Sweetsmoke
10 best books like Sweetsmoke (David Fuller): Red River, If Sons, Then Heirs, Song Yet Sung, The Ghosts of Kerfol, The Year of Jubilo: A Novel of the Civil War, Daughters of the Dust, Darkness Under the Water, Geek Chic: The Zoey Zone, Down Sand Mountain, Now the Drum of War: Walt Whitman and His Brothers in the Civil War
| Author | Lalita Tademy |
| ISBN | 0446578983 |
Necessary but not sure about the score.
I guess I'll give this book a 3. I'm really on the fence about what I feel about this book.
The author Lalita Tademy has painstakingly researched her family history on both sides, maternal and paternal. Even though one can find a lot of records,...
The critically acclaimed author of Black Ice, Pride, and The Price of a Child offers this deeply moving story of a family’s challenge to reunite, understand the truth about its past, and secure its legacy.
If Sons, Then Heirs sheds light on a uniquely American, largely untold...
| Author | James McBride |
| ISBN | 1594489726 |
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Good Lord Bird, winner of the 2013 National Book Award for Fiction.
In the days before the Civil War, a runaway slave named Liz Spocott breaks free from her captors and escapes into the labyrinthine swamps of Maryland’s eastern shore, setting...
| Author | Deborah Noyes |
| ISBN | 0763630004 |
In an enthralling work of Gothic suspense, an Edith Wharton story inspires five connected tales set in the same haunted manor over the centuries.
In her classic ghost story "Kerfol," Edith Wharton tells the tale of Anne de Barrigan, a young Frenchwoman convicted of murdering her husband,...
The Year of Jubilo: A Novel of the Civil War
| Author | Howard Bahr |
| ISBN | 0312280696 |
On a spring day in 1865 Gawain Harper trudges toward his home in Cumberland, Mississippi, where three years earlier he had boarded a train carrying the latest enlistees in the Mississippi Infantry. Unmoved by the cause that motivated so many others, he had joined up only when Morgan Rhea's father told...
Inspired by her Sundance Festival award-winning film "Daughters of the Dust," Julie Dash has put her cinematic vision on the page, penning a rich, magical new novel which extends her story of a family of complex, independent African-American women.Set in the 1920s in the Sea Islands off the Carolina...
This gripping, ultimately hopeful tale of an Abenaki-French Canadian girl in 1920s Vermont explores a dark episode in New England history.
Just as the waters of a river roar through her town, Molly Ballou's life is riding on a swift current, where change comes faster than a spring flood. As...
| Author | Margie Palatini |
| ISBN | 0061138983 |
Meet Zoey
Age: Eleven. Well, almost eleven. Backspace. Halfway to eleven.
Factoid: 198 days to sixth grade.
Problem: Coolability (see glossary inside).
Connect the dots: A bad hair situation . . . Growing earlobes . . .
Wanted:
1. A fairy godmother.
2. A molto chic...
| Author | Steve Watkins |
| ISBN | 0763638390 |
In a tale full of humor and poignancy, a sheltered twelve-year-old boy comes of age in a small Florida mining town amid the changing mores of the 1960s.
It's 1966 and Dewey Turner is determined to start the school year right. No more being the brunt of every joke. No more "Deweyitis." But after...
| Author | Robert Roper |
| ISBN | 0802715532 |
Now the Drum of War: Walt Whitman and His Brothers in the Civil War
viii, 421 pp. 8vo. The Civil War is seen anew, and a great American family brought to life, in Robert Roper's brilliant evocation of the Family Whitman. Walt Whitman's work as a nurse to the wounded soldiers of the Civil War had a profound...
| Author | Betsy Franco |
| ISBN | 0763648396 |
“The quality here is head and shoulders above most young writers’ collections, and in fact it’s well above many adult anthologies as well.”
— Bulletin of the Center for Children’s Books (starred review)
The poets are straight, gay, lesbian, bi, or transgender. They live...
| Author | Beth Ain |
| ISBN | 0763633968 |
In 1776 Paris, a feisty teenager defies her mother, her closest friend, and the aristocracy that rules her life in a compelling romantic novel of social intrigue.
Sixteen-year-old Sabine Durand, daughter of aristocrats, thinks of nothing but donning exquisite ball gowns and being seen...
| Author | Donna Freitas |
| ISBN | 0374360871 |
Antonia Lucia Labella has two secrets: at fifteen, she’s still waiting for her first kiss, and she wants to be a saint. An official one. Unfortunately, the two events Antonia’s prayed for seem equally unlikely to happen...
Antonia Lucia Labella has two secrets: at fifteen, she’s still...
| Author | Will Peterson |
| ISBN | 1406307092 |
This has been sitting in the library waiting for someone to get it out, so with a lack of takers it was me this school holiday. So glad I did too It's one of those gorgeous children's story's that I love - lots of description and observation so it's very visual and inviting. It had an old-worldy feel to it, mostly...
| Author | Chris Rettstatt |
| ISBN | 0763635243 |
From a village made of hot-air balloons to a subterranean battle arena, two young people struggle to discover who and what they are — and how to use the astonishing powers they share.
High over China, twelve-year-old Mei arrives at the Sky Village, an intricate web of hot-air balloons floating...
| Author | Gertrude Chandler Warner |
| ISBN | 0807554960 |
The Boxcar Children titles encouraged me to read and, as an adult, I still enjoy reading them. This particular title has a perfect ingredient list:
Memory Recall
Awareness of Surroundings
Respect for Elders
Doing Good Deeds
Logic and Reasoning
Map Reading
Use...
| Author | Gary Gygax |
| ISBN | 1601250428 |
Gary Gygax, father of fantasy roleplaying and the co-creator of the Dungeons & Dragons roleplaying game, weaves a fantastic tale of warring wizards that spans the world from the pyramids of ancient Egypt to the mist-shrouded towns of medieval England. Someone is murdering the world's most powerful...
| Author | Jacquelyn Cook |
| ISBN | 0976876094 |
The true love story behind one of Georgia's most famous antebellum mansions. In the 1850's Anne Tracy, a smart and well-educated young woman from the stifled but elegant world of Macon, Georgia, made a polite marriage with an older, wealthy merchant, William Butler Johnson. The unlikely pairing blossomed...
| Author | Robert Simonson |
| ISBN | 1607747545 |
"It was a hard thing to own such a hated drink. So for many years Cecchini shirked his connection to it, developing the kind of cranky attitude toward his early work that Orson Welles had for Citizen Kane late in his career. That changed, though, as bartenders' feelings toward the cocktail began to relax,...
Tara Revisited: Women, War, & the Plantation Legend
| Author | Catherine Clinton |
| ISBN | 0789201593 |
This volume cuts through romantic myth, combining period photographs and illustrations with new documentary sources to tell the real story of Southern women during the Civil War. Drawing from a wealth of poignant letters, diaries, slave narratives, and other accounts, Catherine Clinton provides...
| Author | Breena Clarke |
| ISBN | 0316007048 |
Breena Clarke's Stand the Storm centers on the story of "Sewing Annie" Coats and her son, Gabriel, expert tailors who manage to purchase their freedom at the cost of entering a less than lucrative business arrangement with their former owner. Nonetheless, hard work and thriftiness allow them to purchase...
| Author | Michael C. White |
| ISBN | 0061340723 |
Augustus Cain is a damaged man haunted by a terrible skill: the ability to track people who don't want to be found. Rosetta is a runaway slave who bears the scars, inside and out, of a life of servitude to a cruel and unforgiving master. Her flight is fueled by a passion and determination only a mother could...
Let There Be Laughter: A Treasury of Great Jewish Humor and What It All Means
| Author | Michael Krasny |
| ISBN | 0062422057 |
From the host of NPR affiliate’s Forum with Michael Krasny, a compendium of Jewish jokes that packs the punches with hilarious riff after riff and also offers a window into Jewish culture.
Michael Krasny has been telling Jewish jokes since his bar mitzvah, and it’s been said that he knows...
Page From a Tennessee Journal
| Author | Francine Thomas Howard |
| ISBN | 0982555067 |
It is 1913, shortly before the start of the First World War, and Annalaura is alone again. Her gambling, womanizing husband has left the plot they sharecrop in rural Tennessee — why or for how long she does not know. Without food or money and with her future tied to the fate of the season’s tobacco crop,...
| Author | Jean Holloway |
| ISBN | 0977412660 |
Heart Stopping Romantic Thriller
This is a surprisingly enticing debut novel by Mrs. Jean Holloway. This book takes you on a HIGHLY charged emotional rollercoaster ride! It is a FRIGHTENINGLY suspense-filled, romantic murder mystery with LOADS of heart stopping twist and turns that will...
