The third book in Glines' #1 "New York Times"-bestselling Field Party series.

And he meets a little redbird named Jack, who is at the center of this tale of a magical Christmas when something so amazing happened that those who witnessed it have never forgotten it.

After examining origins, Flynt (Southern history, Auburn U.) studies farmers, textile workers, coal miners, and timber workers in depth and discusses family structure, folk culture, the politics of poor whites, and their attempts to resolve ...

Life is a battle, but you can't fight it with your fists. You got to fight it with your heart.

A boy recalls his life with an elderly relative in rural Alabama in the 1930s and the lesson she taught him one Thanksgiving Day about dealing with a bully from school.

"Jackson weaves a seamless tale stretching from the Native-American river settlements ... to the paper mills and hydroelectric plants of the late twentieth century". -- Southern Historian

" ... The story of two women in the 1980s, of gray-headed Mrs.

When Marcus has no choice but to move into his friend's apartment, he falls for the girl his roommate hopes to marry one day.

"Wayne Flynt is a marvelous writer and story teller with exceptional powers of discernment and a good-natured ability to interpret fairly and critically. This is quite possibly the single most important book on Alabama history.

The author of Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe returns with a heartwarming comic novel about America's most popular female newscaster, and the hometown that tells her story. Reprint.