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The House on First Street: My New Orleans Story Best Price: $13.96 Reviewed by Nikki Pringle for Reader Views (8/08) Julia Reed, a contributing editor at Vogue...	All over but the Shoutin' Best Price: $3.99 This is not only a wonderful story, but written beautifully. Great for adults and teens alike.	Ava's Man Best Price: $4.95 Ava's man was Bragg's maternal grandfather who passed away before Rick was born into poverty. ...	Ecology of a Cracker Childhood (World As Home, The) Best Price: $7.00 "Write about what you know," is an old axiom for would-be authors. Janisse Ray takes...	Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High Best Price: $3.99 Warrior's Don't Cry is about a young girl faced with challenges larger than life. At the age of...



The Thread That Runs So True: A Mountain School Teacher Tells His Story Best Price: $8.92 Twenty-two years ago (in 1986) I was a freshman in high school. My English teacher assigned The...	Cross Creek Best Price: $3.20 I bought this book for one story but it turned out all of the stories were great.	All God's Dangers: The Life of Nate Shaw Best Price: $14.28 This is a timeless classic, and not just among memoirs, because the subject was a great...	A Season of Night: New Orleans Life After Katrina Best Price: $15.64 A Season of Night is a wonderfully written story of the author's love affair with New Orleans...	Heart in the Right Place Best Price: $10.17 I enjoyed this book--even to the point of giving it as a gift to a friend. It's an easy read,...



The Tennis Partner Best Price: $2.00 The story started with a great suspense. I wanted to know what he (the Intern David) had done,...	Totch: A Life in the Everglades Best Price: $11.09 My first impression of Totch after only 10 pages wasn't very good. But I gave it a chance and I...	Nine Years Among the Indians, 1870-1879: The Story of the Captivity and Life of a Texan Among the Indians Best Price: $12.00 as a young boy (about 16 years old) a older friend recommended this book to me. after 21 years...	My Awakening: A Path to Racial Understanding Best Price: $25.34 I read this book in high school before I joined the Army. I did not understand a lot of his...	North Toward Home Best Price: $6.99 I earned a bachelor's degree from the UT Dallas with hopes of one day going on to UT Law in...

The Jew Store Best Price: $3.50 A wonderful story, thoroughly enjoyed, and similar to my family history. The book was not,...	Good Old Boy: A Delta Boyhood Best Price: $6.69 Anyone who grew up in a small town in the 40's and 50's will enjoy this book, especially if that...	An Hour Before Daylight : Memoirs of a Rural Boyhood Best Price: $0.89 This is a truly remarkable memoir describing the depression-era South. A must read, even if you...	See You in a Hundred Years: Four Seasons in Forgotten America Best Price: $6.98 I became interested in this book because it was featured in my Vanderbilt alumni magazine. It...	The Coalwood Way Best Price: $3.34 Another excellent book by Homer Hickam, If you don't read the trilogy you're missing a true West...

Gal: A True Life Best Price: $5.32 another book that i read a few months ago. some parts were a little too graphic for me, but i...	Bryson City Seasons: More Tales of a Doctors Practice in the Smoky Mountains Best Price: $2.25 Dr. Walt Larimore is a nationally known doctor and communicator, but in this series of true...	Atchafalaya Houseboat: My Years in the Louisiana Swamp Best Price: $14.16 I found this book facinating and I enjoyed it. My only complaint is it was much to short...	Alfreda's World Best Price: $5.47 My mom, an artist, received this book as a gift. I was intrigued by the paintings, started...	Heaven Is a Beautiful Place: A Memoir of the South Carolina Coast Best Price: $7.74 I picked this book up again yesterday having read it several years ago. I just finished a few...

Miss American Pie: A Diary of Love, Secrets and Growing Up in the 1970s Best Price: $3.85 I'm only giving it a two because I actually finished it. This book is not literary genius. It...	The Good Pirates of the Forgotten Bayous: Fighting to Save a Way of Life in the Wake of Hurricane Katrina Best Price: $16.50 With a long and colorful family history of defying storms, the seafaring Robin cousins of St....	Bryson City Tales: Stories of a Doctor's First Year of Practice in the Smoky Mountains Best Price: $5.00 Nice, homey story.....I have the series nice change from the crazy world of today. No...	Ben Tillman and the Reconstruction of White Supremacy (The Fred W. Morrison Series in Southern Studies) Best Price: $21.95 Obvious agenda here by a shallow author looking to capitalize on a recently re-elevated subject....	A Childhood: The Biography of a Place Best Price: $19.96 I was only recently introduced to Harry Crews, but this memoir should be required prior to...

Bob Bullock: God Bless Texas (Clifton and Shirley Caldwell Texas Heritage Series) Best Price: $15.89 If you have kept up with Texas politics and enjoy it, you will want to read this book.	Song for My Fathers: A New Orleans Story in Black and White Best Price: $12.27 The irony is that I had known the parents of Tom Sancton since 1972 (his mother, Seta, and I...	The Life and Adventures of Henry Bibb: An American Slave (Wisconsin Studies in Autobiography) Best Price: $16.95 First published in 1849 and largely unavailable for many years, The Life and Adventures of...	The Murchisons: The Rise and Fall of a Texas Dynasty Best Price: $65.00 Plenty of Texas History you would never learn about in a history class (in Texas).	Notes from Nethers: Growing Up In A Sixties Commune Best Price: $11.72 Highly recommended. The book relates the difficulties and even traumas that the youngest member...

Eudora Welty: A Writer's Life Best Price: $7.95 Interpretations of books may differ, but most readers agree that an author's lot in life is to...	Five Sisters: The Langhornes of Virginia Best Price: $2.48 I can't agree enough with the articulate, erudite reviewers who rated this book highly. I came...	Growing Up in Mississippi Best Price: $15.56 The cover on this book is beautiful and that is why I bought it. It certainly should increase...	Separate Pasts: Growing Up White in the Segregated South (Brown Thrasher Books) Best Price: $16.95 Since few people in respectable circles today would admit to having supported segregation, it is...	The Face of Texas: Portraits of Texans Best Price: $14.51 This is a beautifully photographed coffee table book picturing Texans from small towns and large...

The Peddler's Grandson: Growing Up Jewish in Mississippi Best Price: $6.95 If you think you're getting "Driving Miss Daisy", you're mistaken. I thought I was...	The Pirates Laffite: The Treacherous World of the Corsairs of the Gulf Best Price: $3.96 Overly-detailed telling of the life of the pirates Laffite.While I admire the authors historical...	On A Street Called Easy, In a Cottage Called Joy Best Price: $25.94 Great Book. Hilarious read if you have an interest in renovation or old houses. One of my...	The Real Bettie Page: The Truth About the Queen of Pinups Best Price: $7.16 I won't waste anyone's time arguing about whether or not this book is true. I wasn't there,...	White Girl: A Story Of School Desegregation Best Price: $18.36 WHITE GIRL: A Story of School Desegregation is a stirring and poignant account of the upheaval...

Mosby's Memoirs (Southern Classics) Best Price: $7.39 I read this book in less than 3 weeks! It was great, and for those who don't know the Civil War...	Lone Wolf Gonzaullas: Texas Ranger Best Price: $12.34 Somewhat interesting historically. No first hand accounts. All stories are told by an observer.	Crackers in the Glade: Life and Times in the Old Everglades Best Price: $14.11 Crackers in the Glade is a visually stunning account of bygone days in the Everglades. The...	Coach's Life : My Forty Years in College Basketball Best Price: $3.95 26 Jun 2005 Dean Smith wrote a very good book. Humble, and self-effacing. Very worthwhile...	Don't Let My Mama Read This: A Southern Fried Memoir Best Price: $4.42 Unless you want people to look at you because you will be laughing out loud while Hadjii...

Coming Home: Life, Love, and All Things Southern Best Price: $23.95 Robert Inman is the author of genial southern novels such as "Dairy Queen Days" and a...	Claytie: The Roller-Coaster Life of a Texas Wildcatter Best Price: $15.59 Clayton Williams has let Mike Cochran tell all in this interesting, humorous and sometimes sad...	Dinner at Miss Lady's: Memories and Recipes from a Southern Childhood Best Price: $2.99 What a sweet, sensuous, evocative book about both the south and childhood as I would like to...	Black Titan: A.G. Gaston and the Making of a Black American Millionaire Best Price: $8.52 So much of our American history is not taught in our schools, so when we become adults, we must...	Life on the Mississippi (Modern Library Classics) Best Price: $5.52 Fashioned from the same experiences that would inspire the masterpiece Huckleberry Finn, Life...

Quiet Strength Best Price: $1.36 A little too quiet. There were some nice insights into an amazing and wonderful woman, but they...	The Confessions of Edward Isham: A Poor White Life of the Old South Best Price: $22.95	Life in the Leatherwoods (Arkansas Classics) Best Price: $18.82 I originally purchased this book as part of a southern history class in college. At semester's...	Lemon Swamp and Other Places: A Carolina Memoir Best Price: $4.78 I helped teach history classes that used this book and I have to admit: it wasn't universally...	Barbara Jordan: American Hero Best Price: $0.99 I'm glad that Jordan is not hear to see how the gov't of the people, for the people, by the...

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