The 2010 Summer Okra Picks--"great Southern books, fresh off the vine," sponsored by the Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance--are:
Fiction
Backseat Saints by Joshilyn Jackson (Grand Central Publishing)
By Accident by Susan Kelly (Pegasus Books)
Countdown by Deborah Wiles (Scholastic Press)
The Eternal Ones by Kirsten Miller (Razorbill)
The Improper Life of Bezellia Grove by Susan Gregg Gilmore (Shaye Areheart Books)
On Folly Beach by Karen White (NAL)
The Secret Child by Marti Healy (Design Group Press)
Nonfiction
Big Appetite: My Southern-Fried Search for the Meaning of Life by Sam McLeod (Touchstone)
The Blueberry Years: A Memoir of Farm and Family by Jim Minick (Thomas Dunne Books)
The Food, Folklore, and Art of Lowcountry Cooking: A Celebration of the Foods, History, and Romance Handed Down from England, Africa, the Caribbean, France by Joseph Earl Dabney (Cumberland House)
Freedom Summer: The Savage Season That Made Mississippi Burn and Made America a Democracy by Bruce Watson (Viking Books)
Oraien Catledge: Photographs by Oraien E. Catledge (University Press of Mississippi)
