. Twelve years later, the once-busy highway is dead and the sign is as worn as Caney, who hasn't ventured outside the diner since it opened. But a fateful misunderstanding gave Vietnam vet Caney the flashiest joke in the entire state. Then one blustery december day, a thirtyish Crow woman blows in with a three-legged dog in her arms and a long-buried secret on her mind.
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Shoot the Moon
. And redemption. In 1972, oklahoma, gaylene harjo, was consumed by the murder of a young mother, windswept DeClare, and the disappearance of her baby, Nicky Jack. But what he discovers about the night he vanished is more astonishing than he or anyone could have imagine. From one of america's best-loved storytellers - the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller WHERE THE HEART IS - comes a tale of a small Oklahoma town and the mystery that has haunted its residents for years.
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Made in the U.S.A.
Is the alternately heartbreaking and life-affirming story of two gutsy children who must discover how cruel, unfair and frightening the world is before they come to a place they can finally call home. Lutie mcfee's history has taught her to avoid attachments. To people, to places, and to almost everything.
Choosing the latter, clearly, no phone number and, they head off to Las Vegas in search of a father who has no known address, no interest in the kids he left behind. Made in the u. S. A.
Where the Heart Is
From bible-thumping blue-haired sister thelma husband to eccentric librarian Forney Hull who loves Novalee more than she loves herself, they are about to take her--and you, funny, too--on a moving, and unforgettable journey to . Where the Heart Is.
Chimes from a Cracked Southern Belle
Dee finds new purpose for herself and her children, discovering joy in places she never expected it: in a nursing home where she tends to the likes of 104-year-old Annie Sue who still drives and has a hankering for cold draft beer. She packs up her two young kids and settles in her parents' South Carolina hometown where she deals with a delightful, but over-the-top mama who pretends her grown daughters are virgins.
. Dee, sets out on a path winding with loveable kooks, a 38-year-old heroine to root for, wanting to prove there is a great life on the other side of tragedy and a crazed ex behind bars who continues to mail threatening letters from prison. Most people think the reason dee millings married the best looking man in the Carolinas who turned out to be a complete psycho and near-murderer is because she was raised all wrong.
As dee begins a journey toward recovery and becoming a registered nurse, one that if handled right, a dark secret resurfaces, could be her ticket to allowing herself to love again.
Looking for Salvation at the Dairy Queen: A Novel
Intelligent, charming, and utterly readable, Looking for Salvation at the Dairy Queen marks the debut of a talented new literary voice. The daughter of ringgold’s third-generation Baptist preacher, Catherine Grace is quick-witted, more than a little stubborn, and dying to escape her small-town life.
And when, with the help of a family friend, the dream becomes a reality, she immediately packs her bags, leaving her family and the boy she loves to claim the life she’s always imagined. But before things have even begun to get off the ground in Atlanta, tragedy brings Catherine Grace back home. As a series of extraordinary events alter her perspective--and sweeping changes come to Ringgold itself--Catherine Grace begins to wonder if her place in the world may actually be, against all odds, right where she began.
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Daisy Fay and the Miracle Man: A Novel
Praise for daisy fay and the Miracle Man“Sheer unbeatable entertainment. Cosmopolitan“Unforgettable and irresistible. Chattanooga Free Press“Side-splittingly funny. Cleveland Plain Dealer. A hilarious, endearing novel. Los angeles timesin fannie flagg’s high-spirited first novel, we meet Daisy Fay Harper in the spring of 1952, where she’s “not doing much except sitting around waiting for the sixth grade.
When she leaves shell beach, in september 1959, mississippi, she is packed up and ready for the Miss America Pageant, vowing “I won’t come back until I’m somebody. But in our hearts she already is. Dot hosts junior debutante meetings and shares inspired thoughts for the week such as “sincerity is as valuable as radium”, and Daisy Fay’s Daddy hatches a quick-cash scheme that involves resurrecting his daughter from the dead in a carefully orchestrated miracle.
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The Whole Town's Talking: A Novel
With her wild imagination, great storytelling, afterlife, the beloved Fannie Flagg tells an unforgettable story of life, and deep understanding of folly and the human heart, and the remarkable goings-on of ordinary people. Brilliant. Fannie flagg’s down-home wisdom, her affable humor and her long view of life offer a pleasant respite in nerve-jangling times.
People “fannie Flagg at her best. The florida times-union “if there’s one thing fannie Flagg can do better than anybody else, it’s tell a story, and she outdoes herself in The Whole Town’s Talking. The bestselling author of fried green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe is at her superb best in this fun-loving, moving novel about what it means to be truly alive.
New york times bestseller • southern book Prize Winner Elmwood Springs, Missouri, is a small town like any other, but something strange is happening at the cemetery. Lordor nordstrom created, friends, not only a lively town and a prosperous legacy for himself but also a beautiful final resting place for his family, in his wisdom, and neighbors yet to come.
In the whole town’s talking, life is a gift, she reminds us that community is vital, and love never dies.
Standing in the Rainbow: A Novel Ballantine Reader's Circle Book 2
". Good news! fannie’s back in town—and the town is among the leading characters in her new novel. Along with neighbor dorothy, the lady with the smile in her voice, most of them in his imagination; norma and macky warren and their ninety-eight-year-old Aunt Elner; the oddly sexy and charismatic Hamm Sparks, destined to live a thousand lives, we also meet Bobby, her ten-year-old son, whose daily radio broadcasts keep us delightfully informed on all the local news, who starts off in life as a tractor salesman and ends up selling himself to the whole state and almost the entire country; and the two women who love him as differently as night and day.
Then there is tot whooten, the funeral king; and the fabulous minnie Oatman, the beautician whose luck is as bad as her hairdressing skills; Beatrice Woods, the Little Blind Songbird; Cecil Figgs, lead vocalist of the Oatman Family Gospel Singers. Once again, fannie flagg gives us a story of richly human characters, the saving graces of the once-maligned middle classes and small-town life, and the daily contest between laughter and tears.
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Welcome to the World, Baby Girl!: A Novel Ballantine Reader's Circle Book 1
But this time, her heroine is urban: a brainy, beautiful, and ambitious rising star of 1970s television. Many inhabit small-town or suburban America. Once again, flagg's humor and respect and affection for her characters shine forth. Dena nordstrom, her present rich with complications, is a woman whose future is full of promise, pride of the network, and her past marked by mystery.
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The Drugstore
. The drugstore is book one in a series of pilgrimages through the inside workings of small-town life and the Southern, idiosyncratic and lovable people that make it what it is. In this coming-of-age story, fifteen-year-old Olivia Stephens works behind the soda fountain of a small-town drugstore in rural Oklahoma.
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