New This Week: August 20th

It’s New Books Tuesday and we have two new books that are now officially on sale wherever books are sold. Check them out below and browse all of our new books this month here.

Searching for Dr. Harris: The Life and Times of a Remarkable African American Physician by by Margaret Humphreys

“Humphreys has written a superb biography that makes a substantive contribution to the literature on Black people in the nineteenth century. Dr. Harris’s compelling story should matter to contemporary audiences who are interested in the antecedents of American medical training and its exclusionary structures and practices that still persist.”—Claude Clegg, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

“Searching for Dr. Harris is a complex and interesting analysis of Dr. Harris’s life and times. A masterful and thorough researcher, Margaret Humphreys offers readers a compelling and significant story that adds to our understanding of Black history in the American South.”—Todd Savitt, East Carolina University

Stories I Lived to Tell: An Appalachian Memoir edited by Gary Carden, Edited by Neal Hutcheson

“Gary Carden is the last of the lantern keepers and with him goes the flame. Stories I Lived to Tell makes me thankful for the immortality of the written word.”—David Joy, author of Those We Thought We Knew

“Gary Carden is a national treasure.”—Lee Smith, author of Dimestore: A Writer’s Life

“A complex exploration of Appalachia, but the true subject of this book is Gary Carden. His voice, his vulnerable confessions, his many ups and downs, these all reveal a well-considered and well-lived life.”—Jeremy B. Jones, author of Bearwallow: A Personal History of a Mountain Homeland