Erin Austen Abbott signs WATERFRONT LIVING.

Beloved waterside destinations can be a great place for those tired of fast paced living or seeking creative inspiration from nature to call home. This book introduces these locations with a stunning collection of photographs and testimonials from a diverse array of residents, who share tips on how to transition away from big city life, give back to the community, design personalized living spaces, and encourage artistic and social growth. Author and photographer Erin Austen Abbott profiles couples...

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Dan Jones signs MEDICAL MISSIONARY.

In Medical Missionary: My Journey Through Global Health and Higher Education, Dan Jones explores his personal journey as a spiritual pilgrim and the many surprising twists along the way. Providing readers with a lens to share in remarkable events, Jones reflects on the choices he made during an unexpected and winding path from rural Mississippi in the 1950s and 1960s to Korea in the 1980s and beyond. His professional life spans work as a physician...

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Jesmyn Ward signs ON WITNESS AND RESPAIR.

The collected creative nonfiction of a singular American writer, Jesmyn Ward, including widely shared classics, three never-before-published speeches, and an introductory essay. Respair (noun, obsolete), fresh hope after despair. From the two-time National Book Award winner and New York Times bestselling author Jesmyn Ward, this collection of essays documents more than a decade of work in the life of a singular writer often lauded as “the heir apparent to Toni Morrison” (LitHub).....

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Josh Weil signs WHAT CAME WEST.

Sierra Nevada, 1840s, just before the Gold Rush ignites. Silas Hall has never belonged anywhere except the wild. Bullied as a child and uneasy even within his own family, he finds brief solace in love and fatherhood before the pull of the frontier overwhelms him. One day he heads west, chasing a life that might finally make sense. What follows is a swift, pulse-pounding journey into the mountains, where Silas becomes one of the first white settlers to cross into the Sierra Nevada....

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Evan Peacock signs RETURN TO ELKINS CREEK.

Return to Elkins Creek combines a series of fishing stories, descriptions of changing cultural norms, and the peculiar history of freshwater fishing gear. Beginning with subsistence fishing in very rural Mississippi at a time “when the poorest among us in the Deep South still took our water from holes in the ground and high school was considered an optional step along the career path,” the stories continue chronologically, with descriptions of learning to fish...

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Donald C. Jackson signs RESTLESS WINDS.

s a fisheries professor at Mississippi State University, naturalist, conservationist, and former pastor for a small rural church in Kentucky, Jackson injects deeply personal and spiritual experiences into his writings. From the desert of Central Australia, into remote jungles of Malaysia and Vietnam, through the Nepalese mountains, to long walks during misty nights in Uganda, Jackson shows readers how to recapture their humanity in a rush-away world...

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Sharon Durham signs PHILLIP TAKES FLIGHT.

In this adorable rhyming book for ages 4-7, Phillip has tried over, and over again to fly like other birds, but he was born with tiny wings that just won’t work. He has tried jumping from tall trees and leaping off big rocks, but it always ends in the same way….a total flop! His cute personality and his whimsical way of always getting situations a little confused, add to the fun. Phillip thinks he is off for a day at the Park where he will sharpen his flying skills...

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Chuck and Kathy Martin signLOVE NEVER FAILS.

A Novel of Faith, Family, and the Battle Between Darkness and Hope Love Never Fails is a gripping Christian novel that pulls readers into the unseen spiritual battle surrounding a family in crisis. Matthew Abrams—a husband and father—lies in a Memphis hospital bed, trapped in a coma yet more aware than ever of the forces threatening everything he loves. As he perceives the war “beyond what can be seen or touched,” he witnesses the enemy’s subtle tactics, the lies that distort truth...

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Stephanie Soileau signs SHOULD THE WATERS TAKE US.

In the shifting bayous of coastal Louisiana, on a rapidly disappearing spit of land, generations of Acadians have kept their heads above water. When an offshore rig explodes and unleashes a catastrophic spill, the people of Pelerin Parish face a reckoning that tests the bonds of family and the survival of their way of life. As the toxic plume of oil advances across the Gulf, Boy Broussard, already living hand to mouth off land that isn’t his, finds himself raising a daughter he barely knows....

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