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So Far From Home
Royal Air Force and Free French Air Force Flight Training at Maxwell and Gunter Fields during World War II
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
During World War II, the US Army Air Forces (AAF) trained over 21,000 aircrew members from 29 Allied countries. The two largest programs, 79 percent of those trained, were for Britain and France. The Royal Air Force (RAF), fully engaged against the German Air Force by December 1940, was not able to...
by Daniel J. Meador
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
Transformative Years is Daniel Meador's account of his four years as dean of the School of Law at the University of Alabama from 1966 to 1970. Those were indeed transformative years, bridging the Law School of the past to the Law School of the future. Working on the premise that this institution was...
The Secret Ingredient
More Musings from the Ronald McDonald House
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
Tom Soma's weekly "musings" on the Ronald McDonald House Charities of Oregon and Southwest Washington web page have helped him to share and understand all that he's witnessed while working at the Ronald McDonald House. In this follow-up to Soma's first collection, No Small Thing, he shares...
Drawing by Stealth
John Trumbull and the Creek Indians
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
In this provocative essay, the authors explore how John Trumbull, famed painter of the American Revolutionary War period, came to make sketches of five Creek Indian leaders in New York in 1790. By chance, Trumbull was painting George Washington’s portrait for the City of New York when a delegation...
Charles Darwin
A Celebration of His Life and Legacy
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
Charles Darwin (1809–82) changed the world forever with the 1859 publication of On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection. Charles Darwin: A Celebration of His Life and Legacy is an anthology of critical writings that grew out of a lecture series, hosted by Auburn University, held on...
A Rare Titanic Family
The Caldwells' Story of Survival
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
Albert and Sylvia Caldwell were one of those rare Titanic families who lived through the tragedy at sea. Their lucky rescue aboard the Lifeboat 13 is told for the first time here. But the trip was only one part of a bigger nightmare. The Caldwells has been Presbyterian missionaries in Bangkok, Siam,...
The Chairman
The Rise and Betrayal of Jim Greer
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2014
The Chairman, a Shakespearean tale of friendship and betrayal that rivals that of Hamlet, is the harrowing story of Jim Greer, a man loyal to a fault to Florida Governor Charlie Crist, his benefactor. Greer trusts Crist to protect him from the onslaught of the Tea Party wing of the party, only to...
The Forest and the Trees
A Memoir of a Man, a Family, and a Company
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2015
Norman Floyd McGowin Jr., author of The Forest and the Trees: A Memoir of a Man, a Family, and a Company, was born into a prosperous family whose W. T. Smith Lumber Company dominated the small town of Chapman in Butler County in south Alabama. Family members achieved distinction in business, politics,...
In the Midst of Life
A Hospice Volunteer's Story
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2007
In the Midst of Life is a moving, evocatively described narrative of the patients and caregivers Charles Rose encountered as a hospice volunteer. It is also a perceptive account of his own journey into the world of the dying—a journey that in the end brings him, and us, more deeply and compassionately into the transitory world of our own lives.
by Kathryn Tucker Windham
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2004
This is the first anthology of the author’s own favorite ghost stories from the highly successful Jeffrey series of books that began in 1969 with “13 Alabama Ghosts and Jeffrey.” Hundreds of thousands of these books have been sold. The present volume includes 13 of the best of Mrs. Windham’s...
by Clifton L. Taulbert
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2014
When international lecturer Clifton Taulbert receives an unexpected invitation to supper in Allendale, South Carolina, he brings with him Little Cliff, the colored boy from the Mississippi Delta who is also Clifton Taulbert, carrying all he was taught as a child about staying "in his place"...
Overheard in a Drugstore
And Other Poems
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
Andrew Glaze's poetry has been described as "funny, quixotic, and very wise," while writer Norman Rosten once called him "a serious, irreverent poet, capable of setting off fireworks in the museum." Overheard in a Drugstore continues in that maverick tradition, offering poems that...
Professor-Politician
The Biography of Alabama Congressman Glen Browder
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
Professor-Politician challenges common depictions of politics as a constant struggle of good-versus-evil and heroes-versus-villains, with “dirty politics” usually winning. The truth is that good government can prevail in Montgomery and Washington. Journalist Geni Certain recounts Glen Browder’s...
Wings of Opportunity
The Wright Brothers in Montgomery, Alabama, 1910
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010
In 1910, Orville and Wilbur Wright opened the first US civilian flight school in Montgomery, Alabama. The Wright Brothers hoped to find a climate warmer and more hospitable to flying than their company base of snowy Dayton, Ohio, even as forward-thinking Montgomerians heralded the school as a way...