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With a Southern Touch With a Southern Touch Heather Graham,Jennifer Blake,Diana Palmer The romance of the American South is brought to life in this anthology written by three of today's most popular romance writers. These distinctly Southern tales are set in Louisiana, Florida, and Geo… OL15164888W
Return fire Return fire Glenn Blake 96 p. ; 23 cm OL15408656W
Tennessee Rose Tennessee Rose Jane F. Kendall Although raised on a southern plantation and owned by a Confederate officer, a Tennessee walking horse helps a slave during the Civil War. OL16183984W
Light in the darkness Light in the darkness Lesa Cline-Ransome Risking a whipping if they are discovered, Rosa and her mama sneak away from their slave quarters during the night to a hidden location in a field where they learn to read and write. OL16571858W
Summer rose Summer rose Elizabeth Sinclair A tragedy transformed Rose Hamilton from a surrogate mother for her foster sister into a single mother expecting twins. When she walks into Dr Hunter Mackenzie's wildlife rehab clinic, all he sees is… OL16607757W
Rogue Lawyer Rogue Lawyer John Grisham,Mark Deakins 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 heavil… OL17362473W
A matter of souls A matter of souls Denise Lewis Patrick A series of vignettes reveal life in the Deep South for African Americans as they experience discrimination in a doctor's office, lynching, and other forms of oppression, especially during the 1960s. OL17822787W
Starr of the southwest Starr of the southwest Cherry Wilson A collection of two magazine stories, originally published in 1927 and 1936, featuring the Hallet family. OL17868786W
Ellen Foster Ellen Foster Kaye Gibbons Having suffered abuse and misfortune for much of her life, a young child searches for a better life and finally gets a break in the home of a loving woman with several foster children. OL1802338W
Southern Local Color Southern Local Color Barbara C. Ewell,Mark Twain,George Washington Cable,Joel Chandler Harris,Kate Chopin,Pamela Glenn Menke Conflict, exoticism, sensuality, eccentricity, and the sheer differences of the American South pervade this lively anthology, the first in fifty years to focus exclusively on the nineteenth-century t… OL19534366W
The twelve-mile straight The twelve-mile straight Eleanor Henderson Cotton County, Georgia, 1930: in a house full of secrets, two babies, one light-skinned, the other dark, are born to Elma Jesup, a white sharecropper2s daughter. Accused of her rape, field hand Genus… OL19724092W
Little White Lies Little White Lies Jennifer Lynn Barnes **"I'M NOT SAYING THIS IS SAWYER'S FAULT," THE PRIM AND PROPER ONE SAID DELICATELY. "BUT."** **E**ighteen-year-old auto mechanic Sawyer Taft did not expect her estranged grandmother to show up at… OL19764661W
Unbound Unbound Ann E. Burg The day nine-year-old Grace is called to work in the kitchen in the Big House, everyone warns her to to keep her head down and her thoughts to herself, but the more she sees of the oppressive Master … OL19908489W
The invention of wings The invention of wings Sue Monk Kidd Hetty "Handful" Grimké, an urban slave in early nineteenth century Charleston, yearns for life beyond the suffocating walls that enclose her within the wealthy Grimké household. The Grimké's daughter… OL19976144W
Killer gourmet Killer gourmet G. A. McKevett The opening of Ryan and John's new gourmet restaurant is shattered by the murder of their temperamental chef, prompting Savannah and the Moonlight Magnolia gang to sift through a wide range of suspec… OL19995237W
Glory over everything Glory over everything Kathleen Grissom "The author of the New York Times bestseller and beloved book club favorite The Kitchen House continues the story of Jamie Pyke, son of both a slave and master of Tall Oakes, whose deadly secret comp… OL20022916W
Master of the Delta Master of the Delta Thomas Cook,Thomas H. Cook Jack Branch, the last son of an aristocratic Old South family, has returned to his hometown, taking on the job of teacher at the local high school. When he sets his students a paper entitled 'The Mos… OL21735647W
Nothing with strings Nothing with strings Bailey White A holiday collection of short fiction shares vignettes that capture the eccentric lives of the inhabitants of a small Southern town, from an efficiency expert who gets Christmas down to forty-five mi… OL2730364W
Their Eyes Were Watching God Their Eyes Were Watching God Zora Neale Hurston <p><i>Their Eyes Were Watching God</i> (1937) is a classic Harlem Renaissance novel by American writer Zora Neale Hurston. The novel follows Janie Crawford as she recounts the story of her life as sh… OL27778127W
Learning by heart Learning by heart Ronder Thomas Young In the early 1960s, ten-year-old Rachel sees changes in her family and her small Southern town as she tries to sort out how she feels about her young black maid, racial prejudice, and her responsibil… OL3336677W
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