Where I Come From: Stories from the Deep South
By: Rick Bragg
4.21
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
From the best-selling, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of All Over but the Shoutin' and The Best Cook…
Want to Read $ 9.99"Tupperware is the Wedgewood of the South."-Rick Bragg, Where I Come From: Stories from the Deep South
"Tupperware is the Wedgewood of the South."-Rick Bragg, Where I Come From: Stories from the Deep South
"Mostly I love Halloween because it is the orange-and-black beginning of a season that tumbles into Thanksgiving, which tumbles into Christmas. And Zombies just seem a little out of place in that. Thanksgiving should have nothing to do with armies of shuffling undead. Don’t get me started on Christmas. The only undead at Christmas should be Jacob Marley, wailing about greed. The iconic image of Halloween should be the pun’kin. The pun’kin, carved into faces that are scary only because we want them to be, winking from every porch. The pun’kin cast in plastic, swinging from the hands of knee-high princesses, leering back from department store shelves, until it gives way to tins of butter cookies. But I fear for the pun’kin. How long before before he is kicked down the street by zombie hordes, booted into obscurity? Young people tell me that no one—no one— wants to dress up like a pun’kin any more. All a pun’kin does they say is sit there, and glow. This may be true, all of it, but try to make a pie out of a zombie, and see where that gets you. Though I hear that, when it comes to pies, your canned zombie is the way to go."-Rick Bragg, Where I Come From: Stories from the Deep South
"Mostly I love Halloween because it is the orange-and-black beginning of a season that tumbles into Thanksgiving, which tumbles into Christmas. And Zombies just seem a little out of place in that. Thanksgiving should have nothing to do with armies of shuffling undead. Don’t get me started on Christmas. The only undead at Christmas should be Jacob Marley, wailing about greed. The iconic image of Halloween should be the pun’kin. The pun’kin, carved into faces that are scary only because we want them to be, winking from every porch. The pun’kin cast in plastic, swinging from the hands of knee-high princesses, leering back from department store shelves, until it gives way to tins of butter cookies. But I fear for the pun’kin. How long before before he is kicked down the street by zombie hordes, booted into obscurity? Young people tell me that no one—no one— wants to dress up like a pun’kin any more. All a pun’kin does they say is sit there, and glow. This may be true, all of it, but try to make a pie out of a zombie, and see where that gets you. Though I hear that, when it comes to pies, your canned zombie is the way to go."-Rick Bragg, Where I Come From: Stories from the Deep South
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1. A Lowcountry Heart: Reflections on a Writing Life
By: Pat Conroy
4.36
Format: 11 pages, Audio CD
Final words and heartfelt remembrances from bestselling author Pat Conroy take center stage in this… read more
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"Generosity is the rarest of qualities in American writers."-Pat Conroy, A Lowcountry Heart: Reflections on a Writing Life
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2. Don't Quit Your Day Job: Acclaimed Authors and the Day Jobs They Quit
By: John Grisham , Daniel Wallace , Rick Bragg , Michelle Richmond , Brad Watson , Pat Conroy , Silas House , Tom Franklin , William Gay , Tim Gautreaux , Larry Brown , Joshilyn Jackson , Sonny Brewer , Cassandra King , Winston Groom , Howard Bahr , Connie May Fowler , Janis Owens , George Singleton , Clay Risen , Steve Yarbrough , Suzanne Hudson , Barb Johnson , None
3.94
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
The authors in Don't Quit Your Day Job have tried their hands at some of the same jobs as their rea… read more
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3. The Sharper Your Knife, the Less You Cry: Love, Laughter, and Tears at the World's Most Famous Cooking School
By: Kathleen Flinn
3.68
Format: 205 pages,
In 2003, Kathleen Flinn, a thirty-six-year-old American living and working in London, returned from… read more
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4. Letter from New York: BBC Woman's Hour Broadcasts
By: Helene Hanff
3.87
Format: 172 pages,
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5. The Other Side of the Bay
By: Sean Dietrich
4.60
Format: None pages, Paperback
Small towns have a way of burying things, and small-town people have a way of keeping things that w… read more
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6. My Reading Life
By: Pat Conroy
3.50
Format: None pages,
Bestselling author Pat Conroy acknowledges the books that have shaped him and celebrates the profou… read more
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7. Truck: A Love Story
By: Michael Perry
3.42
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Hilarious and heartfelt, Truck: A Love Storyis the tale of a man struggling to grow his own garden,… read more
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9. The Jezebel Remedy
By: Martin Clark
3.28
Format: 5 pages, Hardcover
Martin Clark--who has set, according to the Winston-Salem Journal, "the new standard by which other… read more
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10. A Thousand Hills to Heaven: Love, Hope, and a Restaurant in Rwanda
By: None
3.50
Format: 306 pages, Hardcover
One couple's inspiring memoir of healing a Rwandan village, raising a family near the old killing f… read more
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11. Being Henry: The Fonz . . . and Beyond
By: Henry Winkler
4.14
Format: 246 pages, Hardcover
From Emmy-award winning actor, author, comedian, producer, and director Henry Winkler, a deeply tho… read more
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"It’s so funny about time - you get into these nice little grooves with people you love, and you think it’ll go on forever. But time goes so fast, and nothing goes on forever."-Henry Winkler, Being Henry: The Fonz . . . and Beyond
"If you don't nail your feet to the ground, you can just believe - and you want to believe. It's so enticing. It felt so good. You could just become a gigantic balloon in the Thanksgiving Day parade a…"-Henry Winkler, Being Henry: The Fonz . . . and Beyond
12. It Was an Ugly Couch Anyway: And Other Thoughts on Moving Forward
By: Elizabeth Passarella
3.98
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
A collection of refreshingly honest and hilarious essays from Southern Living columnist Elizabeth P… read more
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"The whole crux of the Christian faith is that we cannot save ourselves... I know that I can't fix the brokenness inside me or overcome my own sin. For people who don't share my faith, this sounds tot…"-Elizabeth Passarella, It Was an Ugly Couch Anyway: And Other Thoughts on Moving Forward
"Epilogue: "I don't need these. Not any of this." "I want this camel. This is all I'm taking just to remember him by." "Sometimes you hold on to a big thing, an overwhelming thing because you believe …"-Elizabeth Passarella, It Was an Ugly Couch Anyway: And Other Thoughts on Moving Forward
13. You Are My Sunshine: A Story of Love, Promises, and a Really Long Bike Ride (Sean of the South)
By: Sean Dietrich
4.28
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A laugh-out-loud funny true story of a loving relationship, a grand adventure, and a promise kept. … read more
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14. Will the Circle Be Unbroken?: A Memoir of Learning to Believe You’re Gonna Be Okay
By: Sean Dietrich
4.50
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
From celebrated storyteller "Sean of the South" comes an unforgettable memoir of love, loss, the fr… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
"November. It was already getting cold in the Panhandle. I'm talking bone cold. Temperatures were sinking all the way to sixty-two degrees in some places."-Sean Dietrich, Will the Circle Be Unbroken?: A Memoir of Learning to Believe You’re Gonna Be Okay
"The first thing I did was eat barbecue. I have always found that barbecue helps the human body work better. The cholesterol lubricates the mental passages."-Sean Dietrich, Will the Circle Be Unbroken?: A Memoir of Learning to Believe You’re Gonna Be Okay
"I scrubbed in the water while Ellie Mae chased a jackrabbit that was wandering on the shore. She nearly caught the rabbit, but the rabbit called for reinforcements. Soon nearly eighty rabbits emerged…"-Sean Dietrich, Will the Circle Be Unbroken?: A Memoir of Learning to Believe You’re Gonna Be Okay
"For some people, the transition to adulthood happens almost overnight. It certainly did with me. I’ve met other orphans. We are kids who can’t even pinpoint when this change happened. We have felt li…"-Sean Dietrich, Will the Circle Be Unbroken?: A Memoir of Learning to Believe You’re Gonna Be Okay
15. The Dog Across the Lake (Paws and Claws Mystery, #9)
By: Krista Davis
4.32
Format: 336 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Holly and Trixie meet a strange new dog in Wagtail that leads them right into murder. . . . Holl… read more
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16. The Seed Detective: Uncovering the Secret Histories of Remarkable Vegetables
By: Adam Alexander
3.85
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Ever wonder how peas, kale, asparagus, beans, squash and sweetcorn ended up on our plates? Well, so… read more
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17. Finding Baby Holly: Lost to a Cult, Surviving My Parents' Murders, and Saved by Prayer
By: Holly Marie
3.41
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Holly Marie was forty-two years old the day she found out she was missing. At ten months old, H… read more
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18. Where I Come From: Stories from the Deep South
By: Rick Bragg
4.21
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
From the best-selling, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of All Over but the Shoutin' and The Best Cook… read more
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"Tupperware is the Wedgewood of the South."-Rick Bragg, Where I Come From: Stories from the Deep South
"Mostly I love Halloween because it is the orange-and-black beginning of a season that tumbles into Thanksgiving, which tumbles into Christmas. And Zombies just seem a little out of place in that. Tha…"-Rick Bragg, Where I Come From: Stories from the Deep South
19. So Many Steves: Afternoons with Steve Martin
By: Steve Martin
3.83
Format: 3 pages, Audiobook
Steve Martin is more candid than he’s ever been about his creative life in this engrossing audio-bi… read more
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20. Reading Genesis
By: Marilynne Robinson
4.10
Format: 344 pages, Hardcover
One of our greatest novelists and thinkers presents a radiant, thrilling interpretation of the book… read more
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21. An Irish Country Welcome: An Irish Country Novel (Irish Country Books Book 15)
By: Patrick Taylor
4.27
Format: 356 pages, Kindle Edition
In the close-knit Northern Irish village of Ballybucklebo, it’s said that a new baby brings its own… read more
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22. The Great Dechurching: Who’s Leaving, Why Are They Going, and What Will It Take to Bring Them Back?
By: Jim Davis
3.88
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
We are currently experiencing the largest and fastest religious shift in US history. It is greater … read more
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23. Gone with the Whisker (Bookmobile Cat Mystery, #8)
By: Laurie Cass
4.14
Format: 352 pages, Mass Market Paperback
A friendly feline and a feisty librarian merrily roll along in the newest Bookmobile Cat mystery...… read more
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24. Not a Creature Was Purring (Paws and Claws Mystery, #5)
By: Krista Davis
4.24
Format: 289 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Santa Claws is coming to town and checking his list for a murderer--as the New York Times bestselli… read more
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25. A Damn Near Perfect Game: Reclaiming America's Pastime
By: Joe Kelly
3.72
Format: 235 pages, Kindle Edition
Baseball's most outspoken fireballer brings the high heat in a book that calls out the hacks, cheat… read more
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26. Round Here and Over Yonder: A Front Porch Travel Guide by Two Progressive Hillbillies (Yes, that’s a thing.)
By: Trae Crowder
4.22
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Join Southern comedian duo Trae Crowder and Corey Ryan Forrester in this hilarious and irreverent t… read more
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27. The Genius of Judy: How Judy Blume Rewrote Childhood for All of Us
By: Rachelle Bergstein
3.92
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
An intimate and expansive look at Judy Blume’s life, work, and cultural impact, focusing on her mos… read more
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28. A Controversial Cover (A Booktown Mystery #18)
By: Lorna Barrett
3.86
Format: 336 pages, Kindle Edition
When a famous children's author is murdered at the library, Tricia Miles has to find the killer bef… read more
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29. Little Bandaged Days
By: Kyra Wilder
3.28
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A taut and claustrophobic literary thriller about a mother who loves her children so much it might … read more
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"What is a child but two strands of data ploughing into each other in the dark cosmos of a woman's body"-Kyra Wilder, Little Bandaged Days
30. Small Towns, Labradors, Barbecue, Biscuits, Beer, and Bibles
By: Sean Dietrich
4.43
Format: 147 pages, Kindle Edition
Sean Dietrich is an artful storyteller, who “... writes with humor, dripping Southern charm that yo… read more
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31. South Toward Home: Adventures and Misadventures in my Native Land
By: Julia Reed
3.86
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A wry andhumorous take on life and culture in the American South. In thinking about her native … read more
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"Lots of words have been written about home being where your heart, your love, your dog, your parakeet, whatever, is. I get it—bricks and mortar don’t make a home and all that jazz … For me, home is w…"-Julia Reed, South Toward Home: Adventures and Misadventures in my Native Land
