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————Our Authors———
(listed alphabetically)

Anton, Mary Sue

Bentley, Roy

Crews, James H.

Cuiellette, Ann

Cushman, Tom

Daigle, Jessicca

Dutt, Heinz and Karin (translators)

Ford, Jerry

Ford, Jerry (Dreamers)

Habel, Jenn

Hamblin, Robert (poetry)

Hamblin, Robert (lit. criticism, with Michael Lund)

Hamblin, Robert (editor, with Melanie Speight)

Hamblin, Robert (This House, This Town)

Hamblin, Robert (editor with Christopher Rieger)

Harte, Tom

Hearne, Dixon

Keathley, Bob (commissioned by)

Koch, Kevin

Kolin, Philip C. (editor, with Susan Swartwout)

Lund, Michael

Matthews, Edward C., III

McBride, Greg

Meyerhofer, Michael

Mosley, Jean Bell

Nienow, Matthew

Parker, Linda Busby

Rieger, Christopher (editor with Robert Hamblin)

Speight, Melanie (editor with Robert Hamblin)

Sprengel, C.M.

Suggs, George G., Jr. (interviewer & editor)

Swingle, Morley (The Gold of Cape Girardeau)

Swingle, Morley (Bootheel Man)

Taylor, Thomas A.

Thrower, Jon (editor, with Susan Swartwout)

Trowbridge, William

Tweedy, Joanna Beth

Wright, Alan Terry
 

 
     

—————Our Titles————
(listed alphabetically)

1700s in America

"About a little girl": A William Carlos Williams Poem and Its Legacy

Always After Our Fall

And God Answered: A Memoir

Back of the Envelope: Poems

Balancing on a Bootheel

Bootheel Man

Classic Creole: A Celebration of Food and Family

Cardboard Urn: Poems

Complete Book of Kong, The

Dreamers: Entertainers From Small Town to Big Time

Faulkner and Chopin

Faulkner and Twain

Gold of Cape Girardeau, The

Hurricane Blues: Poems about Katrina and Rita

In the Little House: Poems

Matthews: The Historic Adventures of a Pioneer Family

Mind the Gap: Poems by an American in London

Mortal Shield

Muhammad Ali and the Greatest Heavyweight Generation

Murder on Rouse Hill

New Madrid: A Mississippi River Town in History and Legend

Plantatia: High-toned and Low-down Stories of the South

Rush Hudson Limbaugh and His Times

Seven Laurels: A Novel

Stirring Words: Reflections and Recipes from A Harte Appetite

Strange Privacies: Poems

Two Sides of the Same Thing

This House, This Town

The Driftless Land

The Gordonville Grove: Stories of Tombstones, Tambourines, & Tammany Hall

The Yonder Side of Sass and Texas

What Has Not Yet Left
 


 

 Ford, Jerry

         
Dreamers

 

 

 

 

 


 

Available February 14, 2012

Dreamers: Entertainers From Small Town to Big Time

Publication: February 2012
Pages: 300

 


 

Paper, $22
ISBN: 978-0-9830504-2-1
 


 

 

Did you know that actor Carol Burnett has a connection to Southeast Missouri? So do the band TOTO, Frank Sinatra, and Kris Kristofferson!

"No one is more qualified than Jerry Ford to uncover entertainers of various genres from our area of the south central Midwest. The comments, quotes, and photos chronicled by Ford enhance these exciting and entertaining stories that propelled many from riverboats and local nightclubs to opera houses, concert venues, recordings, and TV shows around the world"      ―Leland J. "Freck" Shivelbine.

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Always After Our Fall

Publication: August 2011
Pages: 40

 


 

Paper, $6
ISBN: 978-0-9830504-1-4

   

"Like the paintings of Vermeer, Jessicca Daigle's alluring debut collection privileges the reader with moments so quiet they are all too often overlooked by others, despite the indelible ways in which they mark and transform an individual life.

―Jacqueline Kolosov

 

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Finalist in Arts & Letters 2010 Poetry Award and in Ruminate Magazine's 2010 Poetry Awards.

 






 
 

Cuiellette, Ann

 

 

 

 

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Classic Creole: A Celebration of Food and Family

Publication: 2011
Pages: 120

 


 

Paper, $21
ISBN: 978-0-9830504-0-7

 

 

  "I loved being in the kitchen with my mother and I absorbed all her passion for cooking. This book reflects my family story and our traditions; I hope you enjoy these recipes as much as I do."

Ann Cuiellette is a native of New Orleans who grew up in a large, Creole familythe twelfth of thirteen children. All of the dishes in this Cookbook are family recipes, but each include a story about Ann's experience with that dish growing up in a household filled with love, energy, camaraderie, sometimes chaos, but most of all great food! It's a Cookbook and a Storybook.


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Hamblin, Robert & Christopher Rieger

 

 

 

 

 

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Faulkner and Chopin

Publication: February 2011
Pages: 224

 


 

Paper, $15
ISBN: 978-0-9822489-9-7

 

 

   

The fifteen essays in this volume were selected from papers presented at the Faulkner and Chopin Conference hosted by Southeast Missouri State University's Center for Faulkner Studies in Cape Girardeau, October 2-4, 2008.

 

 

 

 

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The Gordonville Grove: Stories of Tombstones, Tambourines, & Tammany Hall

Publication: August, 2010
Pages: 180

 


 

Paper, $19
ISBN: 978-0-9822489-8-0

 

 

   

The Gordonville Grove and the small-town art of frontyard storytelling live on in these hilarious, no-holds-barred taleswitnessed, pretested, and collected by Jerry Ford.

 

 

 

 

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What Has Not Yet Left

Publication: July, 2010
Pages: 40

 


 

Chapbook, $6
ISBN: 978-0-9822489-7-3

 

 

   

An excerpt taken from the poem "The Arsonist's Wife Has Not Yet Left Him"

Nothing left to live for, the old man told the reporters
and all of us, his neighbors, gathered around him.
He brushed ash from his face and  looked back
at the bare, wet-black rafters of his new house
still smoking. You never forget this, he said, wiping
at the lines dragging soot down both cheeks.

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Koch, Kevin

The Driftless Land

Publication: May, 2010
Pages: 212
 


The Driftless Land, a collection of essays by Kevin Koch, Professor of English at Loras College in Dubuque, Iowa, is a search for the spirit of place among the bluffs, woodlands, and prairies of the Upper Mississippi River valley.
Koch observes, "You can 'love nature' and 'love the land'—but you won't know place until you've walked slowly and attentively through Lost Canyon or the Kickapoo Valley Reserve or Swiss Valley or Trempealeau Mountain, and then returned to learn what you can about them."

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Paper, $19
ISBN: 978-0-9822489-6-6

 

           

   
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Hamblin, Robert

This House, This Town:
One Couple's Love Affair with an Old House and a Histori
c Town

Publication: March, 2010
Pages: 176

 
 Jay Martin, author of Journey to Heavenly Mountain:

"I read This House, This Town at one sitting, something I rarely do. The book is like a faceted diamond that you turn round and round, so that the light keeps falling on the varied colors and dazzlements of the jewel. Its center is the grasping, roving imagination of Bob Hamblin that sets one perspective after another on fire. After a while, the reader rushes a bit towards the section ending, because one has been taught to anticipate finding calm elegance there."

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Paper, $12
ISBN: 978-0-9822489-5-9

 

           

   
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Cushman, Tom

 

Muhammad Ali
and the Greatest Heavyweight Generation

Publication: October, 2009
Pages: 208
 


 

Tom Cushman, one of boxing's great sportswriters, followed the "Ali generation" of fighters from New York to Las Vegas, Nassau to Zaire, reporting for the Philadelphia Daily News from 19661982 and for the San Diego Tribune, 19821992. Muhammad Ali and the Greatest Heavyweight Generation chronicles the behind-the-scenes stories of the great athletes in boxing's biggest-and-best age—their victories and struggles, crimes and passions, heydays and swansongs.

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Paper, $19
ISBN: 978-0-9822489-28

 

Cloth, $35
ISBN: 978-0-9822489-35


Hearne, Dixon

 

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Plantatia:
High-toned and Low-down Stories of the South

Publication: 2009
Pages:
217

 


Paper, $19
ISBN: 978-0-9822489-11

 

 

Norman German, fiction editor, Louisiana Literature; author of A Savage Wisdom:

"Plantatia offers a buffet of headstrong and sassy stories sure to please every palate. Dixon Hearne is your acerbic tour guide through the high- and lowlife settings of an Old South revitalized by his keen eye and ear. These stories move with the patience of Eudora Welty and the confidence of Flannery O’Connor. To steal one of Dixon Hearne's phrases, you'll leave these stories "with your heart laughing out loud."

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Faulkner and Twain

Publication: 2009
Pages: 254
 


Paper, $15
ISBN: 978-0-9798714-74

 

The fifteen papers included in this volume edited by Robert W. Hamblin and Melanie Speight were presented at the Faulkner and Twain Conference hosted by Southeast Missouri State University’s Center for Faulkner Studies in Cape Girardeau, October 19–21, 2006.

 

The various essays discuss Faulkner’s and Twain’s treatment of such topics as humor, the frontier, the Mississippi River, race relations, politics, detective fiction and death.

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New Madrid:
A Mississippi River Town in History and Legend

Publication: 2009
Pages: 328
 


Paper, $19
ISBN: 978-0-9822489-04

 

 

New Madrid's pioneers reveal their past and their stories through letters, newspapers, official records, and other sources. The author takes the reader through the town's history, recounting tales of legendary people whose lives crossed with those of area residents.

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Tweedy, Joanna Beth

 

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The Yonder Side of Sass and Texas

Publication: 2009
Pages:
177


Paper, $19
ISBN: 978-0-9798714-67

 

 

 

 

Raised deep in the Shawnee Hills amid hogback bluffs, a roundabout river, and unending family, two divergent sisters share a colorful journey: first through childhood in a place both blessed and cursed by the hybrid footprints of the Appalachia and Ozark regions surrounding it, and then into the world beyond, compelled by their shared wanderlust.

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Habel, Jenn

 



In the Little House

2008 Copperdome Poetry Chapbook Contest Winner

Publication: 2009
Pages: 28


Chapbook, $6
ISBN 13: 978-0-9798714-81

 

   

"There are books that leave us, once we have turned the last page, with a soft, clear tone that overrides ideas or emotional impressions. It is the music of grief and desire, when grief and desire have become indistinguishably joined. Jenn Habel's In the Little House is such a collection."

                David Keplinger

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Back of the Envelope

Publication: 2009
Pages: 36


Chapbook, $6
 ISBN: 978-0-9798714-98

 

 

 

 

"From Okinawa to Vietnam to the marital bed, these poems pack a punch—and a caress. Military and domestic battlegrounds are viewed close up, through the unsparing eye of a photographer. And yet these poems fairly bristle with restrained emotion. These are decent, honorable poems, and under them all is a fine music that makes the grief more bearable."

                —Barbara Goldberg

Finalist for the 2009 DeNovo First Book Award

               

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Lund, Michael & Robert Hamblin
 



"About a little girl":
A William Carlos Williams Poem and Its Legacy


Publication: 2008
Pages: 72


 

Vinyl Cover, Perfect Bound, List Price: $25
Price through our website: $15
ISBN: 978-0-9798714-
50

 

Dr. Michael Lund and his brother Carl donated the original poem "About a little girl" by William Carlos Williams to Kent Library at Southeast Missouri State University. As part of the celebration of such a unique acquisition, the University Press produced a small artbook that includes the poem, a facsimile of the original artifact, photos, and essays by families of both William Carlos Williams and Marian Macy Lund. The essays include an introduction by Dr. Robert Hamblin that charts the voyage of the poem into Kent Library's safekeeping, an essay by Michael Lund tracing the place and importance of literature in his family, a short explication of the poem, and afterwords by Suzy Williams Sinclaire and Daphne Williams Fox about their illustrious family member.

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Taylor, Thomas A.
 

 

 

Mortal Shield:
A Novel


Publication: April 4, 2008
Pages: 306
 


Paper, $19
ISBN: 978-09798714-12

Cloth, $35
ISBN: 978-09798714-05

 

In the real world, public figures are faced with hazardous situations every day. Stalkers, inappropriate or threatening communications, and unwelcome approaches are all part of public life. The fiction thriller Mortal Shield, by protection-expert Thomas Taylor, delves into the hearts and minds of bodyguards, the dignitaries they protect, and the opponents they attempt to foil. Mortal Shield is a realistic and spellbinding portrayal of protection work, which captures the everyday challenge of guarding high-level VIPs.

Finalist in ForeWord Magazine's 2008 Book of the Year Award

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Nienow, Matthew
 

 

 

Two Sides of the Same Thing:
Poems

2007 Copperdome Poetry Chapbook Contest Winner

Publication:  2007
Pages: 32


Chapbook, $6
ISBN: 978-0-9798714-29

 

"With 'dark swollen words and shifting air,' Matthew Nienow builds poems as if building boats, 'each strip like a tree's growth,' and 'asking the question rivers are always asking: why?' From Nienow I am grateful to have learned that poetry 'is movement with one desire: to pull at whatever it touches.' There is much talk these days of the importance of a poet's voice. But here we have proof that a poet's earfor music, for complexity, for 'the prodigal aria returning home'is just as important."

—Todd Boss

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Bootheel Man:
A Novel


Publication: November 2007
Pages: 424


Paper, $19
ISBN: 978-09798714-43

Cloth, $35
ISBN: 978-09798714-36

When Allison Culbertson takes the case of Joey Red Horse, an Osage Indian charged with stealing a sacred artifact from the Heartland Mound Builder Museum, she finds herself in the middle of a courtroom battle pitting contemporary American Indians against a private museum over legal rights to the bones of "Bootheel Man," a Native American who lived, fought, and loved Cahokia and Southeast Missouri in the year 1050.

Finalist in the 2008 William Rockhill Nelson Award

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Wright, Alan Terry
 

Murder on Rouse Hill:
Based upon the true story of the 1915 slaying
of Jasper Jacob "Jap" Francis
near the tiny Ozark railroad town of Stoutland, Missouri

Publication: August 2007
Pages: 452


Paper, $19
ISBN: 978-09760413-99

Around noon, November 22, 1915, everyone in Stoutland, Missouri, who could walk or ride rushed to view the mortal remains of one of the area's most prosperous farmers and leading citizens. Hidden in a brush pile on nearby Rouse Hill, the victim's body displayed the marks of a determined and vicious killer.

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Mosley, Jean Bell


 

 

 

And God Answered:
A Memoir by Jean Bell Mosley

Publication: 2007
Pages: 272


Paper, $15
ISBN: 978-0-9760413-7-5

Cloth, $25
ISBN: 978-0-9760413-8-2

 

And God Answered: A Memoir invites us into the life of Jean Bell Mosley, who grew up on a rural Missouri farm, through the Depression, wars, the triumphs of country know-how and formal education, the loss of loved ones and the celebration of new birth, and the ever-present influences of God, nature, and the events of the twentieth century.

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Kolin, Philip C. & Susan
Swartwout (editors)


 

Hurricane Blues:
Poems about Katrina and Rita

Publication: 2006
Pages: 184


Paper, $17
ISBN 10: 0-9760413-5-9
ISBN 13: 978-0-9760413-5-1

 

Hurricane Blues is a unique artifact of American history: an anthology of original poems about the two most infamous hurricanes of 2005. Many of these poems are eyewitness accounts—written by both distinguished and emerging poets, all of whom were moved by the destruction of a legendary American city and the roughly 300-mile radius within Katrina's wrath.

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Harte, Tom
 

 

Stirring Words:
Reflections and Recipes from A Harte Appetite

Publication: 2006
Pages: 408


Paper, $22
ISBN 10: 0-9760413-4-0
ISBN 13: 978-0-9760413-4-4

 

Whether he's championing the virtues of funnel cake or recounting his experiences judging a national pie contest, Harte is often whimsical, always informative, and never uninteresting in his "culinary reflections" on such topics as the history of food, the logic behind common recipe conventions, the nomenclature of food, homages to great gourmets such as Julia Child and Thomas Jefferson, or tributes to great ingredients such as brown sugar and butter. His over-200 carefully selected recipes will be a welcome addition to anyone's files.

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Thrower, Jon & Susan Swartwout (editors)


 

 

Balancing on a Bootheel:
New Voices in Poetry from Southeast Missouri

Publication: 2006
Pages: 76


Paper, $10
ISBN 10: 0-9760413-3-2
ISBN 13: 978-0-9760413-3-7

 

The poets featured in this collection are young writers from Southeast Missouri, and they represent some of the exciting talent popping up in the area. They are involved in local writing collectives, work with various literary magazines, and have been published in various literary magazines.

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Bentley, Roy


 

Strange Privacies:
Poems


2006 Copperdome Poetry Chapbook Contest Winner

Publication:  2006
Pages: 28


Chapbook, $5
ISBN 10: 0-9760413-6-7
ISBN 13: 978-0-9760413-6-8

 

An excerpt from Section 3: My Father Dressing Me as Zorro, taken from the poem "Listening to Coltrane on the 4th of July":

Now I've lowered a mask over my face

The eye-slits don't fit, and I can't see.

I scent the smoke of his cigarette. I tell him

they turned off the electricity, the gas and phone,

that neighbors fed us after he left. I'm feeling

in the gift box for a toy rapier, which I wave

between us. He tells me to stop horsing around:

this close, one of us is likely to get hurt.

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Meyerhofer, Michael
 

 

 

Cardboard Urn:
Poems

Our 2005 Copperdome Poetry Chapbook
Contest Winner

Publication: 2005
Pages: 40


Chapbook, $5
ISBN 10: 0-9760413-2-4
ISBN 13: 978-0-9760413-2-0

 

"Inquisitive and insightful, the poems of Michael Meyerhofer aren't afraid to go to those weird places other poets fear or dismiss. There's equal parts humor and pathos in this poet, and he brings us poems that regard the world with a certain lyric skepticism that, nonetheless, wants to believe in all those old-fashioned ancient truths—beauty, harmony, peace. Meyerhofer's poems are much more durable than the 'Cardboard Urn' of this collection's title poem—they are resilent, incisive, and ultimately, redemptive."

—Allison Joseph, poet

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Sprengel, C.M.
 

 

 

1700s in America:
The Historical Genealogical Calendar of Worldwide Events

for the 1784 World's Fair at Leipzig

Publication: 2004
Pages: 278


Cloth, $30
ISBN 10: 0-9724304-9-0
ISBN 13: 978-0-9724304-9-4

 

1700s in America illuminated the strength of our country's early settlers in a new voice from a distant past, a German historian from the 18th century who describes the birth of a nation from a European perspective.

Contains illustrated coins, full-color flags and uniforms, and 18 copperplate engravings, and a rare map of the American territories circa 1783!

Translated by Heinz & Karin Dutt
Commissioned by Bob Keathley

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Hamblin, Robert
 

 

Mind the Gap:
Poems by an American in London


Publication: 2004
Pages: 98


Paper, $12
ISBN 10: 0-9724304-6-6
ISBN 13: 978-0-9724304-6-3

"Mind the Gap is a compendium of free-verse poetry that evokes imagination and wonder from observing the longstanding grandeur of London and the activities of both the ordinary and the eccentric people who live there. Mind the Gap is a verbal feast of impressions for the imagination."

The Bookwatch, Midwest Book Review

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Matthews, Edward C., III
 

 

 

Matthews:
 The Historic Adventures of a Pioneer Family

Publication: 2004
Pages: 306


Paper, $19
ISBN 10: 0-9760413-0-8
ISBN 13: 978-0-9760413-0-6

Cloth, $35
ISBN 10: 0-9760413-1-6
ISBN 13: 978-0-9760413-1-3

 

Spanning more than 200 years and 8 generations, the story of the Matthews family is an account of the birth of a nation, the settlement of the Louisiana Territory, and the subsequent growth and development of Southeast Missouri.

Winner of the 2005 Fred Kniffen Book Award

Winner of the 2006 Missouri Endowment for the Humanities' Governor's Book Award

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Parker, Linda Busby
                                  

 

 

Seven Laurels:
A Novel

Publication: 2004
Pages: 336


Paper, $19
ISBN 10: 0-9724304-7-4
ISBN 13: 978-0-9724304-7-0

Cloth, $35
ISBN 10: 0-9724304-8-2
ISBN 13: 978-0-9724304-8-7

 

The novel traces the life of African-American Brewster McAtee, a hardworking and innovative carpenter, as he struggles for his dreams to own land and build a home and respectability in rural Alabama. When the Civil Rights Movement explodes, he is drawn into the core of the conflict, where he and his family face the ultimate loss from which they may never recover.

Winner of the James Jones First Novel Award

Winner of the Langum Award for Historical Fiction

Selected by Booklist as a top choice for adults and young adults

 

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Trowbridge, William
 

The Complete Book of Kong:
Poems

Publication: 2003
Pages: 64


Paper, $14
ISBN 10: 0-9724304-5-8
ISBN 13: 978-0-9724304-5-6

Cloth, $24
ISBN 10: 0-9724304-4-X
ISBN 13: 978-0-9724304-4-9

Kong is hip and horrendous, always terribly in love with a small, screaming blonde, and still bearing the biggest, brightest heart that Hollywood has ever broken. Kong treads fortissimo where mortals fear to go and holds forth in these poems with the fresh, no-nonsense voice that makes Trowbridge one of poetry's most cutting-edge bards.

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Suggs, Dr. George G., Jr.
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Rush Hudson Limbaugh and His Times:
Reflections on a Life Well Lived

Publication: 2003
Pages: 224

 

Paper, $15
ISBN 10: 0-9724304-2-3
ISBN 13: 978-0-9724304-2-5

Cloth, $35
ISBN 10: 0-9724304-3-1
ISBN 13: 978-0-9724304-3-2

 

This series of interviews with Rush H. Limbaugh explores his life as a man who, from his humble beginnings, rose with talent and hard work to great achievement and prominence in his chosen profession of law.

Includes a biographical sketch by Stephen N. Limbaugh

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Swingle, Morley
 

The Gold of Cape Girardeau:
A Novel

Publication: 2002
Pages: 292


Paper, $19.95
ISBN 10: 0-9724304-0-7
ISBN 13: 978-0-9724304-0-1

Cloth, $35
ISBN 10: 0-9724304-1-5
ISBN 13: 978-0-9724304-1-8

An exciting historical novel that begins and ends with a modern-day courtroom drama over buried treasure. The secrets of the treasure emerge in a journey back to the steamboating days along the Mississippi River. Two young lovers face myriad trials and adventures together until—in the ultimate test of their love—the Civil War places them, their community, and an entire nation in devastating turmoil.

Winner of the 2005 Missouri Endowment for the Humanities' Governor's Book Award

Selected for the United We Read program in Cape Girardeau, Missouri

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