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  • Convicts, Coal, and the Banner Mine Tragedy

    by Robert David Ward, William Warren Rogers Sr. ...
    In the late 1870s, Jefferson County, Alabama, and the town of Elyton (near the future Birmingham) became the focus of a remarkable industrial and mining revolution. Together with the surrounding counties, the area was penetrated by railroads. Surprisingly large deposits of bituminous coal, limestone, and iron ore—the exact ingredients for the manufacture of iron and, later, steel—began to be ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Labor Revolt In Alabama

    The Great Strike of 1894

    by Robert David Ward, William Warren Rogers Sr. ...
    Series series Library of Alabama Classics
    The gripping story of the 1894 Alabama coal miners strikeThe Alabama coal miners’ strike of 1894 to gain improved working conditions and to protect themselves from wage reductions. The authors recount the depression of the early 1890s, which set the stage for the strike, and the subsequent use of convict labor, which became a catalyst. The gripping story of the strike includes the dramatic ... Read more

    $19.49 USD

  • Alabama

    The History of a Deep South State, Bicentennial Edition

    by Robert David Ward, Leah Rawls Atkins, Wayne Flynt, William Warren Rogers Sr. ...
    A definitive bicentennial history of Alabama and its place in the American South.Alabama: The History of a Deep South State, Bicentennial Edition is a comprehensive narrative account of the state from its earliest days to the present. This edition, updated to celebrate the state’s bicentennial year, offers a detailed survey of the colorful, dramatic, and often controversial turns in Alabama’s ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

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    Alabama

    The History of a Deep South State, Bicentennial Edition

    by William Warren Rogers, Robert David Ward, Leah Rawls Atkins, Wayne Flynt ...
    Narrated by Chris Abernathy ...

    Unabridged

    30 hours 50 min

    Alabama: The History of a Deep South State, Bicentennial Edition is a comprehensive narrative account of the state from its earliest days to the present. This edition, updated to celebrate the state's bicentennial year, offers a detailed survey of the colorful, dramatic, and often controversial turns in Alabama's evolution.Once the home of aboriginal inhabitants, Alabama was claimed and occupied ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • The Football Oddity

    by Robert Manley Ward, David Trow ...
    Dean Stanway is middle aged, over weight and out of shape. He's never played football for a team in his life. A workplace accident is about to change all that. Suddenly he finds he has a special skill that sets him apart from any other footballer. With an eye on the Premier League can he persuade anyone to give him a trial? Will he turn the football world upside down? And what price is he prepared ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

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    The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt

    by T.J. Stiles ...
    PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A gripping, groundbreaking biography of the combative man whose genius and force of will created modern capitalism.In this groundbreaking biography, T.J. Stiles tells the dramatic story of Cornelius “Commodore” Vanderbilt, the combative man and American icon who, through his genius and force of will, did more than ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Straight Up

    by Ruby Tui ...
    This is Ruby Tui. An open, raw and honest account of her journey from a troubled and unstable childhood, searching for a better option in life, to Olympic champion and the world's best rugby sevens player.After a childhood filled with neglect Ruby yearned for another path. Determined not to let her upbringing limit her, she survived abuse, drugs and tragedy to become one of the most successful ... Read more

    $13.79 USD

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  • Slavery by Another Name (Pulitzer Prize Winner)

    The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II

    by Douglas A. Blackmon ...
    PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • This groundbreaking historical expose unearths the lost stories of enslaved persons and their descendants who journeyed into freedom after the Emancipation Proclamation and then back into the shadow of involuntary servitude shortly thereafter in “The Age of Neoslavery.”By turns moving, sobering, and shocking, this unprecedented Pulitzer Prize-winning account reveals the ... Read more

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  • How Not to Be a Professional Footballer

    by Paul Merson ...
    An anecdote-driven narrative of the classic footballer's ‘DOs and DO NOTs’ from the ever-popular Arsenal legend and football pundit Paul Merson, aka ‘The Merse’.When it comes to advice on the pitfalls of life as a professional footballer, Paul Merson can pretty much write the manual. In fact, that's exactly what he's done in this hilarious new book which manages to be simultaneously poignant and ... Read more

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  • The Summer of 1787

    The Men Who Invented the Constitution

    by David O. Stewart ...
    The Summer of 1787 takes us into the sweltering room in which the founding fathers struggled for four months to produce the Constitution: the flawed but enduring document that would define the nation—then and now.George Washington presided, James Madison kept the notes, Benjamin Franklin offered wisdom and humor at crucial times. The Summer of 1787 traces the struggles within the Philadelphia ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • How to Be a Footballer

    by Peter Crouch ...
    **'Very funny on almost every page, wonderfully self-deprecating and very sharp on the ludicrous behaviour of the modern player' - Sunday Times'The funniest man in British sport' - Metro****A Sunday Times Sports Book of the Year****Shortlisted for the National Book Awards****Longlisted for the Telegraph Sports Book Awards Autobiography of the Year**You become a footballer bec... ... Read more

    $16.79 USD

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  • Georgia

    A Brief History

    by Christopher C. Meyers, David Williams ...
    Here, for the first time is a brief, balanced, and up-to-date history of Georgia from the early Native Americans to the twenty-first century. Based on the most recent research, GEORGIA: A BRIEF HISTORY surveys the people and events that shaped our state's history in a style that reads easily and flows effortlessly. ... Read more

    $9.89 USD