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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.
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Ellen Foster duology volume 1
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"When I was little I would think of ways to kill my daddy. I would figure out this or that way and run it down through my head until it got easy." So begins the tale of Ellen Foster, the brave and engaging heroine of Kaye Gibbons's first novel. An eleven-year-old girl tells her unforgettable story with honesty, perceptivity, humor, and unselfconscious heroism.
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[1985]
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Light in August is the story of Lena Grove's search for the father of her unborn child, and features one of Faulkner's most memorable characters: Joe Christmas, a desperate drifter consumed by his mixed ancestry. Faulkner makes of Joe's tragedy a powerful indictment of racism; at the same time Joe's life is a study of the divided self and becomes a symbol of 20th century man.
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Turner novels (James Sallis) volume 3
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Walker & Co
Pub. Date
c2007
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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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Perennial
Pub. Date
2004.
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440 pages ; 21 cm
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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.
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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...
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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...
11) Pew
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2020.
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207 pages ; 20 cm
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"A human-like creature emerges in a small town and sends the citizens into a frenzy"--
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Freeform Books
Pub. Date
2018.
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390 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
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Eighteen-year-old auto mechanic 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 definitely never imagined she would accept, but when she realizes that immersing herself in her grandmother's "society" might mean discovering the answer to the biggest mystery of her life-her father's identity-she signs on the dotted line and braces herself...
15) Between, Georgia
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Warner Books
Pub. Date
2006
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viii, 294 p. ; 24 cm.
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"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...
16) Soul catcher
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William Morrow
Pub. Date
2007
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418 p. : map ; 24 cm.
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Struggling to forget a war-marked past and a future compromised by poor choices and debt, slave tracker Augustus Cain is hired by a plantation owner to retrieve a runaway slave named Rosetta.
17) Sweet and deadly
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Summary: Catherine Linton, society editor for the newspaper in a small Southern town, whose parents were killed in a mysterious "accident," finds a body in a shack and discovers deadly secrets in the town she thought she knew.
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c2009
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In the small river town of La Luna, Louisiana, Calla Lily Ponder enjoys a blissful childhood at her mother's side, learns the art of healing through the humble womanly art of "fixing hair," and encounters first love with a boy named Tuck. When Tuck leaves her, Calla transforms her sorrow into inspiration and heads for the wild and colorful city of New Orleans--where she realizes the full power of her "healing hands" and Tuck presents her with an offer...
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