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To Kill a Mockingbird
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To Kill a Mockingbird

By Harper Lee ,

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Ellen Foster
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Ellen Foster

By Kaye Gibbons ,

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The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
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The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter

By Carson McCullers ,

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The Education of Blacks in the South, 1860-1935
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The Education of Blacks in the South, 1860-1935

By James D. Anderson ,

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Eating, Drinking, and Visiting in the South: An Informal History
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Eating, Drinking, and Visiting in the South

By Joe Gray Taylor ,

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The Great Santini
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The Great Santini

By Pat Conroy ,

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Confessions of a Failed Southern Lady
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Confessions of a Failed Southern Lady

By Florence King ,

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Southern Food: At Home, on the Road, in History
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Southern Food

By John Egerton ,

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Womenfolks: Growing Up Down South
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Womenfolks

By Shirley Abbott ,

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Within the Plantation Household: Black and White Women of the Old South
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Within the Plantation Household

By Elizabeth Fox-Genovese ,

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The Plantation Mistress: Woman's World in the Old South
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The Plantation Mistress

By Catherine Clinton ,

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Vengeance and Justice: Crime and Punishment in the Nineteenth-Century American South
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Vengeance and Justice

By Edward L. Ayers ,

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Oil Notes
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Oil Notes

By Rick Bass ,

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Old South, New South: Revolutions in the Southern Economy Since the Civil War
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Old South, New South

By Gavin Wright ,

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Origins of the Civil Rights Movements
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Origins of the Civil Rights Movements

By Aldon D. Morris ,

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The Old Forest and Other Stories
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The Old Forest and Other Stories

By Peter Taylor ,

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Land of the South
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Land of the South

By James W. Clay , Paul D. Escott , Douglas M. Orr Jr. , Alfred W. Stuart

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Myth, Media, and the Southern Mind
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Myth, Media, and the Southern Mind

By Stephen A. Smith ,

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The Peculiar Institution: Slavery in the Ante-Bellum South
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The Peculiar Institution

By Kenneth M. Stampp ,

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Jubilee
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Jubilee

By Margaret Walker ,

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Lincoln
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Lincoln

By Gore Vidal ,

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Sweet Soul Music: Rhythm and Blues and the Southern Dream of Freedom
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Sweet Soul Music

By Peter Guralnick ,

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Fire On The Mountain
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Fire On The Mountain

By Terry Bisson ,

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