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English
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A novel of warmth and true feeling, The Well and the Mine explores the value of community, charity, family, and hope that we can give each other during a time of hardship. Look out for Phillips's new novel, Fierce Kingdom.
In a small Alabama coal-mining town during the summer of 1931, nine-year-old Tess Moore sits on her back porch and watches a woman toss a baby into her family’s well without a word....
In a small Alabama coal-mining town during the summer of 1931, nine-year-old Tess Moore sits on her back porch and watches a woman toss a baby into her family’s well without a word....
3) On the run
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Language
English
Description
For eight years, single mother Grace Archer has been living a picture-perfect life raising her daughter on a horse farm in the small town of Tallanville, Alabama. Watching Frankie grow into a talented and confident young girl has made Grace as happy as any mother could hope to be. Happy enough, even, to forget the past. But the past never quite goes away. Which is why a certain charismatic man also moved to Tallanville eight years ago to watch over...
Author
Language
English
Description
With the same incomparable style and warm, inviting voice that have made her beloved by millions of readers far and wide, New York Times bestselling author Fannie Flagg has written an enchanting Christmas story of faith and hope for all ages that is sure to become a classic.
Deep in the southernmost part of Alabama, along the banks of a lazy winding river, lies the sleepy little community known as Lost River, a place that time itself seems...
Deep in the southernmost part of Alabama, along the banks of a lazy winding river, lies the sleepy little community known as Lost River, a place that time itself seems...
Author
Publisher
Cumberland House
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
In 1963 rural Georgia, new mother Adie Jenkins, married to the unfaithful Buck, finds solace in her friendship with midwife Willa Mae Satterfield and in her discovery of the diary of Tempe Jordan, a pregnant, teenage slave girl, who may be the mother of Willa Mae, in an evocative novel of family, race, and mysterious connections across generations.
6) Hoodoo
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
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Description
In 1930s Alabama, twelve-year-old Hoodoo Hatcher is the only member of his family who seems unable to practice folk magic, but when a mysterious man called the Stranger puts the entire town at risk from his black magic, Hoodoo must learn to conjure to defeat him.
7) The hideaway
Author
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Language
English
Description
After being left a bed-and-breakfast by her grandmother, Sara Jenkins discovers senior citizens living there and begins a renovation, but when a local developer threatens to seize the property, Sara must decide if she is going to fight for the residents.
Author
Series
Neighbors (Mary Monroe) volume 1
Language
English
Description
Longing to live a little on the wild side, Joyce and Odell Watson engage in a friendship with their new neighbors Yvonne and Milton Hamilton.
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.
Author
Series
To kill a mockingbird volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Twenty years after the trial of Tom Robinson, Scout returns home to Maycomb to visit her father and struggles with personal and political issues as her small Alabama town adjusts to the turbulent events beginning to transform the United States in the mid-1950s.
Author
Series
Darling Dahlias mysteries volume 10
Publisher
Persevero Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
In 1935 Darling, Alabama, the members of the Darling Dahlias garden club, while facing the Great Depression with courage and grace, are plagued by an arsonist, an oncoming hurricane, a visit from a much-loved-much-hated senator from Louisiana and romantic entanglements.
Author
Series
Darling Dahlias mysteries volume 7
Publisher
Persevero Press
Language
English
Description
After disappointments surrounding a Dixie barbershop competition and the local telephone system breakdown throw the community in turmoil, sheriff Norris makes a perspective-changing discovery while confronting a notorious bootlegger.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
A young lawyer takes on the judge who is destroying her hometown--and ends up in jail herself. In picture-perfect Erva, Alabama, the most serious crimes are misdemeanors. Speeding tickets. Shoplifting. Contempt of court. Then why is the jail so crowded? And why are so few prisoners released? There's only one place to learn the truth behind these incriminating secrets. Sometimes the best education a lawyer can get is a short stretch of hard time.
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