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          Tattered Kimonos in Japan

          Tattered Kimonos in Japan

          Remaking Lives from Memories of World War II

          by Robert Rand

          Price: $34.95

          ISBN: 9780817321772

          Pub Date: December 2023

          Format: Hardcover

          Examines Japan’s war generation—Japanese men and women who survived World War Two and rebuilt their lives, into the 21st century, from memories of that conflict

           
          Time in the Barrel

          Time in the Barrel

          A Marine's Account of the Battle for Con Thien

          by James P. Coan

          Price: $34.95

          ISBN: 9780817361228

          Pub Date: December 2023

          Format: Paperback

          A Marine’s highly personal memoir reliving the hellish days of a pivotal conflict of the Vietnam War
          Written in the Sky

          Written in the Sky

          Lessons of a Southern Daughter

          by Patricia Foster

          Price: $24.95

          ISBN: 9780817360962

          Pub Date: September 2023

          Format: Paperback

          Deeply personal essays probing the lingering legacies of the southern social divide
           
          Unloose My Heart

          Unloose My Heart

          A Personal Reckoning with the Twisted Roots of My Southern Family Tree

          by Marcia Edwina Herman-Giddens

          Price: $34.95

          ISBN: 9780817321451

          Pub Date: January 2023

          Format: Hardcover

          A deeply personal memoir that unearths a family history of racism, slaveholding, and trauma as well as love and sparks of delight
           
          Dear Denise

          Dear Denise

          Letters to the Sister I Never Knew

          by Lisa McNair

          Price: $19.95

          ISBN: 9780817321352

          Pub Date: September 2022

          Format: Hardcover

          Poignant, honest, and heartfelt letters to a sister who perished in the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing
           
          Memories of Two Generations

          Memories of Two Generations

          A Yiddish Life in Russia and Texas

          by Alexander Z. Gurwitz

          Edited by Bryan Edward Stone

          Translated by Amram Prero

          Introduction by Bryan Edward Stone

          Preface by Alexander Z. Gurwitz

          Price: $34.95

          ISBN: 9780817360740

          Pub Date: August 2022

          Format: Paperback

          The 1935 autobiography of Alexander Ziskind Gurwitz, an Orthodox Jew whose lively recounting of his life in Tsarist Russia and his immigration to San Antonio, Texas, in 1910 captures turbulent changes in early twentieth-century Jewish history
          When the Wolf Camped at Our Door

          When the Wolf Camped at Our Door

          My Childhood in the Great Depression

          by Aileen Kilgore Henderson

          Price: $24.95

          ISBN: 9780817321338

          Pub Date: May 2022

          Format: Hardcover

          Recounts the hardships and joys the Kilgore family and their neighbors experienced in a close-knit southern rural community during the Great Depression
           
          Tell Mother I’m in Paradise

          Tell Mother I'm in Paradise

          Memoirs of a Political Prisoner in El Salvador

          Edited by Judy Blankenship and Andrew Wilson

          by Ana Margarita Gasteazoro

          Introduction by Erik Ching

          Price: $34.95

          ISBN: 9780817321215

          Pub Date: April 2022

          Format: Hardcover

          The life and times of Ana Margarita Gasteazoro: political activist, clandestine operative, and prisoner of conscience

           
          Distracted by Alabama

          Distracted by Alabama

          Tangled Threads of Natural History, Local History, and Folklore

          by James Seay Brown

          Price: $39.95

          ISBN: 9780817321178

          Pub Date: April 2022

          Format: Hardcover

           Reflections on fifty years of interaction with the people, places, wildlife, and folkways of Alabama
           
          A New Day in the Delta

          A New Day in the Delta

          Inventing School Desegregation As You Go

          by David W. Beckwith

          Price: $29.95

          ISBN: 9780817360528

          Pub Date: February 2022

          Format: Paperback

          Explores Mississippi’s school desegregation from the viewpoint of a white teacher
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