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Author
Pub. Date
1996
Physical Desc
373 pages ; 18 cm
Language
English
Description
Roanna Davenport was raised a wealthy orphan on her grandmother's magnificent Alabama estate, where she had a passion for horses and a deep love for her cousin Webb. After the shocking murder of Webb's wife, Ronna and Webb are drawn together against the killer that once destroyed Webb's life, and waits only for the chance to finish the job.
62) Heartbreak hotel
Author
Language
English
Description
Anne Rivers Siddons is well-loved for her evocative and revealing portraits of Southern women coming into their own. In Heartbreak Hotel, she brings to the reader a young woman coming-of-age in the South of the 1950s-amid the racial revolution and the strife of a humid Alabama summer.
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First Atria Books hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
420 pages : maps ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Buying his freedom after serving as a translator during the American Indian wars, Cow Tom builds a remarkable life and legacy that is sustained by his courageous granddaughter.
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
GN 690L
Physical Desc
272 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
The explosion of racial hate in an Alabama town is viewed by a little girl whose father defends a black man accused of rape.
Author
Series
Publisher
Harlequin Love Inspired
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
215 pages ; 17 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Wynn Sheehan planned to change the world--not return to Alabama alone and pregnant. Her life is in shambles, but at least she can help take care of Latham Grant's ailing grandpa. Latham isn't ready to trust the woman who eagerly left him and their small town behind. But can they ignore the spark rekindled by unexpected Family Blessings?" -- Page [4] cover.
66) The snowbirds
Author
Pub. Date
2003
Edition
Large print ed.
Physical Desc
432 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xii, 288 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Rumors are sprouting in Depression-era Darling, Alabama. The town's newest visitors, Nona Jean Jamison and Miss Lake, may be the Naughty and Nice Sisters from the Ziegfeld Frolic, who specialize in dancing nearly naked. The Dahlias suspect more than modesty when Nona denies her association.
68) Fourmile
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
580L
Physical Desc
227 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"A mysterious stranger arrives at a boy's rundown Alabama farm home, just as a dangerous situation is unfolding for the twelve-year-old and his widowed mother"--
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Sadie Way Scott has been avoiding her family and hometown of Sugarberry Cove, Alabama, since she nearly drowned in the lake just outside her mother's B&B. Eight years later, Sadie is the host of a much-loved show about southern cooking and family, but despite her success, she wonders why she was saved. What is she supposed to do? Sadie's sister, Leala Clare, is still haunted by the guilt she feels over the night her sister almost died. Now, at a...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2000
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
260 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Though unalike as snowflakes, sisters Patricia Anne and Mary Alice share a sympathetic heart for their distraught cousin Luke -- known affectionately in his boyhood as "Pukey Lukey," because of his penchant for getting sick in moving vehicles. Luke is desperate to hunt down Virginia, his wife of forty years, who has run off with a housepainter/snake-handling preacher named "Monk." And the sisters have graciously agreed to accompany their stricken...
Author
Series
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
298 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
In 1975, thirteen-year-old Ruby Mae Vickers disappears in Alvin, Alabama. Leah Teal, new detective of Alvin, is assigned to the case. After three months, Ruby Mae finally turns up dead beneath a willow beside a swamp. Twelve years later, another little girl goes missing. Then another. Leah is sure these incidents are connected to the one she failed to solve a dozen years ago. The job of finding them again falls to Leah. She's not prepared for the...
72) Captain Phillips
Publisher
Columbia Pictures
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
Widescreen ver.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 134 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Based on the true story of Captain Richard Phillips and the 2009 hijacking by Somali pirates of the US-flagged MV Maersk Alabama, which was the first American cargo ship to be hijacked in two hundred years.
73) The wedding gift
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"When prestigious plantation owner Cornelius Allen gives his daughter Clarissa's hand in marriage, she takes with her a gift: Sarah, her slave and her half-sister. Raised by an educated mother, Clarissa is not the proper Southern belle she appears to be--with ambitions of loving whom she chooses--and Sarah equally hides behind the facade of being a docile house slave as she plots to escape. Both women bring these tumultuous secrets and desires with...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A powerful and moving teen graphic novel memoir about immigration, belonging, and how arts can save a life--perfect for fans of American Born Chinese and Hey, Kiddo. For as long as she can remember, it's been Robin and her mom against the world. Growing up as the only child of a single mother in Seoul, Korea, wasn't always easy, but it has bonded them fiercely together. So when a vacation to visit friends in Huntsville, Alabama, unexpectedly becomes...
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (123 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In 1973, a spiritual awakening captured the heart of nearly every player of the Woodlawn High School football team, including its coach Tandy Gerelds. Their dedication to love and unity in a school filled with racism and hate leads to the largest high school football game ever played in the torn city of Birmingham, Alabama, and the rise of its first African American superstar, Tony Nathan.
Author
Series
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
282 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"An arsonist is targeting schools in Birmingham, Alabama--with devastating effect. Detective Devereaux--a man you can't quite trust and should never ignore--must put a stop to the elusive pyromaniac's reign of terror before more damage is done. Or worse, before students' lives are lost. But as Devereaux sifts through the ashes of the case, a grisly discovery at a burned-out school sends the investigation spiraling in a new, terrifying direction. The...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"With mysterious serial murders putting peaceful Lexington, Alabama, on edge, Jessie and Hubert Wiggins' steadfast calm and devotion to each other reassures everyone that faith will see them through. But Jessie and Hubert have paid a terrible hidden cost to maintain their devout facade and respectable standing. Nothing can allay the guilt they feel--or stop the growing distrust between them ..."--
With serial murders putting peaceful Lexington, Alabama,...