Swamp Jesus is a story about a young man coming of age. Dillon is raised in a single parents household in rural Louisiana surrounded by social economic inequality and the dark side of substance abuse. He dreams of breaking free and moves to Nashville, when invited by a friend. In this new city, he uses his love for music to establish new roots, find, love and maybe success in the home of country music. It isn’t as easy as it sounds. Dillon has to deal with a culture he is unfamiliar and tr...

Things My Dad Said follows Ben, a young man who travels to the Alaskan outback to bury the estranged father he never understood. In the isolated town of Tugat, under the looming presence of Denali, he meets the people whose lives his father quietly changed through idioms which he lived. As each stranger shares these unexpected phrases, Ben is forced to confront his long-held anger over the divorce and the man he thought his father was.This brooding, character-drive...

A poignant tale of resilience, loss, and adaptation, Biloxi is set against the backdrop of rural Tennessee to Mississippi during the civil right movement. Forced to rebuild his life after a tragic accident, Charlie and his family befriend a local black family. But not everyone is as welcoming. Charlies must navigate life, work, and family through systemic enduring racism."This book is written so vividly that I wanted to know more about what happened to these families. …Captivating writing ...

Swamp Jesus is a story about a young man coming of age. Dillon is raised in a single parents household in rural Louisiana surrounded by social economic inequality and the dark side of substance abuse. He dreams of breaking free and moves to Nashville, when invited by a friend. In this new city, he uses his love for music to establish new roots, find, love and maybe success in the home of country music. It isn't as easy as it sounds. Dillion has to deal with a culture he is unfamiliar and t...

A poignant tale of resilience, loss, and adaptation, Biloxi set against the backdrop of rural Tennessee to Mississippi during the civil rights movement. Forced to rebuild his life after a tragic accident, Charlie and his family befriend a local black family. But not everyone is as welcoming. Charlies must navigate life, work, and family through systemic enduring racism."This book is written so vividly that I wanted to know more about what happened to these families. ... Captivating...

Swamp Jesus is a story about a young man coming of age. Dillon is raised in a single parents household in rural Louisiana surrounded by social economic inequality and the dark side of substance abuse. He dreams of breaking free and moves to Nashville, when invited by a friend. In this new city, he uses his love for music to establish new roots, find, love and maybe success in the home of country music. It isn’t as easy as it sounds. Dillon has to deal with a culture he is unfamiliar and tr...

Things My Dad Said follows Ben, a young man who travels to the Alaskan outback to bury the estranged father he never understood. In the isolated town of Tugat, under the looming presence of Denali, he meets the people whose lives his father quietly changed through idioms which he lived. As each stranger shares these unexpected phrases, Ben is forced to confront his long-held anger over the divorce and the man he thought his father was.This brooding, character-drive...

A poignant tale of resilience, loss, and adaptation, Biloxi is set against the backdrop of rural Tennessee to Mississippi during the civil right movement. Forced to rebuild his life after a tragic accident, Charlie and his family befriend a local black family. But not everyone is as welcoming. Charlies must navigate life, work, and family through systemic enduring racism."This book is written so vividly that I wanted to know more about what happened to these families. …Captivating writing ...

Madison County became the hub of West Tennessee in the 20th century. Now major highways and rail lines traverse the county and its seat, Jackson. Three railroad companies and industry spawned by the railroads, such as the cotton mill town of Bemis, provided the main sources of employment during the 1900s. As job opportunities abounded, the population grew. Images of America: Madison County features the industrial development, business history, and lives of those people who were touched by ...

Based on decades of research centered on the earliest known fluted-point producing groups in the North American midcontinent, Early Paleoindians in the Upper Midcontinent of North America: Lithic Procurement, Settlement Mobility, and Social Interaction brings together a broad array of case studies from the United States and Canada that offers fresh perspectives on how early populations utilized the land and its resources, how and when they settled in particular locations, and how ...

"This is hockey romance for hockey fans." —Rachel Reid, USA Today bestselling author of Heated Rivalry and The Long GameA heartbroken hockey player and an up-and-coming country music star fake it for the cameras (or do they?) in Cait Nary’s delightfully sexy new novel.Brody Kellerman has a plan. First, become the best defenseman in professional hockey. Second, get over his ex-boyfriend so he can focus on his game....

In her extraordinary novels Into the Wilderness and Dawn on a Distant Shore, award-winning writer Sara Donati deftly captured the vast, untamed wilderness of late-eighteenth-century New York and the trials and triumphs of the Bonner family. Now Donati takes on a new and often overlooked chapter in our nation’s past--and in the life of the spirited Bonners--as their oldest daughter, the brave and beautiful Hannah, comes of age with a challenge that will cha...