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THE MARRIAGE BED, Tommy Hays

A freak accident comes on the heels of a startling revelation—laying bare the foundation of a marriage, and a husband is left to grapple with the aftermath. A poetry professor at a small college in Asheville, NC, Asa Flowers, comes home one stormy evening to find his wife Betsy inexplicably distraught. As the evening goes on, the couple end up in a heated argument that sends Asa to sleep out in their garage apartment for the first time in  twenty-five

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BENJAMIN, Ben H. Winters

IN ONE L.A. MOTEL ROOM, A COSMIC QUEST IS ABOUT TO BEGIN . . . More than just a writer, more than just a science-fiction icon, Benjamin J. Carp was a cultural revolutionary. Over the course of 44 novels and hundreds of short stories—including the counterculture classic The Man They Couldn’t Erase—Carp pushed the boundaries of literary respectability for the sci-fi genre and his readers’ perception of reality itself . . . until decades of amphetamine abuse and Southern California excess

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BEYOND THE FRONT DOOR: Embracing Nature for a Happier and Healthier Family, Josee Bergeron

Bring your family together by taking them back to nature, wherever you are, with fun, creative activities and adventures. Whether you live in a big city, in the suburbs, or out in the country, Josée Bergeron helps you find creative and simple ways to bring the rhythm of nature into your daily routine. Her new book, BEYOND THE FRONT DOOR: Embracing Nature for a Happier and Healthier Family (Morehead, February 2026) is an essential for parents of young children. Following

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THE GREEN SAHARA: Regaining Paradise in the Face of Climate Change, John Gaudet

A thoughtful exploration of how the Sahara Desert can be returned to its former glory as a green paradise while actively combating climate change. A green Sahara is something the world has not seen since 10,000 BC when the Sahara was a wet, lush region. By 3,000 BC though the climate changed, the rains stopped, and the ancient green Sahara dried into today’s desert. It was the victim of a phenomenon that reminds us today of global climate warming. But

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Author Spotlight

Hays

Tommy Hays is an acclaimed Southern writer, whose fiction grows out of his emotional connections to places he’s lived and known—Greenville, South Carolina; Asheville, North Carolina; and Atlanta.  His novel, The Marriage Bed, was published by Blair in March 2026.  His prior novels are The Pleasure Was Mine (St. Martin’s Press 2005), In the Family Way (Random House, 1999), Sam’s Crossing (Atheneum 1992), and YA novel What I Came to Tell You (Egmont, USA 2013). He has published stories, profiles

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