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  Where the Red Fern Grows

  The Story of Two Dogs and A Boy

  by Wilson Rawls

  First published in 1961, a modern-day classic for children follows the friendship between a boy and his two dogs, Old Dan and Little Ann, as they search out adventure along the dark hills and river bottoms of Cherokee country, hunting for coons. But all they know will soon change...
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  Winter's Bone

  by Daniel Woodrell

  Meet Ree Dolly — not since Mattie Ross stormed her way through Arkansas in True Grit has a young girl so fiercely defended her loved ones. Sixteen-year-old Ree Dolly has grown up in the harsh poverty of the Ozarks and belongs to a large extended family. On a bitterly cold day, Ree, who takes care of her two younger brothers as well as her mother, learns that her father has skipped bail. If he fails to appear for... (more)
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  The Shepherd of the Hills

  by Harold Bell Wright

  Originally published in 1907, "The Shepherd of the Hills" is Harold Bell Wright's most famous work. Pelican Publishing Company is honored to bring this classic novel back to print as part of the Pelican Pouch series. In "The Shepherd of the Hills," Wright spins a tale of universal truths across the years to the modern-day reader. His Eden in the Ozarks has a bountiful share of life's enchantments, but is not... (more)
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  Tomato Red

  by Daniel Woodrell

  "Woodrell does for the Ozarks what Raymond Chandler did for Los Angeles or Elmore Leonard does for Florida."-- Los Angeles Times Book Review Daniel Woodrell has been called "stone brilliant" (James Ellroy); an author whose novels "make you whistle they're so good" ( Chicago Tribune ). In Tomato Red , his 1998 New York Times Notable Book, now being published in a Plume trade edition, Woodrell brings... (more)
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  Give Us a Kiss

  by Daniel Woodrell

  The law wants his brother on a felony charge, and Doyle Redmond is supposed to talk him into giving up. But Smoke is a convincing man--and Doyle's fast realizing that you "can" put the country back into the boy . . . but sometimes, it ain't so smart.
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  Winter's Bone: A Novel

  by Daniel Woodrell

  Ree Dolly's father has skipped bail on charges that he ran a crystal meth lab, and the Dollys will lose their house if he doesn't show up for his next court date. With two young brothers depending on her, 16-year-old Ree knows she has to bring her father back, dead or alive. Living in the harsh poverty of the Ozarks, Ree learns quickly that asking questions of the rough Dolly clan can be a fatal mistake. But, as... (more)
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  Stella Hardesty: Book 1

  A Bad Day for Sorry

  A Crime Novel

  by Sophie Littlefield

  Stella Hardesty dispatched her abusive husband with a wrench shortly before her fiftieth birthday. A few years later, she’s so busy delivering home-style justice, helping other women deal with their own abusive husbands and boyfriends, that she’s barely got time to run her sewing shop. Since Stella works outside of the law, she’s free to do whatever it takes to be convincing—as long as she keeps her distance from... (more)
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  The Death of Sweet Mister

  by Daniel Woodrell

  Daniel Woodrell delivers his most powerful work to date in The Death of Sweet Mister . An overweight, lonely thirteen-year-old, Shuggie Akins is shrewdly observant. But not even he can fully comprehend the nature of the forces working against him. His distracted, frequently tipsy mother, Glenda, turns a blind eye to the effect her sexually provocative teasing has on him. His putative father, Red, a brutal... (more)
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  Bald Knobbers: Vigilantes on the Ozarks Frontier

  by Mary Hartman

  In the 1880s, the Ozark hills around Taney County, Missouri, echoed with the sound of Winchester rifles. Men were lynched from tree limbs by masked night riders. Bundles of switches were tossed on the porches of "loose" men and women as a grim warning to reform or leave the area. In this action-filled saga of the notorious eight-year career of the vigilantes, journalist Mary Hartman and historian Elmo... (more)
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  The Outlaw Album

  by Daniel Woodrell

  Praise for WINTER'S BONE: "Woodrell's Old Testament prose and blunt vision have a chilly timelessness that suggests this novel will speak to readers as long as there are readers." ( The New York Times Book Review David Bowman ) "Despite the roughness of the content, Woodrell has a poet's sense of how to turn a phrase. . . . Seek him out now, throw down fifteen bucks, and bend your face to the page. You'll... (more)
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  The Calling of Dan Matthews

  by Harold Bell Wright

  The Calling of Dan Matthews. please visit www.valdebooks.com for a full list of titles
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  Stella Hardesty: Book 3

  A Bad Day for Scandal

  by Sophie Littlefield

  “Sophie Littlefield hits solid gold with A Bad Day for Scandal . Stella Hardesty is a funny and endearing heroine—with just a hint of Dirty Harry thrown in. The true-to-life dialogue moves at a quick clip and the mystery will keep you turning the pages way past bedtime. Bottom line: Don’t mess with Stella Hardesty—and don’t miss this gem of a book.” — Linda Castillo, New York Times bestselling author of ... (more)
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  Elmwood Springs

  Can't Wait to Get to Heaven

  by Fannie Flagg

  Combining southern warmth with unabashed emotion and side-splitting hilarity, Fannie Flagg takes readers back to Elmwood Springs, Missouri, where the most unlikely and surprising experiences of a high-spirited octogenarian inspire a town to ponder the age-old question: Why are we here? Life is the strangest thing. One minute, Mrs. Elner Shimfissle is up in her tree, picking figs, and the next thing she knows, she... (more)
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  Almost Midnight

  An American Story of Murder And Redemption

  by Michael W. Cuneo

  Darrell Mease grew up in the Ozark Mountains of southern Missouri, in a slice of rural America where religion flourished and tradition thrived. Everyone said he was a good kid: a bit of a clown, maybe not too serious about his studies, but sweet and kind and quick to make friends. When, as a clean-cut teenager, he signed up with the army, the people of Reeds Springs, Missouri, expected to hear nothing but good... (more)
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  A History of Southern Missouri And Northern Arkansas: Being an Account of the Early Settlements, the Civil War, the Ku-klux, And Times of Peace (The Civil War in the West)

  by William Monks

  Originally published in 1907 and now reprinted for the first time, this is the only account published by a Union guerrilla in the border region of the central Ozarks, where political and civil violence lasted from the Civil War well into the 1880s. There were probably many people who wanted to shoot Billy Monks. He was a Union patriot and skilled guerrilla fighter to some, but others called him a bushwhacker, a... (more)
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  THE GREATEST OF THESE

  by Geneva King Emerson

  The greatest conquerors do not ride horses and wield swords; picture neither do they acquire victories by any physical force. The 10-1-2009 magnanimous souls who were the patterns for the characters 339 of this story overcame daunting obstacles by a higher power; then celebrated their victories in song. The 1930s and early 1940s were the meanest of hard times. People everywhere were desperate for a thread of... (more)
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  The Bayou Trilogy

  The Bayou Trilogy

  Under the Bright Lights / Muscle for the Wing / The Ones You Do

  by Daniel Woodrell

  In the parish of St. Bruno, sex is easy, corruption festers, and double-dealing is a way of life. Rene Shade is an uncompromising detective swimming in a sea of filth. As Shade takes on hit men, porn kings, a gang of ex-cons, and the ghosts of his own checkered past, Woodrell's three seminal novels pit long-entrenched criminals against the hard line of the law, brother against brother, and two vastly different... (more)
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  Where the Red Fern Grows

  by Wilson Rawls

  A loving threesome, they ranged the dark hills and river bottoms of Cherokee country. Old Dan had the brawn. Little Ann had the brains, and Billy had the will to make them into the finest hunting team in the valley. Glory and victory were coming to them, but sadness waited too. Where the Red Fern Grows is an exciting tale of love and adventure you'll never forget. From the Paperback edition.
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  Rocky Comfort

  by Wayne Holmes

  A plainspoken and one of a kind account, set mainly in the Missouri Ozarks during the Great Depression, of one boy's bumpy struggle through childhood and puberty to early manhood. Often humorous, occasionally bawdy, sometimes iconoclastic and perhaps unsettling.