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The Adventures of Brer Rabbit and Friendsby Karima Amin, Joel Chandler Harris, Eric Copeland, Dorling Kindersley Publishing StaffISBN 0789449250 (0-7894-4925-0)
Hardcover, Dorling Kindersley Publishing, Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Adventures of Brer Rabbit and Friends'Book summary:Brer Rabbit is one of the craftiest characters you will ever meet. Locked in an eternal game of catch-me-if-you-can with Brer Fox, Brer Rabbit thinks up the most outrageous tricks to outsmart him time and time again. And when he's not scheming against hungry Brer Fox, Brer Rabbit is busy trying to outwit Brer Weasel, Brer Terrapin, Brer Bear, and all of his other friends just for the fun of it. African-American storyteller Karima Amin's lively retelling of ten classic Brer Rabbit tales is based on the stories that she heard as a child. "I was a little girl when I first met Brer Rabbit," she recalls. "My mother brought him into our house and into my life. Many years later, I learned that Brer Rabbit was a hero-trickster character created by my foreparents, enslaved Africans," Amin uses her storyteller's art to recreate the oral tradition that kept these powerful stories alive on the plantations of the Old South. Eric Copeland's illustrations match the humor and mischief of the text, while photographs invite readers to explore the stories' settings, their African roots, and the life of their collector, Joel Chandler Harris. Great fun to read aloud, these are stories to be shared and treasured by all. [via]
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Alabama: A Guide to the Deep Southby Alyce Billings WalkerISBN 0803803915 (0-8038-0391-5)
Hardcover, Hastings House Pub
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The All-Girl Football Teamby Lewis NordanISBN 0807113425 (0-8071-1342-5)
Softcover, Louisiana State Univ Pr
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American Theocracy: The Peril And Politics of Radical Religion, Oil And Borrowed Money in the 21st Centuryby Kevin P. PhillipsISBN 0786286938 (0-7862-8693-8)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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Anglo-Americans in Spanish Archives: Lists of Anglo-American Settlers in the Spanish Colonies of America A Finding Aidby Lawrence H. FeldmanISBN 0806313137 (0-8063-1313-7)
Hardcover, Genealogical Pub Co
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Beyond the Household: Women's Place in the Early South, 1700-1835by Cynthia A. KiernerISBN 0801484626 (0-8014-8462-6)
Softcover, Cornell Univ Pr
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Bird of Paradiseby Vicki CovingtonISBN 080410798X (0-8041-0798-X)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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Black, White, and Southern: Race Relations and Southern Culture, 1940 to the Presentby David R. GoldfieldISBN 0807115320 (0-8071-1532-0)
Hardcover, Louisiana State Univ Pr
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Chalktownby Melinda HaynesISBN 078686656X (0-7868-6656-X)
Hardcover, Hyperion Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Chalktown'Book summary:The lifeline of Melinda Haynes's novel Chalktown is a rutted, meandering dirt road that winds its way past the murky waterways and through the one-shop towns and backwoods of George County, Mississippi. It's also a red flag to anyone looking for a good dose of surreal Southern gothic. Here is the isolated shack of a disintegrating white-trash family, there the village dwellers who communicate solely by writing notes on the chalkboards in their front yards. One character is grotesquely scarred by an adult bout with chicken pox, while others are eaten up by less identifiable diseases and appetites. Dreams are pursued, discarded, and eerily enacted, always in the sort of luscious, graphic prose you would expect from the author of Mother of Pearl.
Perhaps the term family is a misnomer for the Sheehands, a bunch of misfits drawn together by impulse and wrenched apart by hope, desire, and murder. Fairy, the philandering father camped out in an old school bus, can't extricate himself from the burden of "women and their sticky flaws." His wife, Susan-Blair, is slowly burying herself beneath other people's possessions in her makeshift consignment store, even as she neglects her children and chats it up with the ever-present Christ of her Pentecostal upbringing. No wonder 16-year-old Hezekiah sets off down the road to Chalktown in the opening pages of the novel, carrying his disabled brother in a backpack. His encounters along the way make for a Robert Altman-like series of takes on the bizarre nature of reality in George County.
The literary landscape of the Deep South is, of course, teeming with eccentric characters. Yet Haynes's are so fleshed-out that the reader is left feeling almost crowded, like (to quote Susan-Blair) a "durn closet full a somebody else's coats. Coats put there by people who went on to someplace else, some other thing." The author is no less gifted at conveying a sense of place. She uses the colorful brushstrokes of a painter--which she also happens to be--to imbue this story with a dark, sultry, and unmistakably Southern feel. The result is a captivating, consuming read. --S. Ketchum [via]
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A Complete Index to the Names of Persons, Places and Subjects Mentioned in Littell's Laws of Kentucky: A Genealogical and Historical Guideby W. T. SmithISBN 0806346639 (0-8063-4663-9)
Softcover, Genealogical Pub Co
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The Complete Works of Kate Chopinby Kate Chopin, Per SeyerstedISBN 0807108499 (0-8071-0849-9)
Hardcover, Louisiana State Univ Pr
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Contemporary Southern Politicsby James F. LeaISBN 0807113867 (0-8071-1386-7)
Hardcover, Louisiana State Univ Pr
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Cotton Fields and Skyscrapers: Southern City and Regionby David R. GoldfieldISBN 0801839467 (0-8018-3946-7)
Softcover, Johns Hopkins Univ Pr
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Cotton Fields and Skyscrapers: Southern City and Region, 1607-1980by David R. GoldfieldISBN 0807110299 (0-8071-1029-9)
Hardcover, Louisiana State Univ Pr
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Development of Southern Sectionalism 1819-1848by Charles S. SnydorISBN 0807100153 (0-8071-0015-3)
Softcover, Louisiana State Univ Pr
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Development of Southern Sectionalism, 1819-1848by C.S. Sydnor, Wesley H. StephensonISBN 0807100056 (0-8071-0005-6)
Hardcover, Louisiana State Univ Pr
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Drop Dead Gorgeousby Linda HowardISBN 0786290064 (0-7862-9006-4)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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Earliest Tennessee Land Records & Earliest Tennessee Land Historyby Irene M. GriffeyISBN 0806350415 (0-8063-5041-5)
Softcover, Genealogical Pub Co
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Early Kentucky Householders 1787-1811by James F. SutherlandISBN 0806311592 (0-8063-1159-2)
Softcover, Genealogical Pub Co
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The Emergence of the New South, 1913-1945by George B. TindallISBN 080710020X (0-8071-0020-X)
Softcover, Louisiana State Univ Pr
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The Emergence of the Cotton Kingdom in the Old Southwest: Mississippi, 1770-1860by John Hebron MooreISBN 0807114049 (0-8071-1404-9)
Softcover, Louisiana State Univ Pr
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Escape to Freedom: The Underground Railroad Adventures of Callie and Williamby Barbara Brooks SimonISBN 0792265513 (0-7922-6551-3)
Softcover, Natl Geographic Soc Childrens books
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The Fathersby Allen TateISBN 0804001081 (0-8040-0108-1)
Softcover, Ohio Univ Pr
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First Census of Kentucky 1790by Charles B. HeinemanISBN 0806301759 (0-8063-0175-9)
Softcover, Genealogical Pub Co
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Forrest Gump SongtrackISBN 079353786X (0-7935-3786-X)
Softcover, Hal Leonard Corp
Find This BookBook summary:(Piano/Vocal/Guitar Songbook). This hit movie is a capsule of America's pop culture, and its soundtrack paints the picture of the times. Matching folio with 32 classic rock hits, including: Against the Wind * California Dreamin' * For What It's Worth * Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In * Mrs. Robinson * What the World Needs Now * and more, including the original "Forrest Gump Suite." Also features photos from the film. [via]
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French and Spanish Records of Louisiana: A Bibliographical Guide to Archive and Manuscript Sourcesby Henry Putney BeersISBN 0807114448 (0-8071-1444-8)
Hardcover, Louisiana State Univ Pr
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The Grapes of Wrathby John SteinbeckISBN 0791093050 (0-7910-9305-0)
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A History of Rowan County, North Carolina: Containing Sketches of Prominent Families and Distinguished Menby Jethro RumpleISBN 0806379987 (0-8063-7998-7)
Softcover, Genealogical Pub Co
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The History of Southern Literatureby Louis D. RubinISBN 0807112518 (0-8071-1251-8)
Hardcover, Louisiana State University Press
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Hoke Smith and the Politics of the New Southby Dewey W. GranthamISBN 0807101184 (0-8071-0118-4)
Softcover, Louisiana State Univ Pr
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The House Next Doorby Anne Rivers SiddonsISBN 0792717279 (0-7927-1727-9)
Softcover, Chivers North Amer
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How I Left the Great State of Tennessee and Went on to Better Thingsby Joe JacksonISBN 0786712848 (0-7867-1284-8)
Softcover, Carroll & Graf Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'How I Left the Great State of Tennessee and Went on to Better Things'Book summary:In the waning days of one of the most unrecognized American exoduses of the twentieth-century, millions of broken people have left the strip mines of Appalachia in search of better things. In 1961, two of these yearning soulsDahlia Jean Coker, the teenage daughter of a sluttish mother and a deadbeat Daddy, and "Twitch," an ex-con descended from the legendary outlaw Younger clanare looking for their own ways out. After a botched robbery by Twitch, Dahlia takes the leadwith Twitch's loot and his teenage sonwhile the old man gives chase, with revenge in his heart and Dahlia's mother by his side. Through the South, and finally on to a Key West reeling from the Bay of Pigs debacle, the chase is at once thrilling, heartbreaking, murderous, dark, and hilarious. Along the way, readers encounter a snake-handling evangelist, determined civil rights activists, equally determined Klansmen, and the unfortunate wife of an adulterous NASA scientist. Battling a Tennessee flood of biblical proportions and a looming Florida hurricane, Dahlia, Twitch, and their improbable traveling companions all land up at Dahlia's daddy's houseboat. The final showdown, with a fortune and dreams of a better life at stake, will have readers marveling.[via]More editions of How I Left the Great State of Tennessee and Went on to Better Things:
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I Am One of You Foreverby Fred ChappellISBN 0807114103 (0-8071-1410-3)
Softcover, Louisiana State Univ Pr
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The Ideology of Slavery: Proslavery Thought in the Antebellum South, 1830-1860by Drew Gilpin FaustISBN 0807108928 (0-8071-0892-8)
Softcover, Louisiana State Univ Pr
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Index to the 1810 Census of Virginiaby Elizabeth BentleyISBN 0806308753 (0-8063-0875-3)
Softcover, Genealogical Pub Co
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Inside Agitators: White Southerners in the Civil Rights Movementby David L. ChappellISBN 080185234X (0-8018-5234-X)
Softcover, Johns Hopkins Univ Pr
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Interpreting Southern History: Historiographical Essays in Honor of Sanford W. Higginbothamby John B. Boles, Evelyn Thomas NolenISBN 0807113611 (0-8071-1361-1)
Softcover, Louisiana State Univ Pr
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Interpreting Southern History: Historiographical Essay in Honor of Sanford W. Higginbothamby John B. Boles, Evelyn Thomas NolenISBN 0807113182 (0-8071-1318-2)
Hardcover, Louisiana State Univ Pr
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James Henry Hammond and the Old South: A Design for Masteryby Drew Gilpin FaustISBN 0807112488 (0-8071-1248-8)
Softcover, Louisiana State Univ Pr
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John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrathby Harold BloomISBN 0791082393 (0-7910-8239-3)
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KindredISBN 0807083690 (0-8070-8369-0)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
Find This BookBook summary:Dana, a modern black woman, is celebrating her twenty-sixth birthday with her new husband when she is snatched abruptly from her home in California and transported to the antebellum South. Rufus, the white son of a plantation owner, is drowning, and Dana has been summoned to save him. Dana is drawn back repeatedly through time to the slave quarters, and each time the stay grows longer, more arduous, and more dangerous until it is uncertain whether or not Dana's life will end, long before it has a chance to begin. [via]
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Kindredby Octavia E. ButlerISBN 0807083054 (0-8070-8305-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Kindred'Book summary:Dana, a modern black woman, is celebrating her twenty-sixth birthday with her new husband when she is snatched abruptly from her home in California and transported to the antebellum South. With more than 100,000 copies in print, Kindred is a classic timetravel novel by an acclaimed African-American science fictionwriter. [via]
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The Last Gentlemanby Walker PercyISBN 0804103798 (0-8041-0379-8)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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Life on the Mississippiby Mark TwainISBN 0804900558 (0-8049-0055-8)
Softcover, Airmont Pub Co
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The Marble Man: Robert E. Lee and His Image in American Societyby Thomas Lawrence ConnellyISBN 0807104744 (0-8071-0474-4)
Softcover, Louisiana State Univ Pr
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Marriages of Rowan County, North Carolina 1753-1868by Brent H. HolcombISBN 0806309423 (0-8063-0942-3)
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Mason and Dixonby Thomas PynchonISBN 0805058370 (0-8050-5837-0)
Softcover, Holt & Company, Henry
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A Master's Due: Essays in Honor of David Herbert Donaldby William J. Cooper, Michael F. Holt, John McCardellISBN 0807112607 (0-8071-1260-7)
Hardcover, Louisiana State Univ Pr
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Masters, Slaves, & Subjects: The Culture of Power in the South Carolina Low Country, 1740-1790by Robert OlwellISBN 080148491X (0-8014-8491-X)
Softcover, Cornell Univ Pr
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Media-Made Dixie: The South in the American Imaginationby Jack Temple KirbyISBN 0807103756 (0-8071-0375-6)
Hardcover, Louisiana State University Press
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The Member of the Weddingby Harold BloomISBN 0791081729 (0-7910-8172-9)
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Mockingbird: A Portrait of Harper Leeby Charles J. ShieldsISBN 0805083197 (0-8050-8319-7)
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To Kill a Mockingbirdthe twentieth century's most widely read American novelhas sold thirty million copies and still sells a million yearly. Yet despite her book's perennial popularity, its creator, Harper Lee, has become a somewhat mysterious figure. Now, after years of research, Charles J. Shields brings to life the warmhearted, high-spirited, and occasionally hardheaded woman who gave us two of American literature's most unforgettable charactersAtticus Finch and his daughter, Scout.
At the center of Shields's evocative, lively book is the story of Lee's struggle to create her famous novel, but her colorful life contains many highlightsher girlhood as a tomboy in overalls in tiny Monroeville, Alabama; the murder trial that made her beloved father's reputation and inspired her great work; her journey to Kansas as Truman Capote's ally and research assistant to help report the story of In Cold Blood. Mockingbirdunique, highly entertaining, filled with humor and heartis a wide-ranging, idiosyncratic portrait of a writer, her dream, and the place and people whom she made immortal.
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Mother of Pearlby Melinda HaynesISBN 0786864850 (0-7868-6485-0)
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My Louisiana Skyby Kimberly Willis HoltISBN 0805052518 (0-8050-5251-8)
Hardcover, Henry Holt & Co
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Your momma may have a simple mind, Tiger, but her love is simple too. It flows from her like a quick, easy river.Tiger Ann Parker wants nothing more than to get out of the rural town of Saitter, Louisianafar away from her mentally disabled mother, her slow father, and her classmates who tease her relentlessly. When her grandmother dies, Aunt Dorie Kay asks Tiger to live with her in Baton Rouge. Tiger finally has a way out; she cant wait to go. But shes finding that leaving her parents and the only home shes ever knownchanging her entire lifeisnt going to be that easy.
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Sixteen years ago, My Louisiana Sky met its first group of readers. Back then I volunteered at my daughter's school library. Those first readers were fourth-graders who gave me twenty minutes of their weekly book-searching time. The story was in manuscript form and hadn't been sent out to potential publishers or agents. As a novice writer, the sessions with those young students were exciting and important to my craft. Their questions steered me back to the page, eager to clear up any confusion. After My Louisiana Sky was published I continued to get feedback from readers. A few weeks after the book debuted, I received a phone call from a woman who had grown up with a mentally challenged mother. She thought my story was a memoir. After convincing her it was fiction, I hung up with the startling realization that someone I didn't know had read my book.
Soon I began receiving letters from readers. Some told me they wished a part in the plot had turned out differently. Some liked it just the way it was. Many shared how the book had affected their lives. Last month a college student at a book festival told me My Louisiana Sky was one of her favorite books. She said she related to the main character. It was an emotional confession because she, too, had grown up as her mother's caretaker. She's among the readers who convinced me that no matter how old a story is, it has the power to connect with our current life.
Didn't I always know this? After all, I was a lonely seventh grader when I found The Heart is a Lonely Hunter in my junior high library. Somehow I didn't feel so alone, knowing that Mick shared the same longing for being accepted that I did.
More than a dozen years have passed since My Louisiana Sky was originally published. A lot of my readers weren't even born in 1998. I'm still hearing from them. The story may be old to me, but they are finding it for the first time.
This month My Louisiana Sky is getting a fresh look. The transformation stops at the cover. The words and story remain the same. I won't say the same old story because this journey has taught me that opening to the first page of a book is like taking a first step on a trail winding through the woods. The trail may have been carved by countless steps made from former travelers. But discoveries await us. We view the sights believing no one else has ever caught a glimpse of them, as if we are the original travelers. And, for a while, we are. For a while, everything is new.
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In the early 1940s, rumors of impending and actual race wars circulated furiously among white Southerners. Apparently with the aid of first lady Eleanor Roosevelt, liberals, Yankees, New Dealers, and "bad niggers," once docile African-Americans were stockpiling ice picks in Charleston, ordering carton loads of pistols and rifles from the Sears catalog in Memphis, and plotting insurrection against whites at every turn. Alarmedand fascinatedby these rumors, the University of North Carolina sociologist Howard W. Odum set out to collect and catalog them. He approached professors at various southern universities and asked them to conduct polls among their students to see if they had heard about the pistols, rifles, ice picks, and "Eleanor Clubs," and received thousands of reports confirming that, indeed, they had. The result of Odum's research is Race and Rumors of Race, which first appeared in 1943. Providing a window into white perceptions of race and racial tension in the South during the Second World War, the book locates the roots of the civil rights movement and helps us to understand the complex forces that shaped postwar American politics.
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