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With a Southern Touch
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Heather Graham,Jennifer Blake,Diana Palmer |
The romance of the American South is brought to life in this anthology written by three of today's most popular romance writers. These distinctly Southern tales are set in Louisiana, Florida, and Geo… |
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Return fire
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Glenn Blake |
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Tennessee Rose
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Jane F. Kendall |
Although raised on a southern plantation and owned by a Confederate officer, a Tennessee walking horse helps a slave during the Civil War. |
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Light in the darkness
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Lesa Cline-Ransome |
Risking a whipping if they are discovered, Rosa and her mama sneak away from their slave quarters during the night to a hidden location in a field where they learn to read and write. |
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Summer rose
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Elizabeth Sinclair |
A tragedy transformed Rose Hamilton from a surrogate mother for her foster sister into a single mother expecting twins. When she walks into Dr Hunter Mackenzie's wildlife rehab clinic, all he sees is… |
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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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Starr of the southwest
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Cherry Wilson |
A collection of two magazine stories, originally published in 1927 and 1936, featuring the Hallet family. |
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Ellen Foster
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Kaye Gibbons |
Having suffered abuse and misfortune for much of her life, a young child searches for a better life and finally gets a break in the home of a loving woman with several foster children. |
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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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The twelve-mile straight
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Eleanor Henderson |
Cotton County, Georgia, 1930: in a house full of secrets, two babies, one light-skinned, the other dark, are born to Elma Jesup, a white sharecropper2s daughter. Accused of her rape, field hand Genus… |
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Little White Lies
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Jennifer Lynn Barnes |
**"I'M NOT SAYING THIS IS SAWYER'S FAULT,"
THE PRIM AND PROPER ONE SAID DELICATELY. "BUT."**
**E**ighteen-year-old auto mechanic Sawyer Taft did not expect her estranged grandmother to show up at… |
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Unbound
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Ann E. Burg |
The day nine-year-old Grace is called to work in the kitchen in the Big House, everyone warns her to to keep her head down and her thoughts to herself, but the more she sees of the oppressive Master … |
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The invention of wings
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Sue Monk Kidd |
Hetty "Handful" Grimké, an urban slave in early nineteenth century Charleston, yearns for life beyond the suffocating walls that enclose her within the wealthy Grimké household. The Grimké's daughter… |
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Killer gourmet
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G. A. McKevett |
The opening of Ryan and John's new gourmet restaurant is shattered by the murder of their temperamental chef, prompting Savannah and the Moonlight Magnolia gang to sift through a wide range of suspec… |
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Glory over everything
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Kathleen Grissom |
"The author of the New York Times bestseller and beloved book club favorite The Kitchen House continues the story of Jamie Pyke, son of both a slave and master of Tall Oakes, whose deadly secret comp… |
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Master of the Delta
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Thomas Cook,Thomas H. Cook |
Jack Branch, the last son of an aristocratic Old South family, has returned to his hometown, taking on the job of teacher at the local high school. When he sets his students a paper entitled 'The Mos… |
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Nothing with strings
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Bailey White |
A holiday collection of short fiction shares vignettes that capture the eccentric lives of the inhabitants of a small Southern town, from an efficiency expert who gets Christmas down to forty-five mi… |
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Their Eyes Were Watching God
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Zora Neale Hurston |
<p><i>Their Eyes Were Watching God</i> (1937) is a classic Harlem Renaissance novel by American writer Zora Neale Hurston. The novel follows Janie Crawford as she recounts the story of her life as sh… |
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Learning by heart
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Ronder Thomas Young |
In the early 1960s, ten-year-old Rachel sees changes in her family and her small Southern town as she tries to sort out how she feels about her young black maid, racial prejudice, and her responsibil… |
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