Books written by Rick Bragg
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The Best Cook in the World: Tales from My Momma's Southern Table
When the great Mississippi writer Willie Morris passed away, I stood in his kitchen, surrounded by people who loved him, with a plate in my hand. There was fried chicken, of course, and potato salad, casseroles, and tomato sandwiches ...
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The Most They Ever Had
A Pulitzer Prize-winning writer and author of The Prince of Frogtown evokes the hardscrabble lives of those who lived and died by a single surviving American cotton mill by offering the searing true stories of those who worked in the ...
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Ava's Man
The author continues his personal history of the Deep South with an evocation of his mother's childhood in the Appalachian foothills during the Great Depression and the inspiring story of the man who raised her.
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I Am a Soldier, Too: The Jessica Lynch Story
In I Am a Soldier, Too, Bragg lets Jessica Lynch tell the story of her capture in the Iraq War in her own words--not the sensationalized ones of the media's initial reports.
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All Over But the Shoutin'
A correspondent for "The New York Times" recounts growing up in the Alabama hills, the son of a violent veteran and a mother who tried to insulate her children from poverty and ignorance
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Jerry Lee Lewis: His Own Story: His Own Story by Rick Bragg
The story of Jerry Lee Lewis has inspired songs and articles, books and films, but in these pages Rick Bragg restores a human complexity missing from other accounts.
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Ava's Man
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • With the same emotional generosity and effortlessly compelling storytelling that made All Over But the Shoutin’ a beloved bestseller, Rick Bragg continues his personal history of the Deep South.
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My Southern Journey: True Stories from the Heart of the South
Collected from over a decade of his writing, with many never-before-published essays written specifically for this edition, My Southern Journey is an entertaining and engaging read, especially for Southerners (or feel Southern at heart) and ...
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Where I Come From: Stories from the Deep South
In this irresistible collection of wide-ranging and endearingly personal columns culled from his best-loved pieces in Southern Living and Garden & Gun, Pulitzer Prize–winning author Rick Bragg muses on everything from his love of ...
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My Southern Journey: True Stories from the Heart of the South
Collected from over a decade of his writing, with many never-before-published essays written specifically for this edition ..."--Provided by publisher.
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I Am a Soldier, Too: The Jessica Lynch Story
In I Am a Soldier, Too, Bragg lets Jessica Lynch tell the story of her capture in the Iraq War in her own words--not the sensationalized ones of the media's initial reports.
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The Speckled Beauty: A Dog and His People
Written with Bragg's inimitable blend of tenderness and sorrow, humor and grit, The Speckled Beauty captures the extraordinary, sustaining devotion between two damaged creatures who need each other to heal.