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by Joe Samuel Starnes
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
December 1, 1955: Flood gates are poised to slam shut on a concrete dam straddling the Oogasula River, creating a lake that will submerge a forgotten crossroads and thousands of acres of woodlands in rural Georgia. The novel unfolds in one day’s action as viewed through the eyes of Elmer Blizzard,...
by Ross Howell Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
In April 1912 in Hampton, Virginia, white eighteen-year-old reporter Charles Mears covers his first murder case, a trial that roiled racial tensions. An uneducated African American girl, Virginia Christian, was tried for killing her white employer. "Virgie" died in the electric chair one...
Canebrake Beach
A Novella and Four Short Stories
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2012
Four tenant families, some black and some white, lived on the farm owned by author John Keith’s family as a child. Although no one who grew up on the farm except for him was active in the civil rights movement, in Canebrake Beach he imagines what would happened to members of black and white families...
The Strong Current
Book One: Attaugee
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2011
Otci, a rising youth in the village of Attaugee in the great Muskogee nation, knew the rites of initiation to warriorhood and manhood would demand the best of mind, body and spirit. But what he didn’t know was how quickly the tensions mounting in the nation would bring the ultimate conflict, and...
by Lisbeth Thom
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
Orphaned mysteriously and raised by her domineering grandmother in Wisconsin, newly married Carrie Barnes is enjoying a new life in sunny Atlanta when she receives word that Gram is dying of cancer. She puts her life on hold and returns home to care for Gram. All of her reserves of love and compassion...
by Mark Ethridge
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2006
For more than twenty years, the murder of a thirteen-year-year-old boy during racial unrest in rural South Carolina has gone unpunished, unsolved, even uninvestigated. But that changes when Charlotte Times reporter Matt Harper sits down with a fellow who shows up in the newsroom, a guy with a grievance....
by Irene Latham
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
Ludelphia Bennett may be blind in one eye, but that doesn't mean she can't put in a good stitch. In fact, Ludelphia sews all the time, especially when things are going wrong. But when Mama gets deathly ill, it doesn't seem like even quilting will help. Mama needs medicine badly—medicine that can...
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...