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Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"After years of working as an FBI agent, Titus Crown returns home to Charon County, land of moonshine and cornbread, fist fights and honeysuckle. Seeing his hometown struggling with a bigoted police force inspires him to run for sheriff. He wins, and becomes the first Black sheriff in the history of the county. Then a year to the day after his election, a young Black man is fatally shot by Titus's deputies. Titus pledges to follow the truth wherever...
2) Good women
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In twelve stories, Good Women follows the lives of Black women through Appalachia and the Deep South, examining what forces shape their realities and what force they carry with them. A darkly funny and deeply human collection, Hill observes how place, blood-ties, generational trauma, desperation, obsessions, and boundaries (or lack thereof) all influence how people navigate their worlds--in the most intimate and most coincidental of relationships....
3) Paper moon
Author
Publisher
Four Walls Eight Windows
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Description
"Addie Pray, eleven, and her father are con artists who travel the South before they join a more sophisticated schemer who plans their ultimate con." *** "The death of eleven-year-old Addie Pray's mother leaves her in the care of Long Boy, a man who may or may not be her biological father, and together they set out to con their way through the Deep South in the middle of the Great Depression."
Author
Publisher
NAL Accent
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
In the middle of planning her wedding to a professional golfer, Kara Larson pays a nursing home visit to ninety-six-year-old Maeve Mahoney, whose reminiscences about her first love back in Ireland prompt Kara to recall her own first love, childhood neighbor Jack Sullivan.
Author
Publisher
MacAdam/Cage
Pub. Date
©2003
Language
English
Description
Years after witnessing a murder at an exclusive hunting camp in the west Alabama woods as a young African-American orphan, Cecil Durgin is still haunted by the secret and becomes embroiled in an unstoppable chain of events that links the past and present. A first novel.
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"A searing novel about the cracks that form in a small North Carolina community and the evils that unfurl from its center. Toya Gardner, a young Black artist from Atlanta, has returned to her ancestral home in the North Carolina mountains to trace her family history and complete her graduate thesis. But when she encounters a still-standing Confederate monument in the heart of town, she sets her sights on something bigger. Meanwhile, local deputies...
