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21.05.12

N Seventh-grader Anthony Wescott is in trouble again. His specialty is time travel and now, in Season of the Cold Moon (Beanpole Books), he's headed back into the 1830s to save a young Cherokee boy on the Trail of Tears. Westcott is a figment of local writer Dianne C. Stewart's imagination, and this is the third and last book in her Quimbaya Trilogy for young people.

n "Fortunate are those who see / Flowers and critters / Instead of weeds and varmints / As they go by this way." Knox County artist and poet Nancy Herrell Lockwood calls them "children in disguise" — the little birds, mice, owls, chipmunks and other creatures she has spent a lifetime observing, drawing and writing about. A Wonder Journal: Fifty Years of Awe and Audacity (Koinonia Associates) is a collection of these lessons from nature, told through stories, poems and affectionate charcoal renditions. Both she and her husband Bob, who is a minister, call the woods their "sanctuary."

n Sometimes we find our own story by listening to another's. Sometimes we heal ourselves by being part of the healing of another. This is the thrust of Knoxville psychoanalyst Carolyn Dobbins' new book, What a Life Can Be: One Therapist's Take on Schizo-Affective Disorder (Bridgeross Communications).Using as point of reference a client of hers Dobbins calls "Jane," readers move into the mind, heart, actions and reactions of both the wounded and the well-maker. Having herself been diagnosed with Schizo-Affective Disorder at age 23, and also having served as a professional in the mental health field for 22 years, Dobbins has a unique perspective on wholeness and how one finds that path.

Source: Knoxville News Sentinel