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

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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.

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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

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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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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