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Onlookers : stories / by Beattie, Ann,author.;
"Onlookers is a story collection about people living in the same Southern town whose lives intersect in surprising ways"--
Subjects: Short stories.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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How animals saved the people : animal tales from the South / by Reneaux, J. J.,1955-2000; Ransome, James, ill.;
Contents : The gollywhumper - How Miz Gator lost her pea-green suit - How the bear people lost fire - Bouki and Lapin divide the crops - Waiting for Boozoo - The Poopampareno - Buzzard and chicken hawk - How animals saved the people.Includes glossary and bibliography.Summary : a collection of folktales from people in the Deep South including Cajun, Creole, Native Americans, African Americans, those of English as well as Scotch-Irish-German traditions and others living in Appalachia.
Subjects: Folklore;
© c2001. , HarperCollins,
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Celine / by Roth, Kathleen Bittner;
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Love stories.; Plantation life;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The water dancer : a novel / by Coates, Ta-Nehisi,author.;
"Young Hiram Walker was born into bondage--and lost his mother and all memory of her when he was a child--but he is also gifted with a mysterious power. Hiram almost drowns when he crashes a carriage into a river, but is saved from the depths by a force he doesn't understand, a blue light that lifts him up and lands him a mile away. This strange brush with death forces a new urgency on Hiram's private rebellion. Spurred on by his improvised plantation family, Thena, his chosen mother, a woman of few words and many secrets, and Sophia, a young woman fighting her own war even as she and Hiram fall in love, he becomes determined to escape the only home he's ever known. So begins an unexpected journey into the covert war on slavery that takes Hiram from the corrupt grandeur of Virginia's proud plantations to desperate guerrilla cells in the wilderness, from the coffin of the deep South to dangerously utopic movements in the North. Even as he's enlisted in the underground war between slavers and the enslaved, all Hiram wants is to return to the Walker Plantation to free the family he left behind--but to do so, he must first master his magical gift and reconstruct the story of his greatest loss. This is a bracingly original vision of the world of slavery, written with the narrative force of a great adventure. Driven by the author's bold imagination and striking ability to bring readers deep into the interior lives of his brilliantly rendered characters, The Water Dancer is the story of America's oldest struggle--the struggle to tell the truth--from one of our most exciting thinkers and beautiful writers"--
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Slavery;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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The water dancer [sound recording] : a novel / by Coates, Ta-Nehisi,author.; Morton, Joe,1947-narrator.; Random House Audio Publishing,publisher.;
Read by Joe Morton.Young Hiram Walker was born into bondage--and lost his mother and all memory of her when he was a child--but he is also gifted with a mysterious power. Hiram almost drowns when he crashes a carriage into a river, but is saved from the depths by a force he doesn't understand, a blue light that lifts him up and lands him a mile away. This strange brush with death forces a new urgency on Hiram's private rebellion. Spurred on by his improvised plantation family, Thena, his chosen mother, a woman of few words and many secrets, and Sophia, a young woman fighting her own war even as she and Hiram fall in love, he becomes determined to escape the only home he's ever known. So begins an unexpected journey into the covert war on slavery that takes Hiram from the corrupt grandeur of Virginia's proud plantations to desperate guerrilla cells in the wilderness, from the coffin of the deep South to dangerously utopic movements in the North. Even as he's enlisted in the underground war between slavers and the enslaved, all Hiram wants is to return to the Walker Plantation to free the family he left behind--but to do so, he must first master his magical gift and reconstruct the story of his greatest loss. This is a bracingly original vision of the world of slavery, written with the narrative force of a great adventure. Driven by the author's bold imagination and striking ability to bring readers deep into the interior lives of his brilliantly rendered characters, The Water Dancer is the story of America's oldest struggle--the struggle to tell the truth--from one of our most exciting thinkers and beautiful writers.
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Audiobooks.; Slavery;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Where I come from : stories from the deep South / by Bragg, Rick,author.; Bragg, Rick.Essays.Selections.;
"A collection of wide-ranging and endearingly personal columns by the celebrated author, newspaper columnist, and Pulitzer Prize winner Rick Bragg, culled from his best-loved pieces in Southern Living and Garden & Gun. From his love of Tupperware ("My Affair with Tupperware") to the decline of country music, from the legacy of Harper Lee to the metamorphosis of the pick-up truck, the best way to kill fire ants, the unbridled excess of Fat Tuesday, and why any self-respecting Southern man worth his salt should carry a good knife, Where I Come From is an ode to the stories and the history of the deep south, written with tenderness, wit, and deep affection--a book that will be treasured by fans old and new"--
Subjects: Biographies.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The butcher babe cookbook : comfort food hacked by a classically trained chef / by Gavin, Loreal,author.;
Subjects: Cookbooks.; Cooking, American; Cooking; Comfort food.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Deep South : four seasons on back roads / by Theroux, Paul.; McCurry, Steve.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.LSC
Subjects: Theroux, Paul; Scenic byways; Seasons;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The funeral dress : a novel / by Gilmore, Susan Gregg.;
Subjects: Psychological fiction.; Historical fiction.; Self-actualization (Psychology); Single mothers; Women;
© c2013., Broadway Books,
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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South to America : a journey below the Mason-Dixon to understand the soul of a nation / by Perry, Imani,1972-author.;
"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"--
Subjects: Perry, Imani, 1972-;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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