Non-Fiction

In the Depression year of 1931, on the golf links at Krewe Island off Savannah's windswept shore, two legends of the game--Bobby Jones and Walter Hagen--meet for a mesmerizing thirty-six-hole showdown. Another golfer will also compete--a troubled local...

Harley-Davidson bikers . . . Grand Canyon river rats. . . Mormon archaeologists . . . Spelling bee prodigies . . . For more than fifteen years, best-selling author and historian Hampton Sides has traveled widely across the continent exploring the...

Culture Smart! provides essential information on attitudes, beliefs and behavior in different countries, ensuring that you arrive at your destination aware of basic manners, common courtesies, and sensitive issues. These concise guides tell you what to...

The world has been willfully ignorant to the plight of racial injustice and inequality towards Hebrews, but now the pandemic has brought attention to these issues- now that freedom isn't so free, and theres time to listen and observe. In some form or...

Morocco: Ancient cities, adobe fortresses of centuries past, fertile plains of wheat and olives, carpets of wildflowers, endless deserts, wild mountains, and isolated rural villages. And of course, the fabled open-air markets framed with stacks of woven...

A fun, flavorful cookbook with more than 95 recipes and Power-Ups featuring chef Mason Hereford's irreverent take on Southern food, from his awarding-winning New Orleans restaurant Turkey and the Wolf "Mason and his team are everything the culinary world...

From two-lane highways and interstates, to dirt roads and quaint downtowns, every road leads to delicious food when traveling across The Lone Star State. This unique cookbook serves up a well-researched and charming guide to Texas's best back road...

Skinny Southern? You heard right. America's uniquely delicious comfort food just got healthy! The recipes in this cookbook don't just just "lighten up" Southern food--they offer gluten-free and paleo options as well. It's the Southern cuisine you know...

Edith Wharton journeyed to Morocco in the final days of the First World War, at a time when there was no guidebook to the country.[i]In Morocco[/i] is the classic account of her expedition. A seemingly unlikely chronicler, Wharton, more usually...

This revolutionary, award-winning play by a lauded playwright and poet is a fearless portrayal of the experiences of women of color--"extraordinary and wonderful...that anyone can relate to" (The New York Times) and continues to move and resonate with...

Mississippi native Natasha Trethewey, author of "Bellocq's Ophelia" and "Domestic Work," has been awarded the Grolier Poetry Prize and a Pushcart Prize. Her work was also included in "The Best American Poetry 2000." Trethewey now lives in Decatur,...

NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS' CHOICE - A deeply reported, searingly honest portrait of the death penalty in Texas--and what it tells us about crime and punishment in America "If you're one of those people who despair that nothing changes, and dream that...

SEBA Award Winner SIBA Award Winner R. W. Apple, Jr., of The New York Times credits third-generation Alabamian Frank Stitt with turning Birmingham into a "sophisticated, easygoing showplace of enticing, southern-accented cooking." His southern peers...

If you can count on one thing from Madea Mabel Simmons, star of the smash hits Diary of a Mad Black Woman, Madea's Family Reunion, and Madea's Witness Protection, it's that she's got something to say. Now the beloved, sharp-tongued, pistol-packing...

Ten years after the land invasions of 2000, this book provides the first full account of the consequences of these dramatic events. This land reform overturned a century-old pattern of land use, one dominated by a small group of large-scale commercial...

Today coanchor Al Roker presents an entertaining guide to achieving a life of happiness and success through the power of "yes!"These days, the road to success can feel jampacked with scheduling, networking, nonstop hustle, and flat-out absurdity. And no...