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Authors 'Round the South

(Columbia, SC) January 1, 2013 -- Make a New Year’s Resolution to Read more Okra! The 2013 Winter Spring Okra Picks have been chosen: twelve Southern books, new for the spring publishing season. All have two things in common: they are southern in nature, and there is a southern indie bookseller that loves each one!

Winter Spring Okra Picks List!

A Long Day at the End of the World by Brent Hendricks

Farrar Straus Giroux | $14.00 | 9780374146863

Fiction | March 12, 2013

Calling Me Home by Julie Kibler

St. Martin’s Press | $24.99 | 9781250014528

Fiction | February 12, 2013

Hope’s Gift by Kelly Starling Lyons

Putnam Publishing Group | $16.99 | 9780399160011

Children’s | December 27, 2012

The House Girl by Tara Conklin

William Morrow & Company | $25.99 | 9780062207395

Fiction | February 12, 2013

The Lee Bros. Charleston Kitchen by Ted and Matt Lee

Clarkson N Potter | $35.00 | 9780307889737

Cooking | February 26, 2013

Life After Life by Jill McCorkle

Shannon Ravenel Books | $24.95 | 9781565122550

Fiction | March 26, 2013

The Next Time You See Me by Holly Goddard Jones

Touchstone Books | $24.99 | 9781451683363

Fiction | February 12, 2013

Nothing Gold Can Stay: Stories by Ron Rash

Ecco Press | $24.99 | 9780062202710

Fiction | February 19, 2013

Out of the Easy by Ruta Sepetys

Philomel Books | $17.99 | 9780399256929

Young Adult | February 12, 2013

Wash by Margaret Wrinkle

Atlantic Monthly Press | $25.00 | 9780802120663

Fiction | February 5, 2013

Wings of Glass by Gina Holmes

Tyndale House | $13.99 | 9781414366418

Fiction | March 1, 2013

The Wisdom of Hair by Kim Boykin

Berkley | $15.00 | 9780425261057

Fiction | March 5, 2013

Okra Picks are chosen by Southern Indie Booksellers each season as the upcoming southern titles they are most looking forward to hand selling. For more information visit sibaweb.com/okra.

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