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Ava's Man(Reprint)
by Rick Bragg
Paperback, 259 Pages, Published 2002 by Vintage
ISBN-13: 978-0-375-72444-2, ISBN: 0-375-72444-3

"The same fierce pride and love that animated All Over but the Shoutin' glow in Rick Bragg's new book. In fact, he informs us in the prologue that it was the readers of his bestselling 1997 memoir about his mother's struggle to raise three sons out of dire poverty who told him what he had to write about next. "People asked me where I believed my own momma's heart and backbone came from ... they said I short-shrifted them in the first boo ..."

My Southern Journey(Reprint)
True Stories from the Heart of the South
by Rick Bragg, Jessica Lynch, Ann B. Ross
Paperback, 329 Pages, Published 1998 by Vintage
Mobipocket_Ebook
ISBN-13: 978-0-679-77402-0, ISBN: 0-679-77402-5

"A New York Times Notable Book of the YearThis haunting, harrowing, gloriously moving recollection of a life on the American margin is the story of Rick Bragg, who grew up dirt-poor in northeastern Alabama, seemingly destined for either the cotton mills or the penitentiary, and instead became a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter for The New York Times. It is the story of Bragg's father, a hard-drinking man with a murderous temper and the ha ..."

The Prince of Frogtown(1st Edition)
by Mr Rick Bragg
Paperback, 272 Pages, Published 2009 by Vintage
ISBN-13: 978-1-4000-3268-6, ISBN: 1-4000-3268-7

"The final volume of Rick Bragg's bestselling and beloved American saga documents a mesmerizing journey back in time to the lush Alabama landscape of Rick's youth, to Jacksonville's one-hundred-year-old mill and to Rick's father, the troubled, charismatic hustler coming of age in its shadow.Inspired by Rick Bragg's love for his stepson, The Prince of Frogtown also chronicles his own journey into fatherhood, as he learns to avoid the pitf ..."

The Best Cook in the World(Reprint)
Tales from My Momma's Southern Table
by Rick Bragg
Paperback, 560 Pages, Published 2019 by Vintage
ISBN-13: 978-1-4000-3269-3, ISBN: 1-4000-3269-5

"A New York Times bestsellerPart cookbook, part memoir, The Best Cook in the World is Pulitzer Prize-winner Rick Bragg’s loving tribute to the South, his family and, especially, to his extraordinary mother. Here are irresistible stories and recipes from across generations. They come, skillet by skillet, from Bragg’s ancestors, from feasts and near famine, from funerals and celebrations, and from a thousand tales of family lore as rich an ..."

Where I Come from
Stories from the Deep South (Paperback)
by Rick Bragg
Paperback, 256 Pages, Published 2021 by Vintage
ISBN-13: 978-0-593-31080-9, ISBN: 0-593-31080-2

"From his love of Tupperware ("My Affair with Tupperware") to the decline of country music, from the legacy of Harper Lee to the metamorphosis of the pickup truck, the best way to kill fire ants, the unbridled excess of Fat Tuesday, and why ..."

My Southern Journey(Reprint)
True Stories from the Heart of the South
by Mr Rick Bragg
Paperback, 264 Pages, Published 2018 by Southern Living
ISBN-13: 978-0-8487-5746-5, ISBN: 0-8487-5746-7

"A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From the celebrated bestselling author of All Over but the Shoutin' and winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Rick Bragg, comes a poignant and wryly funny collection of essays on life in the South. Keenly observed and written with his insightful and deadpan sense of humor, he explores enduring Southern truths about home, place, spirit, table, and the regions' varied geographies, including his native Alabama, Cajun co ..."

I Am a Soldier, Too(1st Edition)
The Jessica Lynch Story
by Rick Bragg, Jessica Lynch, Beth Holloway
Hardcover, 207 Pages, Published 2003 by Knopf
Mobipocket_Ebook
ISBN-13: 978-1-4000-4257-9, ISBN: 1-4000-4257-7

"On March 23, 2003, Private First Class Jessica Lynch was crossing the Iraqi desert with the 507th Maintenance Company when the convoy she was traveling in was ambushed, caught in enemy crossfire. All four soldiers traveling with her died in the attack. Lynch, perhaps the most famous P.O.W. this country has ever known, was taken prisoner and held captive in an Iraqi hospital for nine days. Her rescue galvanized the nation; she became a s ..."

Ava's Man(Large Print)
(Random House )
by Rick Bragg
Hardcover, 400 Pages, Published 2001 by Random House Large Print
Large Print
ISBN-13: 978-0-375-43120-3, ISBN: 0-375-43120-9

"The Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author of All Over But the Shoutin' continues his personal history of the Deep South with an evocation of his mother's childhood in the Appalachian foothills during the Great Depression, and the magnificent story of the man who raised her.Rick Bragg brings his astonishing gift for storytelling to the tale of his grandfather, a man who kept his family one step ahead of poverty and starvation duri ..."

The Prince of Frogtown(1st Edition)
by Rick Bragg ., Mr. Rick Bragg
Hardcover, 272 Pages, Published 2008 by Knopf
Deckle Edge
ISBN-13: 978-1-4000-4040-7, ISBN: 1-4000-4040-X

"In this final volume of the beloved American saga that began with All Over but the Shoutin’ and continued with Ava’s Man, Rick Bragg closes his circle of family stories with an unforgettable tale about fathers and sons inspired by his own relationship with his ten-year-old stepson.He learns, right from the start, that a man who chases a woman with a child is like a dog who chases a car and wins. He discovers that he is unsuited to fathe ..."

Ava's Man(1st Edition)
by Rick Bragg .
Hardcover, 272 Pages, Published 2001 by Knopf
Deckle Edge
ISBN-13: 978-0-375-41062-8, ISBN: 0-375-41062-7

"The Pulitzer Prize–winning author of All Over but the Shoutin’ continues his personal history of the Deep South with an evocation of his mother’s childhood in the Appalachian foothills during the Great Depression, and the magnificent story of the man who raised her.Charlie Bundrum was a roofer, a carpenter, a whiskey-maker, a fisherman who knew every inch of the Coosa River, made boats out of car hoods and knew how to pack a wound with ..."

The Speckled Beauty
A Dog and His People, Lost and Found [SIGNED COPY, FIRST PRINTING]
by Rick Bragg
Hardcover, 256 Pages, Published 2021 by Alfred A. Knopf, New York
ISBN-13: 978-0-525-65881-8, ISBN: 0-525-65881-5

"Written with Bragg's inimitable blend of tenderness and sorrow, humor and grit, The Speckled Beauty captures the extraordinary, sustaining devotion between two damaged creatures who need each other to heal."

Where I Come from
Stories from the Deep South
by Rick Bragg
256 Pages, Published 2020 by Knopf
ISBN-13: 978-0-593-31778-5, ISBN: 0-593-31778-5

The Best Cook in the World
Tales from My Momma's Table (Paperback or Softback)
by Rick Bragg
Paperback, Published 2019 by Large Print Press 6/14/2019
ISBN-13: 978-1-4328-6829-1, ISBN: 1-4328-6829-2

Jerry Lee Lewis
His Own Story
by Rick Bragg, Jerry Lee Lewis
Paperback, 512 Pages, Published 2014 by Canongate Books Ltd
ISBN-13: 978-0-85786-158-0, ISBN: 0-85786-158-1

"Otherwise known as The Killer, Jerry Lee Lewis has lived an extraordinary life. He spent his childhood raising hell in Louisiana and Mississippi; gave rock-and-roll its devil's edge with hit records like 'Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On' and 'Great Balls of Fire'; performed with everyone from Elvis Presley to Keith Richards to Bruce Springsteen to Kid Rock; caused riots and boycotts with his incendiary performances; married his thirteen-ye ..."

The Most They Ever Had(1st Edition)
by Rick Bragg
Hardcover, 156 Pages, Published 2009 by Macadam/Cage
ISBN-13: 978-1-59692-361-4, ISBN: 1-59692-361-X

"In spring of 2001, a community of people in the Appalachian foothills came to the edge of all they had ever been. Across the South, padlocks and logging chains bound the doors of silent mills, and it seemed a miracle to blue-collar people in Jacksonville, Alabama, that their mill survived. The century-old hardwood floors still trembled under whirling steel, and people worked on in a mist of white air. The mill had become almost a living ..."

I Am a Soldier, Too(Reprint)
The Jessica Lynch Story
by Rick Bragg
Paperback, 240 Pages, Published 2004 by Vintage
ISBN-13: 978-1-4000-7747-2, ISBN: 1-4000-7747-8

"Private First Class Jessica Lynch's capture and rescue during the 2003 war in Iraq captured the attention and captivated the emotions of millions of Americans. Accounts of the actual events surrounding Lynch were wildly varied as some took her to be a symbol of American righteousness while others made her out to be a pawn of the US military. But the Lynch that emerges in Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Rick Bragg's portrayal is an ord ..."

Best of the Oxford American
Ten Years from the Southern Magazine of Good Writing
by Rick Bragg, John Grisham, Rick Bass, Larry Brown, Roy Blount Jr., John Updike, Susan Sontag, Mark Smirnoff, Steve Martin, Donna Tartt, William Faulkner, Marc Smirnoff
Paperback, 320 Pages, Published 2002 by Hill Street Press
ISBN-13: 978-1-58818-081-0, ISBN: 1-58818-081-6

"A comprehensive anthology of The Oxford American's most memorable pieces published during the first decade of the magazine's existence, these articles prove provocative, opinionated, and irreverent. The Oxford American has served as an incubator and archive for the most promising and most established voices in contemporary Southern writing. It offers up an extraordinary range of perspectives on a multitude of subjects, while always avoi ..."

My Southern Journey
True Stories from the Heart of the South
by Rick Bragg
256 Pages, Published 2015 by Liberty Street
ISBN-13: 978-0-8487-4715-2, ISBN: 0-8487-4715-1

"... nice lady at the cash register ten dollars and have enough left to tip like a sultan, ride the streetcar, and buy a grape snowball. ... where Mrs. Dunbar would make young people the best lunch in the whole academic world—many of whom had no idea from ... You give onions, green pepper, and celery a celestial name —trinity—to raise them above the mundane of simple ... But how do you explain the difference in grabbing lunch elsewhe ..."

All over but the Shoutin'
by Rick Bragg
352 Pages, Published 2010 by Random House Digital, Inc.
ISBN-13: 978-0-307-76291-7, ISBN: 0-307-76291-2

"The day I went to talk to them she needed to speak to me a few minutes alone, and had to pry the boy's fingers away from her dress, and told him to go outside. “ Baby, it's okay to play.” But Dirty Red couldn't face the neighborhood that day, any day. To please his mother he walked down the steps, then quickly doubled back and sat on the steps, his thumb in his mouth, just outside the door. I know this because our photographer, Rica ..."

Ava's Man
by Rick Bragg
Unbound, 272 Pages, Published 2010 by Alfred A. Knopf
Import
ISBN-13: 978-0-375-41351-3, ISBN: 0-375-41351-0

"Ava's face had a line init for every hot mile she ever walked, for every fit she ever threw. Her hair was long and black as crows, streaked with white, and her eyes, behind the ancient, yellowed glass of her round spectacles, were pale, pale blue, ..."