הוצאת NewSouth Books
הספרים של הוצאת NewSouth Books
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This illustrated children's book serves as an introduction to the modern Hebrew alphabet; but more than that, it is a joyous portrait of a very special family. Its heroine, Gabi, shares in the activities of five-year-olds everywhere. She dances, she pretends, she dresses up, she helps with the baby....
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Winner of the National Jewish Book Award from the Jewish Book Council
Rody loved chickens. When he worked in the kibbutz chicken house, he sang so loudly that everyone began to think the chicken house must be the place to work. So Rody was moved to the laundry and Bracha took over the poultry. Can... |
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Aaron Cash and his sister Shelley live on a dairy farm in Tennessee. Their neighbor Morgan Blackburn raises beef cattle and runs an illegal still, which he does not want discovered. He shoots at Aaron and his father Nate to keep them away when they accidentally come upon the still. Morgan attempts t...
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When he began practicing in the 1950s in Montgomery, Alabama, Solomon Seay was one of only seven black lawyers in the entire state. But the tiny band made up in courage, craftiness, and tenacity what it lacked in numbers, and soon the underpinnings of Jim Crow segregation began to fall.
Seay's mem... |
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This Day in Civil Rights History, by renowned civil-rights activist Randall Williams, is a day-by-day survey of the people, places, and events that impacted the civil rights movement and shaped the future of the United States. Flip to any date and youÂ’ll find fascinating, informative fact...
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Richard Whitt focuses his investigative lens on recent goings-on at the University of Georgia, and in so doing writes a bigger story concerning a sea change in how America supports its institutions of higher education.
Behind the Hedges examines Michael Adams's tumultuous career as presiden... |
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Even forty years after the movement, the transition from son and grandson of Klansmen to field secretary of SNCC seems quite a journey. In the early 1960s, when Bob Zellner's professors though he was crazy for even wanting to do research on civil rights, it was nothing short of remarkable. Now, in h...
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Paul Gaston's new memoir weaves stories of social justice into a forceful, personal narrative. In his first book-length work in recent years, renowned southern historian and civil rights activist Paul Gaston chronicles his story of a committed life and reveals his deep roots in the unique utopian co...
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Teddy's Child: Growing Up in the Anxious Southern Gentry Between the Great Wars
מאת Virginia Van der Veer Hamilton
Historian and biographer Virginia Hamilton explores the deep roots of family and place in her coming-of-age memoir set in Birmingham, Alabama, in the period between the World Wars I and II.Born into a family of journalists and writers, she lived a life charmed with books, interesting people, good sc...
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Shlemiel Crooks is the story of Reb Elias and the thieves who try to steal his Passover wine. Based on a true story, Shlemiel is an imaginative introduction for young children to the history of Passover, as Pharoah and a town of Jewish immigrants play tug-of-war with wine made from gra...
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In this first authorized biography of former Alabama governor John Patterson, historian Warren Trest offers new insights and rich details in to the life of a significant Southern politician whose career touched some of the key struggles of the twentieth-century civil-rights movement. Patterson is re...
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Junior Ray Loveblood returns in this sequel of sorts to JUNIOR RAY, the 2005 debut novel by John Pritchard. JUNIOR RAY was named one of Barnes & Noble's Top Ten Debut Novels for the year. Equally profane and unintentionally profound, the fictional narrator of Pritchard's novel lives in the complex s...
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