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The Adventures of Tom Sawyerby Mark TwainISBN 0451519663 (0-451-51966-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finby Mark TwainISBN 0448411008 (0-448-41100-8)
Hardcover, Putnam Pub Group
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and the Adventures of Huckleberry Finnby Mark Twain, Shelley Fisher FishkinISBN 0451528646 (0-451-52864-6)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
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Art of the Old Southby Jessie PoeschISBN 051768053X (0-517-68053-X)
Hardcover, Random House Value Publishing
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At First Sightby Nicholas SparksISBN 0446698466 (0-446-69846-6)
Softcover, Grand Central Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'At First Sight'Book summary:Nicholas Sparks brings back two characters from his beloved bestseller, True Believer, in this continuing saga of extraordinary love.
There are few things Jeremy Marsh was sure he'd never do: he'd never leave New York City; never give his heart away again after barely surviving one failed marriage; and most of all, never become a parent. Now, Jeremy is living in the tiny town of Boone Creek, North Carolina, married to Lexie Darnell, the love of his life, and anticipating the birth of their daughter. But just as his life seems to be settling into a blissful pattern, an unsettling and mysterious message re-opens old wounds and sets off a chain of events that will forever change the course of this young couple's marriage. [via]
At Home in Mitfordby Jan KaronISBN 0670882259 (0-670-88225-9)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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Bad Blood: The Tuskegee Syphillis Experimentby James H. JonesISBN 0614225019 (0-614-22501-9)
Softcover, Independent Pub Group
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Breakfast at Tiffany'sby Truman CapoteISBN 067960085X (0-679-60085-X)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Breakfast at Tiffany's'Book summary:In this seductive, wistful masterpiece, Truman Capote created a woman whose name has entered the American idiom and whose style is a part of the literary landscape. Holly Golightly knows that nothing bad can ever happen to you at Tiffany's; her poignancy, wit, and naïveté continue to charm.
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This volume also includes three of Capote's best-known stories, House of Flowers, A Diamond Guitar, and A Christmas Memory, which the Saturday Review called one of the most moving stories in our language. It is a tale of two innocentsa small boy and the old woman who is his best friendwhose sweetness contains a hard, sharp kernel of truth.More editions of Breakfast at Tiffany's:
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Breakfast at Tiffany's and Three Storiesby Not AvailableISBN 0606192166 (0-606-19216-6)
Hardcover, Demco Media
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This volume also includes three of Capote's best-known stories, House of Flowers, A Diamond Guitar, and A Christmas Memory, which the Saturday Review called one of the most moving stories in our language. It is a tale of two innocentsa small boy and the old woman who is his best friendwhose sweetness contains a hard, sharp kernel of truth.More editions of Breakfast at Tiffany's and Three Stories:
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Cane Riverby Lalita TademyISBN 0446615889 (0-446-61588-9)
Softcover, Grand Central Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Cane River'Book summary:Lalita Tademy's riveting family saga chronicles four generations of women born into slavery along the Cane River in Louisiana. It is also a tale about the blurring of racial boundaries: great-grandmother Elisabeth notices an unmistakable "bleaching of the line" as first her daughter Suzette, then her granddaughter Philomene, and finally her great-granddaughter Emily choose (or are forcibly persuaded) to bear the illegitimate offspring of the area's white French planters. In many cases these children are loved by their fathers, and their paternity is widely acknowledged. However, neither state law nor local custom allows them to inherit wealth or property, a fact that gives Cane River much of its narrative drive.
The author makes it clear exactly where these prohibitions came from. Plantation society was rigidly hierarchical, after all, particularly on the heels of the Civil War and the economic hardships that came with Reconstruction. The only permissible path upward for hard-working, ambitious African Americans was indirect. A meteoric rise, or too obvious an appearance of prosperity, would be swiftly punished. To enable the slow but steady advance of their clan, the black women of Cane River plot, plead, deceive, and manipulate their way through history, extracting crucial gifts of money and property along the way. In the wake of a visit from the 1880 census taker, the aged Elisabeth reflects on how far they had come.
When the census taker looked at them, he saw colored first, asking questions like single or married, trying to introduce shame where there was none. He took what he saw and foolishly put those things down on a list for others to study. Could he even understand the pride in being able to say that Emily could read and write? They could ask whatever they wanted, but what he should have been marking in the book was family, and landholder, and educated, each generation gathering momentum, adding something special to the brew.
In her introduction, Tademy explains that as a young woman, she failed to appreciate the love and reverence with which her mother and her four uncles spoke of their lively Grandma 'Tite (short for "Mademoiselle Petite"). She resented her great-grandmother's skin-color biases, which were as much a part of Tademy's memory as were her great-grandmother's trademark dance moves. But the old stories haunted the author, and armed with a couple of pages of history compiled by a distant Louisiana cousin, she began to piece together a genealogy. The result? Tademy eventually left her position as vice president of a Fortune 500 company and set to work on Cane River, in which she has deftly and movingly reconstructed the world of her ancestors. --Regina Marler [via]More editions of Cane River:
Cavedwellerby Dorothy AllisonISBN 0452279690 (0-452-27969-0)
Softcover, Plume
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Cavedweller'Book summary:"Death changes everything." So begins Dorothy Allison's sprawling, ambitious, and deeply satisfying second novel, Cavedweller. For Delia Byrd, Randall Pritchard's death in a motorcycle accident launches a journey of several thousand miles and almost two decades, a rebirth of sorts that's also a return to her roots. Years before, the handsome but untrustworthy rock star Randall helped Delia flee an abusive husband; Delia escapes physical danger but leaves her two small children behind. In California, her abandoned daughters haunt her dreams and preoccupy her waking hours, even as she sings in Randall's band and gives birth to another daughter, Cissy. But when Randall is killed in a motorcycle accident, Delia packs rebellious Cissy into a broken-down Datsun, bound for Cayro, Georgia, and the one thing that suddenly matters more than anything else: her abandoned children and the chance to be a mother to them once again.
Cayro's poverty is emotional as well as material; the town is a hard place, full of hard people. To them, Delia will always be "that bitch" who abandoned her babies, "that hippie" living a life of sin. Nonetheless, Delia forges a cruel bargain with her former husband: in exchange for Delia's agreeing to care for him as he dies, he gives her a chance to reclaim her daughters. Like Bastard out of Carolina, Allison's acclaimed debut novel, Cavedweller is a chronicle of rage, strength, and survival. Here, however, Allison is equally concerned with the redemptive power of love and forgiveness, and a novel that began with death ends on an unexpectedly sanguine note: "'Yes, it's time for some new songs.'" There are no victims in Dorothy Allison's work; Delia triumphs through sheer force of will, bringing her family together despite the contempt of almost everyone around her.
The novel has its flaws--including occasionally flat-footed prose--but it is in the end compulsively readable, and it's populated by some of the most memorable characters in recent fiction: tough, prickly, flawed, and deeply human, Delia and Cissy are literary creations of the first rank. In describing the complicated emotions that bind and divide them, Allison demonstrates a profoundly unsentimental understanding of the way the human heart works. Cavedweller is the work of a mature artist, her best fiction to date. [via]
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A Christmas Memory, One Christmas, & the Thanksgiving Visitorby Truman CapoteISBN 0679602372 (0-679-60237-2)
Hardcover, Modern Library
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Club Deadby Charlaine HarrisISBN 0441010512 (0-441-01051-2)
Softcover, Ace Books
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Sookie's boyfriend has been very distant-in another state, distant. Now she's off to Mississippi to mingle with the underworld at Club Dead-a little haunt where the vampire elite go to chill out. But when she finally finds Bill-caught in an act of betrayal-she's not sure whether to save him...or sharpen some stakes. [via]More editions of Club Dead:
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Dead To The Worldby Charlaine HarrisISBN 0441012183 (0-441-01218-3)
Softcover, Ace Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dead To The World'Book summary:From Emma Bull's War for the Oaks to Laurell K. Hamilton's Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter series, from The X-Files to Buffy the Vampire Slayer, creators are mixing old European myths and legends with modern American pop culture. Incorporating influences ranging from blaxploitation movies and erotic novels to tabloid staples like UFOs and Elvis, authors and directors are creating a new mythology for the strip-mall, tract-house, cell-phone America of the new millennium.
One of the best-known and best writers of the new American mythology is Charlaine Harris. Dead to the World is the fourth novel in her Anthony Award-winning Southern Vampire series. It continues the story of psychic waitress Sookie Stackhouse, who has fallen out with her undead lover, Bill. Bill has no sooner departed for Peru, than Sookie finds the head vampire, Eric, running naked and terrified through the rural night. She helps Eric, and discovers his memory has been destroyed by a coven of unscrupulous, astonishingly powerful witches, newly arrived in her small Louisiana town, and offering a huge reward for Eric. Sookie tries to hide Eric, but her brother sees him--and immediately disappears. And Sookie finds herself caught in a war among witches, vampires, and werewolves. --Cynthia Ward [via]
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Dead Until Darkby Charlaine HarrisISBN 0441008534 (0-441-00853-4)
Softcover, Ace Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dead Until Dark'Book summary:Sookie Stackhouse is a small-time cocktail waitress in small-town Louisiana. She's quiet, keeps to herself, and doesn't get out much - not because she's not pretty - she's a very cute bubbly blonde - or not interested in a social life. She really is ...but Sookie's got a bit of a disability. She can read minds. And that doesn't make her too dateable. And then along comes Bill: he's tall, he's dark and he's handsome - and Sookie can't 'hear' a word he's thinking. He's exactly the type of guy she's been waiting all her life for. But Bill has a disability of his own: he's fussy about his food, he doesn't like suntans and he's never around during the day ...Yep, Bill's a vampire. Worse than that, he hangs with a seriously creepy crowd, with a reputation for trouble - of the murderous kind. And then one of Sookie's colleagues at the bar is killed, and it's beginning to look like Sookie might be the next victim ... [via]
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Deep Southby Nevada BarrISBN 0425178951 (0-425-17895-1)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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Diary from Dixieby Mary Boykin Miller ChesnutISBN 0674202910 (0-674-20291-0)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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Diary from Dixieby Mary B. Chestnut, Mary Boykin Miller Chesnut, Myrta Lockett Avary, Isabella D. MartinISBN 0517182661 (0-517-18266-1)
Hardcover, Random House Value Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Diary from Dixie'Book summary:This original diary of the wife of Confederate General James Chestnut, Jr., who was also an aide to President Jefferson Davis, provides an eyewitness narrative of all the years of the war. Period photographs illustrate this you-are-there account of the daily lives and tribulations of all who suffered through the war, from ordinary people to the Confederacy's generals and political figures. [via]
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Far Appalachia: Following the New River Northby Noah AdamsISBN 0385320132 (0-385-32013-2)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Far Appalachia: Following the New River North'Book summary:Noah Adams, the amiable host of NPR's All Things Considered, is no stranger to the world beyond the Beltway; a native of Kentucky, he's logged plenty of time in wild country, and the travels he recounts in his latest book take him through some of the most rugged in the eastern United States.
Adams travels along the New River, which rises in the mountains of North Carolina, flows generally north into Virginia and West Virginia, and eventually merges with the Ohio and Mississippi. Along the way--traveling by car, bicycle, and canoe--he explains the workings of rapids, his ancestral connection to Appalachia as well as its the history, and even the origins of the term hillbilly. As he wanders, Adams points out local oddities (such as a school bus that incongruously rests on a huge boulder in the middle of a stretch of the New River) and takes in bluegrass festivals, family picnics and the occasional family feud, and little towns and large vistas, by all appearances having a grand time along the way.
"This is just a book about a river. There was no quest involved, only a wish to understand more about this part of the country and my family's past." So writes Adams, with characteristic understatement. It may lack grand purpose, but his book is a pleasure for anyone who knows the country of which he writes, and anyone who enjoys a backroad adventure. --Gregory McNamee [via]
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The Feast of All Saintsby Anne RiceISBN 0449210634 (0-449-21063-4)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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Fox's Earthby Anne Rivers SiddonsISBN 0671249622 (0-671-24962-2)
Hardcover, Book Sales
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fox's Earth'Book summary:"A lusty Southern saga, this Gothic extravaganza of greed, madness and murder is a wicked brew, passionate and perverse....Excellently written."
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Ruth Yancey knew she was beautiful, she knew she was special. Despite her squalid Georgia mill town roots, it was her looks and her inbred belief in a powerful destiny that led her to the most exquisite mansion in Sparta: Fox's Earth. Through insinuation, manipulation, and an impenetrable evil, she became its mistress for three generations--until another woman attempted to match her madness....
"Beautifully calculated to keep the pages turning at a fast clip."
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The Glass Menagerieby Tennessee WilliamsISBN 0451151704 (0-451-15170-4)
Softcover, New Amer Library
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The Grits (Girls Raised in the South) Guide to Lifeby Deborah Ford, Edie HandISBN 0452285062 (0-452-28506-2)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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The Grits Guide to Life : Girls Raised in the Southby Deborah Ford, Edie Hand, Fannie FlaggISBN 0525947264 (0-525-94726-4)
Hardcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Grits Guide to Life : Girls Raised in the South'Book summary:They're called Sweet Potato Queens, Steel Magnolias, Ya-Ya Sisters, and Southern Belles, but at heart they're just plain Grits-Girls Raised In The South! Now, the woman who turned this clever acronym into a symbol of Southern pride reveals the code behind the distinctive-and irresistible-style of the Southern woman. Equal parts sweet sincerity and sharp, sly humor, The Grits Guide to Life is chock-full of Southern charm: advice, true-life stories from honest-to-god "Grits," recipes, humor, quotable wisdom, and more. Readers will learn vital lessons, including: how to eat watermelon in a sundress; how to drink like a Southern lady (sip . . . a lot); and the real meaning of PMS (Precious Moody Southerner).
From the co-author's true story of inheriting Elvis's grandmother's pearls, to tips on tending your magnolia tree, this charming book is destined to become a bible for the Southern girl-whether born and bred, expatriated, or adoptive-and her many admirers. [via]More editions of The Grits Guide to Life : Girls Raised in the South:
The House of Breathby William GoyenISBN 039449699X (0-394-49699-X)
Hardcover, Random House
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A Light in the Windowby Jan KaronISBN 0670882267 (0-670-88226-7)
Hardcover, Viking Pr
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Making Whitenessby Grace E. HaleISBN 0679442634 (0-679-44263-4)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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A Man in Fullby Tom WolfeISBN 0553381334 (0-553-38133-4)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Man in Full'Book summary:Ever since he published his classic 1972 essay "Why They Aren't Writing the Great American Novel Anymore," Tom Wolfe has made his fictional preferences loud and clear. For New Journalism's poster boy, minimalism is a wash, not to mention a failure of nerve. The real mission of the American writer is to produce fat novels of social observation--the sort of thing Balzac would be dishing up if he had made it into the Viagra era. Wolfe's manifesto would have had a hubristic ring if he hadn't actually delivered the goods in 1987 with The Bonfire of the Vanities. Now, more than a decade later, he's back with a second novel. Has the Man in White lived up to his own mission?
On many counts, the answer would have to be yes. Like its predecessor, A Man in Full is a big-canvas work, in which a multitude of characters seems to be ascending or (rapidly) descending the greasy pole of social life: "In an era like this one," a character reminds us, "the twentieth century's fin de siècle, position was everything, and it was the hardest thing to get." Wolfe has changed terrain on us, to be sure. Instead of New York, the focus here is Atlanta, Georgia, where the struggle for turf and power is at least slightly patinated with Deep South gentility. The plot revolves around Charlie Croker, an egomaniacal good ol' boy with a crumbling real-estate empire on his hands. But Wolfe is no less attentive to a pair of supporting players: a downwardly mobile family man, Conrad Hensley, and Roger White II, an African American attorney at a white-shoe firm. What ultimately causes these subplots to converge--and threatens to ignite a racial firestorm in Atlanta--is the alleged rape of a society deb by Georgia Tech football star Fareek "The Cannon" Fanon.
Of course, a detailed plot summary would be about as long as your average minimalist novel. Suffice it to say that A Man in Full is packed with the sort of splendid set pieces we've come to expect from Wolfe. A quail hunt on Charlie's 29,000-acre plantation, a stuffed-shirt evening at the symphony, a politically loaded press conference--the author assembles these scenes with contagious delight. The book is also very, very funny. The law firms, like upper-crust powerhouse Fogg Nackers Rendering & Lean, are straight out of Dickens, and Wolfe brings even his minor characters, like professional hick Opey McCorkle, to vivid life:
In true Opey McCorkle fashion he had turned up for dinner wearing a plaid shirt, a plaid necktie, red felt suspenders, and a big old leather belt that went around his potbelly like something could hitch up a mule with, but for now he had cut off his usual torrent of orotund rhetoric mixed with Baker Countyisms.
Readers in search of a kinder, gentler Wolfe may well be disappointed. Retaining the satirist's (necessary) superiority to his subject, he tends to lose his edge precisely when he's trying to move us. Still, when it comes to maximalist portraiture of the American scene--and to sheer, sentence-by-sentence amusement--1998 looks to be the year of the Wolfe, indeed. --James Marcus [via] 
A Man in Full Pt. 1 : A Novelby Tom WolfeISBN 0553580930 (0-553-58093-0)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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Milking the Moon: A Southerner's Story of Life on This Planetby Eugene WalterISBN 0609809652 (0-609-80965-2)
Softcover, Crown Publishing Group
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Momentous Events, Vivid Memoriesby David B. PillemerISBN 0674004183 (0-674-00418-3)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Momentous Events, Vivid Memories'Book summary:The bombing of Pearl Harbor, the assassination of President Kennedy, the explosion of the space shuttle Challenger: every generation has unforgettable events, the shared memory of which can create fleeting intimacy among strangers. These public memories, combined with poignant personal moments--the first day of college, a baseball game with one's father, praise from a mentor--are the critical shaping events of individual lives.
Although experimental memory studies have long been part of empirical psychology, and psychotherapy has focused on repressed or traumatizing memories, relatively little attention has been paid to the inspiring, touching, amusing, or revealing moments that highlight most lives. What makes something unforgettable? How do we learn to share the significance of memories?
David Pillemer's research, brought together in this gracefully written book, extends the current study of narrative and specific memory. Drawing on a variety of evidence and methods--cognitive and developmental psychology, cross-cultural study, psychotherapy case studies, autobiographies and diaries--Pillemer elaborates on five themes: the function of memory; how children learn to construct and share personal memories; memory as a complex interactive system of image, emotion, and narrative; individual and group differences in memory function and performance; and how unique events linger in memory and influence lives. A provocative last chapter, full of striking examples, considers potential variations in memory across gender, culture, and personality. Momentous Events, Vivid Memories is itself a compelling and memorable book.
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A Nation Under Our Feet: Black Political Struggles in the Rural South from Slavery to the Great Migrationby Steven HahnISBN 067401765X (0-674-01765-X)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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New and Selected Poems, 1923-1985by Robert Penn WarrenISBN 0394738489 (0-394-73848-9)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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The New South Creed: A Study in Southern Mythmakingby Paul GastonISBN 0394719360 (0-394-71936-0)
Hardcover, Vintage Books
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New Times in the Old South: Or, Why Scarlett's in Therapy and Tara's Going Condoby Maryln SchwartzISBN 0517138042 (0-517-13804-2)
Hardcover, Random House Value Publishing
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› Find signed collectible books: 'New Times in the Old South: Or, Why Scarlett's in Therapy and Tara's Going Condo'Book summary:A hilarious and perceptive look at the people, trends, and attitudes that are making the Old South rise again. "The Old South ain't what it used to be. To know about the new times, the new people, and the new money, you'd better listen to Marilyn Schwartz."--Mobile Register "Witty and artful...her quick takes, one-liners, and keen observations are entertaining."--Sunday Oklahoman. [via]
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Peculiar Institutionby Kenneth M. StamppISBN 0394440153 (0-394-44015-3)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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The Plantation Mistress: Woman's World in the Old Southby Catherine ClintonISBN 0394722531 (0-394-72253-1)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Plantation Mistress: Woman's World in the Old South'Book summary:This pioneering study of the much-mythologized Southern belle offers the first serious look at the lives of white women and their harsh and restricted place in the slave society before the Civil War. Drawing on the diaries, letters, and memoirs of hundreds of planter wives and daughters, Clinton sets before us in vivid detail the daily life of the plantation mistress and her ambiguous intermediary position in the hierarchy between slave and master.
"The Plantation Mistress challenges and reinterprets a host of issues related to the Old South. The result is a book that forces us to rethink some of our basic assumptions about two peculiar institutions -- the slave plantation and the nineteenth-century family. It approaches a familiar subject from a new angle, and as a result, permanently alters our understanding of the Old South and women's place in it. [via]More editions of The Plantation Mistress: Woman's World in the Old South:
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Praying for Sheetrock: A Work of Nonfictionby Melissa Fay GreeneISBN 0449907538 (0-449-90753-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Praying for Sheetrock: A Work of Nonfiction'Book summary:Despite what it said in the New York Times or the Congressional Record, not everybody in America got the word right away about the civil rights movement. Thus it was that well into the 1970s, McIntosh County in backwoods Georgia remained a place where the black majority still had never elected one of their own to any county office, where black kids were bused away from the white school, and where the white county sheriff had his hand in every racket there was. Praying for Sheetrock is the saga of how, thanks to the leadership of a black shop-steward-turned-county-commissioner named Thurnell Alston, together with the aid of a cadre of idealistic Legal Services lawyers (Melissa Greene was one of their paralegals) this situation began to change. The story, written as grippingly as a novel, is charged with twists that only nonfiction can deliver; for example, Alston, for all the brave good he did, ultimately got caught in a federal sting and went to jail while the corrupt sheriff walked. This is, writes Greene, a story of "large and important things happening in a very little place." [via]
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Pudd'nhead Wilson and Those Extraordinary Twinsby Mark Twain, Sidney E. BergerISBN 0393925358 (0-393-92535-8)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Pudd'nhead Wilson and Those Extraordinary Twins'Book summary:Pudd'nhead Wilson and Those Extraordinary Twins contain Twain's most overt treatment of the moral and societal implications of slavery in America. This Norton Critical Edition remains the only edition available that is based on completely re-edited texts, accounting for all versions that Twain might have written or influenced. All substantive variants in the two separate "first editions," one printed in Britain and the other in the United States, have been reconciled in this collated edition, with all rejected variants tabulated. Dozens of additional illustrations accompany the text, and all textual variants, accepted or rejected, are included. "Criticism" includes twenty-three reviews and interpretive essays, eight of them new to the Second Edition, including those by Andrew Jay Hoffman, Myra Jehlen, and John Carlos Rowe. A Selected Bibliography is also included. [via]
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The Reiversby William FaulknerISBN 0394442296 (0-394-44229-6)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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The Rise of Southern Republicansby Earl Black, Merle BlackISBN 0674012488 (0-674-01248-8)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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Robert E. Lee: A Biographyby Emory M. ThomasISBN 0393316319 (0-393-31631-9)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Rootsby Alex HaleyISBN 0440174643 (0-440-17464-3)
Softcover, Dell Publishing
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Roots'Book summary:The monumental bestseller! Alex Haley recaptures his family's history in this drama of eighteenth-century slave Kunta Kinte and his descendants. [via]
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Roots : The Saga of an American Familyby Alex HaleyISBN 0517208601 (0-517-20860-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Roots : The Saga of an American Family'Book summary:This "bold...extraordinary...blockbuster..." (Newsweek magazine) begins with a birth in an African village in 1750, and ends two centuries later at a funeral in Arkansas. And in that time span, an unforgettable cast of men, women, and children come to life, many of them based on the people from Alex Haley's own family tree.
When Alex Haley was a boy growing up in Tennessee, his grandmother used to tell him stories about their family, stories that went way back to a man she called "the African" who was taken aboard a slave ship bound for Colonial America. As an adult, Alex Haley spent twelve years searching for documentation that might authenticate what his grandmother had told him. In an astonishing feat of genealogical detective work, he discovered the name of "the African"--Kunta Kinte, as well as the exact location of the village in West Africa from where he was abducted in 1767.
While Haley created certain unknown details of his family history, ROOTS is definitely based on the facts of his ancestry, and the six generations of people--slaves and freedmen, farmers and lawyers, an architect, teacher--and one acclaimed author--descended from Kunte Kinte. But with this book, Haley did more than recapture the history of his own family. He popularized genealogy for people of all races and colors; and in so doing, wrote one of the most important and beloved books of all time, a true Modern Classic. [via]More editions of Roots : The Saga of an American Family:
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Scarlettby Alexandra RipleyISBN 0446363251 (0-446-36325-1)
Softcover, Grand Central Publishing
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Scarlett Pt. B: The Sequel to Margaret Mitchell's Gone with the Windby Alexandra RipleyISBN 0446517186 (0-446-51718-6)
Hardcover, Grand Central Publishing
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Selected Poems, 1923-1975by Robert Penn WarrenISBN 0394405315 (0-394-40531-5)
Hardcover, Random House
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Song Of Solomonby Toni MorrisonISBN 0394497848 (0-394-49784-8)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Song Of Solomon'Book summary:The third novel from one America's most powerful writers turns 20 years old in 1997, but Song of Solomon long ago ascended to the top shelf in the ranks of great literature. This Everyman's Library hardcover edition of the Nobel Prize-winning Morrison's lyrical, powerful, and erudite novel contains a chronology that situates the book in its historical context, and an introduction from author Reynolds Price. [via]
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Southern Cross: The Beginnings of the Bible Beltby Christine L. HeyrmanISBN 0679446389 (0-679-44638-9)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Southern Paternalism and the American Welfare State: Economics, Politics, and Institutions in the South 1865-1965by Lee J. Alston, Joseph P. FerrieISBN 0521622107 (0-521-62210-7)
Hardcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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Strawberry Girlby Lois LenskiISBN 039730109X (0-397-30109-X)
Hardcover, Harpercollins Childrens Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Strawberry Girl'Book summary:The land was theirs, but so were its hardships. Strawberries - big, ripe, and juicy. Ten-year-old Birdie Boyer can hardly wait to start picking them. But her family has just moved to the Florida backwoods, and they haven't even begun their planting. "Don't count your biddies 'fore they're hatched, gal young un!" her father tells her. Making the new farm prosper is not easy. There is heat to suffer through, and droughts, and cold snaps. And, perhaps most worrisome of all for the Boyers, there are rowdy neighbors, just itching to start a feud. [via]
Sulaby Toni MorrisonISBN 045225227X (0-452-25227-X)
Softcover, Plume
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sula'Book summary:Toni Morrison's first novel, The Bluest Eye (1970), was acclaimed as the work of an important talent, written--as John Leonard said in The New York Times--in a prose "so precise, so faithful to speech and so charged with pain and wonder that the novel becomes poetry." Her new novel has the same power, the same beauty. At its center--a friendship between two women, a friendship whose intensity first sustains, then injures. Sula and Nel--both black, both smart, both poor, raised in a small Ohio town--meet when they are twelve, wishbone thin and dreaming of princes. Through their girlhood years they share everything--perceptions, judgments, yearnings, secrets, even crime--until Sula gets out, out of the Bottom, the hilltop neighborhood where beneath the sporting life of the men hanging around the place in headrags and soft felt hats there hides a fierce resentment at failed crops, lost jobs, thieving insurance men, bug-ridden flour...at the invisible line that cannot be overstepped. Sula leaps it and roams the cities of America for ten years. Then she returns to the town, to her friend. But Nel is a wife now, settled with her man and her three children. She belongs. She accommodates to the Bottom, where you avoid the hand of God by getting in it, by staying upright, helping out at church suppers, asking after folks--where you deal with evil by surviving it. Not Sula. As willing to feel pain as to give pain, she can never accommodate. Nel can't understand her any more, and the others never did. Sula scares them. Mention her now, and they recall that she put her grandma in an old folks' home (the old lady who let a train take her leg for the insurance)...that a child drowned in the river years ago...that there was a plague of robins when she first returned... In clear, dark, resonant language, Toni Morrison brilliantly evokes not only a bond between two lives, but the harsh, loveless, ultimately mad world in which that bond is destroyed, the world of the Bottom and [via]
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Summer of My German Soldierby Bette GreeneISBN 0440218926 (0-440-21892-6)
Softcover, Random House Children's Books
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These High, Green Hillsby Jan KaronISBN 0670869341 (0-670-86934-1)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'These High, Green Hills'Book summary:The village of Mitford is soothing tonic for a readership that feels starved for community and yearns for clear morals. The recently married Father Tim and his plain-folk neighbors live the best of Christianity in everyday life. Even the rampant gossip in Mitford is the good kind: folks worrying about other folks and everyone minding one another's business out of concern rather than malice. As a result, no one faces a crisis alone. Often the crises are cause for a belly laugh, such as the rectory's new computer system that seems programmed to torment. But just as often the crises have the bite of real-life problems, such as the bloody young girl in shredded clothes, whom Father Tim finds after she was beaten by her drunken father, and the soul-wrenching despair Father Tim feels when he loses a surrogate mother. The heavily quoted scripture gives a day-to-day context for biblical teachings as well as spiritual solace during the sadder days at Mitford. --Gail Hudson [via]
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Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finnby Mark Twain, Miles DonaldISBN 0679405844 (0-679-40584-4)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn'Book summary:The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, by Mark Twain, is a popular 1876 novel about a young boy growing up in the Antebellum South on the Mississippi River in the fictional town of St. Petersburg, Missouri. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884) (often shortened to Huck Finn) by Mark Twain is commonly accounted as one of the first Great American Novels. It is also one of the first major American novels ever written using Local Color Regionalism, or vernacular, told in the first person by the eponymous Huckleberry "Huck" Finn, best friend of Tom Sawyer and hero of three other Mark Twain books. Excerpted from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. [via]
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The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilsonby Mark Twain, Wright MorrisISBN 0451523741 (0-451-52374-1)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)
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The Transformation of Virginia, 1740-1790by Rhys L. IsaacISBN 0393956938 (0-393-95693-8)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Trashby Dorothy AllisonISBN 0452283515 (0-452-28351-5)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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