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      Long Time Leaving

      Roy Blount, Jr., JR.

      The first collection of the beloved humorist’s sly, dry, hilarious essays in more than a decade. This time, Blount focuses on the many conflicts between the North (where he lives)…

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      Be Sweet: A Conditional Love Story

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      The famed humorist tackles motherhood, family ties, and the nature of being Southern and funny in this bittersweet memoir unlike any other.

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      Roy Blount’s Book of Southern Humor

      Roy Blount, Jr.

      There may be no funnier species in the literary universe than a Southern writer on a roll.

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      Robert E. Lee: A Life

      Roy Blount, Jr.

      Fascinated by what made Lee such a charismatic though reluctant leader, Blount delves into the influences of Lee’s illustrious but scandal-clouded ancestry: his hero-turned-scapegrace father, and his beloved, beautiful, husband-forsaken…

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      Crackers

      Roy Blount, Jr.

      A southern text with possums, hetrosexist dancing, people named Junior, and a two-headed, four-armed, three-legged, gospel-singing man as characters.

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      Hail, Hail, Euphoria!: Presenting the Marx Brothers in Duck Soup, the Greatest War Movie Ever Made

      Roy Blount, Jr.

      Takes us through the history and making of Duck Soup , examining the comedic genius of the Marx Brothers.

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      Alphabet Juice: The Energies, Gists, and Spirits of Letters, Words, and Combinations Thereof; Their Roots, Bones, Innards, Piths, Pips

      Roy Blount, Jr

      After 40 years of making a living using words in every medium, print or electronic, Blount still can’t get over his ABCs. In Alphabet Juice, he celebrates the juju, the…

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      Save Room for Pie: Food Songs and Chewy Ruminations

      Roy Blount, Jr

      Our best-laid plans will yield to fate. And we will say, We lived. We ate.

      Roy Blount Jr. is one of America’s most cherished comic writers. He’s been compared to…

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      Alphabetter Juice: or, The Joy of Text

      Roy Blount, Jr.

      What is the universal sign of disgust, ew, doing in beautiful and cutie? Why is toadless, but not frogless, in the Oxford English Dictionary? How can the US Supreme Court…

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      About Three Bricks Shy: And The Load Filled Up

      Roy Blount Jr

      This is the thirtieth-anniversary edition of a book long considered a classic and one of Sports Illustrated’s Top 100 Sports Books of All Time. The story of the 1973 Pittsburgh…

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      Edisto: A Novel

      Padgett Powell

      Padgett Powell’s first novel (1984) is about coming of age on Edisto, an undeveloped strip of coast between Savannah and Charleston, a named but never discovered place in the South.

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      Georgia Boy

      Erskine Caldwell

      In this collection of 14 inter-related stories, 12-year-old William Stroup recounts the ludicrous predicaments and often self-imposed hardships his family endures.

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      A Murder, a Mystery and a Marriage a Story

      Mark Twain

      Written in 1876 and published for the first time in 2001, this story chronicles the fortunes of a farmer determined to marry off his daughter Mary to the scion of…

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      A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court

      Mark Twain

      A blow to the head transports a Yankee to 528 A.D., where he proceeds to modernize King Arthur’s kingdom.

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      NFL 100: A Century of Pro Football

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      Timed to coincide with the National Football League’s 100th anniversary, NFL 100 celebrates the history of America’s most popular and highly watched sport. From its humble beginnings in Canton, Ohio…

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      Mark Twain’s Library of Humour

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      Here’s the best and funniest writing of the 19th century–collected, edited, and introduced by the king of American literary humor. Aside from including some of his own pieces, Twain spotlights…

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      Nashville: An American Self Portrait

      Lamar Alexander,Roy Blount, Jr.,Will D Campbell

      Nashville: An American Self Portrait captures the essence of the city at a pivotal time in its history. The year 2000 a period of signal events: a presidential primary season…

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      By Southern Playwrights: Plays from Actors Theatre of Louisville

      By Southern Playwrights is a rare assemblage of works from the 1980s and 1990s by writers continuing the tradition of Tennessee Williams, Lillian Hellman, and Beth Henley, among others.

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      True Grit

      Charles Portis

      The landmark anniversary edition of the #1 New York Times bestselling classic novel, an epic and a legend (The Washington Post)

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      Georgia Voices, Volume 1: Fiction

      Containing thirty-nine stories and excerpts from novels, this first volume reveals a literary legacy as rich as any the country has produced. Humorous and tragic, nostalgic and cynical, romantic and…

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      Georgia Voices, Volume 3: Poetry

      The final anthology in a distinctive multivolume set of works by Georgia's most gifted writers. Offering selections from thirty-nine poets, Georgia Voices Volume 3 presents a variety of literary and…

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