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African American

Closed Ranks: The Whitehurst Case in Post-Civil Rights Montgomery

1-58838-362-8, Trade Paper

Dorie Miller: Naval Warrior

1-58838-082-3, Trade Paper

E.D. Nixon: The Life of a Resourceful Activist

1-58838-098-X, Trade Paper

A George Washington Carver Handbook

1-60306-016-2, Trade Paper

Hank Aaron: The Life of the Home-Run King

1-58838-095-5, Trade Paper

The Jemison Cafe: Reflections on an Alabama Boyhood

1-60306-445-1, Trade Paper

Johnnie: The Life of Johnnie Rebecca Carr

1-60306-033-2, Trade Paper

Nat King Cole: An Unforgettable Life of Music

1-58838-096-3, Trade Paper

Researching African American Genealogy in Alabama: A Resource Guide

1-60306-044-8, Trade Paper

Thirty Years a Slave: From Bondage to Freedom

1-58838-091-2, Trade Paper

The Tuskegee Syphilis Study: An Insiders’ Account of the Shocking Medical Experiment Conducted by Government Doctors Against African American Men

1-60306-309-9, Trade Paper

Unbroken and Unbound

1-60306-030-8, Trade Paper

Voices from the Dexter Pulpit: Sermons from the First Church Pastored by Martin Luther King, Jr.

1-60306-031-6, Trade Paper

Biography

Civil Rights in My Bones

1-60306-417-6, Trade Paper

Climbing Jacob’s Ladder: A Trial Lawyer’s Journey on Behalf of “the Least of These”

1-58838-078-5, Trade Cloth

Crusader Without Violence: A Biography of Martin Luther King, Jr.

1-58838-350-4, Trade Paper

Daisy Bates: The Champion of the Little Rock Nine

1-58838-081-5, Trade Paper

Educator: The Life of Thelma Smiley Morris

0-9785311-2-4, Trade Paper

Faith and Works: The Politics, Business, and Philanthrophy of Alabama’s Jimmy Faulkner

1-58838-092-0, Trade Cloth

God, Sex, Drugs & Other Things

1-60306-383-8, Trade Paper

A Hard Rain: America in the 1960s, Our Decade of Hope and Innocence Lost

1-58838-344-X, Trade Cloth

Hugo Black of Alabama: How His Roots and Early Career Shaped the Great Champion of the Constitution

1-60306-447-8, Trade Paper

A Judge in the Senate: Howell Heflin’s Career of Politics and Principle

1-58838-026-2, Trade Cloth

Leslie W. Dunbar: Reflections by Friends

1-60306-441-9, Trade Paper

Mississippi's Exiled Daughter

1-58838-329-6, Trade Paper

Mother & Me: An Intimate Memoir of Her Last Years

1-58838-115-3, Trade Cloth

Muhammad Ali: The Greatest

1-58838-083-1, Trade Paper

Nobody But the People: The Life and Times of Alabama’s Youngest Governor

1-58838-221-4, Trade Cloth

Oracle of the Ages: Reflections on the Curious Life of Fortune Teller Mayhayley Lancaster

1-60306-008-1, Trade Paper

The People's Lawyer: The Colorful Life and Times of Julian L. McPhillips, Jr.

1-58838-004-1, Trade Cloth

The People’s Lawyer (2005): The Colorful Life and Times of Julian L. McPhillips, Jr.

1-58838-069-6, Trade Paper

Ten Stars: The African American Journey of Gary Cooper—Marine General, Diplomat, Businessman, and Politician

1-58838-324-5, Trade Cloth

There Must Be a Witness: Stories of Abuse, Advocacy, and the Fight to Put Children First

1-58838-346-6, Trade Paper

Three Not-So-Ordinary Joes: A plantation newspaper, a printer’s devil, an English wit, and the founding of Southern literature

1-58838-323-7, Trade Paper with French Flaps

Biography/Civil Rights

The Judge: The Life and Opinions of Alabama’s Frank M. Johnson, Jr.

1-58838-158-7, Trade Cloth

Biography/Oral History

Waters of Life from the Conecuh Ridge: The Clyde May Story

1-60306-012-X, Trade Paper

Cartoon

Habeas Circus: Illegal Humor

1-58838-030-0, Trade Paper

Children's

Alef-Bet: A Hebrew Alphabet Book

1-58838-233-8, Trade Paper with French Flaps

1-58838-223-0, Trade Cloth

1-58838-237-0, Trade Paper

Ernest’s Gift

1-58838-149-8, Trade Cloth

1-58838-302-4, Trade Cloth

Shlemiel Crooks

1-58838-165-X, Trade Cloth

Shlemiel Crooks

1-58838-236-2 , Trade Paper with French Flaps

Cooking

The Soul of Southern Cooking

1-58838-052-1, Trade Paper

Tasia’s Table: Cooking with the Artisan Cheesemaker at Belle Chevre

1-58838-272-9, Trade Cloth

Drama

1-58838-182-X, Trade Paper

Education

'Echoes' of Robert E. Lee High School: The First Decade, 1955-65

1-60306-379-X, Trade Paper

Behind the Hedges: Big Money and Power Politics at the University of Georgia

1-58838-206-0, Trade Cloth

Consequential Learning: A Public Approach to Better Schools

1-58838-185-4, Trade Cloth

Consequential Learning: A Public Approach to Better Schools

1-58838-186-2, Trade Paper

Standards Matter: The Why and What of Common Core Standards in Reading and Writing

1-60306-376-5, Trade Paper

Why Public Schools? Whose Public Schools?: What Early Communities Have To Tell Us

1-58838-110-2, Trade Paper

Why Public Schools? Whose Public Schools?: What Early Communities Have To Tell Us

1-58838-123-4, Trade Cloth

Essays

Boo of the Silver Rod

1-58838-094-7, Trade Paper

Education as Spiritual Enterprise: Essays on Moral Discernment

1-58838-125-0, Trade Paper

Essays/Education

Like Shooting Rapids in the Dark: Selected Writings on Education by Billy O. Wireman

1-58838-088-2, Trade Cloth

Fiction

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer: The Big Read Edition

1-58838-246-X, Trade Paper

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer: The Big Read Edition

1-58838-247-8, Trade Cloth

Behold, This Dreamer

1-58838-002-5, Trade Cloth

Behold, This Dreamer

1-58838-061-0, Trade Paper

1-58838-145-5, Trade Cloth

Canebrake Beach: A Novella and Four Short Stories

1-60306-231-9, Trade Paper

1-58838-029-7, Trade Cloth

1-58838-129-3, Trade Cloth

1-60306-373-0, Trade Paper

1-58838-268-0, Trade Cloth

1-58838-265-6, Trade Cloth

Fire Ants and Other Stories

1-58838-208-7, Trade Cloth

1-58838-067-X, Trade Cloth

1-58838-317-2, Trade Cloth

Go, Go, Said the Bird

1-58838-140-4, Trade Paper

1-58838-192-7, Trade Cloth

1-58838-232-X, Trade Paper

1-58838-111-0, Trade Cloth

The Last Queen of the Gypsies

1-58838-242-7, Trade Cloth

1-60306-036-7, Trade Cloth

Margaretha’s Trunk: A Genealogical Novel

1-58838-153-6, Trade Cloth

Mark Twain’s Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn: The NewSouth Edition

1-58838-267-2, Trade Paper

Missing In Paradise

1-58838-156-0, Trade Paper

Nicaraguan Gringa: Claiming a Home

1-60306-359-5, Trade Paper

On the Hills of God

1-58838-204-4, Trade Cloth

The Prayer Amendment: A Satire of Southern Politics and Religion

1-58838-118-8, Trade Paper

Quaternion Organon: A Journey of One Eternal Round

1-58838-040-8, Trade Paper

Requiem for a Flower Child: A Jake Falcon Mystery

1-60306-402-8, Trade Paper

Row Away from the Rocks

1-58838-154-4, Trade Paper

Sailing to Alluvium: A novel

1-58838-269-9, Trade Cloth

1-60306-004-9, Trade Paper

The Shining Shining Path

1-58838-071-8, Trade Paper

The Strong Current: Book One: Attaugee

1-60306-046-4, Trade Paper

1-60306-029-4, Trade Paper

Their Last Ten Miles

1-58838-155-2, Trade Cloth

The Theoretics of Love

1-58838-330-X, Trade Cloth

There Is a River

1-58838-090-4, Trade Cloth

Three Deuces Down

1-58838-310-5, Trade Paper

Through a Glass, Darkly

1-58838-054-8, Trade Cloth

To Yield a Dream

1-58838-099-8, Trade Paper

Tubby Meets Katrina

1-58838-203-6, Trade Cloth

Turbo’s Very Life and Other Stories

1-58838-187-0, Trade Cloth

The View from Here

1-58838-347-4, Trade Cloth

Why Beulah Shot Her Pistol Inside the Baptist Church

1-58838-167-6, Trade Cloth

The Yazoo Blues

1-58838-217-6, Trade Cloth

Folklore

Alabama, One Big Front Porch

1-58838-374-1, Trade Paper

Hairy, Scary, but Mostly Merry Fairies!: Curing Nature Deficiency through Folklore, Imagination, and Creative Activities

1-58838-328-8, Trade Paper

Jeffrey’s Favorite 13 Ghost Stories

1-58838-170-6, Trade Cloth

Simon Went Fishing on Sunday

1-60306-052-9, Trade Paper

History

The Alabama Guide 2011-2014: Our People, Resources, and Government

1-60306-146-0, Trade Paper

Amazing Alabama: A Coloring Book Journey Through Our 67 Counties

1-58838-339-3, Trade Paper

Anchors of Faith: Early Wooden Churches of the Deep South

1-60306-311-0, Trade Paper

Byways of Baldwin

1-60306-019-7, Trade Cloth

Carolina Planters on the Alabama Frontier: The Spencer-Robeson-McKenzie Family Papers

1-60306-138-X, Trade Cloth

Conecuh People: Words of Life from the Alabama Black Belt

1-58838-181-1, Trade Cloth

Conecuh People: Words of Life from the Alabama Black Belt

1-58838-184-6, Trade Paper

Deep Family: Four Centuries of American Originals and Southern Eccentrics

1-58838-178-1, Trade Cloth

Drawing by Stealth: John Trumbull and the Creek Indians

1-60306-363-3, Trade Paper

Emigration to Liberia: From the Chattahoochee Valley of Georgia and Alabama, 1853-1903

1-60306-329-3, Trade Paper

Eugene Allen Smith's Alabama: How a Geologist Shaped a State

1-58838-243-5, Trade Cloth

Gone Home: Southern Folk Gravestone Art

1-58838-116-1, Trade Paper

Historians in Service of a Better South: Essays in Honor of Paul Gaston

1-60306-446-X, Trade Paper

Historic Alabama Courthouses: A Century of Their Images and Stories

1-58838-334-2, Trade Paper with French Flaps

History of Huntingdon College, 1854-1954

1-58838-171-4, Trade Paper

History of the Bank of Atmore

1-58838-177-3, Trade Cloth

A Home for Wayward Boys: The Early History of the Alabama Boys’ Industrial School

1-60306-345-5, Trade Paper

An Interview with Abraham Lincoln: April 1, 1865

1-58838-256-7, Trade Paper with French Flaps

Man and Mission

1-60306-040-5, Trade Paper

Neither Carpetbaggers nor Scalawags: Black Officeholders During the Reconstruction of Alabama 1867-1878

1-58838-189-7, Trade Paper

No Remorse: The Rise and Fall of John Wallace

1-58838-264-8, Trade cloth

Planting Hope on Worn-Out Land: The History of the Tuskegee Land Utilization Study, Macon County, Alabama, 1935-1959

1-58838-205-2, Trade Cloth

Respectable and Disreputable: Leisure Time in Antebellum Montgomery, Alabama

1-60306-229-7, Trade Paper

Robert R. Taylor and Tuskegee: An African American Architect Designs for Booker T. Washington

1-58838-248-6, Trade Cloth

Southern Indian Myths and Legends

1-58838-253-2, Trade Paper

They Say the Wind Is Red: The Alabama Choctaw — Lost in Their Own Land

1-58838-079-3, Trade Paper

This Day in Civil Rights History

1-58838-241-9, Trade Paper

Vanished in the Unknown Shade: Poet Sidney Lanier’s Montgomery Years

1-60306-261-0, Trade Paper

A White Preacher’s Message on Race and Reconciliation: Based on His Experiences Beginning with the Montgomery Bus Boycott

1-58838-190-0, Trade Cloth

Wings of Opportunity: The Wright Brothers in Montgomery, Alabama, 1910

1-58838-168-4, Trade Paper with French flaps

Women of Fair Hope

1-60306-041-3, Trade Paper

The Works of Matthew Blue, Montgomery's First Historian

1-58838-031-9, Trade Cloth

The Worthy Way: Memoirs of a Pioneer Black Law Enforcement Officer

1-60306-034-0, Trade Paper

History/Civil Rights

Beyond the Burning Bus: The Civil Rights Revolution in a Southern Town

1-60306-010-3, Trade Paper

The Freedom Rides and Alabama: A Guide to Key Events and Places, Context, and Impact

1-60306-106-1, Trade Paper

Jim Crow and Me: Stories From My Life As a Civil Rights Lawyer

1-58838-175-7, Trade Cloth

Sing for Freedom: The Story of the Civil Rights Movement Through Its Songs

1-58838-193-5, Trade Paper

Juvenile Fiction

1-58838-105-6, Trade Paper

The Creek Captives

1-60306-021-9, Trade Paper

Hoggle's Christmas

1-60306-026-X, Trade Paper

Little Brother Real Snake

1-58838-147-1, Trade Paper

Literary Fiction

The City of Churches

1-58838-142-0, Trade Cloth

A Walk with Love and Death

1-60306-130-4, Trade Paper

Memoir

The Books That Mattered: A Reader’s Memoir

1-58838-287-7, Trade cloth

Candid Comments: Selected Columns from the Eufaula Tribune, 1958–2006

1-60306-068-5, Trade Cloth

Chili Dawgs Always Bark at Night

1-58838-303-2, Trade Paper

Coming of Age in Utopia: The Odyssey of an Idea

1-58838-225-7, Trade Cloth

Crooked Letter i: Coming Out in the South

1-58838-313-X, Trade Paper with French Flaps

Elvis Is Dead and I Don’t Feel So Good Myself

1-58838-271-0, Trade Paper

Enchanted Evening Barbie and the Second Coming: A Memoir

1-58838-250-8, Trade Cloth

The Forest and the Trees: A Memoir of a Man, a Family, and a Company

1-60306-374-9, Trade Paper

Hadacol Days: A Southern Boyhood

1-58838-200-1, Trade Cloth

If I Ever Get Back to Georgia, I’m Gonna Nail My Feet to the Ground

1-58838-273-7, Trade Paper

Mr. Brandon's School Bus: What I Heard on the Way to School

1-58838-322-9, Trade Paper

My Daddy Was a Pistol and I’m a Son of a Gun

1-58838-274-5, Trade Paper

My Journey: A Memoir of the First African American to Preside Over the Alabama Board of Education

1-58838-257-5, Trade Cloth

The Other Side of Montgomery: Growing Up White in the Birthplace of the Civil Rights Movement

1-60306-055-3, Trade Cloth

The Path Was Steep: A Memoir of Appalachian Coal Camps During the Great Depression

1-58838-261-3, Trade Paper with French Flaps

Poor Man’s Provence: Finding Myself in Cajun Louisiana

1-58838-218-4, Trade Cloth

A Senator's Wife Remembers: From the Great Depression to the Great Society

1-60306-056-1, Trade Cloth

Spit, Scarey Ann, and Sweat Bees: One Thing Leads to Another

1-58838-240-0, Trade Cloth

Teddy’s Child: Growing Up in the Anxious Southern Gentry Between the Great Wars

1-58838-195-1, Trade Cloth

They Tore Out My Heart and Stomped That Sucker Flat

1-58838-258-3, Trade paper

Victory After the Fall

1-60306-000-6, Trade Cloth

Military History

The Annotated Pickett’s History of Alabama: And Incidentally of Georgia and Mississippi, from the Earliest Period

1-58838-032-7, Trade Cloth

From Vacillation to Resolve: The French Communist Party in the Resistance, 1939-1944

1-58838-381-4, Trade Paper

Hear the Bugles Calling: My Three Wars as a Combat Infantryman

1-60306-025-1, Trade Paper

The Tuskegee Airmen and the “Never Lost a Bomber” Myth

1-60306-105-3, ebook

The Tuskegee Airmen, An Illustrated History: 1939-1949

1-58838-244-3, Trade Cloth

Wings of Denial: The Alabama Air National Guard’s Covert Role at the Bay of Pigs

1-58838-021-1, Trade Paper

Military History/Memoir

My Korea: A Veteran’s Memories of the Unmentioned War

1-58838-138-2, Trade Paper

Nonfiction

Complete Humanity in Jesus: A Theological Memoir

1-60306-047-2, Trade Paper

Go and Be Reconciled: Alabama Methodists Confront Racial Injustice, 1954-1974

1-58838-325-3, Trade Paper

I Just Make People Up

1-60306-045-6, Trade Cloth

In the Midst of Life

1-60306-020-0, Trade Paper

In the Name of the Law: An Oral History of Law Enforcement

1-58838-126-9, Trade Paper

In the Realm of Rivers: Alabama’s Mobile-Tensaw Delta

1-58838-172-2, Trade Cloth

Lessons from the Big Guys: What I Learned From Servant Leaders — Hugh McColl, Bill Lee, Jack Eckerd, and Adolph Rupp

1-58838-086-6, Trade Cloth

Man and His World

1-58838-179-X, Trade Paper

The Quilt: And the Poetry of Alabama Music

1-60306-390-0, Trade Paper

True Divinity in Christ: A Testimony of Faith and Hope with Four Short Stories

1-60306-057-X, Trade Paper

Watermelon Wine: The Spirit of Country Music

1-58838-160-9, Trade Paper

When Heaven and Earth Collide: Racism, Southern Evangelicals, and the Better Way of Jesus

1-60306-350-1, Trade Paper

Poetry

American Happiness

1-58838-327-X, Trade Cloth

American Wake: New & Selected Poems

1-58838-180-3, Trade Cloth

And All the Layered Light

1-60306-038-3, Trade Paper

Century of the Death of the Rose: Selected Poems of Jorge Carrera Andrade

1-60306-023-5, Trade Paper

1-60306-245-9, Trade Paper

Dark Roast: A Collection of Poems of Nostalgia and Reflection

1-60306-439-7, Trade Paper

1-58838-056-4, Trade Paper

Espresso Evenings

1-58838-080-7, Trade Paper

I Don't Want To Be Rich, Just Able

1-58838-058-0, Trade Cloth

It’s Good Weather for Fudge: Conversing With Carson McCullers

1-58838-333-4, Trade Paper with French Flaps

Meeting Myself 'Round the Corner

1-60306-048-0, Trade Cloth

Midnight Coffee

1-58838-035-1, Trade Paper

Mississippi Delta Women in Prism

1-58838-038-6, Trade Paper

1-58838-028-9, Trade Cloth

One More River to Cross: The Selected Poetry of John Beecher

1-58838-103-X, Trade Paper

Overheard in a Drugstore: And Other Poems

1-60306-399-4, Trade Paper with French Flaps

The Red Tower: New & Selected Poems

1-58838-231-1, Trade Cloth

Remembering Thunder

1-58838-077-7, Trade Cloth

1-58838-074-2, Trade Paper

Straying Toward Home

1-60306-028-6, Trade Paper

These I Would Keep: Selected Poems by the Poet Laureates of Alabama

1-58838-000-9, Trade Cloth

Things We Cannot Know

0-9785311-6-7, Trade Paper

Voices Beyond Bondage: An Anthology of Verse by African Americans of the 19th Century

1-58838-298-2, Trade Cloth

Working the Dirt: An Anthology of Southern Poets

1-58838-131-5, Trade Paper

The World According to Whiskey

1-58838-132-3, Trade Paper

Poetry/Biography

Alabama Album: Collected Poems

1-60306-405-2, Trade Paper

Fear Not the Fall

1-58838-161-7, Trade Paper

Poetry/Drama

February Mission

1-60306-002-2, Trade Cloth

Politics

The Chairman: The Rise and Betrayal of Jim Greer

1-58838-308-3, Trade Cloth

Life and Death Matters: Seeking the Truth About Capital Punishment

1-58838-234-6, Trade Cloth

The Politics of Presidential Appointment: A Memoir of the Culture War

1-58838-068-8, Trade Cloth

The South's New Racial Politics: Inside the Race Game of Southern History

1-60306-050-2, Trade Paper

Stealth Reconstruction: An Untold Story of Racial Politics in Recent Southern History

1-58838-239-7, Trade Paper

Politics/Current Events

American Crisis, Southern Solutions: From Where We Stand, Promise and Peril

1-58838-228-1, Trade Cloth

American Crisis, Southern Solutions: From Where We Stand, Promise and Peril

1-60306-165-7, Trade Paper

Where We Stand: Voices of Southern Dissent

1-58838-169-2, Trade Cloth

Where We Stand: Voices of Southern Dissent

1-60306-163-0, Trade Paper

Politics/Political Satire

Ali Dubyiah and the Forty Thieves

1-58838-202-8, Trade Cloth

Reference

Attacking Myasthenia Gravis

1-60306-267-X, Trade Paper

A Writer's Tool Kit: 12 Proven Ways You Can Make Your Writing Stronger—Today!

1-58838-045-9, Trade Paper

Self-Help

Diet for Life: A Metabolism Expert’s Commonsense Plan for Overcoming Obesity

1-58838-224-9, Trade Cloth

A Walk Through Darkness: For All Those Who Grieve And All Those Whose Grief Is Yet To Come

1-58838-136-6, Trade Paper

Southern History

Better Than Them: The Unmaking of an Alabama Racist

1-60306-343-9, Trade Paper

Bitter Harvest: Richmond Flowers and the Civil Rights Revolution

1-60306-371-4, Trade Paper

An Elmore County Life

1-60306-024-3, Trade Paper

In the Land of Cotton: How Old Times There Still Shape Alabama’s Future

1-60306-397-8, Trade Paper

The McGillivray and McIntosh Traders: On the Old Southwest Frontier, 1716-1815

1-60306-014-6, Trade Paper

Moonshine Memories

1-60306-006-5, Trade Paper

The New South Creed: A Study in Southern Mythmaking

1-60306-143-6, Trade Paper

No Hill Too High for a Stepper: Memories of Montevallo, Alabama

1-60306-357-9, Trade Cloth

Of Goats & Governors: Six Decades of Colorful Alabama Political Stories

1-58838-386-5, Trade Paper

The Outrageous Times of Larry Bruce Mitchell

1-58838-124-2, Trade Paper

Through Others' Eyes: Published Accounts of Antebellum Montgomery, Alabama

1-60306-258-0, Trade Paper

Sports/Sports History

All Guts and No Glory

1-58838-209-5, Trade Cloth

The Robert Trent Jones Golf Trail: Its History and Economic Impact

1-58838-318-0, Trade Cloth

Young Adult

1-58838-137-4, Trade Paper

The Gold Disc of Coosa

1-60306-018-9, Trade Paper

1-58838-290-7, Trade Cloth

The World of the Southern Indians: Tribes, Leaders, and Customs from Prehistoric Times to the Present

1-58838-252-4, Trade Paper

Young Adult Fiction

The Fairytale Trilogy: Fairytale, The Emperor’s Realm, and The Three Crowns

1-58838-251-6, Trade Cloth

Go South to Freedom

1-58838-316-4, Trade Cloth

In the Company of Owls

1-58838-036-X, Trade Cloth

Leaving Gee's Bend

1-58838-332-6, Trade Paper

1-58838-311-3, Trade Paper

Secret of the Satilfa

1-58838-249-4, Trade Cloth

1-58838-230-3, Trade Cloth

1-58838-262-1, Trade Cloth

Trouble on the Tombigbee

1-58838-270-2, Trade Cloth

A Yellow Watermelon

1-58838-197-8, Trade Cloth

A Yellow Watermelon

1-58838-301-6, Trade Paper