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Australian Book Retailer of the Year 2021
Bob Whetstone
A tenant farmer moves to town to put his children to work in a cotton mill only to face the economic depression of the 1920’s and a murderous gang that…
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Fourteen-year-old Buck relates an insider view of a small town’s attempt to organize a professional baseball team in the 1940’s. As the team’s first batboy, Buck recalls the hilarious antics…
Joe, a mixed race son of a Southern slave woman, sells peanuts to guards at the notorious Civil War Prison at Andersonville, Georgia. At great risk, He secretly hides an…
Six year old Angeline’s career as a gospel singer begins in a 1950’s coal mining town in Alabama, ending in an out-of-wedlock pregnancy. The college freshman drops out of school…
Cotton Mary is a poignant fictional account of a young woman who attempts to overcome a life destined to be spent as a field hand, and a lack of formal…
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The untold story of the early Twentieth Century migration of farm hands to work in cotton mills in the south as seen through the eyes of a young man whose…
Despite serious injuries and amnesia, a young man survives the automobile accident in which his twin brother dies. During his recovery he secures a teaching position at an exclusive college…
