They Tore Out My Heart and Stomped That Sucker Flat, first published in 1982, has sold more than 100,000 copies. Without skipping a beat, one of America's favorite humorists, the late Lewis Grizzard,
David Rigsbee's poems focus on the relationship between memory and place, self and other, and history and story. The poems record not only the fact that events and experiences bring us to loss, to the
Otci, a rising youth in the village of Attaugee in the great Muskogee nation, knew the rites of initiation to warriorhood and manhood would demand the best of mind, body and spirit. But what he didn’t
Delving deeper than previous accounts portrayed in other media, this history of the only African-American military pilots in WWII offers a more complete detail of their missions. As the Tuskegee Airme
James Barfoot’s first collection of poetry, carefully honed and selected from his life’s body of work, reveals a fresh perspective on women, sexuality, and divinity. In superbly crafted verse, he expl
Raised in the Primitive Baptist Church, teenage Beulah Buchanan marries the much older deacon Ralph Rainey to escape from her oppressive parents, thus jumping from the frying pan into the fire.Over th
Interweaves the stories of Lester Ray, a fourteen-year-old who was deserted by his mother and escapes from his alcoholic father, and Minnie, a woman abandoned by her Gypsy family when she was eleven,
Grider: Mr. President, what are your hopes for the future?Lincoln: I hope I will be able to complete my presidency by reuniting our separated people into one people and into a union stronger than befo
Alabama Governor James Forbe was elected to office on one simple promise: he would make Christian prayer mandatory in public schools. And he delivers, making more than half of his home state ecstatic
