Franklin, Tom.
Summary: Silas Jones, Chabot's lone lawman, hasn't had a lick of trouble in recent memory. In fact, the last thing to disturb Chabot was the disappearance of a teen girl nearly twenty years ago. However, when somebody tries to kill the town recluse, another young woman vanishes, and a drug dealer is found murdered all in a short amount of time, the quaint Mississippi town is shaken to the core.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Audio 2010
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC FRAPhillips, Susan Elizabeth.
Summary: Returning to her home town, Sugar Beth Carey discovers several old enemies living out the life she left behind, from the half-sister who married Sugar Beth's high school sweetheart to a former teacher who bought her childhood home.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2004
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC PHIWatson, Brad.
Summary: Having won and lost the woman he has loved since seeing her do a naked cartwheel in 1916, Finus Bates wonders if the colorful characters from their hometown hold the secrets to her elusive character.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton 2002
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WATJames, Miranda
Summary: "Charlie Harris remembers Wilfred 'Wil' Threadgill as one of the outsiders during high school. His friend Melba Gilley had a big crush on Wil, who dropped out after his junior year. Wil hit the road for California and never looked back. Wil eventually became a star, fronting a band and writing award-winning songs. Coming back to work with students in the college music department, Wil is now the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2023
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.James, Miranda
Summary: "There's nothing Athena College librarian Charlie Harris likes better than curling up with a good book--except maybe curling up with his Maine Coon cat, Diesel. But when the library's abrasive new director is put out of circulation, both Charlie and Diesel will have to clear a friend when the evidence is stacked against her..."--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
Copies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction James 2016Cantrell, Julie
Summary: In Mississippi during the Depression, Millie Reynolds turns to a gypsies caravan to find where she really belongs and they help her unlock generations of shocking family secrets.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: David C. Cook 2012
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CANWard, Jesmyn.
Summary: Enduring a hardscrabble existence as the children of alcoholic and absent parents, four siblings from a coastal Mississippi town prepare their meager stores for the arrival of Hurricane Katrina while struggling with such challenges as a teen pregnancy and a dying litter of prize pups.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2012
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC WARWalls, Jasmine
Summary: "It's 1930s Mississippi. Magic is permitted only in certain circumstances, and by certain people. Unsanctioned broom racing is banned. But for those who need the money, or the thrills...it's there to be found. Meet Billie Mae, captain of the Night Storms racing team, and Loretta, her best friend and second-in-command. They're determined to make enough money to move out west to a state that...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Levine Querido 2023
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 WALCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in New YA Materials, Call number: YA 741.5 WALWatson, Brad
Summary: "Astonishing prose brings to life a forgotten woman and a lost world in a strange and bittersweet Southern pastoral. Since his award-winning debut collection of stories, Last Days of the Dog- Men, Brad Watson has been expanding the literary traditions ofthe South, in work as melancholy, witty, strange, and lovely as any in America. Inspired by the true story of his own great-aunt, he explores...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: W. W. Norton & Company 2016
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WATCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WATFaulkner, William
Summary: The story of the tragic Caddy Compson, as seen through the eyes of her three brothers--the idiot Benjy, the neurotic Quentin, and the monstrous Jason.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 1995
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Faulkner, William
Summary: First published in 1929, Faulkner created his "heart's darling," the beautiful and tragic Caddy Compson, whose story Faulkner told through separate monologues by her three brothers--the idiot Benjy, the neurotic suicidal Quentin and the monstrous Jason. From the Trade Paperback edition. The novel reveals the story of the disintegration of the Compson family, doomed inhabitants of Faulkner's...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Modern Library 1992
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC FAUWard, Jesmyn
Summary: Ward (Salvage the Bones) tells the story of three generations of a struggling Mississippi family in this astonishing novel. "We don't walk no straight lines. It's all happening at once. All of it. We all here at once." This is the explanation 13-year-old Jojo is provided by his grandmother, the family matriarch, on her deathbed. "I'll be on the other side of the door," she reassures him, "With...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Large Print Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2018
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC WARLott, Bret.
Summary: The life of Jewel Hilburn, a mother living with her husband and children in the backwoods of Mississippi in 1943, undergoes a drastic change when her sixth child, Brenda Kay, is born without the gift of common sense.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Pocket Books 1991
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LOTWiles, Deborah
Summary: Aurora County, Mississippi, is only the latest stop on the Cakes' nomadic lifestyle, opening bakeries wherever they go; but Emma Alabama Lane Cake (only girl of the six Cake children) is sick of it, and determined not to form any friendships here because they will just disappear as soon as the family moves again--but Aurora County has other ideas, and so does a girl named Ruby Lavender who...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2018
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC WILCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC WILIles, Greg.
Summary: Lawyer Penn Cage goes up against a mix of murder, racial tension, double-crosses, illicit sex...and all of the ensuing violent consequences in the kudzu-strangled, snake- rat- and armadillo-infested hole of the Devil's Punchbowl.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2009
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC ILECopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ILECopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Iles 2009Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: M ILEHaines, Carolyn
Summary: "The next charming mystery from Carolyn Haines featuring spunky southern private investigator Sarah Booth Delaney. Private detective Sarah Booth Delaney doesn't quite know what to expect when she's urgently called to a school board meeting for Sunflower County, Mississippi. But she certainly wasn't expecting this: three Wiccan sisters are in the midst of a showdown with the Board of Education....
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2018
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HAIJames, Miranda
Summary: The theater department at Athena is putting on a play by a fledgling playwright with local connections. Charlie's son-in-law, Frank Salisbury, will be calling the directorial shots, and his daughter, Laura, will be taking on the lead female role. Luke Lombardi, the guest artist, is someone she knew in Hollywood. The older male actor - whose career in film has been on the wane - arrives with a...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Prime Crime 2020
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC JAMJames, Miranda
Summary: "Charlie Harris has sworn off investigating murder and mayhem after a recent close call. Instead, he's delighted to cheer on his daughter, Laura, who's starring in a production of Careless Whispers. The theater department at Athena College is debuting the play written by a fledgling playwright with local connections and Charlie's son-in-law, Frank Salisbury, will be calling the directorial...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Wheeler Publishing, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2020
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC JAMMustian, Kelly
Summary: "Ada promised herself she would never go back to the Trace, to her unbearable life on the swamp, and to her harsh father in Mississippi. But now, after running away to Baton Rouge and briefly knowing a different kind of life, she finds herself with nowhere to go but back home. And she knows there will be a price to pay with her father. Matilda, daughter of a sharecropper, is from the other side...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Landmark 2021
Copies Available at Woodmere
3 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MUSCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC MUSCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MUSCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Mustian 2021Mustian, Kelly
Summary: "Ada promised herself she would never go back to the Trace, to her unbearable life on the swamp, and to her harsh father in Mississippi. But now, after running away to Baton Rouge and briefly knowing a different kind of life, she finds herself with nowhere to go but back home. And she knows there will be a price to pay with her father. Matilda, daughter of a sharecropper, is from the other side...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Landmark
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Book Club Kit, Call number: FIC MUS BOOK CLUB KIT (8 paperbacks)Jordan, Hillary
Summary: In 1946, city-bred Laura McAllan is trying to raise her children on her husband's Mississippi Delta farm when two young men return from the war to work the land, Jamie McAllan, Laura's brother-in-law, and Ronsel Jackson, eldest son of the black sharecroppers on the farm.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2008
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC JORGrisham, John
Summary: Jake is the court-appointed lawyer for Drew Gamble, a young man accused of murdering a local deputy. Many in Clanton want a swift trial and the death penalty, but Brigance sees it another way. Once he learns the details of the case, he realizes he has to do everything he can to save Drew, who is sixteen. Jake's commitment to the truth puts his career and the safety of his family at risk.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2020
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC GRICopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC GRICopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC GRIHaines, Carolyn.
Summary: Displaced from it's New Orleans venue, a red-hot touring production of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof is opening right in the heart of Zinnia, and featuring hunky star Graf Mileau! Sarah Booth, who had her own brief stint with Mileau, is less than thrilled. Graf is now linked with his costar, Renata Troviola, a dyed in the wool diva who plans to ride Graf's coattails all the way to Hollywood. But...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Books 2008
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HAIStokes, Penelope J.
Summary: Twenty-three years ago, beauty queen Peach Rondell left Mississippi and vowed never to return. Now, divorced and heartbroken, she's back and trying to figure out how her life went so miserably wrong, and how to put the pieces back together again. To escape her mama's scrutinizing gaze, she spends her days in a little storefront diner called the Heartbreak Cafe, where, in the back booth, she...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Pub. 2010