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Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
c1999
Language
English
Description
After graduating from law school, Robb McDaniel joins a small, prestigious law firm and marries the senior partner's daughter, leaving behind his high school sweetheart, but as the years pass and Robb's life becomes more complicated, he begins to regret giving up the simple, small town life he could have had with the only woman he ever really loved.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
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Voted America's Best-Loved Novel in PBS's The Great American Read
Harper Lee's Pulitzer Prize-winning masterwork of honor and injustice in the deep South—and the heroism of one man in the face of blind and violent hatred
One of the most cherished stories of all time, To Kill a Mockingbird has been translated into more than forty languages, sold more than forty million copies worldwide,
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Language
English
Description
Set in a Southern, city-swallowed town, The Garden Angel tells the story of two women and their unlikey friendship. Cutter Johanson is plucky and eccentric, nostalgic about her family's once glorious past. She has her hands full warding off potential buyers from the dilapidated homestead she is determined to keep. Though the neighborhood has changed, even grown shabby, Father Bob's Home for Retarded Men across the street has become a sort of extended...
4) Front desk
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
Recent immigrants from China and desperate for work and money, ten-year-old Mia Tang's parents take a job managing a rundown motel in Southern California, even though the owner Mr. Yao is a nasty skinflint who exploits them; while her mother (who was an engineer in China) does the cleaning, Mia works the front desk and tries to cope with demanding customers and other recent immigrants--not to mention being only one of two Chinese in her fifth grade...
5) Ticktock
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
1997
Language
English
Description
Tommy Phan, a thirty-year-old Vietnamese-American detective novelist, is forced to run for his life when the odd rag doll he found lying on his doorstep turns into an indestructible reptilian creature with evil intent.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
John Turner, deputy sheriff of a small town near Memphis, confronts trouble in the persons of the sheriff's long-lost son, who arrives in what appears to be a stolen car, and old friend Eldon Brown, who is a suspect in a murder he does not know if he committed.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
Description
Former secret agent Cotton Malone and Stephanie Nelle, a U.S. Justice Department prosecutor, must solve the mystery of fourteenth-century Templar riches and secrets before Raymond de Roquefort and his murderous allies prevail.
10) Southeast
Author
Series
Publisher
Cherry Lake Pub
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Photographs and text introduce the American Southeast, discussing region's history, climate, landforms, wildlife, cultures, economy, and related topics, and including cooking instructions to make a popular recipe from the region and other activities.
Author
Language
English
Description
"A delightful and hilarious tale." -- Chattanooga Times Free Press "Little white lies have never been so risky -- or so much fun." -- Orlando Sentinel New York Times bestselling author Mary Kay Andrews delivers another treasure of a comic novel. Little Bitty Lies is a tantalizing tale about an abandoned Atlanta housewife and mother who tells one tiny white lie that sets her world spiraling outrageously out of control. This winning and wonderful romp...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
On a very hot morning in Southern California, Tim Ryder brings his coffee out to the front porch. Before he can take a sip, he sees the dead body of a young man laid out on his lawn. Neither Tim nor his wife, Deirdre, has ever seen the man before, but the youth's death stirs up unhappy memories of the lives they were living twenty-years earlier.
Up to this point, they had done a good job of leaving behind their troubled pasts. Deirdre overcame her...
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
1997
Language
English
Description
A collection of writing produced in the American South, including autobiographies, diaries, memoirs, journalism, and stories and selections from novels, organized within four sections that correspond to major periods in the South's history, beginning with the slave era of the late eighteenth century and continuing through the 1990s.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Savannah Reid is hired to investigate when eighty-year-old matriarch Helene Strauss has several brushes with death, and while she finds plenty of friends and family members who want to inherit Helene's money, things get really complicated when two key players turn up dead.
20) House of cotton
Author
Publisher
Flatiron Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Nineteen years old, broke, and effectively an orphan, Magnolia doesn't have much to look forward to. She feels stuck and haunted: by her overdrawn bank account, by her predatory landlord, by the ghost of her late grandmother Mama Brown. One night while working at her dead-end gas station job, a mysterious, slick stranger named Cotton walks in and offers to turn Magnolia's luck around. He offers her a lucrative "modeling" job at his family's funeral...
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