Okra Picks: Great Southern Books Fresh Off the Vine
The Okra Picks are a dozen fresh titles chosen each season that SIBA Indie Bookstores want to handsell. These books should be southern in nature but can cover any genre, not just fiction. Southerners love their writers, and we want to be at the forefront of bringing them a strong selection of southern titles not to be missed each season.
A new harvest of Okra Picks will be announced each publishing season. To nominate a book you must be a SIBA bookseller.
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Or, you can use our new nomination form
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As a SIBA member, you can earn $50.00 in SIBA Credit each time you do an in-store Okra Picks display and report your sales of Okra Pick titles. The credit can be used for anything SIBA, including Trade Show registration and meal tickets.
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Announcing the Summer 2012 Okra Picks
- Last Updated on Monday, 20 May 2013 22:49
- Category: Okra Picks
Southern indie booksellers like their okra, and they love their southern books. The new list of Okra Picks-- great southern books, fresh off the vine-- has just been released. A dozen new books that all have two things in common: They are southern in nature, and there is a southern indie bookseller that wants everyone to read each one!
The Summer Okra Picks List!
15 Seconds by Andrew Gross
William Morrow, July 2012
9780061655975
A Land More Kind Than Home by Wiley Cash
William Morrow, April 2012
9780062088147
Beach House Memories by Mary Alice Monroe
Gallery Books, May 2012
9781439170663
The Cove by Ron Rash
Ecco, April 2012
9780061804199
Desert Rose by Edythe Scott Bagley
University of Alabama Press, May 2012
9780817317652
Don't Ever Get Old by Daniel Friedman
Minotaur, May 2012
9780312606930
Hell or High Water by Joy Castro
Thomas Dunne Books, July 2012
9781250004574
The Palmetto and Its South Carolina Home by Jim Harrison
University of South Carolina Press, April 2012
9781611170498
Pete the Cat and His Four Groovy Buttons by Eric Litwin, illustrated by James Dean
HarperCollins, May 2012
9780062110589
Precious Bones by Mika Ashley-Hollinger
Delacorte Books for Young Readers, May 2012
9780385742191
Shine Shine Shine by Lydia Netzer
St. Martins Press, July 2012
9781250007070
Three Times Lucky by Sheila Turnage
Dial Books, May 2012
9780803736702
For more information contact
Wanda Jewell
Executive Director
Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance
803.995.9530
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