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To kill a mockingbird volume 1
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A young girl growing up in an Alabama town in the 1930s learns of injustice and violence when her father, a widowed lawyer, defends a black man falsely accused of rape.
Author
Series
Aurora County trilogy volume 2
Description
Comfort Snowberger is well acquainted with death since her family runs the funeral parlor in their small southern town, but even so the ten-year-old is unprepared for the series of heart-wrenching events that begins on the first day of Easter vacation with the sudden death of her beloved great-uncle Edisto.
Publisher
Universal Home Video
Pub. Date
[1999?], c1991
Physical Desc
1 DVD (137 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A chance encounter in a nursing home leads to an unexpected friendship between a dowdy housewife and a spry octagenarian who tells her the story of a fiercely independent woman half a century ago, inspiring the housewife to change her life, often with hilarious results.
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Series
To kill a mockingbird volume 2
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Maycomb, Alabama. Twenty-six-year-old Jean Louise Finch -- "Scout"--Returns home from New York City to visit her aging father, Atticus. Set against the backdrop of the civil rights tensions and political turmoil that were transforming the South, Jean Louise's homecoming turns bittersweet when she learns disturbing truths about her close-knit family, the town and the people dearest to her. Memories from her childhood flood back, and her values and...
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2000, p1992
Physical Desc
1 DVD (120 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A college student and his friend are accused of murder in the depths of the South, and law school graduate cousin Vinny comes to the rescue. The trouble is, Vinny passed the bar on his sixth try and has never appeared in court before.
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Celie is a poor black woman whose letters tell the story of 20 years of her life, beginning at age 14 when she is being abused and raped by her father and attempting to protect her sister from the same fate, and continuing over the course of her marriage to "Mister," a brutal man who terrorizes her. Celie eventually learns that her abusive husband has been keeping her sister's letters from her and the rage she feels, combined with an example of love...
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
c1998
Physical Desc
1 DVD (130 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The setting is a dusty Southern town during the Depression. A white woman accuses a black man of rape. Though he is obviously innocent, the outcome of his trial is such a foregone conclusion that no lawyer will step forward to defend him--except the town's most distinguished citizen. His compassionate defense costs him many friendships but earns him the respect and admiration of his two motherless children.
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Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
vii, 193 p. ; 21 cm.
Description
A holiday collection of short fiction shares vignettes that capture the eccentric lives of the inhabitants of a small Southern town, from an efficiency expert who gets Christmas down to forty-five minutes flat, to a woman who claims John James Audubon is living in her attic.
12) Kindred
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Dana, a modern Black woman, is celebrating her twenty-sixth birthday with her new husband when she is snatched abruptly from her home in California and transported to the antebellum South. Rufus, the white son of a plantation owner, is drowning, and Dana has been summoned across the years to save him. After this first summons, Dana is drawn back, again and again, to the plantation to protect Rufus and ensure that he will grow to manhood and father...
Author
Publisher
Perennial
Pub. Date
2004.
Physical Desc
440 pages ; 21 cm
Description
Andrews returns with another comic Southern novel about the important things in life: marriage and divorce, mothers and daughters, friendship and betrayal, small town secrets and one woman's lifelong quest for a home--and the perfect chicken salad recipe.
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Pub
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
311 p. ; 24 cm.
Description
Laurel Gray Hawthorne's life seems neatly on track--a passionate marriage, a treasured daughter, and a lovely home in suburban Victorianna--until everything she holds dear is suddenly thrown into question the night she is visited by the ghost of her 13-year-old neighbor Molly Dufresne.
Author
Series
Alex Cross novels volume 15
Pub. Date
2009
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Description
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.
16) Beast beast
Publisher
Passion River
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (85 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Three interwoven stories of youth navigating identity, first love, petty crime, and gun violence in a Southern, American town.
Author
Series
Turner novels (James Sallis) volume 3
Publisher
Walker & Co
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
p. cm.
Description
John Turner, deputy sheriff of a small town near Memphis, confronts trouble in the persons of the sheriff's long-lost son, who arrives in what appears to be a stolen car, and old friend Eldon Brown, who is a suspect in a murder he does not know if he committed.
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"After years of working as an FBI agent, Titus Crown returns home to Charon County, land of moonshine and cornbread, fist fights and honeysuckle. Seeing his hometown struggling with a bigoted police force inspires him to run for sheriff. He wins, and becomes the first Black sheriff in the history of the county. Then a year to the day after his election, a young Black man is fatally shot by Titus's deputies. Titus pledges to follow the truth wherever...
19) Rambling Rose
Publisher
Artisan Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2002
Physical Desc
1 DVD (115 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Rose, an alluring young woman, is hired by a Southern family to care for their children, and changes their lives forever. She is an innocent who relates to everyone she meets in the only way she knows how-- with sexuality she cannot restrain. The mother of the family takes Rose under her wing, offering love and protection, while the teenaged son finds Rose both his fantasy and a profound mystery.
20) Between, Georgia
Author
Publisher
Warner Books
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
viii, 294 p. ; 24 cm.
Description
"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 has two families: the Fretts, who stole her and raised...
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