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"The Complete Guide to Lower South Gardening takes a practical how-to approach to gardening that shows the novice to intermediate home gardener exactly how to get started. Customized for readers who live in Louisiana, southern Mississippi, southern Alabama, southern Arkansas, southern Georgia, eastern Texas, coastal South Carolina and coastal North Carolina, the book features all the vegetable and ornamental plants that are most popular in this region....
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"Seventy-five percent of the turtle species in the United States and Canada can be found in the Southeast. In fact, the region is second only to parts of Asia in its number of native turtles. Filled with more than four hundred color photographs and written with a special focus on conservation, this guide covers forty-two species of this nonthreatening, ancient lineage of long-lived reptiles."--Jacket.
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"A people's history that reveals how Southerners shaped American culinary identity and how race relations impacted Southern food culture over six revolutionary decades"--Amazon.com.
"Like great provincial dishes around the world, potlikker is a salvage food. During the antebellum era, slave owners ate the greens from the pot and set aside the leftover potlikker broth for the enslaved, unaware that the broth, not the greens, was nutrient rich. After...
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"The publication of this extraordinary volume firmly established Flannery O'Connor's monumental contribution to American fiction. There are thirty-one stories here in all, including twelve that do not appear in the only two short story collections O'Connor put together in her short lifetime -- Everything that Rises Must Converge and A Good Man Is Hard to Find."--Back cover.
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"The book designed from the get-go to be short, easy-to-use, concise, and appealing as a basic beginning/early-mid-level book especially for home gardeners looking for color-likely the most appealing feature of gardens for most home gardeners. It will be written in a 'do it yourself' (DIY) style, aiming to allow readers to duplicate the designs and templates outlined in the book for starters but with plenty of room, of course, to learn how to adapt...
11) Someday you'll thank me for this: the official southern ladies' guide to being the "perfect" mother
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Mississippian Gayden Metcalfe, a Garden Club of America member, and Delta-native Charlotte Hays, a gossip columnist, share an assortment of hilarious yet personal stories regarding their experiences as daughters of Southern mothers.
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This heavily illustrated, lively, and accessible guide covers twenty native and forty-one introduced species of lizards and crocodilians found in the Southeast. Information about distribution and habitat, behavior and activity, food and feeding, reproduction, predators and defense, and conservation status.
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"Delicious and inventive recipes that remix the traditional flavors and classic dishes of Southern food and celebrate African-American culinary contributions to tables around the world-from the host of CLEO TV's New Soul Kitchen"--
After growing up in Mississippi, Wells brought the familiar dishes and bold flavors of the South along on his culinary journey. Here he retraces the steps of generations of African-American cooks whose creations have contributed...
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From seashores and riverbanks to mountains, valleys, and overgrown fields, the beautiful Southeast is rich in wild edibles. Forager, farmer, teacher, and chef Chris Bennett helps you find the most delicious plants - from delectable wild greens, like the often-overlooked sweet, fan-shaped leaves of common mallow, to wild hazelnuts, hickory nuts, and fruity black walnuts. Whether you venture out on the water for cattail corndogs and wild rice or stay...
16) Gardening in the South: the complete homeowner's guide : plant picks, growing advice, style tips
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Lear from a pro exactly what it takes to grow your dream garden in the South. Expert plantsman Mark Weathington packs decades of wisdom into this definitive guide, from a comprehensive A-Z guide of the best plants for the region, to how to work with southeastern climates, seasons, and soils. Pore over design ideas for all types of outdoor spaces, and follow a quick-glance, year-round maintenance chart tailored to southern specifics. Filled with insider...
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"Pull up a chair or gather 'round the campfire and get ready for thirty-eight creepy tales of ghostly hauntings, eerie happenings, and other strange occurrences in the thirteen Deep South states. From fiddling ghosts to the legend of the Jack-o'-Lantern, the stories in this entertaining and compelling collection will have you looking over your shoulder again and again. Spine-tingling folklore traditions are kept alive in these expert retellings by...
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"Do you want a garden that makes a real difference? Choose plants native to our Southeast region. The rewards will benefit you, your yard, and the environment-from reducing maintenance tasks to attracting earth-friendly pollinators such as native birds, butterflies, and bees"--Page 4 of cover.
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"In Secrets of the Southern Table, award-winning chef and cookbook author Virginia Willis takes you on a tour of today's South--a region rich in history and cultural diversity. With her signature charm and wit, Virginia shares many well-known Southern recipes like Pimento Cheese Tomato Herb Pie and "Cathead" Biscuits, but also some surprising revelations drawn from the area's many global influences, like Catfish Tacos with Avocado Crema, Mississippi-Style...
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