Alabama Writers

The Alabama 100: Best Recipes, Restaurants, & Road Trips Martie Duncan

THE ALABAMA 100 is Chef Martie Duncan's newest release of recipes and destinations to satisfy the most discriminate diner, traveler and home cook. Here are the current places at the top of the list.
 

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Alabama Cravings: The Most Requested Recipes from Alabama Restaurants Past & Present Martie Duncan

ALABAMA CRAVINGS presents recipes and stories from the state's best known restaurants. Secrets flow and cool tales are now available.
 

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Magic City Cravings: The Most Requested Recipes from Birmingham Restaurants Then & Now Martie Duncan

MAGIC CITY CRAVINGS offers recipes from James Beard award winning chefs to secret stuff from the kitchens of generations of famous families who made Birmingham the Number 1 "Up and Coming Food Town in America", according to Zagat, the travel literary guide.

 

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Southern Lady Code: Essays Helen Ellis

SOUTHERN LADY CODE is a collection of hilarious essays by Alabama's very own poker-playing Southern belle, Helen Ellis. The twenty-three essays in this collection travel from New York City to the Deep South and back, from party antics and ballgowns worthy of a drag queen. A truly original work by one of the world's...

Eating the Cheshire Cat Helen Ellis

EATING THE CHESHIRE CAT has become a low-key Southern classic since its publication twenty years ago. Featuring an ensemble of striving young women and their overbearing mothers driving them to success in life and on campus at the sororities of the University of Alabama, the hijinks and mishaps that result from their...

Bring Your Baggage and Don't Pack Light Helen Ellis

BRING YOUR BAGGAGE AND DON'T PACK LIGHT is a delicious smorgasbord of humorous and moving essays running the gamut from sex, psychics and garage sales to cancer, menopause and plastic surgery. Imagine being at the best cocktail party of your life and able to hear each word of every conversation, be they raw with...

Kiss Me in the Coral Lounge: Intimate Confessions from a Happy Marriage Helen Ellis

KISS ME IN THE CORAL LOUNGE is special collection of essays about marriage - wonderfully clever and funny, romantic, sexy, raucous, touchin - you know - just like yours. An entertaining read and an absolutely perfect wedding and/or anniversary gift.

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The Muscle Shoals Legacy of FAME Blake Ells

THE MUSCLE SHOALS LEGACY OF FAME is the amazing story of the studio that recorded many of the greatest stars of all time. The book gives an insight into this world that few have ever had. This title has been selected as a Booksmith Timeless Classic, meaning it is among the best of the best for the last several...

Wonder Boy of Whistle Stop Fannie Flagg

WONDER BOY OF WHISTLE STOP (shown below) features the Fried Green Tomatoes characters as they return in a feel-good, heart-warming story of hometown memories and magical moments in ordinary lives. Decades later, when the local boy who made good revisits the places of his youth, a series of...

The Whole Town's Talking Fannie Flagg

THE WHOLE TOWN'S TALKING follows neighbors and descendants of the founders of a small town as they live, love, die and carry on in manners and ways unseen and heard before. This wonderful feel-good story is about a community that never dies. This title has been selected as a Booksmith Timeless Classic, meaning...