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  • The Red Hills of Home

    The Red Hills of Home tells the life and adventures of Georgia Boy Red, a farm boy who grew up in the southernmost hills of Georgia from the early 1930s to the 1950s. Born during the Great Depression, he came of age during the troubling days of World War II, followed by the Korean War, and life on a farming homestead wasn't always easy. Yet, despite the hardships of the times, he had a happy ... Read more

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  • The Maid's Version

    A Novel

    From an American master and author of Winter's Bone, this dark tragedy tells of a deadly dance hall fire and its impact over several generations.Alma DeGeer Dunahew, the mother of three young boys, works as the maid for a prominent citizen and his family in West Table, Missouri. Her husband is mostly absent, and, in 1929, her scandalous, beloved younger sister is one of the 42 killed in an ... Read more

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  • And Still I Rise

    A Book of Poems

    by Maya Angelou ...
    Maya Angelou’s unforgettable collection of poetry lends its name to the documentary film about her life, And Still I Rise, as seen on PBS’s American Masters.Pretty women wonder where my secret lies.I’m not cute or built to suit a fashion model’s sizeBut when I start to tell them,They think I’m telling lies.I say,It’s in the reach of my arms,The span of my hips,The stride of my step,The curl o... ... Read more

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  • A Funeral Ain't the Place

    Series series The Brandiron
    Jim Glover’s been through a lot. Gunfights, treks through the desert, battles with outlaws and Indians. Made it through unscathed every time. Now, he’s got to fight something worse—bring his buddy, Joe Cantrel, back home to Soldier Springs for the last time. See him buried proper. And—just maybe—set right the biggest mistake Joe ever made. ... Read more

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  • Fire Shut Up in My Bones

    The New York Times columnist recounts growing up in rural Louisiana in this "brave and powerful memoir" of poverty, abuse, sexuality, and perseverance ( Publishers Weekly).Charles M. Blow's mother was a fiercely driven woman with five sons, brass knuckles in her glove box, and a job plucking poultry at a factory near their segregated Louisiana town, where slavery's legacy felt close. When her ... Read more

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  • The Outlaw Album

    Stories

    "Woodrell writes about violence and dark deeds . . . in compact, musical prose. . . . once you begin reading [these short stories ]you can't stop." — New York TimesDaniel Woodrell is able to lend uncanny logic to harsh, even criminal behavior in this wrenching collection of stories. Desperation--both material and psychological—motivates his characters. A husband cruelly avenges the killing of his ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Heavenly Table

    A Novel

    From Donald Ray Pollock, author of the highly acclaimed The Devil All the Time and Knockemstiff, comes a dark, gritty, electrifying (and, disturbingly, weirdly funny) new novel that will solidify his place among the best contemporary American authors.It is 1917, in that sliver of border land that divides Georgia from Alabama. Dispossessed farmer Pearl Jewett ekes out a hardscrabble existence with ... Read more

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  • Low Country

    A Novel

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  • Stories of Breece D'J Pancake

    A collection of short stories from "a young writer of such extraordinary gifts that one is tempted to compare his debut to Hemingway's" (Joyce Carol Oates, The New York Times Book Review ).Breece D'J Pancake cut short a remarkably promising career when he took his own life in 1979 at the age twenty-six. In 1983 the posthumous publication of this book—a collection of stories that depict, with ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Wendell Berry: Port William Novels & Stories: The Civil War to World War II (LOA #302)

    Nathan Coulter / Andy Catlett: Early Travels / A World Lost / A Place on Earth /Stories

    by Wendell Berry ...
    Series Book 1 - Library of America Wendell Berry Edition
    Library of America inaugurates its edition of the complete fiction of one of America's most beloved living writersFor more than fifty years, in eight novels and fortytwo short stories, Wendell Berry (b. 1934) has created an indelible portrait of rural America through the lens of Port William, Kentucky, one of the most fully imagined places in American literature. Taken together, these novels and ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • A Childhood

    The Biography of a Place

    by Harry Crews ...
    **“One of the Finest Memoirs Ever Written” –The New Yorker“A Childhood has been widely recognized as a masterpiece, a Dickensian document of survival and blight in Depression-era Georgia.” –Harper’s**The highly acclaimed memoir of one of the most original American storytellers of the rural SouthA Penguin ClassicHarry Crews grew up as the son of a sharecropper in Georgia at a time when “the rest of ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • The Most They Ever Had

    by Rick Bragg ...
    The story of the mill people of Jacksonville, Alabama. The mill was here before the automobile, before the flying machine, and they served it even as it filled their lungs with lint and shortened their lives. In return, it let them live in stiff-necked dignity in the hills of their fathers. So, when death did come, no one had to ship their bodies home on a train. This is a mill story; not of ... Read more

    $6.99 USD