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Chemical industry Fiction Chemical industry Waste disposal Environmental aspects Fiction Corporations Corrupt practices Fiction Delaney, Sarah Booth (Fictitious character) Fiction Large type books Mississippi Fiction Murder Investigation Fiction Natchez Trace Parkway Fiction Wall Street (New York, N.Y.) Fiction Women private investigators Mississippi FictionBaldacci, David
Summary: When his father is charged with murder and refuses to do anything to prove his innocence, Will Robie returns as an outsider to his hometown of Cantrell, Mississippi--where is he is met with distrust--to conduct his own investigation.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC BALRozan, S. J
Summary: Informed that an unknown cousin is in jail, Chinese-American private detective Lydia Chin and her partner, Bill Smith, travel to the Mississippi Delta, where they confront river-levee disputes, computer scams, and questions about her cousin's innocence.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Crime 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Rozan 2019Grisham, John.
Summary: When a judge returns a shocking verdict against a chemical company accused of dumping toxic waste in a small Mississippi town, the company's billionaire owner seeks to influence the appeal process by using his money to "buy" a seat on the state Supreme Court.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Español 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 468 FIC GRIHaines, Carolyn
Summary: "It's Halloween season in Mississippi as Sarah Booth and the gang gather to decorate and gush over Tinkie's new baby, Maylin. Sarah Booth is just about to bring out the snacks when she hears the doorbell chime and opens it to find a woman named Frankie, distraught at the disappearance of her daughter Christa, a young journalist. Christa had been investigating the disappearance of young women in...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC HAIAllan, Barbara.
Summary: When her "charmingly eccentric" mother Vivian is accused of killing mousy-haired busybody Connie Grimes after they were both involved in a bit of a scuffle, Brandy Borne must find the truth, which immerses her in a scandal involving questionable antiques and dark family secrets.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Pub. 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ALLHaines, Carolyn
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 HAITaylor, Mildred D.
Summary: Four black children growing up in rural Mississippi during the Depression experience racial antagonisms and hard times, but learn from their parents the pride and self-respect they need to survive.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Press 1981
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC TAYMcFadden, Bernice L.
Summary: The story is narrated by the town of Money, Mississippi. Tass Hilson and Emmett Till were young and in love when Emmett was murdered in 1955. Anxious to escape the town, Tass marries Maximillian May and relocates to Detroit. Forty years later, after the death of her husband, Tass returns to Money and fanstasy takes flesh when Emmett Till's spirit is finally released from the waters of the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Akashic Books 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCFHaines, Carolyn.
Summary: Sarah Booth Delaney is both a Southern lady and a skilled detective, but her latest case takes her into the murky world of New Orleans where motives for murder, and a list of suspects, are numerous.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HAIJames, 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
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Summary: "Sarah Booth Delaney's fiance, Graf Milieu, has become depressed while recovering from a severe leg injury, but Sarah Booth knows just how to help him heal. She's arranged a romantic getaway for the two of them at a lovely beach cottage on Dauphin Islandoff the Gulf Coast. On the first day of their island adventure, they take a historical tour led by Angela Trotter, a young woman well-versed in...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HAIHaines, Carolyn.
Summary: Suspecting that a wealthy new client might be committing fraud through her claim about a stolen necklace worth millions, private investigator Sarah Booth Delaney investigates the sordid past of the woman's family and faces a difficult choice when the woman herself goes missing.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2011
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC HAIFaulkner, 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
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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
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HAIBarr, Nevada.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Putnam's 2000
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1 available in Adult, Call number: MYS BARPatterson, James
Summary: Detective Alex Cross tells the story of an ancestor, Abraham Cross, and his experiences with lawyer Ben Corbett, recounting one man's pursuit of justice in the face of the resurgence of Ku Klux Klan racism and violence in 1906 Eudora, Mississippi.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Co. 2009
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Summary: Assigned to historic Mt. Locust, an old plantation and inn on Mississippi's Natchez Trace Parkway, Anna Pigeon finds a corpse in one of the inn's bedrooms. The body bears what looks like brutal scars from an S&M ritual and on the night table sits an open Bible with passages circled in red. When Anna learns that the deceased is the brother of a man running for local sheriff, her investigation...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2002
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC BARGrisham, John.
Summary: Wall Street millionaire Carl Trudeau purchases an unsuspecting candidate to run for Supreme Court judge when a Mississippi jury rules agains one of his chemical companies for dumping toxic waste into the towns water supply, causing a cancer cluster.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2008
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2 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC GRIGrisham, John.
Summary: Wall street millionaire Carl Trudeau purchases an unsuspecting Mississippi State Supreme Court judge candidate when a lower court rules against one of his chemical companies for dumping toxic waste into a small town's water supply causing a cancer cluster.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: LP FIC GRIBarr, Nevada.
Summary: Working at Mt. Locust, a historic Mississippi plantation, park ranger Anna Pigeon comes upon the body of the brother of a local candidate for sheriff, and must deal with dark family secrets and political intrigue as she investigates the crime.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2002
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1 available in Adult, Call number: MYS BARHaines, Carolyn.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2009
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP M HAIGwin, Minrose
Summary: "In the fall of 1957, Olivia McAlister is living in Opelika, Mississippi, caring for her two girls, June and Grace, and her husband, Holly. She dreams of living a much larger life--seeing the world and returning to her wartime job at a landing boat factory in New Orleans. As she watches over the birds in her yard, Olivia feels like an "accidental"--a migratory bird blown off course. When...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GWIFoster, Sharon Ewell.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Alabaster 2000