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  • Stories Carry: A Memoir
    Stories Carry: A Memoir
    By author: Dena Schusterman
    STORIES CARRY is a personal memoir about faith, belonging, and the inherited stories that shape us. As the daughter of Chabad emissaries in 1970s Berkeley, California, and now a shlucha (emissary) herself in Atlanta, Georgia, Schusterman, a mother of eight, has spent her life straddling two worlds--deeply rooted in Hasidic tradition while fully engaged in modern society. Through warmth, honesty, and humor, this book extends a hand across perceived divides, welcoming readers into a world that is both deeply personal and universally resonant.
  • The Mountains Remember: A Novel
    The Mountains Remember: A Novel
    By author: Renea Winchester
    Sadie Bird lives in Shaconage, North Carolina, with Lazarus, a mixed-breed dog she rescued from the forest. Sadie supports herself by harvesting medicinal plants which she uses in her tonics and salves. Having recently buried her husband and children, Sadie is more worried about surviving the winter than the federal government's plan to create the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. When Bowman Marks, a government agent tasked with acquiring thousands of acres of land, arrives at Sadie's place, their initial meeting does not go well.
  • Mary Hess, Smoky Mountain Witch: A Novel
    Mary Hess, Smoky Mountain Witch: A Novel
    By author: Anthony P. Cavender
    Construction of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park is well underway in 1937 when the National Park Service recruits a young, freshly trained linguist, Thomas Haller, to investigate what life was like for residents before the park's creation. Also required to do a speech study of the stigmatized regional dialect, Haller conducts in-depth interviews with older residents, many of whom were born before the Civil War. John Stoll, an old man known in the mountains as a true believer in witchcraft, a witchdoctor, and "a good talker," regales Haller for hours with stories about an infamous witch, Mary Hess, who tormented her neighbors.
  • Where the Roots Tangle: A Novel
    Where the Roots Tangle: A Novel
    By author: Odessa Blaine
    Edwina's shaky world is rocked by the murder of a childhood friend on a sweltering Georgia day in 1929. War erupts between the fed-up poor folks of Shine Town and Edy's in-laws, the old money Jacksons of Canes Crossin. Edwina and her sister are trapped in the middle. Get tangled in hardscrabble Southern living, small town politics, blood feuds, nearly forgotten folkways, family legacy, and a dash of Appalachian magic.
  • A Priest Walks into a Waffle House: Stories from a Gritty, Grace-Filled Life
    A Priest Walks into a Waffle House: Stories from a Gritty, Grace-Filled Life
    By author: Lauretta Hannon
    In this era of unprecedented division and distraction, we've lost the ability to recognize the goodness all around us. But it doesn't have to be that way. From the acclaimed author of THE CRACKER QUEEN comes a cheeky spiritual memoir with an audacious message of hope. In this collection of stories, Hannon shows that joy can arise from the deepest abyss; that everyone is designed with purpose and hardwired for restoration; and that love and peace are entirely warranted and possible. This is because grace abounds where we often miss it: in the grittiness of life.

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