books about: alabama (hand-sewing photographs continental)

books about: alabama

books:

My Horizontal Life: A Collection of One-Night Stands

196 reviews
Chelsea Handler

Bloomsbury USA, 2005

Better even than my life!
I loved this book! I gag and laugh at this book and read stuff out loud to my husband to giggle over as well who sometimes gets the humor and sometimes does not. I think sometimes it simply is a matter of who gets this seriously funny woman. I find her raunchy look at sex simply amazing and funny in a way I love love love! BUY THE BOOK, READ THE BOOK LOVE HER LOVE ME!

Frank Stitt's Southern Table: Recipes and Gracious Traditions from Highlands Bar and Grill

13 reviews
Frank Stitt, Pat Conroy, ...

Artisan, 2004

A Masterpiece - The Crown Jewel of my Cookbook library
Frank Stitt's Southern Table is truly a masterpiece. I am a Southerner and was raised on the wonderful flavors that form the recipes in this book. I love that Stitt showcases humble vegetables that can be found at any Southern farmer's market and presents them in impeccable fashion. His philosophy on using the freshest, in-season ingredients is wonderful advice for all cooks. I also keep this ...

Retail Management: A Strategic Approach

2 reviews
Barry Berman, Joel R. Evans

Prentice Hall, 2006

Excellent for Retail
Retail Manangement by Barry Berman is an excellent book for people getting into Retail business. It covers from basics to advance level of Retail management.

Dreams of Africa in Alabama: The Slave Ship Clotilda and the Story of the Last Africans Brought to America

4 reviews
Sylviane A. Diouf

Oxford University Press, USA, 2007

Wonderfully researched personal stories
Dreams of Africa in Alabama is a beautifully written and meticulous book. It's evident that Ms. Diouf spent a considerable amount of time and detail with her research. The author describes the Alabama slave trade and the events that lead to the maiden voyage of the modified schooner, Clotilda. She devotes two chapters to the lives of the "shipmates" - one prior to their capture and the other ...

The Well and the Mine

12 reviews
Gin Phillips

Hawthorne Books, 2008

a gem
"The Well and the Mine" is a book that you will want to treasure like a family heirloom. Like an old pocketwatch your great grandfather gave you or a locket you keep close to the heart, this story is a rare gem. Even though short at a respectable 250 pages, this novel easily stands beside the classics of Steinbeck, Faulkner, or Welty. Told with multiple first person narratives and without one ...

How to Stay Christian in College (Th1nk Edition)

17 reviews
J. Budziszewski

Th1nk Books, 2004

Be alert and open-eyed to college!
J. Budziszewski's own personal story is one of losing his childhood Christian faith in college, and not just in the sense of casually drifting away from it, but becoming openly opposed to it. So thoroughly had he deconstructed God and the meaning of existence, that he considered himself a wholehearted nihilist. In other words, there was no God, no purpose or meaning to existence. He writes ...

Cold Rock River

27 reviews
J. L. Miles

Cumberland House Publishing, 2006

Moved to the Top of my All Time Favorite List
As a born and bred Southern belle, I love Southern fiction, but as a former teacher and life-long reader, I'm picky about what I give five star ratings to. I picked up a copy of Cold Rock River, and to my husband's exasperation was still reading at 3 AM, because I couldn't put it down. The characters tug at your heartstrings, the action keeps you turning pages as fast as you can read, and you ...

All over but the Shoutin'

294 reviews
Rick Bragg

Vintage, 1998

The best insight of the Upland South written to date
I have never read, heard, seen a better picture of the South than that in the first five pages of this book. Not the Scarlett O'Hara fictional Old South, but the real red clay and hard rocky ground of the Upland where the overwhelming majority of people live. This should be mandatory reading for anyone who trying to understand the current presidential election. You'll learn more about who these ...

Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe: A Novel

182 reviews
Fannie Flagg

Random House, 2005

One of my favorite!
I read this book maybe 10 years ago and saw the movie version again (not as good as the book) this evening on HBO. So I picked up the book again and remembered how I love this book and considered it as one of my favorite. I love the 4 main characters (esp. Ruth & Idgie) as well as the secondary characters, Big George & Sipsey. You could really feel the love, devotion and depth of their ...

Alabama Stitch Book: Projects and Stories Celebrating Hand-Sewing, Quilting and Embroidery for Contemporary ...

10 reviews
Natalie Chanin, Stacie Stukin

Stewart, Tabori & Chang, 2008

wow.... I am drooling!
What a fabulous, fabulous book. Even though the reviews are all so good, I was not prepared to be blown away by this book. It is gorgeous. And even though I had looked at the cover, I still didn't expect something so cool. I hadn't ordered it originally because I had the vague impression it was mainly about quilting - a craft that looks pretty but has never appealed to me - it's probably a ...

Rosa Parks: My Story

23 reviews
Rosa Parks, Jim Haskins

Puffin, 1999

Rosa Parks
As the bus driver asked the blacks in the front of the colored section to stand up most of them stood, Rosa Parks just scooted to a new seat and made an available seat. She said, "No." The driver looked straight at her and said, "Well, I'm going to have you arrested." Then, she calmly said, "You may do that." Rosa Parks was arrested that day of December 1, 1955 and maintained her dignity going ...

Gods in Alabama

119 reviews
Joshilyn Jackson

Grand Central Publishing, 2007

So Very Good
From the opening lines, when the author familiarizes the reader with the gods of the title, I was hooked. I bought this book after reading, and loving "Between, Ga" and wasn't disappointed. Many reviews have done great justice to the plot so a synopsis won't be included in this review. The book is well written; the characters are sharp, complicated and just a little on the crazy side; the ...

The Quilts of Gee's Bend: Masterpieces from a Lost Place

22 reviews
William Arnett, Alvia Wardlaw, ...

Tinwood Books, 2002

.........a superb keepsake of a memorable trip.
Who is more qualified to help provide us with a book about the quilts of Gee's Bend, but Mr. Bill Arnett who has championed the makers of these quilts and their works since 'discovering' them years ago in the tiny community of Gee's Bend about thirty miles southwest of Selma, Alabama? The quilts first went on tour in 2002 and have been touring ever since. I learned of the ladies of Gee's ...

Unknown Waters: A First-Hand Account of the Historic Under-ice Survey of the Siberian Continental Shelf by ...

8 reviews
Alfred S McLaren

University Alabama Press, 2008

Unknown Waters
Excellent book. Well written and very interesting. Recommended reading for all submariners and those interested in Arctic research and exploration.

Rosa

9 reviews
Nikki Giovanni

Square Fish, 2007

Great Book
A must read for all youngsters. The feedback that we have gotten on this book from the kids who have read Tyler and His Solve-a-matic machine by Jennifer Bouani, is very positive. I highly recommend this book

Wicked City

9 reviews
Ace Atkins

Putnam Adult, 2008

Great Book!
An incredible mix of fact and fiction takes the reader back in time and plops you back in 1950's Phenix City! Great Read Ace!! War Eagle!

The Truth About Diamonds: A Novel

92 reviews
Nicole Richie

HarperEntertainment, 2006

Why, oh why, are you here?
Why are you looking at this book? For that matter, why the hell am I here? A discussion with a friend about the empty, whoring lives of these husks we call celebrities brought me to wonder what kind of people read these books, so here I am...condemning you. After reading some reviews, I find myself shivering with disgust...read books like these, and you forfeit your right to have eyes...thems ...

Let Us Now Praise Famous Men: The American Classic, in Words and Photographs, of Three Tenant Families in the ...

22 reviews
James Agee, Walker Evans

Mariner Books, 2001

A timeless classic...
James Agee's painstaking and honest masterpiece is an exercise in empathy. It is a beautiful, tortured writing that speaks to both the deplorable conditions of the Depression-era souther sharecropper and the humanity of trying to present them in a favorable light. Agee's writing style is at times erratic-- which helps to give the book its character. It is often self-doubting, as Agee calls ...

Alabama Moon

14 reviews
Watt Key

Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR), 2006

Can't Wait For the Sequel
This book begs for a sequel and soon, too. We--we readers--have to know what happened to Moon and to Hal...What happens to them as they grow, mature, and face their young adult high school and college days? And when they grow up, get married and have families of their own...As they approach old age...Will they, can they, escape (overcome) the events described here in the formative days of their ...

Rural Studio: Samuel Mockbee and an Architecture of Decency

21 reviews
Andrea Oppenheimer Dean, Timothy Hursley

Princeton Architectural Press, 2002

inspiring
Maybe the most important architectural idea since the series of pattern language treatises by Christopher Alexander. I think this is a must read for anyone involved with real estate development. Surely a model for New Orleans. I'm planning to take a trip and pay homage. Mr. Mockbee was a genius.