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Medical fiascoes seriesMotion, Andrew
Summary: "Washed ashore after escaping Treasure Island, young Jim Hawkins and his companion Natty find themselves stranded on the Gulf Coast of Texas. Their ship, the Nightingale, has been destroyed, and besides one other crew member, they are the only survivors. Before they can even grasp the full scope of their predicament, they realize they are not alone on the beach. When a band of Native Americans...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishers 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MOTJones, Stephen Graham
Summary: Poor yet resilient, the boy lives in the shadows with his aunt Libby and uncle Darren, folk who stubbornly make their way in a society that does not understand or want them. Always on the move across the South, living a life of late-night exits and narrow escapes, one step ahead of the law. But everything is about to change. The boy will be turning sixteen, and he will need to understand his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JONSummary: Few parts of America are as historied as the South, so it's no surprise that many southern horror stories feature the long-lived vampire. Vampire Stories from the American South is a feast of fear for lovers of vampire fiction, offering a dozen tales in which insatiable vampires prowl plantations and scour the bayous in search of mortal blood.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Metro Books 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 808.8 VAMStowe, Harriet Beecher
Summary: "Uncle Tom's Cabin" was revolutionary in 1852 for its passionate indictment of slavery and for its presentation of Tom, "a man of humanity," as the first black hero in American fiction.
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Publisher / Publication Date: A.A. Knopf 1995
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC STOWoolson, Constance Fenimore
Summary: With this volume Library of America presents the biggest and best edition of Woolson’s short fiction ever published. Here are twenty-one stories chosen from her four collections—Castle Nowhere: Lake-Country Sketches (1875), Rodman the Keeper: Southern Sketches (1880), The Front Yard and Other Italian Stories (1895), and Dorothy and Other Italian Stories (1896)—as well as two uncollected...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Library of America 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WOOJacobs, John Hornor
Summary: [The author] turns his fertile imagination to the evil that breeds within the human soul. A brilliant mix of the psychological and supernatural, blending the acute insight of Roberto Bolaño and the eerie imagination of H. P. Lovecraft, The Sea Dreams It Is the Sky examines life in a South American dictatorship. Centered on the journal of a poet-in-exile and his failed attempts at translating a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Voyager, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JACToomer, Jean
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Publisher / Publication Date: Liveright 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TOOBarnhardt, Wilton.
Summary: Presiding over her family and its legacy of masterpiece Civil War art, North Carolina society maven Jerene Jarvis Johnston takes increasingly haphazard steps to protect her grown children from their own heedlessness.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Barnhardt 2013Jarrow, Gail
Summary: "Imagine microscopic worms living in the soil. They enter your body through your bare feet, travel to your intestines, and stay there for years sucking your blood like vampires. You feel exhausted. You get sick easily. It sounds like a nightmare, but that's what happened in the American South during the 1800s and early 1900s. Doctors never guessed that hookworms were making patients ill, but...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Calkins Creek, an imprint of Astra Books for Young Readers 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 616.9 JARWhite, Shane.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Beacon Press 2005