Lee Smith
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Language
English
Description
On a beautiful June day in 1965, a dozen girls-classmates at a picturesque Blue Ridge women's college-launched their homemade raft (inspired by Huck Finn's) on a trip down the Mississippi. It's Girls A-Go-Go Down the Mississippi read the headline in the Paducah, Kentucky, paper.
Thirty-five years later, four of those "girls" reunite to cruise the river again. This time it's on the luxury steamboat, The Belle of Natchez, and there's no publicity....
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English
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A dusty box discovered in the wreckage of a once prosperous plantation on Agate Hill in North Carolina contains the remnants of an extraordinary life: diaries, letters, poems, songs, newspaper clippings, court records, marbles, rocks, dolls, and bones. It's through these treasured mementos that we meet Molly Petree.
Raised in those ruins and orphaned by the Civil War, Molly is a refugee who has no interest in self-pity. When a mysterious benefactor...
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Series
Language
English
Description
Fair and Tender Ladies is an epistolary novel that traces the life of Ivy Rowe, born in the isolated Virginia mountain community of Sugar Fork. Through births and deaths, marriages and funerals, the decades of Ivy's life are captured in a rich dialect that carries the sounds and sights of the Appalachians in each syllable.
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Language
English
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Preacher's son Moses Bailey believed that the fiddle was the voice of the Devil and denied his wife the pleasure of the music she dearly loved. She fiddled for her three children behind her husband's back. Thus begins a magnificent 150-year saga of a musical Southern family featuring barn dances, medicine shows, the Grand Ole Opry, and the evolution of country music from hymns to rockabilly. Generations of authentic, down-home mountain people spring...
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Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Collects fourteen stories--seven brand-new ones along with seven favorites from Smith's three earlier collections--about characters such as an eight-year-old boy obsessed with vocabulary words, a young bride who has married "way up," and Mrs. Darcy herself, an older woman making it through widowhood her own way.
7) Silver alert
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Language
English
Description
"Herb has a secret: he's not quite the man he once was. And when his children learn of this, they decide it is time to move him and his wife, Susan, who is slipping into early Alzheimer's herself out of their Key West home and into assisted living. But curmudgeonly Herb--annoyed with his kids and unsettled by the ever-changing world--is not going quietly. He has one trusted friend, a young woman named Renee who has been helping to care for Susan....
8) Saving Grace
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
©1995.
Language
English
Description
The confession of a preacher's daughter. Turned off religion early in life, Florida Grace Shepherd marries at the first opportunity, only to "backslide" into adultery. By the time she is 33, she feels an old bag. But one day Grace discovers she has her father's gift for giving meaning to people's lives and she returns to religion, picking up where her father left off. By the author of The Devil's Dream.
9) Family linen
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's
Pub. Date
[1985]
Language
English
Description
"Who dunnit? is almost beside the point in Family Linen, a rollicking comic novel which also explores the profound mystery of families and how they work, and of our intrinsic aloneness within them. Part murder mystery, part social commentary, part family history, Family Linen introduces the reader to a cast of characters who just won't shut up-until finally it all comes out in the wash, and the wash is hung out for all the world to see-the world of...
10) Oral history
Author
Publisher
Putnam
Pub. Date
[1983]
Language
English
Description
A curse laid on the inhabitants of Hoot Owl Holler follows each succeeding generation for a century, in a tale of love, murder, obsession, and betrayal set in Appalachia.
12) Fancy strut
Author
Publisher
Harper & Row, Publishers
Pub. Date
1973.
Language
English
Description
Speed, Alabama is frantically preparing for the event of a lifetime: Sesquicentennial Week. And all her proud citizens are kicking up their heels in a lively, pompous fancy strut.
14) Cakewalk
Author
Publisher
Putnam
Pub. Date
[1981]
Language
English
Description
Cakewalk is a collection of short stories that bring together a diverse group of people that only Lee could create. Debbi has left her old life behind and has started a life with Bobby who has a job with dolphins at hte Seaquarium. It is just a matter of time before Debbi and Bobby are able to get things on track. Lauren and her friend Georgia Rose and the terible gift Georgia Rose had...the gift of foresight. Florrie, the cake lady who is married...
Author
Publisher
Putnam
Pub. Date
[1997]
Language
English
Description
A collection of Southern stories. The title story is on a reunion between estranged twins, in Live Bottomless a girl accompanies her parents to Key West for a "geographical cure" of their marriage, while The Happy Memories Club is on memory among the old.
Publisher
Beacon Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"A collection of essays by top literary talents and food writers, Breaking Bread celebrates local foods, family, and community, while exploring how what's on our plates engages with what's off: grief, pleasure, love, ethics, race, and class"--
