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407) Darktown: a novel
Author
Series
Darktown novels volume 1
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"Responding to orders from on high, the Atlanta Police Department is forced to hire its first black officers, including war veterans Lucius Boggs and Tommy Smith. The newly minted policemen are met with deep hostility by their white peers: they aren't allowed to arrest white suspects, drive squad cars, or set foot in the police headquarters. When a black woman who was last seen in a car driven by a white man turns up dead, Boggs and Smith suspect...
408) No Good Deed
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Terri is a devoted wife and mother of two, living an ideal suburban life in Atlanta when Colin, a charming but dangerous escaped convict, shows up at her door claiming car trouble. Terri offers her phone to help him but soon learns that no good deed goes unpunished as she finds herself fighting for survival when he invades her home and terrorizes her family.
409) John Ross
Author
Pub. Date
1990
Language
English
Description
Discusses the Cherokee chief who fought unsuccessfully to protect the land of his people, until they were forced to march along the Trail of Tears to Oklahoma.
410) Richard Jewell
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
The world is first introduced to Richard Jewell as the security guard who reports finding the device at the 1996 Atlanta bombing, his report making him a hero whose swift actions save countless lives. But within days, the law enforcement wannabe becomes the FBI's number one suspect, vilified by press and public alike, and his life ripped apart. Reaching out to independent, anti-establishment attorney Watson Bryant, Jewell staunchly professes his innocence....
414) Who's your caddy?
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
A rap mogul from Atlanta tries to join a conservative country club, and runs into fierce opposition from its buttoned-down president. Now he and his friends will stop at nothing to force themselves in.
415) Hometown sweetheart
Author
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
"Seven unruly kids have moved next door to Simon Adams's mountain cabin. On a church retreat, these rambunctious rascals and their perky teacher, Shanna White, prove to be too much for one reclusive craftsman to handle. Plus, they're a big reminder of everything Simon lost, especially his chance for marriage and family. All he wants is to be left alone, but soon he's drawn in by the kids' shenanigans--and by Shanna herself. Can a brooding mountain...
417) In for a penny
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Honey, these are not your momma's grannies...
When Lillian Summer Fairview's husband up and dies on her, it leaves the last living member of the most prestigious family in Summer Shoals, Georgia, in a hot mess. While Lil was busy being a proper Southern lady, Harlan squandered dang near the whole family fortune on lottery tickets. To keep her financial skeletons in the closet and give him a decent burial, Lil made a deal that has now landed her in...
419) The vanishing woman
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"Based on the true story of Ellen Craft, a light-skinned slave who escaped from Georgia in 1848. By posing as an ailing white man while her husband pretended to be her slave, Ellen and William Craft traveled over one thousand to freedom"--
Author
Series
Miss Dimple Kilpatrick volume Bk. 2
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
Life in small-town America during World War II springs vividly to life as schoolteacher Miss Dimple and her fellow townspeople battle valiantly against worry, rationing, and crime at home as well as abroad
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