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Boys South of the Mason Dixon
Abbi Glines
Young Adult / Romance
The only thing hotter than the weather South of the Mason Dixon line are the boys. Worn, faded blue jeans, slow Southern drawls, and those naughty moments in the back of pickup trucks a girl never forgets. Welcome to the world of the Sutton boys. Five brothers who fight, party, drink a little too much, but more importantly, they love their momma. Nothing can tear them apart… until the girl next door wins more than one of their hearts.
Black Hills
Nora Roberts
Fiction / Suspense / Fantasy
A summer at his grandparents\' South Dakota ranch is not eleven-year-old Cooper Sullivan\'s idea of a good time. But things are a bit more bearable now that he\'s discovered the neighbor girl, Lil Chance, and her homemade batting cage. Even horseback riding isn\'t as awful as Coop thought it would be. Each year, with Coop\'s annual summer visit, their friendship deepens from innocent games to stolen kisses, but there is one shared experience that will forever haunt them: the terrifying discovery of a hiker\'s body.As the seasons change and the years roll, Lil stays steadfast to her aspiration of becoming a wildlife biologist and protecting her family land, while Coop struggles with his father\'s demand that he attend law school and join the family firm. Twelve years after they last walked together hand in hand, fate has brought them back to the Black Hills when the people and things they hold most dear need them most.Coop recently left his fast-paced life as an investigator in New York to take care for his aging grandparents and the ranch he has come to call home. Though the memory of his touch still haunts her, Lil has let nothing stop her dream of opening the Chance Wildlife Refuge, but something ... or someone ... has been keeping a close watch. When small pranks and acts of destruction escalate into the heartless killing of Lil\'s beloved cougar, recollections of an unsolved murder in these very hills have Coop springing to action to keep Lil safe.Lil and Coop both know the natural dangers that lurk in the wild landscape of the Black Hills. Now they must work together to unearth a killer of twisted and unnatural instincts who has singled them out as prey.
The Queen of the South
Arturo Pérez-Reverte
Literature & Fiction / Historical Fiction
Nombre: Teresa
Apellidos: Mendoza Chávez (alias La Mejicana)
Características físicas: Ojos negros. Cabello negro. Sin marcas ni cicatrices. Complexión delgada. Estatura 1,67.
Historia criminal: Nacida en Culiacán, Sinaloa (Méjico). Hija de padre español y madre mejicana. Convivió con Raimundo Dávila Parra, alias El Güero Dávila, piloto de aviación relacionado con el cártel de Juárez. Viaja a España. Melilla. Relacionada con Driss Larbi, propietario de clubs nocturnos. Algeciras. Gibraltar. Relacionada con Santiago López Fisterra, piloto de planeadores. Tráfico de tabaco y estupefacientes. Detenida por el Servicio de Vigilancia Aduanera. Prisión de El Puerto de Santa María.
The Sword of the South
David Weber
Science Fiction & Fantasy / Alternate History
1 in a NEW EPIC FANTASY SERIES by 28-times New York Times and international best seller David Weber, set within his Bahzell Bahnakson/War God universe. A swordsman who has been robbed of his past must confront an evil wizard with a world at stake.
Know thyself. Its always good to know who you are, but sometimes that's a little difficult.
Kenhodan has no last name, because he has no past . . . or not one he remembers, anyway. What he does have are a lot of scars and a lot of skills some exhilarating and some terrifying and a purpose. Now if he only knew where he'd gotten them and what that purpose was . . . .
Wencit of Rm, the most powerful wizard in the world, knows the answers to Kenhodan's questions, but he can't or won't share them with him. Except to inform him that he's a critical part of Wencit's millennium-long battle to protect Norfressa from conquest by dark sorcery.
Bahzell Bahnakson, champion of Tomank, doesn't know those answers and the War God isn't sharing them with him. Except to inform Bahzell that the final confrontation with the Dark Lords of fallen Kontovar is about to begin, and that somehow Kenhodan is one of the keys to its final outcome.
Wulfra of Torfo doesn't know those answers, either, but she does know Wencit of Rm is her implacable foe and that somehow Kenhodan is one of the weapons he intends to use against her . . . assuming she can't kill both of them first.
But in the far northern port city of Belhadan, an eleven-year-old girl with a heart of harp music knows the answers to all of Kenhodan's questions. . . and dares not share them with anyone, even the ancient wild wizard who loves her more dearly than life itself.
It's not easy to face the future when you can't even remember your own past, but if saving an entire world from evil sorcerers, demons, devils, and dark gods was easy, anyone could do it.
About David Weber's War Bahzell Bahnak series:
"Irresistibly entertaining."– Publishers Weekly
fun adventure full of noble steeds, fierce female fighters, dark sorcerers, serious swordplay, and plenty of tongue-in-cheek humor."– Locus
About David Weber and the Honor Harrington series:
"Weber combines realistic, engaging characters with intelligent technological projection and a deep understanding of military bureaucracy in this long-awaited Honor Harrington novel...Fans of this venerable space opera will rejoice to see Honor back in action."–Publishers Weekly
“. . .everything you could want in a heroine …. Excellent … plenty of action.”–Science Fiction Age
“Brilliant! Brilliant! Brilliant!”–Anne McCaffrey
“Compelling combat combined with engaging characters for a great space opera adventure.”–Locus
“Weber combines realistic, engaging characters with intelligent technological projection . . . Fans of this venerable space opera will rejoice . . ."–Publishers Weekly
On the Way Home: The Diary of a Trip From South Dakota to Mansfield, Missouri, in 1894
Part #10 of "Little House" series by Laura Ingalls Wilder
Children's Books
In 1894, Laura Ingalls Wilder, her husband, Almanzo, and their daughter, Rose, packed their belongings into their covered wagon and set out on a journey from De Smet, South Dakota, to Mansfield, Missouri. They heard that the soil there was rich and the crops were bountiful -- it was even called "the Land of the Big Red Apple." With hopes of beginning a new life, the Wilders made their way to the Ozarks of Missouri.
During their journey, Laura kept a detailed diary of events: the cities they passed through, the travelers they encountered on the way, the changing countryside and the trials of an often difficult voyage. Laura's words, preserved in this book, reveal her inner thoughts as she traveled with her family in search of a new home in Mansfield, where Rose would spend her childhood, where Laura would write her Little House books, and where she and Almanzo would remain all the rest of their happy days together.
A Wind From the South
Diane Duane
Science Fiction & Fantasy / Young Adult / Comics & Graphic Novels
In the remote mountain village where she was born, Mariarta dil Alicg lives the untroubled life of a peasant girl...until, soon after a mysterious stranger's arrival, she starts to hear voices in the wind. The voices whisper strange secrets in Mariarta’s ears -- promising her the power to command the stormwind, hinting at an unknown magical heritage, and prophesying a fate marvelous past all Mariarta’s imaginings.
Then a curse falls on Mariarta's village, shattering the lives of her family and friends. Mariarta must set out across the mountain realm of Raetia in search of a way to break the curse -- while also hunting for the truth about the beautiful and terrible being who Mariarta discovers is trying to possess her soul.
Mariarta’s search will lead her into hidden domains of sorcery both dreadful and wondrous, and will finally embroil the young woman in the growing rebellion against her land's cruel Austriac oppressors -- but not before Mariarta comes face to face at last with the immortal Lady of the Storms, and challenges her to one final battle for control of her life, her soul, and her destiny...
Reader advisory:
This novel rated PG-15 for mature themes, language (Romansch), and the reinvention of democracy.
South of the Border, West of the Sun
Haruki Murakami
Fiction / Surrealism / Magical Realism
Following the massive complexity of The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle--Haruki Murakami's best-selling, award-winning novel--comes this deceptively simple love story, a contemporary rendering of the romance in which a boy finds and then loses a girl, only to meet her again years later.
Hajime--"Beginning" in Japanese--was an atypical only child growing up in a conventional middle-class suburb. Shimamoto, herself an only child, was cool and self-possessed, precocious in the extreme. After school these childhood sweethearts would listen to records, hold hands, and talk about their future. Then, despite themselves, in the way peculiar to adolescents, they grew apart, seemingly for good.
Now, facing middle age, finally content after years of aimlessness, Hajime is a successful nightclub owner, a husband and father, when he suddenly is reunited with Shimamoto, propelled into the mysteries of her life, and confronted by dark secrets she is loath to reveal. And so, reckless with enchantment and lust, Hajime prepares to risk everything in order to consummate his first love, and to experience a life he's dreamed of but never had a chance to realize.
Bittersweet, passionate, and ultimately redemptive, South of the Border, West of the Sun is an intricate examination of desire, illuminating the persistent power of childhood and memory in matters of the heart.
From the Hardcover edition.
A Turn in the South
V. S. Naipaul
Fiction / Nonfiction / Travel
In the tradition of political and cultural revelation V.S. Naipaul so brilliantly made his own in Among The Believers, A Turn In The South, his first book about the United States, is a revealing, disturbing, elegiac book about the American South -- from Atlanta to Charleston, Tallahassee to Tuskegee, Nashville to Chapel Hill.
From the Trade Paperback edition.
The Dog of the South
Charles Portis
Literature & Fiction
The narrator is Ray Midge, down-at-the-heels Southerner after his wife. "Norma had run off with Guy Dupree and I was waiting around for the credit card billings to come in so I could see where they had gone." The fussbudget is assailed by tropical storms, grifters, hippies, car trouble, and candy wrappers at high speed "wind came up through the floor hole in such a way that the Heath wrappers were suspended behind my head in a noisy brown vortex". Leech Dr Reo Symes is a font of dubious financial schemes and fluff such as a circus "fifty-pound rat from the sewers of Paris, France. Of course it didn't really weigh fifty pounds and it wasn't your true rat and it wasn't from Paris, France, either. It was some kind of animal from South America."
South Pacific Tales--The Sagas and Stories
Michael, David
South Pacific Tales "The Sagas and Stories"By the seat of your pants. On a whim the decision is made to travel thousands of miles away. Fast adaptation essential, orientation for basic resources a must. Adjusting to culture quickly and casting aside fear of the known. Three travelers, leave and are reduced to one in short order. A free spirit among others roam around running into little adventures wherever he finds himself. Feel his challenges, feel his victories, his despair and loneliness, and recognition of self as he wades through interactions with fellow travelers. The South Pacific Short Series is based on real world encounters with the wonder of what is actually out there in the world and a man taken by its many surprises and situations as they arise.Open to opportunity, looking for work, you will have to read a bit more on this to find out where the chicken plays out! A short read that will leave you wanting to travel and experience the wonder and...
Beauty And The Brooding Billionaire (South Shore Billionaires Book 2)
Part #2 of "South Shore Billionaires" series by Donna Alward
Could This Ray 0f Sunshine... Heal His Frozen Heart?Widower Branson Black shuns the world on his private coastal estate. Until Jessica Blundon crashes into his life–literally! Her boat nearly wrecks on his shore. Artist Jess has suffered her own loss, so together they're rediscovering the beauty in life. Only soon their old lives beckon, and their safe harbor is threatened. Will they risk their fragile hearts for a future…together?
Down With the King of the South
Part #1 of "Down With the King of the South" series by Diamond Johnson
A Mountain to the North, a Lake to the South, Paths to the West, a River to the East
László Krasznahorkai
A quiet, poetic, and exquisitely gorgeous novel describing a wandering mythic figure in a Kyoto monastery, by the National Book Award winnerThe grandson of Prince Genji lives outside of space and time and wanders the grounds of an old monastery in Kyoto. The monastery, too, is timeless: a place of prayer and deliverance, with barely a trace of any human presence. The wanderer is searching for a garden that has long captivated him: "he continually saw the garden in his mind's eye without being able to touch its existence."This exquisitely beautiful novel by National Book Award–winner László Krasznahorkai—perhaps his most serene and poetic work—describes a search for the unobtainable and the riches to be discovered along the way. Despite the difficulties in finding the garden, the reader is closely introduced to the construction processes of the monastery (described in poetic detail) as well as the geological and biological...
South of the Lights
Angela Huth
Literature & Fiction / Plays & Screenplays / Nonfiction
South of the Lights weaves the story of Evans and Brenda, lovers in a Midlands village, whose happiest hours are spent in the hayloft of the chicken farm on which she works. They have no other roof under which they can be alone together - until the mysterious, romantic Augusta comes to their aid. Evans' desire to possess Brenda results sometimes in passion, sometimes in violence, but Brenda finds sympathy in the company of the fragile and sweet-natured Lark with whom she shares a flat in the local town. Excelling in the illumination of the surprising facets of people's daily lives, Angela Huth reveals their private hopes, rages, fantasies and despair, with an original and moving blend of humour, imagination and pathos.
Down With the King of the South 2
Part #2 of "Down With the King of the South" series by Diamond Johnson
Murder in the South of France, Book 1 of the Maggie Newberry Mysteries
Susan Kiernan-Lewis
Mystery & Thrillers / Literature & Fiction / Science Fiction & Fantasy
Maggie Newberry is an advertising copywriter who’s fast on her feet and a little stunned to realize that she’s over 30 and still hasn’t found true love. When her long-missing sister ends up dead, Maggie flies to the south of France to find the little niece that no one in the family even knew existed. Along the way, she finds handsome, sexy Frenchman Laurent Dernier to help search for theMaggie Newberry is a whip-smart advertising copywriter who’s fast on her feet and a little stunned to realize that she’s over 30 and still hasn’t found true love. When her long-missing sister ends up dead, Maggie flies to the south of France to find the little niece that no one in the family even knew existed. Along the way, she finds handsome, sexy Frenchman Laurent Dernier to help search for the girl. Meanwhile, her sister’s murderer sets his sights on the little girl—and Maggie.
Small Town Stalker
Part #4 of "Sins of the South" series by Marion Meadows
Book Four in the Sins of the South series that began with Small Town Rebel...
Locked down at Nineteen, Sebastian lost everything. He figures he won't make it much longer in the Tank. Only the mysterious letters from The Girl keep him sane. It's nice to know she cares. He reads her letters over and over. He knows every word she's ever written him like the back of his hand. He knows her secrets, her deepest fears. She's told him she's a virgin. If he's ever out of this cage, he's going to find that girl. He'll turn over every hill and holler, he'll take her when she least expects it. And she'll be his, until the end of time...
Dee's life was perfect. Loving daddy, pretty mama, big wall house, the star of church choir and top of her class. But when tragedy strikes Dee's whole world comes crashing down.
Only Sebastian understands...He always listens. But when her secret friend suddenly goes dark, and a threatening figure starts haunting her steps, she learns the ugly truth about living in this small Virginia town: you can't hide from someone who wants to find you...
Good Dogs Don't Make It to the South Pole
Hans-Olav Thyvold
The best thing you can aspire to in this world, is company. Whether it's for pleasure or pain, a crowning or an execution: everything is better with company. You might say it all went to hell with Mrs. Thorkildsen, but you know what? It could have been worse, because Mrs. Thorkildsen had me to keep her company. And I had her. That's what we had in common, her and me, what bound us together. We were company. The Major, a World War II veteran, breathes his last. Watching over him are his wife and his faithful companion, Tassen, the story's narrator, who is, by his own admission, a couch potato and a one-man dog.After the Major is gone, Tassen and Mrs Thorkildsen settle into their new life surrounded by books and stories of the 1911 race between Norway's explorer Roald Amundsen and Britain's Captain Robert F. Scott to reach the South Pole first. Regular visits to the local library and the bar next door provide all types of enlightenment. However, when Mrs Thorkildsen...
The Sins of the Father: A Romance of the South
Thomas Dixon
Nonfiction / History / Environment
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The Dirty South - Charlie Parker Series 18 (2020)
Connolly, John
The New York Times bestselling author of A Book of Bones and one of the best thriller writers we have goes back to the very beginning of Private Investigator Charlie Parker’s astonishing career with his first terrifying case.
It is 1997, and someone is slaughtering young black women in Burdon County, Arkansas.
But no one wants to admit it, not in the Dirty South.
In an Arkansas jail cell sits a former NYPD detective, stricken by grief.
He is mourning the death of his wife and child, and searching in vain for their killer.
He cares only for his own lost family.
But that is about to change . . .
Witness the becoming of Charlie Parker.
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The South Shall Rise Again
Mike Shepherd
In April, 1865, the generals commanding the Confederate armies surrendered to their Union counterparts. Lee and Grant are the best known. However, there were several more independent armies. Still, Confederate general all followed Lee's example. They surrendered and ordered their troops to begin the long walk home. But what if they hadn't? What if some of the footsloggers refused to throw it in? What would have happened if they had taken to the back woods and swamps and waged a guerilla war from the shadows? This question has haunted me for fifty years or more. I'm old enough to remember the irregular warriors that threw the French out of their Empire in Southeast Asia and North Africa. I've seen the British struggle to help Malaya control its Communist guerillas. The United States helped the Philippines struggle with their own rebels. Since the end of WW II, peasant uprisings, communist liberation armies and Islamic liberation fronts have washed over, one after...
The Journey South
Reavis Z. Wortham
In a land with no law, there's only two things a man can count on—a deadly sense of justice and an even deadlier ability to outdraw the most dangerous lead-spitting gunslingers. Texas cowboy Cap Whitlatch has never shied away from hard work. Whether driving cattle or busting broncos, he gets the job done right. When he hires on with a ranch, he earns his pay with blood and sweat, keeping him honest. And when a friend is in dire need, Cap will move the tallest mountains to defend and protect them from harm. Gil Vanderburg has known Cap since they were children. Now, he's in jail for murder in a small Oklahoma town. To see justice served right, Cap volunteers to escort his friend to South Texas where he will stand trial for robbery. But they're not quite traveling alone along the unhealthy trail in Indian territory. Three bloodthirsty Cherokee brothers want revenge on Gill for killing their sibling. A pair of vicious outlaws are after the gold in Cap's...
Down With the King of the South 4
Part #4 of "Down With the King of the South" series by Diamond Johnson
The Deepest South of All
Richard Grant
Bestselling travel writer Richard Grant offers an entertaining and profound look at a city like no other. Natchez, Mississippi, once had more millionaires per capita than anywhere else in America, and its wealth was built on slavery and cotton. Today it has the greatest concentration of antebellum mansions in the South, and a culture full of unexpected contradictions. Prominent white families dress up in hoopskirts and Confederate uniforms for ritual celebrations of the Old South, yet Natchez is also progressive enough to elect a gay black man for mayor with 91% of the vote. Much as John Berendt did for Savannah in Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil and the hit podcast S-Town did for Woodstock, Alabama, so Richard Grant does for Natchez in The Deepest South of All. With humor and insight, he depicts a strange, eccentric town with an unforgettable cast of characters. There's Buzz Harper, a six-foot-five gay antique dealer famous for...
If the South Had Won the Civil War
MacKinlay Kantor
Literature & Fiction / Young Adult / Biographies & Memoirs
Just a touch here and a tweak there . . . .MacKinlay Kantor, Pulitzer Prize-winning author, master storyteller, shows us how the South could have won the Civil War, how two small shifts in history (as we know it) in the summer of 1863 could have turned the tide for the Confederacy. What would have happened: to the Union, to Abraham Lincoln, to the people of the North and South, to the world?If the South Had Won the Civil War originally appeared in Look Magazine nearly half a century ago. It immediately inspired a deluge of letters and telegrams from astonished readers and became an American classic overnight. Published in book form soon after, Kantor's masterpiece has been unavailable for a decade. Now, this much requested classic is once again available for a new generation of readers and features a stunning cover by acclaimed Civil War artist Don Troiani, a new introduction by award-winning alternate history author Harry Turtledove, and fifteen superb...
Down With the King of the South 3
Part #3 of "Down With the King of the South" series by Diamond Johnson
The Old Weird South
Tim Westover
Literature & Fiction / Science Fiction & Fantasy / Short Stories
This collection of twenty four new stories explores the supernatural side of the American South. Stretching from the Civil War to the present day, these stories visit mysterious bingo parlors and meet devils at the crossroads; they see battles in Florida’s citrus orchards and explore haunted bed & breakfasts.This collection of twenty four new stories explores the supernatural side of the American South. Stretching from the Civil War to the present day, these stories visit mysterious bingo parlors and meet devils at the crossroads; they see battles in Florida’s citrus orchards and explore haunted bed & breakfasts. The authors included here speak with as many voices as the South itself, sometimes with great literary skill and sometimes spinning yarns from the front porch. The Old Weird South showcases the eerie, spooky, macabre, and supernatural that is an essential part of the character and literature of the South.
the truth and reconciliation commission of south africa
Jon (Jon-Jon) Jones
Literature & Fiction / Contemporary / Fiction
A summarised version for grade 12 learnersDirector's Playbook Editions help artists turn playscripts into productions, providing the interested reader with useful information, summaries and charts. As well as the full text, this book contains:*A 'Production Cheatsheet'*Information on the playwright*Descriptions of characters, setting, props, etc.*And more...***Sophocles' masterpiece is often considered the greatest of the surviving Athenian plays and is a timeless tragedy. Oedipus, King of the ailing city of Thebes, must track down the murderer of the former king to restore his city. Translation by F. Storr.Sophocles' timeless tragedy is often considered the greatest of the surviving Athenian plays.
Christmas Baby For The Billionaire (South Shore Billionaires Book 1)
Part #1 of "South Shore Billionaires" series by Donna Alward
A Stolen Fling... An Unexpected Christmas Gift!Ttycoon Jeremy's world is upended upon discovering his summer romance with resort manager Tori Sharpe left her pregnant! He's better suited to brokering deals than bringing up babies, yet seeing Tori carrying his child awakens a fierce longing for the family he never had. Can a magical New York Christmas convince Tori there's room in his high-octane life for her and their baby?
Spying on the South
Tony Horwitz
Beloved best-selling author Tony Horwitz retraces Frederick Law Olmsted's epic journey across the American South in the 1850s, as he too searches for common ground in a dangerously riven nation.On the eve of the Civil War, an up-and-coming newspaper, the New York Times, sent a young travel writer to explore the South, which was alien territory to the Connecticut Yankee correspondent and to his Northern readers. Identified in the paper as "Yeoman," to protect his identity, the writer roamed eleven states and six thousand miles, jolting the nation with his dispatches about slavery and the extremism of its defenders. This extraordinary journey would also re-shape the nation's landscape, driving "Yeoman"—real name Frederick Law Olmsted—to embark on his career as America's first and foremost architect of urban parks and other public spaces. Over a century and half later, there are echoes of the pre-Civil War in the angry ferment and fracturing of...
The Rover of the Andes: A Tale of Adventure on South America
R. M. Ballantyne
Fiction / Children's / Travel
At the Foot of the Mountain Range. Towards the close of a bright and warm day, between fifty and sixty years ago, a solitary man might have been seen, mounted on a mule, wending his way slowly up the western slopes of the Andes. Although decidedly inelegant and unhandsome, this specimen of the human family was by no means uninteresting. He was so large, and his legs were so long, that the contrast between him and the little mule which he bestrode was ridiculous. He was what is sometimes styled “loosely put together;” nevertheless, the various parts of him were so massive and muscular that, however loosely he might have been built up, most men would have found it rather difficult to take him down. Although wanting in grace, he was by no means repulsive, for his face, which was ornamented with a soft flaxen beard and moustache of juvenile texture, expressed wonderful depths of the milk of human kindness. He wore boots with the trousers tucked into them, a grey tunic, or hunting coat, belted at the waist, and a broad-brimmed straw hat, or sombrero. Evidently the times in which he travelled were troublous, for, besides having a brace of large pistols in his belt, he wore a cavalry sabre at his side. As if to increase the eccentricity of his appearance, he carried a heavy cudgel, by way of riding-whip; but it might have been observed that, however much he flourished this whip about, he never actually applied it to his steed. On reaching a turn of the road at the brow of an eminence the mule stopped, and, letting its head droop till almost as pendent as its tail, silently expressed a desire for repose. The cavalier stepped off. It would convey a false impression to say that he dismounted. The mule heaved a sigh. “Poor little thing!” murmured the traveller in a soft, low voice, and in a language which even a mule might have recognised as English; “you may well sigh. I really feel ashamed of myself for asking you to carry such a mass of flesh and bone. But it’s your own fault—you know it is—for you won’t be led. I’m quite willing to walk if you will only follow. Come—let us try!” Gently, insinuatingly, persuasively, the traveller touched the reins, and sought to lead the way. He might as well have tried to lead one of the snow-clad peaks of the mighty Cordillera which towered into the sky before him. With ears inclining to the neck, a resolute expression in the eyes, his fore-legs thrown forward and a lean slightly backward, the mule refused to move. “Come now, do be amiable; there’s a good little thing! Come on,” said the strong youth, applying more force. Peruvian mules are not open to flattery. The advance of the fore-legs became more decided, the lean backward more pronounced, the ears went flat down, and incipient passion gleamed in the eyes. “Well, well, have it your own way,” exclaimed the youth, with a laugh, “but don’t blame me for riding you so much.” He once more re-m–; no, we forgot—he once more lifted his right leg over the saddle and sat down....
South of the Buttonwood Tree
Heather Webber
Fiction
USA Today bestselling author Heather Webber's South of the Buttonwood Tree is a captivating blend of magical realism, heartwarming romance, and small-town Southern charm.Blue Bishop has a knack for finding lost things. While growing up in charming small-town Buttonwood, Alabama, she's happened across lost wallets, jewelry, pets, her wandering neighbor, and sometimes, trouble. No one is more surprised than Blue, however, when she comes across an abandoned newborn baby in the woods, just south of a very special buttonwood tree.Sarah Grace Landreneau Fulton is at a crossroads. She has always tried so hard to do the right thing, but her own mother would disown her if she ever learned half of Sarah Grace's secrets.The unexpected discovery of the newborn baby girl will alter Blue's and Sarah Grace's lives forever. Both women must fight for what they truly want in life and for who they love. In doing so, they uncover long-held secrets that...
Gwangju Uprising: the Rebellion for Democracy in South Korea
Hwang Sok-yong
The essential account of the South Korean 1980 pro-democracy rebellionOn May 18, 1980, student activists gathered in the South Korean city of Gwangju to protest the coup d’état and the martial law government of General Chun Doo-hwan. The security forces responded with unmitigated violence. Over the next ten days hundreds of students, activists, and citizens were arrested, tortured, and murdered. The events of the uprising shaped over a decade of resistance to the repressive South Korean regime and paved the way for the country’s democratization. This fresh translation by Slin Jung of a text compiled from eyewitness testimonies presents a gripping and comprehensive account of both the events of the uprising and the political situation that preceded and followed the violence of that period. Included is a preface by acclaimed Korean novelist Hwang Sok-yong. Gwangju Uprising is a vital resource for those interested in East Asian...
The South Pacific Murders
Sylvia Massara
It's a well-known fact that wherever Mia Ferrari goes trouble always follows, and going on a holiday cruise to Hawaii is no different.A killer is on the loose onboard ship. A number of doctors from a medical convention are being murdered one by one. The captain of the cruise liner asks Mia and her travelling companions to take over the investigation while the ship is in the middle of the Pacific Ocean toward its final destination. A secret sex club and horse racing bets are the only clues that can uncover the identity of the killer, but will Mia be able to solve the mystery before the killer strikes again?Join Mia and her friends, plus her sexy detective archenemy, on a cruise to murder, mayhem, and sizzling hot sex.
The Books of the South
Glen Cook
Science Fiction & Fantasy
Marching south after the ghastly battle at the Tower of Charm, the Black Company is hounded by shadowy figures every inch of the way. The game is on: the Company versus the Shadowmasters, deadly creatures that deal in darkness and sorrow. When hope dies, there's still survival. And there's still the Black Company.
The Book of the South is the second omnibus of novels from one of the greatest fantasy epics of our age, Glen Cook’s Black Company series—collecting Shadow Games, Dreams of Steel, and The Silver Spike.
The Pirate Island: A Story of the South Pacific
Harry Collingwood
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The Outdoor Girls in Florida; Or, Wintering in the Sunny South
Laura Lee Hope
Children's
BAD NEWS "Why, Grace, what in the world is the matter? You\'ve been crying!" "Yes, I have, Betty. But don\'t mind me. It\'s all so sudden. Come in. I shall be all right presently. Don\'t mind!" Grace Ford tried to repress her emotion, but the cause of her tears was evidently too recent, or the effort at self-control too much for her, for she gave way to another outburst, sobbing this time on the shoulder of Betty Nelson, who patted her sympathetically, and murmured soothingly to her chum. "But what is it, Grace?" Betty asked, after waiting a minute. "I—I\'ll tell you in a moment or two, Betty. Just—just wait," and the tall, graceful girl made a more successful effort to master her feelings. "Here come Amy and Mollie," went on Betty, as she glanced from the library window and saw two girls walking up the path opened across the lawn through the mass of newly fallen snow. "Do you want to meet them, Grace; or shall I say you don\'t feel well—have a headache? They\'ll understand. And perhaps in a little while——" "No—no, Betty. It\'s sweet of you to want to help me; but Amy and Mollie might just as well know now as later. I\'ll be able to see them—in a little while. It—it\'s all so sudden." "But what does it all mean, Grace? I can\'t understand. Is anyone dead—or—or hurt?" and Betty Nelson, who had called at the house of Grace to talk over plans for a dance they were going to attend the following week, looked anxiously at her chum. Only the day before Grace had seemed like her nearly-always jolly self. She and her three chums, including Betty, had been down town shopping, and Grace, as usual, had indulged in chocolates—her one failing, if such it can be called. "Surely she can\'t be ill," thought Betty. "Ill from too many chocolates? I\'ve seen her take twice as many as she did yesterday, and she doesn\'t look ill." With this half-formed thought in her mind Betty looked more critically at her chum. Aside from the tears—which seldom add to a girl\'s beauty—there was no change in Grace Ford. That is, no change except one caused by something rather mysterious, Betty thought—something that was hard for Grace to tell, but which had deeply affected her. There came a ring at the door. Betty started toward it from the library, where she and Grace had gone when Grace let her chum in a short time before. "Shall I answer, Grace?" inquired Betty, hesitating. "Yes, do, please. I think Katy is with mamma. She took the news very much to heart. Let Amy and Mollie in, and then I\'ll tell you all about it. Oh, but I don\'t know what to do!" "Now look here, Grace Ford!" exclaimed Betty briskly, pausing a moment on her way to the door. "You just stop this! If no one is dead, and no one is hurt, then it can\'t be so very dreadful. You just stop now, and when we all get together we\'ll help you in whatever trouble you have. You know that; don\'t you?" "Oh, yes, Betty, I do. You aren\'t the \'Little Captain\' to all of us for nothing. I\'ll try and not cry any more." "Do. It—it isn\'t at all becoming....
Typee: A Romance of the South Seas
Herman Melville
Fiction / Poetry / Short Stories
Typee, a Romance of the South Sea is the first book by American writer Herman Melville, a classic in the literature of travel and adventure partly based on his actual experiences as a captive on the island Nuku Hiva, which Melville spelled as Nukuheva, in the South Pacific Marquesas Islands, in 1842. The title comes from the name of a valley there called Tai Pi Vai. It was Melville\'s most popular work during his lifetime, but made him notorious as the "man who lived among the cannibals." Typee may have provided the writers Robert Louis Stevenson, Louis Becke and Jack London with the themes and images of the Pacific experience: cannibalism, cultural absorption, colonialism, exoticism, eroticism, natural plenty and beauty, and a perceived simplicity of native lifestyle, desires and motives.
--This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.
--This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.
Dave Porter in the South Seas; or, The Strange Cruise of the Stormy Petrel
Edward Stratemeyer
Children's Books / Young Adult / Crime
Edward Stratemeyer was a 20th century writer best known for making kids books. He was also an acclaimed publisher who produced over 1,000 books.
In the Family Way
Sheri Cobb South
With a beautiful and clever wife, a growing investigative business, and a baby due any day, former Bow Street Runner John Pickett finally has a respectable life far removed from his beginnings as a juvenile pickpocket in the rookeries of St. Giles. Then his father returns from transportation to Botany Bay, and Pickett's hard-won respectability threatens to collapse like a house of cards. When a person from his mother's shadowy past surfaces, followed less than twenty-four hours later by the discovery of "Gentleman" Jack Pickett's body in a back alley in Limehouse, Pickett finds himself juggling the dual obligations of settling his father's tangled affairs, and discovering the identity of the man—or woman—who decided to settle Gentleman Jack permanently.
The Motor Scout: A Story of Adventure in South America
Herbert Strang
Herbert Strang was the pseudonym used by 2 British authors, George Herbert Ely (1866–1958) and Charles James L\'Estrange (1867–1947), to write adventure stories aimed primarily at young readers, especially boys.
The Billionaire's Island Bride (South Shore Billionaires Book 3)
Part #3 of "South Shore Billionaires" series by Donna Alward
She Can't Resist Him... But Can She Trust Him – With Her Heart?Brooklyn Graves's blissfully peaceful if solitary existence is threatened when billionaire Cole Abbott wants to buy her corner of their shared private island. She'll never sell! But she quickly comes to enjoy sharing intimate evenings–and even more intimate secrets–with Cole… And what Brooklyn soon realizes she wants from Cole is something money can't buy–his love.
The Baby Shift- South Dakota
Part #20 of "Shifter Babies of America" series by Becca Fanning
Romance / Erotica / Paranormal
Ghost Cats of the South
Randy Russell
Award-winning "ghostlorist" Randy Russell admits to being flummoxed by cats. Some cats will give you whisker kisses or sit with you when you're sick. Others will invite you to rub them, then take a swipe at you, claws out. Some might do any of the above, depending on which way the wind is blowing. Visits from departed pets are easily the most common ghost experiences. And cats refuse to be left out of most anything. Ghost Cats of the South reveals that felines' beloved complexity continues well beyond the grave. In this haunting and entertaining volume, readers will meet the following: A cat smelling of chicken soup that saves a pair of street musicians in Kentucky; a face-hungry Mississippi cat that inhabits the seats of a vintage 1956 Chevy Bel Air; a porcelain cat that inspires girls at a North Carolina summer camp to reveal cherished secrets; a South Carolina feline that becomes part of a batch of moonshine; a piano-playing cat that fulfills the Thanksgiving wish of a...
Omoo: Adventures in the South Seas
Herman Melville
Fiction / Poetry / Short Stories
Herman Melville was a well-known American novelist in his day, with best-sellers like Typee, but by the time he died in 1891, he had fallen into obscurity. Although his first few books were popular, they too began to collect dust and be forgotten in the country.Then came the Melville Revival in the early 20th century, which breathed life into his legacy and brought his work back to the forefront. Of course, the book that benefited the most from that revival is now considered one of the greatest American novels ever written: Moby Dick.
Pippi in the South Seas
Astrid Lindgren
Children's Books
"Any reappearance of the irrepressible Pippi Longstocking is cause for celebration. This installment is no exception." -The New York Times
The South Was Right
James Ronald Kennedy
Much of Civil War history is untrue because like most history, it is written by the victor. The story we hear is that hundreds of thousands of Southern men went to war over an issue that only affected six percent of the population. Read this book and learn the truth: there was no shining Northern force fighting a moral battle for the sake of ending slavery; there was no oppressive Southern force fighting to preserve it; and after the South declared its independence, the Union ruthlessly invaded, leaving Southerners no choice but to defend themselves.
The Twins in the South
Albert Bigelow Paine
Biographies & Memoirs / Young Adult / Literature & Fiction
This collection of literature attempts to compile many of the classic, timeless works that have stood the test of time and offer them at a reduced, affordable price, in an attractive volume so that everyone can enjoy them.
A Little Traitor to the South
Cyrus Townsend Brady
History / North American Hi... / American History
A Little Traitor to the South - A War Time Comedy With a Tragic Interlude is presented here in a high quality paperback edition. This popular classic work by Cyrus Townsend Brady is in the English language, and may not include graphics or images from the original edition. If you enjoy the works of Cyrus Townsend Brady then we highly recommend this publication for your book collection.
The Circus Boys in Dixie Land; Or, Winning the Plaudits of the Sunny South
Edgar B. P. Darlington
General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1911 Original Publisher: Henry Altemus Co. Subjects: Juvenile Fiction / General Juvenile Fiction / Action
Among the Pines; or, South in Secession Time
James R. Gilmore
James Roberts Gilmore (1822-1903) was a businessman, author, and lecturer, who, prior to the Civil War, ran a successful shipping business in New York City before retiring in 1857. Gilmore died in Glen Falls, New York, in 1903.
New Stories From the South 2010: The Year's Best
Amy Hempel
Literature & Fiction / Short Stories / Nonfiction
Over the past twenty-five years, New Stories from the South has published the work of now well-known writers, including James Lee Burke, Andre Dubus, Barbara Kingsolver, John Sayles, Joshua Ferris, and Abraham Verghese and nurtured the talents of many others, including Larry Brown, Jill McCorkle, Brock Clarke, Lee Smith, and Daniel Wallace.
This twenty-fifth volume reachs out beyond the South to one of the most acclaimed short story writers of our day. Guest editor Amy Hempel admits, “I’ve always had an affinity for writers from the South,” and in her choices, she’s identified the most inventive, heartbreaking, and chilling stories being written by Southerners all across the country.
From the famous (Rick Bass, Wendell Berry, Elizabeth Spencer, Wells Tower, Padgett Powell, Dorothy Allison, Brad Watson) to the finest new talents, Amy Hempel has selected twenty-five of the best, most arresting stories of the past year. The 2010 collection is proof of the enduring vitality of the short form and the vigor of this ever-changing yet time-honored series.
The Guests on South Battery
Karen White
Fiction / Mystery / Historical Fiction
New York Times bestselling author Karen White invites you to explore the brick-walked streets of Charleston, where historic mansions house the memories of years gone by, and restless spirits refuse to fade away... With her extended maternity leave at it's end, Melanie Trenholm is less than thrilled to leave her new husband and beautiful twins to return to work, especially when she's awoken by a phone call with no voice on the other end—and the uneasy feeling that the ghostly apparitions that have stayed silent for over a year are about to invade her life once more. But her return to the realty office goes better than she could have hoped, with a new client eager to sell the home she recently inherited on South Battery. Most would treasure living in one of the grandest old homes in the famous historic district of Charleston, but Jayne Smith would rather sell it as soon as possible, guaranteeing Melanie a quick commission. Despite her...
The Desperate Duke
Sheri Cobb South
A duke in disguise . . . a damsel in distress . . . a match made in—Manchester? When 23-year-old Theodore Radney becomes the Duke of Reddington after his father dies, the weight of his new responsibilities is enough to send him into a panic. Theo soon accumulates a pile of debts—and discovers he can't touch his inheritance until his father's will is probated. His brother-in-law, mill owner Ethan Brundy, lends him the money, with one caveat: Theo will repay the loan by working in the mill. Daphne Drinkard and her mother have fallen on hard times, and are now reduced to taking in boarders. When a Parliamentary candidate hires the dining room for a series of political meetings, Daphne knows he might be her last chance for an advantageous marriage. Still, she's far more intrigued by the boardinghouse's newest resident. Mr. Tisdale is obviously a gentleman—but why would a gentleman be working in a cotton mill?
The Widow of the South
Robert Hicks
Historical Fiction
Carnton Plantation, 1894: Carrie McGavock is an old woman who tends the graves of the almost 1,500 soldiers buried there. As she walks among the dead, an elderly man appears--the same soldier she met that fateful day long ago. Today, he asks if the cemetery has room for one more.Based on an extraordinary true story, this brilliant, meticulously researched novel flashes back to 1864 and the afternoon of the Civil War. While the fierce fighting rages on Carrie's land, her plantation turns into a Confederate army hospital; four generals lie dead on her back porch; the pile of amputated limbs rises as tall as the smoke house. But when a wounded soldier named Zachariah Cashwell arrives at her house, he awakens feelings she had thought long dead--and inspires a passion as powerful and unforgettable as the war that consumes a nation.
The South
Colm Toibin
Childrens / Middle Grade / Fiction
In 1950, Katherine Proctor leaves Ireland for Barcelona, determined to escape her family and become a painter. There she meets Miguel, an anarchist veteran of the Spanish Civil War, and begins to build a life with him. But Katherine cannot escape her past, as Michael Graves, a fellow Irish émigré in Spain, forces her to reexamine all her relationships: to her lover, her art, and the homeland she only thought she knew. The South is a novel of classic themes--of art and exile, and of the seemingly irreconcilable yearnings for love and freedom--to which Colm Tóibín brings a new, passionate sensitivity.
Knives in the South
P. F. Chisholm
Carlisle, 1592. Robert Carey abandoned the lace-collared finery of Queen Elizabeth I's court for the lawless badlands between the kingdoms of England and Scotland. He's found life among the border's cattle-rustlers, horse-thieves, arsonists, kidnappers and murderers curiously engaging. But now, alas, he's been summoned back to London. Before he can return to his new home in the North, Carey must find his missing brother, clear the family name, navigate a feud between playwrights, identify a badly decomposed body washed up on the Queen's privy steps, and investigate a murder some thirty years past... Plunging readers straight into the racous world of late sixteenth-century border reivers and unfettered Elizabethan intrigue, Knives in the South is the second chronicle of Sir Robert Carey's adventures, collecting the novels A Plague of Angels, A Murder of Crows and An Air of Treason under one volume....
The Girl Crusoes: A Story of the South Seas
Oliver Optic
Adventure / Children's
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The Deflowered Garden
Tanya South
In The Deflowered Garden, Natasha reflects back to the time she experienced the pain of sexual abuse as a child. She remembered the purity, beauty, and innocence in her garden. But in the very place where she felt safe and at peace, is the very place where evil crept in. She's on a long road of brokenness. Will her garden be restored? Or will she be lost in the wilderness forever?
Voyages to the South Seas
Danielle Clode
While British soldiers and settlers colonised Australia, French scientists continued to explore its coastlines and study its strange flora and fauna. First published in 2007, this winner of the Victorian Premier's Award for Non-Fiction is an exhilarating expedition through a key period in the history of science.Danielle Clode's work includes essays, natural history writing, science-writing, historical fiction and best-selling children's books. Her books have won the Whitley Award for popular zoology and have been shortlisted for the Children's Book Council of Australia awards. Her 2010 examination of Australia's complex relationship with fire, A Future In Flames, is also in the Untapped Collection. For more information visit danielleclode.com.au
Hair-Breadth Escapes: The Adventures of Three Boys in South Africa
H. C. Adams
I served as assistant pilot on board the merchant vessel Dolphin, bound from Jamaica for London, which had already doubled the southern point of the Island of Cuba, favored by the wind, when one afternoon, I suddenly observed a very suspicious-looking schooner bearing down upon us from the coast. I climbed the mast, with my spy glass, and became convinced that it was a pirate.