The Alabama Review
Title | The Alabama Review PDF eBook |
Author | |
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Pages | 84 |
Release | 1950 |
Genre | Alabama |
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Gone Crazy in Alabama
Title | Gone Crazy in Alabama PDF eBook |
Author | Rita Williams-Garcia |
Publisher | Harper Collins |
Pages | 320 |
Release | 2015-04-21 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 0062215906 |
The Coretta Scott King Award–winning Gone Crazy in Alabama by Newbery Honor and New York Times bestselling author Rita Williams-Garcia tells the story of the Gaither sisters as they travel from the streets of Brooklyn to the rural South for the summer of a lifetime. Delphine, Vonetta, and Fern are off to Alabama to visit their grandmother Big Ma and her mother, Ma Charles. Across the way lives Ma Charles’s half sister, Miss Trotter. The two half sisters haven’t spoken in years. As Delphine hears about her family history, she uncovers the surprising truth that’s been keeping the sisters apart. But when tragedy strikes, Delphine discovers that the bonds of family run deeper than she ever knew possible. Powerful and humorous, this companion to the award-winning One Crazy Summer and P.S. Be Eleven will be enjoyed by fans of the first two books, as well as by readers meeting these memorable sisters for the first time. Readers who enjoy Christopher Paul Curtis's The Watsons Go to Birmingham and Jacqueline Woodson’s Brown Girl Dreaming will find much to love in this book. Rita Williams-Garcia's books about Delphine, Vonetta, and Fern can also be read alongside nonfiction explorations of American history such as Jason Reynolds's and Ibram X. Kendi's books. Each humorous, unforgettable story in this trilogy follows the sisters as they grow up during one of the most tumultuous eras in recent American history, the 1960s. Read the adventures of eleven-year-old Delphine and her younger sisters, Vonetta and Fern, as they visit their kin all over the rapidly changing nation—and as they discover that the bonds of family, and their own strength, run deeper than they ever knew possible. “The Gaither sisters are an irresistible trio. Williams-Garcia excels at conveying defining moments of American society from their point of view.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review) Coretta Scott King Award winner * ALA Notable Book * School Library Journal Best Book of the Year * Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year * ALA Booklist Editors’ Choice * Shelf Awareness Best Book of the Year * Washington Post Best Books of the Year * The Bulletin of the Center for Children’s Books Blue Ribbon Book * Three starred reviews * CCBC Choice * New York Public Library 100 Titles for Reading and Sharing * Amazon Best Book of the Year
Boys of Alabama: A Novel
Title | Boys of Alabama: A Novel PDF eBook |
Author | Genevieve Hudson |
Publisher | Liveright Publishing |
Pages | 304 |
Release | 2020-05-19 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1631496301 |
A “soul-stirring debut,” Boys of Alabama tells the “bewitching” (Michelle Hart, O, The Oprah Magazine) tale of sixteen-year-old Max’s first year in America. “Daring, unusual . . . and startlingly fresh” (Don Noble, Alabama Public Radio), Boys of Alabama announced Genevieve Hudson’s place in the canon of the southern gothic alongside Donna Tartt and Harper Lee. Newly arrived in Alabama, Max falls in love, questions his faith, and navigates a strange power. Although his German parents don’t know what to make of a South pining for the past, shy Max thrives after being taken in by the football team. But when he meets fishnet-wearing Pan in physics class, they embark on a quixotic, consuming relationship. Writing in “prose that is always imaginative and sensual” (Sarah Neilson, Believer), Hudson offers a complex portrait of masculinity, religion, immigration, and the adolescent pressures that require total conformity.
The Alabama Review, October 1962, VOL.XV(#4).
Title | The Alabama Review, October 1962, VOL.XV(#4). PDF eBook |
Author | Alabama Historical Association |
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Covers the civil, economic, political, natural, literary, and ecclesiastical history of the state of Alabama and its people. Contains reviews of books about Alabama and the South, and reports on the activities of the Alabama Historical Association.
The Alabama Review
Title | The Alabama Review PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 332 |
Release | 1978 |
Genre | Alabama |
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The Alabama Review, January 2015
Title | The Alabama Review, January 2015 PDF eBook |
Author | Alabama Historical Association |
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Release | 2015 |
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Covers the civil, economic, political, natural, literary, and ecclesiastical history of the state of Alabama and its people. Contains reviews of books about Alabama and the South, and reports on the activities of the Alabama Historical Association.
Inside Alabama
Title | Inside Alabama PDF eBook |
Author | Harvey H. Jackson |
Publisher | University of Alabama Press |
Pages | 346 |
Release | 2003 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0817350683 |
An insider's perspective in a conversational, yet unapologetic style on the events and conditions that shaped modern-day Alabama.