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1) Deep South
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Nevada Barr's ever-popular Anna Pigeon series is consistently praised as "exceptional" (Denver Post), "stunning" (Seattle Times), and "superb" (New York Times Book Review). In Deep South, Park Ranger Anna Pigeon heads to Mississippi, only to encounter terrible secrets in the heart of the south…
Anna Pigeon finally gives in to her bureaucratic clock-and signs on for a promotion. Next thing she knows, she's...
Anna Pigeon finally gives in to her bureaucratic clock-and signs on for a promotion. Next thing she knows, she's...
2) Deep South
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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2015
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The acclaimed author of The Great Railway Bazaar takes a revealing journey through the Southern US in a “vivid contemporary portrait of rural life” (Atlanta Journal-Constitution).
Paul Theroux has spent decades roaming the globe and writing of his experiences with remote people and far-flung places. Now, for the first time, he turns his attention to a corner of America—the Deep...
Paul Theroux has spent decades roaming the globe and writing of his experiences with remote people and far-flung places. Now, for the first time, he turns his attention to a corner of America—the Deep...
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Demon-slayers, evil forces, and an uber-bitchy ghost. . .
Hotter Than A Demon In Panties
Evie Douglass doesn't know what's worse--the demons secretly infesting her small Alabama hometown. . .or human belle-from-hell Meredith Starr Peterson, who's made her life miserable since high school. But when the "Death Starr" is brutally murdered and Evie is the number-one suspect, she's suddenly besieged by the evil-not-dead-enough...
Hotter Than A Demon In Panties
Evie Douglass doesn't know what's worse--the demons secretly infesting her small Alabama hometown. . .or human belle-from-hell Meredith Starr Peterson, who's made her life miserable since high school. But when the "Death Starr" is brutally murdered and Evie is the number-one suspect, she's suddenly besieged by the evil-not-dead-enough...
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Deep South Gold is a sprawling story that takes Jane from being a naive teenager to a strong, sexy, adult woman willing to do anything to protect her child. From the erotic, historical account, we bear witness to the conception, birth, childhood, and finally adulthood all the while chasing Confederate gold. Deep South Gold is full of greed, insanity, sex, voodoo, love, and history.
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Six great fiction stories that were put together to make one great book! Jump back to the nineties where you're taken through that decade of friendship, love, and loss. Jump back further to the eighties where two people are from two different environments but cross each other's paths and spark up an unusual romance. Two brothers who are different in many ways. Vernon, the older brother, has a young fiancée named Amber that Vincent, the younger brother,...
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When Thais "Grace" Roberson is born in the mid-1930s in a small town in southern Mississippi, a world of rattlesnakes and fragrant honeysuckle, her family is on the cusp of the middle class. But a move into the country to build their own home soon brings difficulty. There is no running water or electricity for the Roberson's growing family, and when a fire destroys the house they've put everything into, the family of six moves into the back of a gas...
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Luis Gasca brings you "Scary Stories of Deep South Texas". This is a collection of true stories of paranormal activity within Texas. Dive into these pages and experience these chilling encounters. If you were there to witness them, how would you respond? Find out more in this must-read book.
The encounters in this book may leave you frightened. Or they may leave you intrigued. But they are as real as anything — and now you have the chance to dive...
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2020.
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"From the best-selling, Pulitzer prize-winning author of All Over But the Shoutin' and The Best Cook in the World, a collection of his irresistible columns from Southern Living and Garden & Gun A collection of wide-ranging and endearingly personal columns by the celebrated author, newspaper columnist, and Pulitzer Prize winner Rick Bragg, culled from his best-loved pieces in Southern Living and Garden & Gun. From his love of Tupperware ("My Affair...
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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2015.
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"One of the most acclaimed travel writers of our time turns his unflinching eye on an American South too often overlooked. Paul Theroux has spent fifty years crossing the globe, adventuring in the exotic, seeking the rich history and folklore of the far away. Now, for the first time, in his tenth travel book, Theroux explores a piece of America--the Deep South. He finds there a paradoxical place, full of incomparable music, unparalleled cuisine, and...
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The rivalry between Auburn University and the University of Georgia began in 1892 and has largely been a competition more brotherly than bitter. According to one legend, Auburn's "War Eagle" battle cry originated at the first game between the two schools. The first overtime game in SEC history occurred in 1996, when Georgia topped the heavily favored Tigers, 56–49, in four extra periods. Renowned UGA coach Vince Dooley graduated from Auburn, while...
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Intolerant Cooks volume 12
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In the pastures of South Gippsland, Tracy & Richard fry up crispy buttermilk chicken, top a buckwheat mushroom risotto with anchovy gremolata, and end series one with a no-bake cashew cake jewelled with ruby-red cherries.
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Midnight in Savannah is the deliberately more, explicit and more, entertaining alternative, to the John Berendt / Clint Eastwood Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil. For more than a year after its appearance in 2000, it was one of the best-selling GLBT books in the Deep South. Midnight in Savannah skillfully incorporates Carson McCullers, Pamela Harriman, Libby Holman, the City of Savannah, and references to Georgia's most famous (recent) murder...
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The "Axe-man" came in the night. No one heard him come. No locks could keep him out. In the morning, whole families lay slaughtered in their beds, a riot of blood corrupting the room. Town by town, terror gripped the black communities of Louisiana and East Texas, as men, women, and children fell to the killer's ax. The police were powerless to stop it.
Was it simply a homicidal maniac on the loose, or was a deeper evil afoot? Could one person perpetrate...
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In 1967, when Jo Ivester was ten years old, her father transplanted his young family from a suburb of Boston to a small town in the heart of the Mississippi cotton fields, where he became the medical director of a clinic that served the poor population for miles around. But ultimately it was not Ivester's father but her mother-a stay-at-home mother of four who became a high school English teacher when the family moved to the South-who made the most...
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How do well-meaning people help a community move beyond its past when confronted by those who hold ingrained stereotypes, profit from maintaining the status quo, or are filled with antipathy toward others? This book tells the story of how a Black university president tried to do just that when he led the first non-court ordered merger of an historically Black university with an historically white two-year college in Albany, Georgia.
Arthur "Art"...
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Reflecting times of untrammeled faith and religious values, Martha Dickson's Anchors of Faith gives a pictorial overview of 145 mostly late-nineteenth century wooden churches located in southern Alabama, Mississippi, and throughout Florida. The churches featured, which span over a hundred years of history, embody the indomitable religious spirit of their builders. Anchors of Faith is more than just a pictorial encyclopedia, however. The author's descriptions...
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