Lifelong Vanderbilt fan Joe Daily would like nothing better than seeing the Commodores win the SEC title and the National Championship. Then he meets Allistair Appel who promises to make him the greatest player to ever play the game and maybe even give his team a title as well. But will the price be too high? Will Joe Daily, now Joey Goodman, be able to turn back before it's too late?

Join Tim Smith as he travels the perilous and sometimes heartbreaking journey to fatherhood at the age of 48.

McMinn had never had a cross country champion, but a group of runners from Athens had other things in mind. Join them on their quest to make history.

In the Texas Reconstruction Era (1865-1877), many returning Confederate veterans organized outlaw gangs and Ku Klux Klan groups to continue the war and to take the battle to Yankee occupiers, native white Unionists, and their allies, the free people. This study of Benjamin Bickerstaff and other Northeast Texans provides a microhistory of the larger whole. Bickerstaff founded Ku Klux Klan groups in at least two Northeast Texas counties and led a gang of raiders who, at times, numbered up to 500 men. He joined the ranks of guerrilla fighters like Cullen Baker and Bob Lee and, with their gangs often riding together, brought chaos and death to the “Devil’s Triangle,” the Northeast Texas region where they created one disaster after another. “This book provides a well-researched, exhaustive, and fascinating examination of the life of Benjamin Bickerstaff, a desperado who preyed on blacks, Unionists, and others in northeastern Texas during the Reconstruction era until armed citizens killed him in the town of Alvarado in 1869. The work adds to our knowledge of Reconstruction violence and graphically supports the idea that the Civil War in Texas did not really end in 1865 but continued long afterward.”—Carl Moneyhon, author of Texas after the Civil War: The Struggle of Reconstruction

Jake Daily faces new challenges. To get money to save his failing company he's forced to produce a TV sitcom. Unfortunately, his luck leaves when a young woman is found dead behind his seaside house. Her throat cut and strange circles are drawn on the skin. Later in New Jersey, another murder victim with identical markings. It had happened behind his rented cabin. One cop arrests him when he saves a female officer's life. Trouble explodes when two of his cast members in "The Girls from Madison High" left. The scripts must be rewritten quickly and he must find new actors before he can film the episodes. Meanwhile, Sarah Darling, a famous painter, fancies Jake and makes a huge demand on his time. He makes an unexpected discovery in the murder case and the FBI tells him to butt out. His sitcom begins to make progress and it becomes a success. However, he gets death threats and neither he nor the cops can find the murder. On his last day on the east coast, the bloodthirsty Killer, armed with his gun, traps him and only a miracle can save his life this time.

After World War II, as cultural and industry changes were reshaping Hollywood, movie studios shifted some production activities overseas, capitalizing on frozen foreign earnings, cheap labor, and appealing locations. Hollywood unions called the phenomenon “runaway” production to underscore the outsourcing of employment opportunities. Examining this period of transition from the late 1940s to the early 1960s, Runaway Hollywood shows how film companies exported production around the world and the effect this conversion had on industry practices and visual style. In this fascinating account, Daniel Steinhart uses an array of historical materials to trace the industry’s creation of a more international production operation that merged filmmaking practices from Hollywood and abroad to produce movies with a greater global scope.

Includes Part 1, Number 1 & 2: Books and Pamphlets, Including Serials and Contributions to Periodicals (January - December)