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42) Swamp angel
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
c1994.
Language
English
Description
Along with other amazing feats, Angelica Longrider, also known as Swamp Angel, wrestles a huge bear, known as Thundering Tarnation, to save the winter supplies of the settlers in Tennessee.
Author
Series
Ballad novels volume 2
Publisher
Scribners
Pub. Date
c1992.
Language
English
Description
Laura Bruce, wife of a minister in Appalachia, experiences dangers after she is asked by the sheriff to help tend the survivors from a scene of carnage at a farm.
44) Night of thunder
Author
Series
Bob Lee Swagger novel volume 5
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
Deep in the heart of Dixie for a weeklong NASCAR event, Bob Lee Swagger metes justice out to those who targeted his reporter-daughter.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's
Pub. Date
c2006.
Language
English
Description
Jane Gable first sees young Milo Turner, member of the first black family ever to move to her area of East Tennessee, on the day her abusive father is buried. When tragedy strikes the Turner household, the Gable family is asked to make a decision that could rip their world apart.
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Ex-policeman, ex-con, former therapist, Turner has become Deputy Sheriff in the small town within driving distance of Memphis, Tennessee, to which he had migrated in hopes of escaping his past. His life is mending as he and Val Bjorn grow closer. And then a young man, arrested on a routine traffic stop with more than $200,000 in his trunk, is forcibly sprung from jail after Sheriff Don Lee is brutally assaulted. Throwing caution aside, Turner goes...
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
c2013.
Language
English
Description
Eighteen-year-olds Ciana Beauchamp, Arie Winslow, and Eden McLauren of Tennessee rely on their close friendship as they face serious problems the summer before they start college, from parents' illnesses, to cancer, to two loving the same cowboy.
50) Home killings
Author
Publisher
Bantam Dell
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
The award-winning Home Killings, Marcos M. Villatoros first Romilia Chacón novel, won dazzling acclaim for its fusion of character, suspense, and a gripping police procedural swirling around a fiery Latina detective. Now, in a new novel filled with the same remarkable precision and power, Romilia Chacón turns back to the reason she became a cop in the first place: to hunt for the sadist who took her sisters lifeand has kept...
51) Chill of fear
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Formats
Description
FBI agent Quentin Hayes always knew he had an unusual talent, even before he was recruited by Noah Bishop for the controversial Special Crimes Unit. But, as gifted as he is, for twenty years hes been haunted by a heartbreaking unsolved murder that took place at The Lodge, a secluded Victorian-era resort in Tennessee. Now hes returned one final time, determined to put the mystery to rest. Diana Brisco has come there hoping to unlock...
Author
Series
Henrie O volume 2
Publisher
Bantam
Pub. Date
1994.
Language
English
Description
As a favor to a friend, Henriette O'Swyer Collins, a widow and retired Missouri journalist, sets out to clear the name of a young man accused of murdering his wife. A dangerous investigation and she has to use mace to save herself. By the author of Dead Man's Island.
Author
Series
Scraps of time volume 4
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
During the Depression in Nashville, Tennessee, two baseball-loving brothers host Josh Gibson, a star of the Negro Leagues, in their home, and are motivated to get their own team started as well.
54) Grin & beard it
Author
Series
Winston brothers volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
Everyone loves plus-sized Sienna; her films have an attraction that can't be explained. Her sense of direction is almost as bad as her comedic timing is stellar, and when a new role takes her to the Great Smoky Mountains National Park Sienna finds herself continually lost while trying to navigate the backroads of Green Valley, Tennessee. She's rescued by handsome, charming, and cheeky Park Ranger Jethro Winston. His southern charm and gentlemanly...
Author
Series
Publisher
Vintage
Pub. Date
1999.
Language
English
Description
When Phillip Carver is asked by his sisters to help avert their widower father's impending marriage to a younger women, he is forced to confront his domineering siblings, a controlling patriarch, and a flood of memories from his deeply troubled past.
Author
Series
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Grayson Blake has come home to Honey Ridge, Tennessee, to convert an historic gristmill into a restaurant, but his plans crumble like clay when the excavation of a skeleton unearths a Civil War mystery ... and leads him back to a beautiful and familiar stranger"--
57) Beard science
Author
Series
Winston brothers volume 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Make a deal with the devil and you might get what you want, but will it be what you need? Jennifer Sylvester wants one thing, and that one thing is NOT to be Tennessee's reigning Banana Cake Queen. Ever the perpetual good girl and obedient daughter, Jennifer is buckling under the weight of her social media celebrity, her mother's ambitions, and her father's puritanical mandates. Jennifer is officially desperate. And desperate times call for Cletus...
Author
Series
Ballad novels volume 4
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
1996.
Language
English
Description
Randall Stargill lies dying on his southern Appalachian farm, and his four sons have come home to build him a coffin from the cache of rosewood he has hoarded for the special purpose. Meanwhile, mountain wisewoman Nora Bonesteel, Randall's sweetheart of long ago, prepares another box for his buriala small box containing human bones.
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
In the time since their friend Arie died, new problems have surfaced for Ciana Beauchamp and Eden McLauren of Tennessee--Eden is heading to Australia to rekindle her romance with Garret, Ciana is being pressured to sell her family's land to a developer, and a long buried family secret is threatening to end her relationship with Jon, the man she wants to marry.
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Injured high school soccer star Peyton Rios escapes to a small southern town after an abusive relationship leaves her reeling, and meets someone new.
Star soccer player Peyton Rios has an offer from her first-choice college-- until she confronts her boyfriend about performance enhancing drugs, and finds herself falling down a flight of stairs. Now her knee-- and maybe her dream of going pro-- is shattered. With her future on the line, Peyton goes...
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