Shop All

For Lizzy Wallace, everything changed following the worst year of her life. Lizzy had two close friends Kay and Spencer and they were determined to remind Lizzy who she was. They decided to take matters into their own hands. New people, new places are just the key to her return to joy; together they will find help for their lost friends. They will help Lizzy grow beyond her well-earned distrust in people. That’s just one way they will change her entire life. Only one thing is for sure, when...

This wooden grader is wonderfully crafted to represent an older style of automobile. Its simple details bring an elegance to the piece. This would make a great gift for a child to play with or a loved one to display.

Ted Dunagan continues the saga of two adventuresome boys, Ted and Poudlum, in Secret of the Satilfa, the sequel to Dunagan’s debut novel A Yellow Watermelon. In the fall of 1948, young Ted and Poudlum have their post-Thanksgiving fishing trip to the Cypress Hole on the Satilfa Creek interrupted by unwelcome visitors and fugitive bank robbers. They managed to escape and return to the Satilfa to search for money rumored to have been hidden by the criminals along with seemingly half the locals of...

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...

Betty Bain crafted this magnificent Sleigh Basket. The differently colored fibers create a festive look for this seasonal favorite. This basket would make a great addition to a front porch or foyer.The basket is 16" long, 10" wide, and 7" tall and the wooden base is 19" long.

Spit, Scarey Ann, and Sweat Bees recalls small-town life in the 1920s and ‘30s, garnished with ruminations about folktales and superstitions. Mrs.Windham recalls how Thurza, her family cook, tucked a wooden match in her hair to cure a headache, and how her father spit in his hat when a rabbit crossed the road. She ponders the origins of old sayings and the creativity of children’s play before television and air conditioning. She affectionately recounts stories about family members, friends,...

How many friends do you have? Two, five, ten? Now think about your best friend. The friend who makes you smile the widest. What would you do if that friend suddenly moved far away and you thought you’d never see them again? That’s the problem that faced the friends in our story, Walter and Wimbly. They reacted just like you might. But there is a slight difference. Walter and Wimbly are cats.

In this elegant, simple tale of a true incident, renowned storyteller Kathryn Tucker Windham reminds us of the endurance of love and the durability of the human spirit. Hiram, a poor farmer, approaches her father, a banker, for a loan of expense money for a journey. The background to Hiram’s quest encompasses love, loss, the terrible human costs of slavery, and the complex relationships between black and white Southerners. Hiram returns from his journey with a gift for his banker friend and a...

Twenty-five-year- old Lizzy thinks if she keeps her eyes closed all the way, then maybe what she is experiencing will not be real. Her mother, who has always been her rock, is about to die from cancer. As her mother takes her last breath, Lizzy, who has never truly been on her own steps into the unknown and begins a new life. After her mother’s death Lizzy’s inner strength is tested after family secrets come out revealing the imperfections of those she loves and admires. Now it’s time for...

Many documentaries, articles, museum exhibits, books, and movies have now treated subject of the Tuskegee Airmen, the only black American military pilots in World War II. Most of these works have focused on their training and their subsequent accomplishments during combat. This publication goes further, using captioned photographs to trace the Airmen through the various stages of training, deployment, and combat in North Africa, Italy, and over occupied Europe. For the first times are...

Measuring 12" square, Sam Cheek's repurposed antique ceiling tiles (with hooks) could become a coat rack, a towel hanger or a place to hang your keys. These tiles are available in several different colors, and would make a great addition to any room in your home or office.Please call us at 682-9878 or email us at info@blackbelttreasures.com to ask about what colors we currently have available. ...

If you’ve read Mary Ward Brown’s fiction you know these deceptively bold contrasts conceal layers of subtlety. In her stories, stereotype, negative and positive, reveal their other sides, lighter, and darker, and hasty, judgmental attitudes toward people and places do not last. Change and continuity, past and present, black race and white, massive abstractions and concrete particulars, all are reflected in a real, whole word, by characters from a complete social spectrum. Like most of the...