"This is a Southern cookbook, but not one that treats the South like on big region where everybody eats the same fried chicken, ribs, shrimp and grits, collard greens, and gumbo. Instead, I interpret Southern cooking the way we understand French, Italian, and Chinese food: as a complex cuisine with variations shaped by terrain, climate, and people." -- Vivian Howard
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by John Grisham
Release date: October 25, 2016
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by Greg Iles
Release date:
March 28, 2017
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FALL 2016
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Unless otherwise indicated, author events usually begin with an informal reception at 5 pm, followed by the author's presentation at 5:30, with book signing both before and after the reading/talk.
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at the Neon Pig
James Beard Award-winning Chef
Vivian Howard is the chef and owner of the acclaimed Chef and the Farmer restaurant in Kinston, North Carolina, fifteen miles from her home of Deep Run. The first woman since Julia Child to win a Peabody Award for a cooking program, she co-created and stars in the PBS series
A Chef's Life.
Her cookbook, DEEP RUN ROOTS celebrates North Carolina's coastal plain in more than 200 recipes and stories.
Chef Mitchell McCamey of Neon Pig will be cooking up some of Chef Howard's recipes, so come on out and join the fun.
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Your favorite Thacker Mountain Radio host will be at Off Square Books on Tuesday, October 18th to sign his new book,
THE STATUE AND THE FURY.
In 1997, Oxford, Mississippi sought to build a statue to honor the 100th birthday of native Nobel laureate, William Faulkner. In this funny and heartfelt memoir, Thacker Mountain Radio host Jim Dees, chronicles the year-long civic contretemps that erupted over a magnolia tree that was cut down to make room for the sculpture. The same year, Oxford became embroiled in a "trees versus development" dispute that saw citizens arrested for blocking bulldozers. Meanwhile, the University of Mississippi pursued plans to discourage use of the Confederate flag, the song "Dixie" and the Col. Rebel mascot setting off protests and death threats. Dees brings his signature wit and insight to these pivotal events and includes interviews with James Meredith, Shelby Foote, Willie Morris, Myrlie Evers and... Willie Nelson.
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A moving novel about a Holocaust survivor's unconventional journey back to a new normal in 1940s Savannah, Georgia. Set amid the backdrop of America's postwar south,
Among the Living grapples with questions of identity and belonging, and steps beyond the Jewish experience as it situates Yitzhak's story during the last gasp of the Jim Crow era. Yitzhak begins to find echoes of his own experience in the lives of the black family who work for the Jeslers--an affinity he does not share with the Jeslers themselves. This realization both surprises and convinces Yitzhak that his choices are not as clear-cut as he might have thought.
"Jonathan Rabb is one of my favorite writers."
-- David McCullough
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Events are always free and wheelchair accessible.
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PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
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