Editors of Editors of Garden and Gun

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A Guide to Living the Good Life

Whether you live below the Mason-Dixon Line or just wish you did, The Southerner's Handbook is your guide to living the good life. Curated by the editors of the award-winning Garden & Gun magazine, this collection of more than a hundred instructional and narrative essays offers a comprehensive tutorial for modern-day life in the South. From food and drink to sporting and style, home and garden to arts and culture, you'll discover essential skills and unique insights from some of the South's finest writers, chefs, and craftspeople—including the secret to making perfect biscuits, tips for betting on the Kentucky Derby, and how to whip up a proper Sazerac. You'll also find: Roy Blount, Jr., on telling a great story Julia Reed on throwing the ultimate party Jonathan Miles on drinking like a Southerner Jack Hitt on the beauty of cooking a whole hog John T. Edge on why Southern food matters And much more. So grab a glass of fine bourbon, head out to the porch, and get comfortable. You're in for an experience as surprising and enchanting as the South itself.

The Southerner's Handbook

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Laurence Leamer

Brand new non fiction that was the inspiration for the show Feud: Capote vs. The Swans

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

A True Story of Love, Betrayal, and a Swan Song for an Era

New York Times bestselling author Laurence Leamer reveals the complex web of relationships and scandalous true stories behind Truman Capote's never-published final novel, Answered Prayers—the dark secrets, tragic glamour, and Capote's ultimate betrayal of the group of female friends he called his "swans." "There are certain women," Truman Capote wrote, "who, though perhaps not born rich, are born to be rich." Barbara "Babe" Paley, Gloria Guinness, Marella Agnelli, Slim Hayward, Pamela Churchill, C. Z. Guest, Lee Radziwill (Jackie Kennedy's sister)—they were the toast of midcentury New York. Capote befriended them, received their deepest confidences, and ingratiated himself into their lives. Then, in one fell swoop, he betrayed them in the most surprising and shocking way possible. Bestselling biographer Laurence Leamer delves into the years following the acclaimed publication of Breakfast at Tiffany's in 1958 and In Cold Blood in 1966, when Capote struggled with a crippling case of writer's block. While enjoying all the fruits of his success, he was struck with an idea for what he was sure would be his most celebrated novel...one based on the remarkable, racy lives of his very, very rich friends. For years, Capote attempted to write what he believed would have been his magnum opus, Answered Prayers. But when he eventually published a few chapters in Esquire, the thinly fictionalized lives (and scandals) of his swans were laid bare for all to see, and he was banished from their high-society world forever. Laurence Leamer recreates the lives of these fascinating women, their friendships with Capote and one another, and the doomed quest to write what could have been one of the greatest novels of the twentieth century.

Capote's Women

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This book was the basis for the HBO show The Pacific. It is Robert Leckie’s account of his time in the Pacific theater during WWII. A fascinating story. The book is oversized in that it is about 8.5x11 but is very thin. 

From Parris Island to the Pacific

Helmet For My Pillow

George R. R. Martin

A Song of Ice and Fire: Book One

A Game of Thrones (HBO Tie-In Edition)

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Alexandre. Dumas

Luc Sante

A daring prison break. Swashbuckling romance. Betrayal and redemption. Dumas' "The Count of Monte Cristo--a best-seller since its initial publication--has it all: colorful writing, plus adventure, suspense, and vivid details of lif in post-Napoleonic France. Luc Sante is the author of "Low Life, "Evidence, and "The Factory of Facts. He teaches at Bard College.

Taylor Curry

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