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Author
Series
Firm volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Description
A young rising star in the legal world lands the job of a lifetime when he takes a position at a prestigious law firm. Despite a little uneasiness, things seem to be going well. Unfortunately, though, an FBI probe puts this young lawyer in the middle of a dangerous nightmare, which includes some dark and sinister secrets within the firm.
Author
Series
Logan Point volume 2
Language
English
Description
"In a steamy small town of secrets, danger, and broken promises, a woman reaches out to a former love to save her brother's life--can she prevent her own secret from being revealed?" --
Author
Publisher
Avon, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
The quiet, introverted daughter of a flamboyant soap-star agrees to take her Elvis-obsessed mother to Graceland one last time before she dies despite leaving Memphis with a secret and a signed agreement never to return.
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"Sara King has nothing, save for her secrets and the baby in her belly, as she boards the bus to Memphis, hoping to outrun her past in Chicago. She is welcomed with open arms by Mama Sugar, a kindly matriarch and owner of the popular boardinghouse The Scarlet Poplar. Like many cities in early 1960s America, Memphis is still segregated, but change is in the air. News spreads of the Freedom Riders. Across the country, people like Martin Luther King...
Author
Series
Nick Travers mysteries volume 3
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
English
6) Tear it down
Author
Series
Peter Ash novels volume 4
Language
English
Description
"In the new edge-of-your-seat adventure from national bestselling author Nick Petrie, Peter Ash pursues one case--and stumbles into another--in the City of the Blues. Iraq war veteran Peter Ash is restless in the home he shares with June Cassidy in Washington State. June knows Peter needs to be on the move, so she sends him to Memphis to help her friend Wanda Wyatt, a photographer and war correspondent who's been receiving peculiar threats. When Peter...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Description
"Eleven-year-old Mark Sway and his younger brother were sharing a forbidden cigarette when a chance encounter with a suicidal lawyer left Mark knowing a bloody and explosive secret: the whereabouts of the most-sought-after dead body in America ... Prosecutors are willing to break all the rules to make Mark talk. The mob will stop at nothing to keep him quiet. And [his lawyer] will do anything to protect her client--even take a last, desperate gamble...
13) Hustlin' divas
Author
Series
Divas (De'nesha Diamond) volume 1
Publisher
Dafina Books, Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Author
Series
Memphis Cold Case novels volume 4
Publisher
Revell, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
In a desperate search for her kidnapped niece, Carly Smith comes face to face with her sister's killer and must decide whether to trust her ex-boyfriend, officer Logan Donovan, when he steps in to help.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
In the city of Memphis, eighteen-year-old Lee and her boyfriend Vincent make a popular podcast on artists in love, but Lee learns that stories of happily-ever-after love do not always mirror real life.
Author
Series
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
When her friend Evelyn's cheating boyfriend, a food critic who has been negatively reviewing several local restaurants, including hers, is found dead, Lulu Taylor works to catch the real killer and exonerate her loved ones.
17) King divas
Author
Series
Divas (De'nesha Diamond) volume 5
Publisher
Dafina Books, Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
©2015.
Language
English
Description
While Python tries to negotiate a peace with his brother in the aftermath of their aunt's brutal murder, Ta'Shara barely saves Lucifer's life from a rival gang and worries that Lucifer's injuries will cause her to lose her child.
Author
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"Three cousins discover that their spectacular failures in love, career and family provide the foundation for their future happiness as they renovate an historic Memphis house together in this warm and poignant novel reminiscent of The Postmistress and The Secret Life of Bees"-- Provided by publisher.
Author
Series
Memphis barbeque mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
Welcome to Aunt Pat's barbeque restaurant--family run and located in the heart of Memphis, Tennessee. Named in honor of Lulu Taylor's great aunt, the restaurant is known for its ribs and spicy corn bread, but now the Taylor family will be known for murder--unless Lulu can clear their name.
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