books by NewSouth Books     books:       Row Away From The Rocks6 reviews Lisbeth J. Thom NewSouth Books, 2005 Challenges Ms. Thom's characters are beautifully developed and you feel as though you know all of them in your own circle of friends - particularly the grandmother. I have been through the loss of my mother and the eccentricities of an aging parent are a challenge for anyone. Ms. Thom's thought processes and actions are a help to anyone who is trying to cope with these problems. We are not always sure ...             Junior Ray6 reviews John Pritchard NewSouth Books, 2008 One helluva good book Pritchard has succeeded in creating a character on the par with Holden Caulfield or Ignatius Reilly: you don't like them at all really, but you can't stop reading to see what they'll do next. At a time when the modern South constantly tries to show that it has left behind its old ways, Junior Ray Loveblood doesn't give a crap whether you approve of his way of looking at things. This book is ...             Ali Dubyiah and the Forty Thieves: A Contemporary Fable4 reviews John Egerton NewSouth Books, 2006 If you've ever scratched your head and wondered how in the hell we've gotten ourselves into such a global mess, read this book! Friends just gave me this book and I want to throw my arms around John Egerton and hug him with gratitude. Finally, finally, someone has taken all of the facts of this baffooning president and his miserable band of boy-ohs and called a spade a spade. His facts are impeccable, his sequencing strips all of the republican hooligans, rouges, and scheming thieves from their mysterious cover of ...             On the Hills of God12 reviews Ibrahim Fawal NewSouth Books, 2002 A plight of a country ... Ardallah .. the land of God .. I really don't know if it exists... but it is where our story takes place in Palestine. The book describes the events that preceded the war of 1948, how the Jewish people settled by force, how the Palestinians reacted and what the Arabs did.. if anything!! It illustrates their humiliating and appalling exodus from their country. I have heard a lot about it and ...             Like Shooting Rapids in the Dark: Selected Writings on Education6 reviews Billy O. Wireman NewSouth Books, 2002 Unique insights into the role colleges have to play Collaboratively edited by Richard Goode (McMahon Professor of English and Chair of Queens College English department) and Robert Whalen (Carolyn G. and Sam H. McMahon, Jr., Professor of History and Chair of Queens College's history department), Like Shooting Rapids In The Dark is an informed and informative collection of writings on education by Billy O. Wireman, the recently retired president of ...             Beyond the Burning Bus: The Civil Rights Revolution in a Southern Town4 reviews James Phillips Noble NewSouth Books, 2003 Beyond the Burning Bus Having been a professor of Race Relations and Minority Peoples at an African-American College during the Civil Rights Movement, I was thrilled to read Beyond the Burning Bus and to learn how three ministers in Anniston, Alabama--one White and two Blacks--came together after the Bus Burning during the Freedom Rides and the miracles they were able to accomplish. In spite of threats and beatings, ...             My Korea6 reviews Reuben M. Brown NewSouth Books, 2003 The human side of war A touching...sometimes humorous...look at the US Army from a small-town boy of the '50's. Not your usual blood and guts action novel, this is the true story of a young man's journey through the Army and into a war...a war our Nation was most comfortable denying. His story is one of becoming a leader, and the people he met along the way. A heart-warming look at the human side of war.             The Scar of David16 reviews Susan Abulhawa NewSouth Books, 2006 an intense read, beautifully written ! At no time in my life has a book had such a firm grip on my heart and soul. The most intriguing aspect of Susan Abulhawa's writing style is her innate ability to make you feel you are in every scene as a witness, resulting in a vast range of emotions including love, joy, sadness, horror, anger, forgiveness, wonderment, but never indifference. Though fictional, the characters soon become real, ...             Forgiving Sam7 reviews Bonnie Powell Clark NewSouth Books, 2002 VERY MOVING STORY This is a book that is hard to recommend because of the subject matter - not alot of people want to face such hard truths and facts during pleasure reading. This an absolutley amazing story - powerful, unforgettable and not to be forgotten. I loved the length of the book and the depth of the story. The reader really gets to know the characters. I wonder how Sam is doing now - when I finished ...             Fear Not the Fall: Fannie Lou Hamer: This Little Light (Conecuh)5 reviews Billie Jean Young NewSouth Books, 2004 Heartfelt, hard-hitting, and eye-opening I was thrilled to learn about the publication of this book, as I have been in awe of Billie Jean Young's talents since first hearing her speak in the late '70s. I very much enjoy and appreciate the soul-baring prose in this book -- so much so that I have purchased a copy to donate to our local library. I find it especially eye-opening for those of us with the "privilege" of white skin, who have ...             Zeeland, Or, Elective Concurrences: A Novel3 reviews Hans Koning NewSouth Books, 2001 Good on every level. Both the threads in this novel, one set after the Paris Commune, and the other in the Second World War, are interesting. The author has done a wonderful thing : wrapping complexity in a narrative that carries you through with pleasure. The exploration of coincidence, concurrence is interesting, and reminds us how often we pattern our lives with attention to this aspect. Be sure I noted that the ...             Poor Man's Provence: Finding Myself in Cajun Louisiana4 reviews Rheta Grimsley Johnson NewSouth Books, 2008 Sincerity, Humor and Humanity Abound Somewhat like the wonderful nonfiction works of Least Heat Moon's "Blue Highways" and Raban's "Passage to Juneau", only better, much better. Like those two travel novels, "Poor Man's Provence", entertains with unique true anecdotes and historical facts about the down home exotic people and places of the Acadiana ("Cajun") Country, Louisiana. Woven into the colorful quilt of her writing, Rheta ...             Century of the Death of the Rose: Selected Poems2 reviews Jorge, Carrera Andrade NewSouth Books, 2007 A work of remarkably impressive poetry Century Of The Death Of The Rose by Jorge Carrera Andrade (a nominee of the 1975 Nobel Prize for Literature), is a work of remarkably impressive poetry, offered in its original Spanish side by side with flawless English translations by Steven Ford Brown. Moving parables of the beauty and frailty of life itself are deftly combined with a heartfelt expression of wonder in the hidden treasures of ...             They Say the Wind Is Red: The Alabama Choctaw-Lost in Their Own Land3 reviews Jacqueline Matte NewSouth Books, 2002 Great Genealogy, Great History, Great Saga This book tells the story of my family and other native peoples whose identities were essentially taken from them by Alabama politicians who over several decades mischaracterized them as "Cajans." My great grandfather (Seaborn Reid) and his extended family were living in post-Civil War Washington and Mobile Counties in southeast Alabama where, as free mixed Indian people, his ancestors had made ...             Coasters4 reviews Gerald Duff NewSouth Books, 2001 An Exhilarating Ride Duff has wrapped this story of middle-aged torpor in ribald humor and hilarious word play. The plot takes the reader on a rapid ascent through the savage scenery of corporate downsizing, marital failures, family discord, and unrealized dreams. Waylon McPhee, the central character, returns - unemployed, divorced and without future plans -- to live cheaply in his father's house. In his desire to ...             Habeas Circus: Illegal Humor3 reviews Alan Gerson NewSouth Books, 2001 First, Get This Book, Then Kill All the Lawyers... Gerson is an extraordinary artist with a sardonic wit who we discovered at the Lemieux Gallery in New Orleans (www.lemieuxgallery.com) while at Jazz Fest. He apparently used to practice law there before he wised up and applied his considerable talents to the canvas full time. We were delighted to see another Gerson show in New York last summer and met the artist/author. For anyone who loves ...             Hear the Bugles Calling: My Three Wars As a Combat Infantryman3 reviews Lionel F., Sr. Pinn, Frank Sikora NewSouth Books, 2001 A must read for those that served, and those that didn't Once in a while a great man walks into our lives; a man whose very persona is exemplified in his very stare. One such man was Lionel Pinn. Master Sergeant Pinn served in not one, not two, not three, but four different combat areanas. WWII, Korea, Laos and Vietnam saw Mr. Pinn, or Choo-Choo as he was known to many, fight and overcome the enemy. In three different combat theaters Pinny was ...             One More River to Cross: The Selected Poems of John Beecher4 reviews John Beecher, Steven Ford Brown NewSouth Books, 2003 Beecher's is a much needed voice For anyone who doesn't know about John Beecher, he was THE American social protest poet. (He died in 1980) His poetry is not technically complex, it's far from high art, but that's the point: it's poetry for common people about common people. His voice of protest is so heavily laden with the truth that it's impossible to ignore. In one poem in the book, he describes how standing up for the right ...             In the Realm of Rivers: Alabama's Mobile-Tensaw Delta3 reviews Sue Walker NewSouth Books, 2005 A Magical Place When I first leafed through this book and admired the magnificent nature photos, I thought, "What a beautiful coffee table book to look at and read a little now and then." But when I started reading, I couldn't put it down until I'd read it all, and pored over every stunning photograph. "In the Realm of Rivers" is much more than a coffee table book. It's the story---natural history, ...             The Politics of Presidential Appointment: A Memoir of the Culture War4 reviews Sheldon Hackney NewSouth Books, 2002 A politically charged testimony of so-called "Culture Wars" The Politics Of Presidential Appointment: A Memoir Of The Culture War by historian Sheldon Hackney (University of Pennsylvania) is a politically charged testimony of the so-called "Culture Wars." The former president of the University of Pennsylvania, Sheldon Hackney tells of how his nomination to become President Bill Clinton's chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities touched off ...              search for books alabama, appointment, beecher, calling, century, choctaw, choctaw-lost, coasters, concurrences, conecuh, contemporary, dubyiah, education, elective, finding, forgiving, illegal, infantryman, louisiana, mobile-tensaw, politics, presidential, provence, revolution, selected, shooting, southern, thieves, writings, zeeland books:    Kindle - Amazon's New Wireless Reading Device This is the future of book reading. I have used it and love it! randomly chosen magazines: Bird Watching we recommend an intense read, beautifully written ! home  impressum - about us