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James K. Polk: A Biographical Companion
Mark Eaton Byrnes
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This is the first scholarly treatment of Polk in recent years and will provide easy access to his life, career, and times for students writing papers and the general public curious about this important president. Organized according to topics, each entry details the significance of the topic to Polk’s public and personal life and places it in historical context. The work includes a chronology of important events, a sampling of key writings by Polk, pertinent documents, and an annotated list of print and nonprint sources.
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If you love smart, sassy fiction with some downhome Texas humor, you'll love this smashing follow up to the Dixies hardcover debut, MY HEART MAY BE BROKEN, BUT MY HAIR STILL LOOKS GREAT.
Fans of Mary Kay Andrews won't be able to resist Dixie Cash. Description Debbie Sue Overstreet and her best pal Edwina––the Domestic Equalizers––have one motto: don't get mad get evidence! So when these hairdressers/private eyes get wrapped up in a new mystery you just know there's going to be trouble. Quint Matthews, an old beau of Debbie Sue's and a heart–breakin' rodeo rider, comes to down asking for their help––his identity's been swiped by a woman he met on the internet. They agree to get to the bottom of things, and get into a whole heap of trouble. As for Quint, he's never one to learn a lesson. He's got a date in Salt Lick, Texas, with a woman he met, yep, on line––but what he doesn't know is she was put there by her own daughter!
Hearts are about to get broken all around Texas, but not before Debbie Sue and Edwina make things right for everybody!
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I liked it okay.........2007-04-27
I love the series but this, the third book in the series, fell a bit short. I liked it but not nearly as much as the other two. I think it's because of the focus of the book not being the core characters Debbie Sue Overstreet and Edwina.
This book deals with Quint Matthews; Debbie Sue's ex, who lands himself in trouble with Internet dating and an overly large ego. After meeting Monica online Quint finds his identity has been stolen. Monica disappears as the credit card bills mount. So Quint turns to the Domestic Equalizers, Debbie Sue and Edwina's detective agency, for help. Driven largely by his overly inflated ego it's easy to see how Quint winds up in a big mess. Since he's going to be in and around Salt Lick anyway Quint sets up a date with Allison Barker, whom he also "met" on the internet.
Allison is surprised to find that her daughter has posted her profile on an online dating service. Jill has not only been talking with men online posing as her mother Allison, but has set up a date with Quint. When Quint shows up on her doorstep Allison actually goes on the date and meets Tag, Quint's friend, whom she finds more interesting then the drunken self centered cowboy. Big surprise there.
While Quint is a good secondary character he's less then likeable as the front man. I couldn't understand why any decent person would continue to agree to go out with Quint since he can't seem to finish a date between getting drunk or having a allergic reaction that has him hooking up with the EMT.
The identity theft mystery is not really a mystery at all and the murder isn't really a murder. We do see gender confused Eugene/Janine again who we met in the second book in the series. He/she has a history with Quint that is less then interesting. While I really liked Eugene/Janine in the last book he/she fell largely flat here.
Even with all the criticisms I still found this book amusing and it is nice to get a glimpse of Debbie Sue and Edwina again. Too bad their husbands were largely MIA. There are some really funny elements in this book that I felt rated the four stars, the toy party for instance. These are the bits that keep me reading, the funny little pieces that make the book worth reading.
I am hoping for another book in this series, if it's centered more around the original characters.
Fun Read!.......2007-04-15
The books by Dixie Cash are worth the price of admission for their titles alone, and this installment was much better plotted than My Heart May Be Broken, but my Hair Still Looks Great. This book is a combination comedy of errors, Texas charm, and old-fashioned romance -- with a little mystery thrown in for good measure, and all of it is highly enjoyable.
Dixie Cash.......2007-01-10
I Gave You My Heart is a great southern humor read. Highly recommend it for laughs.
madcap Domestic Equalizers mystery .......2006-11-06
In Salt Lick, Texas former rodeo superstar Quint Matthews asks his ex girlfriend Debbie Sue Overstreet and her "Domestic Equalizers" partner Edwina Perkins-Martin to uncover the hideaway of the thief using his credit card. He informs the ladies that he was dating Veronica, but she vanished leaving his credit in shambles. Finally he insists they low key everything as he is in hiding after a highly publicized fiasco involving a Vegas transvestite. The beauty parlor owners agree to investigate the theft.
Quint fails to inform the two sleuths that he also is in town to meet in person for the first time his new on line girlfriend Allison Barker, a single mother raising a twelve years old daughter. What Quint does not know is that it is not the mom agreeing to a date, but the daughter masquerading as her mother. As the Equalizers work the case, Quint and Allison go out on a date, but she likes his friend Tag Freeman much more. Besides which, Quint has new problems with a stalker and a murder with him as the only suspect.
The third madcap Domestic Equalizers mystery (see MY HEART MAY BE BROKEN BUT MY HAIR STILL LOOKS GREAT and SINCE YOU'RE LEAVING ANYWAY, TAKE OUT THE TRASH) is a zany way out West teas tale filled with an eccentric cast (including the lead females). The wild enjoyable story line is character driven. Quint is quite a character as he jumps from the frying pan into the fire time after time. Edwina and Debbie Sue are as always stirring up trouble in between fixing hair as they try to locate Veronica until Quint gets in even deeper and they have to prove his innocence based on his being stupid not a killer. Dixie cash provides an amusing insane by fun thriller.
Harriet Klausner
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A great read for anyone interested in barbecue and humor!.......1998-12-28
If you love barbecue, the south and need a guide to great barbecue in Alabama, this is a must read. It is an excellent reference guide while traveling the state of Alabama or if you are looking for another barbecue restaurant in your hometown.
It is easy to read and the book has several cross references and maps to assist you in your search for the "heavenly BBQ." The publication also is easy to read and to understand.
We keep ours in our car for emergency use when craving smoked meats of any kind.
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Don't waste your time.......2007-10-18
Really have nothing good to say about this book. Only sorry that I wasted my time reading it.
Great cover - sappy story.......2007-09-27
The cover is great - great title, great graphic, zany author name. I was all strapped in and ready for a rollicking ride. The ride never came. This isn't a wacky tale of Texan misfits after all, it's a cosy and predictable mainstream romance with all the zip and crackle of a wet firework.
Cast Meg Ryan in her heyday as the adorable lead, and the cute plumber from Desperate Housewives as the implausibly perfect man and there you have it. Gorgeous people have silly misunderstandings then fall deeply in love. Just like in real life... pffft.
I wouldn't have minded if it had lived up to the promise of the wisecracking along the way but it just didn't.
If you've read anything by Sarah Bird then that was what I was expecting - an edgy, stomach-punchingly witty heroine with enough darkness to her character to keep me engaged.
Paige has no edge at all. This is a cosy, curl-up, warm bath book.
It's not the worst book I've read, it was OK as a diversion once I'd lowered my expectations.
These gals have got the best marketing team ever - Sex and the City, how on earth did they get anybody to use that as a comparison on the cover. There's no swearing in sight in this book, or open discussions about sex or anything else. And if the perfect father threw his head back to 'laugh deeply' one more time I was ready to throw up.
And there were glaring inconsistencies in the story - at one point the guy arranged to come round at 7pm the next day, then in the following chapter he turned up at '6pm on the dot'.
I'd pass this book on, but I'm keeping it for purely cosmetic reasons - it has such a cute cover. All dressed up and nowhere to go.
My Heart May Be Broken, But My Hair Still Looks Great.......2007-01-11
Good, fun read for the down-time after Christmas when you don't want anything too challenging! The two ladies who write as Dixie Cash know their Texas stuff!
Funny, Adventurous & Quick Read.......2007-01-06
I just finished this book after finding it on the Bestseller List at our library. I read it over the holidays and once I got into it could not put it down-_I read it from start to finish in one day. It was very interesting right from the start--you don't really seem to get into the storyline until the first few chapters but once the plot settles in Salt Lick it really takes off. THe characters are all very colorful and there's unexpected events but it flows quite smoothly, keeping you in suspense to the very end.
I am always looking for a good book to read and I am looking forward to checking into more books by Dixie Cash.
Don't read this if you haven't read the book!.......2006-10-03
DON'T READ THIS REVIEW IF YOU ARE GOING TO READ THE BOOK!
I was so disappointed. I absolutley loved the authors first book but this one was like they got tired of writing and just slapped it together. Maybe they were on a tight deadline. The characters were so underdeveloped we couldn't warm up to them. Then the inconsistences are so numerous I kept back reading thinking I must have misread the first time only to find out I didn't. One was Paige telling Spur she was busy and not to come over and then Spur is telling his sister he's going to see Paige. Lester...what can I say. He actually gropes her on the job but when they are alone in her house they sit down and talk and he doesn't even make a move of any kind on her. Then we end up with some guy who wasn't in the book until the very end. I could go on but what would be the point. Did I laugh? A couple of time which is the only reason I gave this book 3 stars. I really hope the next book these sisters write will be better put together than this one.
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The definitive history of the dominant religious group within the state during the last two centuries.
Alabama Baptists are a complex people. Although regarded as conservative in both politics and theology, many Baptists became leaders of the 1890s agrarian revolt, devoted partisans of the social gospel early in the 20th century, and ardent advocates of the New Deal. Complexity has also characterized the denomination's race relations. For nearly five decades half its members were slaves, while many other members owned slaves. Thus, interaction of black and white Baptists created a unique religious setting in which people who were members of the same churches interpreted the gospel of liberation in dramatically different ways. After the Civil War, Baptist churches in the South divided into white and black congregations. Only white congregations remained part of the Southern Baptist Convention, whose members are known as Southern Baptists. Black congregations became part of the National Baptist Convention, and their history is a separate story deserving future study.
Despite social and cultural conflict Alabama Baptists helped tame a chaotic frontier, sustained a sense of community, created opportunities not available in secular society, shaped Alabama politics, and obtained religious dominance seldom matched in U.S. history.
Wayne Flynt's balanced, exhaustively researched book is the first about Alabama Baptists to be written by a professional historian.
Wayne Flynt is Distinguished University Professor of History at Auburn University and author or coauthor of 11 books, including Taking Christianity to China: Alabama Missionaries in the Middle Kingdom, 1850–1950 and Alabama in the Twentieth Century. Flynt has been recognized with numerous awards and honors, including the Lillian Smith Award for nonfiction, the Clarence Cason Nonfiction Award, the James F. Sulzby Jr. Book Award (twice), and the Alabama Library Association Award for nonfiction (twice).
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Southern Stuff: Down-Home Talk and Bodacious Lore from Deep in the Heart of Dixie
Mildred Jordan Brooks
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The Art of Fiction in the Heart of Dixie: An Anthology of Alabama Writers
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She's Gone Country: Dispatches from a Lost Soul in the Heart of Dixie
Kyle Spencer
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ASIN: 0375709045
Release Date: 2002-05-14 |
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Where does a single, twentysomething girl go for adventure when she’s been raised among Manhattan artists, drag queens, and intellectuals threatening to move to Cuba? If that girl is Kyle York Spencer, an aspiring newspaper reporter, she heads south, to North Carolina, to cut her chops at the Raleigh News & Observer.
Setting up shop in the Tar Heel state, Spencer finds herself interviewing everyone from skeet-shooting cowboys and Christian Rockers to the Human Carver--a serial killer--and the Smallest Woman in the World. Embraced by a sassy group of husband-hunting southern belles, she wonders whether sleeping with a Jesse Helms supporter is really part of the grand plan or if Mark, her best friend whose calls from LA provide a lifeline, is really the one. Picking up some valuable wisdom along the way, she learns that finding Mr. Right is far less important than surrounding yourself with the right people–and that making a home ultimately involves more than just deciding where to live.
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Things don't always work out the way you hope..........2007-03-22
I knew this family when Kyle Spencer was a child, 7 to 10 years old. I used to work with her stepmother, "Shelby" (not her real name) and she and I also became friends. I know that "Shelby" had high hopes for her marriage to Kyle's father, and for her new found family, and had put a lot of energy into making it work. She and Kyle had also been very close when Kyle was a child. I finished up this book feeling very sad for my friend, because of the way things had turned out. The writing style itself will hold your attention, although I did see two writing errors which the proofreader should have caught and corrected before the book went to press.
She needs to make up her mind!.......2004-11-29
Kyle Spencer, an aspiring newspaper reporter, leaves New York City to work at the Raleigh (North Carolina) News & Observer.
I think Spencer couldn't make up her mind what book she wanted to write, "A New York Journalist Goes South", "My Dysfunctional Family", or "How to Find a Man". So she tried to put all three together, and doesn't quite pull it off, resulting in an uneven quality to the book.
Despite the "Dysfunctional Family Tree" at the start of the book, which was amusing, those parts of the book were the least interesting, and seemed almost tacked on. I would very much have liked to have had more about her experiences at the News & Observer, and the exploits of the Ten Thousand Angels Committee (four women looking for men for themselves and each other) were pretty funny.
She's a good writer, but she needed someone to force her to choose among three good themes.
Kyle is Vile.......2002-09-10
The premise of this book is ridiculous -- since when is Raleigh, North Carolina, the "heart of Dixie"? But even more ridiculous: the notion of a memoir in which the author "made stuff up." Why did she have to do that? Because the truth wasn't interesting enough? In truth, even this exaggerated memoir isn't interesting enough, in large part because Kyle Spencer is too young to be writing a memoir and because she takes herself way too seriously and thinks way too highly of herself. Her delusions of grandeur are embarrassing to read. ("I pictured myself leaping onto some carpeted auditorium stage, preparing to accept the third consecutive Pulitzer of my young career.") And her writing is just plain bad. ("I thanked Susan B. Anthony for getting the women's lib ball rolling.") Her attempts at self-depracation ring false. Get over yourself, Kyle!
What's the point.......2002-08-24
I was interested in reading what a Northerner had to say about Raleigh. I wasn't too offended by her representations of Raleigh, but was very offended by her needless and painful descriptions of her family and of her own behavior. I don't think I'd want to speak to her if I were one of the family members she chose to excoriate.
In the end, though slightly amused occasionally, I couldn't figure out what her point was in writing this book. Also, I was very interested to read in another review of this book that she graduated from the journalism school at Chapel Hill. Not exactly culture shock to move to Raleigh.
blah.......2002-07-03
Didn't like the ethics it portrayed. It was breezily written, however.
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History and Hope in the Heart of Dixie: Scholarship, Activism, and Wayne Flynt in the Modern South
Manufacturer: University Alabama Press
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Social and political history of the modern South.
This collection of essays on the social and political history of the modern South consider the region’s poor, racial mores and race relations, economic opportunity, Protestant activism, political coalitions and interest groups, social justice, and progressive reform.
History and Hope in the Heart of Dixie illuminates the dual role of historian and public advocate in modern America. In a time when the nation’s eyes have been focused by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita onto the vulnerability and dire condition of poor people in the South, the applicability of research, teaching, and activism for this voiceless element seems all the more relevant.
Responding to the example of Wayne Flynt, whose fierce devotion to his state of Alabama and its region has not blinded his recognition of the inequities and despair that define southern life for so many, the scholars assembled in this work present contributions to the themes Flynt so passionately explored in his own work. Two seasoned observers of southern history and culture—John Shelton Reed and Dan T. Carter—offer assessments of Flynt’s influence on the history profession as a whole and on the region of the South in particular.
Gordon Earl Harvey is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Louisiana at Monroe and author of A Question of Justice: New South Governors and Education, 1968–1976.
Richard D. Starnes is Assistant Professor of History at Western Carolina University and author of Creating the Land of the Sky: Tourism and Society in Western North Carolina.
Glenn Feldman is Associate Professor in the Center for Labor Education and Research at The University of Alabama at Birmingham and author of Politics, Society, and the Klan in Alabama, 1915–1949.
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Susan Youngblood Ashmore, Brooks Blevins, Dan T. Carter, Glenn Feldman, Jeff Frederick, Gordon E. Harvey, Dwayne Key, Andrew M. Manis, John Shelton Reed, Richard D. Starnes, Bailey Thomson
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Heart of Dixie
Tami Hoag
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Alabama Crime in Perspective 2001: A Statistical View of Crime in the Heart of Dixie State (Alabama Crime in Perspective)
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