| Book | What stores said | |
|---|---|---|
| A Love Affair with Southern Cooking by Jean Anderson. William Morrow Cookbooks 32.50
| black-eyed pea hummus--yummy! ~Park Road Books | |
| After The Hunt by Chef John Folse | Chef Folse's newest title is more than just a cookbook with it's whitty commentary and the pictures to go with it. Not only will you learn how to make a delicious dish with your catch or capture of the day you'll learn how catching or capturing it was great fun or a challenge for John Folse and his friends. ~Cherry Books | |
| In Praise of Pecans by June Jackson | One of our best-selling cookbooks this holiday season and it didn't hurt when she got on CBS Sunday Morning ~Windows a bookshop | |
| Savoir Faire by Pat Paternostro | This cookbook has been a hugh success in our store. The author Pat knows Louisiana cuisine and how to help her readers prepare the most elegant and delicious dishes with the ingredients most of us already have in our pantry. The descriptions and beautiful color pictures just add to the appeal of her book. ~Cherry Books | |
| Soby's New South Cuisine by Freidank, Sobocinski, Williams & Peck | Soby's is my favorite Greenville restaurant and this gorgeously illustrated cookbook includes 150 of their best recipes! ~Fiction Addiction |
| Book | What stores said | |
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| An Angry Drum Echoed by Pamela Bauer Mueller Pinata Publishing 18.95 | I nominate An Angry Drum Echoed by Pamela Bauer Mueller in the fiction category. ~Hattie's Books | |
| Aurora County All-Stars by Deborah Wiles | This book was on the NYTimes best seller list for very good reason. It's simply wonderful. ~Windows a bookshop | |
| Br'er Rabbit Captured by Jean Cassels Walker & Company 17.95 | This title will entertain both young and old. The beautiful and detailed illustrations alone are a reason to read this book. Jean has found a way to expand ona classic story without damaging it's classic beginnings. ~Cherry Books | |
| Chicken Dance by Jacques Couvillon Bloomsbury Publishing, LLC 16.95 | For all those who gripe about there not being great books for 13 year old boys, this YA book is fabulous--and girls love it too. ~Windows a bookshop | |
| Deep In the Swamp by DONNA M. BATEMAN Charlesbridge Publishing 6.95 | I ABSOLUTELY LOVE SELLING THIS BOOK TO CHILDREN. THE SWAMP IN THE BOOK IS IN GEORGIA, BUT RELATES TO OUR LOUISIANA SWAMPS, TOO. I LOVE GIVING KIDS BOOKS ABOUT THEIR OWN LAND AND HERITAGE. BEAUTIFUL ILLUSTRATIONS ON EVERY PAGE. ~THE RAVEN BOOKSTORE | |
| Football Genius by Tim Green HarperCollins Publishers 16.99 | ~ | |
| Louisiana's Song by Kerry Madden Viking Children's Books 16.99 | Kerry writes about a time and place with a deft touch and works hard to promote literacy in the yound adults she writes for. ~City Lights | |
| My Mother the Cheerleader by Robert Sharenow Harperteen 16.99 | (one of the best young adult books of the year, and it should have won some of those awards that just got announced) - Set in New Orleans during integration ~Windows a bookshop | |
| Pappy's Handkerchief by Devin Scillian and Chris Ellison Sleeping Bear Press 17.95 | Simply put, I loved this book. Not only does it talk about a part of American history (the Oklahoma land rush), but it draws you in, and makes you feel like you were really there. It's a great children's book and a book for grownups to enjoy, too! ~BooKEndz Specialty Books | |
| Running the Dogs by Thomas Cochran | Great boy main character for middle readers, great family story ~Windows a bookshop | |
| Something Rotten by Alan Gratz Dial Books | Something Rotten is a fabulous and fun book for middle readers through adult. ~Carpe Librum |
| Book | What stores said | |
|---|---|---|
| Capote in Kansas by Kim Powers | I love this book! ~Two Sisters Bookery | |
| Cataloochee by Wayne Caldwell | Cataloochee by Wayne Caldwell is an historical fiction account of the removal of the people from Cataloochee. Families were moved by eminent domain for the sake of the Smoky Mountain National Park. Caldwell tells their story with compassion. Telling the story of people removed from their homes, schools, and churches, is no easy feat and this first time novelists brings us right into the hearts of these people. ~Osondu Booksellers | |
| Coal Black Horse by ROBERT OLMSTEAD | GREAT READ - COULDN'T PUT IT DOWN - SO GOOD, IT WILL MAKE YOU LATE FOR DINNER. ~Page After Page Bookstore | |
| Crawfish Mountain by Ken Wells | Well Ken has done it again and we have difficulty keeping it on our shelves. Crawfish Mountain is a tale of Louisiana corruption on a back drop of our Louisiana wetlands. You'll follow one man on a personal quest to protect the marshes his family has love ~Cherry Books | |
| Down River by John Hart | Readers, you just have no idea what you’re in for. Down River is a grand slam, one of the five best mystery thrillers I’ve read ever. John keeps the elements that made King of Lies so special (fine writing, a wonderfully dysfunctional Southern family), and then cranks the amps to eleven. ~Park Road Books | |
| Effigies by Mary Anna Evans | Wonderful archaeological mystery set around an Indian mound in Mississippi ~Windows a bookshop | |
| Garden Spells by Sara Addison Allen | ~ | |
| Heart in the Right Place by Carolyn Jourdan | ~ | |
| Holiday Season by Michael Knight | ~ | |
| Hurricane Punch by Tim Dorsey | This is Tim's Ninth book and it is Southern Hysterical Fiction at it's finest. I truely believe will will surpass Carl Hiaasen in not only southern popularity, but national popularity as well. He has long been involved with SIBA, and a very big supporter of independents He has been coming to my book store since his 3rd book. ~The Muse Book Store | |
| Landsman by Peter Charles Melman | Brilliant, brutal, beautiful ~Windows a bookshop | |
| Old Wounds by Vicki Lane Dell 6.99 | Vicki's books are a delight to read and her skills as a writer improve with each book. Her voice captures the variety of people who call the southern Appalachians home ~City Lights | |
| One Fell Swoop by Virginia Boyd | ~ | |
| Rhett Butler's People by Donald McCaig | ~ | |
| Season of Gene by Dallas Hugens | ~ | |
| Soul Catcher by Michael C. White William Morrow & Company 24.95 | Very interesting historical fiction which brought to light the role of "THE SOUL CATCHER" in the Civil War Times . Something I knew nothing about. ~Page After Page Bookstore | |
| Stray by Sheri Joseph MacAdam Cage 25 | Sheri Joseph's Stray tells the story of Paul, his married lover, Kent, and Kent's wife, Maggie. This tale of lust, obsession, and love leading to murder is an intense psychological thriller. Set in Atlanta, it explores the complexities of sexuality and love as each of the main characters struggle with their love for the others. It combines the best elements of a character driven "literary" novel with the page-turning intensity of a crime thriller. ~Outwrite Bookstore Atlanta Georgia | |
| The Big Beautiful by Pam Duncan | ~ | |
| The Book of Marie by Terry Kay Mercer University Press 23 | Terry Kay is THE master of southern literature. He does it again with his best work to date (excluding To Dance With the White Dog which is classic). In The Book of Marie, the turbulent years of the early 60's are brought sharply into focus with an issue that is difficult to comprehend - teaching black children to read - and the uproar is causes in the lives of those who support that. Marie, a transplant to the South, challenges the old ways, shining the light of truth in an area where lives are lived by rote and tradition. Her effect on the individuals of this sleepy southern town is in turn refreshing and challenging. Kay successfully brings us into the town and the lives of the characters with empathy and without blame. It's rather like looking into a kaleidoscope, a unique design only understood when the pieces fall into place. ~FoxTale Book Shoppe | |
| The Sweet Potato Queens' First Big-Ass Novel by Jill Conner Browne | Yes, I know that January was a long time ago, but this novel is what brought us the Big-Ass Bus live and in person--and Simon & Schuster definitely created a monster when they put Jill and the Cutest Boy in the World in that Bus! ~Windows a bookshop | |
| The Unnatural History of Cypress Parish by Elise Blackwell | Probably the best book of the year ~Windows a bookshop | |
| Thistle & Twigg by Mary Saums | This was our favorite Southern mystery of the year! ~Fiction Addiction | |
| Women of Magdalene by Rosemary Poole-Carter | Set right after the Civil War in a ladies' lunatic asylum, this well-written, intriguing novel has mystery, a touch of romance, and a mini-history of the challenges women faced in earlier times. Since it is out from a small publisher, Kunati, I worry that it won't get the wide audience it deserves. ~Windows a bookshop | |
| Work Shirts for Madmen by George Singleton | ~ |
| Book | What stores said | |
|---|---|---|
| Animal Vegetable Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver | A fascinating and beautifully written book that is about so much more than merely eating locally. ~City Lights Bookstore | |
| Bagels & Grits: A Jew on the Bayou by Jennifer Anne Moses University of Wisconsin Press 26.95 | a terrific memoir and spiritual journey ~Windows a bookshop | |
| Beach To Bluegrass Places To Brake On Virginia's Longest Road. by Joe Tennis | ~ | |
| Beyond the Body Farm by Dr. Bill Bass | ~ | |
| Boone by Robert Morgan | ~ | |
| Chasing Genius by Kristy Kiernan | ~ | |
| Creole Houses by John Lawrence | ~ | |
| End of the World as We Know It by Robert Goolrick | ~ | |
| Guests Behind the Barbed Wire: German POWs in America: A True Story of Hope and Friendship by Ruth Beaumont Cook | The was a wonderfully and thoroughly researched non-fiction book, the setting of which is Aliceville, Alabama. ~The Book Seller | |
| It Never Rains in Tiger Stadium by John Ed Bradley ESPN 24.95 | I'm not just recommending this memoir because we've sold over 500 copies (although we have), but it is well-written, moving, fascinating. Plus the Tigers are the NATIONAL CHAMPS. ~Windows a bookshop | |
| Jim Limber Davis: A Black Orphan in the Confederate White House by Rickey Pittman | This true story of a black orphan will awaken in you an immediate love and concern for this child known as Jim Limber Davis. Never have I seen a Children's title presented so well on a subject that most of us would just soon forget. It will stir curiosity of those days gone by as well as a search for the lost child known as Jim Limber Davis. ~Cherry Books | |
| Katrina: Mississippi Women Remember by Melody Golding | ~ | |
| Movable Nest by Marilyn Kallet and Kathryn Stripling Byer, editors | ~ | |
| Rise of the Cajun Mariners: The Race for Big Oil by Woody Falgoust | This title has been our biggest seller and most requested. As you read you are taken back to the early days of the oil field business and watch it develop into what it is today. It's interesting to watch this business grow as well as watching the fa ~Cherry Books | |
| Sin in the Second City by Karen Abbott | ~ | |
| Somebody's Going to Die if Lilly Beth Doesn't Catch That Bouquet by Gayden Metcalfe and Charlotte Hays | ~ |
| Book | What stores said | |
|---|---|---|
| Collateral Damage by Sally Buckner Main Street Rag Press 8 | ~ | |
| Elegy for September (poetry) by Steve Holt March Street Press 9 | ~ | |
| House on Boulevard St. (poetry) by David Kirby Louisiana State University Press 18.95 | ~ | |
| Need-Fire by Becky Gould Gibson Bright Hill Press 14 | The language in this book is perfect for the images & the story that the poet wants us to see & know. ~City Lights Bookstore | |
| Out of the Garden by Kathryn Kirkpatrick Mayapple Press 14.95 | Kathryn Kirkpatrick's most recent collection of poetry, Out of the Garden (Mayapple Press) is excellent, with blurbs from Kathryn Stripling Byer (NC Poet Laureate) and Ron Rash. Her poems are vibrant, emotional, and dynamic and leave the reader with striking images that conjur the complexities of human relationships.Her first collection of poetry, The Body's Horizon, won the North Carolina Poetry Society's Brockman Campbell Award. She holds a Ph. D in Interdisciplinary Studies from Emory University and currently is professor of English at Appalachian State University. ~Appalachian State University Bookstore | |
| Patriate by Jeannette Cabanis-Brewin Long Leaf Press 6 | This fine collection of poems demonstrate a strong sense of the natural world and a remarkable ear. ~City Lights Bookstore | |
| Rhythm Method, Razzmatazz, and Memory (non-fiction) by Keith Flynn Writers Digest Books 16.99 | ~ | |
| Seance by Janice Moore Fuller Iris Press 14 | Our entire staff consider Seance to be one of the best poetry books to come out of the area in years. We can see Fuller becoming our next state poet laureate. ~Literary Bookpost | |
| Whatever Remembers Us: An Anthology of Alabama Poetry by Sue Brannan Walker and J. William Chambers (ed) | This is a fine anthology with dozens of contemporary Alabama poets, collected by Sue Walker, Alabama's current Poet Laureate and Chair of the English Dept. at the University of South Alabama; and J. William Chambers ~Bienville Books |