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1) The sentinel
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Series
Jack Reacher novels volume 25
Language
English
Description
As always, Reacher has no particular place to go, and all the time in the world to get there. One morning he ends up in a town near Pleasantville, Tennessee. But there's nothing pleasant about the place. In broad daylight, Reacher spots a hapless soul walking into an ambush. 'It was four against one,' so Reacher intervenes, with his own trademark brand of conflict resolution. The man he saves is Rusty Rutherford, an unassuming IT manager, recently...
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Belmont mansion novels volume 1
Language
English
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After an unwanted past, Claire strives to create something that will last as an artist among Nashville's elite society in the 1860s.
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English
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From America's most beloved superstar and its greatest storyteller--a thriller about a young singer-songwriter on the rise and on the run, and determined to do whatever it takes to survive. Every song tells a story. She's a star on the rise, singing about the hard life behind her. She's also on the run. Find a future, lose a past. Nashville is where she's come to claim her destiny. It's also where the darkness she's fled might find her. And destroy...
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English
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"Two Feathers, a young Cherokee horse-diver on loan to Glendale Park Zoo from a Wild West show, is determined to find her own way in the world. Two's closest friend at Glendale is Hank Crawford, who loves horses almost as much as she does. He is part of a high-achieving, land-owning Black family. Neither Two nor Hank fit easily into the highly segregated society of 1920s Nashville. When disaster strikes during one of Two's shows, strange things start...
6) Crewel yule
Author
Series
Needlecraft mysteries volume 8
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Author
Series
Taylor Jackson novels volume 8
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
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A serial killer is targeting young Vanderbilt University coeds, one of whom is the daughter of a major university benefactor and Texas oilman. Lt. Taylor Jackson, Nashville cop, and Dr. Samantha Owens, medical examiner, face a huge public relations nightmare. Taylor, struggling with departmental strife, is asked to partner with troubled FBI profiler Dr. John Baldwin, who is back in Tennessee after a disastrous investigation accident. Owens is perplexed...
9) Judas kiss
Author
Series
Taylor Jackson novels volume 3
Publisher
MIRA
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
Nashville homicide investigator Taylor Jackson investigates the bludgeoning death of a young mother who has connections to an amateur pornography website.
Author
Publisher
Tyndale House Publishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Count your nights by stars, not shadows. Count your life with smiles, not tears. 1961. After a longtime resident at Nashville's historic Maxwell House Hotel suffers a debilitating stroke, Audrey Whitfield is tasked with cleaning out the reclusive woman's room. There, she discovers an elaborate scrapbook filled with memorabilia from the Tennessee Centennial Exposition. Love notes on the backs of unmailed postcards inside capture Audrey's imagination...
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English
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"Playing to packed houses while her hit song rushes up the charts, country singer and fiddler Jo Lover is poised to become a one-name Nashville star like her idols, Loretta, Reba, and Dolly. To ensure her success, Jo has carefully crafted her image: a pretty, sassy, down-to-earth girl from small-town Virginia who pours her heart into her songs. But the stage persona she's built is threatened when her independent label merges with big-time Capitol...
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2001
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IL: LG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
In segregated 1950s Nashville, a young African American girl braves a series of indignities and obstacles to get to one of the few integrated places in town: the public library.
Author
Series
Taylor Jackson novels volume 1
Publisher
MIRA Books
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Homicide detective Taylor Jackson teams up with her lover John Baldwin, an FBI profiler, when the sadistic serial killer he is tracking comes to Nashville, while ambitious TV reporter Whitney Connolly, believing that this killer is her ticket out of Nashville, will do anything to break the case.
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Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
From the author of the award-winning Shadows of Pecan Hollow comes a novel set in the country music world of 1970s Nashville about a struggling musician who writes a hit song that both promises her long-sought-after fame and implicates her in a heinous crime.
17) Country: a novel
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Language
English
Description
Struggling to find her true self in the wake of her lawyer husband's sudden death, stay-at-home mother Stephanie Adams finds unexpected hope in the song of a country music superstar who is about to change her life forever. Read By: Danjohn Miller, 9 CD(s), 11:00 hour(s).
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Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"When young Charlie Boykin gains entry into the wealthy society of the most exclusive part of Nashville, he falls under its spell. But he soon learns what he'd have to give up in return in this novel that asks why we envy and worship a class of people that so often exhibits the worst excesses"--Provided by publisher.
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Series
Publisher
St. Martin's Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Whitney Whitaker has scored the perfect piece of real estate: a ramshackle white Colonial at the top of a hill with views of downtown Nashville. What more could a self-taught home-improvement maven and occasional house-flipper ask for? Ideally, the property of Whitney's dreams would not have come with a dead body blocking the entrance to the foyer. But Whitney, always quick to take heavy-duty matters into her own hands, also happens to be a skilled...
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Series
Publisher
St. Martin's Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Carpenter Whitney Whitaker and her cousin Buck have successfully flipped houses, but this is the first time they've attempted to renovate a house of worship ... The owner of the horse farm next door has asserted a legal claim to the church property ... If that's not bad enough, while rehabbing the church, Whitneys cat Sawdust discovers a bombshell in the bell tower--the body of the man who'd delivered their beautiful new replacement windows"--
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