Any family who has lived in one country for several generations will have the history of that country carved into their family heritage. From a Civil War veteran in nineteenth century Selma to an emergency room medic in modern Atlanta, history has swirled around the descendents of Peter Alexander Stone. Whether in Crumptonia, Alabama or Los Alamos, New Mexico, this family has lived, worked, and served at the edge. It takes a visitor from Iraq and a trip to Africa for Thomas Herndon Stone t...

William Stone had a plan for his life. He would marry Olivia Moore, practice medicine in Selma, Alabama, and expand his love of creating anatomical drawings. The Battle of Shiloh in April, 1862 changed those plans. When a Tennessee newspaper brought news of an approaching Union Army, William decided to travel north. He would offer his assistance as a medical officer under the command of John Hunt Morgan. William arrived in Middle Tennessee in time to participate in the Battle of Hartsville...

**#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The renowned author of The Women vividly explores the intricate bonds of sisterhood and family.“[Kristin] Hannah [brings] snap and a lot of warmth to a familiar lesson: that contentment comes from accepting each other’s flaws.”—People**Years ago, Meghann Dontess made a terrible choice that cost her everything, including the love of her sister, Claire. Now, Meghann is a highly successful attorney who doesn’t believe...

Tensions simmer as a small town, already divided by race, is torn apart by the deadliest of hurricanes . . . THE HELP meets TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD in this powerfully emotional and gripping debut novel.In the small town of Heron Key, where the relationships are as tangled as the mangrove roots in the swamp, everyone is preparing for the 4th of July barbecue, unaware that their world is about to change for ever. Missy, maid to the Kincaid family, feels she has wasted ...

"She goes a long way with her book to prove that humor is the best -- possibly the only -- way to keep the world on an even keel."CHICAGO SUN-TIMESRemember the things Mother used to say? Erma Bombeck remembers them all and now she's using them on her own kids! With clever illustrations by Bil Keane, these really funny, too-true observations on family and kids and why it shouldn't work but does, is a wonderful antitdote to the daily problems and crises that every family faces....

Ghost stories. Everyone knows one. Everyone can tell you one. Ghost stories haunt and linger and tantalize. Come on along with Steve Vernon - ghost story collector, writer, and teller - as he brings you eight of the creepiest yarns imaginable, stories that will creep up on you and teach you the fine old art of the booga-booga. Eight stories - including Steve's haunting salute to the road gang, "The Forever Long Road of Olan Walker". Walk down this road, if you'd like to. Or better yet - ru...

Set in a fictional Colorado town, Kent Haruf's Where You Once Belonged brings to life small town America and the characters that keep the community together.Heavy-built Jack Burdette is quite literally too big for his boots – and too big, certainly, for the small-town attitudes of Holt, Colorado. But when he fails to make the grade as a college footballer, and takes a job with the local farmers’ cooperative, it seems he has finally settled into the rhythm and routine of ev...

From the bestselling author of the generation-defining series The Baby-sitters Club comes a series for a new generation!Free Kittens!Karen is super-excited when she finds a stray cat in the toolshed. Best of all, the cat is about to have kittens! When they are born Karen sends out birth announcements. She picks out five special names. Now it is the time to give the kittens away. Finding five perfect homes is not easy. But Karen is determined to try!

Growing Up in Mississippi is a true story. Berthas story. But more than that, it is the story of what it was like for many young black girls of her generation to be born into poverty and to grow up surrounded by the meanest forms of racial discrimination. To be educated in run down, second rate schools, marry early and work long hours for low pay just to keep food on the table. Read about the wayward Uncle Wigley, a cursed character among many black families who resorted to inflicting abuse o...

Home Coming; a story of survival: the great depression WWII weddings funerals illness and death; a story about coping with problems building character and finding the real meaning of home.

Southern writer Madelyn Young thinks that when a woman enters her seventies, it is time to stop talking about what she is going to do and get on with it. In her collection of award-winning thirty-one stories and essays, Young shares tales of family loyalty and love, discord, and intrigue as she poignantly reflects on a life well-lived.In creating her stories, Young takes real-life experiences and transforms them into compelling accounts that sometimes take surprising twists in the ...

Sun up to Sun down is a story about the son of a sharecropper, named Leotis. Sharecropping was a system designed after the Civil War ended, by plantation owners. Under this system the rich got richer while the poor remained poor. It continued many years after the Civil War ended. This is not your typical down on the farm story. The field hand worked in the cotton fields, chopping cotton from sunrise tjo sun set. Some elderly field hands would say that one had to work from dusk til dawn, or...