Cassandra King

Mary Martha Greene, author of the bestselling The Cheese Biscuit Queen Tells All, returns with signature sass and 80 new recipes in The Cheese Biscuit Queen, Kiss My Aspic! — a delicious romp through Southern recipes and tales, with just enough spice that you'll be fluttering your hand fan.

A heartfelt collection of personal stories that connect a common past and offer hope for a promising future.For many, South Carolina is a sunny vacation destination. For those who have been lucky enough to call it home, it is a source of rich memories and cultural heritage. In this final volume of State of the Heart, thirtyeight nationally and regionally known writers share their personal stories about places in South Carolina that hold special meaning for them. While this is a book about place, it is ultimately about people’s connections to one another, to a complex, common past, and to ongoing efforts to build a future of promise and possibility in the Palmetto State.Editor Aïda Rogers groups the essays thematically, with poetry, vintage photographs, and even recipes introducing each section. She unites pieces by New York Times best-selling novelists Patti Callahan Henry, CJ Lyons, and John Jakes; USA Today best-selling mystery writer Susan Boyer; historians Walter Edgar, Orville Vernon Burton, and Bernard Powers; artist and author Mary Whyte; and cookbook authors Sallie Ann Robinson and the Lee Brothers—just to name a few.Nikky Finney, a South Carolina native and winner of the 2011 National Book Award for poetry, provides the foreword. The afterword is written by Cassandra King, author of six novels, including the New York Times best seller The Sunday Wife.

A heartfelt collection of personal stories that connect a common past and offer hope for a promising future.For many, South Carolina is a sunny vacation destination. For those who have been lucky enough to call it home, it is a source of rich memories and cultural heritage. In this final volume of State of the Heart, thirtyeight nationally and regionally known writers share their personal stories about places in South Carolina that hold special meaning for them. While this is a book about place, it is ultimately about people’s connections to one another, to a complex, common past, and to ongoing efforts to build a future of promise and possibility in the Palmetto State.Editor Aïda Rogers groups the essays thematically, with poetry, vintage photographs, and even recipes introducing each section. She unites pieces by New York Times best-selling novelists Patti Callahan Henry, CJ Lyons, and John Jakes; USA Today best-selling mystery writer Susan Boyer; historians Walter Edgar, Orville Vernon Burton, and Bernard Powers; artist and author Mary Whyte; and cookbook authors Sallie Ann Robinson and the Lee Brothers—just to name a few.Nikky Finney, a South Carolina native and winner of the 2011 National Book Award for poetry, provides the foreword. The afterword is written by Cassandra King, author of six novels, including the New York Times best seller The Sunday Wife.

Every two years, a tight-knit group of Southern women, friends since college, comes together for a reunion to renew their relationships with one another, each of them having an incredible story to tell about the course their lives have taken. Reader's Guide included. Reprint. 125,000 first printing.

With life in Zion County, Alabama, finally looking up for twenty-year-old Donnette Sullivan, who has recently inherited her aunt's old house and beauty shop, her husband, Tim, crippled in an accident, returns to his old love of art and paints a sign for Donnette's new shop, Making Waves, a sign that has a profound impact on their small southern community. Originally published as Making Waves in Zion. Reprint.