Joe Formichella: 3 books

In March of 1948, Jackie Robinson and the Brooklyn Dodgers came to Mobile, Alabama for an exhibition game. While the city’s black population was thrilled to see the man who broke Major League Baseball’s color barrier, Robinson’s brief appearance did more for one man than fuel his excitement...

The passengers boarding the 'Twilight Limited' — a newly graduated physician, a retired couple finally taking the leisurely vacation theyve always dreamed of, and a lonely writer — are unaware they are speeding toward an unfathomable disaster and possibly their doom. Nor is a friendly tugboat captain...

The “Last Best Class” of Fish River Community School had lost one of its members every year since the second grade. Waffle Houses were popping up throughout small-town Alabama with one corporate rule: "Good Food Fast." Struggling to cope with the tragedy that shadowed him most of his...