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Children's |
Almost Invisible: Black Patriots of the American Revolution
Warbranch Press | 9780966711462 | $11.95 |  Kate Salley Palmer | Kate Salley Palmer is a SC treasure and she continues her great series of children's books about the American Revolution with her latest, Almost Invisible. |
Beyond the Long-Eared Mountains PublishingWorks | 9781933002637 | $24.95 | David Hume Wilmington, NC | |
If Animals Kissed Good Night Farrar Straus Giroux | 9780374380519 | $16.95 | Ann Paul, illustrated by David Walker | "If animals kissed
""like we kiss good night,
""Giraffe and his calf
""would stretch their necks high
""and kiss just beneath
""the top of the sky." In a cozy bedtime chat with her mom, a young girl wonders how animal families might say good night. Would Wolf and his pup "kiss and then HOWL"? Would Bear and her cub "kiss and then GROWL"? But what about Sloth and her baby? They move soooo slooowwwww . . . they're sure to be kissing from early evening until long after everyone else is fast asleep! With its whimsical art and playful rhymed verse, this affectionate picture book is bound to become a bedtime favorite. |
| The White Bear | Ellie Kirby | A touching retelling of the Appalachian legend of Whitebear Whittington, an enchanted prince who is under a spell that can only be broken by true devotion. Kirby is also a talented artist, self-illustrating the book in soft, beautiful watercolors. A must for any collection of children's books. |
Two Bobbies Walker & Company | 9780802797544 | $16.99 | Kirby Larson & Jean Cassels New Orleans, LA | Bobbi and Bob Cat are the best of friends. When their hometown of New Orleans was struck by Hurricane Katrina, many lost everything. But not Bobbi and Bob Cat--they still had each other. Only by staying together could they survive. This is the story of their remarkable friendship. |
Zach's Tracks Lulu.com | 9781435700079 | $13.96 | Juliana Morgan Wilmington, NC | Zach was a very well kept little Yorkshire Terrier who didn't even sport a nametag due to his overindulging family who loved and sheltered him. One day, Zach, decided to leave home when he was upset with Nanny for not taking him with her to visit with Master Todd's grandparents at the house on the lake. See how Zach made tracks miles from home with the help of many caring people who tried to rescue him, only to make Zach's adventure a much harder task to get back home. Zach's Tracks is an excellent classroom resource to introduce discussions and activities promoting Character Education, healthy relationships, and positive family communication. A heartwarming story for young and old alike. |
Cooking |
At Home Café Rodale Press | 9781594868436 | $32.50 | Helen Puckett Defrance | Building on how the first book involved the whole family in the kitchen, this new volume features entertaining with friends and neighbors, including "Neighbor Notes" on complementary dishes that guests can bring. A wealth of menus is offered for spontaneous occasions as well, from the unstructured fun of a neighborhood picnic (featuring Buttermilk Fried Chicken Tenders and Po-Boy Sandwiches) to the relaxing weekend pleasure of a Southern jazz brunch (with Crab and Artichoke Casserole, Cheddar Cheese Puffs with Apple Smoked Bacon, and Creamy Dreamy Berry Treats). A countdown for every menu makes planning a breeze. The author is a veteran cooking school teacher with a knack for keeping things simple. |
BBQ Joints: Stories and Secret Recipes from the Barbeque Belt Gibbs Smith Publishers | 9781423602187 | $15.99 | David Howard Gelin | Travel the highways and byways with a true barbecue aficionado as Gelin shares the scrumptious odors of hickory pits and the tangy sauces and rubs that make barbecue the signature dish of the South. |
Bon Appetite, Y'all | Virginia Willis | |
Bottega Favorita Artisan | 9781579653026 | $40.00 | Frank Stitt Birmingham, AL | In this companion to his first, bestselling cookbook, beloved Southern chef Stitt travels to Italy and brings the best of Mediterranean cuisine back home. This appealing new cookbook includes the best of the Southern-influenced Italian recipes he has served at his Birmingham, Alabama, restaurant for the last two decades. |
Cooking Up a Storm: Recipes Lost and Found from the Times-Picayune of New Orleans Chronicle Books | 9780811865777 | $24.95 | Bienvenu, Marcelle St. Martinville, LA | An amazing and little known side to the story of Katrina. After the destruction of Hurricane Katrina, "The Times-Picayune" of New Orleans became a post-hurricane swapping place for old recipes that were washed away in the storm. This compilation features 250 of these delicious authentic recipes along with the stories about how they came to be. |
| Grazing Along the Crooked Road | Libby Bondurant and Betty Skeens | A unique and often humorous collection of anecdotes, recipes, and photographs collected from along the "Crooked Road," the 253-mile route of Virginia's Heritage Music Trail. Perfect for Southern cooks and Appalachian culture buffs. |
Great Southern Food Festival Cookbook Thomas Nelson Publishers | 9781401603618 | $24.99 | Mindy Henderson | |
Holy Smoke: The Big Book of North Carolina Barbecue large image University of North Carolina Press | 9780807832431 | $30.00 | John Shelton Reed & Dale Volberg Reed Chapel Hill, NC | Part cookbook, part elegy for a passing way of life, part treasure trove of secret recipes. This is the best barbecue book for anyone east of the Appalachians. |
My First Cook Book Simon & Schuster | 9781416950332 | $21.99 | Paula Deen Savannah, GA | In her first cookbook for children, bestselling author and Food Network star Deen introduces the basics of cooking to children, with easy-to-follow recipes, safety tips, a few lessons in good manners, and a whole lot of fun. |
Provencal Cooking Pegasus Books | 9781605980201 | $24.00 | Mary Ann Caws Wilmington, NC | The beauty of the olive trees, cherry orchards, marketplace and vineyards dictated the rhythm of their new lives. The process of preparing food and then sharing it with friends and neighbors came to embody the essence of their existence on the hillside of Mount Vertaux. Now, in this delightful and lyric meditation on Provence and its food, Mary Ann invites you to sit down at her table and share in some of her favorite recipes, the recipes of her neighbors, and her delicious memories of life in France.
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Screen Doors & Sweet Tea | Martha Hall Foose | |
| You Are Where You Eat | Elsa Hahne | |
Fiction |
A Hundred Years of Happiness
| Nicole Seitz | |
Armageddon Conspiracy | John Thompson | Armageddon Conspiracy is an exciting read that brings all the excitement I had reading John Grisham for the first time. |
Atomic Lobster | Tim Dorsey | The best of Florida Hysterical Fiction. For Serge Storm fans, you will enjoy this disfunctional family reunion of a number of "charaters" from Tim's previous novels. |
Bible Salesman | Clyde Edgerton | "Henry is a bible salesman. Clearwater is a car thief. Henry needs a ride.Clearwater needs an assistant." And so begins the pitch for Clyde Edgerton's new novel that is full of the southern charm and side-splitting humor that only Edgerton can provide. |
Cain's Version | Frank Durham | |
Charlemagne Pursuit | Steve Berry | |
City of Refuge | Tom Piazza | |
Cotton in Augusta
| Shirley Proctor Twiss
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Deep Dish | Mary Kay Andrews | Fun from beginning to end!! |
Fresh Frozen | Darden North | |
Gossip of Starlings | Nina de Gramont | |
In the Shadow of Chimney Rock | Rose Senehi | |
Iodine | Haven Kimmel | |
Legal Limit
Larger Jacket Image Knopf | 9780307268358 | $24.95 | Martin Clark Stuart, VA Author Interview Author Photo Excerpt | If every book was this good, I'd never get anything done! |
Looking for Salvation at the Dairy Queen
Larger Jacket Image Shaye Areheart Books | 9780307395016 | $23.00 | Susan Gregg Gilmore Nashville, TN Author Photo Charlottesville Podcast Word on Words Podcast Booktalk Podcast
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| Catherine Grace Cline, the protagonist of this clever coming-of-age novel, teaches us that there can be deep meaning in a simple message |
Mermaids In The Basement
Large Jacket Image Harper | 9780060184056 | $23.95 | Michael Lee West Tennessee Author photo Author website Radio Interview (podcast) Book review Michael on Youtube List of novels Blurbs | This novel takes me to lots of my favorite places in the South on a little mini-vacation -- and the characters are a hoot! |
Mudbound | Hilary Jordan | A rich book full of controversy and thought. Set in post-WWII Mississippi, tensions between black and white tenant farmers constantly at odds over race and place in society come to a head when their sons return from battle and find common ground. Beautiful prose, deep text, very emotional. |
Murder at the Bad Girl's Bar and Grill
Larger Jacket Image Shaye Areheart Books | 9780307382078 | $23.00 | N.M.Kelby Sarasota, FL Author Website Author Photo | Wise, witty and beautifully written, this critically acclaimed book makes you laugh (don't we need to laugh these days) and think...not many books do that. |
Pelican Road | Howard Bahr | |
Serena | Ron Rash | ron rash eloquently writes about something near and dear to so many of us in the south cherish , our autonomy. The takeover of our southern woodlands by the federal government is just another instance of some difficulties our southern fathers had to endure for the good of all . He tells this almost forgotten piece of history as though he were there. |
Sugar Queen | Sarah Addison Allen | |
| The Fifth Skull | Terrell Garren Mills River, NC | This is a wonderful historical fiction novel by noted Civil War historian, Terrell Garren of North Carolina. |
The Front Porch Prophet | Raymond Atkins | The book is extremely well written and hilarious. Great theme: the family of people. Broad appeal. Wonderful spectrum of characters. Quintessentially Southern, yet universal. Humane tone. Unique style. Great satire in the vein of Mark Twain. Atkins is the new Twain. |
The House on Tradd Street | Karen White | Karen is a regional favorite and The House on Tradd Street has been on of her strongest sellers to date. |
The Mercy Oak
Minotaur Books | 9780312375348 | $24.95 | Kathryn R. Wall Author Photo Covenant Hall (website) Author Website | Kathy Wall's "Bay Tanner" mysteries are, by far, the most popular local books here. And for good reason..."The Mercy Oak" is No. 8 (they come out once a year in April) and soooo entertaining to read! Everyone love the local setting. Many visitors to Hilton Head come straight to the book store to pick up her latest. Wonderfully entertaining reading! |
The Wedding Machine | Beth Webb Hart | A Southern yarn with a light Christian touch suitable for women of any age. |
The Well and the Mine | Gin Phillips | |
The Wettest County in the World | Matt Bondurant | Fantastic. It has guns. It has war. It has moonshine. What more could you want? |
Time is a River | Mary Alice Monroe | |
Nonfiction |
Belle Weather | Celia Rivenbark | |
Belonging | bell hooks | |
Family Bible | Melissa Delbridge | |
Georgia Gardeners Q&A | Walter Reeves | |
Gone to the Swamp: Raw Materials for the Good Life in the Mobile-Tensaw Delta | Robert Leslie Smith | An excellent regional history is "Gone to the Swamp: Raw Materials for the Good life in the Mobile-Tensaw Delta." Robert Leslie Smith has gathered together oral and written histories from 150 years of farming, fishing, hunting and timber-harvesting in the second-largest river delta in the United States. (The Mobile Delta is approximately 20,323 acres of water just north of Mobile Bay, second only to the Mississippi River Delta in size.) Rich in detail and well-illustrated with black-and-white photos, it's a great introduction to a little-know ecological jewel. Fire Ant Books/ University of Alabama Press. $29.95 |
Gumbo Tales: Finding My Place at the New Orleans Table | Sara Roahen | |
Holy Roller | Diane Wilson | I want to be Diane Wilson when I grow up! |
Letter to My Daughter | Maya Angelou | |
Life is a Verb
| Patti Digh | |
Prince of Frogtown
Knopf | 9781400040407 | $24.00 | Rick Bragg Tuscaloosa, AL Excerpt | |
Remarkable Trees of Virginia | Nancy Ross Hugo, Jeff Kirwan, Robert Llewellyn | Remarkable Trees is a beautiful photographic journey highlighting the biggest, oldest, most unusual, and most striking trees in Virginia. An excellent coffee table book. |
Something For the Pain | Paul Austin | |
Something to Write Home About: Memories from a Presidential Diarist | Janis F. Kearney | |
Southern Storm: Sherman's March to the Sea | Noah Trudeau | |
Suck Your Stomach In | Shellie Tomlinson | |
The Blue Cotton Gown: A Midwife's Memoir
Beacon Press | 9780807072899 | $24.95 | Patricia Harman Morgantown, West Virginia Author photo Author website Publicity link | I knew nothing about midwifery before reading this piece of non-fiction. It was eye opening - the issues of malpractice insurance, women struggling through all kinds of tragedies, but surviving and thriving ultimately. A story of re-birth and hope. |
The Courage to Lead | Howard Lee | |
The House on First Street | Julia Reed | Julia Reed's memoir of post-Katrina New Orleans, "The House on First Street," chronicles the noted author's move to New Orleans a scant four weeks prior to the disaster. She deftly tells of the recovery and reconstruction of her home as well as the re-establishment of neighborhood restaurants and stores, populated by a parade of local characters. Ecco/HarperCollins. $23.95 |
Where's Your Jesus Now | Karen Spears Zacharias | |
Without Precedent
large image UNC Press | 9780807832141 | $35.00 | Anna Hayes Raleigh, NC | |
The World That Made New Orleans | Ned Sublette, Lawrence Hill | |
Poetry |
| Birds of Djakarta | Jean Jones | |
Burning Heaven
Wind Publications | 9781893239814 | $15.00 | Jim Minick Virginia | |
Capturing the Dead Cover Image (pdf) | Daniel Nathan Terry Wilmington, NC Author Photo Author Website | |
Dear Darkness
Knopf | 9780307264343 | $26.95 | Kevin Young Atlanta, GA Author Photo Excerpt | |
Hearsay from Heaven and Hades: New Orleans Secrets of Sinners and Saints
Larger Jacket Image Morgana Press | 9780977351435 | $25.00 | T.J. Fisher New Orleans, LA Author Photo Another Author Photo Author Website Wiki page | This collection of dark and enchanted satire, musings, and witticisms exposes a swatch in the psyche deeper than character studies or scenarios of right or wrong, good or bad, politics or peccadilloes. Crafty, uncensored, and contentious, this irreverent commentary serves up the perfect "quipsodic" tonic for overcoming the perpetually positive, goodie-two-shoes, saintly Stepford, happy middlebrow mindset. From the hallowed halls of tycoons to the underbelly of pop culture and flawed people living in the abyss, beyond the revelry and merrymaking, the guises and disguises, herein lies a quirky shadow dance of quips; a dark-jewel slice of life. Taking umbrage at milquetoast platitudes, with sardonic, world-weary wit, the narrative delivers insolent interpretations of how Louisiana's rebellious, rollicking French Quarter saints and sinners approach life, love, lust, backstabbing, and survival on the brink. |
| Jealous Witness | Andrei Codrescu | |
Beanball
Larger Jacket Image Clarion | 9780618843480 | $16.00 | Gene Fehler South Carolinia | Beanball is a lightning fast read for reluctant YA boys. They won't even realize they're reading poetry. |
More Than Friends: Poems from Him and Her | Sara Holbrook and Allan Wolf | |
Score!: 50 Poems to Motivate and Inspire
Large Jacket Image HNA Books | 9780810994881 | $15.95 | Charles Ghigna
A STARS Author! Homewood, AL Author website Author Photo Wiki page PBS Interview Author Reading | A poetry book for boys who love sports?! It's a slam-dunk! |
Signals | Ed Madden | |
| Some Identity Problems | Corey Mesler | This is my husband's first full-length poetry collection and it is the culmination of decades of work. It is stunning. |
Young Adult |
Aloha Crossing
Larger Jacket Image Pinata Books | 9780968509791 | $8.99 | Pamela Bauer Mueller Jekyll Island, GA Author Photo Author Website Educators' Guides Excerpt
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Bitsy and the Mystery of Hilton Head Island | Vonda Skelton | Wonderful mystery for 3rd - 7th graden. Vonda is from Simpsonville, SC |
Cemetery Street | Brenda Seabrooke | |
Chancey of the Maury River
Larger Jacket Image Candlewick | 9780763634391 | $15.99 | Gigi Amateau Richmond, VA Bookmarks Reading Group Guide Author bio | |
Graceling | Kirstin Cashore | well written fantasy for any age, male or female. |
Jesse's Mountain | Kerry Madden | Jesse's Mountain is the third book in the trilogy of a family in Western NC during the 60's. Livvy 2 discovers her mother's journal from her own youth. Livvy finds her mother's as a girl, innermost thoughts and begins her own journey into adulthood. |
Lament
Larger Jacket Image Flux | 9780738713700 | $9.95 | Maggie Stiefvater Westmoreland County, VA Author Website Author Podcast Author Photo Blog Stories Art | |
Lock and Key | Sarah Dessen | |
Mysterious Benedict Society and the Perilous Journey | Trenton Lee Stewart | |
Native Tongue | Shannon Greenland | The Specialist series is the Best Teen Adventure Read of 2008! Great forgirls and boys. Several of our Middle and High School libraries havepurchased the Specialist series and the kids are begging for more. Ihave read all 4 books and can't wait for more. |
Not Anything
| Carmen Rodrigues | |
Nothing Pink | Mark Hardy | |
Secret of Laurel Oaks | Lois Ruby | |
Shooting the Moon | Frances O'Roark Dowell | |
Something Wicked | Alan Gratz | |
Stella Stands Alone | A. LaFaye | |
Tennyson
Story Location: Louisiana Larger Jacket Image Knopf | 9780375847035 | $15.99 | Lesley N M Blume New York, NY Author Spotlight | |
The Adventurous Deeds of Deadwood Jones
Larger Jacket Image Front Street | 9781590786376 | $16.95 | Helen Hemphill Nashville, TN Author Website Author Photo Educator's Guide | This book is getting middle school boys reading! The adventurous of the story carries away kids (and kids-at-heart!) |
The Winning Element | Shannon Greenland | The Specialist series is the Best Teen Adventure Read of 2008! Great forgirls and boys. Several of our Middle and High School libraries havepurchased the Specialist series and the kids are begging for more. Ihave read all 4 books and can't wait for more. |
