This piece of historical fiction is a coming of age story and more-than-memoir that bridges the early 1950s through today . . . sharing little known facts and demonstrating that life is more interesting than plain fiction. With one boy white and the other black in segregated Mississippi, backwoods and riverbottom adventures are too exciting to allow these motherless seven-year-olds to consider the normal bigotry of the times. Childhood is grounded in mischief around Oxford's Baily Woods and in the rural community of Taylor. The Yocona and Little Tallahatchie Rivers help shape the area's youth, and their teen years find Scott and C.B. interacting with Weekend Warriors and the Klan. Summer jobs and outdoor experiences roughhew the boys into men. Adult complications in Sin City Memphis precede diverging paths with college forestry versus the logging woods, grad school versus a tour in Vietnam, and professional versus technical careers in the workplace. All the while, challenges and opportunities stretch from the commonplace to the controversial. During retirement, the two men volunteer and grow old. The book finishes with a twist the reader won’t be expecting.

Yocona Puff Adder

Literature & Fiction

Gerald Inmon

Genre Fiction

Taylor House Publishing

This novel relates an incident in the publisher's life that occurred while promoting his first novel. The encounter led to the author being charged with one of the most heinous crimes known to man. Confined to a jail cell, facing a life sentence, Taylor navigates the judicial system and the torment of jail while trying to prove his innocence.

Wrongfully Accused, Rightfully Acquitted

Biographies & Memoirs

Taylor, Mr. Richard Antonio

True Crime

Climatized is a memoir by Michael Anthony Williams. Born in North Carolina to a loving two parent household, life was all peaches and cream for Michael and his two brothers at a young age. However, with the disbanding of his family and the absence of his father, Michael world was torn apart. Left to be raised by his often absent mother and the ever present influence of movies, music, and the streets, young Michael became enamored with the street life. Before long, he was a full fledged gangster with ties to killers, dealers, and hustlers of all kinds. Before long, Williams found himself in jail at the age of 19 serving a 16 year sentence for 2nd degree murder. With all of this time to reflect, Michael embarked on a search for knowledge that would provide him insight to the who's, why's, when's, where's and how's of how he and so many other young black men ended up in his situation. He learned that many influences contributed to the daily lives of those who lived in America, many of which were only apparent on the subconscious level. Things like racism, family, government, religion, food, poverty, classicism, slavery, sex, technology, media and other aspects of life, Williams discovered, mold and shape our lives more than we ever know. Climatized is the culmination of years of research and Williams own personal experiences on his path to enlightenment.

Climatized

Williams, Mr. Michael Anthony

Leaders & Notable People

Son of A Preacher Man

Taylor, Richard Antonio

Parenting & Relationships

This book is a comprehensive study of the adverse history of police actions towards black men in America. The study details the inception of the American police as slave patrols. Then, it recounts certain eras of laws and mandates that were designed and enforced by American government and police to subvert, subjugate, and criminalize the black race. These periods include the slave codes, the black codes, the reconstruction era, Jim Crow, the Civil Rights era, CoIntelPro, the crack era, the crime bill, stop and frisk and the current era of police genocide. This work includes examples from each era of how police have been used to carry out injustice against the black male. This book also includes personal experiences of the author and his peers, as well as references to situations that he has knowledge of and witnessed. There is also an examination of the most recent high-profile national cases that have gained wide exposure and caused mass outrage amongst the American public. There is also a critique of the modern day police department and its tactics, along with proposed solutions and remedies of how police should carry out their duties and be selected. Then there is an examination of what could be done on an institutional and personal level to bring change to this problem. This book is written to further the conversation and bring awareness to little known examples and documentation of police and government misconduct and corruption.

Blue Lights in my Rearview

Simply De-escalate

Herring, Tiffanie Ritenour

Education & Teaching

See the best price to sell, buy or rent books by the Taylor House Publishing publisher. BookScouter helps to compare book prices from 25+ online bookstores and 30+ buyback vendors with a single search.

Books by Taylor House Publishing