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Folk literature Manners and customs Race relations Southern States Southern States Biography Anecdotes Southern States Description and travel Southern States Social life and customs Southern States Social life and customs Anecdotes Southern States Social life and customs Fiction Witherspoon, Reese 1976-White, Shane.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Beacon Press 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.0496 WHIYoungblood, 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 YOUHudgins, Phil
Summary: Since 1972, the Foxfire books have preserved and celebrated the culture of Southern Appalachia for hundreds of thousands of readers. In Travels with Foxfire, native son Phil Hudgins and Foxfire student Jessica Phillips travel from Georgia to the Carolinas, Tennessee to Kentucky, collecting the stories of the men and women who call the region home. Across more than thirty essays, we discover...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 975 HUDBragg, Rick.
Summary: No one writes about the South like Pulitzer Prize winner Rick Bragg (All Over But the Shoutin). Once again, he lends his voice to the working people of the deep South, and tells the story of a memorable figure in a singular time-a man on a lost stretch of dirt road along the Alabama-Georgia border. The Pulitzer Prizewinning journalist and author of All Over But the Shoutin' continues his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BUNDRUM, CHARLIE BRAContents: 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 GRIBilger, Burkhard.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 975.043 BILEby, Margaret
Summary: "A literary travelogue that ventures deep into the heart of classic Southern literature. As the writer Elif Batuman did for Russian literature in The Possessed, Margaret Eby does for Southern literature in this charming book of literary exploration. From Mississippi (William Faulkner, Eudora Welty, Richard Wright, Barry Hannah) to Alabama (Harper Lee, Truman Capote) to Georgia (Flannery...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 810 EBYSummary: A road trip though the creative spirit of the American South, a world of churches, prisons, coal mines, and mountains, with alternative country musician and songwriter Jim White acting as tour guide. Presents a collage of stories and testimonies while a strange Southern Jesus looms in the background.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2010
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Exhibition held at the Museum of the Confederacy from July to December 1991, the McKissick Museum of the University of South Carolina from January to March 1992, and the National Afro-American Museum and Cultural Center, Wilberforce, Ohio, from April to June 1992.
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Publisher / Publication Date: University Press of Virginia 1991
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 975 BEFHenderson, 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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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HENTheroux, Paul
Summary: "Paul Theroux has spent fifty years crossing the globe, adventuring in the exotic, seeking the rich history and folklore of the far away. Now, for the first time, in his tenth travel book, Theroux explores a piece of America--the Deep South. He finds there a paradoxical place, full of incomparable music, unparalleled cuisine, and yet also some of the nation's worst schools, housing, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2015
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 975 THECopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 975 THEPerry, Imani
Summary: "An essential, surprising journey through the history, rituals, and landscapes of the American South--and a revelatory argument for why you must understand the South in order to understand America"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: ECCO, An Imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 917.504 PERCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: 917.504 PEREllis, Helen
Summary: "A fiercely funny collection of essays on marriage and manners, thank you notes and three-ways, ghosts, gunshots, gynecology, and the Calgon-scented, onion-dipped, monogrammed art of living as a Southern Lady" --
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2019
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 814 ELLCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 814 ELLWitherspoon, Reese
Summary: Academy Award-winning actress, producer, and entrepreneur Reese Witherspoon invites you into her world, where she infuses the southern style, parties, and traditions she loves with contemporary flair and charm. Reese Witherspoon's grandmother Dorothea always said that a combination of beauty and strength made southern women "whiskey in a teacup." We may be delicate and ornamental on the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Touchstone 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 WITCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 WITHERSPOON, REESE WITCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B WHITHERSPOON WHINaipaul, V. S. (Vidiadhar Surajprasad)
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 1989
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 975.04 NAISummary: Two teenagers from New York City are falsely accused of murder while driving through rural Alabama. To defend them in court, one of them hires his cousin Vinny, a flamboyant personal injury lawyer with no trial experience whatsoever.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2000
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY MYChatham, James O.
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Publisher / Publication Date: University Press of Mississippi 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 975.04 CHABragg, Rick
Summary: "From the best-selling, Pulitzer prize-winning author of All Over But the Shoutin' and The Best Cook in the World, a collection of his irresistible columns from Southern Living and Garden & Gun A collection of wide-ranging and endearingly personal columnsby the celebrated author, newspaper columnist, and Pulitzer Prize winner Rick Bragg, culled from his best-loved pieces in Southern Living and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2020
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 975 BRASt. John, Warren.
Contents: Hallways on wheels -- Untold sacrifices -- Van Tiffins and Bama bombs -- Coach Bryant's gone -- Worthless shirts -- Stray bullets and snot-nosed kids -- The man I hold so near -- Fighting Gators, crash landings, and Fireman Mike -- Hawgs and lost causes -- John Ay-ud -- Getting some damn where -- LSU, SAE's, GDI's, and pink panty pulldowns -- The era of crowds -- Chief got wet! -- Muckety-...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishers 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.332 STMooney, Carla
Summary: "The Southeast region covers the coastal and inland areas of the American South. Traditional Stories of the Southeast Nations features stories from several of the region's Native Nations, including the Choctaw, Natchez, and Cherokee. Easy-to-read text, vivid images, and helpful back matter give readers a clear look at this subject." -- Publisher's website.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in JT Non-Fiction, Call number: JT Native MooneyKay, Terry.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Morrow 2000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KAYWelty, 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 WELTYO'Connor, Flannery.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt, Brace 1955