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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
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Description
"The hill people and the Mexicans arrived on the same day. It was a Wednesday, early in September 1952. The Cardinals were five games behind the Dodgers with three weeks to go, and the season looked hopeless. The cotton, however, was waist-high to my father, over my head, and he and my grandfather could be heard before supper whispering words that were seldom heard. It could be a 'good crop'." Thus begins from author John Grisham, a story inspired...
4) Come winter
Author
Publisher
Holt
Pub. Date
©1989
Language
English
Description
Roman Hasford, isolated in bitter grandeur after he hires a professional killer to exact revenge, must deny any legitimate continuation of his proud family.
Author
Series
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
c1997
Language
English
Description
The winter solstice festival of the Druids in Arkansas is marred by the murder of a doctor, the cult's principal benefactor. As bookstore owner and sleuth Claire Malloy investigates, suspicion centers on members of the cult who were his tenants.
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Cullen's summer in Lily, Arkansas, is marked by his cousin's death by overdose, an alleged spotting of a woodpecker thought to be extinct, failed romances, and his younger brother's sudden disappearance.
7) The witness
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Language
English
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Description
"Daughter of a cold, controlling mother and an anonymous donor, studious, obedient Elizabeth Fitch finally let loose one night, drinking too much at a nightclub and allowing a strange man's seductive Russian accent to lure her to a house on Lake Shore Drive. The events that followed changed her life forever. Twelve years later, the woman now known as Abigail Lowery lives alone on the outskirts of a small town in the Ozarks. A freelance programmer,...
Author
Series
Lily Bard mystery volume 4
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2000
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
c1997
Language
English
Description
In Arkansas, lawyer Gideon Page agrees to defend a black accused of murdering his Chinese employer. Page thinks the Chinese was killed by people who wanted his meatpacking factory, which he refused to sell, and that the black man was framed.
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
1994
Language
English
Description
A bird sanctuary is the setting for this whodunit featuring Claire Malloy, bookstore owner and sleuth. Her best friend, Luanne, has become engaged to a prominent dentist, Dick Cissel, whose two previous wives met untimely and gruesome ends. Claire decides to check him out.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
On a honeymoon trip to Luxor, Egypt, with her new husband, Lt. Peter Rosen, teenage daughter Caron, and Caron's best friend Inez, Arkansas bookseller Claire Malloy suddenly finds her honeymoon turned upside down when the two girls are chased through back alleys by unknown pursuers and a blonde college student is kidnapped by two young men on horseback.
Author
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
In the summer of 1986, eleven-year-old April Grace, who lives on a rural Arkansas farm with her family, across a field from her grandmother, has her sense of Christian charity tested when a snooty couple from San Francisco moves into a dilapidated house down the road and her grandmother takes up with a loud, obnoxious, and suspicious-acting Texan.
18) The dirty south
Author
Series
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Audio
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
It is 1999, and someone is slaughtering young women in Burdon County, Arkansas. But no one in the Dirty South wants to admit it. In an Arkansas jail cell sits a former NYPD detective, stricken by grief. He is mourning the death of his wife and child and searching in vain for their killer. Obsessed with avenging his lost family, his life is about to take a shocking turn. Witness the dawning of a conscience. Witness the birth of a hunter. Witness the...
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"This ... debut novel tells the ... story of a rescue dog that helps a struggling young outsider make peace with the past"--Amazon.com.
Tragedy sent Addie Andrews fleeing from Chicago to the shelter of an unexpected inheritance-- her beloved aunt's somewhat dilapidated home in Eunice, Arkansas, population very tiny. She's got an elderly next door neighbor who perplexingly dances outside in his underwear, a house needing more work than she has money,...
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