Newsouth Books: 150 books
Killing Yamamoto
The American Raid That Avenged Pearl Harbor
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
One of the most heroic World War II air raids by US forces was the one that killed Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, the commander of the Combined Japanese Fleet and the man who planned the Pearl Harbor and Midway attacks in 1941 and 1942. The raid occurred on April 18, 1943, exactly one year after the famous...
She
The Old Woman Who Took Over My Life
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
This slender book, the last of twenty-nine written by Kathryn Tucker Windham over her long and productive life, will be an exquisitely bittersweet read for the many fans of the late storyteller and author from Selma, Alabama. In She, which Windham was putting the finishing touches on when she died...
Looking for the Future
A Meditation on Political Choice
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
We Americans approach -- not a crossroads -- but a branching of our political road where several destinations are possible. One requires surrendering power to what has become our de-facto governing or ruling class. Another takes us to an expanded democracy where the gap between the “have much”...
When Heaven and Earth Collide
Racism, Southern Evangelicals, and the Better Way of Jesus
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2014
When Heaven and Earth Collide is an investigation into what went wrong in the American South in regard to race and religion—and how things can be and are being made right. Why, in a land filled with Christian churches, was there such racial oppression and division? Why didn’t white evangelicals...
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...
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...
by Carroll Dale Short
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
After Dale Short moved away (reluctantly) from his hometown of Shanghi [sic] in Walker County, Alabama, he wrote home every week -- by means of a newspaper column in The Daily Mountain Eagle, where he held his first writing job in the late 1960s. The columns -- a homesick country boy’s reflections...
Lost Auburn
A Village Remembered in Period Photographs
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
Lost Auburn: A Village Remembered in Period Photographs offers a dynamic record of the buildings that once stood in Auburn, Alabama, which have fallen to natural disaster, war, poverty, and neglect, and to what some would call progress. More than two hundred photographs of lost buildings give three...
by Rod Davis
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
On an early Sunday morning walk through the empty streets of the Faubourg Marigny downriver of the French Quarter, maverick journalist and Big Easy transplant Jack Prine discovers the body of a well-dressed black man with a bashed-in skull. Soon Jack is drawn into an emerging web of violence threatening...
Of Goats & Governors
Six Decades of Colorful Alabama Political Stories
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
Few states have as colorful a political history as Alabama, especially in the post-World War II era. During the past six decades, the state played a central role in the civil rights movement, largely moved away from its earlier farm-based economy and culture, and transitioned from a relatively moderate-progressive...
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...
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...
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...