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61) The guilty
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Will Robie novels volume 4
Language
English
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Will Robie escaped his small Gulf Coast hometown of Cantrell, Mississippi after high school, severing all personal ties, and never looked back. Not once. Not until the unimaginable occurs. His father, Dan Robie, has been arrested and charged with murder. Father and son haven't spoken or seen each other since the day Robie left town. In that time, Dan Robie -- a local attorney and pillar of the community -- has been elected town judge. Despite this,...
62) The ranger
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Quinn Colson novels volume 1
Language
English
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After years at war, Army Ranger Quinn Colson returns to the rugged hill country of northeast Mississippi to find it overrun by corruption, decay, meth dealers, and violence. His uncle, the sheriff, is dead. A suicide, he's told, but Deputy Lillie Virgil whispers murder. It's up to Colson to discover the truth -- about his uncle, his family, his friends, his town, and himself. There's no going back for this real hero of the Deep South.
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Series
Logan family (Mildred D. Taylor) volume 3
Pub. Date
[1981]
Language
English
Description
Four black children growing up in rural Mississippi during the Depression experience racial antagonisms and hard times, but learn from their parents the pride and self-respect they need to survive.
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"Who could have predicted it? The daughter of Police Chief Bax Winchester married to a cop - Detective Ross Rierson. It's a beautiful wedding, and the newlyweds are in bliss - even if they do have to postpone their Hawaiian honeymoon for now. In the meantime, Wendy is teaching a group of newbies the game of bridge so they can join the Rosalie Country Club Bridge Bunch. One of the newcomers, flamboyant psychic Aurelia Spangler, invites the group to...
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Penn Cage novels volume 3
Pub. Date
2009.
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English
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After Penn Cage is elected mayor of his hometown of Natchez, Mississippi, a town that has turned to riverboat casino gambling as a source of jobs, a friend who brings Penn evidence of illegal activities is murdered and Penn's failure to protect his city hits home.
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2018.
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English
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"Charlie may be a proud new grandfather, but he and Diesel still have work to do at Athena College and the small Mississippi town's public library. He's too busy to deal with true-crime writer Jack Pemberton, who wants Charlie as the subject of his latest book--and who won't take no for an answer. A more appealing proposition for Charlie is spending time helping a kind, elderly man navigate the library's genealogical database. But he's shocked when...
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Series
Logan family (Mildred D. Taylor) volume 5
Pub. Date
[1990]
Language
English
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Sadistically teased by two white boys in 1940's rural Mississippi, a black youth severely injures one of the boys with a tire iron and enlists Cassie's help in trying to flee the state.
68) Losing brave
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Pub. Date
[2018]
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English
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"More than a year has passed since seventeen-year-old Payton Brave's twin sister went missing; and Payton, in her desperate attempt to hold on to what's left of Dylan's memory, is starting to crack"--Amazon.com.
69) The innocents
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Series
Quinn Colson novels volume 6
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English
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"She was just seventeen, a high school dropout named Milly Jones, found walking down the middle of the highway, engulfed in flames. Even in a tough Mississippi county like Tibbehah, it shatters the community, and it is up to Sheriff Quinn Colson, back on the job after a year away, and his deputy Lillie Virgil, to investigate what happened and why. Before long, however, accusations start to fly, national media and federal authorities descend, and what...
70) The heathens
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Series
Quinn Colson novels volume 11
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Sheriff Quinn Colson and his former deputy Lillie Virgil find themselves on opposite sides of a case for the first time after a woman is found dead and three delinquent teens go on the run"--
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Pub. Date
2017.
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English
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"Lighthearted librarian Charlie Harris is known around his hometown of Athena, Mississippi, for walking his cat, a rescued Maine Coon named Diesel. But he may soon be taken for a walk himself--in handcuffs... Charlie is stressed out. The Southern Academic Libraries Association is holding this year's annual meeting at Athena College. Since Charlie is the interim library director, he must deliver the welcome speech to all the visiting librarians. As...
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Piggly Wiggly novels volume 4
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
When an electrical fire devastates the Second Creek square's beautiful old buildings a week before Christmas, everything is thrown into chaos. It falls to the town's indefatigable army of matrons--the Nitwitts--to find a way to revive the holiday spirit and raise money to rebuild.
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Spanning seven decades and two continents, this chronicle of one woman's remarkable journey through some of history's most turbulent eras follows Claudia Patterson, freedom fighter, businessperson, wife, master of languages and ultimately, savior of a European dynasty, as she encounters four men who impact her life along the way.
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2012.
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English
Description
Hardened by the abuses of her family, Clea packs up her kids and drives to the clapboard house of her childhood guardian, a woman with whom she has shared an abiding bond that is tested by Clea's exploration of her painful past as part of an effort to understand the elusive nature of happiness
75) Bone appetit
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Pub. Date
2010.
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English
Description
In the midst of a cook-off at a posh spa in Mississippi, southern PI Sarah Booth Delaney gets embroiled in a juicy murder when the beauty contest/cook-off's top contender gets poisoned.
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2012.
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English
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Tracking down a porn star-turned-psychic who has promised to reunite an eccentric billionaire with her dead child, a suspicious Sarah Booth goes undercover as a maid at the billionaire's estate, where she discovers multiple murders and a host of suspects.
77) The forsaken
Author
Series
Quinn Colson novels volume 4
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
County sheriff Quinn Colson is determined to find those responsible for lynching an innocent black man in Jericho, Mississippi, 30 years prior.
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Series
Jane Yellowrock novels volume 6
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
When she is hired by the Master of Natchez, Mississippi to stop rogue vampires from terrorizing his city, skinwalker Jane Yellowrock soon discovers that there is something different about these vamps as her simple job turns into a fight to stay alive.
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"Brandy Borne and her suspiciously well-informed mother, Vivian, have the winning bid on an abandoned storage unit's 'mystery' contents, which they discover includes a vintage cornet. But when they arrive to claim the rest of their loot, the space is empty except for the recently stowed body of Big Jim Bob, Vivian's tipster--a.k.a., former flame. Only one thing is certain: someone has definitely put the 'rage' in storage"--Dust jacket flap.
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