Search query: my first book about alabama

Product: Raised Bed Gardening for Beginners: Everything You Need to Know to Start and Sustain a Thriving Garden
Brand: Rockridge Press
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Product: One Little Lie (The Pelican Harbor Series Book 1)
Description: It started with one little lie. But Jane Hardy will do everything in her power to uncover the truth in this gripping new romantic suspense.

Jane Hardy is appointed interim sheriff in Pelican Harbor, Alabama, after her father retires, but there's no time for an adjustment period. When her father is arrested for theft and then implicated in a recent murder, Jane quickly realizes she's facing someone out to destroy the only family she has.

After escaping with her father from a cult fifteen years ago, Jane has searched relentlessly for her mother—who refused to leave—ever since. Could someone from that horrible past have found them?

Reid Dixon is well-known for his documentaries, and his latest project involves covering Jane's career. Jane has little interest in the attention, but the committee who appointed her loves the idea of the publicity.

Jane finds herself depending on Reid's calm manner as he follows her around filming, and they begin working together to clear her father. But Reid has his own secrets from the past, and the gulf between them may be impossible to cross—especially once her father’s lie catches up with him.

“Colleen Coble always raises the notch on romantic suspense, and One Little Lie is my favorite yet! The story took me on a wild and wonderful ride.” —Diann Mills, bestselling author

Full-length romantic suspense
Includes discussion questions for book clubs
Part of the Pelican Harbor series

Book One: One Little Lie
Book Two: Two Reasons to Run
Book Three: Three Missing Days
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Product: Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud, and the Last Trial of Harper Lee
Description: This “superbly written true-crime story” (Michael Lewis, The New York Times Book Review) masterfully brings together the tales of a serial killer in 1970s Alabama and of Harper Lee, the beloved author of To Kill a Mockingbird, who tried to write his story.
Reverend Willie Maxwell was a rural preacher accused of murdering five of his family members, but with the help of a savvy lawyer, he escaped justice for years until a relative assassinated him at the funeral of his last victim. Despite hundreds of witnesses, Maxwell’s murderer was acquitted—thanks to the same attorney who had previously defended the reverend himself. Sitting in the audience during the vigilante’s trial was Harper Lee, who spent a year in town reporting on the Maxwell case and many more trying to finish the book she called The Reverend.
Cep brings this remarkable story to life, from the horrifying murders to the courtroom drama to the racial politics of the Deep South, while offering a deeply moving portrait of one of our most revered writers.
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Product: Poverty and Prison: Follow up to Frustrations of My Past
Description: Champ has had a very instrumental impact on the youth of Mobile county. Since getting out of prison, he volunteers constantly to mentor out of compassion to change lives. Most of the time doors get closed because of his past. Where a lot of people give up, Champ continues to come out and mentor and give back.
Chief Lawrence Battiste
Chief of Police, Mobile, Alabama

“…This book really brought out the raw implications of poverty and brings the reality of prison and reentry directly to the reader. It also helps us understand on a very honest scale, what happens before, during, and after prison.
Demetrius Semien, M.Div., Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Incarceration and Reentry Class at Spring Hill College
Department of Sociology and Criminology
Spring Hill College

Mr. Napier proved to be an extremely valuable employee, representing our organization with the utmost professionalism within the school system, court system, business community, corporate office environment, and in the homes of the families that we serve. He was promoted to senior advocate and significantly impacted the effectiveness of the team through his passion for the families and community, leadership, transparency and willingness to go the extra mile. The organization was stronger as a result of his presence. I found him to be a man of strong character, integrity, commitment, strong work ethic and mental tenacity, with a warm and generous personality.
Jarrod R. Dumas
Director of Youth Advocate Programs, Inc.
Mobile, Alabama

"Most stories that are written are sometimes embellished, but this book is written and narrated by one who lived the experience. Champ Napier is an excellent example of a man turning his adversity into an achievement. This book is a great read for any young or older person that needs a turn around."
Dr. Henry W. Roberts, II

"Napier gives an unusually raw and graphic look inside the mind and soul of his younger self: the intense trauma of the 'life-or-death' nature of an impoverished black neighborhood and a broken prison system."
Ryan Noble M.F.A
Communication Arts
Springhill College
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Product: A Blockaded Family: Life in Southern Alabama During the Civil War (1888)
Description: "Experienced the hardships of the Union naval blockade...homilies and anecdotes meant to validate the Confederacy and lament...a lost way of life." -Women in the American Civil War (2008)
"Hague found medicine substitutes in the surrounding woods." -These Rugged Days: Alabama in the Civil War (2017)
"Hague tells the story of a woman who even used a surplus of watermelon to make sugar and syrup." -Daily Life in Civil War America (2009)
"Giving in an easy, kindly, sympathetic style the every-day life in Southern Alabama during the dark days of Civil War." -Current Opinion

Parthenio Antoinette Vardaman Hague (1838 - 1914) author, was born at Dowdels Mill, Harris County, Georgia. She finished her education in Harris County, Ga. at Hamilton female college.

After graduation from Hamilton Female college, she lived in Hurtville, AL about
11 miles from Eufaula, AL in Barbour County where she was a teacher on a
plantation.

She lived in Alabama in the 1860s. In 1888, she published a book, A BLOCKADED
FAMILY. The book was endorsed personally by Jefferson Davis and Gen. Beauregard and is a book of great interest, describing the expedients resorted to by the people of blockaded districts to procure the necessities of life.

The book presents a picture of life in Southern Alabama during the civil war, the contrasting colors of which are distributed very skillfully. The patience and the heroism displayed by the women of the South during four years of conflict, especially when we take into consideration the luxury which they had formerly enjoyed, has often been acknowledged; and the book in question gives details of their daily life, of their privations, and yet of their occasional pleasures, the reading of which is sure to interest. The tone in which the story is told also commends itself. There is not a word of reproach in it, and not a note of harshness or vindictiveness sounded.

So Wide and varied is the field to be yet harvested for crops of information about the home life of Southern people in the War, that we are glad to take up Miss Hague's 'A Blockaded Family.' It will be found to be a record of interest, while unpretending as a piece of literary work. Miss Hague was a governess of Southern birth and sympathy, living in the houseliold of an Alabama planter during the four years that threw women as much upon their own resources to secure the necessaries of daily life, as did the residence of the Swiss Family Robinson upon their desert isle.

The author's task has been to detail the innumerable devices of herself and friends to supply cloth, shoes, hats, thread, dyes, hoop-skirts, buttons; to find substitutes for coffee, tea, raisins, starch and medicines. The castor-oil plant, growing abundantly near their house, was cultivated, and, from the beans crushed in mortars, an oil was obtained as satisfactory as any bought from the ante-bellum apothecary. Salt, in the regions remote from the seacoast and the border States, was a luxury. In some case's the salty soil under old smoke-houses was dug up and put into hoppers, from which, by a homely process of evaporation, a grey deposit was obtained, serving as salt for want of something better. Home-made pottery replaced breakages in the pantry. All of the ladies learned to card and spin and weave. So universal was the necessity for things of everyday, that while every hand and brain was lent to the task of contriving, there was less time to spend in lamentation over the increasing burden of a common care. We recommend Miss Hague's book as an interesting, and evidently unexaggerated, account of a momentous time in the history of our country.
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Product: The Wedding Gift: A Novel
Description: When Cornelius Allen gives his daughter Clarissa’s hand in marriage, he presents her with a wedding gift: the young slave she grew up with, Sarah. Sarah is also Allen’s daughter and Clarissa’s sister, a product of his longtime relationship with his house slave, Emmeline. When Clarissa’s husband suspects that their newborn son is illegitimate, Clarissa and Sarah are sent back to her parents, Cornelius and Theodora, in shame, setting in motion a series of events that will destroy this once-powerful family.

Told through alternating viewpoints of Sarah and Theodora Allen, Cornelius’ wife, The Wedding Gift is a stunning novel that shows where the complicated and compelling bonds and relationships between women explored in novels like The Help and The Secret Life of Bees began. Marlen Suyapa Bodden's novel is an intimate portrait that shows where this particular American story and dynamic all started and will leave listeners breathless.

Includes a reading group guide read by the author.
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Product: Disney Lion King My Busy Books
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Product: Southern Bastards Volume 1: Here Was a Man
Brand: Image Comics
IMAGE COMICS
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Product: Rosa Parks: My Story
Brand: Puffin Books
Color: Multicolor
Puffin
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Product: The Best Cook in the World: Tales from My Momma's Table
Brand: Knopf
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Product: The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life, Freedom, and Justice
Brand: St. Martin's Griffin
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Product: See You at the Top
Brand: Pelican Publishing
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Product: My First Book About Alabama! (Alabama Experience)
Brand: Gallopade International
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Product: Turning 15 on the Road to Freedom: My Story of the 1965 Selma Voting Rights March
Brand: Speak
Color: Multicolor
Puffin Books
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Product: Mockingbird Songs: My Friendship with Harper Lee
Brand: Harper
HARPER
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Product: What's Great about Alabama? (Our Great States)
Brand: Lerner Classroom
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