The Cicada Tree
By: Robert Gwaltney
4.09
Format: 334 pages, Paperback
The summer of 1956, a brood of cicadas descends upon Providence Georgia, a natural event with super…
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1. Then Like the Blind Man: Orbie's Story
By: Freddie Owens
3.88
Format: 330 pages, Paperback
Alt Cover: ISBN 1475084498 (ISBN13: 9781475084498) A storm is brewing in the all-but-forgotten b… read more
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- historical fiction
2. The Dry Grass of August
By: Anna Jean Mayhew
3.56
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
In this beautifully written debut, Anna Jean Mayhew offers a riveting depiction of Southern life in… read more
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- historical
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- historical fiction
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4. The Road to Bittersweet
By: Donna Everhart
4.00
Format: 120 pages,
Set in the Carolinas in the 1940s, The Road to Bittersweet is a beautifully written, evocative acco… read more
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5. The Only Way Home
By: Jeanette Minniti
4.21
Format: 243 pages, Kindle Edition
Winner of the 2022 Colorado Authors League 1st Place Award in Historical Fiction! Desperate times.… read more
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- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
6. They Call Her Dirty Sally
By: Amy Matayo
4.42
Format: 376 pages, Kindle Edition
For years, the town of Silver Bell, Arkansas has quietly mourned the hospital fire that claimed the… read more
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- historical
- southern
- fiction
- historical fiction
- mystery
"Luck works best when it isn't pressed more than once."-Amy Matayo, They Call Her Dirty Sally
"I was a drunk teenager once, and that combination goes together about as well as gasoline and a Zippo lighter."-Amy Matayo, They Call Her Dirty Sally
"Sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me." --nursery rhyme, and the first lie we learned in school"-Amy Matayo, They Call Her Dirty Sally
"Isn't that what every child wants even well into adulthood --- the opportunity to look their parents in the eye and see a glimmer of pride shining back at them?"-Amy Matayo, They Call Her Dirty Sally
7. The Promise ("The Promise" Saga Book 2)
By: Jean Hackensmith
4.46
Format: 346 pages, Kindle Edition
“If you ever need anything, Rebecca, you just let me know and I'll be there." Those were the words … read more
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- historical fiction
8. The Price of Bread and Shoes: A Novel
By: Lonormi Manuel
4.47
Format: 354 pages, Kindle Edition
When nineteen-year-old Alafair Sizemore Slone journeys to Chemame Creek, West Virginia to join her … read more
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- historical
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"It's a hard life for a woman, married to a man who's married to the bottle."-Lonormi Manuel, The Price of Bread and Shoes: A Novel
9. Threshing of Straw
By: Kim Catron
4.51
Format: 308 pages, Kindle Edition
A grandmother who only ever wanted to protect her two little girls. A mother who did the unthinkabl… read more
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- mystery
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10. Out of the Dust
By: Joyce E. Patterson
4.24
Format: 397 pages, Kindle Edition
Two of America’s worst economic disasters occurred during the same period. One was the crash of the… read more
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- historical fiction
11. Where Courage Began: Velma's Story
By: G.L. Gooding
4.18
Format: 325 pages, Kindle Edition
A blizzard rages outside a ramshackle Iowa farmhouse in February of 1921. Five-year-old Velma and h… read more
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- historical
- historical fiction
12. Kitchen Canary
By: Joanne C. Parsons
4.11
Format: 159 pages, Kindle Edition
Kitchen Canary is the first in a series of two novels that follow the journeys of two young Irish i… read more
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13. Quilly
By: Jan Strickland
4.55
Format: 286 pages, Kindle Edition
What was it like to be biracial in the early 1900’s in a small white southern town where the divisi… read more
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- historical fiction
14. Tobacco Rose
By: Florence Love Karsner
4.33
Format: 304 pages, Kindle Edition
South Georgia 1955. Racial tensions lead to riots in the South. An old black woman named Rosie and … read more
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15. Tomorrow's Bread
By: Anna Jean Mayhew
3.98
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
From the author of the acclaimed The Dry Grass of August comes a richly researched yet lyrical Sout… read more
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- historical
- southern
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16. Arkansas Summer
By: Anne Moose
4.51
Format: 309 pages, Kindle Edition
Arkansas Summer is a powerful novel about love and racial terror in the Jim Crow South. It's 1955, … read more
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- historical fiction
17. Peeling Potatoes: Katie's Story (Rocked in the Cradle of Coal #1)
By: Jayne M. Booth
4.16
Format: 103 pages, Kindle Edition
Rocked in The Cradle of Coal Children of the Pennsylvania Coal MinesNortheastern Pennsylvania was … read more
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- historical fiction
18. The Cicada Tree
By: Robert Gwaltney
4.09
Format: 334 pages, Paperback
The summer of 1956, a brood of cicadas descends upon Providence Georgia, a natural event with super… read more
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- gothic
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- historical
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- historical fiction
- mystery
- southern gothic
- fantasy
19. From the Flood: A Memoir
By: Suzanne Jones
4.24
Format: 315 pages, Paperback
**GOLD Winner of the 2022 Nonfiction Authors Association Book Award** **2022 American Writers Awar… read more
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20. Firefly Lies
By: Morgan Matthews
4.13
Format: 248 pages, Kindle Edition
A stately manor, one peculiar groundskeeper, and untimely death set the stage for this thrilling an… read more
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21. The Art of Straightening Nails: A Story of Triumph Over Adversity
By: Randy Judd
4.25
Format: None pages, Paperback
The Art of Straightening Nails is a story of hope, conquering self, and regaining lost love. This n… read more
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