What We All Long For

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Fannie Flagg

Folksy and fresh, endearing and affecting, Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe is a now-classic novel about two women: Evelyn, who’s in the sad slump of middle age, and gray-headed Mrs. Threadgoode, who’s telling her life story. Her tale includes two more women—the irrepressibly daredevilish tomboy Idgie and her friend Ruth—who back in the thirties ran a little place in Whistle Stop, Alabama, offering good coffee, southern barbecue, and all kinds of love and laughter—even an occasional murder. And as the past unfolds, the present will never be quite the same again.

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Anola Pickett

Thirteen-year-old Primmy longs to be a Life Saver and rescue folks from shipwrecks along the North Carolina coast, but in 1913 everyone knows that being a Life Saver is a man's job.

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Traci L. Jones

After the death of her mother in an automobile accident, seventh-grader Serena, who has gotten the lead in her middle school play, is left to handle the day-to-day challenges of caring for herself and her younger brother when their father cannot pull himself out of his depression.

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Allan Ahlberg

Unhappy with the stories that are shaping their lives, the members of the Brown family go to see the writer responsible.