Fiction - Southern

Sarah Booth and Tinkie, along with baby Maylin, are in Bay St. Louis, Mississippi, for Christmas this year, as judges for the annual library tree-decorating contest.Author: Carolyn HainesISBN-10: 1638085587ISBN-13: 9781638085584Publisher: Premier Mystery SeriesLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/01/2022Pages: 500Format: Library BindingWeight: 1.15lbsSize: 8.81h x 5.85w x 1.12dLarge...

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 beside a curvy, small-town road. Their unlikely partnership leads to major life changes as they try to protect Poppy, the...

During the Great Depression, labor camps crop up in remote areas throughout the American South. Destitute workers live under terrible conditions. Trapped in these isolated locations, workers are entirely dependent on the often greedy, abusive camp owners who provide food and housing at grossly...

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...

Atlanta. 1963. Three adolescent girls go missing. And a killer is on the loose. Young Billy Tarwater, eleven years old at the time and infatuated with one of the girls, thirteen-year-old Cynthia Hudspeth, finds himself caught up in the drama and suspense of the...

Discover the origins of Jane Austen's trademark wit and biting observations in these early writings. With the earliest writing dating from when Jane Austen was just eleven, these stories are a fascinating insight into the polished writer she would later become. Readers familiar with...

Do you want to read An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge? If so then keep reading..."An Occurrence At Owl Creek Bridge" was originally published by the in 1890 it is set during the American Civil War. It is the story of Peyton Farquhar, a...

Do you want to read An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge? If so then keep reading..."An Occurrence At Owl Creek Bridge" was originally published by the in 1890 it is set during the American Civil War. It is the story of Peyton Farquhar, a...

*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...

Jackson's blood has long been entrenched in the political landscape of Mississippi. With his now-dead father a state Supreme Court judge, his grandfather an Ole Miss attorney, and his great-grandfather the governor, his family history has always been in the public eye. But when...

p>She had big dreams. But will war, tragedy, and naïveté ruin her aspirations?America, the 1940s. Margaret Rose longs to escape her family's poverty. So against her domineering father's wishes, the determined young woman elopes with an older man. But shortly after the US enters...

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...

Kin Patterson is One Sorry Individual.He sorry he is the last Patterson; sorry that at 27 years of age all he has to show for his life is failure; sorry that the best part of any day is getting plastered with the other pitiful...

On August 22, 1791, the Haitian war of independence began in flames. On that night, known as the "Night of the Fire," over 100,000 slaves rose up against their hated French overlords, burning every plantation, and executing every French man, woman, and child they...

Thomas Sparkman wasn't looking for trouble. He never could have imagined being on a wanted poster, let alone becoming a notorious gold robber hunted in two states. But when Thomas sneaks off the Cuban front of the Spanish-American War with his sights set on...

Herb has a secret: he's not quite the man he once was. And when his children learn of this, they decide it is time to move him and his wife, Susan, who is slipping into early Alzheimer's herself out of their Key West home...

"A big, sprawling saga of a novel" (San Francisco Chronicle), this epic family drama is a masterwork by the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Great Santini.Set in New York City and the low country of South Carolina, The Prince of Tides...

Lillah Lawson has written a stunning elegy to America's past, its sins, and our constant drive to do better. SO LONG, BOBBY is a love letter not just to finding your home, but what it means to earn love, respect, and community. The secrets...

"A psychological portrait akin to Lord of the Flies." Midwest Book Review SOME TRUTHS ARE BETTER KEPT SECRET.SOME SECRETS ARE BETTER OFF DEAD. ALONG THE BANKS OF THE BOGUE FALAYA RIVER, sits the abandoned St. Francis Seminary. Beneath a canopy of oaks, blocked from...

Catherine O'Shea is the oldest and most responsible of the three O'Shea sisters. She has just buried her mother, one of the last victims of the flu epidemic of 1918. Her father had been one of the first to succumb to the flu and...

NATIONAL BESTSELLERNamed a Best Book of the Year by: Time * Kirkus Reviews * USA Today * Entertainment Weekly * Garden & Gun * Vox * Atlanta Journal-ConstitutionA Most Anticipated Book of Fall from: Associated Press * Atlanta Journal-Constitution * BookPage * Book Riot...

For singer/songwriter Dani Williams, music has always carried her - until now. No longer able to ignore her pain, Dani travels south to volunteer at a safe home for LGBTQ+ youth. While there, she meets Mae, an advisor to the residents whose warmth is...

A short story collection exploring the bounds of contemporary family and how we move forward in a world so often changed by loss.Lauded by Kevin Wilson as "an exceptional collection that introduces us to an exciting new voice," The Great American Everything orbits the...

Mule Bone: A Comedy of Negro Life is a 1930 play by American authors Langston Hughes and Zora Neale Hurston. The process of writing the play led Hughes and Hurston, who had been close friends, to sever their relationship. Mule Bone was not staged...

It was not a place one should visit without an invitation but Harlan Fleming wasn't going to stay long. In fact, it was a surprise he ended up here. It wasn't what he planned. Yet, when he heard there would be no school if...

One of "The Most Wanted Crime Novels of 2023" -- Crimefictionlover.com Join a heart-racing road trip across 1970s America as two cousins make the heist of their lives and must avoid the cops and criminals hot on their tails. It's the summer of '74...Richard...

Eve Malone is impatient, her life unsettled. When not working, she cares for her mother in a dilapidated trailer on the family property, Malone Ridge. Momma is in rehab, and Daddy is getting out of prison soon. To cope, Eve lives vicariously through a...

After the successful assassinations of two tyrannical variants ofAbraham Lincoln, (the subject) John Wilkes Booth heroically continues hisepic quest as a savior/deliverer of worlds traveling inter-dimensionally.This book is a part of the Victorian-Confederate serial/series "AbrahamLincoln Burns In Hell." Each issue strives to play upon...

Orphaned at age eight, JoAnna Wilson was raised by her eccentric aunt in the bucolic southern community of Mt. Moriah. Now a twenty-six-year old would-be writer, JoAnna faces several crossroads: in her marriage, in her career, and in her faith.JoAnna left home for Chicago...

Orphaned at age eight, JoAnna Wilson was raised by her eccentric aunt in the bucolic southern community of Mt. Moriah. Now a twenty-six-year old would-be writer, JoAnna faces several crossroads: in her marriage, in her career, and in her faith.JoAnna left home for Chicago...

Herb has a secret: he's not quite the man he once was. And when his children learn of this, they decide it is time to move him and his wife, Susan, who is slipping into early Alzheimer's herself out of their Key West home...

During the Great Depression, labor camps crop up in remote areas throughout the American South. Destitute workers live under terrible conditions. Trapped in these isolated locations, workers are entirely dependent on the often greedy, abusive camp owners who provide food and housing at grossly...

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...

Professor El-Haddad's life is nothing but problems: he's in debt up to his eyeballs, bored to tears at his job, and hasn't dated in years. Not to mention rent is due on his minuscule pod in West West Palm Beach. But none of that...

When Senator J.A. Burnside is found dead in his penthouse, the police rule it a suicide. However, Detective Arch Williams isn't convinced, so decides to dig deeper. Meanwhile, Tradd Mashburn, a young attorney, comes across a seemingly run-of-the-mill historic preservation lawsuit coupled with an...

"What a magnificent read this book delivers! From the first sentence to the very last letter, this story was a real treat. It should become an instant classic. The author's vivid descriptions of Mint's experiences elicit chills."-Dr. Morris L. Redd, Grace for Granted: Finding...

Large Print Version She had big dreams. But will war, tragedy, and naïveté ruin her aspirations? America, the 1940s. Margaret Rose longs to escape her family's poverty. So against her domineering father's wishes, the determined young woman elopes with an older man. But shortly...

Hill Man, set in the Kentucky Hills, is the story of the ambitious and lustful Rady Cromwell and three women. According to Giles, Rady was emblematic of men in his time and place, "men who know no law but their own wills and desires,...

"Ever since Pa hit him in the head with the two-by-four, Earl had lived with blinders on. Not real blinders, of course, because that would be foolish. It was his own brain that blinkered him."EARL HAHN is slow, the last one to catch on...

Tenth book in this popular Southern Fiction series set in the small North Georgia town of Chancey. Spring is in the Chancey air-almost. Spring means planning. Planning for gardens, weddings, babies, and spring break. But first comes the North Georgia book festival with a...

It's a new year in Chancey, and hope abounds. Carolina hopes her daughter, Savannah, will figure out what she's doing after graduation, hopes her husband, Jackson, working from home won't drive her crazy, and hopes being a grandma to her son Will's new baby...

"A masterly achievement." - Publishers Weekly STARRED review"Many readers are looking for the next Where the Crawdads Sing, and will find The Floating Girls...is a close cousin." - Augusta ChronicleFierce 12-year-old Kay can't ignore the problems surfacing in her troubled home--or the mysterious marsh...

With the dark determination of Flannery O'Connor, the inventive urgency of Haruki Murakami, and an insight and wit all his own, Leach conjures the American South with all its beauty, magic, tragedy, grace, and violence. Young boys make a dangerous deal with the vagrant...

A haunting, "exquisitely written" novel that explores the true costs of tradition, gun ownership, masculinity, and Southern mythmaking through the lens of an accidental shooting that reverberates across generations (Fiona McFarlane, author of The Night Guest).​ "A vital Southern novel that speaks to a...

Ashton, Mississippi, provides the deceptively sterile, conforming, and blindly respectable background in The Welcome, a novel written by Hubert Creekmore in 1948. After moving to New York following Jim's wedding, Don returns home, routed by the Depression of the 1930s. He finds Jim stuck...

This edition of Madge Vertner was produced with the assistance of Accessible Archives.Mattie Griffith's pre-Civil War abolitionist novel Madge Vertner is a fictional portrait of American slavery told from the perspective of the young daughter of a wealthy southern slave owner. Originally serialized from...

First published in 1939, Dossie Bell is Dead promised to be the first of many novels in the aspiring literary career of Jack Happel Boone.Born in Gibson County, Tennessee, in 1903, Boone grew up in the town of Henderson in Chester County during the...

From debut novelist Maris Lawyer, The Blue Line Down is a breakneck tale of betrayal, loyalty, and unexpected homecoming. Jude Washer wants to run: away from the coal mines where he is destined to work, away from his father's abuse of his little brother,...

It's Halloween season in Mississippi as Sarah Booth and the gang gather to decorate and gush over Tinkie's new baby, Maylin. Sarah Booth is just about to refresh the cocktails when she hears a knock on the door and opens it to find a...

In the run-up to the 2016 election, Owen Callahan, an aspiring writer, moves back to Kentucky to live with his Trump-supporting uncle and grandfather. Eager to clean up his act after wasting time and potential in his early twenties, he takes a job as...