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10 best books like Bound South (Susan Rebecca White): Whistlin' Dixie in a Nor'easter, One Mississippi, The Scandalous Summer of Sissy LeBlanc, The Three Miss Margarets, Between the Tides, This One and Magic Life: A Novel of a Southern Family, My Summer of Southern Discomfort, The Book of Peach, Moon Women, Sufficient Grace

Whistlin' Dixie in a Nor'easter
AuthorLisa Patton
ISBN0312556608
Leelee Satterfield seemed to have it all: a gorgeous husband, two adorable daughters, and roots in the sunny city of Memphis, Tennessee. So when her husband gets the idea to uproot the family to run a quaint Vermont inn, Leelee is devastated…and her three best friends are outraged. But she's loved...
One Mississippi
AuthorMark Childress
ISBN0316012114
This exuberantly acclaimed novel by the author of the bestselling Crazy in Alabama tells an uproarious and moving story about family, best friends, first love, and surviving the scariest years of your life.You need only one best friend, Daniel Musgrove figures, to make it through high school alive....
The Scandalous Summer of Sissy LeBlanc
AuthorLoraine Despres
ISBN0060505885
It's a steamy June afternoon in Louisiana, circa 1956, and Sissy LeBlanc is sitting on her front porch, wondering -- half seriously -- if she could kill herself with aspirins and Coca-Cola. She's been living in stifling old Gentry since the day she was born and trapped in a sham of a marriage to PeeWee LeBlanc...
The Three Miss Margarets
AuthorLouise Shaffer
ISBN0375760881
Miss Peggy, Dr. Maggie, and Miss Li’l Bit, friends and confidantes for nearly a lifetime, find it funny and bewildering that they have become icons in Charles Valley, Georgia. Little does the rest of the town know that beneath the irreproachable façades of its three doyennes lies an explosive decades-old...
Between the Tides
AuthorPatti Callahan Henry
ISBN0451221141
The scene of a childhood tragedy that forced her family to move, Seaboro, South Carolina, is the last place Catherine Leary wants to see again. But her father's last wish to have his ashes scattered there, and his young colleague's desire to write an article about him, conspire against Catherine. Hoping...
This One and Magic Life: A Novel of a Southern Family
AuthorAnne Carroll George
In the deep South, where love and hatred run deep and close, dissension often summers just beneath the surface.When a family gathers for a funeral as its old homestead above the waters of Mobile Bay, it must carry out the last wish of the aunt and sister whom it has come to mourn. It is a wish that will unearth...
My Summer of Southern Discomfort
AuthorStephanie Gayle
Today is Monday. The calls do not come as before. Weeks elapse between them, and when I answer the phone there is no overlap of voices, only my mother's. She spends much of the conversation avoiding mention of the pink elephant trumpeting in the middle of the room. The pink elephant would be my defection...
The Book of Peach
AuthorPenelope J. Stokes
ISBN0425234495
For fans of Fannie Flagg-the acclaimed author of Heartbreak Cafe delivers a heartwarming, hilarious new novel.

Twenty-three years ago, beauty queen Peach Rondell left Mississippi and vowed never to return. Now she's back, divorced and heartbroken, trying to figure out how her life went...
Moon Women
AuthorPamela Duncan
ISBN0385335210
In the lush North Carolina foothills, the Moon women have put down roots: matriarch Marvelle Moon, who’s losing her grip on the world after more than eighty years of life; her daughters, Ruth Ann and Cassandra; and Ruth Ann’s nineteen-year-old daughter, Ashley, fresh out of rehab, unmarried,...
Sufficient Grace
AuthorDarnell Arnoult
ISBN0743284488
Set against the backdrop of two neighboring Southern towns, Sufficient Grace is the powerful, affecting story of two families over the course of a year, from one Easter season to the next. One quiet spring day, Gracie Hollaman hears voices in her head that tell her to get in her car and leave her entire...
Summer in the South
AuthorCathy Holton
ISBN0345506014
Cathy Holton, author of the popular Beach Trip, returns with an intriguing and mysterious tale of dark deeds and family secrets in a small Southern town.

After a personal tragedy, Chicago writer Ava Dabrowski quits her job to spend the summer in Woodburn, Tennessee, at the invitation of her...
She Flew the Coop: A Novel Concerning Life, Death, Sex and Recipes in Limoges, Louisiana
AuthorMichael Lee West
ISBN0060926201
The two main occupations in Limoges, Louisiana (population: 905), seem to be spreading juicy gossip and consoling the unfortunate with casseroles. And in this early spring of 1952, there is ample opportunity for both with sixteen-year-old and pregnant (by the Baptist minister) Olive Nepper, currently...
Savannah from Savannah
AuthorDenise Hildreth Jones
ISBN0849944554
I'm coming home to prove something..to my city, my mother, and myself.

It is a place known to most as Savannah. It is a place known to me as home. I wish I could tell you it was my love for this city that precipitated my return. But I did not return out of a mere longing for home. I returned because I have...
Tomato Girl
AuthorJayne Pupek
ISBN1565124723
For eleven-year-old Ellie Sanders, her father has always been the rock that she could cling to when her mother's emotional troubles became too frightening. But when he comes under the thrall of the pretty teenager who raises vegetables and tomatoes for sale at the general store that he runs, Ellie sees...
Grits Friends Are Forevah: A Southern-Style Celebration of Women
AuthorDeborah Ford
ISBN0525949186
Not as good as the GRITS Guide to Life, but still good advice on being a good friend. I enjoy the quotes too.

"In every conceivable manner, the family is link to our past, bridge to our future." - Alex Haley

"When I am an old woman, I shall... make up for the sobriety of my youth." - Jenny Joseph

"The...
Sweet Tea and Jesus Shoes
AuthorDeborah Smith
ISBN0425183785
Six daughters of the South serve up a charming and hilarious collection of original short stories topped with a generous dollop of that most valued of all Southern commodities: good old-fashioned storytelling.

"Poignant and heartwarming...A brilliant compilation of Southern women's...
The Sweet By and By
AuthorTodd Johnson
ISBN0061579521
“Gentle, sensitive...sometimes funny, occasionally sad, and ultimately life-affirming.”
—Winston-Salem Journal

 

The Sweet By and By is the story of five southern women of different ages and from very different backgrounds whose lives come together in a journey...
Pieces of the Heart
AuthorKaren White
ISBN0451217675
To escape the stress from her all-consuming job as an accountant, Caroline Collier joins her overbearing mother at the family's vacation home in the mountains of North Carolina. But the serene beauty of Lake Ophelia cannot heal Caroline's heart, which is still broken by the loss of her younger brother,...
Invisible Sisters
AuthorJessica Handler
ISBN1586486489
When Jessica Handler was eight years old, her younger sister Susie was diagnosed with leukemia. To any family, the diagnosis would have been upending, but to the Handlers, whose youngest daughter Sarah had been born with a rare congenital blood disorder, it was an unimaginable verdict. By the time...
The Southern Belles of Honeysuckle Way
AuthorLinda Bruckheimer
ISBN0452280370
Rebecca Jean Wooten St. Clair and her sister, Carleen, pack up their two teenage daughters and leave California via Route 66 for Blue Lick Springs, Kentucky, where they will celebrate the seventy-fifth birthday of their mother, Lila Mae. Waiting for them is their sibling Irene (“Baby Sister”);...
Magnolia Wednesdays
AuthorWendy Wax
ISBN0425232352
From the author of The Accidental Bestseller comes a wonderfully entertaining book about what to do when life comes at you full swing.

At forty-one, Vivian Armstrong Gray's life as an investigative journalist is crumbling. Humiliated after taking a bullet in her backside during an exposé,...
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