Barnes, Jennifer (Jennifer Lynn)
Summary: While spending a summer at the family lake house, eighteen-year-old Sawyer finally learns the full truth about her complicated family.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Freeform Books 2019
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC BARBarnes, Jennifer (Jennifer Lynn)
Summary: Sawyer Taft did not expect her estranged grandmother to show up at her apartment door and offer her a six-figure contract to participate in debutante season. She'd rather immerse herself in car repairs than in her grandmother's "society." But accepting might mean discovering the answer to the biggest mystery of her life: her father's identity. She's in for a year of makeovers, big dresses,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Freeform Books 2018
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC BARGonzalez, 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: She Writes Press 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GONJackson-Brown, Angela
Summary: "Opal Pruitt is just about to turn 18 in the oppressively hot summer of 1936. She works hard at her job, takes care of her beloved Granny, and dreams about boys with her cousin Lucille. The young black teenager's journey to adulthood will be forged in fire, though, as the Ku Klux Klan attacks her Colored Town neighborhood and she endures a vicious beating at the hands of an unknown white...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Nelson 2021
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC JACWalker, Alice
Summary: Tells the story of two African-American sisters: Nettie, a missionary in Africa, and Celie, a child-wife living in the south, in the medium of their letters to each other and in Celie's case, the desperate letters she begins, "Dear God."
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 0000
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1 available in Book Club Kit, Call number: BOOK CLUB KIT FIC WALLee, Harper.
Summary: Twenty years after the trial of Tom Robinson, Scout returns home to Maycomb to visit her father and struggles with personal and political issues as her small Alabama town adjusts to the turbulent events beginning to transform the United States in the mid-1950s.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION LEEJackson, Joshilyn.
Summary: Nonny Frett understands the meaning of "between a rock and a hard place." She's got two mothers, "one deaf-blind and the other four baby steps from flat crazy." She's got two men: her husband, easing out the back door; and her best friend, laying siege to her heart in her front yard. She has a job that holds her in the city, and she's addicted to a little girl stuck deep in the country. And she...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Books 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JACJackson, Joshilyn.
Summary: Unduly familiar with choosing between sides throughout her lifetime, Nonny Frett finds herself once again caught in the middle between an escalating family feud that began before her birth and the realization of her own dreams.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Pub. 2006
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC JACMotion, 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 MOTKincaid, Nanci.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KINKing, Cassandra
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2005
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC KINHinton, J. Lynne.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Pub. 2003
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC HINKing, Cassandra
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KINStroud, Carsten
Summary: "Somewhere in the American South, there is a town where something is very, very wrong. A place where malicious men may die, but malice...never. When Carsten Stroud's previous novel, Niceville, was published, Elmore Leonard wrote: "I hope Mr. Stroud, having had so much fun writing Niceville, listening to his people give him terrific dialogue, is writing a sequel or another one like it." We give...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STRJohnson, T. Geronimo (Tyrone Geronimo)
Summary: "From the PEN/Faulkner finalist and critically acclaimed author of Hold it 'Til it Hurts comes a dark and socially provocative southern-fried comedy about four liberal UC Berkeley students who stage a mock lynching during a Civil War reenactment--a fierce, funny, tragic work from a bold new writer"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JOHBeattie, Ann
Summary: "Onlookers is a story collection about people living in the same Southern town whose lives intersect in surprising ways"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BEAStowe, Harriet Beecher
Summary: Contains three novels on the topics of slavery, romance, and changes in the lifestyles in an old small town.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 1982
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STOStowe, 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 WOOJones, 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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Summary: Available for the first time in a single volume are the three holiday stories that Truman Capote regarded as among his greatest works of short fiction. Two of these childhood memoirs - "A Christmas Memory" and "The Thanksgiving Visitor" - center on the author's early years with a family of distant relatives in rural Alabama. Both pay loving tribute to an eccentric old-maid cousin, Miss Sook...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Modern Library 1996
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CAPAdams, Richard
Summary: Examines the events of the Civil War through the eyes of General Robert E. Lee's closest companion and devoted horse, Traveller.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 1988
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ADAShaara, Jeff
Summary: This epic story traces the lives, passions, and careers of great military leaders from the first gathering clouds of the Civil War. Here is Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson, the greatest commander of the Civil War. We also find Winfield Scott Hancock, one of the finest leaders in the Union army, and Joshua Chamberlain, who gives up a promising academic career to become one of the most heroic soldiers...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print in association with Ballantine Books 1996
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC SHASummary: 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