Last Day the Dogbushes Bloomed

Lee Smith

• Paperback | Engels | Voices of the South
• "That whole summer is as clear and as still in my head as the corsage under the glass bell in Mrs. Tate's parlor. Even now, summers and summers since,... Lees meer

Defying Jim Crow

Donald E DeVore

• Hardcover | Engels | Voices of the South
• From the earliest days of Jim Crow, African Americans in New Orleans rallied around the belief that the new system of racially biased laws, designed t... Lees meer

The Salt Line

Elizabeth Spencer

• Paperback | Engels | Voices of the South
• "Spencer's refined, sensuous writing and laser insights inform this novel, as extraordinary as her other works." -- Publishers Weekly At a certain poi... Lees meer

Brother to Dragons

Robert Penn Warren

• Paperback | Engels | Voices of the South
• The significantly revised version of Brother to Dragons appeared in 1979, twenty-six years after the original. It is, Warren wrote, "in some important... Lees meer

Lincoln and McClellan at War

Chester G Hearn

• Hardcover | Engels | Voices of the South
• At the beginning of the Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln and his highest-ranking general, George B. McClellan, agreed that the United States must ... Lees meer

A Cry of Absence

Madison Jones

• Paperback | Engels | Voices of the South
• In a 1987 article, Southern Magazine called Madison Jones's A Cry of Absence "the last pure tragedy written by a Southerner." Set in 1957 in a small T... Lees meer

Literary Partnerships and the Marketplace

David Dowling

• Hardcover | Engels | Voices of the South
• In Literary Partnerships and the Marketplace, David Dowling examines an often-overlooked aspect of the history of publishing -- relationships, of both... Lees meer

The 13th Sunday After Pentecost

Joseph Bathanti

• Paperback | Engels | Voices of the South
• In The 13th Sunday after Pentecost , Joseph Bathanti offers poems that delve deep into a life reimagined through a mythologized past. Moving from his ... Lees meer

The Gaudy Place

Fred Chappell

• Paperback | Engels | Voices of the South
• Fred Chappell's The Gaudy Place is perhaps the first novel to depict the society of the street people of the New South and their relationship to the m... Lees meer

Lives of the Saints

Nancy Lemann

• Paperback | Engels | Voices of the South
• "Hysterically funny, beautifully written. . . . Warming and endearing, brilliant."-Anne Tyler, New Republic After four years of college in New England... Lees meer

Guest of a Sinner

James Wilcox

• Paperback | Engels | Voices of the South
• "It is 22 cats that drive the dazzlingly handsome Eric Thorsen to distraction and into the apartment -- if not immediately the arms -- of Wanda Skopin... Lees meer

Last of the Southern Girls

Willie Morris

• Paperback | Engels | Voices of the South
• Carol Hollywell is beautiful, smart, elegant, and charming. A debutante from De Soto Point, Arkansas, and a recent graduate of Ole Miss, she is heir t... Lees meer

The Herb Society of America's Essential Guide to Growing and Cooking with Herbs

• Hardcover | Engels | Voices of the South
• Fresh herbs offer a healthy and delicious way to spice up any meal, but growing and cooking with these delectable plants are endeavors fraught with un... Lees meer

Glass House

Christine Wiltz

• Paperback | Engels | Voices of the South
• When Thea Tamborella returns to New Orleans after a ten-year absence, she finds a city gripped by fear. The privileged white socialites of her private... Lees meer

Miss Undine's Living Room

James Wilcox

• Paperback | Engels | Voices of the South
• A candidate for the office of Superintendent of Streets, Parks, and Garbage, middle-aged matron Olive Mackie of Tula Springs, Louisiana, finds her pol... Lees meer

Hills Beyond (Revised)

Thomas Wolfe

• Paperback | Engels | Voices of the South
• The third and last book culled from the mountain of manuscript Thomas Wolfe left behind, The Hills Beyond "contains some of his best, and certainly hi... Lees meer

Modern Baptists

James Wilcox

• Paperback | Engels | Voices of the South
• Universally and repeatedly praised ever since it first appeared in 1983, Modern Baptists is the book that launched novelist James Wilcox's career and ... Lees meer

Band of Angels

Robert Penn Warren

• Paperback | Engels | Voices of the South
• Amantha Starr, born and raised by a doting father on a Kentucky plantation in the years before the Civil War, is the heroine of this powerfully dramat... Lees meer

Landscapes of the Heart

Elizabeth Spencer

• Paperback | Engels | Voices of the South
• With charm and vivid detail, the acclaimed novelist Elizabeth Spencer acquaints readers with the places and people, the pleasures and heartaches, she ... Lees meer

Daisy Petals and Mushroom Clouds

Robert Mann

• Hardcover | Engels | Voices of the South
• The grainy black-and-white television ad shows a young girl in a flower-filled meadow, holding a daisy and plucking its petals, which she counts one b... Lees meer

Theodore Roethke's Far Fields

Peter Balakian

• Paperback | Engels | Voices of the South
• In this critical study of Theodore Roethke's poetry, Peter Balakian treats the evolution of the poet's work from his first book, Open House (1941), to... Lees meer

The Retreats of Thought

Kelly Cherry

• Paperback | Engels | Voices of the South
• In this book-length sonnet sequence, Kelly Cherry explores the philosophical domain, addressing classic questions, raising new ones, and sometimes doi... Lees meer

The Voice at the Back Door

Elizabeth Spencer

• Paperback | Engels | Voices of the South
• In the mid-1950s, the town of Lacey in the Mississippi hill country is a place where the lives of blacks and whites, though seemingly separate, are in... Lees meer

Flight

Walter White

• Paperback | Engels | Voices of the South
• Published amid controversy in 1926, Flight focuses on the dilemma of Mimi Daquin, a light-complexioned African American woman who passes, for a time, ... Lees meer