Southern fiction | Southern fiction
Feb.08.2011
With the opening line of Silver Sparrow, "My father, James Witherspoon, is a bigamist," author Tayari Jones unveils a breathtaking story about a man's deception, a family's complicity, and two teenage girls caught in the middle.
Set in a middle-class neighborhood in Atlanta in the 1980s, the...
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Jan.15.2011
An epic investigation of America's underbelly, The War Room examines the painful conflicts that arise in exploring one's identity and the dramatic consequences of such actions.
Sam is a curious boy growing up in an Ohio village. Trying to understand his father's seemingly anonymous past, he is...
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Jun.30.2010
Learn how to navigate life with the effortless savior faire of a true daughter of the South with The Southern Belle's Handbook. Sissy LeBlanc's rules to live by will teach you how to hook, hold on to, and handle any man as well as conquer any personal situation with the poise and confidence of a...
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Jun.30.2010
It's a steamy June afternoon in Gentry, Louisiana, circa 1956, and Sissy LeBlanc is sitting on her front porch, musing—half seriously—if she could kill herself with aspirins and Coca-Cola. Her 15-year marriage to PeeWee LeBlanc has certainly been a mistake, she doesn't much like her three kids, and...
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Jun.30.2010
Belle Cantrell felt guilty about killing her husband and she hated that. Feeling guilty, that is. A lady shouldn't do something she's going to feel guilty about later was a rule Belle kept firmly in mind.
Welcome to the world of beautiful, irrepressible Belle Cantrell, years before she becomes...
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May.26.2010
Nothing is black or white in the murky town of Alderman, North Carolina, no matter how much the human and ghostly residents of the former Idyllic Grove Rice Plantation would like it to be. In 1949, fourteen-year-old Lillian Green witnesses the unthinkable. Her choice to remain silent about what she...
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Apr.16.2010
On the twentieth anniversary of the publication of Barry Gifford’s international bestseller Wild at Heart, as well as on the anniversary of the Cannes Palme d’Or–winning film adaptation by director David Lynch, Sailor & Lula: The Complete Novels presents all seven of the novels and novellas...
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Mar.03.2010
THE CIRCLE OF FRIENDS
BOOK V … HEATHER
BY L. DIANE WOLFE
When confidence turns to frustration…
A new beginning awaits Heather Jennings. The position at Clemson means she will finally realize her dream of coaching basketball. Heather is ready to focus on her duties, using sheer force if necessary...
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Oct.30.2009
Blossom Sterling knows she's different. She was born with a veil, a thin membrane that covered her face, and gave her a special gift. But for Blossom, the gift is so much more.
It is because of this supernatural inheritance, her life in the small town of Riddle Inn is in stark contrast to that of...
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Sep.13.2009
Tragedy-and her brother's midnight plea for help with his young twins-pulls Cat Hood back home to Galway, North Carolina, in the third book in the popular Cat Rising trilogy.
After five years in Scotland, the place where she'd expected to find both roots and family, Cat is still single (...
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