Gonzalez, Audrey Taylor

Summary: Set in 1940s Germantown, Tennessee, "South of Everything" is a magical coming of age story about the daughter of a plantation-owning family, who, despite her privileged background, finds more in common with the help than her own family. She develops a special kinship with her parents servant Old Thomas, who introduces her to the mysterious Lolololo Tree a magical, mystical tree with healing...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: She Writes Press 2015

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Iles, Greg.

Summary: In Natchez, Mississippi, lawyer Penn Cage investigates a civil-rights murder which has been unsolved for thirty years. He discovers an FBI cover-up and that places his life in danger. By the author of Mortal Fear.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 1999

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Iles, Greg

Summary: Grief-stricken and with his world collapsing around him, Penn Cage is shut out of trial preparations by his once-revered Southern doctor father, who is about to be tried for murder in the wake of revelations about a mixed-race child and KKK associations.

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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperLuxe, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2017

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Mayhew, Anna Jean.

Summary: In 1954, 13-year-old Jubie, traveling with her family and her family's black maid Mary Luther--who has always been there for her, making up for her father's rages and her mother's neglect--encounters racial tension and tragedy.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Books 2011

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McCullers, Carson

Summary: With the publication of her first novel, The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, Carson McCullers, all of twenty-three, became a literary sensation. With its profound sense of moral isolation and its compassionate glimpses into its characters' inner lives, the novel is considered McCullers' finest work, an enduring masterpiece first published by Houghton Mifflin in 1940. At its center is the deaf-mute...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Co. 1960

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Summary: Gregory Peck plays a southern lawyer who defends a black man accused of rape in this film version of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. The way in which it captures a time, a place, and above all, a mood, makes this film a masterpiece.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Universal 2005

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Flake, Sharon

Summary: In 1953 ten-year-old Octobia May lives in her Aunt's boarding house in the South, surrounded by an African American community which has its own secrets and internal racism, and spends her days wondering if Mr. Davenport in room 204 is really a vampire--or something else entirely.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2014

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