Jodi Bennington is the first woman to command a U.S. nuclear-powered attack submarine. The Shark Fin is a 1.3 billion-dollar weapon of mass destruction. During Jodi's first voyage as captain, she and her mostly male crew are involved in a deadly game of tag with a rogue British submarine bearing nuclear weapons. The Shark Fin's assignments involve Navy Seals and the U.S. Coast Guard. This novel combines fiction with recently declassified information. Jodi finds herself challenged by her assignment, the gender gap between herself and her crew, a hostile male board of inquiry, and her fateful decisions regarding the use of weapons.

Submarine Commander Jodi Bennington

Literature & Fiction

Napolitano, Don

Genre Fiction

River City Pub

Divorce, Why Me? Why Not! chronicles the single life, travesties in marriage, and one man's personal triumph over divorce. This book explores the hazards and uncharted waters of today's marriages, relationships, and divorce cycles. The author brilliantly supplements his work with highly relevant stories, both his own and those of his friends, making this a book of candor, humor, and sound advice.

Divorce, Why Me? -why Not!

Humor & Entertainment

Humor

This book comprises three very distinct areas—the Ten Commandments, the seven deadly sins, and marriage with divorce. Eve, Adam’s First Wife brings them together to show how they influence our lives, our way of thinking, and our beliefs. This book contains twenty relevant cartoons and gives the reader a contemporary humor/serious look at the information using real everyday stories of celebrities and everyday people. Through these stories of love and tragedy, we hope to put a human face on what might otherwise seem to be draconian commands unsuitable for the modern age. One may think of this as a guidebook for how one can live a fruitful life in harmony with one another, be it family, friends, or farmers.

Eve, Adam's First Wife

Pease, Carmen Cooper

Religion & Spirituality

Attempts to identify and categorize African American quilts have been ongoing in quilt scholarship for at least three decades. It is generally agreed that quilts in this category are characterized by strips, bright colors, large designs, asymmetry, multiple patterns, symbolic forms, and improvisation and have their roots in African textile techniques and cultural traditions. But this tradition is as much shaped by process as by materials. The folk process—whereby people live and work together, and thus learn from and influence each other—is nowhere more evident than in quilting, where the art and craft are passed down through the generations. A communal exercise that moves a medium from necessity (keeping warm at night) to art, quilting has survived, changed and prospered into the twenty-first century, becoming a flagship of Alabama folk art.In conjunction with the opening exhibit of a collection of forty-eight quilts made by African American quilters working in Alabama and its environs during the last half century, this book presents a contexual history of African American quiltmaking, along with brilliant reproductions of the quilts themselves.With a foreword by Mark M. Johnson, director of the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, and an introduction by Joey Brackner, director of the Alabama Center for Traditional Culture.

Just How I Picture It in My Mind: Contemporary African American Quilts from the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts

Arts & Photography

Huff, Mary Elizabeth Johnson

History & Criticism

Haiku: The Travelers of Eternity

Keller, Armor

Ghigna, Charles

Poetry

My Heart Is in the Earth: True Stories of Alabama and Mexico

Greenhaw, Wayne

United States

Shelley Fraser Mickle has written several novels, including Replacing Dad and The Queen of October, which was a New York Times Notable Book.Publisher's Weekly wrote in its review of Replacing Dad, Mickle's easy, forth-right style transforms a familiar tale into winning fiction. The New York Times said the book, which was made into a CBS television movie, had sassy charm.Now Mickle has written The Turning Hour, a touching novel about the critical issue of a teenager's attempted suicide. The story, told from two points of view (mother and daughter), reveals the difficulty of reconnecting with each other, and dredges up the family history and personal pain that led to the tragedy. The book is suitable for both adults and young adults.

The Turning Hour

Comics & Graphic Novels

Mickle, Shelley Fraser

Graphic Novels

First-time novelist LeBlanc has created a saga of the birth of the blues. In 1930s Louisiana, Phillip Fergerson's plans to become a doctor end when he falls for the beautiful light-skinned Martha. After marriage, they struggle to raise their children in a prejudiced world, forming different ideas of where they belong in society.Enter Martha's brother, Lightfoot. As he plays his harmonica in the juke joints, he witnesses the birth of the blues and joins in its creation. Living legends, from Leadbelly to Robert Johnson, appear in the narrative, which is as spellbinding as a soulful song on an old guitar. To Martha's shame, Lightfoot tempts Phillip and the children with musical expressions of their emotions. All the characters must choose between society's rules or their need to follow their hearts.

Blues in the Wind

Leblanc, Whitney

Jeanie Thompson's elegiac poetry tracks the geography of the heart and the power that resides in relationships. She speaks, with no pretense, as an American signifier and witness to the sacred yet often disturbing aspects of our world.In White For Harvest, Thompson chooses fifty poems that chart the joy and pain of children, family, loves lost and found, and the continuing resonance of her native Southern landscape. New work explores theological themes through persona poems and personal narratives. Her first collection, How To Enter the River, and her most recent volume, Witness, are represented in this selection.An award-winning poet, Thompson has published poems in literary journals from California to New England. Many readers will identify with how she turns the coin of memory to uncover her past, and how she shows us, in poems of passion and faith, that what the body knows is immense.

White for Harvest: New and Selected Poems

Thompson, Jeanie

The author provides a vision of Florida from a local's perspective, covering Crescent City, Zora Neale Huston's home in Eatonville, the state's capitol in Tallahassee, and the people and landscapes that make up the state.

Vanishing Florida: A Personal Guide to Sights Rarely Seen

History

Warner, David T.

Americas

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