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1) Beast beast
Publisher
Passion River
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
Three interwoven stories of youth navigating identity, first love, petty crime, and gun violence in a Southern, American town.
Author
Publisher
The University of North Carolina Press
Pub. Date
[2013]
Description
"Features the voices ... of twenty-six of the most luminous artists and thinkers in the American cultural firmament, from Eudora Welty, Pete Seeger, and Alice Walker to William Eggleston, Bobby Rush, and C. Vann Woodward ... drawn from one-on-one interviews conducted by folklorist William Ferris over the past forty years"--Dust jacket flap.
"The Storied South features the voices--by turn searching and honest, coy and scathing--of twenty-six of the...
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
2009
Description
"It was a summer like any other in this sleepy southern town, until a mysterious drifter named Eli Cottonmouth charms the townsfolk with a simple proposition for their upcoming anniversary celebration. But behind this picture-perfect community, two boys will now discover a secret world of mysteries, lies and tragedy that will change their lives forever"--Container.
Publisher
Universal Home Video
Pub. Date
1999, 1991
Description
A chance encounter in a nursing home between dowdy housewife Evelyn Couch and spry octogenarian Ninny Threadgoode leads to an unexpected friendship.
A chance encounter in a nursing home leads to an unexpected friendship between a dowdy housewife and a spry octagenarian who tells her the story of a fiercely independent woman half a century ago, inspiring the housewife to change her life, often with hilarious results.
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2007]
Description
Meet teenagers Bo and Luke Duke, high-spirited troublemakers, new to Hazzard County, paroled to the care of their moonshine-making Uncle Jesse. Blowhard Boss Hogg is already fleecing the citizenry to line his pockets but crosses the line when he sets out to steal the Duke farm. As the feudin', fussin', and fast-trackin' fun revs up, cousin Daisy transforms from country girl to Hazzard hottie and a vehicular legend--the General Lee-- is born, along...
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2012
Description
Hushpuppy is a six-year-old living in an isolated bayou community. When her father Wink becomes ill, she sets off for the outside world in an attempt to help him. The journey to save her father is delayed by a 'busted' universe that reverses weather patterns and brings about long-extinct animals. Can Hushpuppy save the day?
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2005]
Description
Miss Amelia runs the town's only cafe and controls the locals through the careful distribution of her secretly brewed hooch. Her eccentric existence is threatened with the arrival of a dwarf who claims kinship and the reappearance of her rejected husband.
12) The color purple
Formats
Description
A decades-spanning tale of love and resilience and of one woman's journey to freedom. Celie faces many hardships in her life, but ultimately finds remarkable strength and hope in the unbreakable bonds of sisterhood.
13) Sea change
Publisher
A&E Television Networks, LLC
Pub. Date
[2017]
Description
A teenage girl makes a startling discovery about her connection to the Seawalkers, legendary beings who are half-human, half-sea creature.
14) Black snake moan
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2007
Description
Lazarus is an extremely religious man who is broken hearted after his wife leaves him for his own brother. Rae is the town slut, apparently afflicted with the "disease" of uncontrollable nymphomania. After a night of hard partying and sleeping around, Rae, is beaten up and left by the roadside near Lazarus' house. Lazarus takes her in and chains her to his radiator while trying to "cure" her insatiability. Eventually, the two become friends and help...
15) Showing roots
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2017]
Description
In 1977, as the miniseries "Roots" hits the airwaves, two women are inspired to try and integrate their small Southern town. In a place where there are still "right" and "wrong" sides of the tracks, these two young women - one white, one black - forge an unlikely friendship that sparks a journey of independence and self-discovery, and ultimately results in the creation of the perfect hairdo.
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2020]
Description
Premiering on PBS, Vivian travels the changing South in search of the dishes that connect all, dumplings, hand pies, porridge and more, but which are expressed in delightfully different ways across cultures. Along the way, she meets new friends and teachers, and as she says, she discovers how breaking bread and sharing a meal can create a comfortable place to have meaningful, memorable conversations.
Series
Publisher
Hollywood Entertainment DVD
Pub. Date
c2005, 1989
Description
An ambitious but charming young man returns to his home town after a prolonged stay in Hollywood. He brings with him a once beautiful but now faded movie queen with the intention of capitalizing upon her fame for his own ends. But when he rekindles an affair with a former flame, he brings down the wrath of her father, a local political boss who swears revenge.
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