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English
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Minutes after the principal of Opportunity High School in Alabama finishes her speech welcoming the student body to a new semester, they discover that the auditorium doors will not open and someone starts shooting as four teens, each with a personal reason to fear the shooter, tell the tale from separate perspectives
Author
Series
Gaither sisters volume 3
Language
English
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It takes a tragedy to mend the fraying family bonds between Ma Charles and her half sister, Miss Trotter. They have not spoken in years. Delphine, Vonetta, and Fern head to Alabama to visit their grandmother, Big Ma, and their great-grandmother, Ma Charles.
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Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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After seventeen-year-olds Chloe and Shara, Chloe's rival for valedictorian, kiss, Shara vanishes leaving Chloe and two boys, who are also enamored with Shara, to follow the trail of clues she left behind, but during the search, Chloe starts to suspect there might be more to Shara and her small Alabama town than she thought.
24) The Hideaway
Author
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
345 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"When her grandmother's will wrenches Sara back home from New Orleans, she learns more about Margaret Van Buren in the wake of her death than she ever did in life. After her last remaining family member dies, Sara Jenkins goes home to The Hideaway, her grandmother Mags's ramshackle B & B in Sweet Bay, Alabama. She intends to quickly tie up loose ends then return to her busy life and thriving antique shop in New Orleans. Instead, she learns Mags has...
25) Rosa
Author
Publisher
Holt
Pub. Date
2005
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
[34] p. : col. ill. ; 29 cm.
Language
English
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Presents an illustrated account of Rosa Parks' refusal to give up her seat on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama in 1955, and the subsequent bus boycott by the black community.
Author
Series
Inside out and back again volume 1
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
c2011
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
262 p. ; 22 cm.
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English
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Through a series of poems, a young girl chronicles the life-changing year of 1975, when she, her mother, and her brothers leave Vietnam and resettle in Alabama.
27) Fourmile
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Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
227 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"A mysterious stranger arrives at a boy's rundown Alabama farm home, just as a dangerous situation is unfolding for the twelve-year-old and his widowed mother"--
29) Rabbit cake
Author
Publisher
Tin House Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
331 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Elvis Babbitt has a head for the facts: she knows science proves yellow is the happiest color, she knows a healthy male giraffe weighs about 3,000 pounds, and she knows that the naked mole rat is the longest living rodent. She knows she should plan to grieve her mother, who has recently drowned while sleepwalking, for exactly eighteen months. But there are things Elvis doesn't yet know--like how to keep her sister Lizzie from poisoning...
Author
Series
Whistle Stop AL volume 02
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
282 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Bud Threadgoode grew up in the bustling little railroad town of Whistle Stop, Alabama, with his mother Ruth, church going and proper, and the fun-loving hell-raiser, his Aunt Idgie. Together they ran the town's popular Whistle Stop Café, known far and wide for its famous 'Fried Green Tomatoes.' And as Bud often said of his childhood, 'How lucky can you get?' But sadly, the railroad yards began to shut down and the town became a ghost town, with...
31) Take my hand
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English
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"Inspired by true events that rocked the nation, a profoundly moving novel about a Black nurse in post-segregation Alabama who blows the whistle on a terrible wrong done to her patients, from the New York Times bestselling author of Wench. Montgomery, Alabama, 1973. Fresh out of nursing school, Civil Townsend has big plans to make a difference, especially in her African American community. At the Montgomery Family Planning Clinic, she intends to help...
Author
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xii, 314 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 25 cm
Language
English
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""A triumph on every level. One of the losses to literature is that Harper Lee never found a way to tell a gothic true-crime story she'd spent years researching. Casey Cep has excavated this mesmerizing story and tells it with grace and insight and a fierce fidelity to the truth." --David Grann, best-selling author of Killers of the Flower Moon The stunning story of an Alabama serial killer and the true-crime book that Harper Lee worked on obsessively...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
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"The incredible true story of the last ship to carry enslaved people to America, the remarkable town its survivors founded after emancipation, and the complicated legacy their descendants carry with them to this day-by the journalist who discovered the ship's remains"--
Author
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
x, 255 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
The author describes the life of his alcoholic father, from his upbringing in Jacksonville, Alabama, until his death from tuberculosis, and merges it with his own fatherly experiences with his ten-year-old stepson.
Author
Series
Pelican Harbor volume 3
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
2021
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
"Chief of Police Jane Hardy plunges into the investigation of a house fire that claimed the life of a local woman as well as one of the firefighters. It's clear the woman was murdered. But why? The unraveling of Jane's personal life only makes the answers in the case more difficult to find. Then Jane's fifteen-year-old son is accused of a horrific crime, and she has to decide whether or not she can trust her ex, Reid, in the attempt to prove Will's...
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
324 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"It's 1957, and after leaving the only home she has ever known, Alice Young steps off the bus into the all-Black town of New Jessup, Alabama, where residents have largely rejected integration as the means for Black social advancement. She falls in love with Raymond Campbell, whose clandestine organizing activities challenge New Jessup's status quo and could lead to the young couple's expulsion-or worse-from the home they hold dear. But as Raymond...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
vii, 261 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
On the coast of Alabama, there is a house cloaked in mystery, a place that reveals the truth and changes lives . . . Ellie Calvin is caught in a dying marriage, and she knows this. With her beloved daughter away at college and a growing gap between her and her husband, she no longer seems to fit into her own life. But everything changes after her controlling mother, Lillian, passes away. Ellie's world turns upside down when she sees her ex-boyfriend,...
39) Wrestle
Publisher
Oscilloscope Laboratories
Language
English
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Description
*Hoop Dreams* goes to the mat in this intimate, coming-of-age documentary about four members of a high-school wrestling team at Huntsville’s J.O. Johnson High School, a longstanding entry on Alabama’s list of failing schools. Coached by teacher Chris Scribner, teammates Jailen, Jamario, Teague, and Jaquan each face challenges far beyond a shot at the State Championship: splintered family lives, drug use, teenage pregnancy, mental health struggles,...
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
5 Videodiscs : 928 min] sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"Lifelong New Yorker Dr. Zoe Hart is set on becoming a heart surgeon, just like her father. But when she's told she doesn't have the requisite bedside manner to receive an important fellowship, she unexpectedly finds herself in tiny Bluebell, Alabama-- a place where she will learn to be a better doctor and a better person, and maybe ever fall in love"--Container of first season.
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