All posts by Jill Marsal

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Averell “Ace” Smith’s The Pitcher and The Dictator following the experiences of a group of young Negro league players led by the great pitcher Satchel Paige who are lured to the Dominican Republic in 1937 to play baseball only to find themselves under the thumb of the dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo, known by his countrymen for murdering those who disappoint him.

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Dr. Melba Pattillo Beals BUILDING FAITH UNDER FIRE, sharing how faith played a significant role in surviving 73 years of life’s challenges, starting with her birth when her family had to fight for access to an all-white hospital to Melba’s role as one of the Little Rock Nine in integrating Central High School to the challenges she faced in later years.

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Benjamin Shobert’s BLAME CHINA, arguing that Americans harbor deep insecurities about our economic future, our place in the world, our response to terrorism, and our deeply dysfunctional government, and over the next several years, each of these insecurities will be projected onto China in an attempt to blame China for errors entirely of our own making, leading to potential conflict.

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NYT and USA Today bestselling author Lynn Cahoon’s next 3 books in the CAT LATIMER Mystery series where Cat runs a writer’s retreat in her small Colorado college town.

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Vice-Chair of Research, Dept. of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences Tulane University School of Medicine Dr. Michael Scheeringa’s PTSD IN YOUTH: A Guide for Parents, an authoritative guide for parents who have a child, or readers who once were children, who suffered psychological trauma, helping them to understand the effects of and how to recover from severe stress and trauma. 

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USA Today bestselling author Tonya Kappes’s first in the Southern Baking Mystery series, in which an NYC pastry chef returns to her small hometown where she’s agreed to bake her best friend’s wedding cake, but when the murder of the wedding venue’s head chef puts her friend at the top of the suspect list,  she must clear her friend’s name in time for the wedding to go off without a hitch, in a 2-book deal.

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May McGoldrick’s Regency-era series trilogy, in which an English aristocrat in Scotland breaks open the crate of a long-awaited shipment to find inside a nearly dead woman, the daughter of a man he holds responsible for the demise of his own family, in a 3-book deal.

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Mollie Cox Byran’s fourth Cora Crafts Mystery, in which the crafters host a back-to-school beading retreat geared to moms after a long summer with the kids, while trying to help a friend who’s a suspect for murder, not knowing the answer to the murder question is right at Kildare House with one of their crafters.