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A Copeland bride planted wisteria by her back porch 20 years before the American Civil War. A century or more later, the family still gathers every May to clean up the graveyard, clip the vine back away from the tombstones and tell stories from the past.

Clyde Edgerton

Penguin??Books

She has as much business keeping a stray dog as she would walking across Egypt–which not so incidentally is the title of her favorite hymn. She’s Mattie Rigsbee, an independent, strong-minded senior citizen who, at seventy-eight, might be slowing down just a bit. When teenage delinquent Wesley Benfield drops in on her life, he is even less likely a companion than the stray dog. But, of course, the dog never tasted her mouth-watering pound cake. Wise and witty, down-home and real, Walking Across Egypt is a book for everyone.

Walking Across Egypt

Literature & Fiction

Contemporary

Ballantine Books

"This book is too good to keep to yourself. Read it aloud with someone you love, then send it to a friend. But be sure to keep a copy for yourself, because you'll want to read it again and again." Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey Raney is a small-town Baptist. Charles is a liberal from Atlanta. And RANEY is the story of their marriage. Charming, wise, funny, and truthful, it is a novel for everyone to love. "A real jewel." RICHMOND TIMES-DISPATCH

Raney

Humor & Satire

"An unpretentious, finely-crafted novel that will linger with the readers like the last strains of a favorite hymn. It is more enjoyable than a pitcher full of sweet tea and one of Mattie's home-cooked dinners." THE ATLANTA JOURNAL &amp; CONSTITUTION She had as much business keeping a stray dog as she had walking across Egypt--which not so incidentally is the title of her favorite hymn. She's Mattie Rigsbee, an independent, strong-minded senior citizen, who at 78, might be slowing down just a bit. When young, delinquent Wesley Benfield drops in on her life, he is even less likely a companion than the stray dog. But, of course, the dog never tasted her mouth-watering pound cake....Wise witty, down-home and real, WALKING ACROSS EGYPT is a book for everyone.

"An American treasure...Edgerton s a mater of the old-fashioned American art of tale-spinning. His literary line goes back straight as an arrow to the likes of Sherwood Anderson and Mark Twain." THE SAN DIEGO UNION-TRIBUNE Join the folks in Summerlin, North Carolina, as they attend to the sad, crazy, but inevitable business of passing on--and passing down. For a whole pack of relatives is waiting to see who dies first. Will it be Glenn or Laura Bales? The order will determine which children from which marriage will get the land. And if tha tisn't enough intrigue, hell-raising black sheep Uncle Grove McCord has decided that Summerlin should be his final resting place--and he's about to arrive still very much alive.... From the Paperback edition.

In Memory of Junior

"Wonderful...Clyde Edgerton tells us another of his lovely tall tales." LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK REVIEW Listre, North Carolina, is jumping. The Sears twins, Ted and Ned, who run a Baptist college, have opened Nutrition House for overweight Christians. Meanwhile their Project Promise is busy matching the educationally disadvantaged with wayward youth who want to share their talents. Enter Wesley Benfield, a prime candidate for Project Promise, with a special place in his heart for Baptist songwriting, preaching, and a wide, iron-pumping girl over at the Nutrition House. The Lord only knows where Wesley will go from here.... From the Paperback edition.

Killer Diller: A Novel

1. How would you characterize Stephen's relationship with each of his parents? With his church and his religion? 2. What prospects of stability are offered to the community by the church? Instability? 3. How is the church important to Jack Umstead? 4. How is the setting (1950s, rural community) important to the story? 5. What might Alease see in Jack Umstead and why? Does he have any redeeming qualities? If so, what are they? 6. Discuss the significance of the title. 7. How are the major characters and the community changed by Umstead's visit? 8. How does shifting point of view aid or hinder your reading of this story? 9. How might a year-2000 visit by Jack Umstead to Listre, North Carolina, be different from the 1952 visit in Where Trouble Sleeps ? 10. How were your childhood views of God and religion different from those of Stephen? 11. How will Stephen's experiences as a child in Where Trouble Sleeps influence his life as an adolescent? As an adult? Which of the adults in the novel will he most resemble as an adult? 12. What events or experiences in your own childhood could become the basis for a novel?

Where Trouble Sleeps (Ballantine Reader's Circle)

Bt Bound

UNABRIDGED, 5 audio cassette tapes. Clyde Edgerton's ear for regional voices and his eye for life's small but significant details enable him to crreate characters who are charming and utterly convincing. Beginning with an engagement announcement and ending with the birth of a son, Raney is a snapshot of the first few years of a modern Southern marriage. As Raney tells us about Charles' beliefs and habits, and thus reveals her own, her honesty and gumption will capture your heart and tickle your funny bone. Narrator Ruth Ann Phimister's soft voice beautifully captures the emotional tides that rise and fall in Raney's life.

RECORDED BOOKS,INC.

She had as much business keeping a stray dog as she had walking across Egypt--which not so incidentally is the title of her favorite hymn. She's Mattie Rigsbee, an independent, strong-minded senior citizen, who at 78, might be slowing down just a bit. When young, delinquent Wesley Benfield drops in on her life, he is even less likely a companion than the stray dog. But, of course, the dog never tasted her mouth-watering pound cake....

Literary

Recorded Books, Inc. and Blackstone Publishing

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Floatplane Notebooks

Walking Across Egypt

Raney

Walking Across Egypt

In Memory of Junior

Killer Diller: A Novel

Where Trouble Sleeps (Ballantine Reader's Circle)

Floatplane Notebooks

Raney

Walking Across Egypt