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Victor investigates a roar out in Mobile Bay and finds himself in the midst of war. His boat crashes into a surfacing German U-boat and he is alternately a hostage and in hot pursuit.

Chronicles the events surrounding the 1944 rape and beating of an African-American woman by seven white men in Abbeville, Alabama, focusing on Rosa Parks' investigation into the case and the impact her involvement had on the 1955 boycott she started, which in turn led to the civil rights movement.

James "Brother" Longstreet Sayre, living with his mother and sister in their run-down boardinghouse in Snow Hill, Alabama, in 1937, learns a lot about himself as well as the ways of the world when he meets Champion Always Luckey, an African-American boy his age who has been sent from Detroit to stay with his aunt.

Walter learns a shocking secret about the past when reading his mother's diary, and sets out on a path of violence and evil that will change his life forever.

Lomasi, a Creek girl, enjoys singing and hearing stories from the village storyteller, and also likes to help her grandmother gather leaves, roots, and herbs for medicine, but one day her grandmother has an accident and Lomasi must decide what to do.

In the book Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, photographer Walker Evans and writer James Agee, portrayed the lives of three sharecropper families in the South during the Depression, documenting the tyranny of the tenant farming system that enslaved some nine million tenants in 1936. Fifty years later, Maharidge and Williamson have revisited, photographed, and interviewed the surviving members and descendants of the families shown in that book.

Examines the life and political career of four-time Alabama Governor George Wallace, and discusses the lasting influence of his conservative policies on twentieth-century politics.

Traces the history of this ancient trail used originally by Native Americans, describes its use by travelers returning north from New Orleans, and includes information about it as a national reserve.

With a mother who buys Christmas cards in August and a younger brother who describes the Trinity as a toasted marshmallow on a graham cracker, life for eleven-year-old Charles Harrisong is anything but normal in Normal, Illinois.

In 1963, pregnant seventeen-year-old Adie Jenkins is intrigued by the diary of a young slave girl who had three illegitimate children with her master; and after she gives birth, Adie starts to wonder if her midwife is the daughter of the woman who wrote the journal.