Fact and fancy are the irresistible blend that characterizes these delightful tales of Florida's backwoods... and the Florida Crackers - the zany but lovable folks who populated the remote hamlet that was Marjorie Rawlings' home. With a gift for humor and a venerable ear for dialect comes the author's personal accounts of the people, scenery and wildlife of Cross Creek.

Focuses on the subtle constraints imposed on all rural African Americans in the segregated South and the central dilemma that defined their lives.

A Blue Ridge Mountain family is displaced to the flatlands by the creation of the Shenandoah National Park.

Two New Hampshire teenagers fall into an unlikely relationship as they come together to save a mistreated dog. Whippoorwill is a deeply poignant story about the virulent nature of abuse and the power of human empathy.

LISTEN FOR THE WHIPPOORWILL Introducing Harriet Tubman Living as a slave with her family on an old Maryland plantation in 1853, twelve-year-old Rosebud Jackson had been helping her mother with the cooking for the Big House as long as she could remember. Rosebud's world seemed like an endless pile of pots and pans to wash, food to prepare, and bread to bake. Her father worked long days in the fields while her fifteen-year-old brother Isaac was the stable boy. But when a series of tragedies strikes, Rosebud is left alone and very afraid. Her only hope is that the words of her father will come true: "Just listen for the whippoorwill." When the harvest season is over, this sound will be her signal to follow in a desperate attempt to escape her cruel slavery. On the darkest of nights, Rosebud will meet the mysterious person the slaves called "Moses," who will lead her and other slaves on a harrowing journey toward the North on the Underground Railroad. Harriet Tubman, known as "Moses," was also an escaped slave and became famous for leading bands of runaways on their dangerous passage to Canada. Will rosebud be able to keep up? Does Harriet Tubman know the way?

What does it take to truly lay a burden down? Having served two tours in Afghanistan, Hudson Lee returns home to Georgia mentally traumatized after the death of his good friend, who sacrificed himself to save Hudson in battle. Deeply distraught and unable to see a way out of his depression, Hudson makes plans to end his life at the family farm, Whippoorwill Hollow. Just when he's about to follow through, however, he encounters an abandoned dog that's been bitten by a snake and in dire need of help. Hudson's protective instincts kick in, and he and the mistreated red-nose terrier, named Hank after Hudson's deceased friend, form an extraordinary bond. Across town, Katie Carter is increasingly despondent about the prospect of ever escaping her abusive fiancé, Sean. When Hank guides Hudson and Katie together, she, too, has nearly lost her will to live. No matter where she goes or what she does, Sean always seems to find her. But love, family, and forgiveness are powerful, and with Hank's help, Hudson and Katie stand a chance of outrunning the demons of their past and facing a future together. Davidson Lee Price's debut novel is a tender and moving story of what happens when unspeakable pain is finally shared and how a community can come together to heal it.

On a cold February morning in 1967, Sheriff Coleman Grundy finds Betty Lou Mundy dead in her front yard and her husband on the porch with the gun that killed her. It looks like a classic case of revenge on a cheating wife.Until the next murder. And the next. As Cole desperately searches for leads, he’s forced to come to grips with his own wife’s unsolved murder three years earlier, and in the process, he unearths long-buried secrets that change his life forever.