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Author
Publisher
Hawthorne Books & Literary Arts
Pub. Date
c2007.
Language
English
Description
So begins The Well and the Mine, a magnificent debut novel set in 1930s Alabama. The place is Carbon Hill, a small coal-mining community, in the midst of the Depression. The Moore family, a loving brood of five, is better off than most, generous to their less fortunate neighbors. But darkness arrives at their doorstep when a mysterious woman throws a baby down the Moores' well, and the story slowly unfolds, through the alternating voices of nine-year-old...
Author
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Language
English
Formats
Description
An internationally famous photographer, Tucker Mason has traveled the world, capturing things other people dont see. But what Tucker himself cant see is how to let go of the past and forgive his father. On a sprawling Southern estate, Tucker and his younger brother, Mutt, were raised by their housekeeper, Miss Ella Rain, who loved the motherless boys like her own. Hiring her to take care of Waverly Hall and the boys was the only good...
44) Wicked city
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
It was a stew of organized crime and corruption, run by a machine that dealt with complaints forcefully and with dispatch. No one dared cross them-no one even tried. And then the machine killed the wrong man. When crime-fighting attorney Albert Patterson is gunned down in a Phenix City alley in the spring of 1954, the entire town seems to pause just for a moment-and when it starts up again, there is something different about it. A small group of men...
45) The rebel wife
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Forced into marriage with a wealthy man after her Southern family is rendered destitute by the Civil War, Augusta becomes a widow a decade later and finds her circumstances hinging on a missing package in a community torn by racial prejudice, violence, and disease.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Formats
Description
It is 1970 in Red Grove, Alabama, and at Lu Olivera's school the white kids and black kids sit on different sides of the classroom. Six-grader Lu just wants to get along with everyone, but growing racial tensions will not let Lu stay neutral about the racial divide in school. Her old friends have been changing lately--acting boy crazy and making snide remarks about Lu's newfound talent for running track. Lu's secret hope for a new friend is fellow...
Author
Language
English
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Description
"Spanning decades, generations, and America in the 1940s and today, The All-Girl Filling Station's Last Reunion is a fun-loving mystery about an Alabama woman today, and five women who in 1943 worked in a Phillips 66 gas station, during the WWII years. Like Fannie Flagg's classic Fried Green Tomatoes, this is a riveting, fun story of two families, set in present day America and during World War II, filled to the brim with Flagg's trademark funny voice...
49) Anthill: a novel
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton
Pub. Date
c2010.
Language
English
Description
Presents the adventures of Raff, a modern-day Huck Finn in Alabama, whose love of ants transforms his life and those around him as he fights condo developers intent on destroying an endangered tract of land.
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"The eleven o'clock lady has always been one of garden club president Liz Lacy's favorite spring wildflowers. The plant is so named because the white blossoms don't open until the sun shines directly on them and wakes them up. But another Eleven O'Clock Lady is never going to wake up again. Rona Jean Hancock--a telephone switchboard operator who earned her nickname because her shift ended at eleven, when her nightlife was just beginning--has been...
Author
Publisher
Bonneville
Pub. Date
c2003.
Language
English
Description
From the author of Mormonville comes a lively tale that is an uplifting mix of religion, emotion and great storytelling. Meet Gunnar Hanshaw, a former star high school quarterback from California whose career ended with a severe shoulder injury. Now on a mission in Chile, Gunnar faces an uncertain future.
52) That's debatable
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Seventeen-year-old Millicent M. Chalmers is depending on a series of debating victories, culminating in winning Alabama's state debate tournament, to secure a college scholarship. Her singular focus is disrupted after a run-in with Taggart Strong, who seems equally dedicated to losing every debate as long as he says what he really believes.
53) The truth hurts
Author
Series
[Marie Lightfoot series] volume 2
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
A killer wants true-crime writer Marie Lightfoot to collaborate as his next victim and write a book about her own murder. Can she finally uncover the truth about the disappearance of her parents, underground Civil Rights activists who vanished in the explosive summer of 1963? Marie must follow the instructions of her co-author in a small Alabama town - and outwit him.
54) Finding Lincoln
Author
Publisher
Albert Whitman
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
In segregated 1950s Alabama, Louis cannot use the public library to research a class assignment, but one of the librarians lets him in after hours and helps him find the book that he needs. Includes an author's note with historical information about library segregation in the South.
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
The jailhouse lawyer: 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...
Author
Series
Fairhaven chronicles volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
What will happen next in the Fairhaven families we've come to love? The folks in Fairhaven find themselves, along with the rest of the country, reeling in the aftermath o the September eleventh attacks. In spite of the impact on their hearts, most summon the courage to carry on with their lives. Bishop Jim Shepherd does his best to keep things on an even keel as he ministers to the varying needs of his ward members and tries to bring in from the fringes...
Author
Language
English
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"Blue Bishop has a knack for finding lost things. While growing up in charming small-town Buttonwood, Alabama, she's happened across lost wallets, jewelry, pets, her wandering neighbor, and sometimes, trouble. No one is more surprised than Blue, however, when she comes across an abandoned newborn baby in the woods, just south of a very special buttonwood tree. Sarah Grace Landreneau Fulton is at a crossroads. She has always tried so hard to do the...
58) Mare's war
Author
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
c2009.
Language
English
Description
Teens Octavia and Tali learn about strength, independence, and courage when they are forced to take a car trip with their grandmother, who tells about growing up black in 1940s Alabama and serving in Europe during World War II as a member of the Women's Army Corps.
59) The long night
Author
Series
Publisher
University of Alabama Press
Pub. Date
c1988.
Language
English
Description
A first-rate novel that provides vivid descriptions of Alabama during an important period in the state's history. The Long Night is set in the vicinity of Montgomery, Alabama, between 1850 and 1865.
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