RCP BOOKSLike the nearby Alabama River that flows through the heart of the South, literature sustains us, transports us outside of ourselves, and brings us home. River City Publishing, a literary press located in Montgomery, Alabama, is dedicated to discovering the books that do just that. |
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Second Sluthood: A Manifesto for the Post-Menopausal, Pre-Senilic Matriarch Ruby Pearl Saffire
Behold Ruby Pearl Saffire's comic rants on family and fair-weather friends, her bawdy poetry in ode to her underwear, her screeds on hypocritical churchgoers, blunt-headed politicians, disingenuous professorial writer-types, and (you were expecting otherwise?) sex with a capital XXX.
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AVAILABLE NOWA Generous Life: W. James Samford, Jr.Wayne Greenhaw
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AVAILABLE NOW The Seasons Bear UsJeanie Thompson
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Staying Ahead of the Posse: The Ben Jobe Story
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BREATHING OUT THE GHOST Kirk Curnutt
In the shape of a noir thriller, Kirk Curnutt fashions a gripping tale of the consequences of unchecked grief, of painful truths hidden as though they were dark secrets, and what salvation remains possible for good men who enter the darkness and become the ghosts they are chasing. |
MURDER CREEK: THE "UNFORTUNATE INCIDENT" OF ANNIE JEAN BARNES
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“Maybe I am not at Death’s Door, but that does not excuse me to squander even a millisecond of the short eon remaining to me. And I sure as hell don’t intend to squander anything, any opportunity for delicious and nutritiously debauched behavior—ergo, I purposefully enter into my Second Sluthood!” 
From wandering the rivers and valleys of her upbringing to veering off the beaten paths in Italy, for her fourth collection of poems, award-winning poet 
Ben Jobe is not afraid of starting fires. For kindling he chooses words and deeply personal, historically significant stories. Staying Ahead of the Posse: The Ben Jobe Story is history in the flesh, the history of basketball and the Civil Rights Movement, of desegregation and economic exploitation, of HBCUs and the NCAA, of African independence and the modern-day plantation that is the American sports industry. 
Joe Formichella, in classic investigative style, reopens an old crime case and questions a multitude of crime experts, law enforcement officers, and citizens alike—including many who, so it was said, would never speak about the “unfortunate incident” of Annie Jean Barnes’s death in 1966 Brewton, Alabama.