Newsouth Books: 150 books
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,...
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.
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...
Storming the State House
The Campaign That Liberated Alabama from 136 Years of Democrat Rule
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
Storming the State House provides a revealing, behind-the-scenes look into the campaign that elected Alabama’s first Republican legislature in modern history and liberated the state from 136 years of Democrat Party rule. Written by Speaker of the House Mike Hubbard, it is a battlefield account by...
Better Than Them
The Unmaking of an Alabama Racist
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
"You are better than them. Don't forget it," a grandmother whispers to her grandson, S. M. "Mac" Otts. The year is 1965, and an eighteen-year-old boy stands curbside in his Black Belt hometown—weapon in hand—defiant before a peaceful civil rights demonstration. Violent pandemonium...
Bus Ride to Justice (Revised Edition)
Changing the System by the System, the Life and Works of Fred Gray
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
First published in 1995, Bus Ride to Justice, the best-selling autobiography by acclaimed civil rights attorney Fred D. Gray, appears now in a newly revised edition that updates Gray’s remarkable career of “destroying everything segregated that I could find.” Of particular interest will be the...
by John Pritchard
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2008
Junior Ray Loveblood, one of the most outrageous and original personalities to appear in American literature in many years, returns in The Yazoo Blues, the sequel to John Pritchard’s Junior Ray. Now semi-retired, Loveblood works as a security guard in one of the floating casinos that have replaced...
Life and Death Matters
Seeking the Truth About Capital Punishment
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2008
Dr. Robert Baldwin would be the first to tell you that he used to be an average white Southern male; a family man with conservative ideals and a growing medical practice, he was living out his life without too much introspection. In 1997, however, Baldwin was diagnosed with the auto-immune disease,...
by Dr. Ibrahim Fawal
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
In this sequel to Ibrahim Fawal's critically acclaimed On the Hills of God (winner of the PEN Oakland Award), the young Palestinian Yousif Safi searches throughout Jordan for Salwa, his bride, from whom he was separated during their forced exodus after the catastrophe (Nakba) of 1948. Amidst the squalor...
A Hard Rain
America in the 1960s, Our Decade of Hope, Possibility, and Innocence Lost
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2018
Frye Gaillard has given us a deeply personal history, bringing his keen storyteller’s eye to this pivotal time in American life. He explores the competing story arcs of tragedy and hope through the political and social movements of the times — civil rights, black power, women’s liberation, the...
by William Heath
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2014
Winner of the Hackney Literary Award and selected in 2002 by Time as one of the eleven best novels on the African American experience, The Children Bob Moses Led is a compelling, powerful chronicle of the events of Freedom Summer. The novel is narrated in alternating sections by Tom Morton, a white...
by Gerald Duff
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
The 1920s literary magazine The Fugitive transformed Vanderbilt University into the home of New Criticism, spearheaded by a group of young poets. In Fugitive Days, author and professor Gerald Duff recalls meeting the poets, now older and accomplished, including Robert Penn Warren, John Crowe Ransom,...