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Depressions Depressions 1929 Southern States Fiction Large type books Manners and customs Race relations Race relations Fiction Southern States Southern States Race relations Fiction Southern States Race relations History 20th century Fiction Southern States Social life and customs 20th century FictionPatterson, 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Co. 2009
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Summary: Twenty years after the trial of Tom Robinson, Jean Louise Finch--Scout--returns home to Maycomb to visit her father. She 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.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Caedmon 2015
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC LEECopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD Fiction Lee 2015Summary: A young, idealistic, white teacher, confronts all the prejudices of the Deep South when he teaches African Americans at Yamacraw School on an island off the coast of South Carolina.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2006
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD Family Water 2006Patterson, 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: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Audio 2010
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC PATMayhew, 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Books 2011
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1 available in Adult, Call number: P MAYBenz, Chanelle
Summary: Billie James' inheritance isn't much: a little money and a shack in the Mississippi Delta. The house once belonged to her father, a renowned black poet who died unexpectedly when Billie was four years old. Though Billie was there when the accident happened, she has no memory of that day, and she hasn't been back to the South since. Thirty years later, Billie returns but her father's home is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco 2019
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Summary: Betty Jewel Hughes was once the hottest black jazz singer in Memphis. But when she finds herself pregnant and alone, she gives up her dream of being a star to raise her beautiful daughter, Billie, in Shakerag, Mississippi. Now, ten years later, in 1955, Betty Jewel is dying of cancer and looking for someone to care for Billie when she's gone. With no one she can count on, Betty Jewel does the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HUSRoy, Lori
Summary: "Two-time Edgar Award-winning author Lori Roy entangles readers in a heart-pounding tale of two women battling for survival against a century's worth of hate. On the day a black truck rattles past her house and a Klan flyer lands in her front yard, ten-year-old Beth disappears from her Simmonsville, Georgia, home. Armed with skills honed while caring for an alcoholic mother, she must battle to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ROYCopies Available at Fife Lake
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Roy 2019Kidd, Ronald
Summary: Hoping that the arrival of Freedom Riders in her town will help her community shed its antiquated views, thirteen-year-old Billie is forced to confront her own mindset when things turn tragic.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Albert Whitman & Company 2015
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC KIDIles, 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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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC ILELee, Harper.
Summary: The explosion of racial hate in an Alabama town is viewed by a little girl whose father defends a black man accused of rape.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Books 1982
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LEECopies Available at Fife Lake
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2 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC LEEAtakora, Afia
Summary: "Like her mother, Rue is an all-knowing midwife, healer, and conjurer of curses on the plantation of Marse Charles. Moving back and forth in time between the years before and after the Civil War, this novel tells the story of Rue, the families she cares for, and the mysteries and secrets she knows about the plantation owner's daughter, Varina. At the heart of this story is the intimate bonds...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction AtakoraTaylor, Mildred D.
Summary: The story of one African American family fighting to stay together and strong in the face of brutal racist attacks, illness, poverty, and betrayal in the Deep South of the 1930s.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Puffin Books 2004
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC TAYHenderson, Eleanor
Summary: "Cotton County, Georgia, 1930: In a house full of secrets, two babies - one light-skinned, the other dark - are born to Elma Jesup, a white sharecropper's daughter. Accused of her rape, field hand Genus Jackson is lynched and dragged behind a truck down the road to the nearby town. In the aftermath, the farm's inhabitants are forced to contend with their complicity in a series of events that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperLuxe, a trademark of HarperCollins Publishers 2017
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC HENThomas, Kai
Summary: "Young Lensinda Martin is a protegee of a crusading Black journalist and activist in mid-18th century southwestern Ontario, finding a home in a community founded by veterans of the War of 1812 and refugees from the slave-owning states of the American south--whose agents do not always stay on their side of the border. One night, a neighbouring farmer summons Lensinda after a slave hunter is shot...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking Canada 2023
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC THOCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC THOHenderson, Eleanor
Summary: "Novel set in the south during the Great Depression that takes an entirely fresh view on big American themes-- race, heredity, inequality, shame-- set in a time of financial crisis and racialized violence"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HENHansen, Malcolm.
Summary: "The Secret Life of Bees meets Paul Beatty's The White Boy Shuffle in this bold debut novel, set between the deep South and New York City during the 1960s and early 70s, following a biracial teenage boy whose new life in a big city is disrupted by childhood memories of the summer when racial tensions in his hometown reached a tipping point. It's 1969 when fifteen-year-old Huey Fairchild begins...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2018