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Alabama Bound is a yearly book festival held since 1999 at the Birmingham Public Library with invited Alabama authors giving readings and presentations from recent works. It is organized by Linda Wilson and usually is scheduled for the same weekend as the Magic City Art Connection at Linn Park.

19 authors are part of the one day event on April 14, 2007:

Hester Bass, So Many Houses
Mark Childress, One Mississippi
William Cobb, Hermit King
Ruth Cook, Guests Behind the Barbed Wire
Sylviane Diouf, Grantville Gazette III
Charles Ghigna, Love Poems
Rubin Grant, Tales from Alabama Prep Football
Tim Hollis, Birmingham Broadcasting, Glass Bottom Boats and Mermaid Tails: Florida's Tourist Springs, Mouse Tracks: the Story of Walt Disney Records, Six Flags Over Georgia
Randall Horton, Definition of Place
Angela Johnson, Wind Flyers
Watt Key, Alabama Moon
Caitlín R. Kiernan, Daughter of Hounds
Julia Oliver, Devotion
Delia Ray, Singing Hands
Gregory Reece, Elvis Religion, the Cult of the King
John Sledge, An Ornament to the City
Carolyn Quick Tillery, Southern Homecoming
Ann Waldron, Rare Murder in Princeton

21 authors participated in the one day event on April 15, 2006:

Leslie Bailey, Hey Leslie! What's Cooking
Philip Beidler, Late Thoughts on an Old War
Tony Bolden, Afro-Blue: Improvisations in African American Poetry and Culture
Tamra Carraway-Hinckle, Baseball In Mobile
Joe Cuhaj, Baseball In Mobile
Vonetta Flowers, Running on Ice
Charles Ghigna, Animal Tracks; If You Were My Valentine
Faye Gibbons, Horace King: Bridges to Freedom; The Day the Picture Man Came
Vanessa Griggs, Davis Wings of Grace
Tim Hollis, Florida's Miracle Strip
Jo Kittinger, When I Grow Up
Dorothy McDaniel, Dorothy's Simply Beautiful Flowers
Margo Manning, Harley and Davidson Family Recipes
Cynthia Mask, Moon of the Wishing Night
Debby Nakos, Small-Batch Baking
James L. Noles, Hearts of Dixie: Fifty Alabamians and the State They Called Home
Rob Pate, A Tiger's Walk: Memoirs of an Auburn Football Player
Warren St. John, Rammer Jammer Yellow Hammer
Elizabeth Schafer, Auburn Football
Richard Scott, Legends of Alabama Football
Mike Stewart, A Perfect Life
Frank Stitt, Frank Stitt's Southern Table
Rob Trucks, Cup of Coffee: The Very Short Careers of Eighteen Major League Pitchers
W. H. Watford, Lethal Risk
Billie Jean Young, Fear Not The Fall

More than 50 authors, including:

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 * [[Charles Ghigna]], ''Love Poems''
 * [[Rubin Grant]], ''Tales from Alabama Prep Football''
-* [[Tim Hollis]], ''Birmingham Broadcasting'', ''Glass Bottom Boats and Mermaid Tails: Florida's Tourist Springs;
+* [[Tim Hollis]], ''Birmingham Broadcasting'', ''Glass Bottom Boats and Mermaid Tails: Florida's Tourist Springs'', ''Mouse Tracks: the Story of Walt Disney Records'', ''Six Flags Over Georgia''
-''Mouse Tracks: the Story of Walt Disney Records'', ''Six Flags Over Georgia''
 * [[Randall Horton]], ''Definition of Place''
 * [[Angela Johnson]], ''Wind Flyers''
 * [[Watt Key]], ''Alabama Moon''
-* [[Caitlin R. Kiernan]], ''Daughter of Hounds''
+* [[Caitlín R. Kiernan]], ''Daughter of Hounds''
 * [[Julia Oliver]], ''Devotion''
 * [[Delia Ray]], ''Singing Hands''