Summer in the South
Summer in the South

Author: Cathy Holton

Publisher: Ballantine Books

Published: 2011-05-24

Total Pages: 353

ISBN-13: 0345526341

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Cathy Holton, author of the popular Beach Trip, returns with an intriguing and mysterious tale of dark deeds and family secrets in a small Southern town. After a personal tragedy, Chicago writer Ava Dabrowski quits her job to spend the summer in Woodburn, Tennessee, at the invitation of her old college friend Will Fraser and his two great-aunts, Josephine and Fanny Woodburn. Her charming hosts offer Ava a chance to relax at their idyllic ancestral estate, Woodburn Hall, while working on her first novel. But Woodburn is anything but quiet: Ancient feuds lurk just beneath its placid surface, and modern-day rivalries emerge as Ava finds herself caught between the competing attentions of Will and his black-sheep cousin Jake. Fascinated by the family’s impressive history—their imposing house filled with treasures, and their mingling with literary lions Fitzgerald, Hemingway, and Faulkner—Ava stumbles onto rumors about the darker side of the Woodburns’ legacy. Putting aside her planned novel, she turns her creative attentions to the eccentric and tragic clan, a family with more skeletons (and ghosts) in their closets than anyone could possibly imagine. As Ava struggles to write the true story of the Woodburns, she finds herself tangled in the tragic history of a mysterious Southern family whose secrets mirror her own.

Down South for the Summer
Down South for the Summer

Author: Patricia Bellamy-Mathis

Publisher:

Published: 2021-12-05

Total Pages: 40

ISBN-13:

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Down South for the Summer is the story of a Black family from the Northeast taking their annual road trip to see their grandparents in South Carolina. Set in the 1990s, this story highlights the quintessential Black experience --- sleek braids and beads, everyone (and then some) piling into the family van, and playing road trip games during the long drive. Once in the South, the family enjoys being wrapped in Grandma's shea butter hugs, the freshest meals farmed from the family land, waving hello to the friendliest neighbors and of course getting darker shades of mochas, caramels and chocolates from the hours spent playing in the Carolina sun. This story promotes the adventure and love that carries through the Black family from state to state, from road meal to home-cooked meal and in every small, yet memorable family experience.

A Summer in the South
A Summer in the South

Author: James Marshall

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 112

ISBN-13: 9780395913611

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A great detective, Eleanor Owl, is drawn into a mystery while vacationing at a beachside hotel.

Summer Sons
Summer Sons

Author: Lee Mandelo

Publisher: Tordotcom

Published: 2021-09-28

Total Pages: 336

ISBN-13: 1250790301

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Lee Mandelo's debut Summer Sons is a sweltering, queer Southern Gothic that crosses Appalachian street racing with academic intrigue, all haunted by a hungry ghost. Andrew and Eddie did everything together, best friends bonded more deeply than brothers, until Eddie left Andrew behind to start his graduate program at Vanderbilt. Six months later, only days before Andrew was to join him in Nashville, Eddie dies of an apparent suicide. He leaves Andrew a horrible inheritance: a roommate he doesn’t know, friends he never asked for, and a gruesome phantom that hungers for him. As Andrew searches for the truth of Eddie’s death, he uncovers the lies and secrets left behind by the person he trusted most, discovering a family history soaked in blood and death. Whirling between the backstabbing academic world where Eddie spent his days and the circle of hot boys, fast cars, and hard drugs that ruled Eddie’s nights, the walls Andrew has built against the world begin to crumble. And there is something awful lurking, waiting for those walls to fall. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

The Edible South
The Edible South

Author: Marcie Cohen Ferris

Publisher: UNC Press Books

Published: 2014

Total Pages: 494

ISBN-13: 1469617684

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Edible South: The Power of Food and the Making of an American Region

The South Beach Diet Cookbook
The South Beach Diet Cookbook

Author: Arthur Agatston

Publisher: Rodale

Published: 2004-04-13

Total Pages: 354

ISBN-13: 1579549578

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A companion to "The South Beach Diet" presents more than two hundred recipes that demonstrate how to eat healthfully without compromising taste, outlining the diet's basic philosophies and sharing personal success stories.

Quiet Revolution in the South
Quiet Revolution in the South

Author: Chandler Davidson

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Published: 1994-06-16

Total Pages: 522

ISBN-13: 9780691021089

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This work is the first systematic attempt to measure the impact of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, commonly regarded as the most effective civil rights legislation of the century. Marshaling a wealth of detailed evidence, the contributors to this volume show how blacks and Mexican Americans in the South, along with the Justice Department, have used the act and the U.S. Constitution to overcome the resistance of white officials to minority mobilization. The book tells the story of the black struggle for equal political participation in eight core southern states from the end of the Civil War to the 1980s--with special emphasis on the period since 1965. The contributors use a variety of quantitative methods to show how the act dramatically increased black registration and black and Mexican-American office holding. They also explain modern voting rights law as it pertains to minority citizens, discussing important legal cases and giving numerous examples of how the law is applied. Destined to become a standard source of information on the history of the Voting Rights Act, Quiet Revolution in the South has implications for the controversies that are sure to continue over the direction in which the voting rights of American ethnic minorities have evolved since the 1960s.

Along the Great South Bay (Illustrated Edition)
Along the Great South Bay (Illustrated Edition)

Author: Harry W. Havemeyer

Publisher:

Published: 2014-12-01

Total Pages: 530

ISBN-13: 9780990787006

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Nearly twenty years after it was first published, Along the Great South Bay continues to be the definitive source of Great South Bay history, recounting a century in which New York's most affluent families came to enjoy the cool summer breezes of the Atlantic Ocean and the boating, fishing, and bird shooting for which the area was renowned. Newly released in paperback as an illustrated edition, Along the Great South Bay now includes 182 photographs and maps, bringing back to life the tantalizing tale of an era long gone, but no longer forgotten.

Time to Move South for Winter
Time to Move South for Winter

Author: Clare Helen Welsh

Publisher: Nosy Crow

Published: 2023-10-03

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13:

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A breathtaking picture book about incredible animal migrations, illustrated by the winner of the 2019 Waterstones Children's Book Prize, Jenny Løvlie. Over the cold, mirrored waters of the Arctic, a tiny tern sets off on the world's longest animal migration. On her way, she passes humpback whales, caribou, Canada geese, leatherback turtles, and monarch butterflies, each on their own incredible journey south for winter. When the Arctic tern finally arrives, she must find a new home on the Antarctic shore . . . until it's time to return to the northern skies once again. A beautiful, lyrical, and reassuring bedtime story, perfect for young animal lovers, with a map and double-page spread of non-fiction facts at the end.

The $66 Summer
The $66 Summer

Author: John Armistead

Publisher:

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 244

ISBN-13: 9781571316264

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While working in his grandmother's store in Obadiah, Alabama, during the summer of 1955, thirteen-year-old George becomes friends with two Black children with whom he stumbles onto evidence of a violent death.