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  • Horse People

    Stories

    by Cary Holladay ...
    Series series Yellow Shoe Fiction
    Set in the pastoral horse country of Rapidan, Virginia, the stories in Cary Holladay's Horse People chronicle the lives of the Fenton family through the Civil War, the Great Depression, and World War II. At the center of these interconnected stories is Nelle, a northern debutante who marries into the Fenton family and establishes herself as their stern and combative matriarch.Nelle's arrival in ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • Brides in the Sky

    Stories and a Novella

    by Cary Holladay ...
    Each of the crystalline worlds Cary Holladay brings us in the short stories and novella that make up Brides in the Sky has sisterhood, in all its urgency and peril, at its heart. In the title story, two women in 1850s Virginia marry brothers who promptly uproot them to follow the Oregon Trail west, until an unexpected shift of allegiance separates the sisters forever. Elsewhere in the book, a ... Read more

    $20.89 CAD

  • The Quick-Change Artist

    Stories

    by Cary Holladay ...
    In these stories of magic and memory, clustered around a resort hotel in a small Virginia community, Cary Holladay takes the reader on an excursion through the changes wrought by time on the community and its visitors. From the quiet of a rural forest to the rhythms of rock and roll, The Quick-Change Artist is at once whimsical and hard-edged, dizzying in its matter-of-fact delivery of the ... Read more

    $20.89 CAD

  • War and Imagination

    Perspectives from the Hudson Review

    by Ronald Koury, Nina Bogin, Frederick Morgan, Franz Schneider, Charles Gullans, Joseph Bennett, John Finlay, Marilyn Nelson, Brooke Allen, Abraham Pais0, Louis Simpson1, Anne Stevenson2, Daniel Hoffman3, John Ridland4, Maria Terrone5, Maxine Kumin6, Benjamin Fondane7, John Balaban8, Donka Farkas9, Tennessee Williams0, Leo Tolstoy1, Richard Pevear2, Larissa Volokhonsky3, Wendell Berry4, Julián Ríos5, Nick Caistor6, Asako Serizawa7, Luke Mogelson8, Lara Prescott9, Cary Holladay0 ...
    Stories of war and conflict form the backbone of much of the Western literary canon, portraying a certain image of heroism, stoicism, and survival in the face of violence. War and Imagination challenges the canon with essays, short stories, and a wide variety of perspectives.Paying particular attention to the twentieth century and prioritizing the writings of civilians, the works highlighted in ... Read more

    $45.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Women of War

    Selected Memoirs, Poems, and Fiction by Virginia Women Who Lived Through the Civil War

    by Charlotte Matthews, Mary Tucker Magill, Mary Lockett Avary, Roger A. Pryor, Judith W. McGuire, Sallie A. Brock Putnam, Makgabet Figoot, Susan Archer Tally0, C.A. Ball1, Margaret J. Preston2, Fannie H. Marr3, Maie Dove Day4, Cornelia Jordan5, Marion Harland6, Mary Spear Tiernan7, Emma Lyon Bryan8 ...
    In their variety, the memoir, poetry, and fiction included in this exciting new anthology show the transitory nature of the literature of southern women who lived through a violent and defining crossroads in their lives. In rare and rediscovered excerpts and verses these women writers evidence the early hopes of a cause destined to be lost, the propagandic rhetoric which accompanied it, and the ... Read more

    $14.29 CAD

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  • Less Is Lost

    by Andrew Sean Greer ...
    Series Book 2 - The Arthur Less Books
    **In the follow-up to the bestselling and Pulitzer Prize-winning Less: A Novel, the awkward and lovable Arthur Less returns in an unforgettable road trip across America.“Go get lost somewhere, it always does you good.”**For Arthur Less, life is going surprisingly well: he is a moderately accomplished novelist in a steady relationship with his partner, Freddy Pelu. But nothing lasts: the death of ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

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  • All The King's Men

    Winner of the Pulitzer Prize

    by Robert Penn Warren ...
    WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE“All the King’s Men, the best American political novel ever written, is generally read as a cautionary tale about how power poisons slowly, like arsenic, or cynicism. But it’s also a fable about history, and why, like poetry, it’s so hard to write it fast." -Jill LeporeRobert Penn Warren’s masterpiece follows the career of Willie Stark, a back-country lawyer whose ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • Under Magnolia

    A Southern Memoir

    by Frances Mayes ...
    A lyrical and evocative memoir from Frances Mayes, the Bard of Tuscany, about coming of age in the Deep South and the region’s powerful influence on her life.The author of three beloved books about her life in Italy, including Under the Tuscan Sun and Every Day in Tuscany, Frances Mayes revisits the turning points that defined her early years in Fitzgerald, Georgia. With her signature style and ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

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  • Walk on Earth a Stranger

    by Rae Carson ...
    Series Book 1 - Gold Seer Trilogy
    A New York Times bestseller and National Book Award longlist selectionThe first book in a new trilogy from acclaimed New York Times–bestselling author Rae Carson. A young woman with the magical ability to sense the presence of gold must flee her home, taking her on a sweeping and dangerous journey across Gold Rush–era America. Walk on Earth a Stranger begins an epic saga from one of the finest ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

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  • The Collected Stories Of Eudora Welty

    A Collection

    by Eudora Welty ...
    With a new introduction from best-selling author Ann Patchett, this National Book Award–winning story collection is a landmark of Southern literary fiction and one of the great works of twentieth-century American literature.Eudora Welty wrote novels, novellas, and reviews over the course of her long career, but the heart and soul of her literary vision lay with the short story, and her National ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • The Grass Harp

    by Truman Capote ...
    Series series Vintage International
    **From the bestselling author of In Cold Blood and Breakfast at Tiffany's comes the story of three endearing misfits—an orphaned boy and two whimsical old ladies—who take up residence in a tree house.“Remarkable. . . . Infused with a tender laughter, charming human warmth, [and] a feeling for the positive quality of life.” —New York Herald Tribune**Set on the outskirts of a small Southern town, ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

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  • The Confessions of Max Tivoli

    A Novel

    by Andrew Sean Greer ...
    A heartbreaking and daring love story that questions the nature of time, appearance, and reality, from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Less.We are each the love of someone's life.So begins The Confessions of Max Tivoli, Andrew Sean Greer's extraordinarily haunting novel. At his birth, Max's father declares him a "nisse," a creature of Danish myth, as his baby son has the external physical ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD