Addicting fiction
Get hooked on irresistible Southern fiction with addictive page-turners from James Lee Burke and Sharyn McCrumb. Explore gripping tales of Louisiana and Appalachia, including *White Doves at Morning* and *Mama Day*—a curated list of unputdownable books for fans of atmospheric storytelling.
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Mama Day
by Gloria Naylor
A powerful generational saga at once tender and suspenseful, overflowing with magic and common sense, this book "resonates with genuine excitement … a big, strong, admirable novel” (New York Times Book Review). On the island of Willow Springs, off the Georgia coast, the powers of healer Mama Day are tested by her great niece, Cocoa, a stubbornly emancipated woman endangered by the island's darker forces.
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The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter
by Sharyn McCrumb
Summoned to the scene of a ghastly crime in her remote Appalachian village, Laura Bruce, the new minister's wife, realizes that Sunday school teacher Nora Crumb's dark visions have come true.
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White Doves at Morning
by James Lee Burke
These love affairs are not only fraught with danger, but compromised by the great and grim events of the Civil War and its aftermath.".
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She Walks These Hills
by Sharyn McCrumb
In the Appalachians, a historian writing on Katie Wyler, a young woman kidnapped from the area by Indians in 1789, sets out to retrace her tragic journey. He is unaware her spirit haunts the hills, nor is he aware that an escaped convict is on the loose. By the author of Bimbos of the Death Sun.