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December 21, 2011 (Columbia, SC)—Tis the season to be merry, but here in the land of the Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance it's also the season for a new harvest of Okra Picks. Southern Indie Booksellers have a selected the 2012 Spring Okra Picks—great southern books, fresh off the vine. It’s a bumper crop, a baker's dozen different titles representing a wide range of tastes, all the books selected have the following things in common: 1) They are Southern in nature. 2) They are 2012 spring releases (December 2011 through March 2012) and 3) There is a SIBA member Bookstore who is really excited about the book. So if you wanted to know what books you'd be reading over the next few months, check the list below! Southern booksellers love their Southern authors—we grow good books!

Spring 2012 Okra Picks

The Confession by Charles Todd
William Morrow, January 2012

The Evening Hour by Carter Sickels
Bloomsbury, January 2012

A Grown-Up Kind of Pretty by Joshilyn Jackson
Grand Central Publishing, January 2012

The Healing by Jonathan Odell
Random House, February 2012

The Rebel Wife by Taylor M. Polities
Simon and Schuster, February 2012

The Same Sun Here by Silas House and Neela Vaswani
Candlewick, February 2012

The Search Committee by Tim Owens
Tyndale House, February 2012

What Happened to Hannah by Mary Kay McComas
William Morrow, February 2012

Glow by Jessica Maria Tuccelli
Viking, March 2012

The Hills Remember by James Still
University Press of Kentucky, March 2012

The Iguana Tree by Michel Stone
Hub City Press, March 2012

The Kentucky Derby by James C. Nicholson
University Press of Kentucky, March 2012

Render Unto the Valley by Rose Senehi
KIM Publishing/John Blair. March 2012

For more information visit Authorsroundthesouth.com/okra

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SIBA makes a concerted effort to spread the word about our member stores. So if you tell us, we'll tell everybody. If you are on facebook or twitter, make sure you friend and follow us. If you do an email newsletter, make sure we get it:

Tag us when you post on Facebook or Twitter – At Twitter use @ReaderMtWriter and at Facebook, use @Authors Round the South; and we will see it, we will share it, we will spread the word and highlight you here in ongoing SIBA Inks.  Let us know when you put the Holiday Catalog on your IndieCommerce site or when you promote the Okra Picks on your website, or when you post a photo of your Okra Picks card display for a chance to win an all-expense paid trip to #SIBA12.  We can’t enter you if we don’t know you have done it.  So – start spreading the news….

A big thanks to the following stores:

Myra Meade of Hall Book Exchange posted a picture of their Okra Picks card display on Facebook

Cavalier House Books is featuring this season’s Okra Picks on their home page: www.cavalierhousebooks.com/

Island Books posted the holiday catalog to their home page: www.islandbooksobx.com/

Thanks to these stores for reporting to the Southern Indie Bestseller List via ABA, with North Carolina stores leading the charge:

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