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All Over But the Shoutin'
by Rick Bragg  
From Powells.com By the time he received the Pulitzer Prize in 1996, New York Times correspondent Rick Bragg had already received nearly every award available to an American journalist, including the American Society of Newspaper Editors Distinguished Writing Award...
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Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How It Changed America
by John M Barry
Powells.com Staff Pick "An account of the Mississippi flood of 1927 and how it changed America. When the river flooded, it was possible to travel in a boat, east to west in the South, two hundred miles. The book is an account of how engineers had tried to control the...
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The Prince of Frogtown
by Rick Bragg Publisher Comments In this final volume of the beloved American saga that began with All Over but the Shoutin’ and continued with Ava’s Man, Rick Bragg closes his circle of family stories with an unforgettable tale about fathers and sons inspired by his own...
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Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War
by Tony Horwitz
Publisher Comments When prize-winning war correspondent Tony Horwitz leaves the battlefields of Bosnia and the Middle East for a peaceful corner of the Blue Ridge Mountains, he thinks he's put war zones behind him. But awakened one morning by the crackle of musket fire...
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Ava's Man
by Rick Bragg
Publisher Comments The national bestseller, now in paperback, continues Rick Bragg's personal history of the Deep South in this masterly family chronicle so vivid one can smell the cornbread and whiskey. "As toothsome as a catfish supper. Bragg is every bit the equal of . ....
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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...
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Lowcountry (Portrait of a Place)
by Bob Krist Publisher Comments THE LOWCOUNTRY: FROM CHARLESTON TO SAVANNAH travels through the history, culture, and geography of the 100-mile stretch of coast between South Carolina and Georgia. With two of the country's most historically rich cities flanking this region, the history...
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Wild and Scenic Florida: A Photographic Portfolio
by James Randklev Publisher Comments Florida is a semi-tropical paradise of beach, swamp, and wetland surrounded by the Gulf of Mexico and the Atlantic Ocean. In this startling new collection of large format images James Randklev explores the natural and man-made beauty of the Sunshine...
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Peninsula of Lies: A True Story of Mysterious Birth and Taboo Love
by Edward Ball Publisher Comments Peninsula of Lies is nonfiction mystery, set in a haunting gothic locale and peopled by fascinating and eccentric characters. Its hero and heroine is Dawn Langley Simmons, a British writer who lived in Charleston, South Carolina, during the 1960s and...
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Love, Bourbon Street: Reflections of New Orleans
by Greg Herren Publisher Comments The people of New Orleans have always enjoyed a love affair with their city, and only when they came close to totally losing it-in the wake of Hurricane Katrina-did they truly give voice to their love. Now, two noted editors have called upon their...
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Seeing Charleston: A Field Guide to Photographing a World-Class City
by Ron A. Rocz Synopsis Photographer and writer Ron Rocz has spent decades learning how best to capture Charleston and the Lowcountry in photographs. In Seeing Charleston, he guides the reader to sung and unsung locations, suggesting the best time of day and position to capture...
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Hillbilly: A Cultural History of an American Icon
by Anthony Harkins Publisher Comments In this pioneering work of cultural history, historian Anthony Harkins argues that the hillbilly-in his various guises of "briar hopper," "brush ape," "ridge runner," and "white trash"-has been viewed by mainstream Americans simultaneously as a violent...
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From Abbeville To Zebulon: Early Postcard Views of Georgia
by Gary L. Doster Publisher Comments From "Depot Street, looking North" in Abbeville to a "Street Scene" in Zebulon, this delightful gathering of more than six hundred vintage post card images presents the panorama of daily life in early-twentieth-century Georgia.<P>Family outings...
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Totch: A Life in the Everglades
by Loren G Totch Brown Publisher Comments In the mysterious wilderness of swamps, marshes, and rivers of the Florida Everglades, Totch Brown hung up his career as alligator hunter and commercial fisherman to become, briefly, a self-confessed pot smuggler. Before the marijuana money rolled in, he...
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Confederacy of Silence
by Richard Rubin
Publisher Comments When Richard Rubin, fresh out of the Ivy League, accepts a job at a daily newspaper in the old Delta town of Greenwood, Mississippi, he is thrust into a place as different from his hometown of New York as any in the country. Yet to his surprise, he is...
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Praying for Sheetrock
by Melissa Fay Greene
Publisher Comments In the 1970s, a corrupt old-time sheriff and his courthouse gang rules McIntosh County on the flowery coast of Georgia and preyed on the Yankee tourists passing through on their way to Florida. It appeared that the civil rights movement had entirely...
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Queen of the Turtle Derby and Other Southern Phenomena
by Julia Reed
Powells.com Staff Pick This endearing book is a wonderful instruction manual for understanding the unusual customs of Southerners. Because you may never have the opportunity to meet my parents, this wise and witty collection of essays will suffice in giving you insights...
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Becoming Southern: The Evolution of a Way of Life, Warren County and Vicksburg, Mississippi, 1770-1860
by Christopher Morris Publisher Comments Mississippi represented the Old South and all that it stood for--perhaps more so than any other state. Tracing its long histories of economic, social, and cultural evolution, Morris takes a close and richly detailed look at a representative Southern...
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The Devil's Backbone: The Story of the Natchez Trace
by Jonathan Daniels Publisher Comments The Natchez Trace has as dark and bloody a history as any thoroughfare since the beginning of our nation. The whole dramatic story of the Natchez Trace in fascinating detail....
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Florida Wildlife Impressions
by Tom Stack Publisher Comments Each spread offers rich views into the vibrant, tropical habitats of The Sunshine State's most unique creatures. The Stacks venture deep below the water's surface to photograph the rare wildlife that few have an opportunity to see....
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