By Jeremy Paden|2018-08-17T12:03:39-04:00August 17th, 2018|Publisher's Picks: Book Reviews|0 Comments
by Jeremy Paden Much of the rhetoric coming out of the White House regarding the crisis at our border dehumanizes the people who have trekked countless miles through violent and godforsaken lands to come to the United States. Their
By Tasha and Chris|2018-06-30T15:06:33-04:00June 30th, 2018|Publisher's Picks: Book Reviews|0 Comments
I’ll Give You the Sun by Jandy Nelson (Speak/Penguin Random House; Reprint edition: October 27, 2015) There are some books that make such a strong impression on you, they leave you in a dream-like state for weeks, reeling from
By Amanda Jo Slone|2018-04-04T12:04:21-04:00April 4th, 2018|Publisher's Picks: Book Reviews, Southern Voices|0 Comments
by Amanda Jo Slone Students in my Composition class are writing literacy narratives. This is always my favorite assignment of the semester. I love to guide them through the mining of their memories and watch as their narratives take
By Sherry Robinson|2017-08-25T09:37:28-04:00August 24th, 2017|Publisher's Picks: Book Reviews|0 Comments
(Cover courtesy of Algonquin Books) In the great Southern tradition, Jill McCorkle has mastered the ability to tell a story by mixing humor, wit, and a bit of angst. The eleven stories in Going Away
By Amanda Jo Slone|2017-07-08T13:04:36-04:00July 8th, 2017|Publisher's Picks: Book Reviews|0 Comments
The first gift I gave to my children was a set of books. I was a young first-time mother. When I found out I was pregnant, I was clueless to the needs of a child. And when, after my
By Sherry Robinson|2017-06-17T09:27:55-04:00June 17th, 2017|Publisher's Picks: Book Reviews|0 Comments
Stock photo representative of lovers in the 1920s Is anything so tantalizing as the discovery of lost manuscripts by a well-known and beloved author? In I’d Die for You and Other Lost Stories (Scribner, 2017), Anne Margaret Daniel
