Southern indie booksellers like their okra, and they love their
southern books. The new list of Okra Picks --great southern books,
fresh off the vine-- has just been released. A dozen new books that all
have two things in common: They are southern in nature, and there is a
southern indie bookseller that wants everyone to read each one! The
SIBA Okra picks offer a curated reading list for every season.
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| This is literary science fiction with a feminist
twist, and it explores themes of choice, agency, rebellion, and family.
Ava, a teenage girl living aboard the male-dominated, conservative deep
space merchant ship Parastrata, faces betrayal, banishment, and death.
Taking her fate into her own hands, she flees to the Gyre, a floating
continent of garbage and scrap in the Pacific Ocean. This is a sweeping
and harrowing novel about a girl who can't read or write or even
withstand the forces of gravity. What choices will she make? How will
she build a future on an earth ravaged by climate change? |
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| A memoir of author Frances Mayes's coming of age in
the Deep South, and of the region's powerful influence on her life.
Mayes delves into the power of landscape, the idea of home, and the
force of a chaotic and loving family |
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| With its unforgettable characters and evocative setting, The Whiskey Baron is a gripping drama about family ties and bad choices, about the folly of power and the limitations of the law. |
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| In this marvelous addition to the popular series,
Miss Julia is sure to have a summer that she--and Abbotsville--will
never forget! |
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Stuck near the bottom of the social ladder at "pretty
much the lowest level of people at school who aren't paid to be here,"
Maya has never been popular. But before starting eighth grade, she
decides to begin a unique social experiment: spend the school year
following a 1950s popularity guide, written by former teen model Betty
Cornell.
The real-life results are hilarious, painful, and filled
with unexpected surprises. Told with humor and grace, Maya's journey
offers readers of all ages a thoroughly contemporary example of kindness
and self-confidence, along with a better understanding of what it means
to be popular. |
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| An American writer at the height of his creative powers, #1 New York
Times bestselling novelist Greg Iles returns with his most eagerly
anticipated book yet, and his first in five years--Natchez Burning, the
first installment in an epic trilogy that weaves crimes, lies, and
secrets past and present into a mesmerizing thriller featuring southern
mayor and former prosecutor Penn Cage. |
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| Written with a blend of humor and practical wisdom, "The Same Sweet
Girl's Guide to Life" by Cassandra King offers inspiration and solid
advice to new graduates that can sustain them through life's inevitable
ups and downs. In this small book you will find advice that will only
grow in meaning throughout the years. It can - and should - be read
again and again, by thoughtful people of all ages. |
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| "A Bird on Water Street" is a
coming of age story about Jack, the son of a miner growing up in a
Southern Appalachian town environmentally devastated by a century of
poor copper-mining practices. After a tragic accident and a massive
company layoff, the miners go on strike. When nature begins to flourish
as a result, Jack fights to protect it, but the cost could be the ruin
of everything he loves. |
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| A collection of eccentric and offbeat tours of small-town America packed with heart, honesty, and humor. |
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| The worlds of privilege and poverty collide in this moving tale of adoption, identity, belonging, dedication, and love. |
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| When Vivien Walker left her home in the Mississippi Delta, she swore
never to go back, as generations of the women in her family had. But in
the spring, nine years to the day since she’d left, that’s exactly what
happens—Vivien returns, fleeing from a broken marriage and her lost
dreams for children. |
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| This is the story of the resurgence and reinvention of one of America’s
greatest cities. Ordinary citizens, empowered to actively rescue their
own city after politicians and government officials failed them, have
succeeded in rebuilding their world. Cowen was at the leading edge of
those who articulated, shaped, and implemented a vision of
transformative change that has yielded surprising social progress and
economic growth. |
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| Lisa Howorth’s remarkable Flying Shoes is a work of fiction, but the murder is based on the still-unsolved case of her stepbrother, a front page story in the Washington Post.
And yet this is not a crime novel; it is an honest and luminous story
of a particular time and place in the South, where even calamitous
weather can be a character, everyone has a story, and all are
inextricably entwined. |
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