Follows the fortunes of three generations of Clays, a North Carolina mountain family, as they move from Sixkiller Gap, to the Grand Ole Opry's center stage, to Nashville, to Harvard, and back to their valley

The Sixkiller Chronicles

Literature & Fiction

HEMPHILL, PAUL

United States

Macmillan Pub. Co.

A racist's son returns to his hometown of Birmingham, Alabama, to examine how the city's segregationist violence in the 1960s happened, explore the social changes that have occured, and reunite with his family

Leaving Birmingham: Notes of a Native Son

Biographies & Memoirs

Penguin??Books

Hank Williams, the quintessential country music singer and songwriter, lived a life as lonesome, desolate, and filled with sorrow as his timeless songs. From Williams's dirt- poor beginnings as a sickly child to his emergence as a star of the Grand Ole Opry, Lovesick Blues is the definitive biography of the man and his music.

Lovesick Blues: The Life of Hank Williams

Humor & Entertainment

The Nashville Sound

Arts & Photography

Music

Ballantine Books

King of the Road

Houghton, mifflin, harcourt

Chronicles the story of stock car racing from its origins some fifty years ago through the events of the 1996 Winston Cup season, offering a behind-the-scenes look at everything from top players to the races themselves. Reprint.

Wheels

Sports & Outdoors

Miscellaneous

BERKLEY

Traces the life and career of the mid-twentieth-century country music star, from his sickly and fatherless childhood and musical education by an African-American street singer, to his early gigs in Depression-era rural honky-tonks and rise to Grand Ole Opry star, in an account that also discusses his struggles with alcoholism and early death. 30,000 first printing.

Arts & Literature

Viking Adult

A story with a heart of gold about love and the loss of innocence at the bottom of the most minor league in baseballâthe class D Alabama-Florida League in the 1950s, with a sour old maverick manager, a yearning teenage second baseman, and a black catcher masquerading as a Venezuelan. "A first-rate novel.ââNewsweek. "A sharp, unsentimental portrait of the minor league life...and Hemphill makes it all come to life, believably and memorably.ââSports Illustrated. "So good, so true, so funny...ââNew York Times Book Review.

Long Gone: 2

Genre Fiction

Too Old to Cry

In an affecting memoir, a racist's son returns to his hometown of Birmingham, Alabama, to examine how Birmingham's segregationist violence in the 1960s happened, explore the social changes that have occurred, and reunite with his family. 25,000 first printing. $15,000 ad/promo.

Leaving Birmingham

Community & Culture

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