Faster Pastor, by Sharyn McCrumb & Adam Edwards “When a New York Times Best-selling author teams up with a NASCAR driver to write a novel, it’s a literary match made in heaven.” Camber Berkley, a young stock car driver, wrecks his car on a winding mountain road, landing in the midst of the funeral of an elderly NASCAR fan. As punishment for his spectacular car wreck, the local authorities of the small Tennessee town of Judas Grove give him a choice: serve months in jail for reckless driving, or spend two weeks teaching the local ministers to drive stock cars, so that they can compete in a race whose prize is the $2 million legacy left by that deceased NASCAR fan. ISBN: 9781932158885 Hardcover -$23.95 Author Profile: Sharyn McCrumb & Adam Edwards Author Website: Click to Open Link to Purchase: AmazonBarnes & Noble
The Secret of the Bradford House, by Albert A. Bell, Jr What is that light in the attic window of the spooky old Bradford House? Could it be a ghost? Hidden stairways and secrets from World War I draw Steve and Kendra into investigating the mysteries of this small town in Kentucky’s Land Between the Lakes. What they find is beyond any of their imaginings. ISBN: 9781932158878 Trade Paperback - $11.95 Author Profile: Albert A. Bell, Jr. Author Website: Click to Open Link to Purchase: AmazonBarnes & Noble
The Blood of Caesar, by Albert A. Bell, Jr. A Second Case From the Notebooks of Pliny the Younger Assigned by the Emperor Domitian to search for blood heirs to Emperor Augustus, Pliny and Tacitus seek solutions to layers mysteries. Why is a humble workman’s death important to the ruler of Rome, and what connects him to Pliny’s household? How do Domitian’s suspicions relate to the niece of Pliny’s old friend and mentor? Is Tacitus’ father-in-law Agricola a villain, victim or savior? Like a sinister red line slashed through a carefully prepared manuscript, the legacy of Augustus marks the connections. One of five best mysteries of 2008 from Library Journal ISBN: 9781932158823 Trade Paperback - $15.95 Authors Profile: Albert A. Bell Authors Website: Click to Open Link to Purchase: AmazonBarnes & Noble
All Roads Lead to Murder, by Albert A. Bell, Jr. A Case From the Notebooks of Pliny the Younger The ancient Roman world comes alive in this tale of horrific murder. This series first features Pliny as investigator, working with his friend Cornelius Tacitus and Luke, the Biblical physician. - Illustrations from Ben Hur by Lew Wallace, supplemented with a glossary ISBN: 9781932158536 Hardcover - $21.95 Author Profile: Albert A. Bell Author Website: Click to Open Link to Purchase: AmazonBarnes & Noble
In the Shadows of Chimney Rock, by Rose Senehi An heiress to one of the South’s lumber dynasties reaches out to her mountain roots for solace after suffering a life-shattering blow, only to be drawn into the race against time to save the beauty of the Hickory Nut Gorge in Western North Carolina. A touching story of Family & Place. A portion of the proceeds from the sale of each of Rose Senehi’s books benefits environmental causes. ISBN: 9781932158830 Trade Paperback - $15.95 Authors Profile: Rose Senehi Authors Website: Click to Open Link to Purchase: AmazonBarnes & Noble
Pelican Watch, by Rose Senehi Multi-faceted love story told against a backdrop of murder and suspense, laced with the flavor of South Carolina’s lush low country and the un-forgettable people who work to preserve it. ISBN: 9781932158809 Trade Paperback - $15.95 Authors Profile: Rose Senehi Authors Website: Click to Open Link to Purchase: AmazonBarnes & Noble
Murder at Blue Falls, by Maggie Bishop The horse found the body. . . Jemma bristles at being suspected in a series of dog poisonings near her dude ranch. Her experience as a photographer and CSI TV provide her with procedures to do her own investigation. But when her horse discovers a body during a trail ride, her relationship with Detective Tucker becomes more than adversarial. When Jemma is kidnapped, Tucker is literally a lifesaver. ISBN: 9781932158755 Trade Paperback - $12.00 Author Profile: Maggie Bishop Author Website: Click to Open Link to Purchase: AmazonBarnes & Noble
Getorix: The Eagle and The Bull, by Judith Geary Celtic adventure in ancient Rome Getorix has one last chance to gain his father’s respect and earn welcome into the Otherworld as a hero. He marches beside his father, a defeated Celtic leader, in the Roman triumph parade – a celebration that ends in death. To face the ordeal with courage before the Romans will truly be his man-making. Can Getorix accept friendship with the Roman who spared his life if the cost is his honor? ISBN: 9781932158748 Hardcover - $24.95 ISBN: 978-1932158731 Trade Paperback - $15.95 Author Profile: Judith Geary Author Website: Click to Open Link to Purchase: AmazonBarnes & Noble
GETORIX’S WORLD, by Sandra Horton & Judith Geary Curriculum to accompany GETORIX Discussion and objective questions about the novel setting, plot and characters, time lines, maps, activies that draw the reader into the life of ancient Rome, all make this SREB recommended material interestng as well as valuable for home schoolers as well as classroom teachers. Illustrations by Caroline Garrett, by William Martin Johnson (from Ben Hur, 1901) & Thomas Hope (Costumes of the Greeks and Romans, 1812, Dover edition, 1962) Other resources in the book include: maps, diagrams, a glossary & author’s notes on the calendar and other aspects of Roman life. For more information, endorsements and samples of the book and curriculum, visit the author’s website. ISBN 9781932158281 Trade Paperback - $25.00 Author Profile: Judith Geary Sandra Horton Author Website: Click to Open Link to Purchase: IPG
Essence: This Child Ghost Wants to Tell You Her Story!, by Glenn Woods A child ghost tells her story through the author’s dreams. Savannah, Georgia, from the Civil War to present times, is the backdrop for this most unusual account. ISBN: 9781932158588 Trade Paperback - $16.95 Author Profile: Glenn Woods Author Website: Link to Purchase: Amazon Barnes & Noble
Dresses, Dreams and Beadwood Leaves, by Julia Taylor Ebel A girl’s journey to mold her own self esteem within the cultural history of the North Carolina mountains Rosa May wears dresses made from feed sacks, but her earthy knowledge of roots and herbs gives her hope of owning a store-bought dress and feeds her dream of wearing nurse’s white. Ebel sets her story in the late 1940s, where root and herb gathering offered many mountain people a way to meet both needs and dreams. Illustrations by the author & end notes on herb gathering. ISBN 9781932158854 Trade Paperback - $8.95 Author Profile: Julia Taylor Ebel Author Website: Click to Open Link To Purchase: AmazonBarnes & Noble
The Story of the Great Bear Where the Water-Dogs Laughed, by Charles F. Price The award-winning Hiwassee saga continues. Hamby McFee is a “high-yella” a man of mixed race, whose life experience has rendered him unwilling to fit in with either race. The latest in the award-winning Hiwassee saga continues the stories of characters introduced in the earlier books. Hamby McFee’s life and fate is intertwined with that of the Curtis family, the Prices, the wealthy Weatherbys and a mysterious giant black bear. Price has provided us with the sage and ageless viewpoint of Yan-e’gwa – the bear – while crafting an ultimately human story. ISBN: 9781932158502 Hardcover - $24.95 Author Profile: Charles F. Price Author Website: Click to Open Link to Purchase: AmazonBarnes & Noble
Boone: A Novel of An American Legend, by Cameron Judd Daniel Boone’s story from this celebrated author of over forty adventure novels. Daniel Boone’s life was marked by destiny and contradiction. Born of Quaker stock, he was peace-loving, yet a celebrated warrior. Sympathetic to the natives of America, and in ways more like them than his own people, he became trailblazer for the aggressive white civilization. Devoted to family, he spent long months apart, leaving his resilient wife to fend for herself and their children. Inclined by temperament to mind his own affairs, he was called into leadership and responsibility at every phase of his life. He was landed and frequently impoverished. Trusted by those who knew him, he was also often criticized, and even courts-martialed by neighbors and peers. In this imaginative and expansive recounting of the most pivotal years of the Boone legend, author Cameron Judd interweaves the facts of Daniel Boone’s life and destiny with a story crafted from history and shaped by imagination. ISBN: 9781932158687 Hardcover - $24.95 ISBN: 9781932158632 Trade paperback -$16.95 Author Profile: Cameron Judd Author Website: Click to Open Link to Purchase: AmazonBarnes & Noble
Weather of the Heart: A Child’s Journey out of Revolutionary Russia, by Nora Lourie Percival “Speaks for so many others who have silently endured the loss of all they valued.” – Publishers Weekly From the perspective of the 21st century, the author looks back with a clear eye to the turbulent days following the Russian Revolution. Nora Percival’s research illuminates her personal story -- the story so many of us long to hear from grandparents unable or unwilling to look back beyond the immigrants’ voyage to another life and another world. ISBN: 9780971304505 Hardcover - $29.95 ISBN: 9780971304598 Trade Paperback - $19.95 Author Profile: Nora Lourie Percival Author Website: Click to Open Link to Purchase: AmazonBarnes & Noble
Weave Me a Song, by Lila Hopkins Freddie Gouge returns home to the Appalachians in response to a summons. Th e grandmother who raised her lies ill. Gram is an accomplished artist and the community who surrounds her becomes part of Freddie’s life, as she dealis with her guilt and gratitude. But is Pax, a gallery owner a friend or a villain? Illustrations by the author. ISBN: 9780971304574 Hardcover - $19.95 Author Profile: Lila Hopkins Author Website: Click to Open Link to Purchase: AmazonBarnes & Noble
Perfect for Framing, by Maggie Bishop Maggie Bishop’s latest Appalachian Adventure Mystery brings back Jemma Chase and Detective Tucker to solve a case of arson and murder. Is the property owners’ association president the victim, the villain -- or both? ISBN: 9781932158847 Trade Paperback - $12.00 Authors Profile: Maggie Bishop Authors Website: Click to Open Link to Purchase: AmazonBarnes & Noble
Appalachian Paradise, by Maggie Bishop Suzanne’s plan to hike alone to “get the city grime off her body” is thwarted by her uncle and father who con Wes into being a reluctant escort. ISBN:9780971304567 Trade Paperback - $9.95 Author Profile: Maggie Bishop Author Website: Click to Open Link to Purchase: AmazonBarnes & Noble
Emeralds in the Snow, by Maggie Bishop Emerald Graham and Lucky Tucker are an unlikely pair. She, accustomed to a life of privilege in which everything’s a bit of a game, including her teaching career. He, who has not let his life of struggle keep him from giving to his family, his community and the skiers he rescues on Sugar Mountain. Yet they seem to be finding an uneasy bliss when a treasure hunt and an old murder mystery threaten all they value. ISBN: 9781932158564 Trade Paperback - $12.00 Author Profile: Maggie Bishop Author Website: Click to Open Link to Purchase: AmazonBarnes & Noble
Gloria: The Merlin and The Saint From the Joan of Arc Tapestries, by Ann Chamberlin If Joan of Arc really was a witch! From Ann Chamberlin, winner Critic?s Choice Award for Best Overall Historical, this fictional account of the life of Joan of Arc from her emergence at the court of Charles the Dauphin, through the lifting of the English siege of Orleans, to the crowning of Charles as king of France. ISBN: 9781932158618 Hardcover - $24.95 Author Profile: Ann Chamberlin Author Website: Click to Open Link to Purchase: AmazonBarnes & Noble
Windmaster’s Bane, by Tom Deitz Collector’s edition of the first in the celebrated “Adventures of David Sullivan.” David Sullivan reads about the gods of Irish myth and enjoys fantasies from these stories. When a chance encounter gifts him with Second Sight, however, the reality of the world of Faerie proves as dangerous as it is fantastic. When David’s brother is stolen and his beloved uncle felled by faerie magic, David enlists friends Alec McLean and Liz Hughes as companions on the quest to save their lives. This collector’s edition has been updated and re-written lightly by the author, but retains the charm and energy of the original. The new cover is from a painting by Val and Ron Lindahn, whose images have graced work by Piers Anthony, Isaac Asimov, magazines and movies. ISBN: 9781932158717 Hardcover limited edition, signed and numbered is available only from the publisher - $30.00 ISBN: 9781932158724 Paperback - $17.95 Author Profile: Tom Deitz Author Website: Link to Purchase: AmazonBarnes & Noble
The Secret of the Lonely Grave, by Albert A. Bell, Jr. Lexile 630 Kids investigate a mysterious grave and solve a 150-year-old murder. One grave in the cemetery stood off by itself. Steve Patterson and Kendra Jordan noticed flowers on the grave for the first time. As they tried to solve the mystery of who left the flowers and why, they uncovered a secret leading back to the Civil War and the Underground Railroad. But some people in their small Kentucky town – even members of their own families – were not happy with what they found. ISBN: 9781932158793 Trade Paperback - $8.95 Author Profile: Albert A. Bell, Jr Author Website: Click to Open Link to Purchase: AmazonBarnes & Noble
Plumb Full of History, by Donna Akers Warmuth A Story of Abingdon Virginia Abingdon, Virginia’s Plumb Alley Day frames this story of two children discovering much more than the history of their grandmother’s home town. Illustrations by DeAnna Akers Gobble and Donna Akers. ISBN: 9781932158786 Trade Paperback - $9.95 Author Profile: Donna Akers Warmuth Author Website: Click to Open Link to Purchase: AmazonBarnes & Noble
Once Upon a Different Time, by Marian Coe Adventure based on 1880s travel articles in the Atlantic Monthly. Join a spirited group on a romantic adventure in the Appalachian mountains in 1884, as they travel on horseback from Abingdon, Virginia to the fashionable resort of Asheville, NC. Novelist Marian Coe and artist Paul Zipperlin have woven an imaginative odyssey based on the true account by Charles Dudley Warner of just such a trip published in the Atlantic Monthly of the time. Illustrations by Paul Zipperlin ISBN: 9781932158533 Trade Paperback, Lexile 1000 - $12.95 Author Profile: Marian Coe Author Website: Link to Purchase: AmazonBarnes & Noble
Rachel’s Story: A Southern Girl in Pre-Civil War Boston, by Marian Coe Transcendentalist authors come alive in this young woman’s quest. Rachel’s mother’s death thrusts her from a South Carolina plantation cabin into Boston society. In her search to belong, and to understand her Cherokee grandmother’s prophecy, she encounters Elizabeth Peabody, Thoreau, Whitman, Louisa May Alcott and Emerson -- bringing alive the Transcendentalists and this pivotal age for the reader. ISBN: 9781932158649 Trade Paperback - $18.95 Author Profile: Marian Coe Author Website: Link To Purchase: AmazonBarnes & Noble
Monteith’s Mountains, by Skip Brooks The southern Appalachian mountains at the turn of the 20th century provide a backdrop for a dark tale of cultural transformation, serial murder, love, loss, and ultimate triumph in a land on the edge of irrevocable change. ISBN: 9780971304543 Hardcover - $21.95 Author Profile: Skip Brooks Author Website: Click to Open Link to Purchase: AmazonBarnes & Noble
The Master Craftsman, by Lila Hopkins Eric Walsh Returns from New York to his family’s home – an Appalachian farm – to face a critical decision. Old feelings of worthlessness, from his father’s disapproval, resurface in his unwillingness to risk his own son’s life by accepting a critical kidney donation. Family members help him reinterpret the concept of love, but ... Does his realization come in time to save his marriage -- and his life? ISBN: 9781932158816 Trade Paperback - $14.95 Author Profile: Lila Hopkins Author Website: Click to Open Link to Purchase: AmazonBarnes & Noble
Strike a Golden Chord, by Lila Hopkins Joanna Jerome, a concert organist comes home to care for her sick father and opens a small tea room. She expects loneliness and despair. Instead, she fi nds more drama and fulfi llment than she ever dreamed possible, including trapping a thief and foiling a kidnapping. Th e loving relationship with her wise father is worth the loss of the concert stage, and Joanna fi nds the romance of her life in Galax Falls. Illustrations by the author. ISBN: 9781932158519 Hardcover - $23.95 Author Profile: Lila Hopkins Author Website: Click to Open Link to Purchase: AmazonBarnes & Noble
Cookin’ Up A Storm The Life and Recipes of Annie Johnson, by Jane Lee Rankin Jane Lee Rankin warmly welcomes readers into the world of Annie Johnson, the family cook, teacher, lifelong friend and African American woman who introduced the author to the world of traditional Southern cooking. ISBN 0965738728 Trade Paperback, Grace Publishers - $19.95 Author Profile: Jane Lee Rankin Author Website: Click to Open Link to Purchase: AmazonBarnes & Noble
Between Us, by Marian Coe Gift package of shared experience from women’s lives: candid, honest and personal, on a cornucopia of subjects, from shopping confessions to dealing with change. A special book to have and to give. ISBN: 9781932158311 Hardcover, Southlore Press - $14.95 Author Profile: Marian Coe Author Website: Link to Purchase: AmazonBarnes & Noble
Perfect Game, Imperfect Lives, by Albert A. Bell, Jr. A Memoir Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of Don Larsen’s Perfect Game Are you a baseball fan? Do you have one in your life? Do you miss the positive simplicity of the 1950s?– Or only think you do? 1956 – What a year! Ozzie and Harriet on TV. The Cold War and Civil Rights in the news. And Elvis everywhere. In the midst of it all, an 11-year-old boy, an avid New York Yankees fan, finds himself uprooted from the security of a close-knit family in South Carolina and moved to Cincinnati. His new friend proves to be a transplanted Brooklynite, a rabid Dodger fan. Their lives center around baseball. On October 8, a Monday, they skip school to watch the World Series ISBN: 9781932158410 Trade Paperback, Almont Books - $16.95 Author Profile: Albert A. Bell, Jr Author Website: Click to Open Link to Purchase: AmazonBarnes & Noble o
Magdalena’s Song, by Pat Mattaini Mestern The respectable facade of a traditional village falls apart when Count Vincent Cudzinki pays a visit. ISBN: 9780971304581 Trade Paperback - $16.95 Author Profile: Pat Mattaini Mestern Author Website: Click to Open Link to Purchase: Amazon Barnes & Noble
No Choice but Freedom: A Novel of Treachery and Triumph in Colonial America, by Pat Mattaini Mestern Epic tale of a strong woman’s adventures among pirates, slavers and plantation owners of the Colonial South. Based on the true stories of English woman Elizabeth Bagley Morrison and William Servos Hult, an African slave who won his freedom and rose to prominence in the spice trade. ISBN: 9781932158762 Trade Paperback - $16.00 Author Profile: Pat Mattanini Merstern Author Website: Click to Open Link to Purchase: AmazonBarnes & Noble
Death Goes Dutch, by Albert A. Bell, Jr. First of the Wooden Shoe Mysteries A Korean American risks all to help a fellow adoptee! Sara DeGraff feels a special connection with the adoptees in her caseload. As a Korean- American unlikely ever to find either of her biological parents, she takes satisfaction from re-uniting others. But Josh Adams’ mother is dead. Margaret Dysktra, heiress to a furniture fortune, died under suspicious circumstances that were never investigated. Yet it seems Josh himself may be the one with something to hide. ISBN: 9781932158656 Trade Paperback, Claystone Books - $12.95 Author Profile: Albert A. Bell, Jr. Author Website: Click to Open
