Janice: 1489 books

Dot Knight, Sunday school teacher supreme, sets out one summer evening with her class to invite a select group of Mexican migrants to revival. The object is to fill her class's pew, and in her crooked thinking the Mexicans should be easy pickings (vulnerable as they are). Really, Dot's object is to...

Orlando has a restraining order against her ex-husband, Froman, but that doesn't stop him from kidnapping and killing her. Then there is the Colonel, who has briefly met Orlando, another time, another place, seemingly disconnected, until Froman forms the link. Only the spirit could have known about the two women's shared death day.

I had been there most of the morning watching the living dead file in for their doctor's appointments. An old man in bib overalls sat down in the chair facing me. "I ain't staying," he said. His wife and son, I guessed, sat each side of him. "I ain't staying," he said again, repeating...

"Daugharty does a fine job of demonstrating how ordinary men and women are affected, in unpredictable ways, by race, poverty and geography and by the enduring legacy of important historical moments."People MagazineShe is only seventeen when she marries into a world of privilege, mystery, heartache and...

Adam's notions on hard work, sacrifice, crime and punishment are tested when he meets one of the juvenile delinquents from a govenment-funded rehab program crossing country with a wagon train. Vision Quest was created to keep young criminals from getting into further trouble. To Adam, at first, the program seems geared more toward reward than punishment.

I first met this Frances at a nursing home where my daddy lived for awhile before he died. She walked up to me in the hall and asked should she give them milk with their food. Next time she asked me to bring her a trouble-free "itty-bitty baby." And then I found out that this Frances was...

Earl Sanders, a black man from Washington, DC, is the only one worthy enough to dedicate the new library in his S. Ga. home county. He is the only one to go away and make good. But nobody, black or white, is willing to put him up for the night but a bitter, old black lady who wants to know one thing: why would he come back after he finally got out of these turpentine woods?

(Companion story to "Jesus Bus") Dot Knight's car is brand-new in this story and she aims to keep it that way. Problem is, she has been enlisted by her adored preacher to drive those nasty Odums' kids to Vacation Bible School halfway across the county. Then her car breaks down along a remote road, and the kid's turn her car into a wreak...

It was all over the news, several years ago, the story of Susan Smith deliberately driving her car into a lake and drowning her two children. That was in S.C. In South Georgia, another young mother, Ginger, spellbound by the story, imagines the episode and thinks she has a special understanding of how and why Susan Smith killed her children.

Jilly's young days outside the diner are anger, heat, boredom and filth. Waiting with her are two foul-mouthed, angry Mexican teens and her younger brother, Stinker, whose nickname stuck for a reason. Burning up in the sun from the bay on the Gulf of Mexico, they wait for their mothers table-hopping...

Katy Land, country music singer at a local bar, is walking along the sidewalk on a cold bright morning when a goat trailer belonging to Skip, "the goat man," slips its hitch and rolls back, scooping Katy up and taking her on a wild ride before dumping her. Skip, a broke country music singer also, on the side, tries to make ammends but the media encourage Katy to sue.

Land for sale! Best Offer. Or free--if you are willing and able to take over annual property taxes at $4,000 dollars on one acre of swamp in Southeast Georgia. View at your own risk. No refunds.

Sissy, 6, and Jim, 8, have been sent to their father, the community drunk, for the summer, hoping to find food and a kind word from the man they barely know. Always hungry, obviously unwanted, Sissy repeats "Thank the Lord" at every meal, which their grandmother, aunt and uncle find obnoxious....

**Three Regency tales of festive wishes come true… CAPTAIN GREY’S CHRISTMAS PROPOSAL by Carla Kelly** Captain Grey had been fighting malarial fever in Savannah when he met Theodora Winnings. He proposed by letter—but it’s taken ten years to receive her reply. The answer was “yes!”—but...