University of Arkansas Press, July 1997. Hardcover. This well-researched study of one group of pioneers taking part in the westward expansion of the United States during the nineteenth century tells an illuminating story. The prosperous farming families who left established comforts in North Carolina and South Carolina to trek in..... More

The University of North Carolina Press, September 2002. Trade Paperback. Richard B. Russell, Jr., represented Georgia in the United States Senate from 1933 to 1971, a period of sweeping social change. Russell (1879-1971) was regarded by his fellow senators as the quintessential member of the Senate's establishment, and they dubbed..... More

NewSouth Books, April 2017. Trade Paperback. Hailed as the most restrictive immigration bill in the nation, the Beason-Hammon Alabama Taxpayer & Citizen Protection Act (known as HB 56) went into effect in September 2011. Its intent was to create jobs for Alabamians by making the lives of undocumented immigrants in..... More

Algonquin Books, January 2006. First Edition. Trade Paperback. For two decades NPR commentator Andrei Codrescu has been living in and writing about his adopted city, where, as he puts it, the official language is dreams. How apt that a refugee born in Transylvania found his home in a place where..... More

Touchstone, April 1997. First Thus. Trade Paperback. First published by now-defunct New Orleans publisher Robert L. Crager in 1949, the book remains funny and informative, generally accepted as a standard reference about the Crescent City. Frenchmen, Desire, Good Children, and Other Streets of New Orleans! details the interesting stories of..... More

Arcadia Publishing, February 2010. Trade Paperback. Join author and Huntsville native T. Gary Wicks as he uncovers the beginnings and inventions that influenced air and space engineering in Alabama and America. The air age in Huntsville began more than a century ago with Will Quick's design and construction of a...... More

University of Kentucky Press, 1968. Cloth. Dustjacket is missing. Olive green cloth with dust stains and stained rings front panel. Gold lettering in dark green band along spine. Previous owner's name inked on front free end page. Foxing/dust stains top edge. Heavy foxing fore-edge. More

The Johns Hopkins University Press, November 1970. Hardcover. Octavo. In mildly edgeworn DJ. Front flap clipped. Heavy foxing of jacket verso and darkened spine verso. White cloth covered boards with black lettering upon spine. Heavy foxing & darkening to boards. Crimson end pages. Previous owner's nameinked upper right corner of..... More

Princeton University Press, June 1969. Hardcover. The description for this book, Populism to Progressivism in Alabama, will be forthcoming. Previous owner's name inked on front free endpaper and front of jacket. Pages toned and foxed, especially on edges. Jacket clipped; else, a very good copy in jacket. 390 pgs... More

Addison Wesley Publishing Company, October 1991. Hardcover. A narrative of the events of 1978 in McIntosh County, Georgia, when the first black man was elected as a county commissioner. More

Milkweed Editions, September 1999. Hardcover. Janisse Ray grew up in a junkyard along U.S. Highway 1, hidden from Florida-bound vacationers by the hedge at the edge of the road and by hulks of old cars and stacks of blown-out tires. Ecology of a Cracker Childhood tells how a childhood spent..... More

Hill Street Press, March 2000. Hardcover. When Celestine Sibley died in August 1999, hundreds of thousands of her fans mourned for weeks and the Atlanta Journal-Constitution celebrated her life with daily coverage and a special 24-page supplement of which over 1.5 million copies were published. There is no one more..... More

Broadway Books, March 2015. Trade Paperback. A lyrical and evocative memoir from Frances Mayes, the Bard of Tuscany, about coming of age in the Deep South and the region's powerful influence on her life. The author of three beloved books about her life in Italy, including Under the Tuscan Sun..... More