Cultural Region/South
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Moving the Chains: The Civil Rights Protest That Saved the Saints and Transformed New Orleans
$34.95 Add to cartWe remember the 1966 birth of the New Orleans Saints as a shady quid pro quo between the NFL commissioner and a Louisiana congressman. Moving the Chains is the untold story of the athlete protest that
- Author: Sapp, Erin Grayson
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 298
- Publish Date: November 02 2022
- ISBN10: 080717792X
- Language: English
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Tar Heel Lightnin’: How Secret Stills and Fast Cars Made North Carolina the Moonshine Capital of the World
$32.50 Add to cartFrom the late nineteenth century well into the 1960s, North Carolina boasted some of the nation’s most restrictive laws on alcohol production and sale. For much of this era, it was also the nation’s l… [more below]
- Author: Pierce, Daniel S.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: October 21 2019
- ISBN10: 1469653559
- Language: English
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Carry Me Home: Birmingham, Alabama: The Climactic Battle of the Civil Rights Revolution
$23.99 Add to cartNow with a new afterword, the Pulitzer Prize-winning dramatic account of the Civil Rights Era’s climactic battle in Birmingham as the movement, led by Martin Luther King, Jr., brought down the institu… [more below]
- Author: McWhorter, Diane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 752
- Publish Date: January 15 2013
- ISBN10: 1476709513
- Language: English
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Opryland USA
$32.99 Add to cartBy the late 1960s, the Ryman Auditorium the fifth home of the Grand Ole Opry was a deteriorating firetrap in a seedy part of Nashville, yet it still attracted thousands of people each weekend to the s… [more below]
- Author: Phillips, Stephen W.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 98
- Publish Date: August 22 2016
- ISBN10: 1531699782
- Language: English
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Lost Plantations of the South
$40.00 Add to cartThe great majority of the South’s plantation homes have been destroyed over time, and many have long been forgotten. In Lost Plantations of the South, Marc R. Matrana weaves together photographs, diar… [more below]
- Author: Matrana, Marc R.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: August 11 2009
- ISBN10: 1578069424
- Language: English
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True Crime Stories of Eastern North Carolina
$21.99 Add to cartEastern North Carolina is a land of contrasts, and its crime stories bear this out. A lovelorn war hero or a stalker? Conniving wife or consummate homemaker? Murder or suicide? The answers can be as p… [more below]
- Series: True Crime
- Author: Pickens, Cathy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: September 28 2020
- ISBN10: 1467145114
- Language: English
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Art of the State: Celebrating the Visual Art of North Carolina
$60.00 Add to cartThis beautiful and informative volume illustrates the vitality and importance of North Carolina’s contemporary art scene, showcasing the creation, collection, and celebration of art in all its richnes… [more below]
- Author: Roberts, Liza
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: November 08 2022
- ISBN10: 1469661241
- Language: English
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A Punkhouse in the Deep South: The Oral History of 309
$19.95 Add to cartRadical subcultures in an unlikely place
Told in personal interviews, this is the collective story of a punk community in an unlikely town and region, a hub of radical counterculture that drew artists
- Author: Cometbus, Aaron
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 154
- Publish Date: October 05 2021
- ISBN10: 0813068525
- Language: English
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Fifteen Hurricanes That Changed the Carolinas: Powerful Storms, Climate Change, and What We Do Next
$31.00 Add to cartThis informative and engaging book tells the true stories of the hurricanes that had the greatest impact on North Carolina and South Carolina, from the eighteenth century to the present day. Hurricane… [more below]
- Author: Barnes, Jay
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: June 21 2022
- ISBN10: 1469666308
- Language: English
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Florida Woman
$18.99 Add to cart“Welcome to the weird world of Atlas, an animal refuge that also happens to be home to some deeply strange human behavior…” –Kimberly King Parsons, author of Black Light
Jamie is a Florida Woman. S- Author: Rogers, Deb
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: May 30 2023
- ISBN10: 1335455035
- Language: English
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Let the Willows Weep
$18.99 Add to cart“Sometimes life is just like paper wings. Fragile, easily torn apart, and often there are too many pieces to pick up.”
In the tradition of the best Southern fiction–from Bastard Out of Carolina to Whe
- Author: Parnell, Sherry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 270
- Publish Date: October 29 2019
- ISBN10: 1733307702
- Language: English
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Charleston Receipts
$24.95 Add to cartCharleston Receipts was first published in 1950 and is the oldest Junior League cookbook still in print. It contains 750 recipes, Gullah verses, and sketches by Charleston artists. Inside, you’ll find
- Author: Junior League of Charleston
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: October 26 2021
- ISBN10: 0960785485
- Language: English
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Appalachian Reckoning: A Region Responds to Hillbilly Elegy
$28.99 Add to cart2020 American Book Award winner, Walter & Lillian Lowenfels Criticism Award
With hundreds of thousands of copies sold, a Ron Howard movie in the works, and the r
Weatherford Award winner, nonfiction- Author: Harkins, Anthony
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: February 13 2019
- ISBN10: 1946684791
- Language: English
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The Incredible Winston Browne
$18.99 Add to cartBeloved writer Sean Dietrich–also known as Sean of the South–will warm your heart with this rich and nostalgic tale of a small-town sheriff, a mysterious little girl, and a good-hearted community pu
- Author: Dietrich, Sean
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: December 07 2021
- ISBN10: 0785231358
- Language: English
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I Am from Here: Stories and Recipes from a Southern Chef
$37.50 Add to cartA Vishwesh Bhatt dish conjures an evolving American South. Peanut Masala-Stuffed Baby Eggplant alongside fried okra, tossed in tangy chaat masala. Collard-Wrapped Catfish with a spicy Peanut Pesto. Th
- Author: Bhatt, Vishwesh
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: August 16 2022
- ISBN10: 1324006064
- Language: English
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The Marines of Montford Point: America’s First Black Marines
$24.00 Add to cartWith an executive order from President Franklin Roosevelt in 1941, the United States Marine Corps–the last all-white branch of the U.S. military–was forced to begin recruiting and enlisting African … [more below]
- Author: McLaurin, Melton A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: September 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0807861766
- Language: English
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South: Essential Recipes and New Explorations
$40.00 Add to cartNew York Times Bestseller and James Beard Award Finalist
Named One of the Ten Best Cookbooks of 2019 by The New Yorker Named a Best Book of 2019 by Publishers Weekly Named the Best Cookbook of 2019 by- Author: Brock, Sean
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 376
- Publish Date: October 15 2019
- ISBN10: 1579657168
- Language: English
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Chasing Me to My Grave: An Artist’s Memoir of the Jim Crow South
$30.00 Add to cartWINNER OF THE 2022 PULITZER PRIZE IN BIOGRAPHY
Booklist #1 Nonfiction Book of the Year * African American Literary Book Club (AALBC) #1 Nonfiction Bestseller * Named a Best Book of the Year by: NPR, P- Author: Rembert, Winfred
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: September 07 2021
- ISBN10: 1635576598
- Language: English
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Mr. Texas
$31.00 Read moreAN NPR BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR – From the Pulitzer Prize winner and best-selling author, a hilarious, sharply drawn send-up of local politics – A novel about a dark-horse candidate who risks his persona… [more below]
- Author: Wright, Lawrence
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: October 17 2023
- ISBN10: 0593793048
- Language: English
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Glory Over Everything
$20.00 Add to cartThe latest New York Times bestseller from the author of the beloved book club favorite The Kitchen House is a heart racing story about a man’s treacherous journey through the twists and turns of the U… [more below]
- Author: Grissom, Kathleen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: February 21 2017
- ISBN10: 1476748454
- Language: English
