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Janice Daugharty
Books in Order: 66 titles
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Gator Jack
Fiction. So it goes in Janice Daugharty's new book, GATOR JACK, an insightful look at an irascible old grandfather with a bum leg and his hypervigilant grandson, Doodle. At nine years old, Doodle is the older brother of two younger siblings, Mikey an...
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Two Shades of Morning
Sibyl is either dying -- or just dying to cause trouble. Sympathy for a man-hunting siren? Sibyl says she's dying. But this sexy new neighbor in a small Georgia town, circa 1960, may be lying. After all, her main goal seems to be milking her story in...
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The Haircut
Beth is pregnant again and her son is only seventeen months old. She and her husband Donnie cannot afford to have another baby. Both work, but they can't catch up on debts. Beth will have to get an aborion, which is cheaper than delivery. Still, she ...
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Heir To The Everlasting
The Pulitzer-nominated author of EARL IN THE YELLOW SHIRT turns her acclaimed talents to an epic story of three generations of Southern women at Big Eddy, the home place they love. HEIR TO THE EVERLASTING begins at the turn of the last century with t...
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Nannie's Moon
A little girl learns from her grandmother about the natural cycles of life and death. They watch the moon waxing and waning; they watch the tomatoes in the garden grow from tiny yellow flowers to red, ripe orbs. The little girl sees herself in compar...
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What Happens When You Don't Play Ball
Miss Faye is recovering from a broken hip. Sick of the physical therapy session, in which a bunch of old people are tossing a big yellow ball, she wheels her chair from the room, and keeps wheeling it till she is sitting outside the hospital. Not her...
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Suffer the Little Children
The little migrant community, of Jennings, Florida is at first tolerant of Dot Knight and her Sunday school class, who have come to invite the laborers to revival at the Baptist church. Dot has to consult her "Guide to Speaking Spanish" to communicat...
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And the Winner Is?
Eileen and Duck Dixon were on the verge of splitting up before they learned they'd won the Easter Lottery. Now they're stuck. Then they discover a missing ticket out of the twenty-five each bought. So who actually owns the winning ticket? To make mat...
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Black Widow
Outside, it is raining, freezing. But inside Lavonia is doing fine. She is seated on the front row at her x-husband's funeral, facing him in the coffin and his legal wife Betty above in the choir. Through some mixup in her x's obituary, Lavonia has b...
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Cammie's Lost Years
What if you returned to your hometown after a decade of shock treatments in a lock-up away from everything and everybody you knew? When you come home, with no memory, only sensations, everything is new. Gradually, as sensation gives way to memory, yo...
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Caring for the Elderly
Hun is ninety-some-odd years old and at the mercy of a bitter, controlling black woman hired by the family to keep their beloved relative at home till she dies. When Hun's two grand-nieces show up one fall morning for a visit, the caregiver cranks he...
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The First Nudist
Following a family reunion, Gransallie learns that her favorite niece, Ophelia, ia a not only a school teacher but a nudist. Hating to be proved wrong, Gransallie tries to defend Ophelia to her granddaughters, who "don't care where they are going or ...
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In His Own Hometown
Earl Sanders, a black man from Washington, DC, is the only one worthy enough to dedicate the new library in his S. Ga. home county. He is the only one to go away and make good. But nobody, black or white, is willing to put him up for the night but a ...
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Lovie's Baby
From "Lovie's Baby":"They said they saw Lovie that Monday morning running up the road toward the courthouse, with that pink blanket all nussed-up to her bosom like the baby was still alive. And it SOME cold..."...
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Luck of the Count
On a Saturday morning drunk, the Count and his grown son Lucky stumble onto a black woman's shack in the quarters of Cornerville to pilfer for food. When she happens up on them, the Count pulls out his pocket knife and cuts her throat. They go to jai...
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Ness and Codaddy
"Ness and Codaddy" is a children's rhyming book about two chocolate labs, daddy and daughter. Ness, the one year old female, is fascinated with her daddy's pink tongue. Codaddy always gets blamed by his master for Ness's mischief, so he lures her awa...
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Ness and Codaddy--children's rhyming book
Ness and Codaddy is a children's rhyming book about two chocolate labs, daddy and daughter. Ness, the one year old female, is fascinated with her daddy's pink tongue. Codaddy always gets blamed by his master for Ness's mischief, so he lures her away ...
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Robbing Honey
Davey follows Jack along the river bank to their favorite fishing spot, but things aren't how they used to be. Jack has married Davey's sister the night before and that's all Davey can think about, even as they follow the smell of sweet-ripe honey an...
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School Strongarm
Obese, long-time school secretary Alene finally gets her first truck and boyfriend, a hitch-hiker who winds up in her bedroom in the house she shares with her saintly, finiky mother. Then Alene gets replaced at work by a young woman with a ponytail. ...
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Sunday Visit
General Norton receives a visit from a thief, and he is in for the time of his life. An invalid with nothing to do, General has advertised a goat on a radio exchange program, which "the Hippie" picks up on. The odd pair go out to see the goat and get...
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Wherebouts Are We
"Grannie has bad skin cancers but not bad enough to take her out of this world" where nobody wants her except one granddaughter. Luzanne drives her from house to house belonging to Grannie's three daughters, but each refuses to take her. It is while ...
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Along A Wider River
Fishing from the Alapaha River bank, Dump Watson faces off with his long-time enemy Boss Pender who is fishing from a boat. Dump has a deep-seated hatred of Pender, one of the farmers who he used to farm on halves for. Pender has mocked and insulted ...
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Beck and Barn
In the tradition of Eudora Welty, "Beck and Barn" is an old-timey love story marked by ironic exaggerated devotion. After Barney dies, Becky goes to visit her sister; when she returns, she finds that her no-account "baby" brother has burned her house...
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Black Cloud
Because of his dignified bearing and good looks, Wilton Norton is viewed as a ladies' man, though he has loved only one lady. Now past his prime, after his wife Ann dies, he misses her. He is alone and growing soft. Then the IRS comes after him, foll...
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Foxhunting
Minor, a worn-out foxhunter, has been ordered by "the daughter-in-law" to have his old foxhound put down. But first he takes Joe Blow out to the woods where they've hunted for so long for one final hunt. It is there that Minor realizes it's not just ...
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It's Okay to Cry
Bethann, a struggling college student, decides to take care of Holly, her evil, manipulative younger sister after their grandmother, who raised them, dies. But Holly is a mess. And en route to Miami after the funeral, Bethann lays down the rules to H...
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The Jacket
Imagine that you, like the grandfather in this story, are confined to a wheel chair from which you watch your only grandchild--in this case a boy, "Butch"--repeat your past like a re-wound video. Already emotionally estranged from the child, who is c...
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The Least Preacher
"There is a lot of red claw and long nights in every line Janice Daugharty writes." Pat ConroyDuncan finds his lost faith while hiking to various country churches with his young nephew, who he passes off as the world's littlest preacher. Duncan used ...
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Little Big Girls
Temple, little beauty-queen pro, knows that her mother, Cammie, has spiked drinks of her competitors. Once Cammie even "accidentally" stepped on a child's dress tail and ripped it from the bodice. But tonight is Temple's first contest in her mother's...
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Name of Love
Sunny has grown used to her older brother Horace's yawning crying. But she refuses to adjust to the notion that the physically deformed and mentally retarded twenty-one year old will have to be retired to the Georgia State Insane Asylum. She's the on...
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The Odds Are Against It
Rural mail carrier, Tammy, bumps heads in a nightmare during a rare spring snow storm. Twenty years before, she was kidnapped and shot by a drug addict she met along her route. Now she picks up another stranger along her route and the memories come f...
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Peddling Bub
First published in STORYTrish is the community dopehead and bad mother, out on a winter evening to give Bub, her third child away. Her last stop is at her x-inlaws, who have taken Trish's two little girls the year before. Trish, smoking her final cig...
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Rich Man-Poor Man...
No longer a Paul-Newman playboy type, who used to leave his family waiting and wondering, Elec now prides himself on "making trades" at the various houses along the rural routes where he works. For instance, at the home of June Bug and Candy, while J...
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Save All My Children and Grandchildren
An old lady reaches out from the grave with a message on a dollar bill to her grown daughters and grandchildren. After the funeral, they gather at the old lady's home to go through her meager belongings. Fannie, boss over the family, finds the dollar...
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Something Safe, Something Free
In time, Willie will drop from his high on alcohol and self-pity. In time, he will adapt to working for the black man who used to work for him. Bear now owns Willie's hard-earned heavy-construction business because of a glitch in government regulatio...
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Vacation Bible School
(Companion story to "Jesus Bus")Dot Knight's car is brand-new in this story and she aims to keep it that way. Problem is, she has been enlisted by her adored preacher to drive those nasty Odums' kids to Vacation Bible School halfway across the county...
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Vision Quest
Adam's notions on hard work, sacrifice, crime and punishment are tested when he meets one of the juvenile delinquents from a govenment-funded rehab program crossing country with a wagon train. Vision Quest was created to keep young criminals from get...
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Wrong Season
It was all over the news, several years ago, the story of a woman named Susan Smith driving her car into a SC lake and drowning her two children. Spellbound by the news, another young mother named Ginger, in South Georgia, imagines how Susan Smith r...
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American Breakfast-Mexican Dinner
Jilly's young days outside the diner are anger, heat, boredom and filth. Waiting with her are two foul-mouthed, angry Mexican teens and her younger brother, Stinker, whose nickname stuck for a reason. Burning up in the sun from the bay on the Gulf of...
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In a Car Going Nowhere
Lonliness and rejection switch Beebee from a cry-baby to a cold-hearted killer. After his parents divorced they gradually changed from fighting about who would get to keep Beebee to fighting about who would have to keep Beebee. Then his mother forgot...
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Little Horses
"Husband and wife, they looked blood-related; they looked perfect, like arm-linking dolls on the top tier of a wedding cake. Except when they were drunk..."Assistant Professor Randolph Sears--Randy to his only two friends--is about to learn why Antho...
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Making History
Known only as "Sister," the girl watches her wicked step-daddy sack up her cats to toss in the river. As Sister says though, "This isn't the worst thing William B. Blaine ever did." She hopes this pet sacrifice proves enough to cause her mother to ma...
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Once Upon a Summer
Young Jim and Sissy are starving, so their mother sends them 20 miles by train to the country home of their father's mother to feed them for the summer. Their father, the community drunk, who lives with his mother and the rest of the put-out, pious f...
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The Spirit Knows
Orlando has a restraining order against her ex-husband, Froman, but that doesn't stop him from kidnapping and killing her. Then there is the Colonel, who has briefly met Orlando, another time, another place, seemingly disconnected, until Froman forms...
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Troublesome Creek
REVISED: Like Fried Green Tomatoes, this short novel explores a town's misjudgment of two spirited young women, one an insider and the other an outsider. Following 9-11, 2001, and the attacks on the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center, the resident...
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Going to Jackson
Some families go on vacation every year, but the Crandells head out to Jackson Prison Georgia. For thirty years they've been hoping to witness the execution of the man responsible for the murders of thier other family members. Based on the true story...
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The Little Known
A good-hearted boy. A segregated town. A stolen fortune. A coming-of-age story full of hope and forgiveness. When twelve-year-old Knot Crews, an African American boy growing up in the segregated south Georgia town of Statenville, discovers a bag o...
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Massacre at Moniac Crossing
Massacre at Moniac Crossing" is fiction based on fact. In 1904, at a turpentine camp, in North Florida, the residents at the sleepy crossing boarded a train to St. Augustine for a day picnic and sight-seeing trip. By day's end, when everybody boarded...
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My Mother's Car
Ten year old Doodle is in charge of his little brother and baby sister for the summer while his mother, Nina, is awaiting the arrival of her fourth baby. Nina claims that her husband's bossman's wife gave her a Mercedes, which Noodle knows will eithe...
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The Sacrifice
Two teenage girls, out scouting the Alapaha River, in South Georgia, happen up on two escaped death-row prisoners. One girl is killed and the other, Ruth, is taken hostage on a boat ride downriver for an extended nightmare of torture and sacrifice. A...
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Just Doll
"Daugharty does a fine job of demonstrating how ordinary men and women are affected, in unpredictable ways, by race, poverty and geography and by the enduring legacy of important historical moments." People Magazine She is only seventeen when she mar...
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Like a Sister
It is 1956, and thirteeen-year-old Sister must raise her three siblings on her own, as her mother, Marnie, has a new boyfriend who isn't interested in kids. Taking charge of her life, Sister befriends a kindly neighbor named Willa, who ap...
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Earl in the Yellow Shirt
From a new literary star and acclaimed author of Pawpaw Patch, Necessary Lies and Dark of the Moon comes the haunting and poignant novel of a family in crisis, set in the backwoods of Georgia.Meet the Scurvy family, an impoverished clan who are the s...
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Pawpaw Patch
At forty, Chanell Foster is proud and popular in her hometown. Her beauty shop is more than her business--it is the town's social hub--and one's status in Cornervill is ensured by a standing weekly appointment in Chanell's book. But life in a small s...
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Dark of the Moon
"Janice Daugharty is a natural-born writer." -- Pat Conroy She held him prisoner. He set her free. A moonshiner's downtrodden wife. A federal agent in search of illegal stills. A love neither expected. A situation about to explode. When her c...
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Necessary Lies
Lost innocence. Betrayal. Smalltown secrets.It all adds up to necessary lies. It always starts with the loss of innocence.Life had plenty to offer beautiful seventeen-year-old Cliffie Flowers in 1953 backwoods Georgia before she got pregnant by a l...
