Curnutt's Breathing Out the Ghost named Best of the Year

The Indiana Center for the Book, a program of the Indiana State Library and an affiliate of the Center for the Book in the Library of Congress, named Kirk Curnutt’s novel Breathing Out the Ghost as the Fiction of the Year in its 2008 Best Books of Indiana Awards Ceremony in Indianapolis on August 16, 2008.

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STAYING AHEAD OF THE POSSE: THE BEN JOBE STORY

Ben Jobe ’s life—forty-some years of coaching, teaching, nurturing, and mentoring—intersected with and was influenced by all of those developments. And despite a self-described lifetime of “staying ahead of the posse,” he’s now ready to take a stand, tell his story, and in the process put a torch to what he considers a few myths, the myth of “integration,” the myth of a “benevolent” NCAA, among many others.


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2008 FRED BONNIE AWARD WINNER ANNOUNCED

River City Publishing is proud to announce Marie Manilla as the winner of the 2008 Fred Bonnie Award contest. Her novel Shrapnel was chosen from among five finalists by this year's judge Daniel Wallace (Big Fish , Mr. Sebastian and the Negro Magician).

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Other Fred Bonnie Award Winners

2006: The Space Between / Kali Vanbaale

2004: Course of the Waterman / Nancy Taylor Robson

2002: Cloud Cuckoo Land / Lisa Borders

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RCP TITLES WIN AWARDS

The Before Columbus Foundation is pleased to announce that The Space Between by Kali Vanbaale has been selected as a winner of the twenty-eighth annual AMERICAN BOOK AWARDS for 2007.

The Hand of Esau: Montgomery's Jewish Community and the Bus Boycott, by Mary Stanton has won a 2007 National "Best Book" Award--first place in the category of Religion: Judaism  from USA Book News. The web site is usabooknews.com

 

The ForeWord Magazine On-Line Book Club has chosen Breathing Out the Ghost, by Kirk Curnutt, as their December 2007 book club book.

 

 

  

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King of Country

Wayne Greenhaw

Bobby Lee Butler has the gift of country music. Given an old guitar, his fingers soon learn to summon forth the music, sweet and lonely. His voice shapes itself into spirituals, gospels, eventually to the blues and boogie tunes that are in his blood. Bobby Lee’s talent carries him from Montgomery (where he lands a singing job on a local radio station) to Nashville (where the Grand Ole Opry is just a stepping stone to a career on national radio, television, and stunning record sales). He is loved by women wherever they can find him, while his wife and children would love just to see him.

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