The Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance has announced its summer Okra Picks, a selection of fresh titles chosen by Southern indie booksellers each season as the upcoming Southern titles they are most looking forward to handselling:
The House on Mermaid Point by Wendy Wax (Berkley)
Dollbaby by Laura Lane McNeal (Pamela Dorman Books)
The Girls of August by Anne Rivers Siddons (Grand Central)
Cancel the Wedding by Carolyn Dingman (Harper)
Palmetto Moon: A Lowcountry Novel by Kim Boykin (Berkley)
Poems of the American South by David Biespiel (Everyman's Library)
Season of the Dragonflies by Sarah Creech (Morrow)
The Southern Foodie's Guide to the Pig: A Culinary Tour of Fifty of the South's Best Restaurants and the Recipes that Made Them Famous by Chris Chamberlain (Thomas Nelson)
The Story Keeper by Lisa Wingate (Tyndale House)
Somewhere Safe with Somebody Good: The New Mitford Novel by Jan Karon (Putnam) Adult
The Edible South: The Power of Food and the Making of an American Region by Marcie Cohen Ferris (University of North Carolina Press)
Beautiful at All Seasons: Southern Gardening and Beyond with Elizabeth Lawrence by Elizabeth Lawrence (Duke University Press)
