Zenith Man: Death, Love, and Redemption in a Georgia Courtroom (Citadel Press, 2026) by McCracken Poston Jr. is a memoir from the perspective of a lawyer defending his client accused of killing his wife in 1997. This case is particularly interesting because his client, Alvin Ridley, would be diagnosed with autism in 2021, explaining many […]
“The Devil’s Pulpit & Other Mostly True Scottish Misadventures” by E. J. Wade and Karen Spears Zacharias
August 12, 2025 by Leave a Comment
Ellen Wade and Karen Spears Zacharias, two seasoned women with family roots in the American South, take us along as they leave their families behind and enter a graduate program in Scotland, where they have months to study the connection between Scotland and Appalachia while exploring their own Celtic roots. The book’s title, The Devil’s Pulpit […]
A Dog Named Slugger, by Leigh Brill
June 22, 2011 by Leave a Comment
A Dog Named Slugger by Leigh Brill Reviewed by Paul H. Yarbrough Click to Buy “I have cerebral palsy. I walk funny and my balance is bad. I fall a lot. My hands shake, too. That means I’m not so good at carrying things. And if I drop stuff, sometimes it’s hard to just bend […]
Year of Our Lord: Faith, Hope and Harmony in the Mississippi Delta
April 10, 2011 by Leave a Comment
Click to Buy Year of Our Lord : Faith, Hope and Harmony in the Mississippi Delta Written by: T.R. Pearson Photography by: Langdon Clay Review by: Paul H. Yarbrough Year of Our Lord is a biography of an extraordinary man named Lucas McCarty who claims he is “white on the outside but black […]
Tested: How Twelve Wrongly Imprisoned Men Held onto Hope
March 16, 2011 by Leave a Comment
Click to Buy Tested: How Twelve Wrongly Imprisoned Men Held onto Hope (Dallas, TX: Brown Books Publishing Group, 2010) Review by Allen Mendenhall DNA technology has revolutionized our criminal justice system. The acceptance and widespread use of post-conviction DNA testing for imprisoned individuals has led to exonerations all across America. Organizations such as […]