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All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake
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All That She Carried

By Tiya Miles ,

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Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War
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Confederates in the Attic

By Tony Horwitz ,

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Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement: A Radical Democratic Vision
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Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement

By Barbara Ransby ,

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The Cooking Gene: A Journey Through African American Culinary History in the Old South
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The Cooking Gene

By Michael W. Twitty ,

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Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
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Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

By Harriet Jacobs ,

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Confederate Reckoning: Power and Politics in the Civil War South
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Confederate Reckoning

By Stephanie McCurry ,

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Walking with the Wind: A Memoir of the Movement
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Walking with the Wind

By John Lewis , Michael D'Orso ,

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A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories
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A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories

By Flannery O'Connor ,

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The Strange Career of Jim Crow
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The Strange Career of Jim Crow

By C. Vann Woodward ,

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Embattled Freedom: Journeys through the Civil War’s Slave Refugee Camps
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Embattled Freedom

By Amy Murrell Taylor ,

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Apostles of Disunion: Southern Secession Commissioners and the Causes of the Civil War
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Apostles of Disunion

By Charles B. Dew ,

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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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Women's Life and Work in the Southern Colonies
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Women's Life and Work in the Southern Colonies

By Julia Cherry Spruill ,

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Deep Roots: How Slavery Still Shapes Southern Politics
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Deep Roots

By Avidit Acharyo , Matthew Blackwell , Maya Sen

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Culture Of Honor: The Psychology Of Violence In The South
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Culture Of Honor

By Richard E. Nisbett , Dov Cohen ,

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No Common Ground: Confederate Monuments and the Ongoing Fight for Racial Justice
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No Common Ground

By Karen L. Cox ,

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Making Whiteness: The Culture of Segregation in the South, 1890-1940
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Making Whiteness

By Grace Elizabeth Hale ,

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Tales from the Haunted South: Dark Tourism and Memories of Slavery from the Civil War Era
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Tales from the Haunted South

By Tiya Miles ,

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Hold Still: A Memoir with Photographs
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Hold Still

By Sally Mann ,

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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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Go Down, Moses
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Go Down, Moses

By William Faulkner ,

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Ava's Man
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Ava's Man

By Rick Bragg ,

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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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Dumping In Dixie: Race, Class, And Environmental Quality
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Dumping In Dixie

By Robert Bullard ,

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Civil War by Other Means: America's Long and Unfinished Fight for Democracy
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Civil War by Other Means

By Jeremi Suri ,

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How Far to the Promised Land: One Black Family's Story of Hope and Survival in the American South
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How Far to the Promised Land

By Esau McCaulley ,

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South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation
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South to America

By Imani Perry ,

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Always a Reckoning and Other Poems
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Always a Reckoning and Other Poems

By Jimmy Carter ,

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The Fate of Texas: The Civil War and the Lone Star State
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The Fate of Texas

By Charles D. Grear ,

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Womenfolks: Growing Up Down South
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Womenfolks

By Shirley Abbott ,

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Back of the Big House: The Architecture of Plantation Slavery
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Back of the Big House

By John Michael Vlach ,

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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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Slaves Without Masters: The Free Negro in the Antebellum South
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Slaves Without Masters

By Ira Belin ,

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Walking Toward the Sunset: The Melungeons of Appalachia
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Walking Toward the Sunset

By Wayne Winkler ,

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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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Southern Honor: Ethics and Behavior in the Old South
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Southern Honor

By Bertram Wyatt-Brown ,

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Oil Notes
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Oil Notes

By Rick Bass ,

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Mornings in Mexico
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Mornings in Mexico

By D.H. Lawrence ,

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Lee Considered: General Robert E. Lee and Civil War History
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Lee Considered

By Alan T. Nolan ,

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How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America: Essays
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How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America

By Kiese Laymon ,

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Rebels in the Making: The Secession Crisis and the Birth of the Confederacy
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Rebels in the Making

By William L. Barney ,

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Four Years in Rebel Capitals: An Inside View of Life in the Southern Confederacy From Birth to Death: From Original Notes, Collated in the Years 1861 to 1865
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Four Years in Rebel Capitals

By Thomas C. DeLeon ,

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The Mind of the South
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The Mind of the South

By W.J. Cash ,

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The Burden of Southern History
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The Burden of Southern History

By C. Vann Woodward ,

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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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Slaves Waiting for Sale: Abolitionist Art and the American Slave Trade
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Slaves Waiting for Sale

By Maurie D. McInnis ,

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Killers of the Dream
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Killers of the Dream

By Lillian Smith ,

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Days of Hope: Race and Democracy in the New Deal Era
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Days of Hope

By Patricia Sullivan ,

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Dust Tracks on a Road: A Memoir
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Dust Tracks on a Road

By Zora Neale Hurston ,

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Long Gone
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Long Gone

By Paul Hemphill ,

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Working Cures: Healing, Health, and Power on Southern Slave Plantations
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Working Cures

By Sharla M. Fett ,

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How the South Won the Civil War: Oligarchy, Democracy, and the Continuing Fight for the Soul of America
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How the South Won the Civil War

By Heather Cox Richardson ,

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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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At the Hands of Persons Unknown: The Lynching of Black America
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At the Hands of Persons Unknown

By Philip Dray ,

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Riding High: Horses, Humans and History in South Africa
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Riding High

By Sandra Swart ,

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Travels of William Bartram
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Travels of William Bartram

By William Bartram ,

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Marching Masters: Slavery, Race, and the Confederate Army During the Civil War
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Marching Masters

By Colin Edward Woodward ,

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Confederate Emancipation: Southern Plans to Free and Arm Slaves During the Civil War
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Confederate Emancipation

By Bruce Levine ,

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Celia, a Slave
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Celia, a Slave

By Melton A. McLaurin ,

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Bartram's Living Legacy: The Travels and the Nature of the South
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Bartram's Living Legacy

By William Bartram ,

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Medicalizing Blackness: Making Racial Difference in the Atlantic World, 1780-1840
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Medicalizing Blackness

By Rana A. Hogarth ,

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Jackson's Sword: The Army Officer Corps on the American Frontier, 1810-1821
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Jackson's Sword

By Samuel J. Watson ,

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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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This Land, This South: An Environmental History
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This Land, This South

By Albert E. Cowdrey ,

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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 Mound Builder Myth: Fake History and the Hunt for a Lost White Race
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The Mound Builder Myth

By Jason Colavito ,

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On the Road to Freedom: A Guided Tour of the Civil Rights Trail
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On the Road to Freedom

By Charles E. Cobb Jr. ,

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Indians in the Family: Adoption and the Politics of Antebellum Expansion
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Indians in the Family

By Dawn Peterson ,

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Ticket to Exile: A Memoir
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Ticket to Exile

By Adam David Miller ,

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Deep South
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Deep South

By Paul Theroux , Steve McCurry (photographer) ,

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Grace Matters: A True Story of Race, Friendship, and Faith in the Heart of the South
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Grace Matters

By Chris P. Rice ,

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The Hidden Wound
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The Hidden Wound

By Wendell Berry ,

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The Southern Judicial Tradition: State Judges and Sectional Distinctiveness, 1790-1890
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The Southern Judicial Tradition

By Timothy S. Huebner ,

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Tougaloo Blues
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Tougaloo Blues

By Kelly Norman Ellis ,

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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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After Appomattox: Military Occupation and the Ends of War
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After Appomattox

By Gregory P. Downs ,

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The South vs. The South: How Anti-Confederate Southerners Shaped the Course of the Civil War
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The South vs. The South

By William W. Freehling ,

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Scalawag: A White Southerner's Journey through Segregation to Human Rights Activism
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Scalawag

By Edward H. Peeples , Nancy MacLean (editor) ,

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Black Like Me
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Black Like Me

By John Howard Griffin ,

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The Lonely Days Were Sundays: Reflections of a Jewish Southerner
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The Lonely Days Were Sundays

By Eli N. Evans ,

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The Wit and Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln
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The Wit and Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln

By Anthony Gross ,

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The New Southern-Latino Table: Recipes That Bring Together the Bold and Beloved Flavors of Latin America and the American South
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