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“mark childress”

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  • The Book of Orange: A Journal of the Trump Years By a Crazed Snowflake Employing Rhyming Insults, Limericks, Loathing, Hyperbole, Secret Transcripts, Show Tunes, Mockery, Rants, Jokes, & Rude Memes

    by Mark Childress ...
    "Mark Childress' puncture-sharp wit kept me sane during the Trumpian days of torment. What joy to have the complete compendium of horrors, delivered in the form of pure literary genius. The perfect alternative to Xanax or Zen meditation." – Amy Tan, author of The Joy Luck Club and Where the Past Begins"You, sir, are a libtard."– Glenn Beck"I love every word Mark Childress writes, including this ... Read more

    $9.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Tender

    by Mark Childress ...
    Tender is the novel of the greatest rock-and-roll star the world has ever seen. It's so intimate and so powerful a story, it has to be fiction.This is the story of Leroy Kirby, a poor white boy from Tupelo, Mississippi, who moves to Memphis, finds his voice, and transforms himself -- in one remarkable year -- from a guitar-picking truck driver to the most famous rock-and-roll singer in the world. ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • What It Means to Miss New Orleans

    by Mark Childress ...
    In two short essays and one long piece of reportage, author and screenwriter Mark Childress ("Crazy in Alabama," "One Mississippi," "Georgia Bottoms") explores New Orleans before, during, and after Katrina. Essays: "What It Means to Miss New Orleans" originally appeared in the New York Times, "Disaster Tourism" in Salon magazine, and "The Tragic City Laughs" in The Birmingham News. All proceeds go ... Read more

    $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • V for Victor

    by Mark Childress ...
    Reviews:ENTHRALLING AND DELIGHTFUL...RICH AND COMPELLING...What might at first have seemed a gently paced coming-of-age story turns into a rambunctious tale."—The Christian Science Monitor"With a marvelous ear for language and devilishly rich imagination, Mark Childress has crafted an engaging and readable novel."—The Boston Globe"Childress knows the business of words. His descriptions evoke a ... Read more

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  • Looking for Harper Lee: Two Essays

    by Mark Childress ...
    Novelist Mark Childress ("Crazy in Alabama," "Georgia Bottoms") happened to be born in Monroeville, Alabama – the town Harper Lee called Maycomb when she wrote about it in the classic "To Kill a Mockingbird." For years, as a journalist, Childress was told to pursue an interview with the famously reclusive author, who refused all entreaties. The first essay describes the importance of Harper Lee's ... Read more

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  • The Book of Orange

    A Journal of the Trump Years By a Crazed Snowflake Employing Rhyming Insults, Limericks, Loathing, Hyperbole, Secret Transcripts, Show Tunes, Mockery, Rants, Jokes, & Rude Memes

    by Mark Childress ...
    A man who can't pronounce "anonymous"In high office seems rather ominous.We don't have to get all Deuteronomous:Brains and power are rarely synonymous.""I love every word Mark Childress writes, including this new compilation of his great political writing. He is brilliant and hilarious. " - Anne Lamott"You, sir, are a libtard!" - Glenn Beck.New York Times bestselling author Mark Childress was like ... Read more

    $9.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Georgia Bottoms

    A Novel

    by Mark Childress ...
    Georgia Bottoms is known in her small community of Six Points, Alabama, as a beautiful, well-to-do, and devoutly Baptist Southern belle.Nobody realizes that the family fortune has long since disappeared, and a determinedly single woman like Georgia needs an alternative, and discreet, means of income. In Georgia's case it is six well-heeled lovers -- one for each day of the week, with Mondays off - ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • One Mississippi

    A Novel

    by Mark Childress ...
    A bestselling author "eloquently addresses racism . . .adolescent love, family dysfunction . . .with plenty of wit and insight" in this coming of age novel ( Booklist ).You need only one best friend, Daniel Musgrove figures, to make it through high school alive. After his family moves to Mississippi just before his junior year, Daniel finds fellow outsider Tim Cousins. The two become inseparable, ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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    One Mississippi

    by Mark Childress ...
    Narrated by Jeff Woodman ...

    Unabridged

    13 hours 18 min

    Mark Childress is the author of the New York Times best-seller Crazy in Alabama. Here he again turns his keen literary eye to smalltown Southern living. Yankee transplant Daniel Musgrove can't seem to fit in at his Mississippi high school. When he meets fellow outsider Tim Cousins, things look up. Then the two boys' battles with a local bully escalate into a violent act that rocks the town. ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

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    Georgia Bottoms

    by Mark Childress ...
    Narrated by Debra Monk ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 47 min

    A best-selling author of books for adults and children, Mark Childress pens his most outrageous work yet with Georgia Bottoms. The titular heroine is the epitome of the church-going Southern belle, except for one teeny-tiny aspect of her life. Georgia's family inheritance has long since evaporated, and to maintain her genteel lifestyle, Miss Bottoms has taken six affluent lovers-the fly in the ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

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  • Nine Lives

    Death and Life in New Orleans

    by Dan Baum ...
    The hidden history of the haunted and beloved city of New Orleans, told through the intersecting lives of nine remarkable characters.“Nine Lives is stunning work. Dan Baum has immersed himself in New Orleans, the most fascinating city in the United States, and illuminated it in a way that is as innovative as Tom Wolfe on hot rods and Truman Capote on a pair of murderers. Full of stylistic ... Read more

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  • The Death of Bees

    A Novel

    by Lisa O'Donnell ...
    Today is Christmas Eve.Today is my birthday.Today I am fifteen.Today I buried my parents in the backyard.Neither of them were beloved.Marnie and her little sister, Nelly, are on their own now. Only they know what happened to their parents, Izzy and Gene, and they aren't telling. While life in Glasgow's Maryhill housing estate isn't grand, the girls do have each other. Besides, it's only a year ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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