Fiction - Southern

With comparisons to Flaubert, Chekhov, and Faulkner, O. Henry Award-winner John Biguenet earned wide acclaim for his debut short-story collection, The Torturer's Apprentice. In his astonishing first novel, Oyster, he demonstrates the same mastery of craft and rigor of vision that led critics across...

The author of the Edgar nominated and ALEX Award-winning How Lucky ("an absorbing thriller with heart"--People), blends suspense, humor, and compassion in a new novel about seven strangers and one very intense evening at a small-town Georgia pharmacy.Lindbergh's Pharmacy is an Athens, Georgia, institution--the...

A dog can change everything.In this novel inspired by a true story, three strangers set out to save a dog living in the woods along a small-town road. Their unlikely partnership leads to major life changes as they try to protect Poppy, the little...

The colloquial dialogue brings to life a community attached to the land on which they had lived for generations and the victuals and rituals that kept their world in motion amidst uncertainty.Author: James StillISBN-10: 1950564258ISBN-13: 9781950564255Publisher: Fireside IndustriesLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/19/2022Pages: 120Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.35lbsSize: 8.47h...

Jennifer S. Davis's linked collection, We Were Angry, winner of the Press 53 Award for Short Fiction, introduces us to a group of friends in small-town Alabama whose lives are haunted by tragedies that reverberate across generations. In Davis's world, Alabama is more than...

Jennifer S. Davis's linked collection, We Were Angry, winner of the Press 53 Award for Short Fiction, introduces us to a group of friends in small-town Alabama whose lives are haunted by tragedies that reverberate across generations. In Davis's world, Alabama is more than...

The latest novel from critically acclaimed Southern storyteller Scott Gould, The Hammerhead Chronicles explores the effects of grief, racism, homophobia, revenge, love, and loss on an oddball cast of contemporary characters in a small, fictitious South Carolina town . . . oh, and it's...

At turns haunting and breathtaking, Cicadas Sing of Summer Graves explores legacies of love, family, and the ghostly imprint grief leaves behind as three women face the past to bring light to an old Southern town lost deep beneath the surface.Years ago, yellow fever...

The Postmaster's Daughter by Sharon Mabry is a 1930s murder mystery set in Appalachia. When a marriage proposal brings together two families in East Tennessee, the wealthy and powerful Cantrells and the hardworking and respected Putnams, everyone is shocked by a sudden murder that...

Faulkner's second novel follows a bohemian cast of artists, socialites, and dilettantes as they set sail on a four-day excursion aboard the Nausikaa. Faulkner's quick wit and endless appetite for satire make this audiobook a fascinating exploration of character, as well as a rare...

Pro tip: Don't quit your job when the boss is your ride.Uly moves from Atlanta to south Georgia to take a new job doing honest work maintaining utility poles.Rachel is done with him. She rejects his on-again, off-again attempts to maintain a long-distance relationship.Uly...

In the face of a storm, a father's love is the most powerful force. With Hurricane Florence rapidly approaching the North Carolina coastline, all Niles North can think about is his five-year-old son Riley and how he wished he bent the law when he...

In the starving years after the Civil War, a girl is born in the northern hills of Alabama. The mother dies, and the heart-broken grandmother gives the precious child to strangers to raise as their own. Rambunctious and inquisitive, the little girl wants to...

An exuberant, bighearted novel about two teenage misfits who spectacularly collide one fateful summer, and the art they make that changes their lives foreverSixteen-year-old Frankie Budge--aspiring writer, indifferent student, offbeat loner--is determined to make it through yet another summer in Coalfield, Tennessee, when she...

Death just won't leave Howard alone. An alcoholic-three years sober-and still slinging drinks at a local queer watering hole, Howard can't seem to shake the bizarre and uncanny endings of the folks around him. The untimely demise of the go go boy; the nail...

Within a few short hours, rising floodwaters force next-door neighbors into a desperate fight for survival. Before Hurricane Katrina, neighbors Doreen Williams, an African American single mother, and Richard Girard, a reclusive gay man, were aloof and even suspicious of each other. But when...

"Odd, creepy, funny, The Black Lagoon meets the Six Gun universe. High up on the way-cool factor. You need this."--Joe R. Lansdale, Edgar Award-winning author of the Hap and Leonard series As an unlikely found-family flees toward Galveston, a psychic young girl bonds with...

THE #1 BESTSELLING THRILLER FROM AMERICA'S MOST BELOVED SUPERSTAR AND THE WORLD'S BESTSELLING AUTHOR. COMING AS A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE FROM REESE WITHERSPOON'S HELLO SUNSHINE. A new singer arrives in Nashville. She calls herself AnnieLee Keyes, and she has more beauty, talent, and ambition...

Winner of the 2024 Audie Award for Thriller/Suspense! "Lazarre-White masterfully portrays people of multiple races, old and young. He also delivers Cosby's reflections on family, grief, and faith with genuine introspection and without distracting from the tense plotlines...This is a gripping, timely tale--beautifully told."...

A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice - An Indie Next Pick - Named a Most Anticipated and Must-Read Book by BuzzFeed, Book Riot, and Ms. Magazine - One of Washington Independent Review of Books' Favorite Books of 2022"Vivid . . . Garza's...

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - USA Today Bestseller - Washington Post's The Twelve Best Thrillers of the Year - TIME's 100 Must Read Books of the Year - Goodreads Choice Award Nominee - USA Today's Best Reviewed Books of the Year - BookPage's...

In Michael Farris Smith's latest "riveting" epic, a young woman returns home with her child to her ghost-haunted father, while a religious extremist hunts the stormridden territory to find the girl who may be the region's savior. (Laird Hunt, National Book Award-nominated author of...

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...

A wonderfully atmospheric coming-of-age family drama told from the perspective of a young girl as she unravels the secrets that threaten her entire familyThe backwaters of Georgia hold many buried secrets. But they won't stay buried forever.One hot, sticky summer in Bledsoe, Georgia, twelve-year-old...

Three more terrifying stories featuring the Gulf Coast Paranormal team! A desperate property owner contacts Midas, the leader of Gulf Coast Paranormal, in hopes of getting to the bottom of recent paranormal activity. Phantom music, the apparition of a child, floating orbs and disembodied...

A gleefully dark and entertaining debut for fans of Kevin Wilson and Karen Russell, about one young woman's sensational summer at a Floridian wildlife center for exotic monkeys Jamie is a Florida Woman. She grew up on the beach, thrives in humidity, has weathered...

Sleepy Hollow is a strange little place...some say bewitched. Some talk of its haunted valleys and streams, the ghostly woman in white, eerie midnight shrieks and howls, but most of all they talk of the Headless Horseman. A huge, shadowy soldier who rides headless...

"Storms show up and there ain't a thing we can do to stop them."Sonny Bates left South Carolina fifteen years ago and never looked back. Now she's a successful Hollywood location scout who travels the world, finding perfect places for movie shoots. Home is...

"Storms show up and there ain't a thing we can do to stop them."Sonny Bates left South Carolina fifteen years ago and never looked back. Now she's a successful Hollywood location scout who travels the world, finding perfect places for movie shoots. Home is...

Award-Winning Author Pens a Unique Southern TaleWhen Minerva Jane Jenkins was just 14 years old, she married a man who moved her to the mountains. He carried with him a small box, which he told her was filled with gold. And when he died...

Seven million people visit the breathtaking beaches of North Carolina's Outer Banks each year looking for fun, relaxation, even romance - but not murder.An influential politician's staffer is found dead, right in the middle of a campaign. SBI Agent and struggling mother of three...

An exuberant, bighearted novel about two teenage misfits who spectacularly collide one fateful summer, and the art they make that changes their lives foreverSixteen-year-old Frankie Budge--aspiring writer, indifferent student, offbeat loner--is determined to make it through yet another summer in Coalfield, Tennessee, when she...

This Christmas the Carlyle sisters will rediscover the gift of familyFor some families, a Christmas reunion is like a feel-good movie. For Beth Carlyle, it might be more of a disaster epic. Her ex-husband's new girlfriend is already pregnant. Her self-absorbed, bestselling author mother...

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,...

Gala, a young New Zealand woman, is fleeing a relationship. She leaves a note on the table next to her wedding ring. With her guitar and daughter in tow, she leaves LA and takes the bus to Texas. Three days later she arrives at...

Pro tip: Don't quit your job when the boss is your ride.Uly moves from Atlanta to south Georgia to take a new job doing honest work maintaining utility poles.Rachel is done with him. She rejects his on-again, off-again attempts to maintain a long-distance relationship.Uly...

Pro tip: Don't quit your job when the boss is your ride.Uly moves from Atlanta to south Georgia to take a new job doing honest work maintaining utility poles.Rachel is done with him. She rejects his on-again, off-again attempts to maintain a long-distance relationship.Uly...

Walk through the door and leave all your problems behind ... but you don't know what's on the other side. And once you leave, you'll never come back. Will you go through?Maren Walker told herself she wouldn't need to sell pills for long, that...

Four women come together to save the summer camp that changed their lives and rediscover themselves in the process in this heartwarming new novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Wedding Veil. Nearly thirty years ago, in the wake of a...

In Michael Farris Smith's latest gritty epic, a young woman returns home with her child, to her ghost-haunted father, while a religious extremist hunts the stormridden territory to find the girl who may hold the key to the region's apocalyptic future. There was no...

A TODAY SHOW #ReadWithJenna BOOK CLUB PICK An indelible love story about two very different people navigating the entanglements of class and identity and coming of age in an America coming apart at the seams In the run-up to the 2016 election, Owen Callahan,...

"I'm fine." That Southern expression which says, "I am spiraling madly out of control, but don't you worry, sweetheart."Welcome to Liberty, Georgia. Population 2,424. Sweet old Ruth Chambers passed away after a lengthy illness, so that number might be off by one or two....

James Still left eastern Kentucky for Europe in 1941 after enlisting in the US Army during World War II, leaving behind a recently published, semiautobiographical work of fiction, On Troublesome Creek.Even as he developed a broader worldview, his work continued to draw from the...

The Finley family have been in Charleston for almost twenty-five years and are looking to mark the date with a celebration. They came from Liverpool England to open an office of their family business in Charleston. They've been very successful in business and the...

The Finley family have been in Charleston for almost twenty-five years and are looking to mark the date with a celebration. They came from Liverpool England to open an office of their family business in Charleston. They've been very successful in business and the...

Sara King has nothing, save for her secrets and the baby in her belly, as she boards the bus to Memphis, hoping to outrun her past in Chicago. She is welcomed with open arms by Mama Sugar, a kindly matriarch and owner of the...

2023 Literary Titan Gold Book Award WinnerFrom the author of Walking Home: Trail Stories-a gold and silver winner in the 2022 Human Relations Indie Book Award-Celia Ryker's fiction debut is based on the true story of her grandmother, a woman who endured abuse and...

Franky Dast is an unlikely hero. Wrongly convicted and later exonerated of killing two boys, Franky went on to uncover the real murderer. Now a 'free man' but living on the edges of society, for some he will always be tainted by his dark...

Now available in trade paper--just in time for women's history month--SIBA bestseller The Lost Book of Eleanor Dare explores the meaning of women's history and the sacrifices every mother makes for her daughter.What happened to the Lost Colony of Roanoke remains a mystery, but...

If Tipsy Collins learned one thing from her divorce, it's that everyone in Charleston is a little crazy--even if they're already dead.Tipsy, a gifted artist, cannot ignore her nutty friends or her vindictive ex-husband, but as a lifelong reluctant clairvoyant, she has always avoided...