Lilly, Elizabeth (Elizabeth Marie)
Summary: Whether you're settling in for a heaping plate of banana pudding or arepas and tostones, a good meal can always bring families together. Once a year, on a Friday night, My family leaves the city And drives hours and hours . . . First my family drives through the mountains to stop at Mamaw and Papaw's house in rural West Virginia. We share blueberry jam and toast for breakfast the next morning,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: [Library Ideas, LLC] 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J READ-ALONG LILPowell, Patricia Hruby
Summary: Written in blank verse, the story of Mildred Loving, an African American girl, and Richard Loving, a Caucasian boy, who challenge the Viriginia law forbidding interracial marriages in the 1950s.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC POWRoberts, Nora.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Jove Books 1996
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC ROBMeade, Amy Patricia
Summary: "Literary caterer Letitia 'Tish' Tarragon is preparing her English Secret Garden-themed luncheon for Coleton Creek's annual garden club awards, but when she is taken on a tour of some of the top contenders with the garden club's president, Jim Ainsley, Tish is surprised at how seriously the residents take the awards - and how desperate they are to win. Wealthy, retired businessman Sloane...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MEABrown, Rita Mae.
Summary: When members of the Jefferson Hunt Club uncover a human body while burying a horse, "Sister" Jane Arnold investigates.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BROBeanland, Rachel
Summary: Richmond, Virginia, 1811. It's the height of the winter social season, the General Assembly is in session, and many of Virginia's gentleman planters, along with their wives and children, have made the long and arduous journey to the capital in hopes of whiling away the darkest days of the year. At the city's only theater, the Charleston-based Placide & Green Company puts on two plays a night to...
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD Fiction BeanlandErskine, Kathryn.
Summary: Ten-year-old Caitlin, who has Asperger's Syndrome, struggles to understand emotions, show empathy, and make friends at school, while at home she seeks closure by working on a project with her father.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Philomel Books 2010
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC ERSBrown, Rita Mae
Summary: "Early fall in Virginia means shorter days, cooler temperatures, the blooming milkweeds of summer giving way to fields of fluffy seeds -- and of course, the start of fox hunting season. It's "Sister" Jane Arnold's favorite time of year. And this year, the Jefferson Hunt Club is busier than ever, organizing a fundraising drive to help with the upkeep of their beloved hunting grounds. But the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2024
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP Fiction BrownBrown, Rita Mae
Summary: "It's the start of fox-hunting season and Sister is training a new generation of hounds in eager anticipation of Opening Hunt. But before they make it to that exciting day, a man dies, apparently by suicide, shocking a community that never saw the death coming. Then Crawford Howard receives an ominous video in which he appears to be doing scandalous, career-ending deeds. The video is doctored,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP Fiction BrownKeller, Julia.
Summary: "High summer in Acker's Gap, West Virginia--but no one's enjoying the rugged natural landscape. Not while a killer stalks the small town and its hard-luck inhabitants. County prosecutor Bell Elkins and Sheriff Nick Fogelsong are stymied by a murderer whoseems to come and go like smoke on the mountain. At the same time, Bell must deal with the return from prison of her sister, Shirley--who, like...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio 2015
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC KELDavis, Krista
Summary: "Natasha Smith's mother is engaged--leaving Natasha to plan the entire wedding, beginning with an elaborate engagement party. For the extravagant affair, Natasha splurges on trendy food boards. Just as Natasha planned, the food is to die for--until someone actually does. When the groom collapses, it seems as if a heart attack is to blame. Then guests discover he was poisoned. With an event this...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2024
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Summary: As they do each June, the Foxes have driven the winding roads of Appalachia to drop off their children for a two-week stay at their grandmother's. Here, twelve-year-old Thea can run free and breathe in the smells of pine and fresh bread and Grammie's handmade candles. But as her parents head back to suburban Virginia, they have no idea they're about to cross paths with a ticking time bomb. Back...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2024
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Summary: Sophie Winston takes on ghostwriting a cookbook for Tilly Stratford, an interesting diversion until it leads Sophie into investigating a murder.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wheeler Publishing, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2021
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC DAVWalls, Jeannette
Summary: "Sallie Kincaid is the daughter of the charismatic Duke Kincaid. Born into comfort and privilege, Sallie remembers little about her mother who died in a violent argument with the Duke. By the time she is just eight years old, the Duke has remarried and had a son, Eddie. While Sallie is sharp-witted and resourceful, Eddie is timid and cerebral. When Sallie tries to teach young Eddie to be more...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wheeler Publishing, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2023
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC WALDeveraux, Jude.
Summary: When Lillian Manville's life is turned upside down by the death of her husband, she transforms herself and builds a new life and a thriving business, but there remain secrets that could shatter her world anew.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2002
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC DEVJacobson, Melanie (Melanie Bennett)
Summary: "Taylor Bixby is content running her caf©♭ and watching her customers fall in love. She wouldn't mind a little mistletoe magic herself, but the last kiss to curl her toes was from an old friend -- an eggnog-fueled mistake. It's a good thing he hasn't been around for the four Christmases since. She's got her hands full overseeing the town's most beloved holiday tradition, and she's fine leaving...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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Summary: "Tabitha Winters, glamorous celebrity chef, loves her life and growing empire in New York. But when her best friends buy the old summer camp where they worked as counselors, she can't turn down their invitation to appear at the opening week fundraising gala . . . even if it means confronting the memories of her first love and its disastrous ending. She never imagines she'll run into Sawyer Reed...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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Summary: The Collected Breece D'J Pancake brings together the original landmark book, several story drafts and fragments, and a selection of Pancake's letters to offer an unprecedented picture of his life and art. Among the unfinished stories are fragments from Pancake's two planned novels. The letters document his relationship with writers such as Peter Taylor, John Casey, James Alan McPherson, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PANFlint, Eric.
Summary: King Gustavus of Sweden orders General Mike Stearns of West Virginia to go to Saxony and restore order. Gretchen has been arrested there and is likely to be executed. The revolutionary groups which she has been working with are not about to let that happen, and suddenly there's rioting in the streets and Saxony's ruthless General Baner is determined to suppress the uprising.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Baen Books 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FLIJacobson, Melanie (Melanie Bennett)
Summary: "Twenty-six-year-old Paige Redmond, single mom and go-getter, can't wait to give her daughter, Evie, the Christmas of her dreams. Nothing can get in Paige's way, not even her newly purchased fixer-upper cottage needing way more fixing than she planned. Paige tackles the holiday with Clark Griswold spirit, amusing the entire town -- except for her humbug next door neighbor, the grumpy but...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2024
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Summary: In this fast-paced mystery by Rita Mae Brown and her feline co-author Sneaky Pie Brown, Mary Minor "Harry" Haristeen and her animal friends seek to solve a whodunit rooted in eighteenth-century Virginia-uncovering a shocking secret that refuses to stay buried. At any moment a perfect summer day in Crozet, Virginia-nestled within the Blue Ridge Mountains-might turn stormy and tempestuous, as...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2016
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC BROMurray, James S. (James Stephen)
Summary: Megan hopes to mend the pieces of her broken spirit by attending a church group's annual camping trip. But the church group members make a catastrophic mistake, leaving them stranded in an untouched canyon in the forest. They soon realize the canyon is home to a terrifying prehistoric arachnid that patiently stalks its prey. Haunted by her tragic loss, Megan now faces her ultimate test of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Publishing 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MURMichaels, Fern.
Summary: Having failed to gain entry into the CIA, Sam, Slick, and a trio of ex-wives set out to exact vigilante justice against a philanderer, an effort that is interrupted by their recruitment into a secret law enforcement agency that is covertly spying on the five women.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pocket Books 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MICRand, Johnathan.
Summary: While working in her uncle's vacuum cleaner repair shop, Brooke Whipkey and her friend Spider Murphy come up with a fabulous new invention - a robotic vacuum! Unfortunately their experiments lead to horrifying results that spill out of the repair shop and into the neighborhood. How can they reign in their "vicious vacuums" before these wayward inventions suck up everything and everybody in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: AudioCraft Pub. 2010