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Aug.20.2011
The edited collection titled Children of the Changing South: Accounts of Growing Up During and After Integration, includes 18 memoirs about growing up in the South from the late 1950s through the early 1990s, and is being published by McFarland & Co. The book is listed in the...
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Jun.13.2011
From the back cover:
Farming and gardening in the rich southern soil is the thematic inspiration for this volume of verse featuring close to 100 poets--Wendell Berry, Henry Taylor, Andrew Glaze, Robert Morgan, Nikki Giovanni, John Crowe Robinson, James Applewhite, C.D. Wright, Rodney Jones, Robert...
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Feb.05.2010
The poems in "Bottle Tree" can be considered meditations on the history and culture of the author's native South, as well as her individual family history, with often ambivalent responses to both. The characters in these poems find solace in nature but return again and again to the...
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Feb.05.2010
From the seat of a tractor to the seat of a car driven in search of a peach stand, the poems gathered here deal with dirt, toil, memory, history, and bliss. Horne carefully selected and sequenced the more than 100 poems in this collection within a thematic structure, and is clearly blown away by...
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Mar.25.2009
"Winning debut by actress and television writer Shaffer... The Three Miss Margarets are wholly imagined, rich creations whose reticence speaks volumes about their time and place." --Publisher's Weekly
"The story never lags, leaping back and forth between present and past, showing how...
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Mar.25.2009
"In a sequel to The Three Miss Maragrets , Shaffer... creates something fresh and likable. Like a southern-fried meal, fatty and indulgent, and the more delicious for being so. - Kirkus Reviews
"Pour a glass of sweet tea and settle in for some top-notch entertainment." - Booklist...
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Dec.25.2008
What if the guy who took your breath away was the only one who could help you breathe?
Savannah would be happy to spend the summer in her coastal Carolina town lying in a hammock reading her beloved romance novels and working at the library. But then she meets Jackson. Once they lock eyes, she's...
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Nov.12.2008
The masters of horror have united to teach you the secrets of success in the scariest genre of all!
In On Writing Horror, Second Edition, Stephen King, Joyce Carol Oates, Harlan Ellison, David Morrell, Jack Ketchum, Weston Ochse, and many others tell you everything you need to know to...
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Sep.25.2008
The true story of a spoiled, high-powered Washington lawyer (me) who is forced to leave her job at the Senate and come back home to the Smoky Mountains to work as an unpaid and inept receptionist in her father's tiny medical office. Comedy, pathos, and bad reception follow.
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