Eudora Welty

5 best books like Eudora Welty (Suzanne Marrs): Prelude to Foundation, Dead Man Walking: The Eyewitness Account of the Death Penalty That Sparked a National Debate, The Optimist's Daughter, The Long Loneliness: The Autobiography of the Legendary Catholic Social Activist, Appalachian Trials: A Psychological and Emotional Guide to Successfully Thru-Hiking The Appalachian Trail

Prelude to Foundation

Author

Isaac Asimov

It is the year 12,020 G.E. and Emperor Cleon I sits uneasily on the Imperial throne of Trantor. Here in the great multidomed capital of the Galactic Empire, forty billion people have created a civilization of unimaginable technological and cultural complexity. Yet Cleon knows there are those who would...

Dead Man Walking: The Eyewitness Account of the Death Penalty That Sparked a National Debate

Author	Helen Prejean
ISBN	0679751319

In 1982, Sister Helen Prejean became the spiritual advisor to Patrick Sonnier, the convicted killer of two teenagers who was sentenced to die in the electric chair of Louisiana’s Angola State Prison. In the months before Sonnier’s death, the Roman Catholic nun came to know a man who was as terrified...

The Optimist's Daughter

Author

Eudora Welty

The Optimist's Daughter is the story of Laurel McKelva Hand, a young woman who has left the South and returns, years later, to New Orleans, where her father is dying. After his death, she and her silly young stepmother go back still farther, to the small Mississippi town where she grew up. Alone in the old...

The Long Loneliness: The Autobiography of the Legendary Catholic Social Activist

Author	Dorothy Day
ISBN	0060617519

This inspiring and fascinating memoir, subtitled, “The Autobiography of the Legendary Catholic Social Activist,” The Long Loneliness is the late Dorothy Day’s compelling autobiographical testament to her life of social activism and her spiritual pilgrimage. A founder of the Catholic...

Appalachian Trials: A Psychological and Emotional Guide to Successfully Thru-Hiking The Appalachian Trail

Author

Zach Davis

Each year, it is estimated that more than 2,000 people set out to thru-hike the Appalachian Trail, yet seven in ten ultimately fall short of their goal. Given the countless number of how-to books and websites offering information about logistics, gear, and endurance training, one would think that...