Newsouth Books: 150 books
by Faye Gibbons
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
Times are hard in Depression-era Georgia mountain country. Even so, fourteen-year-old Halley Owenby, her younger brother, Robbie, and their parents, Jim and Kate, manage to get by until Jim dies suddenly in an accident, and Kate decides she and her children have no choice but to move in with her parents....
Why Not Win?
Reflections on a fifty-year journey from the segregated South to America’s board rooms – and what it can teach us all
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2019
Aspiring business owners and executives seeking to climb to the next rung, young to mid-career professionals seeking tools for life achievement, and general readers interested in biographies of successful people will like Larry Thornton’s “Why Not Win?”. The book is a front-row seat to how one...
Anchors of Faith
Early Wooden Churches of the Deep South
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
Reflecting times of untrammeled faith and religious values, Martha Dickson's Anchors of Faith gives a pictorial overview of 145 mostly late-nineteenth century wooden churches located in southern Alabama, Mississippi, and throughout Florida. The churches featured, which span over a hundred years of...
The Politics of Presidential Appointment
A Memoir of the Culture War
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2002
Historian and former university president Sheldon Hackney recounts how he became an unwitting combatant in the Culture Wars when his nomination to become President Bill Clinton’s chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities came under fire from right-wing conservatives. Hackney meticulously...
Man and Mission
E.B. Gaston and the Origins of the Fairhope Single Tax Colony
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 1993
In Man and Mission: E. B. Gaston and the Origins of the Fairhope Single Tax Colony, historian Paul Gaston relates his grandfather's 1864 founding of the utopian community of Fairhope, Alabama. The twenty-eight “Fairhopers” hoped to realize an “equality of opportunity, the full reward of individual...
Tasia’s Table
Cooking with the Artisan Cheesemaker at Belle Chevre
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Tasia's Table is a collection of recipes and stories from the award-winning cheesemaker at Belle Chevre. Tasia's circuitous life and career journey led her to a small fromagerie in rural Alabama where she now shares her passion and philosophy on food with home cooks across the country. In this beautiful...
by Rod Davis
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
The Reverend Corina Youngblood, minister of the African Spiritual Church of Mercy, is a woman powered by Jesus and the santos. Her corner store, St. Jude Lamb of Light Botanica, which caters to the eclectic religious and spiritual needs of New Orleans, is threatened by her Cuban ex-lover and mentor...
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.
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...
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...
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...
Watermelon Wine
The Spirit of Country Music
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2004
Originally published 25 years ago, Watermelon Wine was praised for its honest, unsentimental examination of the compassion as well as the passion behind authentic country music. Author Frye Gaillard looked at the commercialization of the Grand Ole Opry; the tradition-minded rebels such as Hank Williams,...
by Daniel L. Haulman
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
Almost everyone you meet has heard about the Tuskegee Airmen, but surprisingly few can answer with accuracy questions relating to their most important leaders, aircraft, missions, stations, phases of flight training, and unique accomplishments. Some of the Tuskegee Airmen stories in circulation are...
Respectable and Disreputable
Leisure Time in Antebellum Montgomery
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
Respectable and Disreputable describes how Montgomerians spent their increasing leisure time during the four decades preceding the Civil War. Everyday activities included gambling, drinking, sporting, hunting, and voluntary associations -- military, literary, self-improvement, fraternal, and civic....