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Author
Publisher
Kregel Publications, a division of Kregel, Inc
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
"In the vivid reality of his memory - a haunted and disturbed memory that is a cursed gift - Dr. Richard Powell relives his season of mysteries, a season filled with Boy Scout adventures, blossoming relationships, and realities he cannot fully comprehend. Richard and his friends find themselves drawn into the world of the unexplained - into the realm of the supernatural, and ultimately into a seismic battle between good and evil. Are there truly demonic...
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
2011, ©1996
Language
English
Description
The extraordinary lives, passions, and careers of four great military leaders--Stonewall Jackson, Winfield Scott Hancock, Joshua Chamberlain, and Robert E. Lee--come to a climax as Union and Confederate forces clash on the battlefields of the Civil War. A worthy companion to The Killer Angels ... Shaara brilliantly charts the war, the exploits of the combatants and their motivations. He also concisely shows how the early parts of the campaign unfolded....
64) The land
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Formats
Description
After the Civil War Paul, the son of a white father and a black mother, finds himself caught between the two worlds of colored folks and white folks as he pursues his dream of owning land of his own.
Author
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"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 attacker. Although slavery is over, Parsons, Georgia is still...
Publisher
Heart of Dixie Fiction Writers
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
Southern hospitality is alive and well. In this anthology you may find a little old, a little new, and perhaps some mysterious doings. How about a ghost -- or was it a ghost pepper? Was that a witch, a sprite, an elf, or a seer? You may be looking for a beautiful garden, a mint julep, or a jazz festival. Come on down! Bless your heart, you may never want to leave. What A Day! is a collection of stories about special, memorable days in the lives of...
67) Heart of Dixie
Author
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
2008, c1991
Language
English
Description
Writer Jake Gannon couldn't believe it - his brand-new Porsche had overheated in the middle of nowhere, and now he was being towed by a brunette named Dixie! He'd driven South in search of the missing Devon Stafford, the exquisite blond actress whose life story he wanted to write. Instead, he was living in a seaside cottage owned by Dixie La Fontaine, a feisty, warmhearted woman who rescued strays and was all delicious curves. Dixie admired Jake's...
Author
Series
Last Chance volume 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Ruby always knew her beautiful daughter Rocky wasn't much interested in the local boys - but who'd have thought she'd come home with English royalty? Trouble is, Hugh wants to buy some local land. No one wants to sell, but Rocky's job depends on her closing the deal. And though Hugh is obviously smitten, Ruby isn't sure he's right for her Rocky. Oh, he's classy and handsome - and he did judge pies and fix stock cars at the Watermelon festival - but...
69) High Hearts
Author
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
1987
Language
English
Description
April 12, 1861. Bright, gutsy and young,Geneva Chatfield marries Nash Hart in Albemarle County, Virginia, the same day Fort Sumter's guns fire the start of the Civil War. Five days later she loses him as Nash joins the Confederate Army. Geneva, who is known as the best rider since Light Horse Harry Lee, cuts her hair, dons a uniform, enlists as "Jimmy Chatfield," then rides off to be with her beloved Nash. But sensitive Nash recoils in horror from...
Author
Series
Peachtree Bluff volume 4
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
When the Murphy women are in trouble, they always know they can turn to their mother, Ansley. So when eldest daughter Caroline and her husband, James, announce they are divorcing-and fifteen-year-old daughter Vivi acts out in response-Caroline, at her wits end, can't think of anything to do besides leave her with Ansley in Peachtree Bluff for the holidays. After all, how much trouble can one teenager get into on a tiny island? Quite a lot, as it turns...
Author
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"Beth McKenzie's attempt to turn an old Southern mansion into a Bed and Breakfast called The Dixie Dew is thwarted when her first guest is found dead in bed. Murdered, it turns out. Three days later a young priest who looks better in tennis whites than clerick black, is found strangled in his chapel. The whole town of Littleboro is abuzz, and Ossie Delbardo, the town cop whose job heretofore mainly involved controlling football traffic on Friday nights,...
72) Killer physique
Author
Series
Savannah Reid mystery volume 19
Publisher
Kensington Pub Corp
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
"Plus-sized P.I. Savannah Reid gets a taste of the high life when she attends a Hollywood premiere on the arm of husband Dirk Coulter. Savannah may be a newlywed, but even she gets weak in the knees when she meets celebrity athlete-turned-movie-star Jason Tyrone. So imagine how she feels when the star's rock-hard body is found rock-hard dead... Some guys have everything. With his stunning looks and dazzling charm, Jason Tyrone is America's favorite...
73) Nobody's magic
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"In this glittering triptych novel, Suzette, Maple and Agnes, three Black women with albinism, call Shreveport, Louisiana, home. At the bustling intersection of the American South and Southwest, these three women find themselves at the crossroads of their own lives. Suzette, a pampered twenty-year-old, has been sheltered from the outside world since a dangerous childhood encounter. Now, a budding romance with a sweet mechanic allows Suzette to seek...
Author
Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Moments after Lisbeth is born, she's taken from her mother and handed over to an enslaved wet nurse, Mattie, a young mother separated from her own infant son in order to care for her tiny charge. Thus begins an intense relationship that will shape both of their lives for decades to come. Though Lisbeth leads a life of privilege, she finds nothing but loneliness in the company of her overwhelmed mother and her distant, slave-owning father. As she grows...
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