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Author
Publisher
Modern Library
Pub. Date
1994
Physical Desc
xliv, 428 p. ; 19 cm.
Language
English
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Description
"The Confessions of Nat Turner reveals in unforgettable human terms the agonizing essence of Negro slavery. Through the mind of a slave, William Styron has re-created a catastrophic event, and dramatized the intermingled miseries, frustrations-and hopes-which caused this extraordinary black man to rise up out of the early mists of our history and strike down those who had held his people in bondage."--provided by publisher
2) Shiloh
Author
Series
Shiloh quartet volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
When he finds a lost beagle in the hills behind his West Virginia home, Marty tries to hide it from his family and the dog's real owner, a mean-spirited man known to shoot deer out of season and to mistreat his dogs.
Author
Publisher
Penguin Young Readers Group
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Formats
Description
Twelve-year-old Foster McFee and her mother escape from her mother's abusive boyfriend and end up in the small town of Culpepper, West Virginia, where they use their strengths and challenge themselves to build a new life, with the help of the friends they make there.
Author
Language
English
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Description
"We didn't call the police right away." Those are the electric first words of this extraordinary novel about a biracial Korean American family in Virginia whose lives are upended when their beloved father and husband goes missing. Mia, the irreverent, hyperanalytical twenty-year-old daughter, has an explanation for everything--which is why she isn't initially concerned when her father and younger brother Eugene don't return from a walk in a nearby...
Author
Language
English
Description
Living in rural Virginia, ten-year-old Jess and Leslie become special friends as they create a magical secret world that they call Terabithia. But when a tragic accident causes Leslie's death during a storm, Jess is forced to face life alone.
"This Newbery Medal-winning novel by bestselling-author Katherine Paterson has been a modern classic about friendship and loss for forty years. Jess Aarons has been practicing all summer so he can be the fastest...
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Books
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1948, a mysterious and charismatic man arrives in a small Virginia town carrying two suitcases; one contains his worldly possessions, the other is full of money. He soon inserts himself into the town's daily life, taking a job in the local butcher shop and befriending the owner and his wife and their son. But the passion that develops between the man and the wife of the town's wealthiest citizen sets in motion a series of events that not only upset...
Author
Language
English
Description
The year is 2008 and Samantha Kofer's career at a huge Wall Street law firm is on the fast track -- until the recession hits and she gets downsized, furloughed, escorted out of the building. Samantha, though, is one of the "lucky" associates. She's offered an opportunity to work at a legal aid clinic for one year without pay, after which there would be a slim chance that she'd get her old job back. In a matter of days Samantha moves from Manhattan...
9) Zero day
Author
Series
John Puller novels volume 1
Language
English
Description
Military investigator John Puller is called out to a remote, rural area far from any military outpost to investigate the brutal murder of a family in their home. The dead husband was in the army and the wife worked for a Pentagon contractor. The local homicide detective, a woman with personal demons of her own, clashes with Puller over the investigation. What neither of them knows is what is waiting for them across the street from the murdered family's...
10) As you wish
Author
Series
Summerhouse novels volume 3
Thorndike Press large print core
Summer Hill novel volume 3
Summer Hill novel volume Book 3
Thorndike Press large print core
Summer Hill novel volume 3
Summer Hill novel volume Book 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
Sixty-year-old Olivia's first marriage was long and unhappy, but now she is a newlywed, thrilled to finally be starting her life with the man she's always truly loved - even if they are getting a late start. Kathy is in her forties and married to a handsome, successful businessman. Theirs would be a fairy-tale romance if it weren't for one problem: He's passionately in love with someone else! Twenty-something Elise is also in a troubled marriage,...
11) The known world
Author
Language
English
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Description
Henry Townsend, a African farmer and former slave, is befriended by the most powerful man in antebellum Virginia's Manchester County and becomes proprietor of his own plantation, as well as of his own slaves.
12) Labyrinth
Author
Series
FBI suspense thriller series volume 23
FBI thriller) volume 23
FBI thrillers volume Book 23
FBI thrillers volume 23
FBI thriller) volume 23
FBI thrillers volume Book 23
FBI thrillers volume 23
Language
English
Formats
Description
The #1 New York Times bestselling FBI Thriller series returns with another tour de force in which Agent Sherlock risks losing her career -- and her sanity -- over a case that is more complicated and twisted than any she's ever encountered. On a Tuesday afternoon, Agent Sherlock is driving in downtown Washington when her Volvo is suddenly T-boned at an intersection. As her car spins out of control, a man's body slams against her windshield and then...
Author
Series
Stink Moody volume 4
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Fountas & Pinnell
M
Physical Desc
118 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
Stink Moody, friends Webster and Sophie, and Mrs. Birdwistle visit tourist attractions in Virginia as they try to give away 101 guinea pigs rescued from a laboratory, although Stink is very reluctant to relinquish his favorite, Astro.
14) Key of valor
Author
Series
Publisher
Paragon Press
Pub. Date
2004
Edition
Large print ed.
Physical Desc
493 p. (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
""Fate brings three women together for a chance to unlock their deepest desires in the Key Trilogy. Now, in the stunning conclusion, it's Zoe's turn... Growing up, Zoe McCourt did not have an easy life--some might call it ""disadvantaged."" A hairstylist from a West Virginia trailer park, she ended up in beautiful Pleasant Valley, Pennsylvania, by sheer determination. How she ended up on a quest for a key to unlock the soul of a warrior demigoddess...
15) Virginia
Author
Series
Publisher
Benchmark Books
Pub. Date
c2004
Edition
2nd ed.
Physical Desc
p. cm.
Language
English
Description
Discusses the geographic features, history, government, people, and attractions of the state known as the Mother of Presidents.
Author
Series
Judy Moody volume 3
Publisher
Recorded Books
Pub. Date
p2002
Physical Desc
2 sound discs (1 hr., 30 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When Judy Moody gets serious about protecting the environment, her little brother Stink thinks she is overdoing it, but she manages to inspire her third grade class to undertake an award-winning, environment-saving project.
17) About that man
Author
Series
Trinity Harbor volume 1
Publisher
MIRA
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
The picture-perfect town of Trinity Harbor, Virginia, is in an uproar when Robert "King" Spencer's sensible spinster daughter takes in a modern-day Huck Finn she found hot-wiring her car. But Daisy, a spirited beauty with a tragic past, needs this orphaned ten-year-old boy to love. She's confident she can handle her bullheaded father, the self-appointed town patriarch, her two bossy brothers, concerned pastor and social services. The only real obstacle...
18) Point of origin
Author
Series
Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 9
Publisher
Chivers Press
Pub. Date
1998
Edition
Large print ed.
Physical Desc
542 p. (large print) ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Medical examiner Kay Scarpetta's investigation of a killer who uses fire to hide his crimes turns personal when she learns that her old nemesis, Carrie Grethen, is somehow involved.
19) Divine justice
Author
Series
Camel Club novels volume 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
In this fourth installment of Camel Club adventures, with two bullets Oliver Stone silences his foes. Those assassinations set off a manhunt of enormous proportions by some of the highest officials in government. The Camel Club must fend for itself, all the while protecting their elusive leader, Stone, as he avoids capture by the sometimes uninformed Joe Knox, the man in charge of the hunt.
20) West Virginia
Author
Series
Publisher
Marshall Cavendish Benchmark
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
p. cm.
Language
English
Description
Relates the history and describes the geographic features, places of interest, government, industry, environmental concerns, and life of the people of this largely rural state.
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