You Can’t Padlock an Idea examines the educational programs undertaken at the Highlander Folk School in Tennessee and looks specifically at how these programs functioned rhetorically to promote democratic social change. Founded in 1932...
Tennessee
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Author:Schneider, Stephen A.Summary: -
Author:Harris, LisaSummary:Detective Garrett Addison and FBI Agent Jordan Lambert team up to find a serial killer before he strikes again, but what if everything that was believed to be true about the Angel Abductor is false' During Garrett Addison's first week...
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Author:Harris, BradleySummary:Winner, 35th International 3-Day Novel Contest.
Jack Minyard is a private eye down on his luck. He’s badly overweight and on the wrong side of sixty. He’s lost his marriage, and maybe a little of his mind, too. After narrowly...
- Author:Majors, InmanSummary:
Living in the late 1970s, brothers J.T. and Roland Cole build an impressive economic empire from their father's humble bank enterprise. Now they have their eyes on endeavors promising more wealth and power--but at what cost?
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Author:Choi, SusanSummary: -
Author:Choi, SusanSummary:Tennessee, 1955. New student Chuck will not speak of his earlier life in Korea. Then he meets Katherine, who is also haunted by her past. Each senses in the other the possibility of salvation.
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Author:Spencer, OctaviaSummary:Twelve-year-old Randi, unhappy about moving from Brooklyn to Deer Creek, Tennessee, after her mother's death, soon finds new friends and a case to solve surrounding a stolen time capsule and rumors of a centuries-old treasure.
- Author:Fox, AngieSummary:
A USA Today bestseller! When out of work graphic designer Verity Long accidentally traps a ghost on her property, she’s saddled with more than a supernatural sidekick—she gains the ability see spirits. It leads to an offer she can’t...
- Author:Sallis, JamesSummary:
Assuming the role of deputy sheriff in a small town near the city, world-weary ex-Memphis cop John Turner investigates sordid cases in a community that time is slowly forgetting. Here his past catches up to him when his son rolls down...
- Author:Hooper, Kay.Summary:
A picture-perfect Tenessee town has just become a monster's hunting ground. Two bodies are found tortured to death. A third person goes missing. What little evidence is left behind defies all explanation. Is the terror just...
- Author:Bass, RickSummary:
Maxine, Bonnie, and Jim Ed Brown are a family act with a hit record sitting atop 1959's country music charts. The world at their feet, lives of success seem to spread out before them like an unending highway. But celebrity has its price...
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Author:Bausum, Ann.Summary:Bausum revisits 1968 Memphis, Tennessee, to examine how the sanitation workers' strike set the scene for one of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s greatest speeches. It would also be the site of his tragic death, an event that dramatically...
- Author:Greenberg, Amy S.Summary:
The acclaimed author of A Wicked War now gives us the little known story of Sarah Polk: remarkably influential First Lady, and brilliant master of the art of high politics--a crucial but unrecognized figure in the history of American...
- Author:Gay, WilliamSummary:
In his debut collection, Gay brings to life 13 stories about a diverse group of colorful characters living in the fertile Tennessee country land.
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Author:PATILLO, BethSummary:Life would be perfect for Reverend Betsy if it weren't for parishioners who keel over during her sermons, steal money from the collection box, and set her up with ex-cons.
- Author:Jourdan, CarolynSummary:
Carolyn Jourdan spent many years as a congressional lawyer in Washington, D.C. Then she was called home to fill in for her mother as receptionist at her father's rural Tennessee doctor's office--assured it would only be for a few days...
- Author:Altsheler, Joseph A.Summary:
The Northern Army has just be handed a great defeat at Bull Run and is headed back to Washington, DC. How will the North answer this defeat? Follow our hero, Dick Mason, into the Western campaign to find out.
- Author:Harris, CharlaineSummary:
Twenty-something Harper Connolly has a gift. After being struck by lighting as a child, she discovered an eerie ability to locate the deceased. In Memphis, skeptical Professor Nunley wants her to demonstrate that skill at an ancient...
- Author:Honey, Michael K.Summary:
With novelistic drama and rich scholarly detail, Michael Honey brings to life the magnetic characters who clashed on the Memphis battlefield: stalwart black workers; fiery black ministers; volatile, young, black-power advocates;...
- Author:Whorton, JamesSummary:
Undaunted by his lack of college degree, John sets out from his meager New York apartment on a journey to Tennessee where he hopes to track down the secret papers of 17th President Andrew Johnson--documents that may or may not actually...
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