Fiction - Southern

True to its name, Burning Down My Father's House, comes at you like a house on fire. Michael Gills's fourth collection of short fiction continues the saga of Joey Harvell, who's from a people prone to impromptu fistfights on the sides of southern highways,...

Four generations. One remarkable hotel. Countless secrets. Nestled in the hills of West Virginia lies White Sulphur Springs, home to the Greenbrier Resort. Long a playground for presidents and film stars, the Greenbrier has its own gravitational pull. Over ten decades, four generations of...

From bestselling author Kathryn Andrews, comes a deeply emotional story about starting over, learning the true meaning of happiness, and finding love.With a broken heart and a desperate need to hide from the spotlight, Chicago socialite Rylie Crest flees to a small town on...

It's summer in Paradise Point, a quirky fishing village and artist's haven where nothing exciting ever happens - until Mr. Lewis reads the first of the As Always letters. These gossipy letters call out the uncivilized behavior of Paradise Point's most upstanding citizens, sparking...

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...

Winner of Kirkus Award for Independent novels, Dorie LaRue's remarkable collection of short stories from the postmodern South bears witness to the complicated lives of its characters as willful and courageous, doomed and redeemed. This book is about mothers and daughters and fathers and...

Set in Virginia, this novel evokes the irony of change in the rural South. Dorinda Oakley is a passionate, intelligent, and independent young woman struggling to define herself.Author: Ellen GlasgowISBN-10: 015610685XISBN-13: 9780156106856Publisher: Mariner BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/15/1985Pages: 540Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.51lbsSize: 8.54h x 5.64w x 1.30d

Four friends, four coaches, a football team, and a vendetta.An afternoon ride solidified the alliance among the four captains of the Last Creek Lobos, who called themselves the Four Horsemen, and started the football season of a lifetime.Jackson McCullen, Bobby Surges, Nick Hartford, and...

High Skies recounts the collision of devastating weather, Cold War suspicion, tense race relations, and the unintended consequences of good intentions in a small West Texas town in the 1950s, changing the futures of the families there and altering their perceptions of America. At...

I'm fake engaged to the grumpy guy responsible for making me temporarily homeless.It all started when JoJo's logging crew crashed a pine tree into my house.After several failed attempts at temporary housing, he convinces me to stay in his basement. No-it's not creepy. Or...

I just agreed to a business proposition by my best friend that will determine the direction of my adult life.Jonah and I have had each other's backs since kindergarten. He's the best friend I've ever had, and we know each other better than we...

Charleston's past is full of romance. Does Anne's future hold the same? Beth Webb Hart weaves together the lives of three women from close-knit Southern town as each cope with broken dreams and crumbling relationships.Anne Brumley has long dreamed of love while ringing the...

Eva Burnette has been helping people her entire life. Always when they asked but often when they didn't. She follows her heart to where the needs are greatest and does what she can to set things right. She lives simply and honestly on her...

Book store owner and coffee slinger, Clark Thomas, finds himself involved in another murder investigation. This time in a double murder at the popular Tidal Creek Brew House in Myrtle Beach's Market Common.What seems like an open and shut case for the police turns...

"... Take the leap: fall in love with Jazz, with Serena, with Fletch, with Rocky - maybe even with a ball python or a dusky pygmy rattler." Laura McBride, author of We Are Called to Rise and In the Midnight RoomThe theft of Trina...

Bristow does "a grand job of storytelling" (the New York Times) in this memorable novel of the late eighteenth-century pioneers who settled the Louisiana wilderness, establishing a civilization of charm, luxury, and tragic injustice For his service in the king's army during the French...

Fifteen years.That's how much of his life Daniel must dedicate to Forward Colony 47⏤a self-contained ecosystem built 10 miles above the surface of Atlanta. But if that's what it takes to ensure his husband Paul and daughter Samantha are safe from the climate catastrophe...

Maribelle Saunders leaves her comfortable life in Nashville for a rough existence in 1960s Appalachia. Her dream is to teach deaf children American Sign Language (ASL) as well as how to read and write, helping them communicate with their families and prepare for school....

Jack Leonard's father, Billy, is an alcoholic. Billy isn't a bad guy. Friends would say he's the life of the party; his family might refer to him as harmless. After all, he isn't a mean drunk ... he's a happy drunk.Unfortunately, these things tend...

Award-winning New York Times bestselling author Mary Monroe returns with an outrageous new tale of Depression-era Southern drama starring identical twin sisters with a talent for switching lives and hiding the scandalous results--until one risk too many changes the game forever . . ....

A coven's heiress with dangerous decisions to navigateA necromancer with deadly secrets to keep hiddenA stalker with a lifelong vendetta to fulfill Hannah's college homecoming excitement quickly wanes when she's pushed straight into a handfasting ceremony. Her Mississippi coven is tired of waiting for...

In 1976, memories from a night near the railroad tracks sixteen years earlier haunt Barbara Parker. She wrestles with past demons every night, then wakes to the train's five-thirty whistle. Exhausted and dreading the day, she keeps her hands busy working in Bryson City's...

Gamblers, grifters, ne'er-do-wells, and dirt poor-to those who live on the outskirts of Columbia, South Carolina, such is the reputation of the Temmens family. Most of all, they're known to be trouble, and when Gene, the youngest son, returns from a vagabond trip around...

1995. A young woman. Her boyfriend's ex-girlfriend. The small Alabama town neither of them can escape. And a ghost. Lilly Ann Guthrie is living with a man she isn't married to; she can't hold down a job, and she can't sit in a moving...

I'd do anything to take over my dad's money management company. Even entertain deer hunters at a cabin in rural Alabama.Growing up in Atlanta I learned two valuable lessons: how to shop and how to do business. My mom taught me the first. My...

From the author of Real Bad Things and Cottonmouths, a Los Angeles Review Best Book of 2017, comes the darkly suspenseful tale of a small-town Easter tradition and its murderous secrets.For seventeen years, a serial murderer has used the Presley, Arkansas, Annual Hunt for...

In a bleak Mississippi farmhouse in 1918, Leona Pinson gives birth to an illegitimate son whose father she refuses to name, but who will, she is convinced, return from the war to rescue her from a hardscrabble life with a distant mother, a dangerous...

Nearly thirty years ago, in the wake of a personal tragedy, June Moore bought Camp Holly Springs and turned it into a thriving summer haven for girls. But now, June is in danger of losing the place she has sacrificed everything for, and begins...

Book store owner and coffee slinger, Clark Thomas, finds himself involved in another murder investigation. This time in a double murder at the popular Tidal Creek Brew House in Myrtle Beach's Market Common.What seems like an open and shut case for the police turns...

Dreaming of becoming a fashion designer and fresh off the heels of a bad breakup, Sam is thrilled to be accepted into a prestigious study abroad program in Finland. But when her mother becomes suddenly ill, the decision to go seems impossible. Devastated by...

Iola Leroy, or Shadows Uplifted (1892) is a novel by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper. One of the first novels published by an African American woman, Iola Leroy, or Shadows Uplifted is a story of liberation set during the American Civil War that deals with...

In the town of Eatonville, a dispute between former childhood friends leads to civil unrest and a criminal trial that forces everyone to choose sides. With vibrant supporting characters, De Turkey and De Law provides colorful commentary on romance, religion and a hunting trip...

Relive the story of two young women, one White, one Black, as they struggle for survival, dignity, and purpose against the tide of history in the late nineteenth century.Aila's Journal tells the story of Aila MacKenzie, a White indentured servant, and Mary Jane Sanders,...

.A poignant and powerful story of the American South in the 1960s and of one woman who risks her life for the people she loves from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Color Purple, now available in a new edition featuring an introduction by...

Real estate agent Tessa Andrews believes she has her life all figured out, organized in meticulously numbered lists to ensure she doesn't make bad decisions. But after eating a breakfast quiche and receiving a skeleton key to a dilapidated mansion, a reckless impulse overtakes...

"Sometimes what your life is missing is an eccentric group of older ladies to take you under their wing . . . When Raeley Ann Sutton's mama passes away and leaves her the house where she grew up, Rae can't imagine how the little...

Eleventh book in this popular Southern Fiction series set in the small North Georgia town of Chancey.It's graduation time in Chancey......a time for caps and gowns. For Pomp and Circumstance. For magnolias blooming and epic parties.And, apparently, for a growing sinkhole to pop up...

This funny and endearing novel of family, secrets, and aging follows an elderly man who heads off on a joyride with a new young friend--who may have some secrets of her own. A driving force in literature, the one and only Lee Smith returns...

A stunning, contemporary Black southern gothic novel about what it means to be a poor woman in the God fearing south in the age of OnlyFans, by a breakout new Affrilachian writer, perfect for readers of The Other Black Girl and Luster "A new,...

"This Christmas the Carlyle sisters will rediscover the gift of family For 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...

The Year of Jubilee is a lyrical coming-of-age novel set against the backdrop of the turbulent South in the early 1960s.The Mockingbird family has always lived peacefully in Jubilee, Kentucky, despite the divisions that mark their small town. Until the tense summer of 1963,...

Relive the story of two young women, one White, one Black, as they struggle for survival, dignity, and purpose against the tide of history in the late nineteenth century.Aila's Journal tells the story of Aila MacKenzie, a White indentured servant, and Mary Jane Sanders,...

"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...

From Sherry Parnell, author of Let The Willows Weep, comes a long-awaited new novel that unwinds a family's darkest secrets and takes an unflinching look at life in the rural South. Effie Bilfrey has lived her entire life on Talon Ridge, a dead-end Appalachian...

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...

A heartwarming tale of love, perseverance, and redemption. Annie has fallen hard for the handsome and charming Tyler, but their relationship is far from easy. Tyler's disapproving parents and judgmental friends make Annie feel like an outsider, and she's willing to do whatever it...

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...

"An important and vital story"-- Donna Everhart, USA Today bestselling author of The Saints of Swallow HillA searing book club read for fans of Ellen Marie Wiseman and The Girls with No Names set in the Baby Scoop Era of 1960s and the women...

Edgar award-winning author Joe R. Lansdale beams a light on an East Texas town held in the grip of conspiracy.Charlie Garner has a bad feeling. His ex-wife, Meg, has been missing for over a week and one quick peek into her home shows all...

From Center for Fiction First Novel Prize winning author De'Shawn Charles Winslow, a sweeping and unforgettable novel of a Black community reeling from a triple homicide, and the secrets the killings reveal. In the still-segregated town of West Mills, North Carolina, in 1976, Marian,...