Alabama Books

Well written and informative.Perfect for the educator or naturalist.I paricularly liked the distribution maps,habitat,life and ecology information.

I enjoyed the book, especially the pictures that was posted. I think my favorite covered bridge is the one in coosa County (Oakachoy). I guess it is my favorite because I love photographing covered bridges and that happens to be my favorite one. I hope that all southerners and others shall pick up this book for their own collection. It is history in the making!

This action-packed true story details the adventures of six teenage boys who, for 16 days and nights in the summer of 1957, drifted 385 miles down the Alabama River from Montgomery to Mobile on a 10 x 12 foot raft they built from scrap lumber and discarded oil drums. Using little more than push poles and a crude rudder, the teenagers found themselves at the mercy of the sometimes treacherous, sometimes gentle river. Buddy Estes, the author, was one of those teenagers.

ALABAMA'S YOUNGEST ADMIRALS is a modern Tom Sawyer/Huckleberry Finn type narrative that appeals to the imagination of boys and girls ages 8 to 18 as well as adults who can relate to the adventurous spirit of youth. It is filled with suspense, danger, humor, history, legendary Indian stories, and alligators in the night.

She is from Alabama and can sure tell a tale on things about about her state.

What I love most about these recipes is how straight forward they are. The ingredient lists are usually under five items and nothing strange that will send you hunting in specialty stores. Everything I have made from it has turned out well and tastes great! Thank you for a real user-friendly cookbook.

This book is a fun way to learn about the different places and people in Alabama. The entire book is written in the form of a poem, which my daughter loves, and the illustrations are bright and cheerful. I received this book as a gift, and have since bought it as gifts for friends and family. It has the names of all the towns that are mentioned in bold type, which makes it very easy to reference the Alabama state map on the inside of the cover and locate the towns in the poem. This is a very educational book that also tells a fun and whimsical story that is interesting to children and grownups, too! I think this book is a must for every Alabamian!

I was looking for a good book, when I stumbled upon this one. I must have read this book within a week for I couldn't put it down. The characters are so real, its hard to believe this is a book of fiction. Almost Family is about A black maid named Nebraska Waters, and her employer Vivian Gold, and thier friendship. It mentions the struggles and joys they share. And the similarities they share, though they are very diffrent. You see their relationship not only through them, but through their children and through their acts to one another while overcoming a world of prejiduce. Its a book with vivid images and plots. The ending surprised me, but I was not ashamed. I recommend this book to anyone who is looking for a book that gives a detailed explenation of what life was like in the deep south, during the Civil Rights movement.

Baldwin's Flush Times is a great historical resource. Baldwin paints an interesting tale of frontier Alabama and Mississippi and the characters which lived in the region. Overall, a great illustration of the American frontier and the Jacksonian era.

This book offers a unique insight of the Korean War at its worst as seen through the eyes of an Orthodox Jewish Chaplain who shared the travails of the American soldiers at a most desperate time in our history. It is comprised of translations from the Yiddish, as it was published in the Yiddish Daily, The Morgan Journal, out of New York. The book has a fascinating introduction about the Korean War which in abbreviated form sets the stage for a true understanding of the depth, breadth, and tragedy of this conflict. It also gives a heretofore unseen insight into the thoughts and behavior of the Jewish soldier of that time. I highly recommend this book to anyone interested in learning more about the Korean War from "the trenches". Original maps and clear writing make the information come to life.

A work of detailed and painstaking scholarship, The Americas Might Have Been: Native American Social Systems Through Time by Julian Granberry (Language Coordinatior with Native American Language Services in Florida) is an in-depth study of the Native American populations and their positions of power before during, and after the arrival of Christopher Columbus and the Europeans in 1492. As an informative and scholarly analytical survey of the many Native American nations ranging from the southern, central, and northern America, The Americas Might Have Been covers the Mayan, Incan, and Iroquuois Confederacy, as well as the Eskimo, Taino Arawak, Navajo, Pueblo, Aztec nations, and others, providing an impressive account of the many Native American national social systems. The Americas Might Have Been is especially recommended to all students of the Native American history, as well as non-specialist general readers with an interest anthropology, linguistics, and ethnohistory, and pre-Columbian American History.