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521) By the sweet gum
Author
Series
The Georgia magnolias volume Book 3
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
262 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"In the beleaguered mill town of Sweetgum, Georgia, Genessee Taylor dreams of a life beyond running the mill-owned hotel with her family. Though the work is honest, the owner of the mill is not. Genessee and her father long to see stronger labor laws passed to protect the innocent children who are injured and dying in the mill. When the owner learns of their activity, he will stop at nothing to silence them. Tommy Mack works at the mill and dreams...
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
261 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"The Civil War rages around her, yet Brigid McGinnis has her life planned out. That was, until she stumbles across an unconscious Confederate soldier on her father's property. A blow to the head stole Dominic Warner's memory. The beautiful fraulein who nurses him back to health steals something even more important--his heart. For political and societal reasons, Brigid and Dominic must go their separate ways. They each get caught up in the war and...
Author
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
256 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
This luminous but highly accessible work examines a little-known aspect of America s past slaveholding by Southern Creeks and Cherokees and its legacy in the lives of three young women who are drawn to the Georgia plantation where scenes of extreme cruelty and equally extraordinary compassion once played out. The novel is based on historical sources about the Chief Vann House Historic Site in Chatsworth, Georgia, and the Moravian mission sponsored...
524) Trembling earth
Author
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
152 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In 1864, two boys, one a slave running toward freedom and one hoping to collect the reward for capturing him, make their way through Georgia's Okefenokee Swamp, relying on knowledge the white boy's father, disabled by the war, had passed on to him in happier times.
526) Blessing in disguise
Author
Pub. Date
1995.
Physical Desc
492 pages ; 18 cm
Language
English
Description
While writing a biography of her senator father, Grace Truscott raises disturbing questions about the murder of Ned Emory, the husband of her father's Black secretary; grapples with her family's troubled past; and copes with the difficulties of a new love.
527) Old bones
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
337 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"A timely and penetrating mystery about the intersection of policing, racism, and the community--set in a city at its boiling point--from an author who's been in the trenches and seen it all. A senseless act of violence. During a vigil calling for police reform, students from Spelman College, a historically black women's institution, are assaulted by rifle fire from a passing vehicle. On her way to interview witnesses, Detective Sarah "Salt" Alt confronts...
528) In bloom
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (102 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Georgian
Description
Early '90s, in Tbilisi, the capital of the newly independent Georgia after the collapse of the Soviet Union. The country is facing violence, war on the Black Sea coast, and vigilante justice that plague society. But for Eka and Natia, fourteen-year-old inseparable friends, life just unfolds - in the street, at school, with friends, or Eka's elder sister. Although they are already dealing with men's dominance, early marriage, and disillusioned love,...
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
316 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Tells the story of the life and struggles of the highly acclaimed artist, from her childhood in Wisconsin through her art education and rise to fame, to the American Southwest where she found never-ending inspiration.
530) A thousand miles
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
96 pages ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
"A young Cherokee boy and his family are forced to leave their home when the Indian Removal Act is enforced." --
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (410 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Ride along : Fast-talking security guard Ben joins his soon-to-be brother-in-law James on a 24-hour patrol of Atlanta in order to prove himself worthy of marrying Angela, James's sister.
Ride along 2 : Friction continues between rookie cop Ben Barber and his seasoned partner (and future brother-in-law) James Payton. After discovering a mysterious flash drive during an arrest, the pair travels to Miami to hunt down a local drug lord with the help...
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