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Th e 2017 Arkansas Gems List...Page 1
Burn What Will Burn
by C. B. McKenzie
Copyright © 2016
Minotaur Books
Adult Fiction
Rock Island Railroad
in Arkansas
by Michael Hibblen
Copyright © 2017
Arcadia Publishing
Adult Nonfi ction
Euphrates Dance
by Hussein Hussein
Copyright © 2017
Parkhurst Brothers Publishers
Adult Fiction
Beautifully Grotesque
Fish of the American
West
by Mark Spitzer
Copyright © 2017
University of Nebraska
Press
Adult Nonfi ction
The Possessions
by Sara Flannery Murphy
Copyright © 2017
HarperCollins Publishers
Adult Fiction
Faithful to Our Tasks:
Arkansas’s Women and
the Great War
by Elizabeth Griffi n Hill
Copyright © 2017
Butler Center Books
Adult Nonfi ction
Rise: How a House
Built a Family
by Cara Brookins
Copyright © 2017
St. Martin’s Press
Adult Nonfi ction
Before We Were Yours
by Lisa Wingate
Copyright © 2017
Ballantine Books
Adult Fiction
Truffl e Boy: My Unexpected
Journey Through the Exotic
Food Underground
by Ian Purkayastha with Kevin
West
Copyright © 2017
Hachette Books
Adult Nonfi ction
The Ozarks: 43
Spectacular Hikes in
Arkansas and Missouri
by Jim Warnock
Copyright © 2017
Menasha Ridge Press
Adult Nonfi ction
A selection of new works with a connection, either by subject or author, to Arkansas
Continued on next page
Th e 2017 Arkansas Gems List…Page 2
Reading with Patrick
by Michelle Kuo
Copyright © 2017
Random House
Adult Nonfi ction
A Wretched and Precarious
Situation: In Search of the
Last Arctic Frontier
by David Welky
Copyright © 2016
W. W. Norton & Company
Adult Nonfi ction
The Creek Side Bones:
Reality is More
Horrifying than Fiction
by George Jared
Copyright © 2017
Groves-Holliman Publishers
Adult Nonfi ction
Between Them:
Remembering My
Parents
by Richard Ford
Copyright © 2017
Ecco
Adult Nonfi ction
The Secret Keepers
by Trenton Lee Stewart
Copyright © 2016
Little, Brown Books
for Young Readers
Juvenile
A Horse with Holes In It:
Poems
by Greg Alan Brownderville
Copyright © 2016
Louisiana State University
Press
Adult Nonfi ction
After the Fall
by Kate Hart
Copyright © 2017
Farrar Straus Giroux
Books for Young Readers
Young Adult Fiction
Forever Words: The
Unknown Poems
by Johnny Cash,
edited by Paul Muldoon
Copyright © 2016
Blue Rider Press
Poetry
Douglas MacArthur:
American Warrier
by Artjur Herman
Copyright © 2016
Random House
Adult Nonfi ction
Shadow Patterns: Refl ections
on Fay Jones and His
Architecture
by Jeff Shannon, editor
Copyright © 2017
University of Arkansas Press
Adult Nonfi ction
Other 2017 books by Arkansas authors…Page 1
Just an Adventure at Sea
by Mercer Mayer
Copyright © 2017
HarperCollins Publishers
Easy
A Pearl for Kizzy
by Ed Bethune
Copyright © 2016
CreateSpace
Adult Fiction
The Knight’s Riddle: What
Women Want Most
by Jay Ruud
Copyright © 2016
Five Star Publishing
Adult Fiction
Southern Fried: Going Whole
Hog in a State of Wonder
by Rex Nelson
Copyright © 2016
Butler Center Books
Adult Nonfi ction
A Game of Inches
by Webb Hubbell
Copyright © 2016
Beaufort Books
Adult Fiction
Champion Trees of Arkansas:
An Artist’s Journey
by Linda Williams Palmer
Copyright © 2016
University of Arkansas Press
Adult Nonfi ction
An Untimely Frost
by Penny Richards
Copyright © 2016
Kensington
Adult Fiction
Back to Bremen
by Cecelia Wilson
Copyright © 2017
Meath Press
Adult Fiction
Heaven’s Missing Wing
by Nell Weaver Lyford
Copyright © 2016
Bookbaby
Adult Fiction
Inclusion of books on this list does not constitute an endorsement by the Arkansas State Library or the Arkansas Center for the Book.
Continued on next page
2017 books by Arkansas authors…Page 2
Field to Feast
by Janet Carson
Copyright © 2016
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
Adult Nonfi ction
100 Things to Do in Little
Rock Before You Die
by Celia Anderson
Copyright © 2016
Reedy Press
Adult Nonfi ction
Labyrinth Journeys:
50 States, 51 Stories
by Twylla Alexander
Copyright © 2017
Springhill Publishing
Adult Nonfi ction
Southern Sermons and
More
by Billy Lynn Tranum
Copyright © 2017
Self Published
Adult Nonfi ction
Brother Bill: President
Clinton and the Politics of
Race and Class
by Daryl A. Carter
Copyright © 2016
University of Arkansas Press
Adult Nonfi ction
Exploring the Big Woods:
A Guide to the Last Great
Forest of the Arkansas
Delta
by Matthew D. Moran
Copyright © 2016
University of Arkansas Press
Adult Nonfi ction
Africa: The Quest for
Justice Amid Confl ict and
Corruption
by Jim Rodgers
Copyright © 2017
Dorrance Publishing
Adult Nonfi ction
Earline’s Pink Party:
The Social Rituals and
Domestic Relics of a
Southern Woman
by Elizabeth Findley Shores
Copyright © 2017
University of Alabama Press
Adult Nonfi ction
The Circle: Coping with
Integrated Life at
Arkansas State University
1970-1978
by Richard Hartness
Copyright © 2016
Granthouse
Adult Nonfi ction
Witches in West Memphis:
The West Memphis Three
and another story of false
confession
by George Jared
Copyright © 2016
Groves-Holliman Publishers
Adult Nonfi ction
Continued on next page
2017 books by Arkansas authors…Page 3
Arkansas: In My Own
Backyard
by Tim Ernst
Copyright © 2016
Cloudland Publishing
Adult Nonfi ction
The Fierce Urgency of
Prophetic Hope
by Wendell L. Griff en
Copyright © 2017
Judson Press
Adult Nonfi ction
Slavery on the
Periphery
by Kristen Epps
Copyright © 2016
University of Georgia Press
Adult Nonfi ction
Patchwork Embroidery
by Aimee Ray
Copyright © 2016
Lark Publishing
Adult Nonfi ction
Breaking the Press: The
Incredible Story of the All
American Red Heads
by Orwell Moore, Tammy Moore
Harrison with Howard Rankin
Copyright © 2016
Self Published
Adult Nonfi ction
Competing Memories:
The Legacy of
Arkansas’s Civil War
by Mark Christ
Copyright © 2016
Butler Center Books
Adult Nonfi ction
Barns & Portrait
Paintings
by George Dombek
Copyright © 2016
University of Arkansas Press
Adult Nonfi ction
Man of Vision: Arkansas
Education and the Legacy
of Arch Ford
by Cindy Burnett Beckman
Copyright © 2016
Butler Center Books
Adult Nonfi ction
Joseph Carter Corbin:
Educator Extraordinaire and
Founder of the University of
Arkansas at Pine Bluff
by Gladys Turner Finney
Copyright © 2017
Butler Center Books
Adult Nonfi ction
The Arkansas Post of
Louisiana
by Morris S. Arnold
Copyright © 2017
University of Arkansas Press
Adult Nonfi ction
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2017 books by Arkansas authors…Page 4
A Circle of Stones
by Donnie Marple
Copyright © 2016
Marple House
Adult Fiction
Stepping on Cheerios
by Betsy Singleton Snyder
Copyright © 2017
Abington Press
Adult Nonfi ction
Closing Time
by Anita Paddock
Copyright © 2017
Pen-L Publishing
Adult Nonfi ction
At Home in this Life
by Jerusalem Jackson
Greer
Copyright © 2017
Paraclete Press
Adult Nonfi ction
Liberty
by Darcy Pattison
Copyright © 2016
Mims House
Children’s
#MeBeingMe
by Challa Fletcher
Copyright © 2017
Lanico Media House
Children’s
My Easter Story
by Maria Hoskins and Rex
Deloney
Copyright © 2017
C&V 4 Seasons Publishing
Juvenile Nonfi ction
Bobby the Blue-Footed
Booby Gets Bullied
by Sharon Bowles and Amy Cole
Copyright © 2016
Self Published
Easy
Just a Baby Bird
by Mercer Mayer
Copyright © 2016
HarperCollins
Easy