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Depressions Depressions 1929 Southern States Fiction Large type books Manners and customs Race relations Southern States Southern States Race relations History 20th century Fiction Southern States Social life and customs Southern States Social life and customs 20th century Fiction Southern States Social life and customs FictionYoungblood, Shay.
Contents: Born with religion -- Snuff dippers -- An independent woman -- Did my mama like to dance? -- Miss Rosa's monkey -- Spit in the governor's tea -- The blues ain't nothin but a good woman feelin bad -- Funny women -- Maggie Agatha Christmas St. Clair -- Uncle Buck loves Jesus, sometime -- Watch the spirit move -- They tell me, now I know.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Firebrand Books 1989
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC YOUContents: What's grit lit? / Tom Franklin -- Blood and bone / Brian Carpenter -- Memoirs. -- A childhood : the biography of a place / Harry Crews -- "Deciding to live" / Dorothy Allison -- On fire : a personal account of life and death and choices / Larry Brown -- Keeper of the moon : a Southern boyhood / Tim McLaurin -- Ava's man, and, All over but the shoutin' / Rick Bragg -- "A body in the river" /...
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of South Carolina Press 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GRIRoss, Ann B.
Summary: Miss Julia, the proper Southern lady, has a couple doozies on her plate. It seems that her friend Hazel's PI husband J.D. has gotten himself in some trouble in West Virginia--and he's one tirade away from landing in a jail cell. Meanwhile, a crew of misfits has followed wealthy Agnes Whitman back to Abbotsville, and they have all the makings of a crazy religious cult!
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2012
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC ROSWelty, Eudora
Summary: In a career spanning five decades, Eudora Welty has chronicled her own Mississippi with a depth and intensity matched only by William Faulkner. One of the most influential writers of the century, her novels and stories blend the storytelling tradition of the South with a modernist sensibility attuned to the mysteries and ambiguities of experience. Welty explores the complex abundance of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 1998
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: SC WELTYGilchrist, Ellen
Contents: The cabal -- The sanguine blood of men -- Hearts of Dixie -- The survival of the fittest -- Bare ruined choirs where late the sweet birds sang -- The big cleanup.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 2000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GILGilchrist, Ellen
Contents: The famous poll at Jody's Bar -- Revenge -- There's a Garden of Eden -- In the land of dreamy dreams -- 1944 -- Summer, an elegy -- Victory over Japan -- Music -- Jade Buddhas, red bridges, fruits of love -- Miss Crystal's maid name Traceleen, she's talking, she's telling everything she knows -- Traceleen, she's still talking -- Drunk with love -- The young man -- Traceleen at dawn -- Anna,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little,Brown 2000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GILO'Connor, Flannery.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt, Brace 1955
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC OCOJohnson, Caleb (Caleb Rick)
Summary: "Wedged between the bluffs and the river for which it's named, there's a small and all-but-forgotten town. Janie Treeborne lives on an orchard at the edge of Elberta, Alabama, and in time, she has become its keeper. A place where conquistadors once walked, and where the peaches they left behind now grow, Elberta has seen fierce battles, violent storms, and frantic change--and when the town is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Picador 2018
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Summary: "Stories, Essays, and Memoir" contains all of Welty's collected short stories, her first book, "A Curtain of Green and Other Stories" (1941), stories based on her travels, and the ever-popular memoir, "One Writer's Beginnings" (1984).
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 1998
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 813.52 WEL1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WEL
Hospital, Janette Turner
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HOSFranklin, Tom.
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 1999
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FRASingleton, George
Summary: Presents a collection of short stories centered around small-town America.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Consortium Book Sales & Dist 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SINKay, Terry.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Morrow 2000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KAYHenderson, Eleanor
Summary: "Cotton County, Georgia, 1930: In a house full of secrets, two babies - one light-skinned, the other dark - are born to Elma Jesup, a white sharecropper's daughter. Accused of her rape, field hand Genus Jackson is lynched and dragged behind a truck down the road to the nearby town. In the aftermath, the farm's inhabitants are forced to contend with their complicity in a series of events that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperLuxe, a trademark of HarperCollins Publishers 2017
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC HENHenderson, Eleanor
Summary: "Novel set in the south during the Great Depression that takes an entirely fresh view on big American themes-- race, heredity, inequality, shame-- set in a time of financial crisis and racialized violence"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HENBarnhardt, Wilton.
Summary: Presiding over her family and its legacy of masterpiece Civil War art, North Carolina society maven Jerene Jarvis Johnston takes increasingly haphazard steps to protect her grown children from their own heedlessness.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Barnhardt 2013West, Michael Lee.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WESWhite, Shane.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Beacon Press 2005