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To Kill a Mockingbird
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Harper Lee
TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD is about the crisis of human behavior and conscience arising from the racism and prejudice that exist in the small Southern town during the Depression. Scout Finch, age 8, who lives with her brother, Jem, and their lawyer father, Atticus, in Maycomb, Alabama, tells the story of her father's defense of Tom Robinson, a young ...
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Uncle Toms Cabin
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Professor Harriet Beecher Stowe
Harriet Beecher Stowe's powerful but sentimental and stereotyped anti-slavery novel, published in 1852, was an inspiration to the abolitionist cause.
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Heart is a Lonely Hunter
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Carson McCullers
Amazingly, Carson McCullers wrote THE HEART IS A LONELY HUNTER when she was only 23 years old--her first book. It was an immediate success and is widely considered to be her greatest novel. McCullers tells the story of young Mick Kelly, a 12-year-old girl growing up during the Great Depression. Mick is a gifted pianist--as was McCullers--who longs ...
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All the King's Men
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Robert Penn Warren
Robert Penn Warren's classic novel chronicles the rise and fall of a Southern politician of the 1930s who resembles the real-life demagogue Huey Long. The populism of the protagonist gradually becomes corrupted by his ambition, but he never completely loses his desire to serve the common people. The conflict between ambition and duty has rarely ...
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Ellen Foster
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Kaye Gibbons (Read by)
An 11-year-old girl narrates this award-winning first novel. Ellen witnesses her beloved mother's suicide and is forced to live with her alcoholic father. Unable to stand his behavior, she runs away to live with her art teacher. A painful story of a young girl's search for identity and love.
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Black Like Me
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John Howard Griffin
In the fall of 1959, John Howard Griffin used medical treatments to darken the color of his skin and then set out on an odyssey through Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Georgia, a white man travelling as a black man in order to find out first-hand what it was like "to be a Negro in the Deep South," as he wrote at the time. His eloquent and ...
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Black boy
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Richard Wright
Published in 1945, this autobiography--the story of Wright's Southern childhood, up to the time when he left Memphis for Chicago--is considered by many critics to be his most important work.
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Member of the Wedding
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Carson McCullers
Frankie is a motherless 12-year-old growing up, with difficulty, in a town in Georgia in the 1930s. She is lonely, awkward, bored, and--like so many of Carson McCullers's characters--alienated from most of the people around her. When her brother returns from the service and announces he's getting married, Frankie hits on the desperate scheme of ...
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The Complete Stories
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Flannery O'Connor
Thirty-one stories are in this volume, including 12 that never appeared in collections published during her lifetime. The stories are arranged chronologically, beginning with her first published story, "The Geranium" and ending with her last one, "Judgement Day."
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Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War
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Tony Horwitz
A portrait of Civil War societies and the amateur historians who populate them throughout the South. Horwitz, the grandson of Russian immigrants who were obsessed with the conflict, spent a year visiting such societies to piece together his account. A "New York Times" Notable Book for 1998.
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Down River
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John Hart
From the "New York Times" bestselling author of "The King of Lies" comes this highly-anticipated, heart-pounding new thriller that tells the story of a river whose banks are filled with lies and murder, and the man whose destiny lies deep below its surface
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Little Bitty Lies
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Mary Kay Andrews
Mary Bliss McGowan thinks everything is just peachy until the night she finds a note from her husband Parker telling her he's gone--and he's taken all the family finances with him. There's only one thing for her to do: stage Parker's death and put in a claim for the insurance money.
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A good man is hard to find & other stories
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Flannery O'Connor
The collection that established O' Connor's reputation as one of the american masters of the short story. The volume contains the celebrated title story, a tale of the murderous fugitive The Misfit, as well as " The Displaced Person" and eight other stories.
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Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water
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Marc Reisner
Newly updated, this timely history of the struggle to discover and control water in the American West is a tale of rivers diverted and damned, political corruption and intrigue, billion-dollar battles over water rights, and economic and ecological disaster. Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award. Photos.
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Club Dead
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Charlaine Harris
Sookie's boyfriend has been very 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. Original.
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Gods and Generals
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Jeff Shaara
Taking over from his Pulitzer-winning father Michael, Jeff Shaara in this prequel to THE KILLER ANGELS (1974) follows the careers of the Civil War generals Lee, Hancock, Jackson, and Chamberlain up to the fateful Battle of Gettysburg.
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Being Dead Is No Excuse: The Official Southern Ladies Guide to Hosting the Perfect Funeral
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Gayden Metcalfe, Charlotte Hays
In this dishy collection of Southern humor and recipes, inveterate hostess and Southern belle Gayden Metcalfe explains everything one needs to know to throw a proper Southern funeral.
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Sacred Clowns
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Tony Hillerman
After three years, the author of Coyote Waits returns with another flawless, fast-paced mystery. His popular characters Officer Chee and Lt. Leaphorn search for the grisly thread linking the murder of a Pueblo tribal official, the death of a schoolteacher, and the loss of a priceless memento given to the Pueblos by Abraham Lincoln.
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Uncle Tom's cabin or Life among the lowly
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Harriet Beecher Stowe
Harriet Beecher Stowe's powerful but sentimental and stereotyped anti-slavery novel, published in 1852, was an inspiration to the abolitionist cause.
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First Eagle
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Tony Hillerman
Navajo detectives Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee must race against time to find out who murdered a fellow officer, and who is trying to spread the bubonic plague across the land. The only lead they have is a fiery young female biologist, except she hasn't been seen since the day of the murder.
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Sleep No More
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Greg Iles
When John Waters, a successful businessman, meets the spitting image of his dead college sweetheart, he is a little confused. When this new woman, Eve Summer, begins to intrude on his marriage, he is more than a little concerned. And when Eve reveals things that only his ex knew, John is scared....
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New Moon Rising
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Eugenia Price
Passion, inspiration, and intrigue surround the Goulds of St. Simons Island as Eugenia Price's masterful St. Simons Trilogy continues with Deborah, Horace Gould's child bride, guarding his besieged plantation during the Yankee invasion.
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Dance Hall of the Dead
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Tony Hillerman
When two boys disappear--one a Zumi, the other a Navajo--tribal rivalries flair as Lt. Joe Leaphorn tries to unravel the mystery.
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House Next Door
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Anne Rivers Siddons
A "haunting" (New York Post) new tale from the bestselling author of Hill Towns. The Kennedys are only mildly concerned when construction begins on the lot next to theirs. Soon, however, tragedies seem to strike those who live in the house next door much too frequently. Previous publisher: Simon & Schuster.
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Christmas with Southern Living
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Rebecca Brennan (Editor), Julie Fisher Gunter (Editor)
Revel in fresh approaches to holiday decorating and entertaining, Southern style, with "Christmas with Southern Living 2003, " a comprehensive guide to doing the holidays right. More than 175 color photos showcase simple, elegant, and easy-to-create decorating motifs, gift projects, and holiday menus.
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