Alan Brown

Audrey Hepburn's Neck

Steve Foxe

Beach Nightmare

Gabrielle Roy

"The Tin Flute," Gabrielle Roy's first novel, is a classic of Canadian fiction. Imbued with Roy's unique brand of compassion and compelling understanding, this moving story focuses on a family in the Saint-Henri slums of Montreal, its struggles to overcome poverty and ignorance, and its search for love. An affecting story of familial tenderness, sacrifice, and survival during the Second World War, "The Tin Flute" won both the Governor General's Award and the Prix Femina of France. The novel was made into a critically acclaimed motion picture in 1983.

Bonheur D'occasion. English

How 'socialist' was National Socialism?

Andrew Langley

En enkel innføring i de største verdensreligionene jødedommen, sikhismen, buddhismen, shintoismen, taoismen, kristendommen, hinduismen og islam. Hellige skrifter, historie og ritualer/høytider er beskrevet. Hver religion får flere oppslag som behandler historie, hva det betyr å høre til troen, høytider, dagligliv og fest og de største trosretninger innenfor religionen. Beskrivelsene av religionene er lagt i munnen på barn. Dette kan gjøre stoffet mer nært og hverdagsliv, men barneperspektivet virker noe påtatt. Boken fremstår som nøytral i forhold til de religionene den beskriver, men forenklingene går noen steder for langt. Boken legger vekt på toleranse og beveger seg på grensen til idyllisering. "Religionen kan hjelpe oss til å leve sammen som brødre og søstre", heter det i konklusjonen. Aspekter ved den enkelte religion som kan være provoserende, berøres ikke. Sist i boken finner vi en kort oversikt over mindre religioner, en ordliste og register. Boken er illustrert med tegninger og fotografier. Språket er enkelt og skriften tydelig. Medf.: Andrew Langley.

Min religion

From the eerie vestiges of the Sloss Furnaces to the unexplained (and un-booked) performances in the Alabama Theatre and rather otherworldly room service at the Tutwiler Hotel, Birmingham is truly one of the South's supernatural hotbeds. Renowned author and ghost expert Alan Brown delivers a fascinating, downright spine-chilling collection of haunts from around the city and surrounding neighborhoods such as Bessemer, Columbiana, Jasper and Montevallo. Residents and tourists alike will cherish this exclusive glimpse into the city's inexplicable occupants, and even the skeptics can enjoy the book's historical framework.

Haunted Birmingham

27 Easy Ways to Have More Time, Earn More Money and Live Happier

Zen and the Art of Productivity

The Allied Air Forces in the Second World War

Airmen in Exile

The city of Hannibal, Missouri, is steeped in history. The boyhood home of Mark Twain, this sleepy town on the western banks of the Mississippi River, holds many stories and more than a few secrets. Nearly 50 years ago, three boys went to explore Hannibal’s famous caves and mysteriously vanished. The case was never solved and eventually became part of the town’s folklore. Detective Booger McClain is brought in by a client hoping to bring new life to the case, and what the private investigator learns is more than either of them knows how to handle. You see, caves hold secrets. Bizarre, dangerous, and other-worldly secrets. Detective McClain thinks he knows what happened. Now, the story just needs to be told.

On the Dark Edge of Heaven

Brian Brown

June 7, 1992, is the day that changed Springfield, Missouri, forever. That’s when the “three missing women,” also known as “the Springfield Three,” disappeared without a trace. The day before was one of celebration for Stacy McCall and Suzie Streeter, for that was when they graduated from Kickapoo High School. June 7 was supposed to be light-hearted and fun for the new graduates as they planned a trip to a water park in Branson with several of their classmates. Following a night of parties, the young women made a late-night, last-minute decision to sleep at Suzie’s house – the home of her mother, Sherrill Levitt. It was a fateful decision because by the morning of June 7, the three women had vanished and were never seen again. Based on a true story, this novel explores the details of a real missing-person’s case via a father-and-son’s fictional search for truth. In the spring of 2020, co-authors Alan Brown and Brian Brown were facing a downturn at the family’s St. Louis-based marketing firm. During their idle time, they began discussing and researching the most famous unsolved case from Brian’s hometown. Soon, Brian was headed to Springfield to meet with his father’s friend, an Ozarks’ original, Private Investigator Booger McClain. What follows is an investigation like no other; one which ultimately reveals the gratitude friends and families can share with one another as they live lives of chance.

The Springfield Three

Gone in the Night

Ghost stories from various southern states in America.

Stories from the Haunted South

Looks at the history behind Animal Farm, the influence of the Spanish Civil War on Orwell and the influence of the novel on future generations of readers.

The Story Behind George Orwell's Animal Farm

After participating in a demonic ritual, several men release a demon on the world. The man's granddaughter, Wendy Harper is the only one who can stop the demon from taking a body and controlling everything. She, along with Sawyer Jensen, goes into the lair of the demon to battle the demon once and for all.

Devil's Gate

David Taylor

Cush was a mixture of corn meal, water, and bacon grease cooked over an open fire by Confederate soldiers. That the editors have taken this title for the book indicates the emotional impact of Sprott's Civil War memoirs. Not only do we march and eat this mixture with Sprott, but we witness with him the first execution of Confederate deserters, the bewilderment and frustration of battling infantrymen with what they considered the inane orders from above, the bravery -- and the foolhardiness -- that war inevitably brings. This memoir follows the Sumter regiment from its first training sessions to its duty in Mobile near the war's end.

Sumter County, Alabama Slave Narratives

Gabr'l Blow Sof'

"Historic haunts of the South Southerners love the South. And some souls never leave. Savannah, New Orleans, and St. Augustine are among the most haunted places in America, and chilling stories abound nearly everywhere below the Mason-Dixon line. At Seaman's Bethel Theater in Mobile, Alabama, actors and staff are frightened by the unnerving sounds of a child's laughter. The ghost of Alfred Victor DuPont, a noted ladies' man, is said to harass female employees in the stairwell at DuPont Mansion in Louisville, Kentucky. The Cafâe Vermilionville is housed in what is reputed to be Lafayette's first inn. A young girl in a yellow dress, thought to be the previous owner's daughter who died from polio around the time of the Civil War, startles patrons from the balcony of the restaurant. Join author Alan Brown as he traverses the supernatual legends of the American South." --page [4] of cover

Haunted South, The

Joe Braun

Tim Grondin

Discusses shadows, highlighting, and the principles of lighting, shows examples of advertising photography, and demonstrates how each picture was produced

Lighting Secrets for the Professional Photographer

The Spooky Side of the Volunteer State Tennessee is steeped in legend. From strange sightings to odd and macabre crimes, the Volunteer State is no stranger to lore. Author Alan Brown details the haunts, troubling crimes and spooky past.

Tennessee Legends and Lore

The Haunting of Alabama

Before Alan Brown wrote Haunted Places in the American South, only the locals knew what was lurking in these locations. Slamming doors, eerie lights, and Confederate soldiers' ghosts kept some folks too scared to talk with outsiders. Above Peavey Melody Music in Meridian, Mississippi, children may be heard giggling and running down an abandoned hallway that turns icy cold. At the Jameson Inn in Crestview, Florida, an apparition appears on surveillance tapes after filling the lobby with sweet-smelling cigar smoke. Seldom told and rarely--if ever--printed stories such as these join tales from haunted inns, mansions, forests, ravines, and prisons to create Haunted Places in the American South. The book collects ghost stories from fifty-five historically haunted sites in Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, and Virginia. Alan Brown gathered these stories from newspapers, magazines, museum directors, archaeologists, hotel managers, and many others who shared their disturbing experiences. Most of these stories have never appeared in book form, and some, such as the haunting of Peavey Melody Music, have never been published at all. Haunted Places in the American South differs from most other collections of southern ghost stories, for the featured sites include more than just haunted houses. Bridges, forts, governors' mansions, prisons, hotels, woods, theaters, cemeteries, and even a large rock are included as focal points for these tales. The book provides directions to the sites, notes, and a bibliography that will be useful to folklore scholars and to travelers seeking that cold and creepy brush with the supernatural. Alan Brown is a professor of English at the University of West Alabama. His books include Literary Levees of New Orleans, The Face in the Window and Other Alabama Ghostlore, and Shadows and Cypress: Southern Ghost Stories (University Press of Mississippi).

Haunted Places in the American South

Kim Michelle Toft

Stephanie Daniel

I am a Turtle. My eyes are black, my shell is green. Wide ocean calls me, as I lie curled in the dark. Tides roar in my blood, surf pounds in my heart. A lyrical journey of the life of a Green Turtle from hatchling beneath the sand of a coral beach, through wanderings at sea, to adulthood and returning to lay eggs of it's own. Award winning illustrator Kim Toft's magnificent silk painting perfectly capture the precarious life of the Green Turtle, while author Alan Brown's poignant, mythical story sounds a hymn to this ancient but now endangered creature.

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