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“The Pillared City: Greek Revival Mobile,” by John S. Sledge, Photography by Sheila Hagler In Alabama, Greek Revival may have flourished best in Mobile, but when planters from the Black Belt came to town to meet with their cotton factors and to shop, they liked what they saw and sometimes had their country rural places built in this style.
“Mighty by Sacrifice: The Destruction of an American Bomber Squadron, August 29, 1944” by James L. Noles and James L. Noles, Jr. WWII veterans are passing on now at a rapid rate and the generation that came home and resumed civilian life and said so little about their experiences will soon be silent forever. Their stories, like the ones the Noleses have captured in this book, must not be lost.
Alabama Illustrated: Engravings From 19th Century Newspapers Although the five illustrated newspapers from which the engravings in Alabama Illustrated were taken were all published elsewhere, two in New York, two in Boston and one in London, the readers of these papers had a strong curiosity about life in the American South.
“The Wrong Side of Murder Creek: A White Southerner in the Freedom Movement,” by Bob Zellner, with Constance Curry; Foreword by Julian Bond This is a story told calmly, without bitterness or self-aggrandizement. I admired Zellner’s candor about his adversaries, without a smarmy mellowness. He has, as a Christian, mostly forgiven, but he has not forgotten.
“When the Buddha Met Bubba: A Novel,” by Richard “Dixie” Hartwell This clever tale ranges widely, making references not only to Buddhism, the Talmud and Christian foot-washing, but also Cesar Milan, the dog whisperer, and new age ideas such as “wherever you are that is where you are supposed to be.”
“Beyond the Miracle Worker: The Remarkable Life of Anne Sullivan Macy and Her Extraordinary Friendship with Helen Keller,” by Kim E. Nielsen We may know Annie Sullivan mainly from the play and the movie “The Miracle Worker,” but she was famous long before those. She and Keller were national, even international, celebrities in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, performing on the lecture circuit, in vaudeville, even in a movie.
Steve Renfroe, by Katherine Kilgore By the end of the novel, I had become so irritated with Caroline and so unsympathetic, that I no longer cared whether she decided to go to Florence, Alabama, to teach school or marry the lawyer from Birmingham or do whatever else she wants. Good luck to her.
Yazoo Blues, by John Pritchard This novel is a lascivious, sex-filled, dirty comic routine. It’s not for everyone, but if you can stand it, there’s a laugh on every page.
Vicksburg, 1863, by Winston Groom Vicksburg, 1863, is Groom’s fifteenth book, and it is beginning to look as if he will be known, in the end, as Winston Groom, gifted narrative historian, not just as the author of Forrest Gump, notwithstanding how delightful that novel is.
The Devil’s Garden, by Ace Atkins The writing career of James Lee Burke is, in many ways, typical. After a half dozen literary novels that did not sell much, Burke created his South Louisiana detective, Dave Robicheaux, and the Robicheaux books have come in a steady and profitable stream now for many years.

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