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 "Cold Sassy tree"
Star rating for Cold Sassy tree
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Average Rating:
4.2 stars
Description:
The one thing you can depend on in Cold Sassy, Georgia, is that word gets around--fast. When Grandpa E. Rucker Blakeslee announces one July morning in 1906 that he's aiming to marry the young and freckledy milliner, Miss Love Simpson--a bare three weeks after Granny Blakeslee has gone to her reward--the news is served up all over town with that afternoon's dinner. And young Will Tweedy suddenly finds himself eyewitness to a major scandal. Boggled...
Book cover for "Fried green tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe"
Star rating for Fried green tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe
Average Rating:
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 "The help"
Star rating for The help
Average Rating:
4.8 stars
Description:
In Jackson, Mississippi, in 1962, there are lines that are not crossed. With the civil rights movement exploding all around them, three women start a movement of their own, forever changing a town and the way women--black and white, mothers and daughters--view one another. Limited and persecuted by racial divides in 1962 Jackson, Mississippi, three women, including an African-American maid, her sassy and chronically unemployed friend, and a recently...
Book cover for "I still dream about you"
Star rating for I still dream about you
Average Rating:
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 "Little altars everywhere"
Star rating for Little altars everywhere
Series:
Ya-Yas volume 1.
Average Rating:
4 stars
Description:
Who can resist the rich cadences of Sidda Walker and her flamboyant, secretive mother, Vivi? Here, the young Sidda--a precocious reader and an eloquent observer of the fault lines that divide her family--leads us into her mischievous adventures at Our Lady of Divine Compassion parochial school and beyond. A Catholic girl of pristine manners, devotion, and provocative ideas, Sidda is the very essence of childhood joy and sorrow. Little Altars Everywhere...
Book cover for "The secret life of bees"
Star rating for The secret life of bees
Average Rating:
4.7 stars
Description:
After her "stand-in mother," a bold black woman named Rosaleen, insults the three biggest racists in town, Lily Owens joins Rosaleen on a journey to Tiburon, South Carolina, where they are taken in by three black, bee-keeping sisters.