Color Our World Movies: Fried Green Tomatoes

Reading lists for the works of Fannie Flagg and other similar types of novels. Made for the 7/15/25 meeting of the Cary Library Movie Club.

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Book cover for "The all-girl filling station's last reunion"
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4.1 stars
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Spanning decades, generations, and America in the 1940s and today, this is a fun-loving mystery about an Alabama woman today, and five women who in 1943 worked in a Phillips 66 gas station, during the WWII years. "Spanning decades, generations, and America in the 1940s and today, The All-Girl Filling Station's Last Reunion is a fun-loving mystery about an Alabama woman today, and five women who in 1943 worked in a Phillips 66 gas station, during...
Book cover for "Can't wait to get to heaven"
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Average Rating:
4.3 stars
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Strange things begin to happen when Mrs. Shimfissle, an eighty-year-old woman, falls out of a fig tree in her own front yard, in a novel about one woman's offbeat experiences in the hereafter.
Book cover for "Daisy Fay and the miracle man"
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5 stars
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"Daisy Fay Harper turns 17 during the 1950s, and her experiences evoke the time in the deep South of strapless net evening gowns and Red Ryder"--NoveList.
Book cover for "Fried green tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe"
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4.1 stars
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Mrs. Threadgoode's tale of two high-spirited women of the 1930s, Idgie and Ruth, helps Evelyn, a 1980s woman in a sad slump of middle age, to begin to rejuvenate her own life
Book cover for "I still dream about you"
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4.2 stars
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Hiding her unhappiness from those who believe she has a perfect life, former beauty queen Maggie has an unexpected change of circumstances that leads to surprising discoveries and valuable lessons in friendship.
Book cover for "A redbird Christmas"
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Average Rating:
4.3 stars
Book cover for "Standing in the rainbow ("
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Average Rating:
4.3 stars
Book cover for "Welcome to the world, Baby Girl!"
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Average Rating:
4.2 stars
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Dena Nordstrom, a beautiful, rising star of network TV news, finds her career and life taking some unexpected turns as she copes with the demands of her profession, memories of her past, and a love affair with her psychiatrist.
Book cover for "The whole town's talking"
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3.9 stars
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Elmwood Springs, Missouri, is a small town like any other, but something strange is happening at the cemetery. Still Meadows, as it's called, is anything but still. Original, profound, The Whole Town's Talking, a novel in the tradition of Thornton Wilder's Our Town and Flagg's own Can't Wait to Get to Heaven, tells the story of Lordor Nordstrom, his Swedish mail-order bride, Katrina, and their neighbors and descendants as they live, love, die, and...
Book cover for "The wonder boy of Whistle Stop"
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3.4 stars
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"Bud Threadgoode grew up in the bustling little railroad town of Whistle Stop, Alabama, with his mother Ruth, church going and proper, and the fun-loving hell-raiser, his Aunt Idgie. Together they ran the town's popular Whistle Stop Café, known far and wide for its famous "Fried Green Tomatoes." And as Bud often said of his childhood, "How lucky can you get?" But sadly, the railroad yards began to shut down and the town became a ghost town, with...