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"Bud Threadgoode grew up in the bustling little railroad town of Whistle Stop, Alabama, with his mother Ruth, church going and proper, and the fun-loving hell-raiser, his Aunt Idgie. Together they ran the town's popular Whistle Stop Caf�e, known far and wide for its famous 'Fried Green Tomatoes.' And as Bud often said of his childhood, 'How lucky can you get?' But sadly, the railroad yards began to shut down and the town became a ghost town, with...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 10
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English
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Twenty years after the trial of Tom Robinson, Scout returns home to Maycomb to visit her father and struggles with personal and political issues as her small Alabama town adjusts to the turbulent events beginning to transform the United States in the mid-1950s.
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English
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Real estate agent Maggie Fortenberry works at Red Mountain Reality, that has been going downhill since the death of its founder, comes up with a plan to save the business. The rival of their company Babs is unscrupulous real estate agent who hates Maggie and is determined to put her out of business.
5) Deadly Cross
Author
Series
Alex Cross volume 28
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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Investigating a double homicide involving the vice president's ex-wife, Detective Alex Cross and FBI Special Agent Ned Mahoney travel to Alabama to uncover clues from her early life.
Author
Series
Neighbors volume 2
Publisher
Dafina Books, Kensington Books
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
Bootlegging was Milton and Yvonne Hamilton's ticket out of poverty, prison time, and plain bad luck. Now they've moved on--to a bigger, richer pool of clientele--right in their own respectable new middle-class backyard. And their growing friendship with seemingly-perfect couple Joyce and Odell Watson is proving golden in more ways than one. As Milton soon learns, Odell is hiding an outside family and dubious business dealings. It's the perfect recipe...
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Edition
1st Vintage ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 20
Physical Desc
xxii, 329 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
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English
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A correspondent for "The New York Times" recounts growing up in the Alabama hills, the son of a violent veteran and a mother who tried to insulate her children from poverty and ignorance.
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English
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"Lily Bishop wakes up one morning to find a good-bye note and divorce papers from her husband on the kitchen counter. Having moved to Alabama for his job only weeks before, Lily is devastated, but a flyer at the grocery store for a hair stylist position in a local retirement community provides a refuge while she contemplates her next steps. Rose Carrigan built the small retirement village of Safe Harbor years ago--just before her husband ran off with...
10) One house over
Author
Series
Neighbors volume 1
Pub. Date
2018
Physical Desc
289 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
A solid marriage, a thriving business, and the esteem of their close-knit Alabama community--Joyce and Odell Watson have every reason to count their blessings. Their marriage has given well-off Joyce a chance at the family she's always wanted--and granted Odell a once-in-a-lifetime shot to escape grinding poverty. But all that respectability and status comes at a cost. Just once, Joyce and Odell want to break loose and taste life's wild side, without...
11) Blue Moon haven
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Series
New Americana volume 7
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"Kelly Jenkins heads to bucolic Blue Moon, Alabama, believing a new life will heal the two orphaned children in her care. Signing on to revive the drive-in theater seems like a worthy venture, until she discovers the property is in deep disrepair. Still, Kelly takes on the renovation, beginning with an ancient tree that needs to come down. Seth Morgan reluctantly steps in to help Kelly, even offering her and her kids shelter in his home. Soon everyone...
12) A place to land
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Publisher
Harper Muse
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
321 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
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"Written in Lauren Denton's signature Southern style, A Place to Land tells a story of sisterhood, healing, and the meaning of home"--
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English
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"In 1969 Alabama, eleven-year-old Dixie Dupree learns that the family she once believed was happy has deep fractures and records everything in her diary in this coming-of-age story about mothers and daughters, the guilt and pain that pass between generations, and the truths that are impossible to hide, especially from ourselves"--
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Series
Darling Dahlias mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
The Depression-era women of a Darling, Alabama, garden club get to the bottom of a mysterious buried treasure and a young woman's murder.
15) Empty vows
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Series
Publisher
Dafina
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Popular, generous, forty-something widow Jessie Tucker decides to make herself indispensable to recently widowed Hubert Wiggins but is disappointed when he is not everything she dreamed he would be and instead turns her attentions to a much younger man.
16) Mrs. Wiggins
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Series
Lexington Alabama volume 1
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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The daughter of a prostitute mother and an alcoholic father, Maggie Franklin knew her only way out was to marry someone upstanding and church-going. Someone like Hubert Wiggins, the most eligible man in Lexington, Alabama--and the son of its most revered preacher. Proper and prosperous, Hubert is glad to finally have a wife, even one with Maggie's background. For Hubert has a secret he desperately needs to stay hidden. And Maggie's unexpected charm,...
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English
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"In 1927, Zora Neale Hurston went to Plateau, Alabama, just outside Mobile, to interview eighty-six-year-old Cudjo Lewis. Of the millions of men, women, and children transported from Africa to America as slaves, Cudjo was then the only person alive to tell the story of this integral part of the nation's history. Hurston was there to record Cudjo's firsthand account of the raid that led to his capture and bondage fifty years after the Atlantic slave...
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Publisher
Hyde Street Press
Pub. Date
c2017
Physical Desc
234 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
With Valentine's Day approaching, love is in the air in Fairhope, Alabama and has even pastry chef Juliette Adams and injured soldier Roman Prescott thinking about setting aside their fears and loving again.
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Series
Publisher
Dafina
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First Kensington hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
312 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
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"With mysterious serial murders putting peaceful Lexington, Alabama, on edge, Jessie and Hubert Wiggins' steadfast calm and devotion to each other reassures everyone that faith will see them through. But Jessie and Hubert have paid a terrible hidden cost to maintain their devout facade and respectable standing. Nothing can allay the guilt they feel--or stop the growing distrust between them..."--