Author: Thomas McAdory Owen
Publisher: BiblioLife
Keywords: alabama, biography, dictionary, history
Number of Pages: 740
Published: 2009-11-25
List price: $52.99
ISBN-10: 1117570568
ISBN-13: 9781117570563
This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience. We believe this work is culturally important and have elected to bring the book back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide.
Author: Watt Key
Publisher: Square Fish
Keywords: alabama
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2008-09-02
List price: $6.99
ISBN-10: 0312384289
ISBN-13: 9780312384289
For as long as ten-year-old Moon can remember, he has lived out in the forest in a shelter with his father. They keep to themselves, their only contact with other human beings an occasional trip to the nearest general store. When Moons father dies, Moon follows his fathers last instructions: to travel to Alaska to find others like themselves. But Moon is soon caught and entangled in a world he doesnt know or understand; hes become property of the government he has been avoiding all his life. As the spirited and resourceful Moon encounters constables, jails, institutions, lawyers, true frie
Author: Allen Shelto
Publisher: University of Minnesota Pre
Keywords: alabama, dreamworlds
Number of Pages: 197
Published: 2007-01-01
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0816650357
ISBN-13: 9780816650354
“I speak in what others often hear as a strange accent. My past can’t be located. I live in Buffalo, New York, an exile from the South. But these aren’t Yankee dreams, even though my past seems like a fabrication, a dreamworld in which I’m a paper character and not a historical participant, with scars from barbed wire ripping under the pressure and flying through the air like a swarm of bees, or a horse rearing up and banging its head into mine from within, exploding my forehead.” from the Preface Wisteria draped on a soldier’s coffin, sent home to Alabam
Author: Joshilyn Jackson
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Keywords: alabama, gods
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2007-12-01
List price: $6.99
ISBN-10: 0446178160
ISBN-13: 9780446178167
For 10 years Arlene has kept her promises, and God has kept His end of the bargain. Until now. When an old schoolmate from Possett turns up at Arlene’s door in Chicago asking questions about Jim Beverly, former quarterback and god of Possett High, Arlene’s break with her former hometown is forced to an end. At the same time, Burr, her long-time boyfriend, has raised an ultimatum: introduce him to her family or consider him gone. Arlene loves him dearly but knows her lily white (not to mention deeply racist)Southern Baptist family will not understand her relationship with an African
Author: Roy Hoffman
Publisher: University Alabama Press
Keywords: conversations, profiles, afternoons, alabama
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 2011-03-24
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 0817317392
ISBN-13: 9780817317393
Alabama Afternoons is a collection of portraits of many remarkable Alabamians, famous and obscure, profiled by award-winning journalist and novelist Roy Hoffman. Written as Sunday feature stories for the Mobile Press-Register with additional pieces from the New York Times, Preservation, and Garden & Gun, these profiles preserve the individual storiesand the individual voices within the storiesthat help to define one of the most distinctive states in the union.Hoffman recounts his personal visits with writer Mary Ward Brown in her library in Hamburg, with photographer William Christenber
Author: Barbara A. Somervill
Publisher: Children’s Press(CT)
Keywords: series, third, beautiful, america, alabama
Number of Pages: 144
Published: 2008-03-01
List price: $38.00
ISBN-10: 0531185567
ISBN-13: 9780531185568
Author: Tim Holli
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Keywords: america, alabama, images, signs, birmingham, vintage
Number of Pages: 128
Published: 2008-04-21
List price: $21.99
ISBN-10: 073855376X
ISBN-13: 9780738553764
Most people do not stop to realize how many of their fond memories involve advertising signs. Although these neon spectaculars, billboards, and even signs painted directly onto brick walls were created expressly to persuade customers to buy products or patronize businesses, many such signs remained in place for so long that they became beloved landmarks in their own right. For Images of America: Vintage Birmingham Signs, Tim Hollis has scoured the archives of Birmingham’s former sign companies, as well as other private collections, to compile some of the best remembered or most obscure s
