Books are wonderful gifts! This holiday season give the gift of great reading to the book lovers on your list.
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Winter Lightning: A Guide to the Battle of Stones River Matt Spruill and Lee Spruill A sequential series of twenty-one “stops” through the Stones River battlefield over the exact routes used by both Union and Confederate armies, with details on key points. The guide divides the battle into three segments: the west flank, the center, and the east flank. |
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Autumn Spring Sam Pickering “No one creates so many memorable, saucy aphorisms-piquant, bitter-sweet, arousing.” —Pat C. Hoy II, New York University |
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Some Day I May Find Honest Work Sam Venable Tennessee humorist Sam Venable has been tickling funny bones in print for more than twenty-five years. Someday I May Find Honest Work is a collection of 125 of his columns, many of which originally appeared in the Knoxville News Sentinel. In these warm and witty pieces, Venable pokes good-natured fun at everything from fast food to government folly, from high-tech confusion to the perils of aging. |
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Run in the Fam’ly: A Novel John J. McLaughlin “Mr. McLaughlin employs his mastery of vernacular speech, his understanding of the street cultures of Chicago and Oakland , and his deeply human understanding. . . . Run in the Fam’ly is an exceptional work of fiction.” —James Alan McPherson, author of Elbow Room, winner of the Pulitzer Prize |