Product Description: Enter the eye of the storm in this gripping real-life thriller—A Perfect Storm on land—that chronicles America’s biggest tornado outbreak since the beginning of recorded weather: a horrific three-day superstorm with 358 separate tornadoes touching down in twenty-one states and destroying entire towns...read more

Product Description: A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERFrom the celebrated bestselling author of All Over but the Shoutin' and winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Rick Bragg, comes a poignant and wryly funny collection of essays on life in the south. Keenly observed and written with his insightful and deadpan sense of humor, he explores enduring Southern truths about home, place, spirit, table, and the regions' varied geographies, including his native Alabama, Cajun country, and the Gulf Coast...read more

Product Description: FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Draws on more than two years of interviews between the Pulitzer Prize-winning writer and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee to document Lewis' rebellious youth, marriages, party lifestyle, IRS setbacks and brushes with death.

Product Description: The greatest Southern storyteller of our time, New York Times bestselling author Rick Bragg, tracks down the greatest rock and roller of all time, Jerry Lee Lewis--and gets his own story, from the source, for the very first time.A monumental figure on the American landscape, Jerry Lee Lewis spent his childhood raising hell in Ferriday, Louisiana, and Natchez, Mississippi; galvanized the world with hit records like "Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On" and "Great Balls of Fire," that gave rock and roll its devil's edge; caused riots and boycotts with his incendiary performances; nearly scuttled his career by marrying his thirteen-year-old second cousin--his third wife of seven; ran a decades-long marathon of drugs, drinking, and women; nearly met his maker, twice; suffered the deaths of two sons and two wives, and the indignity of an IRS raid that left him with nothing but the broken-down piano he started with; performed with everyone from Elvis Presley to Keith Richards to Bruce Springsteen to Kid Rock--and survived it all to be hailed as "one of the most creative and important figures in American popular culture and a paradigm of the Southern experience...read more

Product Description: Alabama Road Trips gives the reader 52 unique ideas for travel within the state of Alabama. Set a date and pack light. Take a camera. Most of all, be open to creating new memories as you savor the senses in Sweet Home Alabama

Product Description: Written with a blend of humor and practical wisdom, The Same Sweet Girl’s Guide to Life by Cassandra King offers inspiration and solid advice to new graduates that can sustain them through life’s inevitable ups and downs.  In this small book you will find advice that will only grow in meaning throughout the years...read more

Product Description: In the spring of 2001, a community of people in the Appalachian foothills of northern Alabama had come to the edge of all they had ever known. Across the South, padlocks and logging chains bound the doors of silent mills, and it seemed a miracle to blue-collar people in Jacksonville that their mill still bit, shook, and roared...read more

A Pulitzer Prize-winning correspondent for The New York Times recounts growing up in the Alabama hills, the son of a violent veteran and a mother who tried to insulate her children from poverty and ignorance.

'The book's principal focus is Morris' literary legacy, which includes works such as Good Ole Boy, My Dog Skip, and My Two Oxfords. Two annotated bibliographies--one for Morris's own writing and one focusing on secondary sources--are comprised of over 2100 entries. Encompassing everything from novels to newspaper articles, entries are divided into broad categories and then listed chronologically'--Provided by publisher.

Product Description: This collection of 100 haunting, sometimes humorous, but always deeply honest black-and-white photographs reveals the 42-year career of a master photographer and photojournalist. Ken Elkins retired as chief photographer of the Anniston Star in 2000, and this selection of his work demonstrates his brilliant eye for finding and capturing images of rural southern lives and landscapes in all their difficulty, candor, and humor...read more

In a collaboration between Private First Class Jessica Lynch and a Pulitzer Prize-winning author, the young soldier tells of her life in Palestine, West Virginia, and recounts the details of her capture, imprisonment, and dramatic rescue during the Iraq War. Reprint. 40,000 first printing.

Product Description: The Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and bestselling author of All Over But the Shoutin' continues his personal history of the Deep South with an evocation of his monther's childhood in the Appalachian foothills during the Great Depression, and the magnificent story of the man who raised her...read more

A collection of some of the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist's articles, many written for The New York Times focuses on victims of natural disasters, prison inmates, economic inequality, the elderly, race, Louisiana bayou culture, schools, and other issues of the American scene. Reprint. 30,000 first printing. (view table of contents)

Presents a collection of photographs of simple, rural churches by such photographs as Walker Evans and Tom Rankin, accompanied by the words of such authors as Eudora Welty, James Baldwin, and Mark Twain

This autobiography recounts how Bragg, brought up in poverty in the deep South, ended up a Pulitzer Prize-winning report for the "New York Times". The book is an account of growing up in an impoverished, ragged white Alabama family - poor to the point that even "nigras" would bring them food. He writes of his deprived yet hilarious childhood in the 1960s, of his uncomplaining mother's back-breaking labour, and of his father's poisonous behaviour towards her and how he himself managed to escape the treadmill of hopelessness that his two brothers walk today.