Our friends at the Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance have released their Spring, 2018, Okra Picks, “a season’s worth of delicious reading with a Southern flavor.” There’s a new novel from North Carolina author Charles Frazier (Varina, dedicated to Nancy Olson, the founder and former longtime owner of Quail Ridge Books in Raleigh); Country Dark, the […]
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NC Authors Among Summer OKRA Picks
Wednesday, July 2, 2014
The Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance has announced their Summer 2014 Okra Picks—the best Southern lit, “fresh off the vine.” The short list includes the following North Carolina authors: Kim Boykin (Palmetto Moon: A Lowcountry Novel), Charlotte Sarah Creech (Season of the Dragonflies), Charlotte Marcie Cohen Ferris (The Edible South: The Power of Food and the […]