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Ain't She Sweetby Susan Elizabeth PhillipsISBN 0060589779 (0-06-058977-9)
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Not exactly . . .The girl everybody loves to hate has returned to the town she'd sworn to leave behind forever. As the rich, spoiled princess of Parrish, Mississippi, Sugar Beth Carey had broken hearts, ruined friendships, and destroyed reputations. But fifteen years have passed, and life has taught Sugar Beth its toughest lessons. Now she's come home -- broke, desperate, and too proud to show it.
The people of Parrish don't believe in forgive and forget. When the Seawillows, Sugar Beth's former girlfriends, get the chance to turn the tables on her, they don't hesitate. And Winnie Davis, Sugar Beth's most bitter enemy, intends to humiliate her in the worst possible way.
Then there's Colin Byrne. . . . Fifteen years earlier, Sugar Beth had tried to ruin his career. Now he's rich, powerful, and the owner of her old home. Even worse, this modern-day dark prince is planning exactly the sort of revenge best designed to bring a beautiful princess to her knees.
But none of them have reckoned on the unexpected strength of a woman who's learned survival the hard way.
While Sugar Beth's battered heart struggles to overcome old mistakes, Colin must choose between payback and love. Does the baddest girl in town deserve a second chance, or are some things beyond forgiving?
Ain't She Sweet? is a story of courage and redemption. . . of friendship and laughter. . . of love and the possibility of happily-ever-after.
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American Dilemmaby G. MyrdalISBN 006034590X (0-06-034590-X)
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The American South: A Historyby Tom E. Terrill, William James CooperISBN 0070644381 (0-07-064438-1)
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The American South : A Historyby Cooper, William J., Jr., Thomas E. TerrillISBN 0070644403 (0-07-064440-3)
Hardcover, McGraw-Hill Ryerson, Limited
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The American South: A Historyby Thomas E. Terrill, William James CooperISBN 007064439X (0-07-064439-X)
Softcover, McGraw-Hill College
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The American South: A History'Book summary:"The American South" takes a fresh look at major political, economic, social, and cultural developments from the founding of Jamestown in 1607, to the present day. The combined volume begins with settlement of the English colonies and takes students right through to the present. The book offers: coverage of slavery - it's origins, how it functioned as an institution, the world of slaves in the colonial era and the 19th century; and coverage of women - providing a sense of their lives and roles inside and outside of the family from the colonial era onwards. [via]
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The American South: A Historyby William James CooperISBN 0070637423 (0-07-063742-3)
Softcover, McGraw-Hill College
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Animal Dreamsby Barbara KingsolverISBN 0060921145 (0-06-092114-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Animal Dreams'Book summary:From the acclaimed author of The Bean Trees and Homeland, comes a powerful story of love and courage in an exotc southwestern landscape. Blending flashbacks, dreams, and Native American myths, thisis a suspenseful love story and a moving exploration of life's greatest commitments. [via]
The Bean Treesby Barbara KingsolverISBN 0060915544 (0-06-091554-4)
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Bearing the Cross: Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Southern Christian Leadership Conferenceby David J. GarrowISBN 0060566922 (0-06-056692-2)
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Blind Bloodhound Justiceby Virginia LanierISBN 0061099716 (0-06-109971-6)
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A Bloodhound to Die Forby Virginia LanierISBN 006109840X (0-06-109840-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Bloodhound to Die For'Book summary:In the sixth novel in this popular, award-winning mystery series, Georgia peach Jo Beth Sidden returns with her delightfully fast-on-their-feet bloodhounds.
Dog trainer and amateur sleuth extraordinaire, Jo Beth is in a heap of trouble. For openers, she has to dig herself out of a personal crisis. Confronted by her violent ex-husband, Bubba, Jo Beth ended the relationship for good -- with a bang. Now she has to rebuild her life and, in between, give a little help to her friends who are in dire need of a good detective.
She's on the trail of a prison escapee, a good ol' boy so wily that even Jo Beth's best hounds can't sniff him out. Meanwhile, she's busy tracking an elderly woman who has wandered off in the Okefenokee Swamp, and at the same time searching for the source of a rumor that resulted in three deaths.
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Blue Christmasby Mary Kay AndrewsISBN 0060837349 (0-06-083734-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Blue Christmas'Book summary:The popular Mary Kay Andrews delivers a tasty holiday treat as she brings back the winning characters from Savannah Blues and Savannah Breeze for a little Southern cheer.
It's the week before Christmas, and antiques dealer Weezie Foley is in a frenzy to do up her shop for the Savannah historical district window decorating contestwhich she intends to win. She throws herself into putting up a Graceland/Blue Christmas motif, with lots of tinsel, an aluminum tree, and all kinds of tacky retro stuff. The project takes up so much time that Weezie is ready to shoot herself with her glue gun by the time she's done, but the results are stunning. She's sure she's oneupped the owners of the trendy shop around the corner. But suddenly, things go missing from Weezie's display, and there seems to be a mysterious midnight visitor to her shop.
Still, Weezie has high hopes for the holidaymaybe in the form of an engagement ring from her chef boyfriend. But Daniel, always moody at the holidays, seems more distant than usual.
Throw in Weezie's decidedly odd family, a 1950s Christmas tree pin, and even a little help from the King himself, and maybe there will be a pocketful of miracles for Weezie this Christmas eve.
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A Brace of Bloodhoundsby Virginia LanierISBN 0061010871 (0-06-101087-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Brace of Bloodhounds'Book summary:Set in a locale and a culture as rich and satisfying as good Southern cooking, Virginia Lanier's A Brace of Bloodhounds continues the adventures of JoBeth Sidden. JoBeth's a feisty Southern gal with an attitude, whose devotion to her highly trained and trusted bloodhounds involves her in kidnapping, corruption, drug smuggling, and every ornery law-enforcement puzzle that comes to light in her South Georgia town on the edge of the Okeefenokee Swamp. Lanier's adrenalin-pumping narratives, which began with The House on Bloodhound Lane and continued in Death in Bloodhound Red and Blind Bloodhound Justice, are told by JoBeth, who is alternately pulled and pushed by her loves: her extended family of friends and trainers, and her wonderful and appealing bloodhounds. In this volume, JoBeth seeks answers to a petition from beyond the grave, unearths a child molester, and faces a renegade alligator who threatens her pups. Along the way, we learn the rich details of mantrailing, Southern hospitality, modern moonshining, and--of course--romance. Those who have already made the acquaintance of Lanier's appealing family of characters will enjoy this installment. Newcomers will be thrilled that there are other books in the series. Pour a glass of fresh-made iced tea, kick back, and travel into the heart of this colorful and intriguing world. --Barbara Schlieper [via]
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Cerdos En El Cielo/Pigs in Heavenby Barbara Kingsolver, Margara AverbachISBN 0060951222 (0-06-095122-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Cerdos En El Cielo/Pigs in Heaven'Book summary:The Spanish-language edition of the New York Times best-seller tells the story of six-year-old Turtle Greer and what happens after she witnesses a freak accident at Hoover Dam. [via]
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Charms for the Easy Lifeby Kaye GibbonsISBN 0060760257 (0-06-076025-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Charms for the Easy Life'Book summary:A family without men, the Birches live gloriously offbeat lives in the lush, green backwoods of North Carolina. Radiant, headstrong Sophia and her shy, brilliant daughter, Margaret, possess powerful charms to ward off loneliness, despair, and the human misery that often beats a path to their door. And they are protected by the eccentric wisdom and muscular love of the remarkable matriarch Charlie Kate, a solid, uncompromising, self-taught healer who treats everything from boils to broken bones to broken hearts.
Sophia, Margaret, and Charlie Kate find strength in a time when women almost always depended on men, and their bond deepens as each one experiences love and loss during World War II. Charms for the Easy Life is a passionate, luminous, and exhilarating story about embracing what life has to offer ... even if it means finding it in unconventional ways.
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Colony: A Novelby Anne Rivers SiddonsISBN 0061099708 (0-06-109970-8)
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Coronadoby Dennis LehaneISBN 0061145963 (0-06-114596-3)
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Death in Bloodhound Redby Virginia LanierISBN 0061010251 (0-06-101025-1)
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The Dollmakerby Harriette ArnowISBN 0060529342 (0-06-052934-2)
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Every Tongue Got to Confessby Zora Neale Hurston, Carla Kaplan, John Edgar WidemanISBN 0060934549 (0-06-093454-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Every Tongue Got to Confess'Book summary:Every Tongue Got to Confess is an extensive volume of African American folklore that Zora Neale Hurston collected on her travels through the Gulf States in the late 1920s.
The bittersweet and often hilarious tales -- which range from longer narratives about God, the Devil, white folk, and mistaken identity to witty one-liners -- reveal attitudes about faith, love, family, slavery, race, and community. Together, this collection of nearly 500 folktales weaves a vibrant tapestry that celebrates African American life in the rural South and represents a major part of Zora Neale Hurston's literary legacy. [via]
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Every Tongue Got to Confess : Negro Folk-Tales from the Gulf Statesby Zora Neale Hurston, Carla Kaplan, John Edgar WidemanISBN 0060188936 (0-06-018893-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Every Tongue Got to Confess : Negro Folk-Tales from the Gulf States'Book summary:"Imagine the situations in which these speech acts occur. Recall a front stoop, juke joint, funeral, wedding, barbershop, kitchen: the music, noise, communal energy, and release. Dream. Participate the way you do when you allow a song to transport you, all kinds of songs, from hip-hop rap to Bach to Monk, each bearing its different history of sounds and silences."
-- From the Foreword by John Edgar Wideman
African-American folklore was Zora Neale Hurston's first love. Collected in the late 1920s, Every Tongue Got to Confess is the third volume of folk-tales from the celebrated author of Their Eyes Were Watching God. It is published here for the first time.
These hilarious, bittersweet, often saucy folk-tales -- some of which date back to the Civil War -- provide a fascinating, verdant slice of African-American life in the rural South at the turn of the twentieth century. Arranged according to subject -- from God Tales, Preacher Tales, and Devil Tales to Heaven Tales, White-Folk Tales, and Mistaken Identity Tales -- they reveal attitudes about slavery, faith, race relations, family, and romance that have been passed on for generations. They capture the heart and soul of the vital, independent, and creative community that so inspired Zora Neale Hurston.
In the foreword, author John Edgar Wideman discusses the impact of Hurston's pioneering effort to preserve the African-American oral tradition and shows readers how to read these folk tales in the historical and literary context that has -- and has not -- changed over the years. And in the introduction, Hurston scholar Carla Kaplan explains how these folk-tales were collected, lost, and found, and examines their profound significance today.
In Every Tongue Got to Confess, Zora Neale Hurston records, with uncanny precision, the voices of ordinary people and pays tribute to the richness of Black vernacular -- its crisp self-awareness, singular wit, and improvisational wordplay. These folk-tales reflect the joys and sorrows of the African-American experience, celebrate the redemptive power of storytelling, and showcase the continuous presence in America of an Africanized language that flourishes to this day.
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Fault Linesby Anne Rivers SiddonsISBN 0061093343 (0-06-109334-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fault Lines'Book summary:Approaching exhaustion after years of caring for her family, Merrit Fowler joins her daughter and sister in California, and an earthquake brings them closer together. 250,000 first printing. $250,000 ad/promo. Lit Guild & Doubleday Main. Tour. [via]
Fay Jones: The Architecture of E. Fay Jones, Faiaby Robert Adams IvyISBN 0071358315 (0-07-135831-5)
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Feather Crownsby Bobbie Ann MasonISBN 0060925493 (0-06-092549-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Feather Crowns'Book summary:Set in the apocalyptic atmosphere of 1900--a time when many americans were looking for signs foretelling the end of the world--feather crowns is the story of a young woman who unintentionally creates a national sensation. A farm wife living near the small town of hopewell, kentucky, christianna wheeler gives birth to the first recorded set of quintuplets in north america. Christie is suddenly thrown into a swirling storm of public attention. Thousands of strangers descend on her home, all wanting too see and touch the "miracle babies." one visitor crawls right in through the window! the fate of the babies and the bizarre events that follow their births propel christie and her husband far from home, on a journey that exposes them to the turbulent pageant of life at the beginning of the modern era. Richly detailed and poignant, feather crowns focuses on one woman but opens out ultimately into the chronicle of a time and a people. Written in bobbie ann mason's taut yet lyrical prose, the novel ranges from a peaceful farming community to a fire-and-brimstone revival camp, from seamy traveling shows to the hushed precincts of the nation's capital. Moving through the center of it all is christie, a charming, headstrong, loving woman who struggles heroically to come to terms with the extraordinary events of her long life. Feather crowns is an american parable of profound resonance. Spellbindingly readable, it is a novel of classic stature destined to confirm bobbie ann mason as one of america's most important writers [via]
Four Spiritsby Sena Jeter NaslundISBN 006093669X (0-06-093669-X)
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Good Old Boyby Willie MorrisISBN 0060243368 (0-06-024336-8)
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Heartbreak Hotelby Anne Rivers SiddonsISBN 0061042781 (0-06-104278-1)
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Hill Townsby Anne Rivers SiddonsISBN 0061099694 (0-06-109969-4)
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Hissy Fitby Mary Kay AndrewsISBN 0060564652 (0-06-056465-2)
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Homeplaceby Anne Rivers SiddonsISBN 006101141X (0-06-101141-X)
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The House Next Doorby Anne Rivers SiddonsISBN 0061008737 (0-06-100873-7)
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The House on Bloodhound Laneby Virginia LanierISBN 0061010863 (0-06-101086-3)
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The Impending Crisis: 1848-1861by David Morris PotterISBN 0061319295 (0-06-131929-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Impending Crisis: 1848-1861'Book summary:David M. Potter's Pulitzer Prize-winning The Impending Crisis is the definitive history of antebellum America. Potter's sweeping epic masterfully charts the chaotic forces that climaxed with the outbreak of the Civil War: westward expansion, the divisive issue of slavery, the Dred Scott decision, John Brown's uprising, the ascension of Abraham Lincoln, and the drama of Southern secession. Now available in a new edition, The Impending Crisis remains one of the most celebrated works of American historical writing.
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In Countryby Bobbie Ann MasonISBN 0060835176 (0-06-083517-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'In Country'Book summary:In the summer of 1984, the war in Vietnam came home to Sam Hughes, whosefather was killed there before she was born. The soldier-boy in the picture never changed. In a way that made him dependable. But he seemed so innocent. "Astronauts have been to the moon," she blurted out to the picture. "You missed Watergate. I was in the second grade."
She stared at the picture, squinting her eyes, as if she expected it to cometo life. But Dwayne had died with his secrets. Emmett was walking around with his. Anyone who survived Vietnam seemed to regard it as something personal andembarrassing. Granddad had said they were embarrassed that they were still alive. "I guess you're not embarrassed," she said to the picture.
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John Chancellor Makes Me Cryby Anne Rivers SiddonsISBN 0061092894 (0-06-109289-4)
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The Known Worldby Edward P. JonesISBN 0060557559 (0-06-055755-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Known World'Book summary:Set in Manchester County, Virginia, 20 years before the Civil War began, Edward P. Jones's debut novel, The Known World, is a masterpiece of overlapping plot lines, time shifts, and heartbreaking details of life under slavery. Caldonia Townsend is an educated black slaveowner, the widow of a well-loved young farmer named Henry, whose parents had bought their own freedom, and then freed their son, only to watch him buy himself a slave as soon as he had saved enough money. Although a fair and gentle master by the standards of the day, Henry Townsend had learned from former master about the proper distance to keep from one's property. After his death, his slaves wonder if Caldonia will free them. When she fails to do so, but instead breaches the code that keeps them separate from her, a little piece of Manchester County begins to unravel. Impossible to rush through, The Known World is a complex, beautifully written novel with a large cast of characters, rewarding the patient reader with unexpected connections, some reaching into the present day. --Regina Marler [via]
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Leaving Church: A Memoir of Faithby Barbara Brown TaylorISBN 0060872632 (0-06-087263-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Leaving Church: A Memoir of Faith'Book summary:This beautiful book is rich with wit and humanness and honesty and loving detail&.I cannot overstate how liberating and transforming I have found Leaving Church to be. Frederick Buechner, author of Beyond Words
This is an astonishing book. . . . Taylor is a better writer than LaMott and a better theologian than Norris. In a word, she is the best there is. Living Church
Barbara Brown Taylor, once hailed as one of Americas most effective and beloved preachers, eloquently tells the moving and delightful story of her search to find an authentic way of being Christianeven when it meant giving up her pulpit.
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Life on the Mississippiby Mark TwainISBN 0060955678 (0-06-095567-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Life on the Mississippi'Book summary:It's Time to Rediscover the Wonderful Books We All Cherish.
"The Mississippi is well worth reading about. It is not a commonplace river but on the contrary is in all ways remarkable."-- Mark Twain
0riginally published in 1883, Life on the Mississippi is Mark Twain's memoir of his youthful years as a cub pilot on a steamboat paddling up and down the Mississippi River. Twain used his childhood experiences growing up along the Mississippi in a number of works, including The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, but nowhere is the river and the pilot's life more thoroughly described than in this work. Told with insight, humor, and candor, Life on the Mississippi is an American classic.
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The Lost Continent: Travels in Small Town Americaby Bill BrysonISBN 0060920084 (0-06-092008-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Lost Continent: Travels in Small Town America'Book summary:A travelogue by Bill Bryson is as close to a sure thing as funny books get. The Lost Continent is no exception. Following an urge to rediscover his youth (he should know better), the author leaves his native Des Moines, Iowa, in a journey that takes him across 38 states. Lucky for us, he brought a notebook.
With a razor wit and a kind heart, Bryson serves up a colorful tale of boredom, kitsch, and beauty when you least expect it. Gentler elements aside, The Lost Continent is an amusing book. Here's Bryson on the women of his native state: "I will say this, however--and it's a strange, strange thing--the teenaged daughters of these fat women are always utterly delectable ... I don't know what it is that happens to them, but it must be awful to marry one of those nubile cuties knowing that there is a time bomb ticking away in her that will at some unknown date make her bloat out into something huge and grotesque, presumably all of a sudden and without much notice, like a self-inflating raft from which the pin has been yanked."
Yes, Bill, but be honest: what do you really think? [via]
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Love Lifeby Bobbie Ann MasonISBN 0060916680 (0-06-091668-0)
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Low Countryby Anne Rivers SiddonsISBN 0061093327 (0-06-109332-7)
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Mules and Menby Zora Neale HurstonISBN 0060916486 (0-06-091648-6)
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Pigs in Heavenby Barbara KingsolverISBN 0060922532 (0-06-092253-2)
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The Plays of Anton Chekhovby Paul SchmidtISBN 0060928751 (0-06-092875-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Plays of Anton Chekhov'Book summary:These critically hailed translations of The Seagull, Uncle Vanya, The Three Sisters and the other Chekhov plays are the only ones in English by a Russian-language scholar who is also a veteran Chekhovian actor.
Without compromising the spirit of the text, Paul Schmidt accurately translates Chekhov's entire theatrical canon, rescuing the humor "lost" in most academic translations while respecting the historical context and original social climate.
Schmidt's translations of Chekhov have been successfully staged all over the U.S. by such theatrical directors as Lee Strasberg, Elizabeth Swados, Peter Sellars and Robert Wilson. Critics have hailed these translations as making Chekhov fully accessible to American audiences. They are also accurate -- Schmidt has been described as "the gold standard in Russian-English translation" by Michael Holquist of the Russian department at Yale University. [via]
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Poisonwood Bibleby Barbara KingsolverISBN 0060512822 (0-06-051282-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Poisonwood Bible: A Novel'Book summary:Oprah Book Club® Selection, June 2000: As any reader of The Mosquito Coast knows, men who drag their families to far-off climes in pursuit of an Idea seldom come to any good, while those familiar with At Play in the Fields of the Lord or Kalimantaan understand that the minute a missionary sets foot on the fictional stage, all hell is about to break loose. So when Barbara Kingsolver sends missionary Nathan Price along with his wife and four daughters off to Africa in The Poisonwood Bible, you can be sure that salvation is the one thing they're not likely to find. The year is 1959 and the place is the Belgian Congo. Nathan, a Baptist preacher, has come to spread the Word in a remote village reachable only by airplane. To say that he and his family are woefully unprepared would be an understatement: "We came from Bethlehem, Georgia, bearing Betty Crocker cake mixes into the jungle," says Leah, one of Nathan's daughters. But of course it isn't long before they discover that the tremendous humidity has rendered the mixes unusable, their clothes are unsuitable, and they've arrived in the middle of political upheaval as the Congolese seek to wrest independence from Belgium. In addition to poisonous snakes, dangerous animals, and the hostility of the villagers to Nathan's fiery take-no-prisoners brand of Christianity, there are also rebels in the jungle and the threat of war in the air. Could things get any worse?
In fact they can and they do. The first part of The Poisonwood Bible revolves around Nathan's intransigent, bullying personality and his effect on both his family and the village they have come to. As political instability grows in the Congo, so does the local witch doctor's animus toward the Prices, and both seem to converge with tragic consequences about halfway through the novel. From that point on, the family is dispersed and the novel follows each member's fortune across a span of more than 30 years.
The Poisonwood Bible is arguably Barbara Kingsolver's most ambitious work, and it reveals both her great strengths and her weaknesses. As Nathan Price's wife and daughters tell their stories in alternating chapters, Kingsolver does a good job of differentiating the voices. But at times they can grate--teenage Rachel's tendency towards precious malapropisms is particularly annoying (students practice their "French congregations"; Nathan's refusal to take his family home is a "tapestry of justice"). More problematic is Kingsolver's tendency to wear her politics on her sleeve; this is particularly evident in the second half of the novel, in which she uses her characters as mouthpieces to explicate the complicated and tragic history of the Belgian Congo.
Despite these weaknesses, Kingsolver's fully realized, three-dimensional characters make The Poisonwood Bible compelling, especially in the first half, when Nathan Price is still at the center of the action. And in her treatment of Africa and the Africans she is at her best, exhibiting the acute perception, moral engagement, and lyrical prose that have made her previous novels so successful. --Alix Wilber [via]
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Hardcover, Harpercollins - The Poisonwood Bible : A Novel: ISBN 0060930535 (0-06-093053-5)
Softcover, HarperCollins Publishers - The Poisonwood Bible: A Novel: ISBN 0060512822 (0-06-051282-2)
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Prelude to Civil War the Nullification Controversyby William W. FreehlingISBN 0061313599 (0-06-131359-9)
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Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877by Eric FonerISBN 0060937165 (0-06-093716-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877'Book summary:This "masterful treatment of one of the most complex periods of American history" (New Republic) made history when it was originally published in 1988. It redefined how Reconstruction was viewed by historians and people everywhere in its chronicling of how Americans -- black and white -- responded to the unprecedented changes unleashed by the war and the end of slavery. This "smart book of enormous strengths" (Boston Globe) has since gone on to become the classic work on the wrenching post-Civil War period -- an era whose legacy reverberates still today in the United States.
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Savannah Bluesby Mary Kay AndrewsISBN 0060519134 (0-06-051913-4)
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Savannah Breezeby Mary Kay AndrewsISBN 0060564660 (0-06-056466-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Savannah Breeze'Book summary:Southern belle BeBe Loudermilk has lost all her worldly possessions, thanks to a brief but disastrous relationship with the gorgeous Reddy, an "investment counselor" who turns out to be a con man. All that's left is a ramshackle 1950s motel on Tybee Islandan eccentric beach town that calls itself a drinking village with a fishing problem.
Breeze Inn is a place where the very classy BeBe wouldn't normally be caught dead, but with no alternative, she moves into the manager's unit, vowing to make magic out of mud. The work is grueling, especially dealing with the bad-tempered caretaker, a fishing captain named Harry who's trying to earn enough dough to get his boat out of hock. With the help of Harry and her junking friend Weezie, BeBe soon has the motel spiffed up and attracting paying guests.
Then there's a sighting of Reddy in Fort Lauderdale, and BeBe decides to go after him. She puts together a posse, and with the irrepressible Granddaddy Loudermilk snoring in the backseat of the Buick, heads south. The plan is to carry out a sting that may be just a little bit outside the law but that, with any luck at all, will retrieve BeBe's fortune and put the dastardly Reddy in jail, where he belongs. And maybe Harry, who's looking more hunky every day, will finally get his boat back.
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She Flew the Coopby Michael Lee WestISBN 0060926201 (0-06-092620-1)
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Shiloh and Other Storiesby Bobbie Ann MasonISBN 0060913304 (0-06-091330-4)
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Spence and Lilaby Bobbie Ann Mason, Lanelle MasonISBN 0060915595 (0-06-091559-5)
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Ten Little Bloodhoundsby Virginia LanierISBN 0061090662 (0-06-109066-2)
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A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches of Martin Luther King, Jr.by Martin Luther King, James Melvin WashingtonISBN 0060646918 (0-06-064691-8)
Softcover, Harper San Francisco
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A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings of Martin Luther King Jr.by Martin Luther King, J.M. WashingtonISBN 0062509314 (0-06-250931-4)
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To the Mountaintop: Martin Luther King Jr.'s Sacred Mission to Save America 1955-1968by Stewart BurnsISBN 0060750545 (0-06-075054-5)
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Up Islandby Anne Rivers SiddonsISBN 006109921X (0-06-109921-X)
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Up Island and Low Countryby Anne Rivers SiddonsISBN 0060894687 (0-06-089468-7)
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When Strangers Marryby Lisa KleypasISBN 0060507365 (0-06-050736-5)
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Ya-yas in Bloom: A Novelby Rebecca WellsISBN 0060759445 (0-06-075944-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ya-yas in Bloom: A Novel'Book summary:For readers everywhere who are ga-ga for the Ya-Yas and clamoring for more and for those who are lucky enough to be discovering the Ya-Yas for the first time, comes a new book about the incomparable Sisterhood, bursting with life and funnier than ever....
An emotionally charged addition to Rebecca Wells' award-winning bestseller Little Altars Everywhere and #1 New York Times bestseller Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood, YA-YAS IN BLOOM reveals the roots of the Ya-Yas' friendship in the 1930s and roars with all the raw power of Vivi Abbott Walker's 1962 T-Bird through sixty years of marriage, child-raising, and hair-raising family secrets.
When four-year-old Teensy Whitman prisses one time too many and stuffs a big old pecan up her nose, she sets off the chain of events that lead Vivi, Teensy, Caro, and Necie to become true sister-friends. Told in alternating voices of Vivi and the Petite Ya-Yas, Siddalee and Baylor Walker, as well as other denizens of Thornton, Louisiana, YA-YAS IN BLOOM show us the Ya-Yas in love and at war with convention. Through crises of faith and hilarious lapses of parenting skills, brushes with alcoholism and glimpses of the dark reality of racial bigotry, the Ya-Ya values of unconditional loyalty, high style, and Cajun sass shine through. Necies wise credo, "Just think pretty pink and blue thoughts," helps too...
But in the Ya-Yas' inimitable way, these four remarkable women also teach their children about the Mysteries: the wonder of snow in the deep South, the possibility that humans are made of stars, and the belief that miracles do happen. And they need a miracle when old grudges and wounded psyches lead to a heartbreaking crime...and the dynamic web of sisterhood is the only safety net strong enough to hold families together and endure.
After two bestsellers and a blockbuster movie, the Ya-Yas have become part of American culture -- icons for the power of women's friendship. YA-YAS IN BLOOM continues the saga, giving us more Ya-Ya lore, spun out in the rich patois of the Louisiana bayou country and brim full of the Ya-Ya message to embrace life and each other with joy. [via]
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