The Georgia Rambler: A Potter's Snake, the Real Thing Recipe, a Satilla Adventure and More
The Georgia Rambler: A Potter's Snake, the Real Thing Recipe, a Satilla Adventure and More

Author: Charles Salter

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

Published: 2011-07-21

Total Pages: 206

ISBN-13: 1614233527

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For years, veteran Atlanta Journal-Constitution columnist Charles Salter roamed the state in his 1975 Chevy station wagon in search of the most offbeat characters to appear in his celebrated column, "The Georgia Rambler." From tall tales of the Okefenokee Swamp, to treasure hunters of Duluth and ex-moonshiners of North Georgia, Salter's stories are as eclectic and extraordinary as the people he interviewed. Along the way, he discovered the alleged original recipe for Coca-Cola in the pages of an old pharmacist's book, a find that inspired an episode of award-winning radio show This American Life. Read these remarkable stories and more in this never-before-published compilation of the best of "The Georgia Rambler."

Paper Towns
Paper Towns

Author: John Green

Publisher: A&C Black

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 321

ISBN-13: 140884818X

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Quentin Jacobson has spent a lifetime loving Margo Roth Spiegelman from afar. So when she cracks open a window and climbs into his life - dressed like a ninja and summoning him for an ingenious campaign of revenge - he follows. After their all-nighter ends, Q arrives at school to discover that Margo has disappeared.

The Weight of this World
The Weight of this World

Author: David Joy

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2017

Total Pages: 274

ISBN-13: 0399173110

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Critically acclaimed author David Joy, whose debut, Where All Light Tends to Go, was hailed as "a savagely moving novel that will likely become an important addition to the great body of Southern literature" (The Huffington Post), returns to the mountains of North Carolina with a powerful story about the inescapable weight of the past. A combat veteran returned from war, Thad Broom can't leave the hardened world of Afghanistan behind, nor can he forgive himself for what he saw there. His mother, April, is haunted by her own demons, a secret trauma she has carried for years. Between them is Aiden McCall, loyal to both but unable to hold them together. Connected by bonds of circumstance and duty, friendship and love, these three lives are blown apart when Aiden and Thad witness the accidental death of their drug dealer and a riot of dope and cash drops in their laps. On a meth-fueled journey to nowhere, they will either find the grit to overcome the darkness or be consumed by it.

Blindsight
Blindsight

Author: Peter Watts

Publisher: Macmillan

Published: 2006-10-03

Total Pages: 388

ISBN-13: 1429955198

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Hugo and Shirley Jackson award-winning Peter Watts stands on the cutting edge of hard SF with his acclaimed novel, Blindsight Two months since the stars fell... Two months of silence, while a world held its breath. Now some half-derelict space probe, sparking fitfully past Neptune's orbit, hears a whisper from the edge of the solar system: a faint signal sweeping the cosmos like a lighthouse beam. Whatever's out there isn't talking to us. It's talking to some distant star, perhaps. Or perhaps to something closer, something en route. So who do you send to force introductions with unknown and unknowable alien intellect that doesn't wish to be met? You send a linguist with multiple personalities, her brain surgically partitioned into separate, sentient processing cores. You send a biologist so radically interfaced with machinery that he sees x-rays and tastes ultrasound. You send a pacifist warrior in the faint hope she won't be needed. You send a monster to command them all, an extinct hominid predator once called vampire, recalled from the grave with the voodoo of recombinant genetics and the blood of sociopaths. And you send a synthesist—an informational topologist with half his mind gone—as an interface between here and there. Pray they can be trusted with the fate of a world. They may be more alien than the thing they've been sent to find. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Whitetail Nation
Whitetail Nation

Author: Pete Bodo

Publisher: HMH

Published: 2010-11-15

Total Pages: 325

ISBN-13: 0547504454

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A dedicated deer hunter “writes with humor and insight” about his adventures—and misadventures—in the wild (Orlando Sentinel). Every autumn, millions of men and women across the country don their camo, stock up on doe urine, and undertake a quintessential American tradition—deer hunting. The pinnacle of a hunter’s quest is killing a buck with antlers that “score” highly enough to qualify for the Boone and Crockett record book. But in all his seasons on the trail, Pete Bodo, an avid outdoorsman and student of the hunt, had never reached that milestone. Sadly, he had to admit it: He was a nimrod. Whitetail Nation is the uproarious story of the season Pete Bodo set out to kill the big buck. From the rolling hills of upstate New York to the vast and unforgiving land of the Big Sky to the Texas ranches that feature high fences, deer feeders, and money-back guarantees, Bodo traverses deep into the heart of a lively, growing subculture that draws powerfully on durable American values: the love of the frontier, the importance of self-reliance, the camaraderie of men in adventure, the quest for sustained youth, and yes, the capitalist’s right to amass every high tech hunting gadget this industry’s exploding commerce has to offer. Gradually, Bodo closes in on his target—that elusive monster buck—and with each day spent perched in a deer stand or crawling stealthily in high grass (praying the rattlesnakes are gone), or shivering through the night in a drafty cabin (flannel, polar fleece, and whiskey be damned), readers are treated to an unforgettable tour through a landscape that ranges from the exalted to the absurd. Along the way Bodo deftly captures the spirit and passion of this rich American pursuit, tracing its history back to the days of Lewis and Clark and examining that age old question: “Why do men hunt?”

The Help
The Help

Author: Kathryn Stockett

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 546

ISBN-13: 0425245136

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Original publication and copyright date: 2009.

Zigzagging Down a Wild Trail
Zigzagging Down a Wild Trail

Author: Bobbie Ann Mason

Publisher: Random House

Published: 2001-09-15

Total Pages: 264

ISBN-13: 1588360237

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In this remarkable book, the author of Shiloh and Other Stories, In Country, and other award-winning books gives us powerful new stories that capture the restless energy of life in contemporary America. The characters here are travelers and seekers, feeling their way toward, or away from the defining moments of their lives. They roam out into the world to England, Alaska, Texas, Saudi Arabia, or ricochet back home to Kentucky, ceaselessly searching, exploring, testing for limits. I felt strange, says Chrissy in With Jazz, as though all my life I had been zigzagging down a wild trail to this particular place. In Charger, a teenage boy races along the interstate, seeking the father who abandoned him years before. In Rolling into Atlanta, a young woman searches for the kind of authenticity she remembers from her rural childhood. In Proper Gypsies, Nancy deals with the shock of being robbed in London. In The Funeral Side, Sandra comes home to try to fulfill her responsibilities to her family, but yearns to escape again to Alaska and the northern lights that haunt her. Writing in the spare, precise, beautifully nuanced language for which she is famous, Bobbie Ann Mason expands her art here in dramatic and illuminating fashion. These fascinating stories bring to life surprising individuals whose journeys shine a bright light on life as it is lived by many Americans today. Zigzagging Down a Wild Trail is a beautiful book by one of America's finest writers, a book full of drama, humor, and startling insights into the timeless longings of the human heart.

August
August

Author: Tracy Letts

Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com

Published: 2010-07-09

Total Pages: 258

ISBN-13: 1458781410

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One of the most bracing and critically acclaimed plays in recent Broadway history, August; Osage County a portrait of the dysfunctional American family at its finest - and absolute worst. When the patriarch of the Weston clan disappears one hot summer night, the family reunites at the Oklahoma homestead, where long-held secrets are unflinchingly and uproariously revealed.

Season of the Gar
Season of the Gar

Author: Mark Spitzer

Publisher: University of Arkansas Press

Published: 2010-04-01

Total Pages: 188

ISBN-13: 1557289298

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Season of the Gar is a fang-infested, monster-headed, armor-plated romp through the prehistoric swamps and murky rivers of America’s most feared and demonized fish. Follow Mark Spitzer on his lengthy and often frustrating quest from Texas and Louisiana, Missouri, and Arkansas to catch his own gar. Read about his sometimes bizarre angling adventures in search of this air-breathing freshwater giant (up to ten feet in length and well over three hundred pounds) as he separates fact from fiction. Spitzer draws on folklore, science, history, his own pet gar, and even gar recipes to tell this unique and exciting literary eco-tale about a fish that has inspired imaginations for centuries, a fish many have hated, a fish many have thrown on the shore to die.

Material Motive
Material Motive

Author: J Smith

Publisher:

Published: 2020-05-15

Total Pages: 534

ISBN-13: 9781721577910

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Mystery lovers are in for a real treat as author J. Smith brings to life an exciting and fun new private investigator who threatens to upset every crime reader's favorite book applecart. Radell Hunter is funny, tough-as-nails, financially-challenged and creatively juggling a whole lot of balls in the air at once. A divorced single mother in her late 30s, she's a nontraditional crime sleuth in a world full of experienced biased men. In Material Motive, author J. Smith introduces readers to her main character's unusual weapons and techniques: an FBI Special Agent daughter named Dominique; Radell's closest gal pal Betty Jean (a local redneck's wife) and an on-again off-again friend Rosalie (a closet exerciser, who also happens to work at Hunter's favorite restaurant Mickey D's). And then there is Darrell, the male chauvinistic police chief friend that is constantly keeping the female crime-fighter out of jail (or helping her commit crimes that will put them both in it). And last, but certainly not least, is Radell Hunter's nemesis, Barb Butt -- who is appropriately named, but who can't decide if she wants to destroy the new P.I., or if she wants to become her. But all that aside, Hunter's latest client is a liar who has her chasing around after dead people, which turns out to be the least of her worries, as he is nothing compared to the 38-year-olds' own neighbors from Hell, who make it seem like battling killers is child's play compared to getting a great night's sleep in her own new house. Radell Hunter will make you laugh, relate and salivate all at the same time while she matches wits with the witless, nixes the nincompoops and pole-dances her stress away to Rod Stewart music in her P.I. office, where mayhem also reigns thanks to her cheapskate landlord and his motley crew of misfits that populate the building (legally and illegally). So, buckle up and get ready for the ride of your life in J. Smith's newest fictional series.