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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
A Time to Speak

A Time to Speak

The Story of a Young American Lawyer's Struggle for His City—and Himself

by Charles Morgan

Foreword by Doug Jones

Price: $19.95

ISBN: 9780817360481

Pub Date: February 2022

Format: Paperback

Brings back into print a classic account of courage and calamity in the long march toward racial justice in the South, and the nation
 
A Strong and Steady Pulse

A Strong and Steady Pulse

Stories from a Cardiologist

by Gregory D Chapman

Price: $29.95

ISBN: 9780817321000

Pub Date: September 2021

Format: Hardcover

A seasoned cardiologist shares his experiences, opinions, and recommendations about heart disease and other cardiac problems
The Glory Road

The Glory Road

A Gospel Gypsy Life

by Anita Faye Garner

Price: $29.95

ISBN: 9780817320911

Pub Date: April 2021

Format: Hardcover

Stories and songs from a childhood spent in a vanished world of revivals and road shows
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