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1) Take my hand
Author
Language
English
Description
"Inspired by true events that rocked the nation, a profoundly moving novel about a Black nurse in post-segregation Alabama who blows the whistle on a terrible wrong done to her patients, from the New York Times bestselling author of Wench. Montgomery, Alabama, 1973. Fresh out of nursing school, Civil Townsend has big plans to make a difference, especially in her African American community. At the Montgomery Family Planning Clinic, she intends to help...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Maycomb, Alabama. Twenty-six-year-old Jean Louise Finch -- "Scout" -- returns home from New York City to visit her aging father, Atticus. Set against the backdrop of the civil rights tensions and political turmoil that were transforming the South, Jean Louise's homecoming turns bittersweet when she learns disturbing truths about her close-knit family, the town and the people dearest to her. Memories from her childhood flood back, and her values and...
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Alex feels so disconnected from his friends that he starts his junior year at a Tuscaloosa, Alabama, high school by attempting suicide, but soon, a friend of his older brother draws him into cross-country running and a new understanding of himself.
6) Sacred dust
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
1996
Language
English
Description
A woman in 1980s Alabama defies her community to expose a racial murder committed by her husband and his friends. They killed a black man who continued fishing in their county despite warnings to desist. A first novel.
Author
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
2013.
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...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Co
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Georgia Bottoms, a Southern belle who keeps six lovers--none of whom know of the others--so she can maintain a lavish lifestyle, finds her ruse crumbling when a married preacher she has been seeing plans to confess their affair in front of his congregation.
10) Fourmile
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 6
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
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
A gripping, heart-wrenching, and wholly remarkable tale of coming-of-age in a South poisoned by virulent prejudice, it views a world of great beauty and savage inequities through the eyes of a young girl, Scout, as her father, Atticus Finch -- a crusading local lawyer-- risks everything to defend a black man unjustly accused of a terrible crime.
Author
Language
English
Description
Real estate agent Maggie Fortenberry works at Red Mountain Reality, that has been going downhill since the death of its founder, comes up with a plan to save the business. The rival of their company Babs is unscrupulous real estate agent who hates Maggie and is determined to put her out of business.
14) On the run
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
For eight years, single mother Grace Archer has been living a picture-perfect life raising her daughter, Frankie, on a horse farm in the small town of Tallanville, Alabama. Trying to forget the past that didn't forget her. When violence threatens to shatter Grace and Frankie's idyllic home, the waiting is over. The ghosts of the past have returned, and they're hungry for blood. Now Grace must resume an identity she thought she had cast off forever,...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Bud Threadgoode grew up in the bustling little railroad town of Whistle Stop, Alabama, with his mother Ruth, church going and proper, and the fun-loving hell-raiser, his Aunt Idgie. Together they ran the town's popular Whistle Stop Café, known far and wide for its famous "Fried Green Tomatoes." And as Bud often said of his childhood, "How lucky can you get?" But sadly, the railroad yards began to shut down and the town became a ghost town, with...
17) Anthill: a novel
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Co
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
Inspirational and magical, this is the story of a boy who grows up determined to save the world from its most savage ecological predator: man himself.
18) The rebel wife
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Forced into marriage with a wealthy man after her Southern family is rendered destitute by the Civil War, Augusta becomes a widow a decade later and finds her circumstances hinging on a missing package in a community torn by racial prejudice, violence, and disease.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
With a mother who buys Christmas cards in August and a younger brother who describes the Trinity as a toasted marshmallow on a graham cracker, life for eleven-year-old Charles Harrisong is anything but normal in Normal, Illinois.
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