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She

The Old Woman Who Took Over My Life

By: Kathryn Tucker Windham

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She

The Old Woman Who Took Over My Life

By: Kathryn Tucker Windham

This slender book, the last of twenty-nine written by Kathryn Tucker Windham over her long and productive life, will be an exquisitely bittersweet read for the many fans of the late storyteller and author from Selma, Alabama. In She, which Windham was putting the finishing touches on when she died in June 2011, the author describes how she woke up one day to find that she had an unwanted houseguest, an old woman who had suddenly moved into her home and was taking over her life. Windham referred to this interloper simply as She, and here the reader has been invited into the lively colloquy between the author -- whose spirit has not changed -- and her alter ego, who moves haltingly toward her earthly end. She will leave you laughing and crying, but also grateful and hopeful.

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NewSouth Books

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1603061037

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9781603061032

Jeffrey's Favorite 13 Ghost Stories

By: Kathryn Tucker Windham

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Jeffrey's Favorite 13 Ghost Stories

By: Kathryn Tucker Windham

This is the first anthology of the author’s own favorite ghost stories from the highly successful Jeffrey series of books that began in 1969 with “13 Alabama Ghosts and Jeffrey.” Hundreds of thousands of these books have been sold. The present volume includes 13 of the best of Mrs. Windham’s stories, representing mysterious and supernatural doings from Alabama, Georgia, Tennessee, and Mississippi. Most of the stories are related to historical places and sometimes to historical people.

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194

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NewSouth Books

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1603061118

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9781603061117

Alabama, One Big Front Porch

One Big Front Porch

By: Kathryn Tucker Windham

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Alabama, One Big Front Porch

One Big Front Porch

By: Kathryn Tucker Windham

Many of Alabama's finest stories used to begin with a reference to 'the night the stars fell,' and even now there is an inclination among some residents to divide local history into two segments: before the stars fell and after the stars fell. That would make November 13, 1833, the dividing line. "Thousands of Alabamians, thinking the end of the world was at hand when they saw the heavenly spectacle, fell to their knees to plead for mercy and forgiveness. Others promised eternal renunciation of sin (card playing, dancing, whiskey drinking, cursing, and associated vices) if they were spared whatever catastrophes were in the offing. Still others jumped upon horses and tried to outrace the fearful menace they believed was pursuing them.

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170

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NewSouth Books

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1588382192

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9781588382191

Jeffrey's Latest Thirteen

More Alabama Ghosts, Commemorative Edition

By: Kathryn Tucker Windham

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Jeffrey's Latest Thirteen

More Alabama Ghosts, Commemorative Edition

By: Kathryn Tucker Windham

Among the other hair-raising tales in this collection, Windham spotlights the apparitions of academia. From the three Yankee soldiers who haunt the University of Alabamas Civil Warera Little Round House to the Confederate soldier who resides in the University Chapel at Auburn University, Alabamas institutions of higher learning seem to have more than a few paranormal pupils.

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University of Alabama Press

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0817319123

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9780817319120

Spit, Scarey Ann, and Sweat Bees

One Thing Leads to Another

By: Kathryn Tucker Windham

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Spit, Scarey Ann, and Sweat Bees

One Thing Leads to Another

By: Kathryn Tucker Windham

With sprightly humor and a lifetime spent observing Southern culture, beloved storyteller Kathryn Tucker Windham shares memories of her childhood in Thomasville, Alabama. She affectionately recounts stories about family members, friends, and favorite pastimes. Spit, Scarey Ann, and Sweat Bees recalls small-town life in the 1920s and ’30s, garnished with ruminations about folktales and superstitions. Mrs. Windham recalls how Thurza, the family cook, tucked a wooden match in her hair to cure a headache, and how her father spit in his hat when a rabbit crossed the road. She ponders the origins of old sayings and the creativity of children’s play before television and air conditioning. One thing leads to another, Mrs. Windham says, ticking off the items she wants us not to forget. In every phrase, the reader hears her voice, almost as if our favorite story teller was in the room.

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NewSouth Books

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1603061142

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9781603061148

Odd-Egg Editor

By: Kathryn Tucker Windham

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Odd-Egg Editor

By: Kathryn Tucker Windham

Remembering the sting of male discrimination she repeatedly endured during her career as a newspaper-woman, Kathryn Tucker Windham with wistful amusement recalls here the hurt and the awful fact of being overlooked, snubbed, and ribbed by her male colleagues.

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Univ. Press of Mississippi

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1934110019

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9781934110010

A Serigamy of Stories

By: Kathryn Tucker Windham

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A Serigamy of Stories

By: Kathryn Tucker Windham

Appealing reminiscences of small-town life by one of the South's most enchanting oral storytellers

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148

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Univ. Press of Mississippi

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157806256X

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9781578062560

Twice Blessed

By: Kathryn Tucker Windham

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Twice Blessed

By: Kathryn Tucker Windham

Originally published: Montgomery, AL: Black Belt Press, c1996.

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River City Pub

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1579660800

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9781579660802

Alabama, One Big Front Porch

One Big Front Porch

By: Kathryn Tucker Windham

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One Big Front Porch

By: Kathryn Tucker Windham

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She

The Old Woman Who Took Over My Life

By: Kathryn Tucker Windham

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The Old Woman Who Took Over My Life

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1603061037

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Thirteen Georgia Ghosts and Jeffrey

Commemorative Edition

By: Kathryn Tucker Windham

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Thirteen Georgia Ghosts and Jeffrey

Commemorative Edition

By: Kathryn Tucker Windham

Thirteen Georgia Ghosts and Jeffrey is a deluxe, commemorative edition of famed southern author and folklorist Kathryn Tucker Windham's introduction to Georgia's thirteen most famous haunted houses and ghostly visitations.

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University of Alabama Press

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081731881X

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9780817318819

Thirteen Tennessee Ghosts and Jeffrey

Commemorative Edition

By: Kathryn Tucker Windham

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Thirteen Tennessee Ghosts and Jeffrey

Commemorative Edition

By: Kathryn Tucker Windham

A deluxe, commemorative edition of famed southern author and folklorist Kathryn Tucker Windham’s introduction to the Volunteer State’s most enduring ghost stories In Thirteen Tennessee Ghosts and Jeffrey, beloved and best-selling folklorist Kathryn Tucker Windham presents a spine-tingling collection of Tennessee’s eeriest ghost tales. Accompanied by her faithful companion, Jeffrey, a friendly spirit who resided in her home, Windham traveled from the mysterious muds of Memphis to the haunted hollow’s of east Tennessee to collect the spookiest collection of Volunteer State revenants ever written. In these perennial favorites, Windham captures the gentle folk humor of native Tennesseans as well as fascinating facts about the state’s rich history. In “The Dark Legend,” Windham recounts the story of explorer Merriwether Lewis, who met an untimely end on the Natchez Trace 1809 and whose spirit, it is said, still treads through Tennessee’s forests. Windham also visits central Tennessee’s Chapel Hill, where people who know the town say those who stand on the train tracks on dark, lonely nights can often see a disembodied light floating along the tracks. Neighbors say it’s the ghost of a headless flagman who returns to cavort with night-time guests. High in Tennessee’s Appalachian mountains, Windham encounters Martin, the phantom fiddler of Johnson County. Legend has it that in life Martin’s musical skills so mesmerized the snakes of the Stone Mountains that they would slither from their dens to listen tamely to his fiddling. Intrepid visitors to the rocky tops of northeast Tennessee’s mountains say you can still hear Martin’s ghost fiddling in the hollows. This handsome, new commemorative hardback edition returns Windham’s suspenseful classic to its original keepsake quality and includes a new afterword by the author’s children.

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University of Alabama Press

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0817319018

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9780817319014

Spit, Scarey Ann, and Sweat Bees

One Thing Leads to Another

By: Kathryn Tucker Windham

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One Thing Leads to Another

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1603061142

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9781603061148

Common Threads

Photographs and Stories from the South

By: Chip Cooper,Kathryn Tucker Windham

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Common Threads

Photographs and Stories from the South

By: Chip Cooper,Kathryn Tucker Windham

Well blended photography and commentary that create an image of the southern culture.

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0963671316

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Jeffrey's Latest Thirteen

More Alabama Ghosts, Commemorative Edition

By: Kathryn Tucker Windham

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Jeffrey's Latest Thirteen

More Alabama Ghosts, Commemorative Edition

By: Kathryn Tucker Windham

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0817319123

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9780817319120

Thirteen Alabama Ghosts and Jeffrey

Commemorative Edition

By: Kathryn Tucker Windham,Margaret Gillis Figh

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Thirteen Alabama Ghosts and Jeffrey

Commemorative Edition

By: Kathryn Tucker Windham,Margaret Gillis Figh

This keepsake edition of the timeless bestseller Thirteen Alabama Ghosts and Jeffrey by folklorists Kathryn Tucker Windham and Margaret Gillis Figh reproduces in facsimile the original hardcover version of a beloved classic.

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0817318429

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9780817318420

Jeffrey's Favorite 13 Ghost Stories

By: Kathryn Tucker Windham

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By: Kathryn Tucker Windham

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1603061118

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Thirteen Mississippi Ghosts and Jeffrey

Commemorative Edition

By: Kathryn Tucker Windham

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Thirteen Mississippi Ghosts and Jeffrey

Commemorative Edition

By: Kathryn Tucker Windham

Ghost stories from Mississippi.

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0817318860

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9780817318864

Jeffrey Introduces Thirteen More Southern Ghosts

Commemorative Edition

By: Kathryn Tucker Windham

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Jeffrey Introduces Thirteen More Southern Ghosts

Commemorative Edition

By: Kathryn Tucker Windham

A commemorative facsimile edition of the beloved and best-selling second book in famed national folklorist Kathryn Tucker Windham’s southern ghosts series Jeffrey was the resident apparition in the Selma, Alabama, home of nationally-known folklorist Kathryn Tucker Windham and the inspiration for Windham’s best-selling collection of macabre tales that reveal two hundred years of Alabama’s ghostly secrets, Thirteen Alabama Ghosts and Jeffrey. One of the most popular books ever published in the state, generations of Alabama children and students have been thrilled and chilled by Windham’s spectral legends. Following the overwhelming success of Thirteen Alabama Ghosts and Jeffrey, Windham and Jeffrey began to journey across the South assembling a second collection of ghastly tales that repeat Windham’s winning combination of traditional folklore, Southern history and culture, and family-friendly story-telling. In Jeffrey Introduces Thirteen More Southern Ghosts, Windham’s disembodied friend roams the states of Kentucky, Tennessee, Georgia, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Florida to recall thirteen more timeless, spine-tingling tales of baneful and melancholy spirits that spook the most stoic heart. Opening this volume is “The Girl Nobody Knew.” One midsummer night in the genteel Kentucky mineral spring resort of Harrodsburg, a beautiful lady arrived at the town’s grand hotel. The belle danced late into the night with the town’s smitten gallants only to expire suddenly with the notes of the last quadrille. The spooked residents of Harrodsburg guard a grave you can see to this day. Readers then visit the world-famous Bell Witch of Robinson County, Tennessee. Jeffrey also makes his first trip to old New Orleans to reveal a revenant in residence on Royal Street before continuing his ghostly progress across Dixie. This new edition returns Jeffrey Introduces Thirteen More Southern Ghosts to its original format in jacketed cloth full of original, black-and-white illustrations in a handsome keepsake edition perfect for gift-giving and for families, folklorists of all ages, and libraries.

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