Fiction - Southern

The battle to end racism, and all the hate and anger that goes with it, is won through many small engagements.One such engagement begins on the eve of desegregation at the Pulaski County Consolidated High School. There, we see the budding friendship between Mike...

Bea's mother, Kate, was diagnosed with breast cancer. But that's not the biggest news Bea heard that day. When they return home, Kate makes a shocking confession. She is not Bea's birth mother. For the past 18 years, Bea had no idea that the...

Time is measured in many ways. A clock measures seconds, minutes, and hours. A calendar measures time by days, weeks and months. But in a cemetery the process of time is measured by births and deaths, by beginnings and endings, and so is the...

Lenny's out of options. He's lost his arm to his abusive older brothers and he's lost his bearings within his family. But he's determined not to lose hope. He attempts an escape on a stolen skiff, hoping to ride the rivers from his family's...

The Dead Leaves presents a collection of four distinct stories, each set against the backdrop of autumn. Through the tapestry of fall colors and themes, these tales weave a common thread of introspection, transformation, and drama. In "Tuesday Law," a first-year law student, on...

Inertia is a property of matter and of marriages. Lori is a nurturing type who avoids conflict, priding herself on her adaptability. Parenting keeps her too busy to face her eroding relationship with independent Ike, who is consumed by his job. Receiving only crumbs...

​"I bought the house," Butch says over the phone. Art Deats does not have to ask which one. His brother has been fixated on their childhood home deep in the swamps of lower Alabama ever since they fled the place in terror forty years...

"Ginger Pinholster, a master of significant detail, weaves her struggling characters' pasts, present, and futures into a breathtaking, beautiful novel in City in a Forest." -IndieReader Approved​Winner of a gold medal in the 2020 Florida Writers Association Royal Palm Literary AwardsHidden in the heart...

"The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" is a gothic story by American author Washington Irving, contained in his collection of 34 essays and short stories entitled The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent.. Written while Irving was living abroad in Birmingham, England, "The Legend of...

The details of Clyde A. Barbour's early life on the Mississippi River call to mind the adventures of that famous riverboat pilot Mark Twain, and like Twain, Clyde would never be content with a life limited by riverbanks - his dreams and ambitions went...

Blood in the Low Country, the first of the Atkins Family Low Country Sagas, tells the story of a southern family living in Charleston, South Carolina in 1973. The book follows the lives of Monty Atkins, his wife Rose, and their sons Eli and...

"A riveting journey through an unthinkable turn in American history. To the Manor Born is bold, it's honest, and you can't put it down." -Dr. Mario Dell'Olio, author of Letters from ItalyThe Modern Day. The Confederate States of America stretches from Richmond to Los...

Four women come together to save the summer camp that changed their lives and rediscover themselves in this "moving and nostalgic" (Southern Living) new novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Wedding Veil and the Peachtree Bluff series. Nearly thirty years...

"If you like clean, cozy mysteries that keep you guessing until the end and fun-filled family sagas, you'll love the Made in Savannah Cozy Mystery series by Hope Callaghan!" Just days before Carlita is set to walk down the aisle, Pete's former business partner...

In this intimate portrait of two generations, a granddaughter and a grandmother come to terms with what it means to heal when the world is on your shoulders.The world is burning, and Corinne will do anything to put out the flames. After her brother...

Seven years ago, a hidden betrayal scattered three young friends living in the shadow of Biltmore Estate. Now, when Biltmore Industries master weaver Lorna Blankenship is commissioned to create an original design for Cornelia Vanderbilt's 1924 wedding, she panics knowing she doesn't have the...

A reunion between an estranged mother and daughter opens a world of secrets in a poignant novel by the bestselling author of Magnolia Nights.Julia Martin grew up wealthy, but it wasn't until she met her husband, Jack, that she knew true happiness. He made...

True to its name, Burning Down My Father's House, comes at you like a house on fire. Michael Gills's fourth collection of short fiction continues the saga of Joey Harvell, who's from a people prone to impromptu fistfights on the sides of southern highways,...

Four generations. One remarkable hotel. Countless secrets. Nestled in the hills of West Virginia lies White Sulphur Springs, home to the Greenbrier Resort. Long a playground for presidents and film stars, the Greenbrier has its own gravitational pull. Over ten decades, four generations of...

From bestselling author Kathryn Andrews, comes a deeply emotional story about starting over, learning the true meaning of happiness, and finding love.With a broken heart and a desperate need to hide from the spotlight, Chicago socialite Rylie Crest flees to a small town on...

It's summer in Paradise Point, a quirky fishing village and artist's haven where nothing exciting ever happens - until Mr. Lewis reads the first of the As Always letters. These gossipy letters call out the uncivilized behavior of Paradise Point's most upstanding citizens, sparking...

Do you want to read An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge? If so then keep reading..."An Occurrence At Owl Creek Bridge" was originally published by the in 1890 it is set during the American Civil War. It is the story of Peyton Farquhar, a...

Winner of Kirkus Award for Independent novels, Dorie LaRue's remarkable collection of short stories from the postmodern South bears witness to the complicated lives of its characters as willful and courageous, doomed and redeemed. This book is about mothers and daughters and fathers and...

Set in Virginia, this novel evokes the irony of change in the rural South. Dorinda Oakley is a passionate, intelligent, and independent young woman struggling to define herself.Author: Ellen GlasgowISBN-10: 015610685XISBN-13: 9780156106856Publisher: Mariner BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/15/1985Pages: 540Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.51lbsSize: 8.54h x 5.64w x 1.30d

Four friends, four coaches, a football team, and a vendetta.An afternoon ride solidified the alliance among the four captains of the Last Creek Lobos, who called themselves the Four Horsemen, and started the football season of a lifetime.Jackson McCullen, Bobby Surges, Nick Hartford, and...

High Skies recounts the collision of devastating weather, Cold War suspicion, tense race relations, and the unintended consequences of good intentions in a small West Texas town in the 1950s, changing the futures of the families there and altering their perceptions of America. At...

I'm fake engaged to the grumpy guy responsible for making me temporarily homeless.It all started when JoJo's logging crew crashed a pine tree into my house.After several failed attempts at temporary housing, he convinces me to stay in his basement. No-it's not creepy. Or...

I just agreed to a business proposition by my best friend that will determine the direction of my adult life.Jonah and I have had each other's backs since kindergarten. He's the best friend I've ever had, and we know each other better than we...

Charleston's past is full of romance. Does Anne's future hold the same? Beth Webb Hart weaves together the lives of three women from close-knit Southern town as each cope with broken dreams and crumbling relationships.Anne Brumley has long dreamed of love while ringing the...

Eva Burnette has been helping people her entire life. Always when they asked but often when they didn't. She follows her heart to where the needs are greatest and does what she can to set things right. She lives simply and honestly on her...

Book store owner and coffee slinger, Clark Thomas, finds himself involved in another murder investigation. This time in a double murder at the popular Tidal Creek Brew House in Myrtle Beach's Market Common.What seems like an open and shut case for the police turns...

"... Take the leap: fall in love with Jazz, with Serena, with Fletch, with Rocky - maybe even with a ball python or a dusky pygmy rattler." Laura McBride, author of We Are Called to Rise and In the Midnight RoomThe theft of Trina...

Bristow does "a grand job of storytelling" (the New York Times) in this memorable novel of the late eighteenth-century pioneers who settled the Louisiana wilderness, establishing a civilization of charm, luxury, and tragic injustice For his service in the king's army during the French...

Fifteen years.That's how much of his life Daniel must dedicate to Forward Colony 47⏤a self-contained ecosystem built 10 miles above the surface of Atlanta. But if that's what it takes to ensure his husband Paul and daughter Samantha are safe from the climate catastrophe...

Maribelle Saunders leaves her comfortable life in Nashville for a rough existence in 1960s Appalachia. Her dream is to teach deaf children American Sign Language (ASL) as well as how to read and write, helping them communicate with their families and prepare for school....

Jack Leonard's father, Billy, is an alcoholic. Billy isn't a bad guy. Friends would say he's the life of the party; his family might refer to him as harmless. After all, he isn't a mean drunk ... he's a happy drunk.Unfortunately, these things tend...

Award-winning New York Times bestselling author Mary Monroe returns with an outrageous new tale of Depression-era Southern drama starring identical twin sisters with a talent for switching lives and hiding the scandalous results--until one risk too many changes the game forever . . ....

A coven's heiress with dangerous decisions to navigateA necromancer with deadly secrets to keep hiddenA stalker with a lifelong vendetta to fulfill Hannah's college homecoming excitement quickly wanes when she's pushed straight into a handfasting ceremony. Her Mississippi coven is tired of waiting for...

In 1976, memories from a night near the railroad tracks sixteen years earlier haunt Barbara Parker. She wrestles with past demons every night, then wakes to the train's five-thirty whistle. Exhausted and dreading the day, she keeps her hands busy working in Bryson City's...

Gamblers, grifters, ne'er-do-wells, and dirt poor-to those who live on the outskirts of Columbia, South Carolina, such is the reputation of the Temmens family. Most of all, they're known to be trouble, and when Gene, the youngest son, returns from a vagabond trip around...

From the bestselling author of War Room comes a gripping novel that was awarded both an ECPA Christian Book Award for fiction and a 2011 Christy Award Billy Allman is a hillbilly genius. People in Dogwood, West Virginia, say he was born with a...

1995. A young woman. Her boyfriend's ex-girlfriend. The small Alabama town neither of them can escape. And a ghost. Lilly Ann Guthrie is living with a man she isn't married to; she can't hold down a job, and she can't sit in a moving...

I'd do anything to take over my dad's money management company. Even entertain deer hunters at a cabin in rural Alabama.Growing up in Atlanta I learned two valuable lessons: how to shop and how to do business. My mom taught me the first. My...

From the author of Real Bad Things and Cottonmouths, a Los Angeles Review Best Book of 2017, comes the darkly suspenseful tale of a small-town Easter tradition and its murderous secrets.For seventeen years, a serial murderer has used the Presley, Arkansas, Annual Hunt for...

In a bleak Mississippi farmhouse in 1918, Leona Pinson gives birth to an illegitimate son whose father she refuses to name, but who will, she is convinced, return from the war to rescue her from a hardscrabble life with a distant mother, a dangerous...

Nearly thirty years ago, in the wake of a personal tragedy, June Moore bought Camp Holly Springs and turned it into a thriving summer haven for girls. But now, June is in danger of losing the place she has sacrificed everything for, and begins...

Book store owner and coffee slinger, Clark Thomas, finds himself involved in another murder investigation. This time in a double murder at the popular Tidal Creek Brew House in Myrtle Beach's Market Common.What seems like an open and shut case for the police turns...

Dreaming of becoming a fashion designer and fresh off the heels of a bad breakup, Sam is thrilled to be accepted into a prestigious study abroad program in Finland. But when her mother becomes suddenly ill, the decision to go seems impossible. Devastated by...

Iola Leroy, or Shadows Uplifted (1892) is a novel by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper. One of the first novels published by an African American woman, Iola Leroy, or Shadows Uplifted is a story of liberation set during the American Civil War that deals with...

In the town of Eatonville, a dispute between former childhood friends leads to civil unrest and a criminal trial that forces everyone to choose sides. With vibrant supporting characters, De Turkey and De Law provides colorful commentary on romance, religion and a hunting trip...