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Nashville Burning is set in three Aprils, those of 1967, '68, and '69, in Music City. In the first, after an event at Vanderbilt University featuring Martin Luther King, Stokely Carmichael, Allen Ginsberg, and Strom Thurmond, riots broke out in North Nashville, and that part of town burst into flame—as did self-satisfied notions about civil order and structure in Nashville and the South. The next April, after the assassination of Dr. King in Memphis, Nashville riots took place again, and fire claimed its function. Nashville Burning presents characters caught up in those events and that time—events ranging from the thoughtful and sincerely well-meaning to the truly felonious and certifiably insane. The novel is humorous, yet serious. Its fire is literal and emotional, and it is not to be stoked.

By blood, bone and history Austin Bullock is now chief of his nation, responsible for maintaining the welfare of his people and the land. Murder, tribal custom, legend, and the modern world collide with violent force, and Austin must make choices he has s

Memphis in May. The International Barbecue Contest, the Cotton Carnival, and now two murders. And it is all on the shoulders of failed cotton farmer and current Memphis homicide detective, J.W. Ragsdale, to solve both crimes before the tourist start leavi

In the midst of the Great Depression, minor league baseball thrives in small-town South Louisiana, where the Evangeline League, named in honor of Longfellow''s heroine, draws hundreds to dirt fields and grandstands in places like Jeanerette, Abbeville, and Opelousas. In 1935 Gemar Batiste, a talented young pitcher from Texas, is recruited to try out for the Rayne Rice Birds, makes the roster, and immediately begins garnering fame for himself, his team, and the league.But Gemar is not the same as his teammates and opponents, and his skills on the diamond cannot erase those differences. He grew up on a reservation in Texas, an Alabama-Coushatta Indian dreaming of hurling strikes in the big leagues. During his season with the Rice Birds, Gemar is asked to play the stereotypical Indian and enticed to cheat, which goes against his view of the diamond as a sacred place of honor. Constantly challenged as he tries to protect his identity as an Alabama-Coushatta and uphold the integrity of the game, Gemar-like the Evangeline League''s namesake-comes to embody loss, perseverance, and commitment.Much like minor league baseball itself, the story of Gemar Batiste''s season in the Evangeline League is a work of satire, humor, tragedy, and triumph.

Decoration Day and Other Stories ranges in locale from the piney woods of Deep East Texas, to the mean streets of Memphis, to the suburbs of Washington, DC. Highly comic and deeply serious, the collection reaches from the late 19th century to the present day. The title story centers on elderly sisters striving to save an unjustly accused man from a lynch mob, while at the same time fetch home a wagonload of flowering bushes to commemorate their dead in the family cemetery. Captive to private delusions and bound to dreams of what ought to be, each character in Duff's eleven stories struggles for escape, redemption, and the healing power of memory.

What would have happened if Elvis’s twin brother, Jesse Garon, had lived and not -- as history has written -- died at childbirth? Leave it to the imagination of the brilliant satirist Gerald Duff to completely and hilariously rewrite the entire Elvis myth, this time with Jesse Garon passing as Elvis’s “cousin” and made to sit it out on the sidelines by Gladys, the forever-worried mama who calls for the twin when Elvis is having bad times and bad spells. So exactly who was it who first entered Sun Records to make a record for his mama? Who was it really who made the appearance on Ed Sullivan and danced around the firemen’s pole in Jailhouse Rock? Well, we can’t spoil it for you, but Gerald Duff can, and make you laugh the whole while.Devault-Graves Digital Editions has brought the long out-of-print That’s All Right, Mama back in print in a new uncut edition with a splendid new cover and in ebook as well as print. That’s All Right, Mama is a new addition to the Great Music Book Series released by Devault-Graves Digital Editions in which worthy music books that have not been available for some time are republished in quality paperback editions and ebook format.Award-winning author Gerald Duff has published numerous works of fiction and nonfiction including Memphis Ribs, Playing Custer, and Memphis Mojo.