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Gibbons, Kaye Lackey, Mercedes McFadden, Bernice L. Murphy, Devin Stuart, Douglas Ward, Jesmyn.Ward, Jesmyn.
Summary: Enduring a hardscrabble existence as the children of alcoholic and absent parents, four siblings from a coastal Mississippi town prepare their meager stores for the arrival of Hurricane Katrina while struggling with such challenges as a teen pregnancy and a dying litter of prize pups.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2012
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC WARGibbons, Kaye
Summary: One of the most talked-about and endearing first novels in years bears the story of a female Huck Finn and her search for a true home.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Books 1990
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GIBStuart, Douglas
Summary: "The story of the dangerous first love of two young men: Mungo and James. Born under different stars--Mungo a Protestant and James a Catholic--they should be sworn enemies if they're to be seen as men at all. Their environment is a hyper-masculine and sectarian one, for gangs of young men and the violence they might dole out dominate the Glaswegian estate where they live. And yet against all...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2022
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1 available in Browsing Hot Titles, Call number: HOT TITLELackey, Mercedes
Summary: "When Staci was first shunted off to the backwater town of Silence, Maine, to live with her alcoholic mother, she thought her life was over. Silence had none of the amenities a typical teen in the twenty-first century considered essential: no cell service and barely any internet connectivity. But Staci soon learned that Silence was more than a town left behind by progress. The first family of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Baen Publishing Enterprises 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LACStuart, Douglas
Summary: Growing up in a housing estate in Glasgow, Mungo is a Protestant while James is Catholic. Against all odds, they become friends and eventually lovers. They dream of finding somewhere they can belong.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC STUMcFadden, Bernice L.
Summary: "Childhood can be rough. But for Kenzie growing up in the Lowe home means opening the bottom drawer of her father's dresser to choose which of the three belts coiled, waiting like snakes, she wants to get whipped with; trips to Beehive Liquors for her father's vodka; and dreaming of the day she can escape apartment A5. She goes to school, she holds odd jobs, and develops her own craving for the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2001
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCFMurphy, Devin
Summary: Abandoned by the alcoholic father who idealized the natural world without imparting any survival skills to his children, three siblings in 1970s New York embark on difficult adult lives before their father attempts a reconciliation.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2019