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Memories of A Rural Boyhood
by Jimmy Carter
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by Barry Moser
Published Oct 2015
Read Reviews"We Were Brothers, Barry Moser's beautiful - and beautifully illustrated - new book, tells the wrenching and redeeming story of brothers who take different paths and yet ultimately find their ways back to each other...Their careful reconciliation after decades of strife and avoidance is sad, moving, and joyful all at the same time." - Andrew ...
by Rick Bragg
Published Aug 2002
Read ReviewsThe Pulitzer Prizewinning author of All Over but the Shoutin continues his personal history of the Deep South with an evocation of his mothers childhood in the Appalachian foothills during the Great Depression, and the magnificent story of the man who raised her.
by Laura Hillenbrand
Published Mar 2002
Read ReviewsHillenbrand brilliantly re-creates a universal underdog story, one that proves life is a horse race.
by John Grisham
Published Dec 2001
Read ReviewsA Painted House is a moving story of one boy's journey from innocence to experience inspired by Grisham's own childhood in rural Arkansas.
by Tony Earley
Published Apr 2001
Read ReviewsA luminous portrait of a ten-year-old boy growing up in the Depression-era town of Aliceville, North Carolina
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