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[2020]
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English
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"Every small town has one unsolved case that haunts its memory, festering for generations below the surface with the truth of humanity's darkness. Star Cavanaugh is obsessed with the one that tore her family apart. Over sixty years ago, Daisy Doe was murdered and discarded outside Pineville, Alabama, buried without a name or anyone to mourn her loss. When Star's father tried to solve the case, he was also killed. Now a cold-case detective with resources...
62) Treeborne
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Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Wedged between the bluffs and the river for which it's named, there's a small and all-but-forgotten town. Janie Treeborne lives on an orchard at the edge of Elberta, Alabama, and in time, she has become its keeper. A place where conquistadors once walked, and where the peaches they left behind now grow, Elberta has seen fierce battles, violent storms, and frantic change--and when the town is once again threatened from without, Janie realizes it won't...
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English
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"Emme Wynn has wanted nothing more her whole life than to feel like part of a family. Having grown up on the run with her con artist mother, she's been shuffled from town to town, drawn into bad situations, and has learned some unsavory habits that she's tried hard to overcome. When her estranged grandmother tracks her down out of the blue and extends a job offer -- helping to run her booth at an open-air marketplace in small-town Sweetgrass, Alabama...
64) Magnolia summer
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Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
"Truett Beverly's hometown needed a doctor, so after finishing medical school, he returned to Bethel Springs. Fighting a secret war with a corrupt lawman wasn't in his plans, but Sheriff Suggs thinks he's above the law and can lynch anyone who crosses him. When Suggs threatens his childhood friend, Truett dons a cape and hood and becomes the Hooded Horseman--becoming the sheriff's 'most wanted' enemy in the process. Celia Wilcox arrives in Bethel...
65) A place to land
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"[A] story of sisterhood, healing, and the meaning of home. A hidden past isn't past at all. Violet Figg and her sister Trudy have lived a quiet life in Sugar Bend, Alabama, since a night forty years ago that stole Trudy's voice and cemented Violet's role as her sister's fierce and loyal protector. Now Trudy spends her days making sculptures from found objects and speaking through notes written on scraps of paper, while Violet runs their art shop,...
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Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
When Katie Sue Perryville, a childhood friend, returns home to settle a score with Senator Warren Calhoun, and then is murdered, Carly Bell Hartwell, the owner of the Little Shop of Potions, must work her magic to catch a cold-blooded killer.
"Carly Bell Hartwell's love potions are always in demand in Hitching Post, Alabama, the wedding capital of the South ... When Katie Sue Perrywinkle walks into the Little Shop of Potions, Carly is surprised and...
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Series
Darling Dahlias mysteries volume 8
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English
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"It's Christmas, 1934, and the citizens of Darling, Alabama, are unwrapping a big package of Christmas puzzles. Mildred Kilgore and Earlynne Biddle are planning to open a bakery on the square--if they can come up with the right recipes. Charlie Dickens faces two of the biggest puzzles of his career as an investigative reporter, and one of them involves his wife. Cute little Cupcake's talent as a singer and dancer makes her a tempting target for an...
68) Gods in Alabama
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English
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Ten years after leaving, Arlene Fleet finds she still has not escaped Possett, Alabama, when an old classmate turns up asking questions about a crime Arlene committed in her youth, forcing her into a confrontation with her past.
70) The unsettled
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English
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From the moment Ava Carson and her ten-year-old son, Toussaint, arrive at the Glenn Avenue family shelter in Philadelphia 1985, Ava is already plotting a way out. She is repulsed by the shelter's squalid conditions: their cockroach-infested room, the barely edible food, and the shifty night security guard. She is determined to rescue her son from the perils and indignities of that place, and to save herself from the complicated past that led them...
71) Wonderland
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Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
When her mother uproots them again to another home and takes a job as housekeeper, ten-year-old Mavis is determined to find a best friend in Landry, Alabama, where the summer also holds the promise of friendship and change for a sad man, a stray dog, and a timid girl.
73) Run away home
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Pub. Date
c1997
Language
English
Description
In 1886 in Alabama, an eleven-year-old African American girl and her family befriend and give refuge to a runaway Apache boy.
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Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Georgia Bottoms, a Southern belle who keeps six lovers--none of whom know of the others--so she can maintain a lavish lifestyle, finds her ruse crumbling when a married preacher she has been seeing plans to confess their affair in front of his congregation.
Author
Series
Coffey and Hill volume 1
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"Private investigators Trudi Coffey and Samuel Hill enter the race to find a young girl whose mysterious uncle has tucked her away in an underground bunker with instructions to open the door for no one, not even him."--Provided by OCLC.
80) Going too far
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Series
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Forced to spend spring break in a Birmingham, Alabama, suburb riding along with an attractive rookie police officer on the night shift, rebellious seventeen-year-old Meg finds herself falling unexpectedly in love.
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