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 Hunting & Home in the Southern Heartland: The Best of Archibald RuthledgeBest Price: $18.91 An excellent insight into the heart of the sportsman and the South's transition to the 20th... |  Night SquadBest Price: $4.00 NIGHT SQUAD has all the elements of classic hard-boiled pulp. You've got the anti-hero, Corey,... |  Penhally (Southern Classics Series (Nashville, Tenn.).)Best Price: $4.79 Caroline Gordon's first novel, Penhally, was published in 1931. It is a plantation novel where... |  The Last Radio BabyBest Price: $11.99 In this lively memoir, award-winning novelist Raymond Andrews vividly recalls the pleasures and... |  Stories of the Modern South: Revised EditionBest Price: $7.25 a wonderful collection of stories that shows southern culture with honesty and, at the same... |
 None Shall Look Back (Southern Classics Series)Best Price: $14.98 First published in 1937 "None Shall Look Back" represents an attempt by author... |  The Rawhide Knot and Other StoriesBest Price: $4.85 Marriage is the dominant theme of these eight powerful stories about men and women on the widely... |  In the Midst of Life: Tales of Soldiers and CiviliansBest Price: $5.95 I was extremely impressed by these stories when I read them in April of 1951. The book was the... |  Gentlemen Prefer Blondes: The Illuminating Diary of a Professional Lady (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics)I've read "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes" more times than I can recall. It's taken me... |  The Misadventures of a Fly Fisherman: My Life With and Without PapaBest Price: $35.77 |
 Imaginative Qualities of Actual ThingsBest Price: $5.80 and a great read, especially if you are inhterested in the art scene in New York during the 60's. |  The Tip of the Iceberg: Hemingway and the Short Story |  A Pearl Buck Reader, 2 Vol. SetBest Price: $19.84 |  Hicks, Tribes, and Dirty Realists: American Fiction After PostmodernismBest Price: $27.90 An impressive analysis on contemporary fiction. The breadth of material reviewed is... |  The Complete Short Stories of Thomas WolfeI've treasured this work of Mr. Wolfe's since purchasing it in the first edition in 1988. I can... |
 SundownBest Price: $10.99 In this book, the fictional protagonist essentially describes the authors life, according to his... |  New Essays on the African American Novel: From Hurston and Ellison to Morrison and WhiteheadBest Price: $74.57 This collection contributes to and advances scholarly discussions about the African American... |  The View from Pompey's Head (Voices of the South)Best Price: $13.08 Recently I read an article published several years ago in The Boston Globe about two prominent... |  Daughters of the Great Depression: Women, Work, and Fiction in the American 1930sBest Price: $20.10 |  Canal Town (New York Classics)Best Price: $19.95 Strong characters, readable prose and fascinating history make Canal Town a wonderful way to... |
 Dorothy Canfield FisherBest Price: $13.95 |  Occasions of Sin: A MemoirBest Price: $5.40 Some sections of the book were very good and some were only fair. The author really made her... |  Secrets of the World's Best-Selling Writer: The Storytelling Techniques of Erle Stanley GardnerErle Stanley Garner was a self-taught author who kept detailed accounts of the development of... |  Ordinary ParadiseBest Price: $19.95 Laura Furman's "Ordinary Paradise" will touch anyone who has ever suffered loss, and... |  The Four of Hearts: An Ellery Queen MysteryBest Price: $7.90 I add to the first reviewer that the 1938 hardcover I have(since about 1957) was published by... |
 The Alternate History: Refiguring Historical TimeBest Price: $8.23 |  The James Jones Reader: Outstanding Selections from His War Writings, Including from Here to Eternity,the Thin Red Line, and WhistleBest Price: $5.89 |  They Were Expendable (Bluejacket Books)Best Price: $7.89 This book is a narrative. The author simply sat down and listened to US Navy MTB officers in... |  American Short Stories since 1945Best Price: $46.26 I had the pleasure of learning in the editor's-- Dr. John Parks'-- classroom, specifically the... |  The City of Refuge: The Collected Stories of Rudolph FisherThis book of short stories about Harlem in the 1920's proved to be quite satisfying. His... |
 Green Centuries (Extra Series / Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Ar)Best Price: $4.49 It's been over a decade since I was required to read Green Centuries, so I am not prepared to... |  Tropic of CancerAfter its publication in 1934, why was this book banned as obscene for 27 years? One big reason... |  The French Powder Mystery: A Problem in DeductionThe 1930 novel, "The French Powder Mystery", is a well-structured detective story that... |  The Selected Letters of Dawn Powell: 1913-1965Best Price: $1.00 I am a neice of Dawn Powell's and we are all very grateful for the notice she is finally... |  Writing to Survive: The Private Notebooks of Conrad RichterBest Price: $20.00 In the late 1980s,while attending the University of New Mexico, I found myself in Harvena... |
 Blues of a Lifetime: The Autobiography of Cornell WoolrichBest Price: $19.95 Cornell Woolrich (1903-1968), who wrote the original stories that "Rear Window",... |  The Green Breast of the New World: Landscape, Gender, and American FictionBest Price: $29.95 |  Charlie Chan Is Dead: An Anthology of Contemporary Asian American FictionBest Price: $10.15 Jack, just because somebody doesn't happen to agree with your personal perspective doesn't make... |  The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway: The Finca Vigia EditionBest Price: $37.93 This collection is godly. This is what I would bring with me to a deserted island. Would... |  Hopalong CassidyBest Price: $17.58 Clarence Edward Mulford was a thorough researcher of Western history for his novels, and kept... |
 Romance and the Erotics of Property: Mass-Market Fiction for WomenBest Price: $29.50 |  Abel's Daughter (The Rachel Maddux Series, Vol 5)Best Price: $8.96 |  The Werewolf of ParisGuy Endore's 'The Werewolf of Paris' is rightly considered a classic of horror and being... |  Flannery O'Connor and the Language of Apocalypse (Princeton Essays in Literature)Best Price: $15.00 Kessler examines Flannery O'Connor's use of language, and sees her "in the company of... |  Song of YearsBest Price: $87.65 Read this in high school. Loved it. My mom loved it. Then found it later as an adult and... |
 Colcorton (Plume American Women Writers) |  The Shutter of Snow (American Literature Series)Best Price: $8.87 In a prose form as startling as its content, The Shutter of Snow portrays the post-partum... |  Cosmic Engineers: A Study of Hard Science Fiction (Contributions to the Study of Science Fiction and Fantasy)Best Price: $98.95 Cosmic Engineers is just what the subtitle says - a study of hard science fiction. Does it... |  Night ShiftBest Price: $0.14 It really did a wonderful job of giving access to the average mindset of Americans leading up to WW2 |  The Bounty TrilogyWyeth Edition; contains Mutiny on the Bounty, Men against the Sea, and Pitcairn's Island. ... |
 Keys To Controversies: Stereotypes in Modern American Novels (Nordamerikastudien, Bd 10)Best Price: $69.90 Stereotypes are usually seen as an expression of racism and defamation, but they also play a... |  A Piece of the WorldBest Price: $7.95 At the start of A PIECE OF THE WORLD, a 12-year-old girl named Calder is sent to live with her... |  Fall QuarterBest Price: $12.25 |  WeedsBest Price: $5.13 I picked up a copy of "Weeds" from a resale shop and from the first words, I could not... |  The City Of Trembling Leaves (Western Literature Series)Best Price: $18.41 When my now fiance handed me this book and said to read it, I really didn't know anything about... |
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