Twain, Mark
Summary: Huckleberry Finn, rebel against school and church, casual inheritor of gold treasure, rafter of the Mississippi, and savior of Jim the runaway slave, is the archetypal American maverick. Fleeing the respectable society that wants to "sivilize" him, Huck Finn shoves off with Jim on a rhapsodic raft journey down the Mississippi River.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2008
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Summary: "Ace and Chance Jensen serve on a jury that convicts a killer. The brother of the hanged killer comes to town with plans to slaughter the jurors one by one, but the Jensen boys don't plan to let him succeed"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2017
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC JOHSummary: This musical rendering of Mark Twain's classic captures the genuine friendship between Huckleberry Finn and Jim. Strong-willed and self-raised, Huck decides to flee his hometown of Hannibal, Missouri, when his cruel absentee father tries to kidnap him. Accompanying him is the sharp-witted Jim, who fears he is about to be sold. As this unlikely pair journey north to freedom, they develop a bond...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2005
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD Family Huckleberry 2005Darraj, Susan Muaddi
Summary: Eleven-year-old Farah spends much of her summer trying to earn money to attend an enrichment camp at her new school, but someone is sabotaging her by taking down her fliers. Includes instructions for growing crystals and glossaries.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint 2021
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC DARWard, 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
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC WARJenoff, Pam
Summary: 1942. Sadie Gault is eighteen and living with her parents amid the horrors of the Krakow Ghetto during World War II. When the Nazis liquidate the ghetto, Sadie and her pregnant mother are forced to seek refuge in the perilous sewers beneath the city. One day Sadie looks up through a grate and sees a girl about her own age buying flowers. Ella Stepanek is an affluent Polish girl living a life of...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Harlequin Audio 2021
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CDA FIC JENWard, 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
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC WARShrum, Brianna R.
Summary: "Margo Zimmerman is gay, but she didn't know until now. An overachiever at heart, Margo is determined to ace her newly discovered gayness. All she needs is the right tutor. Abbie Sokoloff has her own gayness down to a science. But a flunking grade in US History is threatening her acceptance to her dream school. All she needs is the right tutor. Margo agrees to help Abbie get her history grade...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Inkyard Press 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC SHRJordan, Apple
Summary: While traveling to Troll Valley to celebrate the Crystal Ceremony, Anna, Elsa, and their friends help a young troll named Little Rock.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2017
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1 available in Beginning Readers - New Reader (Green), Call number: JBR GREEN JORTwain, Mark
Summary: Set in a 19th-century town along the Mississippi River, Mark Twain's classic and much-loved novel presents a young and mischievous boy, Tom Sawyer, and his numerous antics. Through adventures and a cast of colorful characters, Tom learns much about becoming a young man even while clinging to his boyhood.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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Summary: Convinced that if she looks like a monster on the outside (a blood tumor covers half of her face), she must be a monster on the inside as well, Sophie tries to find a cure before her mother finds out the truth.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Shadow Mountain 2019
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC SWOJames, Miranda
Summary: "The New York Times bestselling author of No Cats Allowed and Arsenic and Old Books is back with more Southern charm and beguiling mystery as Charlie and Diesel must find a killer in a room full of librarians ... Light-hearted librarian Charlie Harris is known around his hometown of Athena, Mississippi, for walking his cat, a rescued Maine Coon named Diesel. But he may soon be taken for a walk...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wheeler Publishing, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2018
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC JAMHarris, Charlaine
Summary: Aurora Teagarden is basking in the news of her pregnancy when disaster strikes her small Georgia town, four kids vanish from the school soccer field in an afternoon. Aurora's fifteen year old brother Phillip is one of them. While the local police and sheriff's department comb the county for the missing kids and interview everyone even remotely involved, Aurora and her new husband, true crime...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC HARMustian, 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
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3 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MUSCopies Available at Peninsula
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Mustian 2021Salazar, Alicia
Summary: Camila and her Papa enter a televised baking competition, but trying to do everything herself results in a mess so Papa helps to bake strawberry-iced cake pops that could make them sta
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Publisher / Publication Date: Picture Window Books 2021
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Summary: "Sarah Booth has traded in hosting this Christmas season for a road trip with her besties. Each little Delta town has a special Christmas activity, and Sarah Booth's bff and detective partner, Tinkie, has arranged to rent a limo for the gang and drive to Columbus, MS, to stay in a B&B. Visions of Christmas shopping, parade floats, and romantic rendezvous are already dancing in their heads. But...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HAISpencer, Elizabeth
Summary: Over the course of a career that spanned six decades, the southern novelist and short story writer Elizabeth Spencer established herself as one of the finest literary artists of a generation that included Flannery O'Connor, Carson McCullers, and Eudora Welty. This definitive volume brings together three remarkable novels: The Voice at the Back Door, her powerful masterpiece about racial...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SPEMustian, 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
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1 available in Book Club Kit, Call number: FIC MUS BOOK CLUB KIT (8 paperbacks)Haines, Carolyn
Summary: Zinnia, Mississippi is rife with quirky characters, but the arrival of three sister witches-and their intention to open a Wiccan boarding school-sets the small town on its ear. And bodies begin to accumulate as a result. Faith, Hope, and Charity Harrington are sexy and smart. They're setting up their boarding school in an old dairy'a piece of property with tremendous development potential. And...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2018
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC HAIChild, Lee.
Summary: A young woman is dead, and solid evidence points to a soldier at a nearby military base. But that soldier has powerful friends in Washington. Elite military cop Jack Reacher is ordered undercover the truth.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2011
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2 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC CHIAtkins, Ace
Summary: "Sheriff Quinn Colson and his former deputy Lillie Virgil find themselves on opposite sides of a case for the first time after a woman is found dead and three delinquent teens go on the run"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2021
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC ATKLu, Marie
Summary: "Talin is a Striker, a member of an elite fighting force that stands as the last defense for the only free nation in the world: Mara. A refugee, Talin knows firsthand the horrors of the Federation, a world-dominating war machine responsible for destroying nation after nation with its terrifying army of mutant beasts known only as Ghosts. But when a mysterious prisoner is brought from the front...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Puck 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Foreign Language, Call number: YA FOREIGN SPANISH LUAtkins, Ace
Summary: "The extraordinary new novel in the New York Times-bestselling author's acclaimed series about the real Deep South--"a joy ride into the heart of darkness" (The Washington Post). She was just seventeen, a high school dropout named Milly Jones, found walking down the middle of the highway, engulfed in flames. Even in a tough Mississippi county like Tibbehah, it shatters the community, and it is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2016
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Atkins 2016Copies Available at Peninsula
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: M ATKDarraj, Susan Muaddi
Summary: Eleven-year-old Farah spends much of her summer trying to earn money to attend an enrichment camp at her new school, but someone is sabotaging her by taking down her fliers. Includes instructions for growing crystals and glossaries.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books 2021