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Mama Makes Up Her Mind

by Bailey White

Published: 1995-02-16

Paperback: 240 pages

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This collection of humorous essays is down-home storytelling designed to evoke the American rural South, filled - as it is - with odd relatives, precocious children and half-tame alligators, and redolent with the scents of fried catfish and artemisia.

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Mama Makes Up Her Mind: And Other Dangers of Southern Living

by Bailey White

Published: 2009-03-24

Paperback: 240 pages

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Welcome to the unique world of Bailey White. Her aunt Belle may take you to see her bellowing pet alligator. Her uncle Jimbuddy may appall you with his knack for losing pieces of himself. Most of all, you may succumb utterly to the charms of Bailey's mama, who will take you to a juke joint...

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Mama Moon: A Testament to the Human Spirit

by Susan Gayle

Published: 2009-03-11

Paperback: 180 pages

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An inspirational story of an extraordinary mother whose love for her children drove her to accomplish the seemingly impossible -- becoming a self-made millionaire despite her illiteracy and hardships. An incredible, true story of love, courage, and perseverance. After fleeing an abusive, arranged marriage,...

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Maman's Homesick Pie: A Persian Heart in an American Kitchen

by Donia Bijan

Published: 2011-10-11

Hardcover: 272 pages

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For Donia Bijan's family, food has been the language they use to tell their stories and to communicate their love. In 1978, when the Islamic revolution in Iran threatened their safety, they fled to California's Bay Area, where the familiar flavors of Bijan's mother's cooking formed a bridg...

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Mama's Boy, Preacher's Son

by Kevin Jennings

Published: 2007-06-15

Paperback: 280 pages

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Long before Kevin Jennings began advocating to end anti-GLBT bias in schools, he was a victim of it. In Mama's Boy, Preacher's Son, Jennings traces the roots of his activism to his school days in the conservative South, where �faggot? became more familiar to him than his own name. Creating...

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Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love, The tie-in: A Novel (P.S.)

by Oscar Hijuelos

Published: 2005-07-01

Paperback: 448 pages

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It's 1949, the era of the mambo, and two young Cuban musicians make their way from Havana to New York. The Castillo brothers, workers by day, become, by night, stars of the dance halls, where their orchestra plays the sensuous, pulsing music that earns them the title of the Mambo Kings. Th...

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Mammoth

by John Varley

Published: 2005-06-07

Hardcover: 368 pages

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The Mammoth Cheese: A Novel

by Sheri Holman

Published: 2003-07

Paperback: 468 pages

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With The Mammoth Cheese, Holman delivers a sharp, contemporary story steeped in history that will captivate a new audience while gratifying readers of her acclaimed earlier work, The Dress Lodger. Beautifully crafted and driven by warm, vibrant characters, The Mammoth Cheese follows the residents of...

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The Mammoth Hunters

by Jean M. Auel

Published: 2002-06-25

Paperback: 688 pages

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Once again Jean M. Auel opens the door of a time long past to reveal an age of wonder and danger at the dawn of the modern human race. With all the consummate storytelling artistry and vivid authenticity she brought to The Clan of the Cave Bear and its sequel, The Valley of Horses, Jean M...

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The Mammy

by Brendan O'Carroll

Published: 1999-05-01

Paperback: 176 pages

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"Mammy" is what Irish children call their mothers and The Mammy is Agnes Browne—a widow struggling to raise seven children in a North Dublin neighborhood in the 1960s. Popular Irish comedian Brendan O'Carroll chronicles the comic misadventures of this large and lively family with raw hum...