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Southern Scenes
From Texas with its tall tales to the Atlantic states with their often Tara-sized dramas, these stories share some of the flavor of the South. |
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Bingo by Rita Mae Brown [Fic Bro] from Amazon.com: "…an outrageous, poignant, and surprising story of passion, rivalry, and small-town fun." |
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Body of Knowledge by Carol Dawson [Fic Daw] From Amazon.com: "Hugely overweight recluse Victoria Grace Ransom, sole remnant of a strange dynasty built selling ice and Model Ts in post-frontier Texas, unfolds her family's twisted history, gradually revealing her own engrossing secret." |
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Breathing Lessons by Anne Tyler [Fic Tyl] From The Reader's Catalog: "A moving portrait of a married couple caught in the normalcy of life's later years." |
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Choices by Mary Lee Settle [Fic Set] From Booklist: "From social debutante to gutsy old lady, Melinda Kregg Dunston has led a life no one would have expected of her. Born into high society in Richmond, Virginia, she decides early on that one's own wants and desires should take a backseat to helping others." |
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Ellen Foster by Kaye Gibbons [Fic Gib] From Amazon.com: "One of the most talked-about and endearing first novels in years bears the story of a female Huck Finn and her search for a true home." |
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Excuse Me for Asking by Janis Arnold [Fic Arn] From Amazon.com: "Spanning some twenty years, from the 1970s to the present day, a story of friendship and dreams follows the lives of two women--Julia Salwell and Robin Tilton--from their first meeting in college through the realities of real life." |
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Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe by Fannie Flagg [Fic Fla] From Amazon.com: "The tale of two women: the irrepressibly daredevilish tomboy Idgie and her friend Ruth, who ran a little place in Whistle Stop, Alabama, back in the thirties. Their southern-style cafe offered good barbecue, good coffee, and all kinds of love and laughter--not to mention an occasional murder." |
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Handsome Road by Gwen Bristow [Fic Bri] Corrie May Upjohn struggles to make a life for herself during the Civil War and Reconstruction-era south. |
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Hard to Catch Mercy by William Baldwin [Fic Bal] From BarnesandNoble.com: "In a small town in South Carolina in 1916, fourteen-year-old Willie T. Allson comes to manhood in a manner befitting the finest Southern tall tales." |
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In Memory of Junior by Clyde Edgerton [Fic Edg] From Barnes & Noble.com: "A heartbreaking, side-splitting new novel of life, death, and family in the South…. The whole Bales family is buzzing over which of its oldest members will pass on first, what will be passed down to whom, and what will happen when a black-sheep uncle comes home." |
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Light Can be Both Wave and Particle by Ellen Gilchrist [Fic Gil] From Valerie Miner - Women's Review of Books: "Ellen Gilchrist's stories read like the conversation of a speedy, cologned Southern lady with a hilariously irreverent taste for the anecdotal. . . ." |
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Looking after Lily by Cindy Bonner [Fic Bon] From The Reader's Catalog: "In 1880s Texas, when an outlaw is obliged to look after his jailed brother's pregnant wife, he finds, through a series of adventures, that it's becoming harder and harder to tell who's looking after whom." |
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Natchez by Pamela Jekel [Fic Jek] From the Publisher: "Natchez tells the tale of four generations of proud, strong-willed women…." |
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Outer Banks by Anne Rivers Siddons [Fic Sid] From the Publisher: "Four young women bound by rare, blinding, early friendship- they spend two idyllic spring breaks at Nag's Head, North Carolinas…. Now thirty years later, they are coming back." |
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Preacher's Boy by Terry Pringle [Fic Pri] From Publisher's Weekly: "It's not easy to be a preacher's son in a town chock-full of people happy to inform your Baptist father of every sin you've committed and a few they wish you'd try your hand at. The daily battles between Michael Page and his upright father spill out the doors of the church into every aspect of their lives." |
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Saving Grace by Lee Smith [Fic Smi] From Barnes & Noble.com: "… a darkly comic and compelling novel about Gracie, blessed with a gift she doesn't want, who pursues earthly and divine love on a road that comes to a disturbing but inevitable conclusion." |
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Souls Raised from the Dead by Doris Betts [Fic Bet] From Publisher's Weekly: "… [Betts] chronicles a family in crisis and pain as a child battles a serious illness…" |
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Southern Exposure by Alice Adams [Fic Ada] During the 1930's, the Bairds move from Connecticut to Pinehill, North Carolina and find their lives changed, as they quickly become involved in the lives of the townspeople. |
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Summer Gloves by Sarah Gilbert [Fic Gil] From Amazon.com: "When Pammy Outlaw discovers that her husband of fifteen years is cheating, the former Miss America pageant fourth runner-up packs her bags and heads for her childhood home in New Jersey." |
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Tending to Virginia by Jill McCorkle [Fic McC] From Library Journal: "Fears and insecurities about her future and a sense of detachment from her present life drive young, married, pregnant Virginia Sue Turner Ballard to the people and places most familiar to her." |
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The Truest Pleasure by Robert Morgan [Fic Mor] From Booklist: "Ginny and Tom, who live in the North Carolina mountains at the turn of the century, marry for mutual convenience: she needs someone to manage her aging father's extensive properties, and he has a visceral need to farm land he can eventually call his own. Love grows as they strive to understand and respect one another." |
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Wolf Whistle by Lewis Nordan [Fic Nor] From Library Journal: "The wolf whistle of the title comes from Bobo, a black teenager from Chicago visiting in Arrow Catcher, Mississippi. Directed at the wife of the town's most prominent white resident, this whistle soon leads to Bobo's murder. Based on the Emmett Till lynching…." |