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60 Hikes Within 60 Miles Raleighby Lynn SetzerISBN 0897323327 (0-89732-332-7)
Softcover, Menasha Ridge Pr
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Aratorby John TaylorISBN 0913966266 (0-913966-26-6)
Softcover, Isi Books
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Atlanta and the Warby Webb B. GarrisonISBN 1558534148 (1-55853-414-8)
Softcover, Nelson Incorporated, Thomas
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The Awakening And Selected Storiesby Kate ChopinISBN 1406502278 (1-4065-0227-8)
Softcover, Dodo Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Awakening And Selected Short Stories'Book summary:"The Awakening" is the story of Edna Pontellier, an attractive twenty-eight year old woman who is a wife and mother of two sons living in the Creole south in the late 19th century. Edna finds herself trapped in her life as a wife and a mother and feels unable to express her passionate sensuality within the confines of her marriage. She seeks a spiritual and sexual awakening through an affair with a younger man during one summer while her husband is away. Liberated by this experience she sends her children away and is determined to live a more independent and self-determined life. However this new found independence also becomes her downfall as her actions are looked down upon by the members of her society in the late 19th century south. "The Awakening" is a classic modern example of the tragic hero. It illustrates the confines of late 19th century America for women and the beginning of an era of changing social attitudes towards the role of women in society. Chopin's novel was meet with great criticism when it was first published and essentially ended her literary career. The reaction to its publication is indicative of the social attitude towards greater independence and freedom for women at the time. At the same time the novel was a harbinger of the greater independence that was soon to come for women in America. Also contained within this volume is a collection of eight shorter works by the author. [via]
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Bad Chiliby Joe R. LansdaleISBN 089296619X (0-89296-619-X)
Hardcover, Grand Central Pub
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Being a Boyby Paxton DavisISBN 0895871688 (0-89587-168-8)
Softcover, John F Blair Pub
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Being Dead Is No Excuse: The Official Southern Ladies Guide To Hosting The Perfect Funeralby Charlotte Hays, Gayden MetcalfeISBN 1401359345 (1-4013-5934-5)
Hardcover, Hyperion Books
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Black Boyby Richard WrightISBN 1568490674 (1-56849-067-4)
Hardcover, Buccaneer Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Black Boy'Book summary:Richard Wright's devastating autobiography of his childhood and youth in the Jim Crow South
His training by his elders was strict and harsh to prepare him for the "white world" which would be cruel. Their resentment of those trying to escape the common misery made his future seem hopeless. It was necessary to grow up restrained and submissive in southern white society and to endure torment and abuse.
Wright tells of his mental and emotional struggle to educate himself, which gave him a glimpse of life's possibilities and which led him to his triumphant decision to leave the South behind while still a teenager to live in Chicago and fulfill himself by becoming a writer.
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Black Like Me: Library Editionby John Howard Griffin, Bonazzi, Robert (AFT), Studs Terkel, Don RutledgeISBN 0930324722 (0-930324-72-2)
Hardcover, Wings Pr
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The Book of Southern Wisdom: Common Sense and Uncommon Genius from 101 Great Southernersby Criswell FreemanISBN 096409553X (0-9640955-3-X)
Softcover, Walnut Grove Pr
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Burning Angelby James Lee BurkeISBN 0963192531 (0-9631925-3-1)
Hardcover, B E Trice Pub
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Burrby Gore VidalISBN 1417633840 (1-4176-3384-0)
Hardcover, Bt Bound
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Burr'Book summary:In 1804, Colonel Aaron Burr, Vice-President of the United States, shot and killed Alexander Hamilton in a duel. Three years later, on the order of President Thomas Jefferson, he was tried for treason: for plotting to dismember the United States. Gore Vidal, romping iconoclastically through American history, debunks, in this historical novel of Burr's life, the common and casually held notion of the man as a scoundrel and an adventurer. Instead he appears as one of the 'host of choice spirits' forced to live among coarse, materialistic, hypocritical people ? among them Jefferson and Hamilton. Here, the latter appears as a power-hungry 'parvenu' from the West Indies and the former as a semi-literate slave-owning tyrant. American politics, suggests Vidal, had a penchant for the vulgar. Even then. Veering backwards to the revolution and the early days of the republic, stopping at dinner-parties on the way, and reaching forward to the future, BURR is a novel about treason, both the particular and in general. For what, asks Vidal, really belongs to whom? What properly belongs to the Constitution, to the nation, to the family ?even, intriguingly, to novelists and historians? [via]
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Cajun Night Before Christmasby Trosclair, Howard Jacobs, James RiceISBN 1565548493 (1-56554-849-3)
Hardcover, Pelican Pub Co Inc
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Carolina Whitewater: A Paddler's Guide to The Western Carolinasby Bob Benner, David Benner, Bob Carolina Whitewater BennerISBN 0897325206 (0-89732-520-6)
Softcover, Globe Pequot Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Carolina Whitewater: A Paddler's Guide to The Western Carolinas'Book summary:The ultimate guide to paddling whitewater in the Carolinas, A Canoeing & Kayaking Guide to the Carolinas (formerly Carolina Whitewater) has guided boaters to the best water in the Tar Heel and Palmetto states for almost 30 years. Inside, boaters will find expanded and updated information for the classic rivers, like the Nolichucky, Nantahala, and French Broad, as well as for the extreme creeks, including Green River, White Oak Creek, and Watauga.
Also included is information vital to all paddlers, beginner and expert alike: information on clubs and organizations, state water trails, and national and scenic rivers. Ratings and descriptions include topographic maps, county locations, gauges, difficulty ratings, drop/distances, run times, water quality, and much more. (6 x 9, 224 pages, maps) [via]
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The Clearingby Tim GautreauxISBN 1400030536 (1-4000-3053-6)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Cookin' Southern: Vegetarian Styleby Ann JacksonISBN 1570670927 (1-57067-092-7)
Softcover, Book Pub Co
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Crazy Ladiesby Michael Lee WestISBN 092926438X (0-929264-38-X)
Hardcover, Longstreet Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Crazy Ladies'Book summary:Rebecca Wells's Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood is rivaled by a fictional sibling: Michael Lee West's Crazy Ladies. West's tale of wild women down South is faster and snappier than Wells's thick bayou prose gumbo, but it has some of the same virtues--a cast of wacky characters, lively regional dialogue, and a satisfying multigenerational time frame. The scene shifts from 1932 to 1972, and from Crystal Falls, Tennessee, to New Orleans to hippie Frisco and L.A., though it's mostly rooted in Tennessee, where sunflower gardens contain deep secrets and kids can light up whole summers with lightning bugs in a jar.
The crazy lady who starts the story is Gussie, vexed by her ornery first daughter, Dorothy. When Dorothy's kid sister, Clancy Jane, comes of age, the real ruckus begins, thanks partly to Gussie's helpless preference for sweet Clancy Jane over dour Dorothy, who calls Gussie "Mother Dear" from age 6 on. Sweet Clancy Jane turns out to be headstrong, too--she runs off in a poodle skirt with Hart, who works on oil rigs, Esso stands, and the odd Cajun girl on the side. And then the '60s hit, bringing on Gussie's grandkids, Bitsy and Violet, plus some jolting social changes reminiscent of Lisa Alther's Kinflicks. Though it's spiced with horror (rape, crib death, one character buried alive), the dominant tone is breezy humor. At one point, the sister with "thighs that could break a man's neck" catches her husband and her shapelier sister "wrapped around each other like stripes on a candy cane." Not a magisterial novel, but a really good read. --Tim Appelo [via]
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Deep South: A Social Anthropological Study of Caste and Classby Allison Davis, Mary R. Gardner, Burleigh Bradford GardnerISBN 0934934266 (0-934934-26-6)
Hardcover, Univ of California Center for Afro
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Deliveranceby James DickeyISBN 1562870106 (1-56287-010-6)
Hardcover, Armchair Detective Library
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The Diamonds of Dixie: Travels Through the Southern Minor Leaguesby Ernest J. GreenISBN 1568331118 (1-56833-111-8)
Softcover, Madison Books
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Dinner at Miss Lady's: Memories and Recipes from a Southern Childhoodby Luann LandonISBN 1565122275 (1-56512-227-5)
Hardcover, Workman Pub Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dinner at Miss Lady's: Memories and Recipes from a Southern Childhood'Book summary:Back when people spent their whole lives in one place, life was all about family and family rituals. It was about the whole clan gathering at dinnertime over meals to be remembered forever. Luann Landon's cookbook/memoir transports us to that world of formal midday dinners, closely guarded recipes, and competitive cooks.
Dinner at Miss Lady's takes us back there through the memories, meals, and recipes of one Southern family. Landon recreates the old Southern way of life in comic and tender anecdotes--from the near disaster of losing the tiny dinner bell to revenge exacted by giving the wrong recipe for a cake. This is the world of Landon's extended family: the glamorous and indolent Aunt Clare; the industrious, proud grandmother Murlo; the other grandmother, spoiled, indulgent Miss Lady and her good-humored husband, Judge; and most important, Henretta, the protective cook, able to mend family battles with a perfect blackberry-rhubarb cobbler.
Adding to the vividness of this memoir are menus from those memorable meals, including birthday dinners, homecoming feasts, graduation celebrations, and sumptuous spring and fall parties. Landon shares detailed recipes for over sixty heirloom dishes: Cousin Catherine's Chicken Vermouth with Walnuts and Green Grapes, Beets in Orange and Ginger Sauce, Tennessee Jam Cake, Caramel Ice Cream.
A rich portrait of a life almost lost to us, Dinner at Miss Lady's is a memoir cooked to perfection, one to savor both for its stories and for its food. [via]More editions of Dinner at Miss Lady's: Memories and Recipes from a Southern Childhood:
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Distant Dreamsby Judith Pella, Tracie PetersonISBN 155661862X (1-55661-862-X)
Softcover, Baker Pub Group
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Drinks for the Little Guyby Sean CarswellISBN 0966818504 (0-9668185-0-4)
Softcover, Gorsky Pr
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Father & Sonby Larry BrownISBN 1565120140 (1-56512-014-0)
Hardcover, Workman Pub Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Father & Son'Book summary:Larry Brown is the master of the raw and the sparse, and of bringing Mississippi to the world in a language that is as stripped down and bare as Faulkner's is dense. Brown is at his best when he writes of the tensions between one screwed-up man and another, in this case a father and son. One has just been let out of prison, and he shouldn't have been. The other is drunk and disabled, and intends staying that way. To make things worse, there is a conflict with the sheriff, who is good and righteous but who tried to put the moves on the parolee's woman while he was in prison. To tell more would be to violate Brown's mastery of dialogue and of that which goes unspoken in this sly story of father, son and misery. [via]
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Flannery O'Connor Collected Worksby Flannery O'ConnorISBN 0940450372 (0-940450-37-2)
Hardcover, Library of America
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Flannery O'Connor Collected Works'Book summary:Flannery O'Connor, a unique and important figure in the Southern literary tradition, was one of the finest writers of the twentieth century. This volume, containing her two novels, short stories, essays and letters, is the only complete collection of her works. [via]
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Frenchmen, Desire, Good Children: And Other Streets of New Orleansby John Churchill ChaseISBN 1565549317 (1-56554-931-7)
Softcover, Pelican Pub Co Inc
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Geology Along Skyline Drive: Shenandoah National Park, Virginiaby Robert L. BadgerISBN 1560446919 (1-56044-691-9)
Softcover, Globe Pequot Pr
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Gullah Statesman: Robert Smalls from Slavery to Congress, 1839-1915by Edward A. MillerISBN 1570030022 (1-57003-002-2)
Hardcover, Univ of South Carolina Pr
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Hallowed Ground: Preserving America's Heritageby Rudy Abramson, Jack Kotz, Kenneth GarrettISBN 0965030865 (0-9650308-6-5)
Hardcover, Lickle Pub Inc
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Hidden Carolinas: Including Ashville, Great Smoky Mountains, Outer Banks and Charlestonby Catherine O'NealISBN 1569753423 (1-56975-342-3)
Softcover, Pgw
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Hidden Georgia: Including Atlanta, Savannah, Jekyll Island, And the Okefenokeeby Marty OlmsteadISBN 1569754977 (1-56975-497-7)
Softcover, Ulysses Pr
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Hiking North Carolinaby Randy JohnsonISBN 1560442115 (1-56044-211-5)
Softcover, Globe Pequot Pr
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How Grand a Flame: A Chronicle of a Plantation Family, 1813-1947by Clyde BreseeISBN 0945575556 (0-945575-55-6)
Hardcover, Workman Pub Co
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Howard Finster, Stranger from Another World: Man of Visions Now on This Earthby Howard Finster, Tom Patterson, Roger Manley, Victor FaccintoISBN 0896599027 (0-89659-902-7)
Hardcover, Abbeville Press, Incorporated
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Hunting Mister Heartbreak: A Discovery of Americaby Jonathan RabanISBN 1560542241 (1-56054-224-1)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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Inside Miss Jennie's Kitchen: Recipes and Other Gifts from a Distinguished Southern Family, 1839-1965by Carolyn RidenourISBN 0913383791 (0-913383-79-1)
Hardcover, McClanahan Publshing House
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Jacob Have I Lovedby Katherine PatersonISBN 1557361673 (1-55736-167-3)
Hardcover, Cornerstone Books
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Joeby Larry BrownISBN 1565124138 (1-56512-413-8)
Softcover, Algonquin Books
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Lucy Cooper's Southern Entertaining: A New Taste of the Southby Lucy CooperISBN 094208490X (0-942084-90-X)
Softcover, Seaside Pub
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A Man in Fullby Tom WolfeISBN 1568956940 (1-56895-694-0)
Hardcover, Wheeler Pub Inc
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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]More editions of A Man in Full:
Memoir of a Race Traitorby Mab SegrestISBN 0896084744 (0-89608-474-4)
Softcover, South End Pr
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Memories of the Old Plantation Home: A Creole Family Albumby Laura Locoul Gore, Norman Marmillion, Sand MarmillionISBN 0970559100 (0-9705591-0-0)
Softcover, Zoe Co
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A Messy Job I Never Did See a Girl Doby Mary Jane RyalsISBN 0942979591 (0-942979-59-1)
Softcover, Livingston Pr
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Mucho Mojoby Joe R. LansdaleISBN 0892964901 (0-89296-490-1)
Hardcover, Grand Central Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Mucho Mojo'Book summary:In the second installment of the Hap Collins-Leonard Pine series, Leonard is still recuperating from the injuries he suffered in the first book (Savage Season) when he learns that his Uncle Chester has died. Hap agrees to stay with Leonard and help clean out the rundown house that he's inherited; when they find a small skeleton buried under the floor, it's up to them to prove that Chester wasn't responsible for a string of child murders by finding the real killer.
Lansdale slowly develops the relationship between his two protagonists as they banter with each other throughout their pursuit of the killers. Mucho Mojo also introduces two other characters, LaBorde Police Department members Lieutenant Marvin Hanson and his sidekick, Charlie, who serve as ongoing sources of friction--and, when it's most needed, support. [via]
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My Mama's Dead Squirrel: Lesbian Essays on Southern Cultureby Mab SegrestISBN 0932379060 (0-932379-06-0)
Softcover, Perseus Distribution Services
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My Old True Love: A Novelby Sheila Kay AdamsISBN 1565124073 (1-56512-407-3)
Hardcover, Algonquin Books
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Mysterious Marie Laveau Voodoo Queen and Folk Tales Along the Mississippiby Raymond MartinezISBN 0911116834 (0-911116-83-4)
Softcover, Pelican Pub Co Inc
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The Nashville I Knewby Jack NormanISBN 0934395020 (0-934395-02-0)
Hardcover, Thomas Nelson Inc
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New Stories from the Southby Shannon RavenelISBN 1565121236 (1-56512-123-6)
Softcover, Algonquin Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'New Stories from the South'Book summary:Whether it's the bodybuilder who picks up energy in the air, the rich girl who sees potential in the beer-drinking factory worker at her father's cardboard plant, the girl who turns against her evangelist father to find the real Jesus, the aunt with a withered arm who may have influenced Flannery O'Connor, the feminist scholar trying to reason with a good old boy, or the young MFA student determined to write a good story, this year's collection is about the connections these Southerners will to happen. Each story, as Ellen Douglas's thoughtful preface says, testifies to our need to "feel and understand the significance of the buzzing blooming dying chaos of our experience." This fifteenth edition is rich with unforgettable characters and full of great moments of comedy and tragedy.
Twenty writers tell their stories in this year's NSFS: A. Manette Ansay, Wendy Brenner, D. Winston Brown, Robert Olen Butler, Cathy Day, R.H.W. Dillard, Tony Earley, Clyde Edgerton, William Gay, Tim Gautreaux, Allan Gurganus, John Holman, Romulus Linney, Thomas H. McNeely, Christopher Miner, Chris Offutt, Margo Rabb, Karen Sagstetter, Mary Helen Stefaniak, Melanie Sumner
Each selection is accompanied by a look into the origin of the story. Readers will also find an updated list of magazines consulted by the editor for this edition and a complete list of all the stories selected each year since the series' genesis in 1986.
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- New Stories from the South: ISBN 1565121759 (1-56512-175-9)
Softcover, Algonquin Books - New Stories from the South: ISBN 156512295X (1-56512-295-X)
Softcover, Algonquin Books - New Stories from the South: ISBN 0945575823 (0-945575-82-3)
Softcover, Workman Pub Co - New Stories from the South: The Year's Best, 1987: ISBN 0912697733 (0-912697-73-3)
Softcover, Workman Pub Co - New Stories from the South: ISBN 0945575270 (0-945575-27-0)
Softcover, Workman Pub Co - New Stories from the South: ISBN 1565121236 (1-56512-123-6)
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North Toward Homeby Willie MorrisISBN 0916242161 (0-916242-16-1)
Softcover, Yoknapatawpha Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'North Toward Home'Book summary:In the 1940s at his home, Rowan Oak, in Oxford, Mississippi, Nobel Prize-winning author William Faulkner told ghost stories to the children in his family. Faulkner's niece, Dean Faulkner Wells, has recounted the haunting and heartbreaking story of "Judith," the chilling tale of "The Werewolf," and the macabre story of "The Hound." This school edition includes an Introduction by Willie Morris, illustrated biography of William Faulkner, with study guide including discussion questions, vocabulary lists and suggested class projects, paperback binding, 84 pages. Recommended for middle school students. "Dean Faulkner Wells describes Rowan Oak and the Pappy of her childhood with a rare eye and with the Faulkner care and genius for words, and with the emotion of love." (American Bookseller) [via]
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Party Recipes from the Charleston Junior League: Hors D'Oeuvres, Savories, Sweetsby Linda Glick ConwayISBN 094557584X (0-945575-84-X)
Softcover, Algonquin Books
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Planter a Brief Sketch of the Civil War Steamer and Its Pilot Robert Smallsby Robert E. GreeneISBN 0960332022 (0-9603320-2-2)
Softcover, Robert E Greene
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Possessing the Secret of Joyby Alice WalkerISBN 1568953518 (1-56895-351-8)
Hardcover, Wheeler Pub Inc
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Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cryby Mildred D. TaylorISBN 1557361401 (1-55736-140-1)
Hardcover, Cornerstone Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry'Book summary:In all Mildred D. Taylor's unforgettable novels she recounts "not only the joy of growing up in a large and supportive family, but my own feelings of being faced with segregation and bigotry." Her Newbery Medal-winning Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry tells the story of one African American family, fighting to stay together and strong in the face of brutal racist attacks, illness, poverty, and betrayal in the Deep South of the 1930s. Nine-year-old Cassie Logan, growing up protected by her loving family, has never had reason to suspect that any white person could consider her inferior or wish her harm. But during the course of one devastating year when her community begins to be ripped apart by angry night riders threatening African Americans, she and her three brothers come to understand why the land they own means so much to their Papa. "Look out there, Cassie girl. All that belongs to you. You ain't never had to live on nobody's place but your own and long as I live and the family survives, you'll never have to. That's important. You may not understand that now but one day you will. Then you'll see."
Twenty-five years after it was first published, this special anniversary edition of the classic strikes as deep and powerful a note as ever. Taylor's vivid portrayal of ugly racism and the poignancy of Cassie's bewilderment and gradual toughening against social injustice and the men and women who perpetuate it, will remain with readers forever. Two award-winning sequels, Let the Circle Be Unbroken and The Road to Memphis, and a long-awaited prequel, The Land, continue the profoundly moving tale of the Logan family. (Ages 9 and older) --Emilie Coulter [via]
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Rootsby Alex HaleyISBN 1568494718 (1-56849-471-8)
Hardcover, Buccaneer Books
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Rumble Tumbleby Joe R. LansdaleISBN 0892966203 (0-89296-620-3)
Hardcover, Grand Central Pub
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Run with the Horsemenby Ferrol SamsISBN 0931948320 (0-931948-32-0)
Hardcover, Peachtree Publishers, Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Run with the Horsemen'Book summary:RUN WITH THE HORSEMEN is called fiction, but it is a book of life. To read this book is as dangerous as living - it is delicate, raw, charming, and so honest it makes your teeth hurt. It's a boy's account of growing up on an ancestral farm in Georgia, a rueful, humorous story of the people in one rural county, but the telling cuts so deep it breaks through to the universal.
The Boy could remind you of Tom Sawyer or Holden Caulfield, but he is Porter Osborne. He's indelible, as are the other characters who populate this special place called Brewton County, which will be real forever - thanks to Ferrol Sams. [via]
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Rural Studio: Samuel Mockbee and an Architecture of Decencyby Andrea Oppenheimer Dean, Timothy HursleyISBN 1568982925 (1-56898-292-5)
Softcover, Chronicle Books Llc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Rural Studio: Samuel Mockbee and an Architecture of Decency'Book summary:For almost ten years, Samuel Mockbee, a recent MacArthur Grant recipient, and his architecture students at Auburn University have been designing and building striking houses and community buildings for impoverished residents of Alabama's Hale County. Using salvaged lumber and bricks, discarded tires, hay and waste cardboard bales, concrete rubble, colored bottles, and old license plates, they create inexpensive buildings that bear the trademark of Mockbee's work, which he describes as "contemporary modernism grounded in Southern culture."In a time of unexampled prosperity, when architectural attention focuses on big, glossy urban projects, the Rural Studio provides an alternative of substance. In addition to being a social welfare venture, the Rural Studio--"Taliesin South" as Mockbee calls it--is also an educational experiment and a prod to the architectural profession to act on its best instincts. In giving students hands-on experience in designing and building something real, it extends their education beyond paper architecture. And in scavenging and reusing a variety of unusual materials, it is a model of sustainable architecture. The work of Rural Studio has struck such a chord-both architecturally and socially--that it has been featured on Oprah, Nightline, and CBS News, as well as in Time and People magazines.The Studio has completed more than a dozen projects, including the Bryant "Hay Bale" House, Harris "Butterfly" House, Yancey Chapel, Akron Chapel, Children's Center, H.E.R.O. Playground, Lewis House, Super Sheds and Pods, Spencer House addition, Farmer's Market, Mason's Bend Community Center, Goat House, and Shannon-Dutley House. These buildings, along with the incredible story of the Rural Studio, the people who live there, and Mockbee and his student architects, are detailed in this colorful book, the first on the subject."I tell my students, it's got to be warm, dry, and noble"--Samuel Mockbee [via]
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Secret and Sacred: The Diaries of James Henry Hammond, a Southern Slaveholderby James Henry Hammond, Carol K. Rothrock BleserISBN 157003222X (1-57003-222-X)
Softcover, Univ of South Carolina Pr
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Simple Justice: The History of Brown V. Board of Educationand Black America's Struggle for Equalityby Richard KlugerISBN 1400030617 (1-4000-3061-7)
Softcover, Vintage Books
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The South in Modern America: A Region at Oddsby Dewey W. GranthamISBN 1557287104 (1-55728-710-4)
Softcover, Univ of Arkansas Pr
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The South Was Right!by Walter Donald Kennedy, James Ronald KennedyISBN 1565540247 (1-56554-024-7)
Hardcover, Pelican Pub Co Inc
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Southern Quilts: Surviving Relics of the Civil Warby Bets Ramsey, Merikay WaldvogelISBN 1558535985 (1-55853-598-5)
Softcover, Nelson Incorporated, Thomas
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Southern Quilts: Surviving Relics of the Civil War'Book summary:In this colorful book, rich photographs and oral histories of 29 Southern quilts that survived the Civil War offer perspectives on life in the South during the most turbulent time in American history. Sadly, we do not have Annie Dardent's Disunion Quilt, but among those featured are&
Confederate Cradle Quilt - a work of red and white silk and black velvet made by Mrs. Robert E. Lee, Mrs. Jefferson Davis, and friends in 1863 in Richmond, Virginia
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Alabama Gunboat Quilt - an appliqued, embroidered, and stuffed quilt produced and sold as part of a campaign to raise funds to build Confederate gunboats
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A Southern Woman's Storyby Phoebe Yates PemberISBN 1570034516 (1-57003-451-6)
Softcover, Univ of South Carolina Pr
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Stuck Rubber Babyby Howard Cruse, B. TaggartISBN 1563892553 (1-56389-255-3)
Softcover, Dc Comics
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Taltosby Anne RiceISBN 0963192515 (0-9631925-1-5)
Hardcover, B E Trice Pub
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The Temple of My Familiarby Alice WalkerISBN 0896219372 (0-89621-937-2)
Softcover, Thorndike Pr
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The Tennessee Encyclopedia of History & Cultureby Tennesse Historical Society, Carroll Van WestISBN 1558535993 (1-55853-599-3)
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A Tidewater Morningby William StyronISBN 1568950489 (1-56895-048-9)
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A Time of Terrorby James CameronISBN 093312144X (0-933121-44-X)
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The Truest Pleasureby Robert MorganISBN 1565122224 (1-56512-222-4)
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The Two-Bear Mamboby Joe R. LansdaleISBN 089296491X (0-89296-491-X)
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The Underground Asheville Guidebookby Tom Kerr, Gail Forsyth-KerrISBN 0967956609 (0-9679566-0-9)
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A Very Southern Christmas: Holiday Stories from the South's Best Writersby Barry Hannah, Judy H. Tucker, Charline R. McCord, Wyatt WatersISBN 1565123832 (1-56512-383-2)
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A Virtuous Womanby Kaye GibbonsISBN 1565122062 (1-56512-206-2)
Hardcover, Algonquin Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Virtuous Woman'Book summary:Oprah Book Club® Selection, October 1997: Gibbons's novel, A Virtuous Woman, takes place in the same hardscrabble part of the world as Ellen Foster. The virtuous woman is Ruby Pitt Woodrow, a woman who might have ended up like Ellen Foster's mother if fate, in the shape of Jack Stokes, hadn't crossed her path. The daughter of prosperous farmers, Ruby runs off with a migrant worker who treats her badly, then abandons her far from home. When she meets Jack, a man 20 years her senior, she's working as a cleaning woman in another prosperous farmer's house. Jack is a man women don't look at even once, let alone twice; Ruby is a woman who needs someone to take care of her. Out of this unlikely union grows a quiet kind of love that is no less powerful for being unstated.
Ellen Foster and A Virtuous Woman share more than just location and a few characters in common. Though each is a complete novel in and of itself, taken together the two books resonate one another: Ellen Foster and Ruby Pitt Woodrow are both damaged people who find the kind of love they need to heal. These multilayered novels are tough-minded and resolutely unsentimental, just like their protagonists. Yet like Ellen and Ruby, each contains a nut of sweetness at its core that takes the bitter edge off the hard lives and hard stories Kaye Gibbons has to tell. [via]
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Voodoo, Past and Presentby Ron BodinISBN 0940984601 (0-940984-60-1)
Softcover, Univ of Louisiana at Lafayette
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Was Jefferson Davis Right?by Walter Donald Kennedy, James Ronald KennedyISBN 156554370X (1-56554-370-X)
Softcover, Pelican Pub Co Inc
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Wolf Whistleby Lewis NordanISBN 1565121104 (1-56512-110-4)
Softcover, Workman Pub Co
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