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The Freedom Quilting Bee

The Freedom Quilting Bee

Folk Art and the Civil Rights Movement

by Nancy Callahan

Price: $29.95

ISBN: 9780817352479

Pub Date: April 2005

Format: Paperback

The original book on the renowned Freedom quilters of Gee's Bend

From Cape Charles to Cape Fear

From Cape Charles to Cape Fear

The North Atlantic Blockading Squadron during the Civil War

by Robert M. Browning Jr.

Price: $39.95

ISBN: 9780817350192

Pub Date: July 2003

Format: Paperback

Examines naval logistics, tactics, and strategy employed by the Union blockade off the Atlantic coast of the Confederacy.

The Winter Sailor

The Winter Sailor

Francis R. Stebbins on Florida's Indian River, 1878-1888

Edited by Carolyn Frances Baker Lewis

Price: $29.95

ISBN: 9780817351298

Pub Date: November 2004

Format: Paperback

A unique guide to Florida's frontier history along Indian River.

Talking Taino

Talking Taino

Caribbean Natural History from a Native Perspective

by William F. Keegan and Lisabeth A. Carlson

Price: $29.95

ISBN: 9780817355081

Pub Date: October 2008

Format: Paperback

Keegan and Carlson, combined, have spent over 45 years conducting archaeological research in the Caribbean, directing projects in Trinidad, Grenada, St. Lucia, Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic, Haiti, Cuba, Jamaica, Grand Cayman, the Turks & Caicos Islands, and throughout the Bahamas.

Double Vision

Double Vision

A Novel

by George Garrett

Price: $19.95

ISBN: 9780817354688

Pub Date: October 2007

Format: Paperback

A shotgun marriage of fact and fiction by one of the most highly regarded writers and teachers of our time

Speak Truth to Power

Speak Truth to Power

The Story of Charles Patrick, a Civil Rights Pioneer

by Mignette Y. Patrick Dorsey

Price: $18.95

ISBN: 9780817355562

Pub Date: August 2010

Format: Paperback

Speak Truth to Power tells the story of Charles Patrick’s quest for justice in segregated Alabama on the eve of the Civil Rights movement and represents a telling instance of the growing determination of African Americans to be treated fairly, part of the broadening and deepening stream of resolve that led to the widespread activism of the Civil Rights movement.

Blockade Runners of the Confederacy

Blockade Runners of the Confederacy

by Hamilton Cochran

Introduction by Robert M. Browning Jr.

Price: $34.95

ISBN: 9780817351694

Pub Date: February 2005

Format: Paperback

Blockade Runners of the Confederacy, first published in 1958, offered the first in-depth look at the dashing figures, spies, and fast ships that ran the blockade. Generations of historians and Civil War buffs have considered it invaluable; this paperback edition makes the work available once again to a new generation of enthusiasts and scholars.
 


More than a Game

More than a Game

The Best of Alf Van Hoose

by Alf Van Hoose

Introduction by Creg Stephenson

Edited by Edward Mullins and Creg Stephenson

Foreword by Susanna Van Hoose Feld and Susanna Van Hoose

Price: $19.95

ISBN: 9780817355111

Pub Date: September 2009

Format: Paperback

The best work of one of Alabama’s longest-serving and most beloved sports journalists.Although he spent 43 years at the same job, Alf Van Hoose was not a man limited by the boundaries of his profession. As Birmingham News sports editor for 21 years and a columnist for a decade before that, Van Hoose helped define a city, a state, and a region largely known for sports. He was the writer of record for some of the biggest sporting events and personalities in the state of Alabama in the last half of the 20th Century. Wayne Hester, Van Hoose’s successor as sports editor of The News, in 1990, said, “To many sports fans over the years, Alf Van Hoose has been The Birmingham News.” But he was also much more than the “sports guy,” as older generations of Alabama sports fans who read this book will remember and younger ones will...
Creekside

Creekside

An Archaeological Novel

by Kelli Carmean

Price: $26.95

ISBN: 9780817356613

Pub Date: September 2010

Format: Paperback

Creekside takes two partially interwoven story lines and linkes artifact and place, ancestors and descendants, the present and the past, and inspires the reader to explore the personal connections between them all in fresh and vital ways.

Dixie Walker of the Dodgers

Dixie Walker of the Dodgers

The People's Choice

by Maury Allen and Susan Walker

Price: $27.95

ISBN: 9780817355999

Pub Date: June 2010

Format: Paperback

A biography of Fred “Dixie” Walker, a gifted ballplayer who played in the majors for 18 seasons and in 1,905 games, assembling a career batting average of .306 while playing for the Yankees, White Sox, Tigers, Dodgers, and Pirates.

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