Literary Nonfiction. The Apollo moon landings offered a profound vision of the tiny, living Earth contrasted with the dead moon and empty space. Now, for the 50th anniversary of Apollo 11, comes a lyrical exploration of the contrast between a world ...
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Fiction. LGBTQIA Studies. Tartt First Fiction Winner. Short story collection STEP LIGHTLY immerses readers in the exciting world of dance, grappling with meanings behind movement that define who we are and what we do with our lives. Challenging and ...
Fiction. In 1959, two brothers in Alabama are swimming in a pond when a fireball hits the water and they become fused together. When a New Orleans doctor claims he can help, they travel throughout the Southeast playing music. What they discover is a...
Fiction. In backwater Louisiana, young Mutty takes care of his cousin Barn, who hasn't spoken since his father was arrested. Pepper, Mutty's lover, is also haunted by a violent past. Their relationship grows spiritually and physically as the three f...
Fiction. At the end of the 18th century, two grave robbers, a secretive doctor, the village midwife, and the young sole survivor of a mysterious disease combine to tell a story in the strange coastal village of Chilling. Imagined as a prequel to Dic...
Fiction. Short Stories. Winner of Tartt First Fiction Award. Drawing heavily on the author's experiences growing up in Alabama, NOBODY KNOWS HOW IT GOT THIS GOOD explores themes of racial injustice, class, the Civil Rights Movement, environmental ca...
Fiction. Looking like Elvis and sounding like Elvis are not enough for tribute artist Doyle Brisendine. Deep in his heart, Doyle wants to be Elvis. After performing in front of a wildly enthusiastic group of seniors, he realizes the absurdity of his...
Fiction. When the battered body of a university administrator is discovered in his office, the Chancellor, fearing scandal, appoints Robert Dory, a wealthy donor, to conduct an internal investigation. Cory, who is at work on a study of the mystery n...
Fiction. Women's Studies. A spirited dive into power and sexual politics narrated by a fierce (and funny) female chorus, MISS JANE: THE LOST YEARS chronicles farm girl Jane's entanglement with Prof P, serial bedder of undergrads, and education in al...
Fiction. College administrators coerce resident novelist Brasfield Finch to lure the renowned author of To Lynch a Wild Duck on campus as keynote speaker. Are writers jealous? Is Paris in France? Lily Putnam is about to find out that both are equall...
Fiction. Women's Studies. Abigail Stewart returns to her childhood home in Coastal Alabama. Her need to embrace her once rejected Southern heritage is equally weighed by her desire to unearth the mysteries surrounding her dark and dangerous childhoo...
Fiction. Winner of the Tartt First Fiction Award. TALES FROM WEBSTER'S uses a simple premise: Take a dictionary, choose a word, then faithfully follow each sequential word to construct a narrative, employing no more than fifty words per sequential e...
Fiction. Hope comes as a hopscotch board on the sidewalk entrance of a hospital in Greensboro. Despite efforts to remove the board, it re-appears until physicians, hospital employees, and patients, including Emily, an 8-year-old fighting cancer, and...
Fiction. When James Ward, a high-school freshman living in Queens, meets Cornelia Parsons he gains entry into a very old, very secretive, and to him very attractive world. Cornelia and her enigmatic guardian Miss Widdershins belong to a confederatio...
Fiction. Women's Studies. BELLES' LETTERS 2 affords a variety of fiction being written by Alabama women. A number of stories are love stories—first loves, lost loves, strange loves, from transient, feckless, grotesque, even abusive, to permanent and...