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Sitting by his father's deathbed, William Bloom tries to understand the man quickly slipping away, who is more interested in evading his son's questions than answering them.

Since her adoption, seventeen-year-old Frances has lived a quiet suburban life, but soon after she begins falling for the new boy at school, she receives a summons from her mentally ill birth mother, who has just been released--after serving eleven years for smothering Frances's younger sisters--and still wants to kill Frances.

After being ousted from yet another elite boarding school, seventeen-year-old Jane returns to her Alabama hometown, where her grandmother persuades her to enter the Magnolia Maid pageant.

When Ruth returns home to the South for the summer after her freshman year at college, a near tragedy pushes her to uncover family truths and take a good look at the woman she wants to become.

Thirteen-year-old George, spending the summer of 1955 working in his grandmother's store in Obadiah, Alabama, becomes involved with helping his African-American friends, Esther and Bennett, solve the mystery of their father's disappearance.

When a flamboyant New York City artist returns to the sleepy, God-fearing Alabama town of her birth to conduct an artistic experiment, the resulting uproar splits the community and causes fourteen-year-old Charity to question many things that she had previously taken for granted.

In the late 1940s, twelve-year-old Gussie, a minister's daughter, learns the definition of integrity while helping with a celebration at the Alabama School for the Deaf--her punishment for misdeeds against her deaf parents and their boarders.

Dark secrets linking two Alabama families and their Welsh ancestors slowly come to light when seventeen-year-old Sylvie, whose promising ballet career has come to a sudden end, spends a month with a cousin she barely knows in her father's ancestral home.

Ludelphia Bennett, a determined, ten-year-old African American girl in 1932 Gee's Bend, Alabama, leaves home in an effort to find medical help for her sick mother, and she recounts her ensuing adventures in a quilt she is making.

Baby Girl joins her family to assemble pieces of her quilt together, just like her grandmother and other women in her family have done for hundreds of years, telling the story of Gee's Bend and her ancestor's struggle for freedom.

Discusses the political career of George Wallace, four-time governor of Alabama and presidential candidate, and how he started the trend of conservatism that continues to influence politics today.

A simple introduction to Alabama, focusing on its regions and their geographical features.

This book is an introduction to Alabama, describing its location, history, land, wildlife, landmarks, food, and festivals.

Biography of former Alabama governor and presidential candidate, George Wallace, discussing his life, political career, and place in American history.

Forced to spend spring break in a Birmingham, Alabama, suburb riding along with an attractive rookie police officer on the night shift, rebellious seventeen-year-old Meg finds herself falling unexpectedly in love.