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Cotton Tenants
Three Families
Written by James Agee
Edited by John Summers
Photographed by Walker Evans
Introduction by Adam Haslett

Format: eBook
On Sale: June 4, 2013
Price: $24.95

A re-discovered masterpiece of reporting by a literary icon and a celebrated photographer

In 1941, James Agee and Walker Evans published Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, a 400-page prose symphony about three tenant farming families in Hale County, Alabama, at the height of the Great Depression. The book shattered journalistic and... Read more >

Cotton Tenants
Three Families
Written by James Agee
Edited by John Summers
Photographed by Walker Evans
Introduction by Adam Haslett

Format: Hardcover, 224 pages
On Sale: May 29, 2013
Price: $24.95

A re-discovered masterpiece of reporting by a literary icon and a celebrated photographer

In 1941, James Agee and Walker Evans published Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, a four-hundred-page prose symphony about three tenant farming families in Hale County, Alabama at the height of the Great Depression. The book shattered journalistic and... Read more >

The Fall of the House of Dixie
The Civil War and the Social Revolution That Transformed the South
Written by Bruce Levine

Format: Hardcover, 464 pages
On Sale: January 8, 2013
Price: $30.00

In this major new history of the Civil War, Bruce Levine tells the riveting story of how that conflict upended the economic, political, and social life of the old South, utterly destroying the Confederacy and the society it represented and defended. Told through the words of the people who lived it... Read more >

The Fall of the House of Dixie
The Civil War and the Social Revolution That Transformed the South
Written by Bruce Levine

Format: eBook, 464 pages
On Sale: January 8, 2013
Price: $14.99

In this major new history of the Civil War, Bruce Levine tells the riveting story of how that conflict upended the economic, political, and social life of the old South, utterly destroying the Confederacy and the society it represented and defended. Told through the words of the people who lived it... Read more >

Southern Plantations

Written by Robin Lattimore

Format: Trade Paperback, 64 pages
On Sale: November 20, 2012
Price: $9.95

Once the lifeblood of large estates and farms throughout the American South and East, antebellum plantations today serve as windows into one of the most controversial eras of U.S. history. Though many of these grand homes have been lost, scores more still exist, some as National Memorial sites, National Historic Landmarks... Read more >

The Bitter Waters of Medicine Creek
A Tragic Clash Between White and Native America
Written by Richard Kluger

Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
On Sale: March 6, 2012
Price: $16.95

Pulitzer Prize-winner Richard Kluger brings to life a bloody clash between Native Americans and white settlers in the 1850s Pacific Northwest. After he was appointed the first governor of the state of Washington, Isaac Ingalls Stevens had one goal: to persuade the Indians of the Puget Sound region to leave their... Read more >

Every Day by the Sun
A Memoir of the Faulkners of Mississippi
Written by Dean Faulkner Wells

Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: February 21, 2012
Price: $15.00

In Every Day by the Sun, Dean Faulkner Wells recounts the story of the Faulkners of Mississippi, whose legacy includes pioneers, noble and ignoble war veterans, three never-convicted mur­derers, the builder of the first railroad in north Mississippi, the founding president of a bank, an FBI agent, four pilots (all brothers)... Read more >

Mile Marker Zero
The Moveable Feast of Key West
Written by William McKeen

Format: Hardcover, 320 pages
On Sale: October 4, 2011
Price: $25.00

True tales of writers and pirates, painters and potheads, guitar pickers and drug merchants in America’s southernmost city
 
For Hemingway and Fitzgerald, there was Paris in the twenties. For others, later, there was Greenwich Village, Big Sur, and Woodstock. But for an even later generation—one defined by the likes of Jimmy Buffett... Read more >

Mile Marker Zero
The Moveable Feast of Key West
Written by William McKeen

Format: eBook, 320 pages
On Sale: October 4, 2011
Price: $12.99

True tales of writers and pirates, painters and potheads, guitar pickers and drug merchants in America’s southernmost city
 
For Hemingway and Fitzgerald, there was Paris in the twenties. For others, later, there was Greenwich Village, Big Sur, and Woodstock. But for an even later generation—one defined by the likes of Jimmy Buffett... Read more >

The Fall of the House of Zeus
The Rise and Ruin of America's Most Powerful Trial Lawyer
Written by Curtis Wilkie

Format: Trade Paperback, 416 pages
On Sale: September 13, 2011
Price: $16.00

“Over the past four decades no reporter has critiqued the American South with such evocative sensitivity and bedrock honesty as Curtis Wilkie.”
—Douglas Brinkley
 
The Fall of the House of Zeus tells the story of Dickie Scruggs, arguably the most successful plaintiff's lawyer in America. A brother-in-law of Trent Lott, the former... Read more >

Every Day by the Sun
A Memoir of the Faulkners of Mississippi
Written by Dean Faulkner Wells

Format: eBook, 288 pages
On Sale: March 22, 2011
Price: $11.99

In Every Day by the Sun, Dean Faulkner Wells recounts the story of the Faulkners of Mississippi, whose legacy includes pioneers, noble and ignoble war veterans, three never-convicted mur­derers, the builder of the first railroad in north Mississippi, the founding president of a bank, an FBI agent, four pilots (all brothers)... Read more >

The Bitter Waters of Medicine Creek
A Tragic Clash Between White and Native America
Written by Richard Kluger
Read by Alan Sklar

Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: March 1, 2011
Price: $22.50

The riveting story of a dramatic confrontation between Native Americans and white settlers, a compelling conflict that unfolded in the newly created Washington Territory from 1853 to 1857.

When appointed Washington’s first governor, Isaac Ingalls Stevens, an ambitious military man turned politician, had one goal: to persuade (peacefully if possible) the Indians... Read more >

The Bitter Waters of Medicine Creek
A Tragic Clash Between White and Native America
Written by Richard Kluger

Format: eBook, 384 pages
On Sale: March 1, 2011
Price: $12.99

The riveting story of a dramatic confrontation between Native Americans and white settlers, a compelling conflict that unfolded in the newly created Washington Territory from 1853 to 1857.

When appointed Washington’s first governor, Isaac Ingalls Stevens, an ambitious military man turned politician, had one goal: to persuade (peacefully if possible) the Indians... Read more >

The Fall of the House of Zeus
The Rise and Ruin of America's Most Powerful Trial Lawyer
Written by Curtis Wilkie

Format: eBook, 320 pages
On Sale: October 19, 2010
Price: $11.99

“Over the past four decades no reporter has critiqued the American South with such evocative sensitivity and bedrock honesty as Curtis Wilkie.”
—Douglas Brinkley
 
The Fall of the House of Zeus tells the story of Dickie Scruggs, arguably the most successful plaintiff's lawyer in America. A brother-in-law of Trent Lott, the former... Read more >

Nine Lives
Mystery, Magic, Death, and Life in New Orleans
Written by Dan Baum

Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
On Sale: February 16, 2010
Price: $16.00

Nines Lives is a multivoiced biography of a dazzling, surreal, and imperiled city, told through the lives of nine unforgettable characters and bracketed by two epic storms: Hurricane Betsy, which transformed New Orleans in the 1960s, and Hurricane Katrina, which nearly destroyed it. Dan Baum brings this kaleidoscopic portrait to life... Read more >

Blues, Booze, & Bbq

Photographed by Michael Loyd Young
Foreword by David Alan Harvey

Format: Hardcover, 112 pages
On Sale: October 22, 2009
Price: $39.95

“The Mississippi River Delta is flat country. Not a hill in sight. It is often way too cold or way too hot. But there is a subtle beauty to it. Large plantation owners used to rule this delta country and I imagine what it may have been like 100 years ago. I can almost smell... Read more >

Nine Lives
Death and Life in New Orleans
Written by Dan Baum

Format: eBook
On Sale: February 10, 2009
Price: $11.99

BONUS: This edition contains a Nine Lives discussion guide.

Nine Lives is a multivoiced biography of a dazzling, surreal, and imperiled city, told through the lives of night unforgettable characters and bracketed by two epic storms: Hurricane Betsy, which transformed New Orleans in the 1960s, and Hurricane Katrina, which nearly destroyed it. Dan... Read more >

Disfarmer

Text by Edwynn Houk, Gerd Sander, Richard B. Woodward and Michael P. Mattis
Photographed by Mike Disfarmer

Format: Hardcover, 240 pages
On Sale: November 1, 2005
Price: $60.00

Mike Disfarmer is a true American eccentric. Born Mike Meyer, he changed his name to distance himself from both the surrounding farming community of his native Arkansas and from his own kinfolk—claiming that a tornado had accidentally blown him onto the Meyer family farm as a baby. The son of a... Read more >