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Just For You! - Sassy Southern Women

You don't mess with Southern women! They are bold, courageous and resourceful and you just can't keep them down. These stories should appeal to fans of To Kill a Mockingbird and Where the Crawdads Sing.

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  • A courageous young woman delivers books to the hill folk of Kentucky in the late 1930's while facing down her own personal challenges.
    Book, 2019Naperville, Illinois : Sourcebooks Landmark, [2019] — FICTION RICHARDSON
  • Young white teen Lily runs away with her black caretaker in 1964 South Carolina. The two are taken in by an eccentric trio of black sisters.
    Book, 2003New York : Penguin, 2003. — FICTION KIDD
  • A young white girl is introduced to segregated Southern life in 1954 Florida.
    eAudiobook, 2012Blackstone Publishing, 2012
  • A white woman and her family struggle to adjust to their new life on an isolated cotton farm in Mississippi in 1946.
    eAudiobook, 2013Recorded Books, Inc., 2013
  • An abandoned ten-year-old girl and her dog survive on their own just outside Melbourne, Australia.
    Book, 2021New York : Berkley, 2021. — FICTION SPURR
  • The story of a friendship between two women in a Colorado mining town during the Great Depression.
    Book, 2010New York : St. Martin's Griffin, [2010], c2009. — FICTION DALLAS