Michael F Smith
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Formats
Description
In a rough-and-tumble Mississippi town, the vices of drugs, whiskey, guns, and the desire for revenge violently intersect when Russell Gaines, newly released from prison, returns home on the same night that a young and desperate mother shoots a local deputy.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
A tale inspired by F. Scott Fitzgerald's narrator from "The Great Gatsby" imagines the life of Nick Carraway before Gatsby, depicting a war-traumatized, heavily drinking man who embarks on a doomed journey of redemption from Paris to New Orleans.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Following years of catastrophic hurricanes, the Gulf Coast--stretching from the Florida panhandle to the western Louisiana border--has been brought to its knees. The region is so punished and depleted that the government has drawn a new boundary ninety miles north of the coastline. Life below the Line offers no services, no electricity, and no resources, and those who stay behind live by their own rules. Cohen is one who stayed.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
His mind failing from the effects of decades of bare-knuckle fighting, his foster mother's family legacy in the hands of strangers, and overwhelmed with gambling debts, Jack's only chance at redemption is to step into the fighting pit one last time.
6) Blackwood
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"In this timeless, mythical tale of unforgiving justice and elusive grace, rural Mississippi townsfolk shoulder the pain of generations as something dangerous lurks in the enigmatic kudzu of the woods." --