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Dixie 3 Oprah's book club Peachtree Bluff 2 Thorndike Press large print core seriesWalker, Alice
Summary: Tells the story of two African-American sisters: Nettie, a missionary in Africa, and Celie, a child-wife living in the south, in the medium of their letters to each other and in Celie's case, the desperate letters she begins, "Dear God."
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 0000
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1 available in Book Club Kit, Call number: BOOK CLUB KIT FIC WALJackson, Joshilyn.
Summary: Nonny Frett understands the meaning of "between a rock and a hard place." She's got two mothers, "one deaf-blind and the other four baby steps from flat crazy." She's got two men: her husband, easing out the back door; and her best friend, laying siege to her heart in her front yard. She has a job that holds her in the city, and she's addicted to a little girl stuck deep in the country. And she...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Books 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JACKing, Cassandra
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KINKincaid, Nanci.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KINKing, Cassandra
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2005
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC KINGibbons, Kaye
Summary: Having suffered abuse and misfortune for much of her life, a young child searches for a better life and finally gets a break in the home of a loving woman with several foster children.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 1987
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GIBLee, Harper
Summary: Twenty years after the trial of Tom Robinson, Jean Louise Finch--Scout--returns home to Maycomb to visit her father. She struggles with personal and political issues as her small Alabama town adjusts to the turbulent events beginning to transform the United States in the mid-1950s.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Caedmon 2015
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC LEECopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD Fiction Lee 2015Lacey, Catherine
Summary: "In a small unnamed town in the American South, a church congregation arrives to a service and finds a figure asleep on a pew. The person is genderless, racially ambiguous, and refuses to speak. One family takes the strange visitor in and nicknames them Pew. As the town spends the week preparing for a mysterious Forgiveness Festival, Pew is shuttled from one household to the next. The earnest...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2020
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LACJohnson, Caleb (Caleb Rick)
Summary: "Wedged between the bluffs and the river for which it's named, there's a small and all-but-forgotten town. Janie Treeborne lives on an orchard at the edge of Elberta, Alabama, and in time, she has become its keeper. A place where conquistadors once walked, and where the peaches they left behind now grow, Elberta has seen fierce battles, violent storms, and frantic change--and when the town is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Picador 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JOHSmith, Lee
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SMIWalker, Alice
Summary: Beautifully imagined and deeply compassionate, this is the story of two sisters--one a missionary in Africa and the other a child wife living in the South--who sustain their loyalty to and trust in each other across time, distance, and silence. This classic novel of American literature is rich with passion, pain, inspiration, and an indomitable love of life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WALCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WALCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WALKing, Cassandra
Summary: Follows minister's wife Dean Lynch, who, even after twenty years, has struggled to cope with the demands of being a Sunday wife, and whose friendship with the lively beautiful Augusta Holderfield transforms her life.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KINLee, Harper.
Summary: The explosion of racial hate in an Alabama town is viewed by a little girl whose father defends a black man accused of rape.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Books 1982
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC LEE1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LEE
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LEECopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION LeeCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC LEECopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC LEECopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA Fiction Lee 20021 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: YA Fiction Lee 2002
McCullers, Carson
Summary: A reprint of the 1941 novel about the sad and tragic lives of the Pendertons and the Langdons, two military couples living on an army base in the American South in the 1930s.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 2000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCCLee, Harper.
Summary: Scout Finch, daughter of the town lawyer Atticus, has just started school; but her carefree days come to an end when a black man in town is accused of raping a white woman, and her father is the only man willing to defend him.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Publishers/Caedmon 2006
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3 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC LEECopies Available at East Bay
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD Fiction Lee 2006Reynolds, Sheri.
Summary: Seven years after being abandoned with her little brother at a Tennessee campground, fifteen-year-old Tessa Lee learns that her mother has been living two hours away.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Shaye Areheart Books 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC REYLee, Harper
Summary: The explosion of racial hate in an Alabama town is viewed by a little girl whose father defends a black man accused of rape
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollinsPublishers 1995
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Summary: Leelee's efforts to run a new restaurant with Peter are challenged by her unpredictable friends, a male dog named Roberta, and the return of Leelee's notorious ex-husband.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PATWells, Rebecca
Summary: In the small river town of La Luna, Louisiana, Calla Lily Ponder enjoys a blissful childhood at her mother's side, learns the art of healing through the humble womanly art of "fixing hair," and encounters first love with a boy named Tuck. When Tuck leaves her, Calla transforms her sorrow into inspiration and heads for the wild and colorful city of New Orleans--where she realizes the full power...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WELCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Wells 2009Wright, Snowden
Summary: "Moving from Mississippi to Paris to New York and back again, an epic saga of family, ambition, passion, and tragedy that brings to life one unforgettable Southern dynasty - the Forsters, founders of the world's first major soft-drink company - against the backdrop of more than a century of American cultural history"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WRIWoodson Harvey, Kristy
Summary: After finding out her military husband is missing in action, Sloane's world crumbles. She can barely climb out of bed, much less summon the strength to be the parent her children deserve. Her mother, Ansley, provides a much-needed respite as she puts her personal life on hold to help Sloane and her grandchildren wade through their new grief-stricken lives. But between caring for her own aging...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gallery Books 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WOOSiddons, Anne Rivers.
Summary: After twenty-one years Micah (Mike) Winship is making the big move--she's going home for a visit. She hasn't been back since 1963, when her father threw her out, but now he is dying and asking for her. And although she is armed with her successful journalism career and the strength found after her divorce, she is nearing forty and her sophisticated urban lifestyle is falling apart.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harper & Row 1987
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SIDWells, Rebecca
Summary: In the small river town of La Luna, Calla enjoys a blissful childhood. Her mother, a woman of rapture and love, teaches Calla the art of healing through the humble womanly art of "fixing hair." Calla further learns that this same touch of hands on the human body can quiet her own soul. It is also on the banks of the La Luna River that Calla encounters first love, with a boy named Tuck. But when...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Audio 2009
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC WELHolton, Cathy.
Summary: Visiting old friend Will from college only to find him much more attractive and confident than she remembers, Ava becomes immersed in Will's Southern community and wonders if the local secrets she uncovers will estrange her from Will or strengthen their bond.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2011