John Gregory Brown's debut novel examines family, race, and faith in a heartbreaking tale of identity, devotion, and regret. The story centers on the Eagen family of New Orleans, Irish Catholics of "m
A young widow returns to Lake Sackett, Georgia to face the ghosts of her past—and decide if she’s ready to take another chance on love—in the third sparkling Southern Eclectic novel
"A lush, beautifully written story about the indelible mark of first love. Intelligent, fresh, and utterly lovely."—KRISTAN HIGGINS for Back to Your LoveFake engagements are a dangerous business.Bryan
This volume introduces a new way to study the experiences of runaway slaves by defining different “spaces of freedom” that fugitive slaves inhabited. It also provides a groundbreaking continental view
An Atlanta ex-cop comes to sleepy Lake Sackett, Georgia, seeking peace and quiet—but he hasn’t bargained on falling for Frankie, the cutest coroner he’s ever met.Frankie McCready tal
The book offers a collection of historic recipes generally unique to Louisiana's German Coast-- located along the Mississippi River north of New Orleans . Readers will learn how to cook unusual dishes
This volume expands the chronology and geography of the black freedom struggle beyond the traditional emphasis on the old South and the years between 1954 and 1968. Beginning as far back as the ninete
While many scholars have argued that confrontation and protest were the most effective ways for the poor to empower themselves during the social change of the 1960s, Karen Hawkins demonstrates that mo
Beloved author Molly Harper launches a brand-new contemporary romance series, Southern Eclectic, with this story of a big-city party planner who finds true love in a small Georgia town.Nestled on the
Coach Boss holds sway over Craw County for one reason:he wins football games. But after the biggest, ugliest loss of his career, thecoach must become more of a criminal than ever before, if he's gonna
“Never has the story of American African colonization been so thoroughly explored.”—Violet Showers Johnson, coauthor of African & American: West Africans in Post–Civil Righ
One's strength lies in their uniqueness. While similarities aren't considered weaknesses, it's the sole possessions of one human than attracts them to another... that one thing that someone their oppo
The Copeland family of Listre, North Carolina, gathers every May to clean up the graveyard and talk. Every one of them has stories to tell, and it is Albert Copeland who writes it all down in the note
Hazel Conroy was ready to retire. She left her life as a detectivebehind on Earth for a cushy job as a personal assistant on Titan... That is,until the disappearance of the Southern Cross dregs up ske
“Brilliantly conceptualized, exhaustively researched, and eloquently written, it is a gold mine for anyone interested in America’s ongoing dilemma with slavery and race.”—John Stauffer, author of Gian
A stranger’s murder in the dark alley behind May’s Flower Shop is causing the residents of Park Place, South Carolina to keep their children inside and their doors locked at night. Banty Hen Antique S
A novel of homecoming, loss, and the power of story, Familiar Ground follows the return of Jacob Bechner to rural Sweetwater, Tennessee, summoned by Callie, a dying woman nearly 100 years old. Jacob a
In this collection of stories award-winning writer Steve Yarbrough effortlessly evokes the special qualities of small-town southern life as he examines—with subtle humor, keen insight, and unfailing s
John Pendleton Kennedy (1795--1870) achieved a multidimensional career as a successful novelist, historian, and politician. He published widely and represented his district in the Maryland legislature
The Craw County Running Rebs are gearing up for the most important, and bloody, game of the year, and everyone in town has a stake in it. Six stories. Six bastards. One southern-fried crime series. By
In her 1981 collection of stories, In the Land of Dreamy Dreams, Ellen Gilchrist writes about New Orleans as no other writer. Laced with envy, greed, lust, terror, and self-deceit, her stories will sh
Gather around the table to celebrate the versatility of vegetables with Southern flair.As more and more Americans turn to locally-sourced and home-grown ingredients to help create their meals, vegetab
"Offers a much needed discussion of racial politics in the premier New South city. Readers will discover that courageous struggles for justice, as much as compromise, have marked the so-called At
Through a life that spanned every decade of the twentieth century, Supreme Court advocate Bessie Margolin shaped modern American labor policy while creating a place for female lawyers in the nation's
Now boarding: Southern Cross, tanker flight 73 to Titan. Alex Braith is tracing her sister's steps to the refinery moon, hoping to collect her remains and find some answers. The questions keep coming
