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TABLE OF CONTENTS From the Director Maze of Blood ........................................1 Marly Youmans Dear Reader, Burdy .......................................................2 Karen Spears Zacharias If you have not liked our Facebook™ page, I wish you would. Our staff Where the Souls Go ...............................3 of five makes it one of the better—and certainly more entertaining— Ann Hite publisher pages on Facebook. We post author events, share links to Conjuror ...................................................4 book reviews, send birthday greetings, post photographs of books once Holly Sullivan McClure they arrive in the warehouse, share recipes, announce where we are The Poisoned Table ...................................5 exhibiting, and share news of interest about the publishing industry. If Diane Michael Cantor you don’t “do” Facebook, then please follow us on Twitter™ or our blog. The Book of Marie .................................6 Terry Kay (new in paper) While such activity is done with pleasure and fun, at the same time I Fireflies ............................................................. 7 have noticed a few things from our use of social media. John Leland Rise and Shine! .......................................8 First, our authors are certainly busy. At any given time, we have authors Johnathon Scott Barrett who are giving a reading or speaking at a book festival or delivering The Allman Brothers Band Classic a paper at an academic conference. It seems they post events and Memorabilia,1969-76 ............................9 Willie Perkins and Jack Weston photographs more than we do. They are also winning awards, being Centennial.............................................10 recognized for their craft, and are enlarging their audiences as the days E. Culpepper Clark pass. “Forward My Brave Boys!” ...................11 M. Todd Cathey and Gary W. Waddey Second, our staff is genuinely interested in what they do each day at the Press. They care deeply about our books and the role books have in Well Worth Stopping to See................12 Mike Bunn our culture and society. While trying to make ends meet, the Mercer A Killing on Ring Jaw Bluff ........................... 13 University Press staff is most interested in how our authors and their William Rawlings (new in paper) books impact readers and our society. Becoming Human .................................14 Jamie Lorentzen Third, there are some interesting trends in publishing. One trend is that of the continuing rise of independent bookstores. These warriors The 16 Strivings for God ......................15 Steven Reiss among the giants (aka chain stores and online behemoths) are In His Own Words ................................16 beginning to hold their own in a world where they were never given David E. Paterson, editor a chance by the prognosticators only a few years ago. Another trend Between Fetters and Freedom ............17 is that e-books have reached a plateau and sales are stagnant. Even Edward R. Crowther students prefer to read print books rather than e-books. and Keith Harper, editors The James N. Griffith Endowed Series Small independent publishers and small independent bookstores in Baptist Studies ..................................18 are combining to make a huge impact. And you can follow the play- Witnesses to the Baptist Heritage .......19 by-play on Facebook or Twitter. Do so, and then go visit your local Michael E. Williams, Sr., editor independent bookstore. Read an author you have never read, especially Sports and Religion Series ...................20 one published by a smaller publisher. There are some great writers out “Winning the Race?” ...........................21 there. And very few of them ever end up on the best-seller list. Tracy J. Trothen New/Recent Releases In Paperback .....22 The Imitation of Christ .........................23 William C. Creasy, editor Best Selling Titles Still Available ....24–25 Recent Releases ..............................26–28 Marc Jolley On the front cover: Newton Chapel, Historic Quad North Mercer University, Macon, Georgia New Release 69 www.mupress.org 866-895-1472 1 Author of fourteen books, Marly Maze Youmans has been called “the best-kept of Blood secret among contemporary American writers” (Books & Culture). Her recent A Novel novels are Glimmerglass (“resonant, Marly Youmans beautiful”—Margo Lanagan) and A Death at the White Camellia Orphanage (“controlled lyrical passion...the finest, and the truest period novel I’ve read in years”—Lucius Shepard). Recent poetry books include a long narrative, Thaliad (“mesmerizing…a work of genius”—Lee Smith), and two collections, The Foliate Head and The Throne of Psyche. Learn more at thepalaceat2.blogspot.com. “A haunting tale of dark obsessions and trancendent creative fire, rendered brilliantly in richly poetic prose”—Midori Snyder TITLES OF INTEREST Begin with what seems the end of things—how Conall Weaver lifts a gun to his head. And now dive backward into the labyrinthine worlds of home, where Conall is the center, into the maze of love, where Conall seeks and strives with his soul-mate, and into the maze of imagination, with its population of weapon-wielding heroes and local-color Texans…and then on, into the maze of childhood, where time seems illusion and all the threads and stories start. Red for the blood of frontiersmen and Indians, Conall thought, red for Glimmerglass A Death at the the blood of proven heroes and mother, the martyr of Cross Plains. Maze for A Novel White Camellia Marly Youmans Orphanage the looping coils of a snake that ended in a rattle that shook out revolutionary Hardback | $24.00t | H896 Marly Youmans 978-0-88146-491-7 Hardback | $24.00t | H837 warning: don’t tread on me! Maze for veins of blood. Maze for family. 978-0-88146-271-5 In Conall Weaver, the mundane world and the wonders of the imagination Paperback | $18.00t | P467 978-0-88146-446-7 collide and shoot out sparks. Inspired by the life of pulp writer Robert E. Howard, e-book | $14.00 | H837e Maze of Blood explores the roots of story and the compulsions and conflicts of the 978-0-88146-364-4 heart in a Southern landscape. “Marly Youmans is a great writer. Her prose is immaculate.” —Laird Barron “Marly Youmans is a novelist and poet out of sync with the times but in tune with the ages.” — First Things The Throne Kiss of the of Psyche Jewel Bird “I cannot recommend an author more than Marly Youmans, whose fantastic Poems A Novel Marly Youmans Dale Cramer prose is absolutely gorgeous and haunting.” —Seb Doubinsky Hardback | $30.00t | H826 Paperback | $18.00t | P504 978-0-88146-246-3 978-0-88146-525-9 Paperback | $18.00t | P422 e-book| $12.00 | P504e 978-0-88146-232-6 978-0-88146-533-4 SEPTEMBER 2015 | FICTION 5.75 x 8.75 | 224 pp. | Hardback, $24.00t | 978-0-88146-536-5 | H905 2 mercer UNIVERSITY PRESS Fall/WINTER 2015 New Release Karen Spears Zacharias is the author of several books including Burdy the bestselling Will Jesus Buy Me a A Novel Doublewide? and Mother of Rain, Karen Spears Zacharias winner of the Weatherford Award for Best in Appalachian Fiction and a finalist for the Crook’s Corner Book Prize. Mother of Rain, the stage play, is under production by Georgia’s Springer Opera House. Zacharias’s work has been featured on CNN, National Public Radio, and The Diane Rehm Show. She Also available as an e-book lives near the big river in Oregon. Learn more about her at karenzach.com Sequel to the award-winning Mother of Rain TITLES OF INTEREST When it is a healing they need, the people at Christian Bend, Tennessee, turn to one woman—Burdy Luttrell. Melungeon by birth, Burdy learned the therapeutic properties of roots from the women in her family. When Burdy discovers that Lincoln Memorial University is hosting a class on healing roots, she persuades her friend, Mayne, to drive her up. The two women make a fateful stop at Laidlow Pharmacy at Bean Station where an armed gunman executes three people and critically injures another. Mother of Rain Kiss of the Jewel A Novel Bird Burdy—the woman able to cure others—is now fighting for her life at University Karen Spears Zacharias A Novel Paperback | $17.00t | P469 Dale Cramer of Tennessee Medical Center in Knoxville. One thing is keeping Burdy alive—she 978-0-88146-448-1 Paperback | $18.00t | P504 has to tell Rain, the boy she has cared for since birth, the secret she’s kept from him e-book | $12.00 | P469e 978-0-88146-525-9 978-0-88146-450-4 e-book| $12.00 | P504e all these years. 978-0-88146-533-4 Rain was a deaf toddler when his father Zebulon Hurd was reported presumed dead following the Normandy Invasion. The news sent Maizee Hurd, Rain’s mother, headlong into a mental collapse from which she never recovered. When the now grown Rain gets word that Burdy has been shot, he leaves his job in Rhode Island and rushes back home to Tennessee, completely unaware of Burdy’s secrets and how the shooting at Bean Station will transport them all to Washed in the Save My Place another time and place—1950s, Bayeux, France. Blood A Novel Karen Spears Zacharias has crafted a mesmerizing novel of tragedy and A Novel Olivia deBelle Byrd Lisa Alther Paperback | $15.00t | P493 transformation, a beautiful rendering of fact and fiction, and a tenderhearted Hardback | $26.00t | H832 978-0-88146-501-3 978-0-88146-257-9 e-book | $11.00 | P493e narrative of survivors and the battles they face. e-book | $12.00 | H832e 978-0-88146-503-7 978-0-88146-345-3 SEPTEMBER 2015 | HISTORICAL FICTION 5.75 x 8.75 | 192 pp. | Paperback, $15.00t | 978-0-88146-539-6 | P514 e-book, $12.00 | 978-0-88146-556-3 | P514e New Release 69 www.mupress.org 866-895-1472 3 Ann Hite is the author of two novels Where the and a novella.