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21) Freeman: a novel
Author
Publisher
Bolden
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
At the end of the Civil War, an escaped slave first returns to his old plantation and then walks across the ravaged South in search of his lost wife.
Author
Publisher
Carolrhoda Lab
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
A series of vignettes reveal life in the Deep South for African Americans as they experience discrimination in a doctor's office, lynching, and other forms of oppression, especially during the 1960s.
24) Tennessee Rose
Author
Series
Horse diaries volume 9
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Although raised on a Southern plantation and owned by a Confederate officer, a Tennessee walking horse helps a slave during the Civil War.
Author
Series
Genius Files volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Coke and Pepsi McDonald continue on their dangerous cross-county road trip, stopping at strange-but-real destinations in the South and facing such perils as an evil Elvis impersonator, a vat of acidic soda, and a giant recycling shredder"-- Provided by publisher.
27) Treeborne
Author
Publisher
Picador
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Anticipating the end of her small Alabama community, an orchard keeper seeks to preserve its story by imparting the experiences of the ancestors who endured hardships and loss against a backdrop of regional history.
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Pub
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
Laurel Gray Hawthorne's life seems neatly on track--a passionate marriage, a treasured daughter, and a lovely home in suburban Victorianna--until everything she holds dear is suddenly thrown into question the night she is visited by the ghost of a her 13-year old neighbor Molly Dufresne.
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Seven years after a young girl goes missing amid a Klan uprising in Georgia, Imogene Coulter, long estranged from her Klan-leader father, confronts community secrets when she discovers a child locked in a basement in her late father's apparent hideout.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
In early 1960s Alabama, eleven-year-old Ben, carrying an urn with his father's ashes, sets out on an eventful journey to the Augusta National, "the Sistine Chapel of golf courses," to make peace with his father.
31) Yellow Crocus
Author
Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Moments after Lisbeth is born, she's taken from her mother and handed over to an enslaved wet nurse, Mattie, a young mother separated from her own infant son in order to care for her tiny charge. Thus begins an intense relationship that will shape both of their lives for decades to come. This deeply moving tale of unlikely love traces the journey of these very different women as each searches for freedom and dignity.
Author
Publisher
Free Press
Pub. Date
2011, c2007
Language
English
Description
In 1976, on the day of his wife's funeral, Wylie Greer drops off his five-year-old daughter, Holly, at his father-in-law's dairy farm on the outskirts of Columbia, South Carolina. Wylie asks for a little time to clear his head, but thirty years pass before Holly sees her father again.
33) A beauty so rare
Author
Series
Belmont mansion novels volume 2
Publisher
Bethany House, A division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Believing she will never marry because of her plain features, Eleanor Braddock finds a sense of purpose by building a home for Civil War widows and orphans with the help of an Austrian architect who hides the truth about his aristocratic heritage.
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