Okra Picks: Great Southern Books Fresh Off the Vine
2011 Spring Okra Picks
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Okra Picks – Spring 2011
Spring is in the air, so it is time to grow some good reading! Southern Indie Booksellers have a selected the 2011 Spring Okra Picks —great southern books, fresh off the vine. A baker’s dozen of titles representing a wide range of tastes, all the books selected have the following things in common: 1) They are Southern in nature. 2) They are 2011 Spring releases and 3) There is a SIBA member Bookstore who is really excited about the book. Southern booksellers love their Southern authors—we grow good books!
Book information and toolkit:
http://www.sibaweb.com/okra
Spring 2011 Okra Picks: Links, documents, marketing and publisher resources
The Okra Picks, 2011 Spring Edition:
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| Georgia Bottoms by Mark Childress Little Brown and Company Publication Date: February 23, 2011 9780316033046 Hardcover | $24.99 | 288 pages |
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| Under the Mercy Trees by Heather Newton Harper Paperbacks Pub Date: January 01, 2011 9780062001344 Fiction | $13.99 |
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| Electric Barracuda by Tim Dorsey HarperCollins On Sale: February, 2011 9780061876899 Hardcover | $24.99 |
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| Gone With a Handsomer Man by Michael Lee West Minotaur Books April 26, 2011 9780312571221 Hardcover |352 pages | $24.99 |
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The Dry Grass of August by Anna Jean Mayhew Kensington Mar. 29, 2011 9780758254092 Paperback | $15 |
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| Tales from a Free-Range Childhood by Donald Davis John F. Blair March 2011 978-0-89587-507-5 | $19.95 hardcover 978-0-89587-509-9 | $12.95 paperback 256 pages; 5.5 x 8.5 |
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| High on the Hog by Jessica Harris Bloomsbury January 2011 9781596913950 hardcover | $26 |
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| The New Southern Garden Cookbook: Enjoying the Best from Homegrown Gardens, Farmers' Markets, Roadside Stands, and CSA Farm Boxes by Sheri Castle University of North Carolina Press April 4, 2011 Hardcover | $35.00 9780807834657 |
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| A Southerly Course: Recipes and Stories from Close to Home by Martha Hall Foose Crown On Sale: April 12, 2011 Hardcover | 256 pages |$32.50 ISBN: 978-0-307-46428-6 (0-307-46428-8) |
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Working South: Paintings and Sketches by Mary Whyte University of South Carolina Press January 31, 2011 Paperback | 128 pages |$29.95 ISBN-10: 1570039674 ISBN-13: 978-1570039676 |
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| Alabama Afternoons: Profile and Conversations by Roy Hoffman University of Alabama Press Mar. 22, 2011 Hardcover |$29.95 |
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| Fighting the Devil in Dixie by Wayne Greenhaw by Wayne Greenhaw Lawrence Hill Books Jan. 1, 2011 Hardcover | $26.95 9781569763452 |
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Visit the Okra Picks Patch at www.authorsroundthesouth.com. Lady Banks will introduce the Okra Picks to over 5000 consumer subscribers in the March issue. Okra Pick titles will be highlighted on the Southern Indie Bestseller list and SIBA will post marketing and promotional materials as part of an “Okra Picks toolkit” for booksellers at www.sibaweb.com.
For more information on the Okra Picks program, visit SIBA’s website at www.sibaweb.com/okra.