River S Edge: 25 books

The “Last Best Class” of Fish River Community School had lost one of its members every year since the second grade. Waffle Houses were popping up throughout small-town Alabama with one corporate rule: "Good Food Fast." Struggling to cope with the tragedy that shadowed him most of his...

“The girl’s terror was mesmerizing, the menace of the assailant unmistakable. He showed the camera the blade, light reflecting off the serrated edge. Suddenly, the blade slashed, blood flew …” It was a movie—but not make-believe. The horror was real, and the spectators knew without...

The Garden of Eden is about drive-in restaurants, being young and dumb, South Knoxville, love and patriotism, The University of Tennessee, and the search for meaning when we were all a herd of confused whippersnappers. Then the story transports you via bus to Parris Island in sunny South Carolina...

In early 2011, author Terry Cline sat down at his computer, and was astonished to see the words that were not his own flowing onto his screen as he typed. The author soon realized that the text was coming to him form the world famous prophet and psychic Edgar Cayce, who died in 1945. This book is...

The richest man in America in 1967 is shot down in cold blood in his mansion in Georgia. His wife is present. The shooter is no ordinary assassin or murderer. He is the esteemed Deputy Director of the CIA. Meanwhile, ex-Army intelligence officer and local attorney, Troy Bacon attempts to foil...

Josh McDavid is behaving oddly. He seems strangely withdrawn. He suffers blackouts and hallucinations. For no reason his mind is filled with snatches of music, the smell of leather, the cry of a man dying in anguish… He is diagnosed as epileptic and while a surgeon prepares the surgery that...

Irrepressible Terrell Calder is a cigarette-smoking, lunch trading, school skipping six-year old boy growing up in a migrant work camp during the last days of the Great Depression under growing rumors of World War II. Son of the camp manager, Terry has no interest in school, and instead is...

In March of 1948, Jackie Robinson and the Brooklyn Dodgers came to Mobile, Alabama for an exhibition game. While the city’s black population was thrilled to see the man who broke Major League Baseball’s color barrier, Robinson’s brief appearance did more for one man than fuel his excitement...

As a housing development bears down, Dan Reynolds is removing architectural details from a 150-year old farmhouse slated for demolition. Like the old farmhouse, Dan is isolated from the modern world, resentful and unhappy, but afraid to change. It takes an unlikely friendship with a mysterious...

A riveting, unforgettable story of vengeance stretched to the outer limits of sanity. Fatal attraction to a charismatic killer—the only apparent link in the lurid slayings of young women across a dozen states, but seemingly enough for criminologist Joanne Fleming to create a psychological profile...

From David Henry’s point of view, everything that was wrong with life in small town America in the 1890’s has been cured by more than a century of progress, while everything that was best about it has been destroyed. David’s assumptions about the past are tested when a mysterious splash of light...

What can you do when the decks are awash and the ship of state is sinking? It’s all around us every day—political criminals and their crony-capitalist backers, outrageous regulation from the White House that spawn hatred and racial strife, socialist lies and left-wing propaganda by a partisan...

Noah's Ark takes you on a circuitous journey of young love, Vietnam, drug smuggling, crooked politicians, sea battles, and the Miami underworld. It also introduces the rise of communism in America during the 60s and 70s. That never went away. Pearl Harbor just slowed it down.  "If we...

A collection of essays from one of America's foremost outdoor writers.