NOTHING FOR FREE

Diane M. Moore

Kate Patton leaves her job as food editor the day her husband threatens her life while crabbing on Lake Pontchartrain. She flees to Roselea plantation in central Louisiana, a residence for artists and writers, where she plans to write about their special meat pies. At dinner, a writer is poisoned, and Amelia, a descendant of Congo Liz and a French Commandant, who serves the meal, points a finger at the owner's mentally disabled son, and several other boarders. A plantation worker is the second victim, and the police arrest a painter possessing a syringe with traces of cyanide. Kate solves the crime, discovering the interplay of voodoo and  resentment by the People of Color for loss of the Congo Liz’s plantation.

ISBN: 978-0965097765  186 pages, perfect bound.  Fiction, published 2008. $16. BUY NOW

THE ROAD HOME

Janet Faulk

These memories of a childhood in rural Alabama, will delight the reader with their humor and pathos. Anecdotes include, for example, serious commentaries about race to a daughter’s account of her mother getting ready for a Saturday night date. 

74 pages, perfect bound. Memoir, published 2001. $10 plus $4 P&H BUY NOW

GRANNY’S LETTERS: A Georgia Wiregrass Pioneer Woman’s Tragedy

Victoria I. Sullivan

Fifty letters from Pearle Roberts King written from Frostproof, Florida during a span of 15 years from 1914 until 1929 were transcribed and country-isms translated by her granddaughter. Twenty-five of the letters were to her husband who was quarantined with tuberculosis in his native south Georgia.

ISBN: 978-0965097727  186 pages, perfect bound.  Fiction, published 2008. $15. BUY NOW