Alabama Writers

Flora Gail Godwin

FLORA is a delightful story of a precocious ten-year old girl being cared for by her late mother's twenty-two-year-old cousin. The tale is set during the final months of World War Two, at Oak Ridge, Tennessee, where the child's father is engaged in secret military work. By the end of the book, it's difficult to...

Crimson Nation: The Shaping of the South's Most Dominant Football Team Eli Gold

CRIMSON NATION: THE SHAPING OF THE SOUTH'S MOST DOMINANT FOOTBALL TEAM is updated to the 2016 season and includes earlier stories and statistics from the beginnings of the game at Alabama. This title has been selected as a Booksmith Timeless Classic, meaning it is among the best of the best for...

Every Day After Laura Golden

EVERY DAY AFTER tells the story of a young girl who faces tough times, but is unsinkable because of her resilience and determination.

 

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Turtles All the Way Down John Green

TURTLES ALL THE WAY DOWN finds two young girls doing detective work looking for a one hundred thousand dollar reward posted by a fugitive billionaire. The duet's leader is trying to be a good daughter, friend and student as the trail follows the billionaire's son. This title has been selected as a Booksmith...

The Anthropocene Reviewed John Green

THE ANTHROPOCENE REVIEWED is a collection of essays inspired by John Green's beloved podcast of the...

The Allies: Churchill, Roosevelt, Stalin, and the Unlikely Alliance That Won World War II Winston Groom

THE ALLIES is historian Winston Groom's account of the unlikely alliance between Franklin Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, and Joseph Stalin, who despite their vast differences in style and philosophy, managed to lead the Allied powers to victory in World War II.

 

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El Paso: A Novel* Winston Groom

EL PASO* is the remarkable story of American millionaires purchasing millions of square miles of Mexican land during the revolution and setting up their own fiefdoms. Pancho Villa did not like this arrangement and began to rape, pillage and murder.

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Forrest Gump - Commemorative Edition Winston Groom

FORREST GUMP is the farcial adventure of the best known bumbling fictive Alabama character and the biggest grossing movie of all time.

 

THIS COPY (shown below) was hand signed by Winston Groom on the title page in Birmingham at our launch of this edition. Hardbacks of this classic...

Forrest Gump - Limited Edition Winston Groom

FORREST GUMP is the farcial adventure of the best known bumbling  fictive Alabama character and the biggest grossing movie of all time. This title has been selected as a Booksmith Timeless Classic, meaning it is among the best of the best for the last several decades. We will ship it free anywhere in the United...

Transcendent Kingdom Yaa Gyasi

TRANSCENDENT KINGDOM allows the reader to grasp the experience of an immigrant attempting to follow the American dream. It is a deeply moving portrait painted by a brilliant artist who draws on her own life.

 

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