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41) The Innocents
Author
Series
Quinn Colson novels volume 6
Language
English
Description
The extraordinary new novel in the "New York Times" bestselling author s acclaimed series about the real Deep South a joy ride into the heart of darkness ("The Washington Post"). She was just seventeen, a high school dropout named Milly Jones, found walking down the middle of the highway, engulfed in flames. Even in a tough Mississippi county like Tibbehah, it shatters the community, and it is up to Sheriff Quinn Colson, back on the job after a year...
Author
Series
Publisher
Vintage Books
Pub. Date
1990
Edition
1st Vingate international ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Recounts the Bundren family's odyssey across the Mississippi countryside to bury Addie, their wife and mother, through the eyes of each of the family members
43) The summons
Author
Publisher
Random House Audio
Pub. Date
c2002
Edition
Unabridged ed.
Language
English
Description
The Judge is a recluse, living in the ancestral home in Mississippi. His two sons are Ray, a law professor, still reeling from a surprise divorce, and Forrest, who redefines the notion of a family's black sheep. Their father calls them home to discuss the details of his estate, but the judge dies before he can meet with them, thus leaving behind a shocking secret known only to Ray, and perhaps someone else...
44) The redeemers
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"One of the best crime writers at work today."--Michael Connelly The electrifying new novel in New York Times-bestselling author Ace Atkins's acclaimed series about the real Deep South. He is only in his early thirties, but now Quinn Colson is jobless--voted out of office as sheriff of Tibbehah County, Mississippi, thanks to the machinations of county kingpin Johnny Stagg. He has offers, in bigger and better places, but before he goes, he's got...
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
Aurora County, Mississippi, is only the latest stop on the Cakes' nomadic lifestyle, opening bakeries wherever they go; but Emma Alabama Lane Cake (only girl of the six Cake children) is sick of it, and determined not to form any friendships here because they will just disappear as soon as the family moves again--but Aurora County has other ideas, and so does a girl named Ruby Lavender who plans to teach Emma a thing or two about friendship.
46) Hideout
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The son of a Mississippi policeman finds a boy living in hiding in the wilderness and tries to help him without giving away his secret"--
47) Sticks and bones
Author
Series
Publisher
Recorded Books, Inc
Pub. Date
2017
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
"Southern belle turned private investigator Sarah Booth Delaney digs into a cold case when a film crew comes to Zinnia, Mississippi, and hires her to discover the absolute truth about the death of a prominent family's son five years earlier. She soon realizes someone is desperate to keep the truth hidden"--
48) The empress file
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Kidd and LuEllen, a wining pair of lovers and liars, get embroiled in a deadly con involving false identities, small-town scandals, and big-time murder.
Author
Publisher
Blue Rider Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"A searing debut novel centering around a gay-to-straight conversion camp in Mississippi and a man's reckoning with the trauma he faced there as a teen. Grad student Will Dillard has largely buried memories of the summer he spent at a camp intended to "cure" homosexuality. But when he finds out a horror movie based on the camp is hitting theaters, he's forced to face his past -- and his role in another camper's death. As he recounts the events surrounding...
50) Ham bones
Author
Series
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
Brisk as a mint julep on a hot summer afternoon, Carolyn Haines' best-selling mysteries starring sassy Southern belle turned P.I. Sarah Booth Delaney hook fans and have been honored by the Alabama State Council on the Arts. When a big New York theater production comes to Zinnia, Mississippi, murder takes center stage-and Sarah, it turns out, is the star suspect.
Author
Series
Logan family (Mildred D. Taylor) volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Formats
Description
Four black children growing up in rural Mississippi during the Depression experience racial antagonisms and hard times, but learn from their parents the pride and self-respect they need to survive.
Author
Series
Faith on the home front volume 1
Publisher
Tyndale House Publishers
Pub. Date
1996
Language
English
Description
Popular novelist Penelope J. Stokes entertains and inspires legions of fans with her heartwarming stories. In Home Fires Burning, she spins a stirring tale of love and faith, tested by the turbulence and uncertainty of World War II. The deadly conflict in Europe seems far away to 18-year-old Libba Coltraine; all she cares about is escaping her domineering father. Searching for excitement, she defies her father and attends a USO dance at the army camp...
Author
Series
Logan family (Mildred D. Taylor) volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
Sadistically teased by two white boys in 1940's rural Mississippi, a black youth severely injures one of the boys with a tire iron and enlists Cassie's help in trying to flee the state.
54) Splintered bones
Author
Series
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
English
Description
She may be a Mississippi belle, but Sarah Booth Delaney is no pampered daddy's girl. Unwed and over thirty, Sarah has her own set of problems-like coping with regular hauntings by her great-great-grandmother's nanny, a busybody of a ghost who's set on marrying her off to the first suitor who comes calling. But when an old friend is in trouble, Sarah Booth doesn't hesitate to get involved. Splintered Bones Eulalee McBride has confessed to murdering...
55) Crossed bones
Author
Series
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Description
This entry in Carolyn Haines' best-selling "Bones" series finds Sarah Booth Delaney, a southern belle with a penchant for amateur sleuthing, back on the case. When black pianist Ivory Keys is murdered, Zinnia, Mississippi divides along racial lines. The prime suspect is Scott Hampton, Key's protégé, who is rich and white. Sarah is hired to prove Scott's innocence, but to do so, she'll have to navigate some treacherous waters.
56) Buried bones
Author
Series
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
2000
Language
English
Description
Award-winning author Carolyn Haines visits sleuth Sarah Booth Delaney and the Mississippi Delta in Buried Bones, the second novel in this popular series. Local legend Lawrence Ambrose knows the secrets of everyone in town, and he isn't above spilling the beans in a tell-all biography. But when his biographer turns up dead and the manuscript goes missing, it's up to Sarah to dig up the truth.
57) Hallowed bones
Author
Series
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
Best-selling novelist Carolyn Haines is a rising star in Southern literature. Her wickedly funny "Bones" mystery series captures the unique, colorful charm of Mississippi Delta country. Doreen Mallory claims to have the gift of healing. So why did her own child die mysteriously? Out to prove Doreen's innocence, sleuthing southern belle Sarah Booth Delaney unearths an explosive, long-buried secret.
Author
Series
Cat in the stacks mysteries volume 4
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
Berkley Prime Crime mass market ed.
Language
English
Description
The Ducote sisters are in a tiff with Vera Cassity over the location of this year's library fundraising gala, and Charlie does his best to stay out of it. At the gala, Vera gives a public display of rancor aimed at anyone who gets in her way. But those bitter words wind up being her last. When Charlie discovers his housekeeper Azalea standing over Vera's dead body, it's up to him, with a little help from Diesel, to clear Azalea's name, and catch a...
59) Greedy bones
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
Description
From feuding scientists to ailing locals, Sarah Booth Delaney finds no shortage of bad blood coursing through the little town of Zinnia, Mississippi, as she drops everything to stop an outbreak of boll weevils and save the only place she's ever been able to call home.
60) Them bones
Author
Series
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
1999
Language
English
Description
Carolyn Haines has won fans nationwide for her offbeat Sarah Booth Delaney mysteries set in the Mississippi Delta. The first entry in this acclaimed series, Them Bones finds Sarah in a bad way: broke, unemployed, 30 and unwed, and about to lose her family's plantation. But this Southern Belle isn't licked yet. Involving herself in a slightly shady enterprise, Sarah soon gets roped into a decades-old murder investigation.
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