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Yes Yes Yes
Australia's Journey to Marriage Equality
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2018
Yes Yes Yes, written by two advocates intimately involved in the struggle for marriage equality, reveals the untold story of how a grassroots movement won hearts and minds and transformed a country. From its tentative origins in 2004, through to a groundswell of public support, everyday people contributed so much to see marriage equality become law.
Ten Stars
The African American Journey of Gary Cooper—Marine General, Diplomat, Businessman, and Politician
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2016
Ten Stars is a nonfiction narrative -- part biography, part oral history -- of the life story of Gary Cooper, an African American born in the depths of Jim Crow to an Alabama family that challenged the rule of segregation. The Cooper extended family, described in interludes at points within the book,...
by Howard Frankl
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
Howard Frankl's God, Sex, Drugs and Other Things begins with three essays on subjects found in the title: one essay on drugs, one on sex and one on God. The "Other Things" turn out to be Money and Murder, and there is an essay on each of these topics. The book comes to a close with a short...
Dark Roast
A Collection of Poems of Nostalgia and Reflection
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Dark Roast is the fourth collection of poetry from Ed George, of Prattville, Alabama, focusing on nostalgia and reflection. He is an attorney and education management consultant who likes to try his hand at songwriting, poetry, and painting when he's not playing softball or tennis.
by Robert Jeff Norrell
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
In Eden Rise Tom McKee, a white college freshman, returns to his home in the Alabama Black Belt in the summer of 1965 and becomes embroiled in a civil-rights conflict that divides his family, his town, and his own identity. His wealthy and powerful family is not prepared for the shocks that have followed...
Go and Be Reconciled
Alabama Methodists Confront Racial Injustice, 1954-1974
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2018
During the climactic years of the civil rights movement in the Deep South, a closely related struggle was going on within the United Methodist Church. That denomination, second only in membership in the region to the Southern Baptists, was slowly moving toward integration under mandate from its national...
Hairy, Scary, but Mostly Merry Fairies!
Curing Nature Deficiency through Folklore, Imagination, and Creative Activities
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017
Author Renee Simmons Raney believes that every child deserves his or her own personal landscape in which to seek adventure and unleash creativity. Through this charming storybook, Renee weaves fairy stories, enhancing the natural world with supernatural creatures, and connecting children to diverse...
Sports Rehabilitation and the Human Spirit
How the Landmark Program at the Lakeshore Foundation Rebuilds Bodies and Restores Lives
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
Sports Rehabilitation and the Human Spirit tells the intersecting story of a man, Michael E. Stephens, and an organization, the Lakeshore Foundation of Birmingham, Alabama, whose campus is world-renowned for rehabilitation, sports, and fitness services for children and adults who have experienced...
Nicaraguan Gringa
Claiming a Home
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
After her father's death, Sarah Rutledge returns from North Carolina to Nicaragua in an attempt to prevent the family's property from being expropriated by the Sandinista government. The novel begins with Sarah's childhood on the coffee farm where her British-American family has lived for almost a...
Requiem for a Flower Child
A Jake Falcon Mystery
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2015
A dying blues singer is murdered and private detective Jake Falcon, introduced in Missing in Paradise, goes all out to track down the killer and find the victim’s daughter, who seems not to exist. The search leads to the dregs of a black-market adoption ring that once flourished within the shadows...
by Mark Ethridge
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
Josh Gibbs decided he was through with investigative reporting when controversy derailed his Pulitzer Prize ambitions in Atlanta. Now editor of a weekly paper, he gets two pieces of news from Dr. Allison Wright that change everything. The first is that his daughter has cancer. The second -- that a...
by Roger Reid
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2015
When 14-year-old Jason Caldwell goes camping with his scientist parents, all he expects is peace and quiet. But before they arrive, Jason has already been the witness to a crime, and soon he’ll find himself lost among the very longleaf pines that his parents hoped to study. Now Jason—and his new...
Eugene Bullard
World's First Black Fighter Pilot
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
Pioneering black aviator Eugene Bullard, descended from slaves, became the world’s first black fighter pilot, though he was barred from serving the United States because of the color of his skin. Growing up in Georgia, Bullard faced discrimination and the threat of lynching. He ran away from home...
by Anna Olswanger
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
In Anna Olswanger’s Greenhorn, a young Holocaust survivor arrives at a New York yeshiva in 1946 where he will study and live. His only possession is a small box that he never lets out of his sight. Daniel, the young survivor, rarely talks, but the narrator, a stutterer who bears the taunts of the...