Product Description: The M240 Machine Gun traces the development of the weapon, currently the primary medium-weight machine gun of our military,  through the latest configuration, the M240 SLR, designed and manufactured by Ohio Ordnance. When the United States military determined during the late 1970s that it was time to find a replacement for older machine guns in the services, they initiated an extensive search for a weapon that would fire the 7...read more

Product Description: This book traces the evolution of the Browning Automatic Rifle from the Model of 1918, first to face combat in World War I, through its various configurations in all arenas of combat all the way to the present-day1918 A3 SLR developed and manufactured by Ohio Ordnance Works...read more

Product Description: Edited by William Wright and Paul Ruffin, The Southern Poetry Anthology, Volume V: Georgia brings together over one hundred of Georgia’s poets, including David Bottoms, Natasha Trethewey, Leon Stokesbury, Thomas Lux, Kathryn Stripling Byer, Alice Friman, Judson Mitcham, and Stephen Corey, as well as myriad other luminous voices...read more

Product Description: This fourth collection of essays by Paul Ruffin highlights his idiosyncratic wit and practiced storytelling skills in memorable autobiographic pieces ranging from the comic to the confessional.The first section, "Things Literary, More or Less," includes the title essay, in which Ruffin takes the reader on a rollicking tour with iconic Southern writer George Garrett, which ends with the two men locating the ghostly remains of an obscure Texas hamlet called Ben Hur and talking with an eccentric representative of the town's handful of inhabitants...read more

Product Description: "Mister, most stories about people are sad. The ones about animals sometimes turn out all right, but not them about people," muses a character in master storyteller Paul Ruffin's yarn of obsession and quest "In Search of the Tightrope Walker...read more

When a married couple nearing divorce takes a wrong turn in the depths of a forest, the paranoid, elderly owner of the solitary house they approach to find a phone takes them captive, transforming the lives of captives and captor forever.

Product Description: This is a collection of work by Robert Holland including his poetry, fiction and children's tales, newspaper columns and his letters.

Set on the Mississippi Coast and New Orleans, Pompeii Man is the story of the descent of an innocent couple into a hell of fear and violence, a world that neither of them could have imagined in the Big Easy. The reader watches in horror as Stafford loses his wife to a terrifying night of assault and rape in the dark heart of New Orleans, manages to get her back home, then loses her again, perhaps forever, except for the emergence of a detective who takes a personal interest in the case and driven by imagination and determination sets off to free her and bring down the drug lord who holds her captive.

Product Description: Islands, Women, and God is a collection of stories of sacrifice and courage set in the South. The stories are populated with incredibly authentic universal characters who rise out of their regional milieu, whose world is the human heart, as real as our very own...read more

Product Description: Usually funny, sometimes tender, sometimes penetratingly judgmental, Glenn Brown writes a sparkling prose about politics and about people in and about small towns scattered across East Texas.Most of these pieces are derived from columns Brown wrote for The Huntsville Item; several of the pieces focus on Brown's experiences in a Korean POW camp, after the downing of a B-29 on which he was a radio operator...read more

Product Description: Usually funny, sometimes tender, sometimes penetratingly judgmental, Glenn Brown writes a sparkling prose about politics and about people in and about small towns scattered across East Texas.Most of these pieces are derived from columns Brown wrote for The Huntsville Item; several of the pieces focus on Brown's experiences in a Korean POW camp, after the downing of a B-29 on which he was a radio operator...read more

Product Description: Book by Ruffin, Paul

Features thirty-one stories capturing the flavor of the modern South, with contributors such as Bobbie Ann Mason, Jill McCorkle, Larry Brown, and Fred Chappell. National ad/promo. Simultaneous.