The remarkable and improbable story of the utopian single-tax social experiment that gave rise to one of the most unique and colorful communities along the Gulf Coast
A Few Loose Chapters on Shooting, Among Which Will Be Found Some Anecdotes and Incidents
by Johnson Jones Hooper
Introduction by Philip D. Beidler
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 9780817305611
Pub Date: November 2019
Format: Paperback
Although the book is a manual for the hunter, with characteristic humor and a certain disdain, Hooper gives a full picture of the gentlemanly sport of hunting – clearly distinct from hunting for food – in all aspects including hunter, weaponry, and sporting dogs.
The top-selling novel by prolific Southern writer Augusta J. Evans, St. Elmo was more widely read in its day than Uncle Tom's Cabin. The novel traces the relationship between a charming and charismatic lothario, St. Elmo, and the beautiful and chaste Edna Earl.
The emphasis in The Two Worlds of William March is on the literary career, and we get a fairly full picture of a hardworking, oversensitive, compassionate bachelor, who suffered a tragic breakdown late in life . . . [and] whose best long works, Company K and The Looking-Glass, as well as March himself are almost forgotten. . . . Simmonds’s comprehensive, scholarly, and sympathetic study may redress this unwarranted neglect.” —CHOICE
William Bradford Huie’s first novel, Mud on the Stars, is largely autobiographical and is set in the years 1929-1942. As in many of his later books, the theme here is of the education...
The Liberal Party in Colombian Politics, 1863 - 1899
by Helen Delpar
Price: $44.95
ISBN: 9780817356156
Pub Date: March 2010
Format: Paperback
An overview of the early political history of Colombia through an examination of the Liberal party from 1863 to 1899, its role in the Colombian poltical system, and its evolution during that time.
Twenty-Five Years in the Black Belt provides a fascinating portrait of the conditions of black people and the state of race relations in Alabama at the turn of the twentieth century, and of author William J. Edwards' determination to uplift his race through eductation in the years following Reconstruction.
The Tallons is the second book in William March’s “Pearl County” series. In it, the arrival of Myrtle Bickerstaff destroys the tranquil lives of the Tallon brothers, Jim and Andrew.
