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This novel recounts the adventures of Sissie, a nature loving fifth grader, during the years 1959-60. It is the story of her life in a small Southern community and of her large family, particularly her grandfather, who help her learn about the wide world.
It's 1960. Sissie Stevenson and her cousin Spud McKenna are about to begin the sixth grade at Slippery Branch Elementary School. Will they survive another bully? Why is Aunt Pearl so ill-tempered? How can anyone be cruel to snakes and spiders? Why do family members keep secrets from one another? And what really happened to Spud's father? Only one person may be able to help them find the answers to their questions: Sissie's grandmother Berrie, who was born with "the gift." Snakes, spiders, lizards, mad dogs, and farm critters. The adventures continue.
Unpublished at the time of the author's death, a historical novel featuring a young migrant worker's experiences on a tragic ranch couple's cotton farm is now in print for the first time. By the author of River of Earth.
In a tender and uproarious memoir, singer-songwriter Rodney Crowell reveals the good, the bad, and the ugly of a dirt-poor southeast Texas boyhood. The only child of a hard-drinking father and a holy-roller mother, acclaimed musician Rodney Crowell was no stranger to bombast. But despite a home life always threatening to burst into violence, Rodney fiercely loved his mother and idolized his blustering father, a frustrated musician who took him to see Hank Williams, Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins, and Johnny Cash perform. Set in 1950s Houston, a frontier-rough town with icehouses selling beer by the gallon on payday, pest infestations right out of a horror film, and the kind of freedom mischievous kids dream of, Chinaberry Sidewalks is Rodney's tribute to his parents and his remarkable youth. Full of the most satisfying kind of nostalgia, it is hardly recognizable as a celebrity memoir. Rather, it's a story of coming-of-age at a particular time, place, and station, crafted as well as the perfect song.
Jessica Houston is forced to heed a calling that has emerged from the deepest part of her being - a calling that so many of her ancestors had tried and failed to drown out, resulting in a family history of mental illness. With a recent bombardment of strange occurrences, Jessica questions her own mental steadiness and decides to get away from it all by taking an impromptu vacation. Walking out on faith, this sophisticated capitalist suddenly finds herself in a supernatural world filled with mystery, intrigue, and wonder in search of answers.
Patricia is born during WWII when racial segregation is a way of life, particularly in the south. A few years earlier in the small cotton mill town her father’s poor judgment forces her parents and eventually their eight children to live in a crude, unpainted, three-room dwelling located in an isolated area of four houses for African Americans. They have no electricity or running water, and a stone-covered spring in the woods becomes a special place for mischief. A single tree, a chinaberry, adjacent to the house serves many purposes. Home, church, and school are the Littletons’ family core, while their experiences are laced with fun, humor, and mischief. However, when temperamental Hazel, an adult bully, moves next door, there are conflicts, which escalate into unnerving, dangerous situations, especially with Patricia’s easygoing, soft-spoken mother. Hazel ridicules Patricia, who is smart, timid, and labeled a crybaby and stubborn in school. By high school, Patricia blossoms and becomes popular, but later her father warns her of wooden nickels. www.chinaberriesandbeyond.com
Within the tranquil setting of a small New Jersey town in the early 1900s, this novel by a noted Harlem Renaissance author explores tempestuous issues that range from racial identity to adultery, incest, and deception.
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Poignant stores of share cropper children growing up in rural Southren Mississipp during the Great Depression. A SEQUEL TO NUBBIN RIDGE. Excellent reading for 15 year olds and up.