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Author
Series
[Kennedy Killingsworth mysteries] volume 2
Publisher
Covenant Communications
Pub. Date
c2010.
Language
English
Description
After cracking Foster Scoggins's murder case, Kennedy Killingsworth figured life in Midway, Georgia, would settle back to normal (meaning desperately dull). But when a man who once saved her life stows federally classified information in her not-quite antique Tiffany lamp and then transient artist Jarrard Dupree is tragically killed, Kennedy knows at least one of her neighbors has blood on his hands.
62) Kira-Kira
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Language
English
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Description
Chronicles the close friendship between two Japanese-American sisters growing up in rural Georgia during the late 1950s and early 1960s, and the despair when one sister becomes terminally ill.
63) Tuesday's Child
Author
Language
English
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Description
After being convicted falsely of the murder of her wealthy patient Audrey Star more than 10 years ago, nurse Sophie Lee retreats to Georgia attorney Mikala Aulani's house and tries to evade the media frenzy that surrounds her.
64) Bloodless
Author
Series
Pendergast novel volume 20
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
On the evening of November 24, 1971, D. B. Cooper hijacked Flight 305--Portland to Seattle--with a fake bomb, collected a ransom of $200,000, and then parachuted from the rear of the plane, disappearing into the night. Fifty years later, Agent Pendergast takes on a bizarre and gruesome case: in the ghost-haunted city of Savannah, Georgia, bodies are found with no blood left in their veins--sowing panic and reviving whispered tales of the infamous...
65) Liberty Biscuit
Author
Publisher
Trafalgar Square Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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Description
Thirteen-year-old Kip rescues a one-eyed white donkey and his two horse companions from an abusive owner, and, with the help of her Grandpa Joe, she works to gentle the hurt and frightened animals.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"With a new grandbaby to care for at home, Stella has little time to spare ... Gallivanting around with her best pal Sheriff Manny Goldford simply isn't an option--until a freshly murdered body is discovered ... Holding a criminal record unlike anyone's, Dexter Corbin was a man who wouldn't be missed ... But he never deserved to meet his end so soon ... When a gravedigger finds Dexter sprawled across the steps of a crypt, Stella and Manny launch into...
67) Wedding belles
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
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Description
When Georgia announces her plan to marry a notorious family friend, her four best friends investigate his past only to find a slew of unanswered questions and surprises, while Georgia herself struggles to change their minds.
69) Blindsighted
Author
Series
Grant County volume 1
Language
English
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Description
A small Georgia town erupts in panic when a young college professor is found brutally mutilated in the local diner. But it's only when town pediatrician and coroner Sara Linton does the autopsy that the full extent of the killer's twisted work becomes clear. Sara's ex-husband, police chief Jeffrey Tolliver, leads the investigation -- a trail of terror that grows increasingly macabre when another local woman is found crucified a few days later. But...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Sarah is finally in charge. At last, she can spend her summer months reading her favorite science books and bossing around her younger brother, Ellis, instead of being worked to the bone by their overly strict grandmother, Mrs. Greene. But when their cousin, Janie arrives for a visit, Sarah's plans are completely squashed. Janie has a knack for getting into trouble and asks Sarah to take her to Creek Church: a landmark of their small...
71) After the rain
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Series
Language
English
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In this follow-up to "Falling Home, " White returns to the magical small town of Walton, Georgia. When photographer Suzanne Paris arrives and meets Mayor Joe Warner, he's nothing like any man she's ever known. Yet, both their lives are transformed by an unexpected love.
72) Love like sky
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Series
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English
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Eleven-year-old Georgie is still adjusting to leaving Atlanta for a small town, having a stepfather, and being unable to get close to her stepsister when her six-year-old sister, Peaches, suddenly becomes very ill.
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"The Civil War may be over, but times are not substantially improved for the freed Black citizens of Walkerton, Georgia, who are shunned by the white folks of the surrounding towns. One day, though, ol' Rootilla Redgums and her grandson, Julius Jefferson, arrive. Rootilla teaches the citizens of Walkerton how to make all sorts of beautiful things, and the white people can't get enough. But some aren't so happy. When a hooded mob threatens to burn...
74) The Red Hat Club
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
Best friends since high school, a tightly knit club of five southern women rallies together when one of their husbands is discovered to be having an affair.
75) Copycat: a novel
Author
Series
Haggerty mystery novels volume 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
Welcome to charming Haggerty, Georgia, where resident FBI agent Mark Iverson protects the colorful individuals in the area, and presides over the members of his ward, where he serves as bishop. But his idyllic setting is about to change for the worse. A young woman is found dead--with few clues, except for one suspect who is already on death row. Another young woman disappears under mysterious circumstances. Then, a strange homeless man appears in...
76) Pastors' wives
Author
Publisher
Plume
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Follows three women whose lives converge and intertwine at a Southern evangelical megachurch as they are caught between the demands of faith, marriage, duty, and love.
77) Envy
Author
Language
English
Description
New York book editor Maris Matherly-Reed knows a best seller when she sees one - even if it is just a tantalizing partial manuscript submitted by a writer identified only as P.M.E., with the return address of an obscure island off the Georgia coast. Maris is intrigued enough to search for him. Her trip to Georgia to meet the mysterious author takes her to an eerie, ruined cotton plantation, where Maris finds Parker Evans, a man confined to a wheelchair...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
It is summer in Euharlee, Georgia, and Imogene Lavender's garden is bursting with snap beans, okra, and tomatoes. The household -- made up of Imo; her daughter Jeanette and her new baby; and Lou, Imo's niece -- is about to grow as well. Imo's estranged mother, Mama Jewell, has begun to show signs of senility, and Imo has decided that it is her duty to take her mother in. Mama Jewell brings with her some secrets from the past, including the story of...
80) Play dead
Author
Publisher
New American Library
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
Homicide detective Elise Sandburg and her partner, David Gould, use their connections to the voodoo and Gullah culture of Savannah to investigate a serial killer who uses a drug to paralyze his victims.
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