On the occasion of the centennial of the public library in historic Selma, Alabama, beloved storyteller Kathryn Tucker Windham relates the true story of Ernest Dawson. When he was a boy in the 1930s, segregation laws had barred Dawson from using the Selma library. But his love of books and his eagerness to learn was strong, and he eventually became a teacher. Years later he bequeathed to the Selma library money for a new children’s wing so that other eager young readers of all races would...

Jeffrey, the ghost that has haunted Kathryn Tucker Windham’s house for 40 years is back. This time, he helped Mrs. Windham choose 13 of the best stories from her acclaimed series of Southern ghost stories. This new volume, with an introduction by the author, is filled with cameos by historical places, collecting the best of the stories from Alabama, Mississippi, Tennessee, and Georgia. Learn why a phantom witch relentlessly torments the Bell family and gasp as a farmer vanishes into thin air....

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 many fans of the late storyteller and author from Selma, Alabama. Windham died shortly before the publication of the volume, but only over the last eighteen months of her life did she seem constrained by her advancing years. In She, which Windham was putting the finishing touches on when she died at age 93 in June 2011, the author describes...