Mark Childress
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You need only one best friend, Daniel Musgrove figures, to make it through high school alive. After his family moves to Mississippi just before his junior year, Daniel finds fellow outsider Tim Cousins. The two become inseparable, sharing a fascination with ridicule, The Sonny and Cher Comedy Hour, and Arnita Beecham, the most bewitching girl at Minor High.
But soon things go terribly wrong. The friends commit a small crime that grows...
But soon things go terribly wrong. The friends commit a small crime that grows...
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Georgia Bottoms is known in her small community of Six Points, Alabama, as a beautiful, well-to-do, and devoutly Baptist Southern belle.
Nobody realizes that the family fortune has long since disappeared, and a determinedly single woman like Georgia needs an alternative, and discreet, means of income. In Georgia's case it is six well-heeled lovers-one for each day of the week, with Mondays off-none of whom knows about the others.
But when the married...
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English
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A man who can't pronounce "anonymous"
In high office seems rather ominous.
We don't have to get all Deuteronomous:
Brains and power are rarely synonymous."
"I love every word Mark Childress writes, including this new compilation of his great political writing. He is brilliant and hilarious. " - Anne Lamott
"You, sir, are a libtard!" - Glenn Beck.
New York Times bestselling author Mark Childress was like many liberal Americans...
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Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
1998
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English
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Leroy Kirby, an Elvis-like singer and musician from Mississippi, transforms himself from a guitar-playing redneck into a rock-'n-roll legend, moving from recording sessions and appearances on Ed Sullivan to wild nights in the fast lane of the recording industry.
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English
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With his sharp observations of the American South, best-selling author Mark Childress draws favorable comparisons to Harper Lee, author of To Kill a Mockingbird. Set in the volatile 1960s, this book takes flight in two separate directions when everyone goes a little crazy in rural Alabama. When Lucille can no longer bear her oppressive husband, she drops a little rat poison in his coffee. Decapitating him for good measure, she stuffs the wayward head...