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Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
386 pages ; 24 cm
Description
"Moving from Mississippi to Paris to New York and back again, an epic saga of family, ambition, passion, and tragedy that brings to life one unforgettable Southern dynasty - the Forsters, founders of the world's first major soft-drink company - against the backdrop of more than a century of American cultural history"--
Author
Series
Kitchen house volume 2
Pub. Date
2016
Description
"The Kitchen House continues the story of Jamie Pyke, son of both a slave and master of Tall Oakes, whose deadly secret compels him to take a treacherous journey through the Underground Railroad ... This ... stand-alone novel opens in 1830, and Jamie, who fled from the Virginian plantation he once called home, is passing in Philadelphia society as a wealthy white silversmith. After many years of striving, Jamie has achieved acclaim and security, only...
63) The homecoming
Author
Series
Niceville trilogy volume 2
Description
"Somewhere in the American South, there is a town where something is very, very wrong. A place where malicious men may die, but malice ... never. When Carsten Stroud's previous novel, Niceville, was published, Elmore Leonard wrote: "I hope Mr. Stroud, having had so much fun writing Niceville, listening to his people give him terrific dialogue, is writing a sequel or another one like it." We give you The Homecoming. Kate and Nick Kavanaugh (lawyer...
Author
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
343 p. ; 22 cm.
Description
After losing his twin to a drowning accident and his wife to divorce, Zeke Cooper leaves his mother and two daughters behind in Tennessee and travels to Virginia horse country, where he considers his responsibility to repair his fractured family.
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
309 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Description
When Beth McKenzie returns to her hometown to turn an old Southern mansion into a B&B called The Dixie Dew, her first guest is murdered. Three days later a young priest is found strangled in his chapel. The town of Littleboro is turned upside down and the cop, whose job is mainly controlling football traffic on Friday nights, is not up to the challenge. Fearing that her new B&B is in danger of failing, Beth sets out to discover the truth.
Author
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
xix, 194 p. ; 20 cm.
Description
In this semiautobiographical coming-of-age novel, thirteen-year-old Joel Knox, after losing his mother, is sent from New Orleans to live with the father who abandoned him at birth. But when Joel arrives at Skully's Landing, the decaying mansion in rural Alabama, his father is nowhere to be found.
67) Club dead
Author
Pub. Date
2003
Physical Desc
258 pages ; 18 cm.
Description
Sookie's boyfriend has been very distant--in another state, distant. Now she's off to Mississippi to mingle with the underworld at Club Dead--a little haunt where the vampire elite go to chill out. But when she finally finds Bill--caught in an act of betrayal--she's not sure whether to save him ... or sharpen some stakes.
68) Mongrels
Author
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
300 pages ; 22 cm
Description
Set in the deep South, Mongrels is a deeply moving, sometimes grisly, and surprisingly funny novel that follows an unnamed narrator as he comes of age under the care of his aunt and uncle | who are werewolves.
Author
Series
Penn Cage novels volume 6
Description
Grief-stricken and with his world collapsing around him, Penn Cage is shut out of trial preparations by his once-revered Southern doctor father, who is about to be tried for murder in the wake of revelations about a mixed-race child and KKK associations.
72) Heart of Dixie
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Formats
Description
She was a blond goddess, a box office megastar. Every woman wanted to be her; every man wanted to bed her. But over a year ago Devon Stafford vanished without a trace. As a biographer, Jake Gannon had taught himself to follow the clues of a person's life story like a detective. As an ex-Marine, he was accustomed to being firmly in control. But when his car died in a little town called Mare's Nest on the Carolina coast, he had to admit he'd come
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Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
413 pages ; 24 cm
Description
"New York Times bestselling author Grady Hendrix takes on the haunted house in a hilarious and terrifying new novel that explores the way your past--and your family--can haunt you like nothing else... Louise's parents have passed away, and she's returning to the small Southern town where she grew up to get their house ready to sell. It means she'll have to spend time with her younger brother--and their old grudges make that a terrifying prospect....
Author
Pub. Date
1998
Physical Desc
258 p.; 20 cm.
Description
The author returns to the Southern landscape of his previous novels to tell a story of a woman's search for the meaning of a dream that has haunted her throughout her life. Ever since Ellen can remember, she has dreamed of her mother slowly drowning. Now, with her own children all grown and her siblings long gone, she journeys back to her childhood for answers. Piecing together her memories, she finally articulates a story so shattering, it had long...
Author
Pub. Date
c1999
Physical Desc
xxiii, 368 p. ; 25 cm.
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. An unfinished novel by the author of Invisible Man.
77) The quiet game
Author
Series
Pub. Date
c1999
Physical Desc
433 p. ; 24 cm.
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 town's violent past.
78) Kindred
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
287 pages cm.
Description
"Dana, a modern black woman, is celebrating her twenty-sixth birthday with her new husband when she is snatched abruptly from her home in California and transported to the antebellum South. Rufus, the white son of a plantation owner, is drowning, and Dana has been summoned across the years to save him. After this first summons, Dana is drawn back, again and again, to the plantation to protect Rufus and ensure that he will grow to manhood and father...
79) Conjure women
Author
Pub. Date
2020
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 to...
80) Pew
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
207 pages ; 20 cm
Description
"In a small unnamed town in the American South, a church congregation arrives to a service and finds a figure asleep on a pew. The person is genderless, racially ambiguous, and refuses to speak. One family takes the strange visitor in and nicknames them Pew. As the town spends the week preparing for a mysterious Forgiveness Festival, Pew is shuttled from one household to the next. The earnest and seemingly well-meaning townspeople see conflicting...
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