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by Ilan Stavans
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013
The United States of Mestizo is a powerful manifesto attesting to the fundamental changes the nation has undergone in the last half-century. Writer Ilan Stavans meditates on how the cross-fertilizing process that defined the Americas during the colonial period—the racial melding of Europeans and...
Coming of Age in Utopia
The Odyssey of an Idea
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2009
In this exquisitely wrought memoir of a committed life, historian and civil rights activist Paul Gaston reveals his deep roots in the unique utopian community founded in 1894 by his grandfather on the shores of Mobile Bay, Alabama. Fairhope grew into a unique political, economic, and educational experiment...
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...
by Paul M. Gaston
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 1993
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 1993
During the depression of the 1890s, a young Iowa newspaperman, indignant over the excesses of the Gilded Age, led a group of midwesterners to the eastern shore of Mobile Bay, where they established a model community based on the utopian ideals of Henry George. In Women of Fair Hope, Paul M. Gaston...
An Interview with Abraham Lincoln
April 1, 1865
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
Author Wade Hall has taken Abraham Lincoln’s actual words from speeches, articles, and letters and assembled them in the form of answers to questions posed in an imagined interview with a fictional young journalist recently returned from the war front. The result is a fresh look at the mind and...
by Charles Rose
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
This new collection of short stories by Charles Rose, author of In the Midst of Life: A Hospice Volunteer’s Story, features works previously published in The Sewanee Review, The Georgia Review, The Southern Review, Southern Humanities Review, Willow Springs, Crazyhorse, The Chattahoochee Review, Alabama Literary Review, Blackbird, and Shenandoah, among others.
Journey to the Wilderness
War, Memory, and a Southern Family's Civil War Letters
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2015
On the one-hundred-fiftieth anniversary of the Civil War, award-winning author Frye Gaillard reflects on the war—and the way we remember it—through letters written by his family, including his great-great grandfather and his two sons, both of whom were Confederate officers. As Gaillard explains...
The Quilt
And the Poetry of Alabama Music
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
With a combination of song lyrics and reflective essays, Alabama author Frye Gaillard and recording artist Kathryn Scheldt pay tribute to the literary legacy of Alabama songwriters. Included here are reflections on the works of Hank Williams, Emmylou Harris, and W. C. Handy, among many others. Scheldt...
Offshore
Behind the Wire on Manus and Nauru
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
What has happened on Nauru and Manus since Australia began its most recent offshore processing regime in 2012?This essential book provides a comprehensive and uncompromising overview of the first three years of offshore processing since it recommenced in 2012. It explains why offshore processing was...
In the Land of Cotton
How Old Times There Still Shape Alabama's Future
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
In the beginning there was the land promising prosperity and independence. Enough that the population of what is now Alabama increased 1,000 percent from 1810-20. Descendants of Barbados slave lords in South Carolina heard about the rich, fertile soils in central and west Alabama. Scots-Irish came...
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...
City Dreamers
The Urban Imagination in Australia
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
I became an urban historian because I believed that our cities deserved more of our curiosity and idealism.City Dreamers restores Australian cities, and those who created them, to their rightful place in the national imagination. Building on a lifetime’s work, Graeme Davison views Australian history,...
What Did You Do in the Cold War Daddy?
Personal Stories from a Troubled Time
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
The Cold War was a turbulent time to grow up in. Family ties were tested, friendships were torn apart and new beliefs forged out of the ruins of old loyalties. In this book, through twelve evocative stories of childhood and early adulthood in Australia during the Cold War years, writers from vastly different...
Attacking Myasthenia Gravis
A Key in the Battle Against Autoimmune Diseases
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
Using his insight as a longtime physician, Dr. Ron Henderson describes the productive life he lives despite having a rare autoimmune disease known as myasthenia gravis (MG). He also provides a forum for three other MG patients to share their inspirational stories. A disease unfamiliar to many, myasthenia...