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Author
Series
To kill a mockingbird volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Twenty years after the trial of Tom Robinson, Scout returns home to Maycomb to visit her father and 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.
2) The partner
Author
Language
English
Description
Patrick Lanigan, a young law partner who faked his death and fled the country with millions of dollars stolen from his law firm, is found in Brazil after a four-year chase, but investigators are about to learn that the hunt is really just beginning.
Author
Series
Passenger novels volume 1
Language
English
Description
In 1980 Pass Christian, Mississippi, salvage diver Bobby Western, after a plane crash, discovers that the pilot's flight bag, the plane's black box and the tenth passenger are missing, submerging him in a conspiracy beyond his understanding as he is shadowed in body and spirit by the past and present.
Author
Series
To kill a mockingbird volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Eight-year-old "Scout" Finch tells of life in a small Alabama town where her father is a lawyer.
Author
Language
English
Description
"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...
Author
Publisher
Perennial
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
5 soound discs (6 hrs) ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In a suburban Atlanta neighborhood where divorce is as rampant as kudzu, Mary Bliss McGowan doesn't notice that her own marriage is in trouble until the summer night she finds a note from her husband, telling her he's gone -- and taken the family fortune with him.
Author
Series
Penn Cage novels volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 27
Language
English
Formats
Description
When former prosecutor Penn Cage returns to his hometown of Natchez, Mississippi, he doesn't find the peace he desperately craves. He finds that his own father is being blackmailed by a corrupt ex-cop. And when Penn investigates, he uncovers a murderous secret-and the small town's violent past....
10) Conjure women
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Conjure Women" is a sweeping story that brings the world of the South before and after the Civil War vividly to life. Spanning eras and generations, it tells of the lives of three unforgettable women: Miss May Belle, a wise healing woman; her precocious and observant daughter Rue, who is reluctant to follow in her mother's footsteps as a midwife; and their master's daughter Varina. The secrets and bonds among these women and their community come...
Author
Series
Kitchen house volume 1
Language
English
Description
When a white servant girl violates the order of plantation society, she unleashes a tragedy that exposes the worst and best in the people she has come to call her family. Orphaned while on board ship from Ireland, seven-year-old Lavinia arrives on the steps of a tobacco plantation where she is to live and work with the slaves of the kitchen house. Under the care of Belle, the master's illegitimate daughter, Lavinia becomes deeply bonded to her adopted...
12) Heartfire
Author
Series
Tales of Alvin Maker volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Formats
Description
Alvin has had a vision of building a Crystal City in which peace and freedom reign, but his wife Peggy has had a vision of death and destruction, so now they must decide which vision they should believe in.
13) The crystal city
Author
Series
Tales of Alvin Maker volume 6
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Formats
Description
In an alternate frontier America in which magic plays a key role, Alvin Maker and his wife, Peggy, work together to create the Crystal City, a place in which Alvin envisions all people can live together in peace.
14) Alvin journeyman
Author
Series
Tales of Alvin Maker volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
Formats
Description
Alvin battles the evil Unmaker in an alternate frontier America where magic and charms actually work.
15) Rogue lawyer
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
On the right side of the law. Sort of. Sebastian Rudd is not your typical street lawyer. He works out of a customized bulletproof van, complete with Wi-Fi, a bar, a small fridge, fine leather chairs, a hidden gun compartment, and a heavily armed driver. He has no firm, no partners, no associates, and only one employee, his driver, who’s also his bodyguard, law clerk, confidant, and golf caddy. He lives alone in a small but extremely safe penthouse...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 26
Language
English
Formats
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
Publisher
Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
xliii, 370 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"The story of a black man who passes for white and becomes a race-baiting U.S. senator. When he is shot on the Senate floor, the first visitor in hospital is a black musician-turned-preacher who raised him. As the two men talk, their respective stories come out."--
20) A longer fall
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...
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