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
Simon & Schuster, March 2014. First Edition. Hardcover. The world's discrimination and violence against women and girls is the most serious, pervasive, and ignored violation of basic human rights: This is President Jimmy Carter's call to action. President Carter was encouraged to write this book by a wide coalition of..... More
Longstreet Press, July 1997. Trade Paperback. 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
LSU Press, September 2006. Paper Back. A criminal lawyer and popular journalist, Henry C. Castellanos lived nearly three-quarters of the nineteenth century in New Orleans. In his later years, between 1892 and 1895, he wrote more than 120 articles for the Times-Democrat on the history and mores of his beloved..... More
Robert L. Crager & Co., 1950. Reprint. Cloth. Octavo. Black cloth with gold lettering and brown cloth covered boards with black & yellow illustration. Dust jacket is missing. Previous owner's name inked half title page. [380 pages). 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
University of Pennsylvania Press, February 2006. First Edition. Cloth. In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, as the citizens of New Orleans regroup and put down roots elsewhere, many wonder what will become of one of the nation's most complex creole cultures. New Orleans emerged like Atlantis from under the sea..... More
University of Illinois Press, April 2006. Trade Paperback. Cajun Women and Mardi Gras is the first book to explore the importance of women's contributions to the country Cajun Mardi Gras tradition, or Mardi Gras run. Most Mardi Gras runs--masked begging processions through the countryside, led by unmasked capitaines--have customarily excluded..... More
Oxford University Press, USA, January 1996. Trade Paperback. One of America's great novelists, William Faulkner was a writer deeply rooted in the American South. In works such as The Sound and the Fury, As I Lay Dying, Light In August, and Absalom, Absalom! Faulkner drew powerfully on Southern themes, attitudes..... More
The University of North Carolina Press, July 1992. Trade Paperback. Of all the people documented by the Foxfire students since 1966, none has been more appealing to readers than Arie Carpenter. For all those who have read and cherished the Foxfire books, here is a loving portrait of a fondly..... 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
Pelican Publishing Company, November 1990. Hardcover. Buddy Stall offers his insider's knowledge of the most interesting city in America. In dustjacket with edge wear/darkened edges. Blue textured paper covered boards with gold lettering along spine. Previous owner's bookplate affixed to front pastedown. Sticker residue back panel of DJ.Tightly bound.[250 pages]..... More
University Press of Mississippi, January 1997. Trade Paperback. Mardi Gras remains one of the most distinctive features of New Orleans. Although the city has celebrated Carnival since its days as a French and Spanish colonial outpost, the rituals familiar today were largely established in the Civil War era by a...... More
Hub City Press, March 2016. Trade Paperback. When the deacons at Mark Beaver's Bible Belt church cue up an evangelical horror flick aimed at dramatizing Hell, he figures he'd better get right with God, and soon. Convinced he could die at age seven and spend eternity roasting on a spit..... 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
University of Chicago Press, January 1979. Reprint. Paper Back. Octavo. Tanning and moderate wear to cover. Light foxing/dust staining text block edges. Foxing to gutters first and last pages. [215 pages]. More
The Johns Hopkins University Press, July 1988. First Edition. Cloth. Octavo in dustjacket with tanning to spine and large parts of front panel and margins of rear panel. Verso of DJ is heavily tanned. Light grey cloth covered boards with silver lettering along spine. Internal text is clean, sound &..... More
Univ of North Carolina Pr, December 1987. First Edition. Cloth. Uses interviews, letters, and excerpts from the trade press to depict life in a Southern cotton mill village. Octavo. In dustjacket with mild stress to margins. Brown cloth covered boards with black lettering along spine. Tan paper end pages. Sound..... More
Beehive Press, January 1973. Reprint. Cassette. 2nd edition. Octavo. In heavily edgeworn dustjacket especially across top with darkening to margins. Darkened/sunned jacket spine. Red cloth covered boards with silver lettering. Moderately cocked spine. Grey end pages. Previous owner name inked top right cover of FFEP. Tight binding. Dust stained textblock..... More
University Alabama Press, November 2001. Trade Paperback. First published in 1989 by The University of Alabama Press, Poor but Proud was met with critical acclaim and awarded the 1990 Lillian Smith prize in nonfiction, as well as being named a CHOICE Outstanding Academic Book. This new paperback version will make..... More
Beehive Press, January 1971. Cloth. Octavo. In dustjacket darkened at edges & spine. Front flap not clipped. Heavily darkened verso. Ash grey cloth covered boards with black bar with gold lettering and gold tooled border line. Darkened/dust stained spine and margins at edges. Lime green end pages. Foxing & dust..... More
Hub City Press, October 2020. Paper Back. A New York Times Books New & Noteworthy book - A Most-Anticipated Book from BookPage, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, and Paperback Paris - Glowing reviews and features in Garden & Gun, CNN Philippines, Chapter16, Kirkus Reviews, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, and more This fierce collection celebrates the..... More
Louisiana State University Press, March 1967. First Thus. Paper Back. Octavo. Underlining in inks & pencil. Dog-earred pages. Soiling, creasing, scuff marks, & soiling. Heavy foxing & dust stains textblock edges, espcially at top. Previous owner's name inked front cover and half title page. Stains to interior pages. First paperback..... 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
