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Beyond the Burning Bus
The Civil Rights Revolution in a Southern Town
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
Anniston, Alabama, is a small industrial city between Birmingham and Atlanta. In 1961, the city’s potential for race-related violence was graphically revealed when the Ku Klux Klan firebombed a Freedom Riders bus. In response to that incident, a few black and white leaders in Anniston took a progressive...
by Frye Gaillard
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
More than twenty years ago, Robert Croshon, an elderly friend of Frye Gaillard's, told him the story of Croshon's ancestor, Gilbert Fields, an African-born slave in Georgia who led his family on a daring flight to freedom. Fields and his family ran away intending to travel north, but clouds obscured...
The 2013 BCS National Championship
A Reflection on America's Moral Equivalent of War, Occasioned by the Latest Meeting on the Gridiron of the Crimson Tide and Notre Dame
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
College football is a cultural dynamo, the sport that like no other taps into Americans’ martial spirit and evokes the fervor of religious faith. Further, it has been a fulcrum of social change; its schemes date back to Hannibal; and some of its themes are drawn from military history and Shakespeare’s...
Poor Man's Provence
Finding Myself in Cajun Louisiana
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2008
For over a decade, syndicated columnist Rheta Grimsley Johnson has been spending several months a year in Southwest Louisiana, deep in the heart of Cajun Country. Unlike many other writers who have parachuted into the swampy paradise for a few days or weeks, Rheta fell in love with the place, bought...
An Accidental Memoir
How I Killed Someone and Other Stories
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
On a rainy Tuesday morning in 1996, Wendy Reed’s car hydroplaned, crossed an interstate median, and crashed into an oncoming car, whose driver was killed. Though Reed and her son were unharmed and Reed initially described herself as "fine," in the months that followed she would be engulfed...
Forever Blue
The Memoirs of a Lanier High School and University of Kentucky Football Coach
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
Coach Bill Moseley?s inspiring guidance still resonates with his former players, and his story is one of exemplary and honest leadership. Growing up hardscrabble in Depression-era Montgomery, Alabama, Bill began his playing days at Sidney Lanier High School and the University of Kentucky, before joining...
by Lewis Grizzard
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
Lewis Grizzard always makes us laugh. But this time, when he tells us all about his father—a certified war hero and a shameless passer of bad checks . . . a charmer of men and women and a consummate con artist . . . a man of great courage and an alcoholic destined to drink himself to death—he’s...
by McGuinness, Phillipa
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
Writers, musicians, filmmakers, gamers, lawyers and academics talk about why copyright matters to them or doesn’t.We expect to be able to log on and read, watch or listen to anything, anywhere, anytime. Then copy it, share it, quote it, sample it, remix it. Does this leave writers, designers, filmmakers,...
Why Public Schools? Whose Public Schools?
What Early Communities Have To Tell Us
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
One of the most compelling issues in public education involves what it means for schools to be public. Are they public in funding or public in oversight and control? Are they public in the values they convey or in the standards they set? Are they public in deciding curriculum or only in access to...
by Hans Koning
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
During the plague year of 1358, Heron, a French student, decides to walk to the sea and then to seek passage to England. His journey symbolizes freedom, as he turns his back on both the ruling oligarchy and the peasant armies forming all over Europe. He travels through a chaotic wasteland, where armies...
by Clayton Sullivan
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2004
Raised in the Primitive Baptist Church, Beulah Buchanan at age 16 marries the much older deacon Ralph Rainey to escape from her oppressive parents, thus jumping from the frying pan into the fire. Over the next six years, Beulah works in her domineering husband’s cafe all day and cooks him dinner...
The Path Was Steep
A Memoir of Appalachian Coal Camps During the Great Depression
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
Sue Pickett was a coal miner’s daughter who became a coal miner’s wife and witnessed and lived through the turbulent years of the Great Depression and the sometimes violent struggles between labor unions and coal mine bosses throughout the Appalachian South—especially her native Alabama. The...
by William Cobb
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
William Cobb's first novel in nine years is a brilliant, quirky, highly readable story as compelling as it is original. Its main characters journey on parallel quests: Lester Ray, a fourteen-year-old boy who was deserted by his mother when he was a baby and has now escaped his abusive alcoholic father,...
by Jacqueline Trimble
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
American Happiness is an eclectic collection of verse from a bold poet of everyday life, Jacqueline Allen Trimble. Ironically titled, the work addresses everything from the death of parents to racial tension to the encroachment of coyotes into urban spaces. The title is taken from a poem in the book...