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Verbena
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Nanci Kincaid |
"Set in contemporary small town America, this is the story of Verbena Martin Eckert McHale ("Bena," for short), an indomitable woman who is damned - but not doomed - by the bad behavior and bad luck … |
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Heart of Dixie
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Tami Hoag |
An All-American Smile, and Blue Eyes a Girl Could Drown In...
Writer Jake Gannon couldn't believe it - his brand-new Porsche had overheated in the middle of nowhere, and now he was being towed by … |
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Jacob's Way
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Gilbert Morris |
Fleeing a bloody pogrom that threatens their tiny Russian village, Reisa Dimitri and her grandfather, Jacob, sail the ocean to a new life in America. They are swiftly embraced by New York's Jewish co… |
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All the King's Men
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Robert Penn Warren |
The story is about Willie Stark, a slick politician of humble birth, who was based on real-life Huey Long, a Louisiana governor, but the real main character is Jack Burden, a reporter who serves to n… |
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The heart is a lonely hunter
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Carson McCullers |
Set in 1930s Georgia, the novel centers around a deaf and mute man, John Singer. Singer has been devastated by the loss of his dear friend, Antonapoulos, who was committed to an asylum for bad behavi… |
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Collected stories
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Ellen Gilchrist |
For the first time, a compilation of Ellen Gilchrist's best & best-loved short stories, selected by the author herself from her fifteen previous works of fiction. With the publication of 1983's The A… |
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Uncle Tom's Cabin
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Harriet Beecher Stowe |
This unforgettable novel tells the story of Tom, a devoutly Christian slave who chooses not to escape bondage for fear of embarrassing his master. However, he is soon sold to a slave trader and sent … |
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Return fire
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Glenn Blake |
96 p. ; 23 cm |
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Good fortune
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Noni Carter |
Brutally kidnapped from her African village and shipped to America, a young girl struggles to come to terms with her new life as a slave, gradually rising from working in the fields to the master's h… |
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Grandmama's song
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Margaree King Mitchell |
An eight-year-old girl accompanies her grandmother on a singing tour of the segregated South, both of them knowing that Grandmama's songs have the power to bring people together. |
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Summer in the South
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Cathy Holton |
what amazon's preview is...After a personal tragedy, Chicago writer Ava Dabrowski quits her job to spend the summer in Woodburn, Tennessee, at the invitation of her old college friend Will Fraser and… |
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Letters to Missy Violet
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Barbara Hathaway |
While her friend Missy Violet, the town midwife, is away in Florida, eleven-year-old Viney concerns herself with ailing neighbors, schoolmates, and her irrepressible cousin Charles, who feels superio… |
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The Sunday wife
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Cassandra King |
She's been married to a Methodist minister for 20 years, but Dean Lynch has never quite adjusted her temperament to the demands of a "Sunday wife." When she becomes friends with Augusta Holderfield, … |
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Ruth's Journey
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Donald McCaig |
Set against the backdrop of the American South from the 1820s until the dawn of the Civil War, this is a remarkable story of fortitude, heartbreak, and indomitable will - and a tale that will forever… |
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Rogue Lawyer
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John Grisham,Mark Deakins |
Sebastian Rudd is not your typical street lawyer. He works out of a customized bulletproof van, complete with Wi-Fi, a bar, a small fridge, fine leather chairs, a hidden gun compartment, and a heavil… |
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A matter of souls
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Denise Lewis Patrick |
A series of vignettes reveal life in the Deep South for African Americans as they experience discrimination in a doctor's office, lynching, and other forms of oppression, especially during the 1960s. |
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Among the fair magnolias
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Tamera Alexander,Elizabeth Musser,Shelley Shepard Gray,Dorothy Love |
"Four Southern women are at a turning point in history. and in their own hearts. To Mend a Dream by Tamera Alexander The Civil War cost Savannah Darby everything--her family and her home. When Aidan … |
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Homeplace
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Anne Rivers Siddons |
After twenty-one years Micah (Mike) Winship is making the big move--she's going home for a visit. She hasn't been back since 1963, when her father threw her out, but now he is dying and asking for he… |
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Queen of broken hearts
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Cassandra King |
Clare makes a living as a divorce coach to help men and women mend their broken hearts, all the while refusing to fall in love again herself, until she meets Lex, a charismatic sea captain and recent… |
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Southern Local Color
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Barbara C. Ewell,Mark Twain,George Washington Cable,Joel Chandler Harris,Kate Chopin,Pamela Glenn Menke |
Conflict, exoticism, sensuality, eccentricity, and the sheer differences of the American South pervade this lively anthology, the first in fifty years to focus exclusively on the nineteenth-century t… |
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