, Lori McKean, and Lara Ferroni The recipes in this book range from easy to advanced and feature local ingredients.

The recipes are for breakfast, appetizers, soups, salads, breads, main dishes, and desserts. The book has useful sidebars about ingredients and cooking techniques. Includes an index of ingredients and recipes as well as a list of restaurants and inns that contributed recipes. His subjects include the journey of a fossil trilobite, the disappearance of Northwest condors, a trove of mammoth bones, the whispers of a fading language, and the family of a legendary fur trade scout. Seventh-grader Arthur Penhaligon is not supposed to be a hero. He is, in fact, supposed to die an early death.

But then his life is saved by a key shaped like the minute hand of a clock. Arthur must venture into other realms to save humankind from a mysterious sleepy plague. Like thousands of other Japanese Americans, they are about to be classified as enemy aliens and uprooted from their home and sent to a dusty internment camp in the Utah desert. Includes sections on dog body language, vocalizations, clicker training, rewards, and how to humanely solve behavioral problems such as jumping, barking, chewing, and mouthing.

The worlds of Pak's Hawaiians, Asian locals, and the haoles sometimes intersect and collide and other times remain parallel, but each is haunted by the past. Whether Pak evokes shadows of World War II, the Vietnam War, the radical sixties, or the military dictatorship of Chun Doo Hwan in Korea, the larger historical context looms ominously in the background. Grades and older readers. Always a fairly good golfer, he finds himself playing like a pro and is so caught up in his excitement that he continues to play, sinking putt after putt, missing Christmas dinner with his wife and family.

It is too much for his already troubled marriage. His family collapses, but Travis is soon too busy living his dream to notice. His amazing new golf skills catapult him into the PGA Senior Open at Pebble Beach , and with his wife, children, and a live television audience watching, a miracle takes place on the 17th green that will change Travis, and his family, forever. Book One, Chronicles of Ancient Darkness. Organized into more than lists. When he comes face-to-face with a giant, owl-eyed, ox-footed ogre, Clyde learns that acting brave is the next best thing to being brave.

Sentinels of Stone , and Vicksburg: Sentinels of Stone , all published by University Press of Mississippi. Born and raised in the Mississippi Delta town of Rosedale, Linda Williams Jackson likes to spin stories about ordinary people doing extraordinary things. Her debut middle grade historical novel, Midnight Without a Moon , is about an ordinary thirteen-year-old African-American girl, Rose Lee Carter, who must make an extraordinary decision after the murder of Emmett Till.

Jackson currently makes her home in Southaven, Mississippi. She shares this home with her husband and three children. His middle grade caper novel, The Great Greene Heist , has been named to over twenty-five state reading and best-of lists. In addition, Varian has written for the Spirit Animals: Fall of the Beasts middle-grade fantasy series as well as novels and short stories for YA audiences. Varian lives outside of Austin, TX with his family. In this role, she creates and facilitates workshops on unconscious bias and privilege.

The Project seeks to find new and innovate ways to address diversity without increasing division. Yvette is also a filmmaker and public speaker. Stephen Mack Jones is a published poet, an award-winning playwright, and a recipient of the prestigious Kresge Arts in Detroit Literary Fellowship.

He worked in advertising and marketing communications for a number of years before turning to fiction. Motivational speaker and historian, Pamela D. As director over the first state sponsored civil rights museum in the country, Ms. As former manager of Smith Robertson Museum and Cultural Center, Pamela pasionately and tirelessly fought to make this Museum a first-class place of interpretation.

Her many awards and accolades include: January, she received a proclamation from the City of Jackson, Mississippi for her professionalism, diligence, and dedication to service in making a positive impact in this community. And most recently, February , Pamela was honored by city council and the mayor of the City of Jackson for 26 years of dedicated service to the City of Jackson. Originally from the Jersey Shore, he lives in Starkville, Mississippi, where he codirects the creative writing program at Mississippi State University. He teaches creative writing at the University of Tennessee and lives in Knoxville with his family.

Jamie Kornegay is the author of the novel Soil. Gary Krist is the author of a bestselling trilogy of urban history books: His first narrative nonfiction book was The White Cascade , a book about the Wellington avalanche. Combine that with a Masters of Science in Sports Administration, as well as coaching experience at the high school and collegiate levels, and it is easy to see why Paul is one of the premier performance specialists in the United States.

Andrew Lawler is author of two books, The Secret Token: As a journalist, he has written more than a thousand newspaper and magazine articles from more than two dozen countries. He is contributing writer for Science and contributing editor for Archaeology. Most recently, he wrote and hosted the feature documentary Fermented. He lives in Louisville and Washington, D. Follow Edward on Instagram and Twitter chefedwardlee. He lives with his family in Brandon, Mississippi. His first novel, In the Fall, was a national bestseller. Lent lives with his wife and two daughters in central Vermont.

She is associate editor of the Oxford American. His novel is forthcoming from W. He is also the author of the stand-alone novels, Fresh Kills and Bloodroot, set in his hometown of Staten Island. His short fiction and non-fiction have appeared in several anthologies. Robby Luckett received his BA in political science from Yale University and his PhD from the University of Georgia with a focus on modern civil rights movement history. His book, Joe T. Patterson and the Dilemma of the White South: Along with several publications and presentations at numerous academic conferences, he has appeared in documentaries, including the Independent Lens film Spies of Mississippi as well as An Ordinary Hero about the life of Joan Trumpauer Mulhollhand.

He has three children: Silas, Hazel, and Flip.

Ebony Lumumba is currently an assistant professor of English at Tougaloo College where she teaches courses in global and American literatures and chairs the department of English and Modern Languages. Four Women, Africana Mothering, and Resistance. Desiring a graduate degree in history and wanting to further pursue his interests in examining the civil rights movement, he entered the Graduate School at the University of Mississippi in This dissertation formed the basis of his book, Sanctuaries of Segregation: For the last six years, Dalton has been teaching U.

He spent more than fourteen years with a national recognized environmental contracting firm as a senior executive overseeing sales, marketing and field operations. Prior to that, he worked as an environmental scientist at the Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality. Did the Writer Crusade. Her most recent essay appears in Teaching the Works of Eudora Welty. Though she has now retired from the faculty of Millsaps College, Marrs continues to serve as Welty Foundation Scholar-in-Residence at the Eudora Welty House and has a number of projects in the offing.

John Marzalek is graduate of Canisiu College, , where he received his masters and Ph. He participated in ROTC at Canisius and was commissioned a second lieutenant in the Intelligence branch upon graduation. He was on active duty from , serving at Fort Benning, Fort Holabird, and in a psychological operations battalion in Viet Nam. From to the present he has been the executive director of the Ulysses S. Smith of The World of Ulysses S.

Grant book series at Southern Illinois University Press, to present. He is the author or editor of fifteen books and over three hundred articles and book reviews. Army commission during a White House ceremony. Along with Charles D. Halleck have been History Book Club Selections. Grant which won a writing award from the U. He continues to lecture widely throughout the nation and has appeared on the major television networks. He serves on the board of advisors of the Lincoln Forum and the Lincoln Prize. Canisius College named him a distinguished alumnus; he received the Richard Wright Literary Award for life time achievement by a Mississippi author, and the Mississippi Historical Society presented him its highest award, the B.

Wailes Award for national distinction in history. His graduate students published a book in his honor entitled Of Times and Race: Essays Inspired by John F. Grant Association, he is completing the first completely annotated edition of the Memoirs of U. Grant, which will be published by Harvard University Press in She is the owner of TwentybyJenny. Clara attended Vanderbilt University where she received a B.

Jimmi Mayes was born in Jackson, MS. During his high school years he performed in Mississippi Juke Joints with touring groups and after graduating from high school he left to pursue his career as a musician. Before he was twenty-one he was performing and touring with musicians who were legends in the business.

Jimmi Mayes became a highly sought after drummer and an expert with the shuffle. He became good friends with Jimi Hendrix and eventually he was asked by Jimi Hendrix to record with him. During this time he cut tracts for a movie sound-tract and a compilation album on CBS Records. After the Mexico work he returned to Chicago and was hired to back Jimmy Reed for several shows. He is a member of the Mississippi Artist Roster. His latest album will be released in by Mississippi Delta Records.

King recording studio located on the MVSU campus. The album features Jimmi Mayes on drums and vocals. Panny Flautt Mayfield, a lifelong resident of the Mississippi Delta, is an award-winning journalist who has been photographing blues and gospel musicians at festivals, clubs, churches, and juke joints for decades. Her collections have been exhibited in museums across the United States and Europe and have earned critical acclaim from Aperture magazine.

She holds a Ph. She has co-edited a series of books with Judy H. You can visit her at AlisonMcGhee. None of her degrees have anything to do with writing. Before her current life as a writer, she worked in finance and non-profit program management. She now writes full-time and is hard at work on the next one.

She lives in Memphis, Tennessee with her husband and three daughters. Ellen Meacham is a Tennessee native, longtime resident of Mississippi, and a career journalist and journalism instructor at her alma mater, the University of Mississippi. She is the author of Delta Epiphany: Kennedy in Mississippi and has been a working journalist for more than twenty years. Meacham is uniquely positioned to write Delta Epiphany. She lives outside of Oxford, Mississippi, with her family.

Jon Meacham is a Pulitzer Prize-winning presidential historian. The Art of Power, American Lion: Meacham lives in Nashville, Tennessee. Greg Michalson is co-publisher of Unbridled Books. He spent twenty years with the Missouri Review. He is the author of numerous short stories and articles and has co-edited a number of books.

He is also the author of a book on fish and game cookery, The Wild Chef, and competed in the Dakar Rally, an off-road race through Africa. She is a former James A. The stories of Clarion-Ledger investigative reporter Jerry Mitchell have helped put four Klansmen and a suspected serial killer behind bars. His stories have also exposed injustices and corruption in Mississippi, helping lead to investigations, exonerations, firings and reforms of state agencies.

The son of a cattleman and grandson of a butcher, Matt Moore is the quintessential Southern cook. Matt resides in Nashville with his family and is also a musician, pilot, adventure seeker, entrepreneur, Moonshine cologne creator, avid fisherman and a cast iron and wild game enthusiast. A lifelong Mississippian, Morris is retired from the University Press of Mississippi, where she was executive editor for many years living in Jackson.

She is the widow of the writer Willie Morris. Cody Morrison grew up in Jackson, Mississippi. He is a graduate of Washington and Lee University. He began his career in book-selling in when Off Square Books, an annex of Square Books, was opened. He has been the adult book buyer at Square Books since Julie, a former librarian, is a fierce advocate for body positivity and is a full time writer living in Texas with her husband, dog, and two cats. You can visit Julie at www. Scott Naugle was born in Davidsville, Pennsylvania. He subsequently earned a Master of Liberal Studies Degree from Millsaps College and a Master of Arts degree from Tulane University where he also served as an adjunct professor for two years.

Scott has served on the Mississippi Book Festival board since its inception. He is also a board member of the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters. If pushed, Scott will admit to several thousand books in his collection at home as a collector and reader of signed and first editions. Among his favorite authors are William H. Aimee Nezhukumatathil is the author of four books of poetry, most recently, Oceanic Copper Canyon.

A collection of her nature essays is forthcoming from Milkweed. It is a sequel to her popular cookbook, Sticky, Chewy, Messy, Gooey: She created new recipes as well as reworking classic European desserts into low-fat, low-calories treats. This work inspired her first cookbook, Sweet Nothings , Chronicle Books. Currently, she is a writer for the San Diego Union Tribune food section developing recipes and working with staff photographers as the food and prop stylist for her stories. She lives in Coronado, CA with her husband and two daughters. He and his ex-wife, the late Amy van Singel, published Living Blues in Chicago before turning it over to the University of Mississippi in In he participated in an international conference in Belgium celebrating the legacy of Charley Patton.

The talks form that conference were published in a book edited by Robert Sacre which has been revised and expanded in a new University Press of Mississippi edition, Charley Patton: Voice of the Mississippi Delta. His other works include The Voice of the Blues: The Radio Interviews , and Willie Dixon: Preacher of the Blues. He assisted in the preparation of the Rothschild bibliographical catalog of William Somerset Maugham.

She lived in New Orleans for several years and returns to southern Louisiana frequently. Between Two Skies is her debut novel. She lives in Asheville, North Carolina, with her husband and children. He is the author of two books, Subduing Satan: A native of Memphis, Tenn.

His post-graduate study included constitutional law, judicial process and political theory, particularly the work of Plato and Aristotle. His academic fields of interest include public law, political theory and American government. Over his career, Dr. Pearigen has served as a secondary school teacher and trustee and in higher education as a professor, dean of students and vice president for university relations. Partnerships and Influence at Millsaps College. As a faculty member at Millsaps, Dr.

Pearigen teaches courses in constitutional law, civil rights and liberties, jurisprudence and political theory. He is an advocate for, and believer in, liberal arts education as intrinsically meaningful for individuals as well as the very best preparation for a good and worthy life of learning, leadership and service. This truly is the perfect job for a kid who could never see over her summer reading stack of library books. After a brief hiatus, Jessica rejoined PRH as a sales manager for the Southeast in and is thrilled to be back working with the best publisher and the best indie bookstores in the country!

She is the author of three books, including May We Forever Stand: On Gender and Liberation. Perry is a scholar, an essayist and a book reviewer. She lives in the Philadelphia area with her two sons. She lives in Nashville with her family. He lives in New Orleans. The Writer-in-Residence at St. She co-directs the creative writing program at Mississippi State University.

Randall Pinkston is a semi-retired award-winning journalist who covered national and international issues. He also won three national Emmy Awards and two for local news coverage. He also earned a J. The Body of The Other Woman. Pollack makes extensive readings of archival material, especially letters and unfinished drafts. Accessible and lively, her writing will interest not just specialists but also a wide range of potential readers. Did the Writer Crusade?

Porter, a Jackson, Mississippi, native, is an internationally known painter, printmaker and photographer with a signature gallery in Historic Downtown Vicksburg, Mississippi. Her artwork is in private and corporate collections around the globe and has been featured in numerous museum exhibitions for the past 30 years. Poet Laureate Natasha Tretheway. Her work hangs in the Mississippi Senate offices in Washington, D. Pringle specializes in coastal resources sciences, policy and management with a focus in resilience and restoration; water quality improvement, natural resources conservation, and watershed planning.

Pringle is passionate about coastal issues and strives to find the balance between economic development and environmental protection. She has worked closely with non-profit partners, private partners, local municipalities, state governments, and Federal agencies to educate and engage stakeholders. The purpose of the Embrace the Gulf: It is designed to preserve, promote and enhance the Gulf through effective communication, education, partnerships, and community engagement. The Jackson native also wrote Eat Drink Delta: She lives in Decatur, Ga.

Smith Fresh Talent title and a Foyles Five pick. Frederick Ramey is one of two owner-publishers of Unbridled Books, an independent press specializing in commercial literature, and a member of the board of Colophon Literary Center. Marshall Ramsey is a two-time Pulitzer Finalist and Diagnosed with malignant melanoma in , he has been honored by both the Melanoma Research Foundation and the American Cancer Society for paying his survival forward. He actively promotes skin cancer awareness and sun safety through cartoons, speeches, skin screenings and a 5K race.

He even ran the Marine Corps Marathon to raise funds for melanoma research. Ramsey, his wife Amy, their three sons and precocious dog Pip live in Mississippi, the best state for politics, storytellers, sweet tea and raising a family. His personal work explores identity in the contemporary South. He is the author of the forthcoming book, Catfish Dream: Hear a interview with the author on Mississippi Public Broadcasting here. Twice the recipient of the O. Henry Prize, he teaches at Western Carolina University. Reed divides her time between New Orleans and Greenville, Mississippi.

Visit him online at www. Nathaniel Rich is the author of three novels: Rich lives in New Orleans. Mark Richard is the author of national bestseller House of Prayer No. Robertson has covered Mississippi State and college football recruiting for 18 years. He is the Co-Publisher of Genespage.

A contributor to the site since , Robertson has helped transform Genespage. Starkville, Mississippi is home to the Robertson family. He has both written and illustrated numerous books for children, including Oh, No! He lives in Oak Park, Illinois. In addition to her book, Resisting Equality: Her current project looks at the rise of Radical Right politics in Southern California in the s and s. In addition to her work as a teacher and a scholar, Rolph is Academic Director for the Shepherd Higher Education Consortium on Poverty, an inter-institutional non-profit committed to advancing undergraduate education in the field of poverty studies and antipoverty work.

He is also the author of the acclaimed The Triumph of William McKinley and the New York Times bestseller Courage and Consequence and is working on a new book on presidential decision-making. In the American Library Association, Ruffin has served on several prestigious committees: Her favorite series as a child was P. Salman Rushdie is the author of thirteen novels: He is the co-editor of Mirrorwork , an anthology of contemporary Indian writing, and of the Best American Short Stories anthology. He holds honorary doctorates and fellowships at six European and six American universities, is an Honorary Professor in the Humanities at M.

The Ground Beneath Her Feet , in which the Orpheus myth winds through a story set in the world of rock music, was turned into a song by U2 with lyrics by Salman Rushdie. Kim Rushing was born in Tylertown, MS in He received a B. Kim has been a professor of art at Delta State University for 26 years where he started the first B.

He has enjoyed a unique career as an award-winning journalist, political columnist, television commentator, talk radio host, author, educator, and university administrator. He is a member of the Miss. His syndicated political columns have been published in Mississippi and a number of national newspapers since He has co-authored or contributed to several other non-fiction books, including three with UPM.

Salter and his wife, Leilani, are the parents of four grown children and have six grandchildren. How Race Changed Memphis Politics. A Mississippi native, Sanford is a graduate of Ole Miss, and has more than 40 years of professional journalism experience, starting in at The Clarion-Ledger as an entertainment and feature writer. He then joined The Commercial Appeal as a staff reporter in , and moved to The Pittsburgh Press in as an assistant city editor. In , he was named deputy city editor of the Detroit Free Press, and returned to The Commercial Appeal in as deputy managing editor.

In his current role at the University of Memphis, Sanford is a full-time faculty member and conducts various lectures and workshops both on and off campus on journalism, politics, the First Amendment and public policy. Known for his longtime advocacy of freedom of the press and public service, Sanford is a nationally-recognized leader in newsroom management, diversity and journalism ethics. He is married to Rev. Elaine Sanford, founder and executive director of Her Faith Ministries in Memphis, and they have four children.

Sansing is emeritus professor of history at the University of Mississippi. A State in Conflict with Itself. A school librarian for many years, Augusta Scattergood is now a full-time writer. Having worked in libraries in Massachusetts, Mississippi, New Jersey, Florida, Maryland, and Georgia—and read thousands of books along the way—she thinks writing and being a librarian are the two best professions in the world. Her second middle-grade novel, The Way to Stay in Destiny, is set in Florida and narrated by a piano-playing, baseball-tossing boy.

The story of a friendship between Azalea, a young girl who comes from Texas to help her grandmother, and a boy named Billy Wong, recently moved to Arkansas to attend the public school there, this novel was based on the stories of Chinese American immigrants living in the South during the pre-Civil Rights era. Augusta now lives and writes in St. Petersburg, Florida, with her husband and occasional grand-dog visitor.

For additional information, visit her website, augustascattergood. Known for chronicling and celebrating American sporting life and culinary culture through her novels, award-winning publisher, editor and author Susan Schadt launched Susan Schadt Press in February Before launching her publishing company, Schadt was president and CEO of ArtsMemphis, a year-old non-profit arts funding organization. Upcoming releases for Fall include: A recipient of the Lombard fellowship, she spent a year in the Dominican Republic working for a civil rights organization and writing.

She lives in the Bay Area, California. A Kind of Freedom is her debut novel. Corabel Shofner Bel Alexander is a wife, mother, attorney, and author. One day she left and traveled for many years before settling down in Nashville, Tennessee. Carol Ruth Silver practiced law for 50 years in California, then retired and entered onto her next careers: Her book, Freedom Rider Diary: Montessori-Inspired home-based pre-school, in Ghazni, Afghanistan.

She was a Freedom Rider, incarcerated in Jackson, Mississippi, She received her M. Katy Simpson Smith was born and raised in Jackson, Mississippi. He has written four previous books in the Leo Maxwell Mystery series: In addition to writing novels, he is an attorney practicing in the area of civil rights and employment law.

He lives in Oxford, Mississippi, with his wife and daughters. In addition to numerous articles and essays, he is the author, editor, or co-editor of twenty books, including Champion Hill: Decisive Battle for Vicksburg , Corinth Conquer or Perish , which won the Richard B. His newest book, Altogether Fitting and Proper: Evangelical Religion in Mississippi, In , he received the Lucie Award for International Photographer of the Year in the nature category.

Playing different roles and adopting multiple identities, he infiltrated burglary and safe-cracking rings, drug trafficking groups, Dixie Mafia auto-theft rings, Mafia and Mexican-linked drug smuggling operations, and fought police corruption. He capped off a unique career by becoming a federal prosecutor. While with the Department of Justice, he served three tours in Iraq.

First as an attorney-adviser to the Iraqi court that tried Saddam Hussein, Chemical Ali and other regime leaders. He then served as the U. It ended on the top 10 list and began as a bestseller. Spillers has been a featured author at the state book festivals in Mississippi, Louisiana and Tennessee, and was a keynote speaker for the MS Writers Guild annual conference.

Seetha Srinivasan is director emerita of the University Press of Mississippi. She joined the press in as its first acquiring editor and advanced to become director in , from which position she retired in Srinivasan played a major role in putting the press on a firm footing with a well-recognized publishing program.

Throughout her publishing career, Srinivasan was active in the Association of American University Presses serving in a range of capacities, often in leadership positions. She served as president of the association in Srinivasan has lived in Jackson since She has always been and continues to be involved in a variety of activities in the community. Millsaps College awarded Srinivasan an honorary doctorate in humane letters in Walter Stahr is the author of Stanton: He lives in Newport Beach, California.

She has a Med in special education from the University of Louisiana Monroe and a PhD from Louisiana State University in curriculum and instruction, with a focus in reading and literacy education. She is an assistant professor at the University of Louisiana Monroe in Monroe, Louisiana, where she lives with her family. He learned to cook from his Italian mother and grandmother, Nonna Yvelise.

From his aunt, he inherited a love of travel.

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In the calendar year , he visited all 7 continents while accumulating stories, recipes and adventures. In his spare time, Mark writes food and travel content for the culture website Uproxx. Mark is most at home in an aromatic kitchen or a rustic backyard over a traditional Argentina parrilla, trading stories among friends and family while something simmers close by. John is a restaurateur, chef, columnist, and author.

John has spent almost four decades in the restaurant business. For 20 years he has written a weekly syndicated newspaper column. John is the author of ten books, including three previous collaborations with watercolorist Wyatt Waters. John, his wife, and his two children traveled through 17 countries on two continents for six months.

He and Waters lead group tours to Italy twice a year. John and Wyatt Waters which begins airing on October 12 th. John founded Extra Table, a non-profit organization that purchases healthy foods and provides them to soup kitchens and mission pantries throughout Mississippi. Grif Stockley is a native of Lake Cormorant, Mississippi where his father owned a cotton plantation. The family moved to Marianna, Arkansas when Grif was two. He graduated from Southwestern at Memphis now Rhodes College in He served as a Peace Corps Volunteer on the northern coast of Colombia for two years doing rural community development.

In he was drafted and spent two years in the military. In he graduated from the University of Arkansas Law School in Fayetteville and was employed as a Legal Services attorney for 30 years, representing indigents in civil cases. He is the author of the five-book Gideon page lawyer novel series, as well as many other nonfiction books. His most recent book is Black Boys Burning: Roger Stolle is an author, filmmaker, music producer, marketer and entrepreneur. He left a successful advertising career in St. Stolle is author of Hidden History of Mississippi Blues.

He can be found online at www. After graduating from Spelman College, she worked extensively in teen mentoring and lived in Israel for a few years before returning to the US to write full-time. Don Tate is the illustrator of numerous critically acclaimed books for children. When Bill Traylor Started to Draw. His most recent book is Strong As Sandow: Don enjoys visiting elementary schools throughout the country, sharing his literary experiences with children view a video of Don in action at a school.

Don lives in Austin, Texas. Born and raised in Biloxi, I have been a resident of rural Hancock County since My love for photography began in high school, and for the past two decades I have played the role of, among other things, photojournalist, wedding photographer, and creative designer. But as an amateur naturalist with a professional background in the environmental sciences, my true passion has always been nature, landscape, and wildlife photography.

I especially enjoy photographing the Barrier Islands. In recent years, I have been taking regular multi-day camping expeditions to Horn Island to document the beauty of this vast and unspoiled wilderness. My experience as a boater and outdoorsman enable me to take on the logistical challenge of documenting this beautiful remote island wilderness, which can often be harsh and dangerous.

My work has been published in several publications, including Coast Business Journal, Coast Magazine, South Mississippi Living Magazine, and various calendars and technical publications. My work has been displayed in countless gallery shows and exhibits. Angie Thomas was born, raised, and still resides in Jackson, Mississippi.

She is a former teen rapper whose greatest accomplishment was an article about her in Right-On Magazine with a picture included. In he began work at the Center as managing editor of the twenty-four-volume New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture. She writes at her mountaintop home near Birmingham, Alabama, often with two dogs and a cat vying for her lap.

Hugh Holman Prize for the best volume of southern literary scholarship published in , given by the Society for the Study of Southern Literature. She speaks widely to schools and civic groups about her experiences as a s civil rights activist. Co-author John Obee also served in the civil rights movement in Mississippi. He was an adjunct professor of law at Michigan State College of Law and has lectured nationally and internationally on discrimination issues.

Glennray Tutor is considered to be part of the Hyperrealism art movement. Tutor is known for his use of bright colors, detail, and metaphor. His still life subject matter consists of small commonplace artifacts of daily life, such as glass jars, cola bottles, toys, marbles, comic books, and fireworks.

He has participated in numerous group and solo exhibitions. His work is in many public, private, corporate and museum collections throughout the world. He resides in Oxford, Mississippi. Tiffany Quay Tyson is a native of Jackson, Mississippi. Tyson is a graduate of Delta State University.

After college she worked for a brief stint as a newspaper reporter in the Mississippi Delta, where she received the Frank Allen Award for Journalism. She lives in Denver, Colorado. Charlotte has worked in academia, nonprofit communications and fundraising, and philanthropy. She lives in New York City with her husband and two children. She is coauthor of Making Camp: Rhetorics of Transgression in U. Walsh is from Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Before launching the festival, he had a year career in public radio, both national and local, with a particular focus on books and authors.

She lives in Mississippi. It was shortlisted for the David J. He lives in Louisiana. Can I Touch Your Hair?: Widely known for his watercolors of Southern culture, Wyatt Waters creates paintings of the roadside South. His paintings are held in private and corporate collections.

He has collaborated with Robert St. He lives with his dog, James in Clinton, MS. Southern Echo is a leadership development, education, training, and technical assistance organization dedicated to empowering local residents throughout Mississippi and the Southern region to make political, economic, educational, and environmental systems accountable to the needs and interests of the African-American community.

Hollis has spent a lifetime in pursuit of racial justice in his home state. Hollis was a core participant in the successful community-based redistricting efforts in Mississippi, and was the lead plaintiff in the federal redistricting lawsuit challenging the State of Mississippi to comply with the Voting Rights Act. To address the leadership needs of the future, Hollis has pioneered an intergenerational model of community organizing that encourages the participation of young people on the same basis as adults, bringing them into positions of responsibility. Hollis has been the recipient of hundreds of awards and honors from educational institutions, labor, churches and community institutions from across the country because of his dedication to community.

Hollis also played a role in keeping the music of the civil rights movement alive. She received her Ph. Her research interests include southern literature, African American literature, and American modernism. Norma Watkins grew up in Mississippi, where she studied writing with Eudora Welty. She left in the mids, during the civil rights struggles. Her memoir, The Last Resort: Taking the Mississippi Cure tells the story of those years.

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The book won a gold medal for the best book published in the South by an independent press that year. The sequel, That Woman from Mississippi describes her flight and subsequent exile in Miami. Watkins has a Ph. Lawrence Wells is the publisher at Yoknapatawpha Press. Wells is also the author of two historical novels: Past contributor to NY Times Syndicate. Resides in Oxford, Mississippi. He has an MFA in photography and a Ph.

D in American Studies, both from the University of Texas. He is the author of three books of photographs: The Soul of a Small Texas Town: His photographs have been exhibited throughout the United States and in group exhibitions in Europe and Latin America. She lives in Louisville, Kentucky.

He has published more than seventy-five articles, essays and reviews, and is the winner of the John T. Check out his website at www. While there, White developed and implemented plans to create economic growth and opportunities through tourism, the creative economy and promoted the state as a travel destination and film location.

Prior to his tenure at MAC, he worked in the hospitality industry, running a popular restaurant and founding special events and festivals throughout the state. Throughout his career, he has been a member of and served on the committees of numerous civic organizations. In , he published Little Stories: A Collection of Mississippi Photos , a book of images he created from visits covering the state over several years.

Neil White has been a newspaper editor, magazine publisher, advertising executive and federal prisoner. He lives in Oxford, Mississippi, where he operates a small publishing company, writes plays and essays, and teaches memoir writing. Foreign language translations of In the Sanctuary of Outcasts have been published in Germany, Croatia and the Netherlands. Sanctuary has been on the Southern Independent bestseller list for nearly four years. He is editor and publisher of the periodicals Life , College People , the Going to College series, as well as several textbooks for first-year college students.

Twelve Reporters Who Covered the Integration. Wickham lectured last year at the Sorbonne on media coverage of civil rights. White Read-Aloud Award, among many others. For the past 25 years she has taught writing workshops to thousands of emerging adult writers, students, and teachers, in assemblies and workshops, at writing conferences, retreats, and in schools around the world. He served as reporter and editor on the staff of the Clarksdale Press Register in the Mississippi Delta at a time when the civil rights movement was at its height.

He served as reporter and editor on the staff of the News-Journal papers in Wilmington, Delaware, Wilkie joined the staff of the Boston Globe in and served as a national and foreign correspondent for that paper until retirement at the end of the presidential campaign. He covered eight presidential campaigns seven for the Globe and served as White House correspondent He covered numerous wars and conflicts overseas including Israeli invasion of Lebanon; terrorist bombings of US Marines in Beirut as well as siege of Yasser Arafat in Tripoli, Lebanon, in ; civil war in Lebanon throughout the s; first Palestinian intifada, ; Romanian revolution ; first Gulf War ; civil war in Somalia, Many articles published in the Boston Globe Magazine.

He was a journalism professor in residence at Louisiana State University He was appointed to Kelly G. Cook chair in the department of journalism at the University of Mississippi Wilkie has served as visiting professor of journalism at the University of Mississippi since Diane is a professional storyteller, published author and mixed media fiber artists. She is a past board chair of the National Storytelling Network.

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Diane has written for college literary journals, national publications and newsletters, and her writing is included in a number of anthologies. Grant Association since He is currently at work on an annotated bibliography of all the Lincoln titles published since Pederson, was published by Southern Illinois University Press in He has been named by Lawdragon as one of the top judges, out of 30, in the United States.

The Chief also served in the U. Army from achieving the rank of Captain. He served as Chief Judge of the U. He is author of Flashes of a Southern Spirit: Meanings of the Spirit in the U. South , Judgment and Grace in Dixie: The Religion of the Lost Cause, He taught for three decades at the University of Mississippi, directed over a dozen symposia on the U. South, and supervised the doctoral work of twenty-five graduate students.

He is currently at work on The Southern Way of Life: The History of a Concept. The third book, The Sea of the Dead, will be published later this year. Kenneth and Sarah Jane Wright live in Utah with their four uniquely intense children. Kenneth is a full-time educator and history teacher. This is their first picture book together. Visit them online at www. Find Sarah Jane at www. Merrill Wyatt lives in Toledo, Ohio, with her husband, daughter, three cats, and a hamster who might possibly be an immortal magician.

She spent far too much of her childhood wandering around cemeteries and old Victorian homes. A middle-school technology teacher, she is dollphobic, donut-obsessed, and owns too many pairs of shoes. Steve Yarbrough is the author of eleven books, most recently the novel The Unmade World, due out in January His other books are the nonfiction title Bookmarked: His work has been published in several foreign languages, including Dutch, Japanese and Polish, and it has also appeared in Ireland, Canada, and the U.

They live in the greater Boston area. Steve is an aficionado of jazz and bluegrass music, which he plays on guitar, mandolin and banjo, often after midnight. She grew up in Jamaica and Brooklyn, and now lives in Los Angeles with her family. She traveled over , miles across the county in her career, using only back roads, avoiding planes and interstates, to be able to detect and understand cultural and economic changes in the country.

She began detecting the disconnect developing in the country beginning in and had her pulse on the wave election cycles of , , and wrote in July of that Trump was likely going to win the presidency after returning from a road trip back and forth across the country which included the Great Lakes Midwest states of Iowa, Wisconsin, Michigan, Ohio and Pennsylvania.

Zito, is the mother of two adult children Shannon Venditti and Glenn Rangers and the proud grandmother of Eleanora. She is an avid trail cyclist, hiker, history nerd and pathetic fan of the Pittsburgh Pirates and never misses Sunday dinner with her entire extended family. Inside American Politics 2: Abramowitz has authored or coauthored six books, dozens of A former clinical psychologist who specialized in working with children and teens, Becky lives with her family Art in Mississippi 9: For the Love of It 9: Photo by Kaylia Duncan. His next book, We Photo by Shef Reynolds.

National Literary Panel 2: Navy during the Vietnam War and worked five years as a railroad yard clerk and brakeman before beginning a long-time position as curator at Rowan Oak, the home of William Faulkner in Oxford, where he also taught Things Like the Truth 9: He is author of the books Waxing Poetic with the Pros 9: Her stories have been published in Tapestry , Christmas Stories from In the Middle 9: Meet Me in the Middle 1: National Civil Rights History 1: The Discovery of the Debut 4: She is of British-Antiguan descent and Unbridled Books and the National Literary Scene 1: Her work has been named to several best-of-the-year lists, translated into multiple languages, Blount began her career at MDAH in in the public information section, where she worked on major initiatives including the public release of the Sovereignty Commission records, the Widely celebrated for its annual Southern Music issue, the OA has won four National Magazine Awards in its year history, including the Vietnam Fifty Years Later 4: He is also the writer in Boyle is also the author of a Photo by Steven Forster.

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