Fiction - Southern

With a Hammer for My Heart is the story of Lawanda, a precocious, poverty-stricken fifteen-year-old girl from Cardin, Kentucky, who dreams of attending college. When Lawanda's friendship with an alcoholic World War II veteran named Garland is misinterpreted by their fellow townspeople, a tragedy...

Jim Tomlinson's previous book of short stories, Things Kept, Things Left Behind, won the prestigious Iowa Short Fiction Award and received enthusiastic reviews. The New York Times compared the strong sense of place in Tomlinson's writing to that found in the works of Flannery...

In The Sand Castle, beloved American novelist Rita Mae Brown (Rubyfruit Jungle) revisits some of her most spirited and unforgettable characters—sisters Juts and Wheezie Hunsenmeir, and Juts's precocious young daughter, Nickel—as they come together to cope with a life-defining loss.It's August, 1952, and seven-year-old...

Acclaimed by The Boston Book Review as incantatory ... poetic and magical, Water from the Well is a novel forged in the soul of community. Set in rural Arkansas, it opens in 1919 with a cow-pasture ball game between the whites of Sugars Springs...

"Michael Knight is more than a master of the short story. He knows the true pace of life and does not cheat it, all the while offering whopping entertainment."--Barry Hannah Long considered a master of the form and an essential voice in American fiction,...

Four years ago, Lew Fonesca's wife Catherine was struck and killed in a hit-and-run. Grief-stricken, he fled to Chicago and wound up in Sarasota, Florida where he's made a living as a process server. Four years on, he's still savoring his depression like fine...

After the rival McLean clan guns down his cousin, Colman Harpe chooses peace over seeking revenge with his family. But when he hears God tell him to preach to the McLeans, a failed attempt to run away leaves him sick and suffering in their...

Georgia, 1924. Fourteen-year-old Tenny is determined to change her fate. After running away from bleak prospects to a tiny town, she fights to find a respectable place to stay. But with scant belongings and little money, she's soon battling for survival in a world...

With this breakneck story of love and loss, the award-winning author of Evidence of Things Unseen and Properties of Thirst, Marianne Wiggins delivers a compelling novel that is a series of powerful metaphors for the curative forces of love as well as her own...

From Tom Lee to Robert E. Lee, who made the fateful decision to turn from the nation he loved to defend the state he loved more, the Lees of Virginia dominated both their local and our national landscape.Author: Carey Roberts, Rebecca SeelyISBN-10: 0156903369ISBN-13: 9780156903363Publisher:...

The moving tale of two small-town Virginia families and the crumbling of their shelters--religion, convention, and social prejudice--by a Pulitzer Prize-winning author. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book.Author: Ellen GlasgowISBN-10: 0156816903ISBN-13: 9780156816908Publisher: Mariner BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/15/1985Pages: 408Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.19lbsSize: 8.60h x 5.66w x 1.01d

Jacob Higgins's teenage rage rarely simmers below the surface for long. He despises his negligent mother and her alcoholic boyfriend, Refrigerator Man, and he's indifferent to school and his friends -- though a little less casual about girls and marijuana. His antics have landed...

From the New York Times best-selling author of The Red Hat Club comes a hilarious story of marriage and love and second chances. When Elizabeth Mooney escaped the shame of her white trash family to marry Howell Whittington, the crown prince of her small...

Welcome back to New York Times bestseller Sandra Hill's Cajun country, where love heats up the Louisiana bayou . . .Former Chicago cop Simone LeDeux is back home in the bayou, sharing a double wide in the Pearly Gates trailer park to help her...

Hill Towns is a classic novel of remarkable emotional power, insight, and sensitivity from Anne Rivers Siddons, whose books live on the New York Times bestseller list and in the hearts of millions of her adoring fans. One of the acknowledged masters of contemporary...

The lives of the three McBroom sisters of Tallulah, Tennessee, were tangled before the eldest, Eleanor, discovered their mother hanging from the Venetian blinds—and the years have done little to comb out the knots. Now a drunken encounter with the midnight train has left...

Lauren Nossett's artfully written debut, The Resemblance is an exhilarating, atmospheric campus thriller reminiscent of If We Were Villains and The Likeness. Never betray the brotherhood On a chilly November morning at the University of Georgia, a fraternity brother steps off a busy crosswalk...

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...

Written historically authentic, Jenice Graham Benedict's true-life novel, IN THE LAND OF COTTON, tells of her family through seven protagonists. The novel is set in America's mid-nineteenth century, moves forward a hundred years through the Second Industrial Revolution, and ends in the modern twentieth...

An Atlanta ex-cop comes to sleepy Lake Sackett, Georgia, seeking peace and quiet - but he hasn't bargained on falling for Frankie, the cutest coroner he's ever met. Frankie McCready talks to dead people. Not like a ghost whisperer or anything - but it...

A historical drama based on the Battle of Blair Mountain, pitting a multi-ethnic army of 10,000 coal miners against mine owners, state militia, and the United States government in the largest labor uprising in American history. Rednecks is a tour de force, big canvas...

"Like the best country song you have ever heard." Jane Stern, author of Ambulance GirlWith Strangers to Temptation, Things that Crash, Things that Fly, and The Hammerhead Chronicles, Scott Gould cemented his reputation as one of the most inventive, distinctive voices of Southern literature....

An unexpected love. A surprising second chance.Everything Luke Bridges always wanted is in the small coastal North Carolina town where he has spent most of his twenty-six years-a fulfilling mental health therapy career, a loving family, baseball games with his dad, an adventurous beach...

Carrie Jo's maiden voyage through Marietta rocks CJ on her heels but she's not running away from the dark entity residing in the boneyard.With the help of Ashland, Rachel and a new ghostly friend, Carrie Jo learns the history of Marietta and develops a...

What exactly are two single women whose age is somewhere north of seventy, doing on a westbound Greyhound?Life in Morgan Crossroads, Alabama is as normal its residents can make it before the tallest man to ever grace the porch of Brown's General Store shows...

Author: Dantiel W. MonizISBN-10: 166511469XISBN-13: 9781665114691Publisher: HighBridge AudioLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/02/2021Format: MP3 CDWeight: 0.04lbs

When a demolition crew stumbles upon suspicious items in Margaret Gates's abandoned apartment, the police come to her, seeking answers. Margaret fears that her tempestuous past is resurfacing, but to her surprise, the items don't belong to her. The question remains: Whose are they?...

When three women receive an unexpected phone call that leaves them reeling, they have no other choice but to reckon with a lifetime of memories they've long tried to bury. Only in facing the past will they find their path forward.Frances Mae Livingston's firm...

THE POITEVINS. The history of France in 1792 has been too fully written, and too generally read to leave the novelist any excuse for describing the state of Paris at the close of the summer of that year. It is known to every one...

Escape is only one spell awayCourtney and her friends dream of escaping Shady Acres Trailer Park, a place of broken dreams and rusted out cars. Their wishes seem to come true when Courtney meets an older woman who promises to give them their heart's...

An inspiring fiction story from the bestselling author of War RoomGrayson Hayes doesn't remember things as well as he used to, but he's sure his time is running out. Diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer's, he realizes he has a small window of time left to...

Inertia is a property of matter and of marriages. Lori is a nurturing type who avoids conflict, priding herself on her adaptability. Parenting keeps her too busy to face her eroding relationship with independent Ike, who is consumed by his job. Receiving only crumbs...

For fans of Harper Lee and Rita Mae Brown, Roy Hoffman's new novel is steeped in a sense of place--coastal Alabama--with its rich tapestry of characters caught in a web of justice not for all. Early Praise for The Promise of the Pelican: "Roy...

The battle to end racism, and all the hate and anger that goes with it, is won through many small engagements.One such engagement begins on the eve of desegregation at the Pulaski County Consolidated High School. There, we see the budding friendship between Mike...

Bea's mother, Kate, was diagnosed with breast cancer. But that's not the biggest news Bea heard that day. When they return home, Kate makes a shocking confession. She is not Bea's birth mother. For the past 18 years, Bea had no idea that the...

Time is measured in many ways. A clock measures seconds, minutes, and hours. A calendar measures time by days, weeks and months. But in a cemetery the process of time is measured by births and deaths, by beginnings and endings, and so is the...

Lenny's out of options. He's lost his arm to his abusive older brothers and he's lost his bearings within his family. But he's determined not to lose hope. He attempts an escape on a stolen skiff, hoping to ride the rivers from his family's...

The Dead Leaves presents a collection of four distinct stories, each set against the backdrop of autumn. Through the tapestry of fall colors and themes, these tales weave a common thread of introspection, transformation, and drama. In "Tuesday Law," a first-year law student, on...

Inertia is a property of matter and of marriages. Lori is a nurturing type who avoids conflict, priding herself on her adaptability. Parenting keeps her too busy to face her eroding relationship with independent Ike, who is consumed by his job. Receiving only crumbs...

​"I bought the house," Butch says over the phone. Art Deats does not have to ask which one. His brother has been fixated on their childhood home deep in the swamps of lower Alabama ever since they fled the place in terror forty years...

"Ginger Pinholster, a master of significant detail, weaves her struggling characters' pasts, present, and futures into a breathtaking, beautiful novel in City in a Forest." -IndieReader Approved​Winner of a gold medal in the 2020 Florida Writers Association Royal Palm Literary AwardsHidden in the heart...

"The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" is a gothic story by American author Washington Irving, contained in his collection of 34 essays and short stories entitled The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent.. Written while Irving was living abroad in Birmingham, England, "The Legend of...

The details of Clyde A. Barbour's early life on the Mississippi River call to mind the adventures of that famous riverboat pilot Mark Twain, and like Twain, Clyde would never be content with a life limited by riverbanks - his dreams and ambitions went...

Blood in the Low Country, the first of the Atkins Family Low Country Sagas, tells the story of a southern family living in Charleston, South Carolina in 1973. The book follows the lives of Monty Atkins, his wife Rose, and their sons Eli and...

"A riveting journey through an unthinkable turn in American history. To the Manor Born is bold, it's honest, and you can't put it down." -Dr. Mario Dell'Olio, author of Letters from ItalyThe Modern Day. The Confederate States of America stretches from Richmond to Los...

Four women come together to save the summer camp that changed their lives and rediscover themselves in this "moving and nostalgic" (Southern Living) new novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Wedding Veil and the Peachtree Bluff series. Nearly thirty years...

"If you like clean, cozy mysteries that keep you guessing until the end and fun-filled family sagas, you'll love the Made in Savannah Cozy Mystery series by Hope Callaghan!" Just days before Carlita is set to walk down the aisle, Pete's former business partner...

In this intimate portrait of two generations, a granddaughter and a grandmother come to terms with what it means to heal when the world is on your shoulders.The world is burning, and Corinne will do anything to put out the flames. After her brother...

Seven years ago, a hidden betrayal scattered three young friends living in the shadow of Biltmore Estate. Now, when Biltmore Industries master weaver Lorna Blankenship is commissioned to create an original design for Cornelia Vanderbilt's 1924 wedding, she panics knowing she doesn't have the...

A reunion between an estranged mother and daughter opens a world of secrets in a poignant novel by the bestselling author of Magnolia Nights.Julia Martin grew up wealthy, but it wasn't until she met her husband, Jack, that she knew true happiness. He made...