**Rediscover this gripping 1965 novel about race in America—set in a rural corner of Mississippi where slavery never endedFrom the Civil Rights Era comes an urgent allegory about the terror and tragedy of Jim Crow, with a new introduction by W. Ralph Eubanks**The premise of Ronald Fair’s short, parable-like novel, Many Thousand Gone: An American Fable (1965), is that in a rural corner of Mississippi—the fictional Jacobs County—slavery did not end in 1865 bu...

Bruce Benson has just come home from serving with the Navy Seabees, but his return is anything but ordinary. A chance meeting with Lana Collins a captivating woman trapped in a loveless marriage pulls him into a world of temptation, secrecy, and forbidden desire.What begins as a simple ride home quickly ignites into a passionate affair that tests loyalty, morality, and the very meaning of love. With each encounter, Bruce and Lana find themselves entangled in choices that could eith...

This book relates the military experiences compiled from a twenty-five year naval career of a small town boy whose elementary and high school endeavors were somewhat less than satisfactory, but who was given the opportunity, provided by that inconceivably destructive event, known as World War II, to redeem his poor educational activity and serve in the Navy reasonably successfully. The book follows his career as he rose from a very young and inexperienced Ensign to the rank of Commander. E...