A handful of new books landed on my desk in the past week:

–Blues Empress in Black Chattanooga: Bessie Smith and the Emerging Urban South by Michelle R. Scott
(August 25, 2008)
–Women in American Journalism: A New History by Jan Whitt (September 1, 2008)
–The World of Soy edited by Christine M. Du Bois, Chee-Beng Tan, and Sidney Mintz (September 1, 2008)
–Lowering the Boom: Critical Studies in Film Sound by Jay Beck and Tony Grajeda (September 1, 2008)
–Spring poems by Oni Buchanan (September 15, 2008)

The publication dates are noted above but all will be available to order within the next week.