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Author
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
"A house shrouded in time. A line of women with a heritage of loss. As a young bride, Susannah Page was rumored to be a Civil War spy for the North, a traitor to her Virginian roots. Her great-granddaughter Adelaide, the current matriarch of Holly Oak, doesn't believe that Susannah's ghost haunts the antebellum mansion looking for a pardon, but rather the house itself bears a grudge toward its tragic past. When Marielle Bishop marries into the family...
Author
Series
Sisterhood series volume 11
Publisher
Kensington
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
A mysterious political operative needs the Sisterhood to track down a computer hacker who stole a list of secret fundraisers' names, but the job proves to be more dangerous than they thought.
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Formats
Description
The entrepreneurial Internet pioneer and co-founder of AOL shares a roadmap for how to succeed in a world of rapidly changing technology and offers behind-the-scenes stories about some of the most consequential business decisions of the Internet world.
Author
Series
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
In 1807, having survived a typhoon in the East Indies, Jacky Faber makes her way to London to seek a pardon for herself and her betrothed, Jaimy Fletcher, who, posing as a highwayman, is trying to avenge her supposed death.
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Formats
Description
At nineteen Trethewey's world turned upside down when her former stepfather shot and killed her mother. Grieving and still new to adulthood, she confronted the twin pulls of life and death in the aftermath of unimaginable trauma. Here she explores the way this experience lastingly shaped the artist she became. Moving through her mother's history in the deeply segregated South and through her own girlhood as a 'child of miscegenation' in Mississippi,...
Author
Series
Quinn Colson novels volume 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
Jericho, Mississippi sheriff Quinn Colson has serious trouble on his hands, in the form of recently pardoned murderer Casey Dixon, who has returned to make amends for his terrible crime. Or maybe that is just a pretense, and Dixon is actually there to dig up the hidden loot from an armored car robbery he committed years ago. That is certainly what his former gang assumes, as they break out of Parchman prison to confront Dixon before he can take the...
12) Rio Hondo
Author
Series
Publisher
Wheeler Publishing, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
""In the aftermath of the "Big Killing," which culminated in the Lincoln County War, rancher Wes Bracken must rebuild life for himself and his family amid the lingering animosities from the deadly feud. The conflagration has destroyed his livelihood, strained his family, and turned both sides against him as he steered a neutral path between the warring factions. His vengeful brother-in-law vows to kill him, the economic kingpin of Lincoln County seeks...
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