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A Feast of Snakes by Harry Crews Publisher Comments From the acclaimed author of such novels as Blood and Grits and Childhood comes a wildly weird and breathtakingly original visit to the rural South that reveals the exotic subculture that erupts in all its glory at the Rattlesnake Roundup in Mystic... (read more) Your price: $13.99 New - Trade Paper 
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The Help by Kathryn Stockett Staff Pick Kathryn Stockett's characters aren't just memorable — they're the kind you start to miss the minute you turn the last page. Set in Mississippi in 1962, they speak from a world careening toward great and long-overdue change, in voices resonating with... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Known World by Edward P. Jones Publisher Comments In one of the most acclaimed novels in recent memory, Edward P. Jones, two-time National Book Award finalist, tells the story of Henry Townsend, a black farmer and former slave who falls under the tutelage of William Robbins, the most powerful man in... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $2.75 Used - Trade Paper
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In Cold Blood: A True Account of a Multiple Murder and Its Consequences by Truman Capote Publisher Comments National Bestseller On November 15, 1959, in the small town of Holcomb, Kansas, four members of the Clutter family were savagely murdered by blasts from a shotgun held a few inches from their faces. There was no apparent motive for the crime, and... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Optimist's Daughter by Eudora Welty Publisher Comments This story of a young woman's confrontation with death and her past is a poetic study of human relations.... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole Publisher Comments When a true genius appears in the world, You may know him by this sign, that the dunces Are all in confederacy against him. Jonathan Swift, "Thoughts on Various Subjects, Moral and Diverting" "A green hunting cap squeezed the top of the fleshy... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Bastard Out of Carolina by Dorothy Allison Publisher Comments Greenville County, South Carolina, a wild, lush place, is home to the Boatwright family—rough-hewn men who drink hard and shoot up each other's trucks, and indomitable women who marry young and age all too quickly. At the heart of this astonishing... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $2.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Moviegoer by Walker Percy Publisher Comments The dazzling novel, written in 1961, that established Walker Percy as one of the major voices in Southern literature is now available for the first time in Vintage paperback edition. "A brilliant novel. . . . . Percy touches the rim of so many human... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers Publisher Comments With the publication of her first novel, The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, Carson McCullers, all of twenty-three, became a literary sensation. With its profound sense of moral isolation and its compassionate glimpses into its characters' inner lives, the... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $3.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Outer Dark by Cormac McCarthy Publisher Comments Outer Dark is a novel at once fabular and starkly evocative, set is an unspecified place in Appalachia, sometime around the turn of the century. A woman bears her brother's child, a boy; he leaves the baby in the woods and tells her he died of natural... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston Publisher Comments Fair and long-legged, independent and articulate, Janie Crawford sets out to be her own person -- no mean feat for a black woman in the '30s. Janie's quest for identity takes her through three marriages and into a journey back to her roots.... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $3.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Complete Stories by Flannery O'Connor Publisher Comments Winner of the National Book Award The publication of this extraordinary volume firmly established Flannery O'Connor's monumental contribution to American fiction. There are thirty-one stories here in all, including twelve that do not appear in the only... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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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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The Awakening (Dover Thrift Editions) by Kate Chopin Publisher Comments First published in 1899, this novel shocked readers with its open sensuality and uninhibited treatment of marital infidelity. The poignant, lyrical story of a New Orleans wife who attempts to find love outside a stifling marriage, critics have praised it... (read more) List Price $3.00 Your price: $1.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The World Made Straight by Ron Rash Publisher Comments Travis Shelton is seventeen the summer he wanders into the woods onto private property near his North Carolina home, discovers a grove of marijuana large enough to make him some serious money, and steps into the jaws of a bear trap. After hours on the... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil: A Savannah Story by John Berendt Publisher Comments Shots rang out in Savannah's grandest mansion in the misty, early morning hours of May 2, 1981. Was it murder or self-defense? For nearly a decade, the shooting and its aftermath reverberated throughout this hauntingly beautiful city of moss-hung oaks... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Lark and Termite (Vintage Contemporaries) by Jayne Anne Phillips Staff Pick This is the story of 17-year-old Lark and her fierce devotion to her disabled brother, nicknamed Termite. It's also the story of their family: proud Aunt Nonie, who raises them; Robert, Termite's father, killed in the Korean War; and their wayward mother,... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Edisto (FSG Classics) by Padgett Powell Publisher Comments A novel that has drawn comparisons with the work of J. D. Salinger, Truman Capote, and Flannery OConnor, Edisto centers on one Simons Everson Manigault, a twelve-year-old possessed of a vocabulary and sophistication way beyond his years and a... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price: $6.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Oprah's Book Club Summer 2005: A Summer of Faulkner: As I Lay Dying; The Sound and the Fury; Light in August by William Faulkner Staff Pick Oprah's right: Faulkner, believe it or not, is perfect summer reading. His prose — which includes some of the most disturbing and gorgeous sentences written in the twentieth century — demands to be savored, preferably with a mint julep or a glass of... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $12.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter by Katherine Anne Porter Publisher Comments Porters reputation as one of americancas most distinguished writers rests chiefly on her superb short stories. This volume includes the collections Flowering Judas; Pale Horse, Pale Rider; and The Leaning Tower as well as four stories not available... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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