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Author
Series
Jack Reacher volume 16
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
Description
Traces the story of Jack Reacher's early life in the military before the events that rendered him a vigilante hero on the road.
3) Blackwood
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
293 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"In this timeless, mythical tale of unforgiving justice and elusive grace, rural Mississippi townsfolk shoulder the pain of generations as something dangerous lurks in the enigmatic kudzu of the woods." --
4) Sycamore row
Author
Series
Jake Brigance volume 2
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 28
Language
English
Formats
Description
When wealthy Seth Hubbard hangs himself from a sycamore tree and leaves his fortune to his black maid, Jake Brigance once again finds himself embroiled in a fiercely controversial trial -- a trial that will expose old racial tensions and force Ford County to confront its tortured history.
Author
Series
Sarah Booth Delaney volume 11
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
viii, 340 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
6) Greedy bones
Author
Series
Sarah Booth Delaney volume 9
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
310 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Author
Series
Sarah Booth Delaney volume 3
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
c2002
Physical Desc
308 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 24
Language
English
Description
Pete Banning was Clanton's favorite son, a returning war hero, the patriarch of a prominent family, a farmer, father, neighbor, and a faithful member of the Methodist church. Then one cool October morning in 1946. he rose early, drove into town, walked into the church, and calmly shot and killed the Reverend Dexter Bell. As if the murder wasn't shocking enough, it was even more baffling that Pete's only statement about it - to the sheriff, to his...
Author
Series
China Bayles volume 12
Publisher
Berkley Books
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
323p. 25cm.
Language
English
10) The innocents
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
When the investigation into Milly Jones' brutal death begins to look like more than a senseless act of violence, Sheriff Quinn Colson and his deputy, Lillie Virgil must contend with the national media and federal authorities interfering.
11) Bloodroot
Author
Series
China Bayles volume 10
Publisher
Berkley Pub. Group
Pub. Date
2001
Physical Desc
306p. 23cm.
Language
English
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Enduring a hardscrabble existence as the children of alcoholic and absent parents, four siblings from a coastal Mississippi town prepare their meager stores for the arrival of Hurricane Katrina while struggling with such challenges as a teen pregnancy and a dying litter of prize pups.
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
viii, 339 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Tracking down a porn star-turned-psychic who has promised to reunite an eccentric billionaire with her dead child, a suspicious Sarah Booth goes undercover as a maid at the billionaire's estate, where she discovers multiple murders and a host of suspects.
17) Ain't she sweet?
Author
Publisher
W. Morrow
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
Returning to her home town, Sugar Beth Carey discovers several old enemies living out the life she left behind, from the half-sister who married Sugar Beth's high school sweetheart to a former teacher who bought her childhood home.
Author
Publisher
Vintage International
Pub. Date
1990
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 6
Physical Desc
180 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Laurel Hand, long absent from the South, comes from Chicago to New Orleans, where her father dies after surgery. With Fay, the stupid new young wife of her father, Laurel returns to her former Mississippi home and stays a few days after the funeral for reunions with old friends. In a night alone in the house she grew up in, she confronts elements of the past and comes to a better understanding of it and of herself and her parents.
19) A time for mercy
Author
Series
Brigance volume Bk. 3
Publisher
Doubleday
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
464 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Court-appointed lawyer Jake Brigance puts his career, his financial security, and the safety of his family on the line to defend a sixteen-year-old suspect who is accused of killing a local deputy and facing the death penalty.
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
"A searing and profound Southern odyssey by National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward. In Jesmyn Ward's first novel since her National Book Award-winning Salvage the Bones, this singular American writer brings the archetypal road novel into rural twenty-first-century America. Drawing on Morrison and Faulkner, The Odyssey and the Old Testament, Ward gives us an epochal story, a journey through Mississippi's past and present that is both an intimate portrait...