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Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe by Fannie Flagg Publisher Comments Folksy and fresh, endearing and affecting, Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe is the now-classic novel of two women in the 1980s; of gray-headed Mrs. Threadgoode telling her life story to Evelyn, who is in the sad slump of middle age. The tale... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper 
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Ellen Gilchrist: Collected Stories by Ellen Gilchrist Publisher Comments Suffused with wit, irony, and the bittersweet complications of love, the writings of Ellen Gilchrist occupy a unique place in American fiction. From early novels such as The Annunciation to recent story collections such as Flights of Angels, Gilchrist... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $2.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Little Altars Everywhere by Rebecca Wells Publisher Comments "We are swinging high flying way up, higher than in real life.And when I look down, I see all the ordinary stuff -- our brick house, the porch the tool shed, the oil drum barbecue pit, the clothesline, the chinaberry tree. But they are all lit up from... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Divine Secrets of the Ya Ya Sisterhood by Rebecca Wells Publisher Comments When Siddalee Walker, oldest daughter of Vivi Abbott Walker, Ya-Ya extraordinaire, is interviewed in the New York Times about a hit play she's directed, her mother gets described as a "tap-dancing child abuser." Enraged, Vivi disowns Sidda. Devastated... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood by Rebecca Wells Publisher Comments Chapter One"Tap-dancing child abuser. That's what the Sunday "New York Times from March 8, 1993, had called Vivi. The pages of the week-old Leisure Arts section lay scattered on the floor next to Sidda as she curled up in the bed, covers pulled tightly... (read more) List Price $7.99 Your price: $2.50 Used - Mass Market
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Charms for the Easy Life by Kaye Gibbons Publisher Comments In the verdant backwoods of North Carolina, in a sad and singular era, the Birches are unique among women of their time-living gloriously rich it decidedly offbeat lives in a private world ahandoned by men. And though misery often heats a path to their... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price: $1.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Cold Sassy Tree by Olive Ann Burns Publisher Comments If the preacher's wife's petticoat showed, the ladies would make the talk last a week. But on July 5, 1906, things took a scandalous turn. That was the day E. Rucker Blakeslee, proprietor of the general store and barely three weeks a widower, eloped with... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Fair and Tender Ladies by Lee Smith Publisher Comments Returning to Appalachia, Lee Smith, author of Oral History, creates an unforgettable heroine: Ivy Rowe. From girlhood to old age, Ivy nourishes her family with her passion, imagination, and strength.... (read more) List Price $6.99 Your price: $3.50 Used - Mass Market
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Confessions of a Failed Southern Lady by Florence King Publisher Comments Confessions of a Failed Southern Lady is Florence King's classic memoir of her upbringing in an eccentric Southern family, told with all the uproarious wit and gusto that has made her one of the most admired writers in the country. Florence may have been... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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River, Cross My Heart by Breena Clarke Publisher Comments A remarkable new writer makes her debut with a novel of tragedy and triumph in the life of an African American family in Georgetown, circa 1925. Eight-year-old Clara Bynum is dead, drowned in the Potomac River in the shadow of an apparently haunted... (read more) List Price $7.50 Your price: $5.95 Used - Mass Market
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The Sweet Potato Queens' Book of Love by Jill Conner Browne Publisher Comments This slipcased set contains one copy of each of the three Sweet Potato Queens' classics: the book that started it all, The Book of Love; its hilarious follow-up, God Save the Sweet Potato Queens; and last but not least, the #1 New York Times bestselling... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $2.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Icy Sparks (Oprah's Book Club) by Gwyn Hyman Rubio Publisher Comments A New York Times Notable Book and the March 2001 selection of Oprah's Book Club® ! Icy Sparks is the sad, funny and transcendent tale of a young girl growing up in the mountains of Eastern Kentucky during the 1950’s. Gwyn Hyman Rubio’s... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Waiting to Exhale by Terry Mcmillan Publisher Comments ROBIN STOKES is a successful insurance professional recovering from a dead-end love affair. "They say love is a two-way street. But I don't believe it because the one I've been on for the last two years was a dirt road." After months of depression... (read more) List Price $6.99 Your price: $2.50 Used - Mass Market
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