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Peachtree Road
Anne Rivers Siddons - G K Hall & Co
Format: Hardcover
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Lucy Bondurant Chastain Venable and her now reclusive cousin Sheppard Gibbs Bondurant III, have been confidants ever since Lucy came to live with Shep's family. These two and their town has been through much over the years, and whether they can survive it together still remains to be seen....... |
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Penhally
Caroline Gordon - J.S. Sanders & Co.
Format: Print book
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This narrative of a landed Kentucky family, traced over four generations, shows the decline of its patriarchal order, overwhelmed in the twentieth century by an irresponsible individualism. "The best American novel I know." - Ford Madox Ford. Southern Classics Series. |
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Look Homeward, Angel
Thomas Wolfe - Scribner Paperback Fiction
Format: Paperback
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Look Homeward, Angel is an elaborate and moving coming-of-age story about Eugene Gant, a restless and energetic character whose passion to experience life takes him from his small, rural hometown in North Carolina to Harvard University and the city of Boston. The novel's pattern... |
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Gone with the Wind
Margaret Mitchell - Warner Books
Format: Print book
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A monumental classic considered by many to be not only the greatest love story ever written, but also the greatest Civil War saga. |
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Their Eyes Were Watching God: A Novel
Zora Neale Hurston - Harper Perennial Modern Classics
Format: Paperback
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A PBS Great American Read Top 100 Pick"A deeply soulful novel that comprehends love and cruelty, and separates the big people from the small of heart, without ever losing sympathy for those unfortunates who don't know how to live properly." - Zadie SmithOne of the most important... |
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The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
Carson McCullers - Houghton Mifflin
Format: Print book
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With the publication of her first novel, THE HEART IS A LONELY HUNTER, Carson McCullers, all of twenty-three, became a literary sensation. With its profound sense of moral isolation and its compassionate glimpses into its characters' inner lives, the novel is considered McCullers' finest... |
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Clover
Dori Sanders - Algonquin Books; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover
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Clover Hill is ten years old when her father, the principal of the local elementary school, marries a white woman, Sara Kate. Just hours later, an automobile accident compels Clover to forge a relationship with the new stepmother she hardly knows in this beautiful, enduring novel about... |
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Wise Blood: A Novel
Flannery O'Connor - Noonday Press
Format: Paperback
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Wise Blood, Flannery O'Connor's astonishing and haunting first novel, is a classic of twentieth-century literature. It is the story of Hazel Motes, a twenty-two-year-old caught in an unending struggle against his innate, desperate faith. He falls under the spell of a "blind"... |
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Ship of Fools
Katherine Anne Porter - Little
Format: Paperback
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The story takes place in the summer of 1931, on board a cruise ship bound for Germany. Passengers include a Spanish noblewoman, a drunken German lawyer, an American divorcee, a pair of Mexican Catholic priests. This ship of fools is a crucible of intense experience, out of which everyone... |
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To Kill a Mockingbird
Harper Lee - Harper Perennial Modern Classics
Format: Paperback
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Harper Lee's Pulitzer prize-winning masterwork of honor and injustice in the deep south - and the heroism of one man in the face of blind and violent hatredOne of the best-loved stories of all time, To Kill a Mockingbird has been translated into more than forty languages, sold more... |
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A Confederacy of Dunces
John Kennedy Toole - Grove Weidenfeld
Format: Paperback
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A Confederacy of Dunces is an American comic masterpiece. John Kennedy Toole's hero, one Ignatius J. Reilly, is "huge, obese, fractious, fastidious, a latter-day Gargantua, a Don Quixote of the French Quarter. His story bursts with wholly original characters, denizens of New Orleans'... |
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In Cold Blood
Truman Capote - Vintage Books
Format: Paperback
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National Bestseller On November 15, 1959, in the small town of Holcomb, Kansas, four members of the Clutter family were savagely murdered by blasts from a shotgun held a few inches from their faces. There was no apparent motive for the crime, and there were almost no clues. As Truman... |
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The Prince of Tides: A Novel
Pat Conroy
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Pat Conroy has created a huge, brash thunderstorm of a novel, stinging with honesty and resounding with drama. Spanning forty years, this is the story of turbulent Tom Wingo, his gifted and troubled twin sister, Savannah, and their struggle to triumph over the dark and tragic leg |
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Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe
Fannie Flagg
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A folksy, funny and endearing story of life in a small town in Alabama in the Depression and in the 1980s. However, the novel's laughter and tears are interrupted by a strange murder and a still stranger trial. |
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A Lesson Before Dying
Ernest J. Gaines - Vintage; 1 edition
Format: Paperback
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A Lesson Before Dying, is set in a small Cajun community in the late 1940s. Jefferson, a young black man, is an unwitting party to a liquor store shoot out in which three men arekilled the only survivor, he is convicted of murder and sentenced to death. Grant Wiggins, who left his hometown... |
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The Last Girls
Lee Smith - Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Format: Print book
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On a beautiful June day in 1965, a dozen girls-classmates at a picturesque Blue Ridge women's college-launched their homemade raft (inspired by Huck Finn's) on a trip down the Mississippi. It's Girls A-Go-Go Down the Mississippi read the headline in the Paducah, Kentucky, paper.... |
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I Am Charlotte Simmons: A Novel
Tom Wolfe - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover
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Dupont University--the Olympian halls of learning housing the cream of Americas youth, the roseate Gothic spires and manicured lawns suffused with tradition . . . Or so it appears to beautiful, brilliant Charlotte Simmons, a sheltered freshman from North Carolina. But Charlotte soon learns,... |
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The Unsettling of America: Culture & Agriculture
Wendell Berry - Sierra Club Books
Format: Paperback
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Since its publication by Sierra Club Books in 1977, The Unsettling of America has been recognized as a classic of American letters. In it, Wendell Berry argues that good farming is a cultural development and spiritual discipline. Today's agribusiness, however, takes farming out of its cultural... |
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No Country for Old Men
Cormac McCarthy - Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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Set in our own time along the bloody frontier between Texas and Mexico, this is Cormac McCarthy's first novel since Cities of the Plain completed his acclaimed, best-selling Border Trilogy.Llewelyn Moss, hunting antelope near the Rio Grande, instead finds men shot dead, a load of heroin,... |
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The Known World
Edward P. Jones - HarperAudio
Format: Hardcover
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Pulitzer Prize, Fiction, 2004National Book Critics Circle Award, Fiction, 2004Henry Townsend, a black farmer, bootmaker, and former slave, has a fondness for Paradise Lost and an unusual mentor, William Robbins, perhaps the most powerful white man in antebellum Virginias Manchester County.... |
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The Poisonwood Bible
Barbara Kingsolver - Harper
Format: Hardcover
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New York Times Bestseller * An Oprah Book Club Pick"Powerful . . . [Kingsolver] has with infinitely steady hands worked the prickly threads of religion, politics, race, sin and redemption into a thing of terrible beauty." - Los Angeles Times Book ReviewTaking its place alongside... |
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Joe: A Novel
Larry Brown - Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Format: Book
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Larry Brown's territory is north Mississippi--the back roads, the crumbling dwellings, the rolling hillsides. In Joe, Brown unleashes the full power of his talent and creates a riveting, heartbreaking story of the bond between a man who rides the back roads and a boy who walks them. |
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My Dog Skip
Willie Morris - Vintage Books
Format: Paperback
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Now a major motion picture form Warner Brothers, starring Kevin Bacon, Diane Lane, Luke Wilson, Frankie Muniz, and "Eddie" from the TV show Frasier (as Skip) , and produced by Mark Johnson (Rain Man) .In 1943 in a sleepy town on the banks of the Yazoo River, a boy fell in love... |
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Raney
Clyde Edgerton - Algonquin Books
Format: Book
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"This book is too good to keep to yourself. Read it aloud with someone you love, then send it to a friend. But be sure to keep a copy for yourself, because you'll want to read it again and again."-- Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey Raney is a small-town Baptist. Charles is a liberal... |
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Breathing Lessons: A Novel
Anne Tyler - Ballantine Books
Format: Audiobook
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BONUS This edition contains an excerpt from Anne Tylers The Beginners GoodbyeMaggie and Ira Moran have been married for twenty-eight yearsndashand it shows in their quarrels in their routines in their ability to tolerate with affection each otherrsquo s eccentricities Maggie a kooky lovable... |
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Ellen Foster
Kaye Gibbons - Algonquin Books
Format: Hardcover
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Winner of the American Academy of Arts and Letters' Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction and of the Ernest Hemingway Foundation's Citation for Fiction. An eleven-year-old heroine tells her unforgettable story with honesty, perceptivity, humor, and unselfconscious heroism. "The... |
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Murder Boogies with Elvis
Anne George - W. Morrow
Format: Print book
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The Southland's most mismatched set of siblings -- flamboyant Mary Alice and prim and proper Patricia Anne -- are back and ready to boogie in a King-sized story of hip-shaking mayhem and murder most tacky.At an age when most women are slowing down, oversized, over-the-top Mary Alice... |
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The Sweet Potato Queens' Book of Love
Jill Conner Browne - Crown Publishers
Format: Paperback
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To know the Sweet Potato Queens is to love them, and if you haven't heard about them yet, you will. Since the early 1980s, this group of belles gone bad has been the toast of Jackson, Mississippi, with their glorious annual appearance in the St. Patrick's Day parade. In The Sweet... |
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The Color Purple
Alice Walker - Harcourt Brace Jovanovich; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover
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Winner of the National Book Award as well as the Pulitzer Prize, "The Color Purple" established Alice Walker as a major voice in modern fiction. Her unforgettable portrait of Celie and her friends, family, and lovers is rich with passion, pain, inspiration, and an indomitable... |
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Cold Sassy Tree
Olive Ann Burns - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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The one thing you can depend on in Cold Sassy, Georgia, is that word gets around - fast. When Grandpa E. Rucker Blakeslee announces one July morning in 1906 that he's aiming to marry the young and freckledy milliner, Miss Love Simpson - a bare three weeks after Granny Blakeslee has gone... |
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Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood
Rebecca Wells - Wheeler Publ.
Format: Book
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"A big, blowzy romp through the rainbow eccentricities of three generations of crazy bayou debutantes." - Atlanta Journal-Constitution"A very entertaining and, ultimately, deeply moving novel about the complex bonds between mother and daughter." - Washington Post"Mary... |
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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Maya Angelou - Random House
Format: Paperback
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A phenomenal #1 bestseller that has appeared on the New York Times bestseller list for nearly three years, this memoir traces Maya Angelou's childhood in a small, rural community during the 1930s. Filled with images and recollections that point to the dignity and courage of black... |
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Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream
Hunter S. Thompson - Vintage; 2nd edition
Format: Paperback
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Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is the best chronicle of drug-soaked, addle-brained, rollicking good times ever committed to the printed page. It is also the tale of a long weekend road trip that has gone down in the annals of American pop culture as one of the strangest journeys... |
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Cold Mountain
Charles Frazier - Atlantic Monthly Press
Format: Hardcover
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Cold Mountain is an extraordinary novel about a soldier's perilous journey back to his beloved at the end of the Civil War. At once a magnificent love story and a harrowing account of one man's long walk home, Cold Mountain introduces a stunning new talent in American literature.Based... |
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Skinny Dip
Carl Hiaasen - Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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Chaz Perrone might be the only marine scientist in the world who doesn't know which way the Gulf Stream runs. He might also be the only one who went into biology just to make a killing, and now he's found a way-doctoring water samples so that a ruthless agribusiness tycoon can continue... |
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The Client
John Grisham - Doubleday
Format: Print book
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In a weedy lot on the outskirts of Memphis, two boys watch a shiny Lincoln pull up to the curb...Eleven-year-old Mark Sway and his younger brother were sharing a forbidden cigarette when a chance encounter with a suicidal lawyer left Mark knowing a bloody and explosive secret: the whereabouts... |
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Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
Tom Robbins
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The whooping crane rustlers are girls. Young girls. Cowgirls, as a matter of fact, all "bursting with dimples and hormones" - and the FBI has never seen anything quite like them. Yet their rebellion at the Rubber Rose Ranch is almost overshadowed by the arrival of the le |
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Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
Tom Robbins
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The whooping crane rustlers are girls. Young girls. Cowgirls, as a matter of fact, all "bursting with dimples and hormones" - and the FBI has never seen anything quite like them. Yet their rebellion at the Rubber Rose Ranch is almost overshadowed by the arrival of the le |
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Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
Tom Robbins
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The whooping crane rustlers are girls. Young girls. Cowgirls, as a matter of fact, all "bursting with dimples and hormones" - and the FBI has never seen anything quite like them. Yet their rebellion at the Rubber Rose Ranch is almost overshadowed by the arrival of the le |
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