Alabama True

Dirty Phenix: Birth of the Dixie Mafia is book one in a new true crime series from acclaimed investigative journalist HL Arledge, author of the Bayou Justice series and newspaper column. Inside, learn how a city’s corruption led to the rise of a burlesque icon, a political assassination, and the birth of the Dixie Mafia. This story begins in Georgia and Alabama, but it ends on Bourbon Street in New Orleans, home of Carlos Marcello and the New Orleans Mafia.

Where the past refuses to stay buried. From abandoned plantations and Civil War battlefields to haunted cemeteries and chilling urban legends, Alabama is a land steeped in history and teeming with restless spirits. Alabama: Haunted Heart of Dixie uncovers the deep, eerie roots of Southern hauntings across fifteen gripping chapters. Paranormal investigator and historian Bud Steed guides you through real ghost stories pulled from decades of field research, historical archives, and firsthand encounters. Inside this spine-tingling true account, you’ll explore: The haunted playground where ...

Five book collection: first five states in the United States of True Crime series. Sixty chilling true crime cases of murders, kidnappings, and serial killers from across the United States!

This is a unique compilation of short stories by a team authors. Herein you will find some of the most amazing stories ever told, each presented in historically factual manner without hyperbole or literary license. Even more amazing is the fact that each of these stories is TRUE! This book profiles more than 100 of Alabama's most heroic Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen, Marines, and Coast Guardsmen, in actions from the Civil War to the present. They are men and women from more than 80 Alabama cities, towns, and communities, many of them almost forgotten with time – UNTIL NOW! Each of them served...

United States of True Crime is an anthology series with books devoted to the most disturbing cases in each of the 50 states. This book focuses on 10 of the most chilling crimes in Alabama history. True crime junkies may recognize some of the highly publicized cases, but I’ve made sure to include lesser-known, equally unsettling crimes. If you’re a true crime enthusiast who enjoys hearing about some of the most depraved monsters in our country, you will love United States of True Crime.

In The Furies, Elizabeth Flock examines how three real-life women have used violence to fight back, and how views of women who defend their lives are often distorted by their depictions in media and pop culture. These three immersive narratives follow Brittany Smith, a young woman from Stevenson, Alabama, who killed a man she said raped her but was denied the protection of the Stand-Your-Ground law; Angoori Dahariya, leader of a gang in Uttar Pradesh, India, dedicated to avenging victims of domestic abuse; and Cicek Mustafa Zibo, a fighter in a thousands-strong all-female militia...

Inspired by actual events, this story is set—in a small town on the Gulf Coast of South Alabama, where football runs deep, and tradition colors everything in Purple and Gold. One boy’s journey rises above the field. Alvin has lived a life shaped by pain—family trauma, loss, and the kind of hardship that would break most people. But beneath it all, there’s fight in him. When the world tells him he won’t make it, Alvin finds strength in unexpected places: a dedicated coach, a handful of teachers who never gave up on him, and a younger brother who still sees him as a hero. Wearing ...

This is a collection of 3.5 Very Short But True Stories About Life in Alabama. Contains Only the "Best" Southern Ingredients.