uscpress.com - Story River Books https://uscpress.com/ Jacob Jump https://uscpress.com/book-post/3061260/Jacob-Jump
Jacob Jump, the dark and meticulously crafted first novel from Eric Morris, follows a weeklong ill-fated boating trip down the Savannah River from Augusta, Georgia, to the lighthouse at Tybee…]]>
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The Vain Conversation https://uscpress.com/book-post/3061417/The-Vain-Conversation
"An incisive, gripping, and empathetic novel." — Kirkus Reviews [starred review]

An engrossing novel based on the true story of the 1946 lynching of two Black couples in Georgia.
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The Ex-suicide https://uscpress.com/book-post/3061387/The-Ex-suicide
A high-society Southern satire about an heir's battle with his domineering mother, society's expectations, and his own mental health

The Ex-Suicide, Katherine Clark's fourth Mountain Br…]]>
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One Good Mama Bone https://uscpress.com/book-post/3061365/One-Good-Mama-Bone
A novel of courageous parental love and the instructive, healing bonds that form between humans and animals

Set in early 1950s rural South Carolina, One Good Mama Bone chronicles Sarah…]]>
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Messenger from Mystery https://uscpress.com/book-post/3061361/Messenger-from-Mystery
Young and in love, an American student becomes entangled in the Iranian hostage crisis in this literary thriller

Deno Trakas's novel Messenger from Mystery features English graduate stu…]]>
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The Harvard Bride https://uscpress.com/book-post/3061343/The-Harvard-Bride
A social satire and a richly nuanced love story of Southern newlyweds who settle in privileged Mountain Brook

Katherine Clark's The Harvard Bride begins with the lavish Mountain Brook w…]]>
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A Question of Mercy https://uscpress.com/book-post/3061342/A-Question-of-Mercy
A cross-country odyssey that examines the blurred line between what is legal and what is right

Adam Finney, a young man who is mentally disabled, faces sterilization and lobotomy in a s…]]>
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All the Governor's Men https://uscpress.com/book-post/3061303/All-the-Governors-Men
A political satire that reimagines George Wallace's last run for governor of Alabama

It's the summer of George Wallace's last run for governor of Alabama in 1982, and the state is at a…]]>
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The Cigar Factory https://uscpress.com/book-post/3061286/The-Cigar-Factory
An empowering story of families and friendships forged through struggle, loss, and redemption

"The sun leaned for down bringing shade to the waterfront," begins Michele Moore's entranci…]]>
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The Stone Necklace https://uscpress.com/book-post/3061285/The-Stone-Necklace
Named a 2017 STAR AWARD winner by the Women's Fiction Writers Association • A story of four intersecting lives and the events that transform them all

Clawing chest pains and a fiery car…]]>
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