Mark Childress

• Aug-1985
• / General Fiction
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“A damned fine story. . . As different voices add their information about the book’s most important event, the Christmas night fire in the Bates house . . . we realize that Childress is working in a time-honored framework: that of the ...

• Jan-1989
• / General Fiction
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It is 1943 in Mobile, Alabama. While the world prepares for war, sixteen-year-old Victor -- sent to care for his grandmother -- yearns to be part of the unfolding patriotic adventure. Victor's wish comes true, and he embarks on a suspenseful series o...

• Aug-1991
• / General Fiction
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"A big, all American, Technicolor dreamboat of a book...This is a great novel."
STEPHEN KING
In TENDER, novelist Mark Childress has redefined the American epic. He takes us on a wild ride through the last three decades as his fictional hero, Le...

• May-1992
• / General Fiction
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Living with his family in a log cabin on the banks of the Magnolia River, Joshua makes a pet of a tiny alligator that he calls Bigtooth, but his problems begin when his tiny pet starts to grow--and grow....

• Aug-1993
• / General Fiction
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Comic and tragic, unique and outlandish, CRAZY IN ALABAMA is the story of two journeys--Lucille's from Industry, Alabama, to Los Angeles, to star on 'THE BEVERLY HILL BILLIES' and her 12-year-old nephew Peejoe's, who is about to discover two kinds of...

• Jun-1995
• / General Fiction
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Setting out on his boat to deliver a huckleberry pie to his granny, young Joshua is astonished when a mob of crabs raids the boat and steals the tasty fare, and he becomes equally frustrated when no one believes his story....

• Jun-1998
• / General Fiction
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By the time Newsweek dubs thirty-four-year-old Ben (Superman) Willis "The New Super-Poet of Pop," he has millions of adoring fans, piles of money, a beautiful family--and a secret desire to chuck it all and disappear forever. He gets his wish after a...

• Jul-2006
• / General Fiction
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A bestselling author “eloquently addresses racism . . .adolescent love, family dysfunction . . .with plenty of wit and insight” in this coming of age novel (Booklist).You need only one best friend, Daniel Musgrove figures, to make it through high...

• Mar-2011
• / Literary
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Georgia Bottoms is known in her small community of Six Points, Alabama, as a beautiful, well-to-do, and devoutly Baptist Southern belle. Nobody realizes that the family fortune has long since disappeared, and a determinedly single woman like Georg...