Fiction - Southern

Freshly unemployed in Kentucky, Winston Alcorn hauls his wife and two young sons deep into Tennessee, not in pursuit of a job, but of his rightful historic destiny.Thus begins a generational saga of mendacious transformations: Winston first becomes the owner of the mill where...

Georgia Murder School is a fast paced, non-stop, crime drama that takes on the classic crime thriller with a rich plot and unforgettable characters. Among the so-called villains being trained in rural Georgia to become the best killers in the world for a consortium...

From the author of the cult classic Lives of the Saints, a diaristic novel of middle-aged reckoning that roves from Washington, D.C. to New Orleans, from court records to Don Giovanni, all of it riotously narrated by one of American fiction's most singular voices....

Set in 1980s Kentucky, this striking debut novel is told from inside a treatment home for troubled teenagers, where lost boys become more than their pasts and dare to imagine different futures. They came from the streets, the sticks and every place in between....

A riveting, quirky, and authentic tale of a disgraced former Texas Sheriff who takes it upon himself to investigate the murder of a hog trapper, and in doing so try to atone for the sins of his past. Still reeling from the scandal that...

Cora had big dreams, the kind a girl like her from a place like Black Bottom, TN, shouldn't' have the audacity to dream. With the encouragement of a benefactor and the boldness of a young woman whose spirit is not yet broken by disappointment,...

God Tier Book!! "This belongs at the top of everyone's TBR right NOW... A story that needs to be talked about EVERYWHERE." - ★★★★★ Reader ReviewHymns of Blue Hollow, a historical fiction romance novel set in the rugged hills of 1940s Tennessee, where survival,...

Explore the rich cultural tapestry of Appalachia through heartfelt stories and satirical fables, celebrating resilience and humor in the face of adversity. Discover the lives of unforgettable characters and the enduring spirit of a community that thrives against all odds. In Just A Hoot...

Author: M. L. BullockISBN-13: 9798230486114Publisher: M.L. BullockLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/02/2025Pages: 294Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.75lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.62d

"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...

Experience the timeless charm of a Maine coastal community in Harriet Beecher Stowe's "The Pearl of Orr's Island: A Story of the Coast of Maine." This historical fiction novel follows a captivating story of girls growing up in a bygone era. Set against the...

★★★★★ "This novel was as breathtaking as the first. I couldn't put it down, and when I did, I couldn't stop thinking about what would happen next." - Reader ReviewerIn Where the River Settles, the second novel of the best-selling Hymns of Blue Hollow...

In September 1989, Hurricane Hugo barrels toward Pawleys Island. Amy Sullivan, an Asheville real estate agent who grew up on the island, defies evacuation orders to help her father, Nate, who refuses to leave the old family home. Long estranged by silence and grief,...

Jim Cameron, a small-town pharmacist in Nevada, can't shake the feeling that something is off. Why does the world seem so different from the good ol' days? What has changed? Is it just him, or is an unseen darkness creeping through humanity like a...

Nathan Erskine never planned to teach-nor did he expect to encounter one particularly trying student and quit in his first year. Despite his doubts, Nathan's classroom would become the unlikely stage for a destiny far larger than he could imagine.Matthew Beckham prided himself on...

Sartoris is William Faulkner's first major exploration of the Southern legacy that would define much of his later work. Set in the fictional Yoknapatawpha County, this haunting and lyrical novel tells the story of the Sartoris family-once-proud Mississippi aristocrats grappling with a world that...

They say you can never go home again. And sometimes, you shouldn't. Following a semi-successful career as a teen model in New York City, Danielle Greer has moved back to the mountains of North Georgia and is living in her childhood home with her...

In the heart of the North Carolina Appalachians, a summer of escape becomes a fight for survival in this gripping thriller. Thirteen-year-old Boyd is sent to his grandfather's farm after a schoolyard fight, where he's expected to spend the summer working the land and...

Southern noir with a soul.In the shadows of the Florida Panhandle, family ties run deep and betrayal runs deeper. Perfidious Tides introduces readers to a haunting world where loyalty, survival, and legacy collide. Perfect for fans of S.A. Cosby, David Joy, and Wiley Cash,...

In response to the dire economic conditions in eighteenth-century Ireland, A Modest Proposal ironically exhorts the poor to provide their offspring as food to the rich. Skilfully applying a wealth of classical rhetorical techniques, Swift's satirical tour de force takes a savage swipe at...

Welcome back to Chinkapin, Georgia, where Laurie and Chase are living happily ever after - or are they? He's awfully busy with work, and Laurie's either out with her friend Mary or chasing down another freelance article for the "Journal." Come to think of...

Mystic Ridge is a small town set deep in the mountains of Tennessee. The townsfolk go out of their way to embrace everyone with cookies, kittens, and a warm welcome. They enjoy nothing more than setting folks properly on their destined path.You'll meet Violet...

Teen age, a time of change, of reflection, of charting new paths. Now, Peter Bennings, 13, can explore his own sexuality and fantasizes sexual encounters with real and imaginary girls, while struggling with his awkwardness in real-life experiences with them. His naiveté locks him...

Author: Bob McGoughISBN-10: 1963996194ISBN-13: 9781963996197Publisher: Bearded Bard InworksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/15/2023Pages: 276Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.82lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.62d

Author: Edwin RittsISBN-13: 9798986441313Publisher: RittsLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/22/2022Pages: 586Format: HardcoverWeight: 2.05lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.25d

Author: Susan M. BoyerISBN-10: 1959023489ISBN-13: 9781959023487Publisher: Stella Maris Books, LLCLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/04/2025Pages: 302Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.77lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.68d

The death of Ruth Parker reunites her daughters, three women scarred by a childhood of mysterious secrets and nightmares. Now they must choose a less violent path-or embrace their mother's terrifying legacy.Author: S. P. MiskowskiISBN-13: 9798218810702Publisher: Grimscribe PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/14/2025Pages: 66Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.22lbsSize: 9.00h...

Author: Addie E. CitchensISBN-10: 142053176XISBN-13: 9781420531763Publisher: Thorndike Press Large PrintLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/11/2026Format: Library BindingLarge Print

Author: T. a. SpencerISBN-13: 9798231838882Publisher: T. A. SpencerLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/17/2025Pages: 386Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.98lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.86d

Author: Sheila WilliamsonISBN-10: 195962444XISBN-13: 9781959624448Publisher: Booklocker.comLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/20/2025Pages: 254Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.12lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.63d

Author: Susan M. M. BoyerISBN-10: 1959023500ISBN-13: 9781959023500Publisher: Stella Maris Books, LLCLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/04/2025Pages: 386Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.19lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.86dLarge Print

Author: Susan M. BoyerISBN-10: 1959023497ISBN-13: 9781959023494Publisher: Stella Maris Books, LLCLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/04/2025Pages: 276Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.16lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.75d

For fans of Kate Morton, Amy Harmon, and Sally Page comes a multigenerational novel infused with touches of magical realism about a woman's journey to find her place in an uncertain world as she unravels her family's legacy. In 1934, a child's death tears...

From the bestselling author of The Memory of Butterflies comes the first in a bittersweet series about love and loss.Kara Hart was scarred by loss―first the loss of her mother and now her husband. She feels broken, with no will to move forward, until...

Settled comfortably into her new life at Rose Haven with her grandmother-while reconnecting with the love of her life-twenty-six-year-old Charlotte Graves is surprised when Grammy offers to give her the entire estate. As she wrestles with that decision, Charlotte's past comes knocking on the...

"If you haven't read Stewart O'Nan, you have some catching up to do."--Stephen King "Scathing and intelligent . . . Makes the skin crawl." --Los Angeles Times In Stewart O'Nan's cult classic crime novel, a death-row inmate gives her confession--a hair-raising tale of sex,...

Brila Landry, a twenty-nine year old living in Texas, lost a part of herself the night her sister, Angelle, died in a tragic car accident. When she ends up on the wrong end of budget cuts at work a few months later, Angelle's words...

A searching, atmospheric novel that celebrates Southern cowboy culture and the Black people who have always been a part of it, from the acclaimed author of Redwood Court, a Reese's Book Club Pick A sprawling landscape of sand, red clay, and pine trees, Fairfield...

Author: Alysia Baker EveISBN-13: 9798993462912Publisher: Un-Settling BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/12/2025Pages: 254Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.76lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.53d

Author: Grace Helena WalzISBN-10: 1400352851ISBN-13: 9781400352852Publisher: Thomas NelsonLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/14/2026Pages: 368Format: Paperback

A heartwarming and empowering novel about thriving after tragedy, from the author of the "enchanting, hilarious, and insightful" (Patti Callahan Henry, New York Times author) My Magnolia Summer. Violet Adams is the perfect, youngest child in a family of strong women on Sullivan's Island,...

Michael, age 17, drove himself from Oregon to the hell hole of a small Texas town in the summer of 1969. As the Woodstock music festival dominated the nation's attention, Michael felt he was driving through the gates of paradise, going the wrong way.Kathleen,...

Limited time special offer! With the purchase of any book on Amazon by Katherine Elberfeld - winner of a place at the 2025 Playa Flamingo Writing Residency - get a free copy of her meditations collection In the Midst of Sunflowers! Just click kaewrites.com...

FROM THE AUTHOR OF CRAZY LOVE COMES AN OH-NO-YOU-DIDN'T NEW NOVEL ABOUT FOUR FRIENDS ON THE ADVENTURE OF A LIFETIME -- A CARIBBEAN CRUISE FULL OF SUN, FUN, AND MORE SEXY ESCAPADES THAN THEY EVER DREAMED OF! At first all they have in common...

Author: August WestISBN-13: 9798231959280Publisher: August WestLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/07/2025Pages: 298Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.76lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.67d

Everyone is dying to attend the Christmas gala-the event of the season-until one of the hosts turns up that way. Dead, that is.When a doctor is urgently summoned, Matthew rushes to help. But he's too late.Was the man murdered?Suspecting foul play, Matthew calls the...

Somewhere along the continuum of Flannery O'Connor, Erskine Caldwell, and Dave Barry (what, there is such a continuum?) comes Chris Blaine. In this honey of a Southern novel, Blaine takes you into the lives of some simple country folks. These characters are the salt...

Elias Leander Muller did not hunt with Teddy Roosevelt in the Dismal Swamp, as he claimed. He never represented North Carolina in the U.S. Congress. He never lived on a plantation.Lies. All lies. In the post-Civil War South, Elias grows up along the eastern...

Follow GBI Special Agent Daniel Byrd in Zero One, the fourth installment of the Daniel Byrd Adventures series-and the explosive final chapter of the Texas Trilogy.Family and friends. What will you do for your friends, and how far will you go for your family?After...

Thomas Wolfe's 1929 semi-autobiographical novel is a rich and detailed tapestry of human experience, chronicling the coming-of-age of Eugene Gant in the early 20th century. The narrative begins with Eugene's birth into a tumultuous family in the fictional town of Altamont, a place defined...