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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 26
Language
English
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Description
At the age of twelve, an orphan named Will Cooper is given a horse, a key, and a map and is sent on a journey through the wilderness to the edge of the Cherokee Nation, the uncharted white space on the map. Will is a bound boy, obliged to run a remote Indian trading post. As he fulfills his lonesome duty, Will finds a father in Bear, a Cherokee chief, and is adopted by him and his people, developing relationships that ultimately forge Willś character....
Author
Publisher
Simon and Schuster
Pub. Date
[2003]
Physical Desc
339 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Welcome to Higby follows the hilarious goings-on in a small town in northern Mississippi over Labor Day weekend. From mousy Carmen Valentine, whose guardian angel, Arnetta, gives her penny-pinching shopping tips, to addled old Hank Grammar, who preaches Jesus to his neighbors' pets, Higby's townsfolk have a knack for getting into -- and trouble getting out of -- outrageous situations.
Author
Series
Publisher
Vintage Books
Pub. Date
1990
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 14
Physical Desc
326 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
First published in 1929, Faulkner created his "heart's darling," the beautiful and tragic Caddy Compson, whose story Faulkner told through separate monologues by her three brothers--the idiot Benjy, the neurotic suicidal Quentin and the monstrous Jason.
Author
Series
Gunnie Rose novels volume 2
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In this second ... installment of the Gunnie Rose series, Lizbeth Rose is hired onto a new crew for a seemingly easy protection job, transporting a crate into Dixie, just about the last part of the former United States of America she wants to visit. But what seemed like a straight-forward job turns into a massacre as the crate is stolen. Up against a wall in Dixie, where social norms have stepped back into the last century, Lizbeth has to go undercover...
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
176 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Harry Buelle awakes confused one morning in his bathtub. His stepmother phones him, complaining that his father, a successful-and cantankerous-elderly playwright, has stopped taking his heart medicine. Harry has never heard her sound so tired, and, with his own life in shambles, agrees to join his parents-and his sister and her husband-at their Southern beach house retreat. Having the whole family together, cooped up in the same space, gives rise...
Author
Language
English
Description
"In the fall of 1863, the Union Army is in control of the Mississippi River. Much of Louisiana, including New Orleans and Baton Rouge, is occupied. The Confederate Army is in disarray, corrupt structures are falling apart, and enslaved men and women are beginning to glimpse freedom. When Hannah Laveau, an enslaved woman working on the Lufkin plantation, is accused of murder, she goes on the run with Florence Milton, an abolitionist schoolteacher,...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
423 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
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"Biloxi's best criminal defense attorney becomes the nation's prime suspect when his wife is murdered. He's never lost a case, but can he win when he's presumed guilty?"--
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