“billy loran moore”

During the polio scare of the 1950s, a boy's parents send him for the summer from his small-town Florida home to the refuge of his grandparents' farm in rural Alabama. He settles into country life with Papa and Bigmother. The locals nickname him Cracker, after the term for Florida cowboys. One day h... More

From the author of "Cracker's Mule" comes this coming-of-age story about Red Squirrel, a Plains Indian youth who faces several trials on his way to manhood.... More

The Apostle is an intriguing, well-researched novel about a Chicago police detective who is contacted by a small group of Vietnam ex-POWs with the gruesome description of the atrocities suffered by them and his father thirty years previously at the hands of a certain prison camp commander in the dre... More

This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to reproduce this title even though it may possibly have occasional imperfections such as missing and blurred pages, ... More

If A Dolphin Were a Fish is the clever story of a dolphin who imagines that she is a fish, a turtle, a bird, an octopus, or even a shark or manatee. She (and the readers) learn how special she really is and how special each of her other animal friends are too. The Creative Minds section has teaching... More

The Athens Sketchbook is a dynamic book about the history of Athens, Georgia told through local writers and shown through local artists' paintings. As a hardcover, heirloom quality book, it is a keepsake edition for anyone who lives, works, or visits the Athens community... More