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Onlookers : stories / by Beattie, Ann,author.;
"Onlookers is a story collection about people living in the same Southern town whose lives intersect in surprising ways"--
Subjects: Short stories.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Celine / by Roth, Kathleen Bittner;
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Love stories.; Plantation life;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The recruit : a novel / by Drew, Alan,1970-author.;
"Santa Elena in 1985 is a sleepy, sedate town--that is, until unusual crimes start to occur. The body of a dog is left outside a Vietnamese grocery store. An encampment of Mexican strawberry pickers is brutally attacked with mysterious weapons. A wealthy real estate developer is found dead inside the pool of his beach-side house. When rat poison and other clues are found across these crime scenes, Detective Ben Wade and forensic expert Natasha Betencourt begin to wonder: Are these crimes connected? As Ben and Natasha uncover a string of heightening racist incidents, they begin to suspect a gang of young people is part of the town's vicious underbelly, and part of a much larger nationwide racist conspiracy. This gripping new novel captures the lethal cost of deep-seated ignorance, racism, and hateful violence"--
Subjects: Detective and mystery fiction.; Novels.; Hate crimes; Police; Racism; Terrorism;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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King of Ashes : A Novel. by Cosby, S. A.;
Award-winning, New York Times bestselling author S. A. Cosby returns with King of Ashes, a Godfather -inspired Southern crime epic and dazzling family drama. When eldest son Roman Carruthers is summoned home after his father's car accident, he finds his younger brother, Dante, in debt to dangerous criminals and his sister, Neveah, exhausted from holding the family - and the family business - together. Neveah and their father, who run the Carruthers Crematorium in the run-down central Virginia town of Jefferson Run, see death up close every day. But mortality draws even closer when it becomes clear that the crash that landed their father in a comawas no accident and Dante's recklessness has placed them all in real danger.Roman, a financial whiz with a head for numbers and a talent for making his clients rich, has some money to help buy his brother out of trouble. But in his work with wannabe tough guys, he's forgotten that there are real gangsters out there. As his bargaining chips go up in smoke, Roman realizes that he has only one thing left to offer to save his brother: himself, and his own particular set of skills.Roman begins his work for the criminals while Neveah tries to uncover the long-ago mystery of what happened to their mother, who disappeared when they were teenagers. But Roman is far less of a pushover than the gangsters realize. He is willing to do anything to save his family. Anything.Because everything burns.Library Bound Incorporated
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); FICTION / African American / Mystery & Detective; FICTION / Southern; FICTION / Thrillers / Crime;
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The son of the house / by Onyemelukwe-Onuobia, Cheluchi,1978-author.; Cleveland, Karen,author.;
"Celebrating the resilience of women as they navigate and transform what remains a man's world. In the city of Enugu in the 1970s, young Nwabulu dreams of becoming a typist as she endures her employers' endless chores. Although a housemaid since the age of ten, she is tall and beautiful and in love with a rich man's son. Educated and privileged, Julie is a modern woman. Living on her own, she is happy to collect the gold jewellery love-struck Eugene brings her, but has no intention of becoming his second wife. When dramatic events straight out of a movie force Nwabulu and Julie into a dank room years later, the two women relate the stories of their lives as they await their fate. Pulsing with vitality and intense human drama, Cheluchi Onyemelukwe-Onuobia's debut is set against four decades of vibrant Nigeria, and celebrates the resilience of women as they navigate and transform what remains a man's world."--
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Abused women; Kidnapping; Social classes; Women;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Isaac's Song : A Novel. by Black, Daniel.;
Daniel Black returns with an emotionally exuberant novel about a young queer Black man finding his voice in 1980s Chicago - a novel of family, forgiveness, and perseverance. Perfect for fans of 'The Great Believers' and 'On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous'. A RADD Pick. From the author of 'Don't Cry For Me' (a RADD pick). #diversity.Library Bound Incorporated
Subjects: FICTION / African American & Black / General; FICTION / LGBTQ+ / Gay; FICTION / Literary; FICTION / Southern;
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The passenger [text (large print)] / by McCarthy, Cormac,1933-author.;
In 1980 Pass Christian, Mississippi, salvage diver Bobby Western, after a plane crash, discovers that the pilot's flight bag, the plane's black box and the tenth passenger are missing, submerging him in a conspiracy beyond his understanding as he is shadowed in body and spirit by the past and present.
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Psychological fiction.; Large type books.; Novels.; Aircraft accidents; Conspiracies; Divers; Siblings;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The passenger / by McCarthy, Cormac,1933-author.;
"The best-selling, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Road returns with the first of a two-volume masterpiece: The Passenger is the story of a salvage diver, haunted by loss, afraid of the watery deep, pursued for a conspiracy beyond his understanding, and longing for a death he cannot reconcile with God"--
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Psychological fiction.; Novels.; Aircraft accidents; Conspiracies; Divers; Siblings;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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The passenger [sound recording] / by McCarthy, Cormac,1933-author.; Whelan, Julia,1984-narrator.; Andrews, MacLeod,narrator.; Random House Audio Publishing,publisher.;
Read by MacLeod Andrews, Julia Whelan."The best-selling, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Road returns with the first of a two-volume masterpiece: The Passenger is the story of a salvage diver, haunted by loss, afraid of the watery deep, pursued for a conspiracy beyond his understanding, and longing for a death he cannot reconcile with God"--
Subjects: Audiobooks.; Historical fiction.; Novels.; Psychological fiction.; Aircraft accidents; Conspiracies; Divers; Siblings;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Road out of winter / by Stine, Alison,1978-author.;
"Wylodine comes from a world of paranoia and poverty; her family grows marijuana illegally, and life has always been a battle. Now she's been left behind to tend the crop alone. Then spring doesn't return for the second year in a row, bringing unprecedented, extreme winter. With grow lights stashed in her truck and a pouch of precious seeds, she begins a journey, determined to start over away from Appalachian Ohio. But the icy roads and strangers hidden in the hills are treacherous. After a harrowing encounter with a violent cult, Wil and her small group of exiles become a target for the cult's volatile leader. Because she has the most valuable skill in the climate chaos: she can make things grow."--Back cover.
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Apocalyptic fiction.; Dystopian fiction.; Gardeners; Marijuana; Climatic changes;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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