New Releases by Lillian Smith

The eighty-year anniversary edition of the once-banned, #1 New York Times–bestselling novel of interracial romance and discrimination in Georgia. Alice Walker said it best: “The South can hardly be said to recognize itself without this book.” Igniting controversy upon its publication in 1944, Strange Fruit was banned in Boston and Detroit and the US Postal Service refused to send it through the mail until Eleanor Roosevelt intervened—all because of its portrayal of a town divided along racial lines and the forbidden love that dared to cross them . . . Despite having left Maxwell, Georgia, to attend college, Nonnie Anderson returned to her hometown to work for a prominent white family—and to rejoin the man she had always loved, Tracy Deen. Tracy, the directionless son of the town’s doctor, has come back from war and is being pressured to finally get his life in order. Across the street, his high school sweetheart desperately waits for a marriage proposal. On the other side of town, Nonnie offers him a safe place to land, asking nothing in return. But now, she’s pregnant. As a Christian revival inspires the locals to cease their sinful ways, a heady and dangerous mix of passion, religion, and racism takes hold. And when a white man is killed in a Black part of town, the event exposes the evil simmering just below the town’s placid surface—an inferno waiting to erupt . . . “A very moving book and an extraordinary one.” —Eleanor Roosevelt “Strange Fruit is so wide in its human understanding . . . [its] tragedy becomes the tragedy of anyone who lives in a world in which minorities suffer.” —The Nation “An absorbing novel, of high literary merit, terrific and tender.” —The Boston Globe

Lillian Smith has been a writer on her illness in print and online media and helped many people by sharing her story with others. This book began as an idea when she was diagnosed with Lupus at the age of twenty-two and there were no books available to help her find answers to questions she was desperately seeking help for. She set out to write The Lupus Diaries in 2012 and, for over ten years, wrote journal entries on her life with Lupus, hoping to help young people and others with chronic illness so that they would find not only answers but hope about how to find a balance with illness and recovery from their disease. She offers real- life solutions with her real-life experience, with real-life stories that you can relate to. If you are seeking answers to a more balanced life with your chronic illness, or are newly diagnosed and want to find out how to cope, read this book, with very real and helpful chapters suchlike "''Dating and Chronic Illness''," "''Marriage and Chronic Illness''," "''Missing Out''," and much more. A memoir, a self-help book, and at heart, a true love story, this book offers lessons for everyone seeking help for their chronic illness.

The invitation of the "House of. . ." book series is to connect more deeply with God, Soul, Spirit, and your own inner voice. We create from our own faith traditions and experiences, but the messages are universal. Our goal is to connect in a way that conveys a deeper meaning, a higher purpose, and something that touches or creates insight for the reader.House of Light is an anthology of works submitted by covenant partners and supporters of Retreat House in Richardson, Texas. Works include personal narratives, essays, and poetry. The book''s theme explores our relationships to light and darkness, to joy and pain, to hope and challenge.

Description: Series 2: Race Relations Institute, 1943-1969;Race Relations Institute, 1966.

Description: A program and pamphlet for the presentation of the Charles Spurgeon Johnson Award for Distinguished Contribution to Human Relations to Lillian Smith. Includes a foreword by Herman H. Long, Smith''s acceptance speech and a speech by Joseph H. Douglass titled ''Race Relations to Human Relations - A New Agenda''.;Series 2: Race Relations Institute, 1943-1969;Race Relations Institute, 1966.

Description: Incomplete speech with many annotations.;Series 2: Race Relations Institute, 1943-1969;Race Relations Institute, 1955.

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It is strange that the subject of accounting can be so easy and yet cause some folks to form a mental block when trying to learn if the subject matter is not introduced correctly. Someone with a brilliant mind can learn it, accepting the accounting terms at the very beginning, but others are scared by the terms and find it a difficult subject. This book tries to do just that by introducing the student to the action and purpose of activities before giving the activity terms by name--giving the student a more comfortable learning experience on the way to becoming an educated accountant.

The Hessemans have become a much loved family through the historical novel, The Picnickers. Readers question, "What happened to all of them? How did life treat them?" The answer could be, "Quite well, thank you," but that is far too simple. Each Picnicker, though bountifully blessed, met and was led through countless life struggles. As transpires in real life, we do not know the outcome of the next chapter as the last closes, but faith, hope, and charity live on. While The Picnickers tracked a real but fictionalized family, A Blanket Benediction spins off perhaps the most illusory of The Picnickers'' plot segments, becoming a work of absolute fiction. Still the Hesseman heart and soul persist. Once again, you are invited to accompany a northwesterly journey on which Callie follows a passion and then veers off into her own orbit. Genetics cast aside, she bears the banner of pioneer determination, curiosity, and adventure, supported by Clint, whose background provides an unlikely complement. As a team, they come to personify the triumph of the fruits of the Spirit over human frailty and failure. Soon to come Miracle Downs, third in a series by the same author, will bring to life a trial of the picnicker "faith that will not shrink" as Clint and Callie realize his life dream and fall in love with their challenging, yet gifted, special child.

The author recounts her many happy Chistmases spent with eight brothers and sisters, including one Christmas when the family hosted a chain gang and their guards

Author cites the evils of segregation for both white and colored people and gives the history of race relations from pre-Civil War days.

This manual was develolped out of the practical experience gained through coordinating recruitment of volunteers for an inventory of areas around 138 public water suuply wells in El Paso, Texas.

Buttons? Why should anyone collect buttons? To judge from the experience of a museum that has a sizeable collection, buttons still remain unconsidered trifles in the minds of many who have not yet discovered the variety and fascination of these indispensables. But visitors to the museum come, see and are conquered; and the same captivation is in store for the readers of the present book. -- Foreword.