Fiction - Southern

What do you do when your hero turns out to be the guy who hates your guts?Sabrina Cassidy is turning her life around. Sure, it's about six weeks too late. Sure, she should have said no to those umbrella drinks on the beach. And...

A married couple gets a second chance at mending their fairy tale in this searingly honest and sexy Southern drama, perfect for fans of This Is Us and Shonda Rimes.​Yasmen and Josiah Wade promised each other forever. For better or worse. Through thick and...

After years of rubbing elbows with Austin's elite, Sunday Frederick jumps at the chance to escape the concrete jungle and practice natural medicine in her beloved hometown. But returning to the sleepy East Texas community of Old Salem with a fast-talking fiancé in tow...

In this blistering return to ChrisOffutt's acclaimed crime series, Mick Hardin is tested like never before asfamilial allegiances and old wounds collide, threatening to destroy everythinghe lovesWith his signature crackling prose, literary master Chris Offutt has staked out his own territory in crime fiction,...

In this standalone, Edgar-award winning author, Joe R. Lansdale, whom "few can match" (Booklist) beams a light on an East Texas town where a QAnon-style, evangelist cult is brewing trouble. Charlie Garner has a bad feeling. His ex-wife, Meg, has been missing for over...

From a stunning new voice, comes a powerful debut novel, Perish, about a Black Texan family, exploring the effects of inherited trauma and intergenerational violence as the family comes together to say goodbye to their matriarch on her deathbed. Bear it or perish. Those...

The New York Times bestselling author of Under the Southern Sky and the Peachtree Bluff series "brings her signature warmth and Southern charm" (E! Online) to this sweeping novel following four women across generations, bound by a beautiful wedding veil and a connection to...

Ezra Magee has worked hard to make a good life for himself as a professor, husband, and father. He's even made peace with the fact that he can't remember any of his childhood in the small town of Folly, Alabama, before a traumatic event...

Author: Patricia L. HudsonISBN-10: 1950564282ISBN-13: 9781950564286Publisher: Fireside IndustriesLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/01/2022Pages: 288Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.20lbsSize: 8.50h x 6.30w x 1.60dReview Citation(s): Publishers Weekly 09/05/2022

This is a new, updated second edition of The Happiness In Between that was originally published in 2017. Same story different cover.Sandra did all the right things growing up, but after she left home for college her choices always went wrong, especially choosing to...

Brittany Nelson returns to the South Carolina Lowcountry to help her sister, Blake, run the family bed and breakfast and care for her three-year-old niece. Soon after, strange occurrences begin taking place. Brittany can't shake the feeling that the ghosts of her family's past...

Love triangles are complicated enough. Try adding a dead person to the equation...After Blake Nelson catches her abusive fiancé, Parker, cheating on her with another woman, she escapes in search of serenity at her late grandmother's beach cottage. Unfortunately, Parker follows Blake to the...

The novel Uncle Tom's Cabin, by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe, focuses on a slave named Uncle Tom to weave a portrayal of the cruelty of slavery, finding redemption in the idea that Christian love can conquer something so destructive.It turned out to be...

Postmodern Blues tells the story of Jack Shock, an English professor from Virginia, who we find at the novel's opening on unofficial sabbatical, living in alcoholic oblivion in the highlands of Guatemala. Fleeing a bad marriage and doomed academic career, Shock is lured home...

I've not yet figured out exactly what, in literary terms, a short story is supposed to accomplish, except to say it should do so with far fewer words than a novel. My collection herein does not attempt to break unbroken ground or to achieve...

Eddie Burke knows what it's like to work your soul away at the bottom of the notorious Black John Mine No. 3. So when Turp Lawson asks if he can join the little drinking party that Eddie and a couple of the other miners...

Author: Chris TusaISBN-10: 1604890304ISBN-13: 9781604890303Publisher: Livingston Press at the University of West AlLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/01/2009Pages: 160Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.60lbsSize: 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.60d

'More English Fairy Tales' is a collection of stories written by Joseph Jacobs, accompanied by the masterful black-and-white illustrations of John D. Batten. It includes such tales as 'The Pied Piper', 'Tattercoats', 'The Golden Ball', 'Coat O'Clay', 'The Children in the Wood', 'The King...

The tale of a stone-cold frontiersman blasting across his beloved Texas highways in an attempt to retain his sense of daring and independence among friends, family, bookies and under-reported enemies.Beneath the Sands of Monahans introduces Archie Weesatche, a hard working orphan who's recently sold...

Redemption is the story of a man named John Jacobi, who readers first meet as he enjoys the simple pleasures of life as an elderly retired resident of Charleston, South Carolina. The highlight of John's daily routine is his morning visit to his favorite...

Master mechanic Lyle James built a successful but lonely life in Tinker Creek after rescuing his dad's auto repair shop until an international development firm conspires with local officials to condemn the shop and steal his land.Jose "Manny" Porter has come home to take...

When struggling actor Phillip Stalworth breaks up with his girlfriend, he returns home to the Deep South to care for his ailing mother and unexpectedly falls for a local carpenter. Working through his past with his complicated family, some old high school chums, and...

Live for Today, Laugh for Tomorrow. Love Forever. Busy running an upscale spa and beauty salon, Alyson Ruth Barr is floating into old age supported by her big, quirky, southern family. Three times widowed, at 55, she's looking forward to a quiet life in...

Fans of Surviving Savannah by Patti Callahan, The Book of Lost Friends by Lisa Wingate, and Almost Sisters by Joshilyn Jackson will enjoy Folly Park. Are we ever able to escape the past? Should we be allowed to? Though deeply ashamed of her slaveholding...

When her beloved father vanishes in 1919, Leola has little time to question why. Pandemic and social turmoil rage across Texas, poverty looms, and her two young sisters need her. Only decades later, as Papa reappears in urgent visions, does Leola finally confront his...

Young Darnell Rabren is lost and confused in Mississippi, and he and his friend, Judson, are on an epic quest to discover the meaning of life. Darnell knows a lot, but there's a lot he doesn't know, and his misadventures with Judson across the...

Reconstruction features nine interconnected stories about a diverse group of people living in Atlanta, Georgia in the early part of the 21st century. These individuals must deal with changes in their lives which cause them to come to terms with their past actions and...

Professor Olive Twist has come to Zinnia, Mississippi to study a mysterious grave wherein lies the Lady in Red, a perfectly preserved and stunningly beautiful but unnamed and unclaimed body. Olive claims she can not only identify the corpse, she can also prove the...

Winner of the Malice Domestic Award for Best First Traditional Mystery Novel With a gutsy heroine, a lovable dog sidekick, quirky characters, and a charming locale, Kathryn O'Sullivan's Foal Play is a zany, fun-filled ride sure to please mystery readers. Colleen McCabe is enjoying...

Author: Tim WestoverISBN-10: 0984974865ISBN-13: 9780984974863Publisher: Qw PublishersLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/10/2019Pages: 388Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.38lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 1.00d

A black man retrieves his family history from the jumble of papers tenaciously guarded by an aged white cousin. Low income residents of an inner city apartment house rescue Santa from a balky elevator. Black widow spiders exact revenge on a conniving maid. A...

Featuring a WSP Reading Group Guide Purvis, Mississippi, 1974: Willem Fremont has just returned to his childhood hometown to come to grips with his past. He has spent his adult life held tight inside the clenched fist of panic disorder -- the stagnation produced...

"Gracefully written, witty, and empathetic, Leaving Letitia Street has been a long time coming but its rewards were surely worth waiting for." -Rosellen BrownJacqueline Simon writes richly varied short stories about the difficulties of creating or maintaining relationships with the people one may love...

In this story of hope, resilience and unexpected love, a young mother finds refuge and friendship at a boardinghouse in 1960s Memphis, Tennessee. Sara King has nothing, save for her secrets and the baby in her belly, as she boards the bus to Memphis,...

Set in rural, poverty-stricken North Carolina, this "beautiful, gritty, and piercing" novel follows two young women--best friends--as they "journey through the highs and lows of friendship, love, and addiction," perfect for readers of Julie Buntin's Marlena (Erika Carter, author of Lucky You). Irene, a...

"Annabel Thomas with her heartfelt, supremely wise, and often funny trio of novellas here is my new favorite writer, and I expect it will be a while before anyone comes along to take her place." Donald Ray Pollock, author of The Devil All the...

The stories in this collection give voice to the history and soul of a rural collective. These people want to belong-to themselves, their families, their communities, and their God. Their motivations, disturbing at times, expose their love, loneliness, and their limits. As one character...

Blackmail in the Big Easy turns to cold-blooded murder in this debut cozy mystery perfect for fans of Jane K. Cleland. When the mysterious letter arrives by courier, Valerie Cooper doesn't know what to make of it. She's become the beneficiary of her late...

In this brilliant fiction debut from a legendary visual artist, thirteen interconnected stories explore friendship and intimacy, loneliness and dislocation, and the physical contours of a dilapidated American landscape. These stories, which first appeared as part of Coursey's solo exhibition at The Pollock Gallery...

A story about second chances, forgiveness, and finding home in unexpected places.Seven. That's how old Luella McCrae was when her mother abandoned her, leaving her in the driveway of her grandparents' foster home. There, she grew up among the other fosters, resenting every day...

Storytelling at its finest...beguiling! -- Kirkus Reviews (starred) on The Drifter's Wheel Fever Devilin is killed by an intruder. He doesn't stay dead - thanks to an emergency medical team - but he does slip into a months-long coma. When he comes out of...

In this lyrically written, hauntingly seductive novel, Bret Lott brings to life the beauty and flavor of the mist-covered swamps and backlands of South Carolina's Lowcountry in a story that is both mystery and rite of passage. At fifteen, Huger ("you say it YOU-gee")...

Jo Salter, a mathematical prodigy from the mountains of North Carolina, remakes herself from a bank teller to a nightclub owner and bootlegger when the Great Depression upturns her life. Author: Terry RobertsISBN-10: 168442853XISBN-13: 9781684428533Publisher: Keylight BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/19/2022Pages: 432Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.51lbsSize: 8.50h x...

When Gabriel Jim駭ez and his family moved to the Texas Hill Country, they looked forward to a clean slate. Gabriel, a timid and scrawny teenager, longs to retreat into the throngs of students.Bobby Kershaw is the most merciless son of a vicious family. With...

Dale Hopper isn't what you'd call ambitious. When he accepts a gig with the Oklahoma County Zoo, his only goal is to make enough money to bankroll a move to California, a hospitable place for longhaired guitar-playing boys such as himself and his best...

*IndieBRAG medallion recipient.*Shelf Unbound finalist for 2022 Best Indie Book Award.*Next Generation Indie Book Awards 2022 finalist in the category of general fiction.*Readers' Favorite Book Awards 2022 finalist in the category of Southern fiction.*Chanticleer International 2022 finalist for Laramie award in Americana fiction.*Literary Titan...

"The fate of the world is often driven by the curiosity of a girl. What happened to the Lost Colony of Roanoke remains a mystery, but the women who descended from Eleanor Dare have long known that the truth lies in what she left...

In the wake of the 1900 Galveston hurricane, three lives converge despite persecution from the Ku Klux Klan, a bare-knuckle boxing match gone wrong, and the recovery efforts of the American Red Cross.Based on a true storyThe hurricane of 1900, America's worst natural disaster,...

With a history of childhood loss and tragedy, Arliss Greene grows up to love his cattle more than his family. The memory of his family's displacement, due to TVA's construction of Norris Dam, stays with him as he struggles to make a living farming....

Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2022 by Ms. Magazine, The Root, Popsugar, Bustle, and many more!"An utterly absorbing and dazzling novel about the stories we tell to stay alive and the secrets we keep to protect ourselves." -- Nancy Jooyoun Kim, New York...