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Outcasts United: A Refugee Team, an American Town Warren St. John

OUTCASTS UNITED: A REFUGEE TEAM, AN AMERICAN TOWN reads more like fiction than the true story of a Jordanian woman in a small Southern town taking a group of refugees from a hundred countries and creating a force in the soccer world. More importantly, assimilating these disparate foreigners into American society - as...

Mattie C.'s Boy: The Shelley Stewart Story Shelley Stewart

MATTIE C.'S BOY: THE SHELLEY STEWART STORY is the most remarkable Rags-to-Riches biography in the store. Shelley Stewart created one of America's leading marketing firms with clients like Honda, Verizon, The NBA AMEX Card and on and on. However, as a young African-American boy in the South in the 1940s...

Only Love Can Break Your Heart Ed Tarkington

ONLY LOVE CAN BREAK YOUR HEART finds an eight-year-old betrayed by the older sibling he adores. The story becomes suspenseful when the youngster becomes a teenager himself and is consumed in an affair with the girl next door - although she is much his senior. A double murder creates even more...

My Sunshine Away M. O. Walsh

MY SUNSHINE AWAY is a powerful debut novel set in a small Southern town after a young girl is attacked and many residents of the close-knit neighborhood are suspects.   This title has been selected as a Booksmith Timeless Classic, meaning it is among the best of the best for the last several decades. We will...

Secessia Kent Wascom

SECESSIA is a tale of greed, slavery and intrigue set in 1862 New Orleans, when the largest city in the confederacy is governed the Union's notorious General Benjamin "The Beast" Butler.   This title has been selected as a Booksmith Timeless Classic, meaning it is among the best of the best for the last several...

The New Inheritors Kent Wascom

THE NEW INHERITORS is the story of a young artist and a well-heeled heiress during World War I in New Orleans, whose family strife and the tumult in the world around them threaten to tear them apart.  This title has been selected as a Booksmith Timeless Classic, meaning it is among the best of the best for the...

Birmingham Beer: A Heady History of Brewing in the Magic City Carla Jean Whitley

BIRMINGHAM BEER: A HEADY HISTORY OF BREWING IN THE MAGIC CITY highlights the craft beer movement, including the people and places making an impact in this growing industry locally and around the country. This title has been selected as a Booksmith Timeless Classic, meaning it is among the best of the best for...

Jeffrey Introduces 13 More Southern Ghosts Kathryn Tucker Windham

JEFFREY INTRODUCES 13 MORE SOUTHERN GHOSTS follows the enormous success of 13 Alabama Ghosts and Jeffrey to also become one of the South's most beloved books. Whether you believe in ghosts or not, these stories delight children and adults. This title has been selected as a Booksmith Timeless Classic,...

Homewood Martha Wurtele

HOMEWOOD celebrates the unique and wonderful city that is home to The Alabama Booksmith. Using a wide array of photographs, both new and old, as well as meticulously researched text, Martha Wurtele and Jake Collins have put the spotlight on the people and places (including The Alabama Booksmith) that have made this one...