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The Last of the African Kings
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CA$26.95
ISBN: 9780813951812
Pub Date: May 2024
Imprint: University of Virginia Press
The Last of the African Kings follows the wayward fortunes of a noble African family. It begins with the regal Béhanzin, an African king who opposed French colonialism and was exiled to distant Martinique....
The Codger and the Sparrow
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CA$33.95
ISBN: 9780875658681
Pub Date: March 2024
Hank O'Sullivan, a sixty-five-year-old widower, lives a routine life, nursing his loneliness with cocktails at his favorite local bar in Austin, Texas. After a parking lot brawl lands him in jail,...
Beware the Tall Grass
A Novel
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CA$30.95
ISBN: 9798988732105
Pub Date: March 2024
Imprint: University of Georgia Press
Beware the Tall Grass weaves the stories of the Sloans, a modern family grappling with their young son Charlie’s troubling memories of a past life as a soldier in Vietnam, and Thomas Boone, a young...
The Welcome
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CA$30.95
ISBN: 9781496844859
Pub Date: February 2023
Imprint: University Press of Mississippi
A new edition of the important, long out-of-print novel
Welcome to the Weird America
Three Novellas
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CA$25.00
ISBN: 9781989496589
Pub Date: October 2022
Imprint: Wolsak and Wynn Publishers
Welcome to the Weird America features three of A.G. Pasquella’s brilliant, fabulist novellas, filled with strange language and extraordinary surprises. A talking chimpanzee becomes a televangelist, a teenage boy joins a motley band of rebels intent on overthrowing a spaceship and America is reflected in a funhouse mirror.
Blues and Trouble
Twelve Stories
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CA$24.95
ISBN: 9781496841926
Pub Date: September 2022
Imprint: University Press of Mississippi
Now back in print, the debut story collection from a celebrated American writer
Sinkhole
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CA$24.95
ISBN: 9781608012305
Pub Date: May 2022
"mesmerizing debut" ?Publishers Weekly"...the electric denouement more than justifies the tension throughout."?The New York Times"...a sweet and sour and ultimately redemptive delight of a mystery,...
Cannel Coal Oil Days
A Novel
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CA$36.95
ISBN: 9781952271120
Pub Date: August 2021
Imprint: West Virginia University Press
A newly discovered nineteenth-century novel about West Virginia breaking away from Virginia, set amid the cannel coal boom and featuring an interracial abolitionist movement.
Bayou Cresting
The Wanting Women of Huet Pointe
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CA$19.99
ISBN: 9780921332763
Pub Date: July 2021
Imprint: Crowsnest Books
In Huet Pointe, ambition is as dangerous as the brackish water that surrounds the sliver of land. But, the women of this antebellum hamlet yearn for more than society insists they be-devout, feminine,...
Working It Off in Labor County
Stories
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CA$24.95
ISBN: 9781949199598
Pub Date: February 2021
Imprint: West Virginia University Press
Humorous and wry stories of misfits and ordinary people in an Appalachian community struggling creatively to make sense of an often nonsensical world.
East of Texas, West of Hell
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CA$25.95
ISBN: 9781588384164
Pub Date: September 2020
Imprint: University of Georgia Press
Just when Jack Prine thought he could relax back into his life, heiress Elle Meridian gives him a call and sets him on a bloody odyssey across the South. Facing neo-Nazis, Mexican cartels, and the Dixie Mafia, can Prine rescue Meridian's daughter without sacrificing himself? In his thrilling sequel to South, America, Rod Davis does what he does best: revealing our deepest, darkest secrets and keeping us rapt all the same.
Like Light, Like Music
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CA$26.95
ISBN: 9781949199574
Pub Date: August 2020
Imprint: West Virginia University Press
Emme McLean never imagined that in 1999 she would be living out the lyrics of the ancient murder ballads she grew up singing. But now Emme is back in Red River, Kentucky, using her skills as a journalist...
Operation Dimwit
A Penelope Lemon Novel
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CA$40.95
ISBN: 9780807172674
Pub Date: May 2020
Imprint: LSU Press
Penelope Lemon is back for more madcap mom adventures in Inman Majors?s hilariously unruly Operation Dimwit. It?s summertime, and son Theo is away at camp. Feeling frisky, free, and tired of living...
With Extreme Prejudice
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CA$24.95
ISBN: 9781608011759
Pub Date: March 2020
One year after his wife dies in a car accident, film critic Mike Barnett discovers his house ransacked in an apparent robbery. However, only his wife's private files have been stolen. Mike then finds...
All of the Belles
The Montgomery Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald
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CA$32.95
ISBN: 9781588384232
Pub Date: March 2020
Imprint: University of Georgia Press
Released to commemorate the one-hundredth anniversary of the marriage of F. Scott Fitzgerald to Zelda Sayre of Montgomery, Alabama, All of the Belles is a unique collection of Fitzgerald's Tarleton stories, written as an ode to his new bride. Set in the fictional Tarleton, these stories recreate the Southern character and pre-modern attitude of 1920s Montgomery and are revealing of
Hillbilly Hustle
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CA$24.95
ISBN: 9781949199284
Pub Date: January 2020
Imprint: West Virginia University Press
Knox Thompson thinks he's working a hustle, but it's a hustle that's working him. Trying to keep his pizza shop and parents afloat, he cleans out a backroom Kentucky poker game only to be roped into...
The Last of the African Kings
CA$26.95
ISBN: 9780813951812
Pub Date: May 2024
Imprint: University of Virginia Press
The Codger and the Sparrow
CA$33.95
ISBN: 9780875658681
Pub Date: March 2024
Beware the Tall Grass
A Novel
CA$30.95
ISBN: 9798988732105
Pub Date: March 2024
Imprint: University of Georgia Press
The Welcome
CA$30.95
ISBN: 9781496844859
Pub Date: February 2023
Imprint: University Press of Mississippi
Welcome to the Weird America
Three Novellas
CA$25.00
ISBN: 9781989496589
Pub Date: October 2022
Imprint: Wolsak and Wynn Publishers
Welcome to the Weird America features three of A.G. Pasquella’s brilliant, fabulist novellas, filled with strange language and extraordinary surprises. A talking chimpanzee becomes a televangelist, a teenage boy joins a motley band of rebels intent on overthrowing a spaceship and America is reflected in a funhouse mirror.
Blues and Trouble
Twelve Stories
CA$24.95
ISBN: 9781496841926
Pub Date: September 2022
Imprint: University Press of Mississippi
Sinkhole
CA$24.95
ISBN: 9781608012305
Pub Date: May 2022
Cannel Coal Oil Days
A Novel
CA$36.95
ISBN: 9781952271120
Pub Date: August 2021
Imprint: West Virginia University Press
Bayou Cresting
The Wanting Women of Huet Pointe
CA$19.99
ISBN: 9780921332763
Pub Date: July 2021
Imprint: Crowsnest Books
Working It Off in Labor County
Stories
CA$24.95
ISBN: 9781949199598
Pub Date: February 2021
Imprint: West Virginia University Press
East of Texas, West of Hell
CA$25.95
ISBN: 9781588384164
Pub Date: September 2020
Imprint: University of Georgia Press
Like Light, Like Music
CA$26.95
ISBN: 9781949199574
Pub Date: August 2020
Imprint: West Virginia University Press
Operation Dimwit
A Penelope Lemon Novel
CA$40.95
ISBN: 9780807172674
Pub Date: May 2020
Imprint: LSU Press
With Extreme Prejudice
CA$24.95
ISBN: 9781608011759
Pub Date: March 2020
All of the Belles
The Montgomery Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald
CA$32.95
ISBN: 9781588384232
Pub Date: March 2020
Imprint: University of Georgia Press
Hillbilly Hustle
CA$24.95
ISBN: 9781949199284
Pub Date: January 2020
Imprint: West Virginia University Press