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Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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Born on a plantation in Charles City, Virginia, Pheby Brown was promised her freedom on her eighteenth birthday. Instead she finds herself thrust into the bowels of slavery at the infamous Devil's Half-Acre, a jail where slaves are broken, tortured, and sold every day. Forced to become the mistress of the brutal man who owns the jail, Pheby's survival lies in outwitting him-- even if it means making the ultimate sacrifice. -- adapted from back cover...
2) Hiss & tell
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English
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"Christmas is coming, but Harry's friend on the police force, Cynthia Cooper, warns that the season can bring an uptick in crime. Her words prove tragically prescient when Harry and her best friend Susan discover the body of a man by the side of the road. One suspicious death is bad enough, but when Cooper reports that two more bodies have been found, Harry knows trouble is afoot. The autopsies for all three bodies reveal the presence of a deadly...
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Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 3
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English
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Pathologist Kay Scarpetta searches for the cause of death in the case of five young couples whose decomposed bodies are found without shoes and socks deep in the woods. Bones, fragments of clothing, and a jack of hearts are all that remain.
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A thrilling new tale from New York Times bestselling author Rita Mae Brown and her feline co-author Sneaky Pie Brown. Death stalks the Blue Ridge Mountains once again and Mary Minor "Harry" Harristeen, along with her beloved cats, is on the case. Pharamond "Fair" Haristeen is known throughout Crozet, Virginia, as a good horse vet and a better man. When Benjamin Wagner, a new vet in town, is found dead in his unopened clinic, local police turn to Fair...
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Hope River novels volume 2
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English
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The Great Depression has hit West Virginia hard. Men are out of work; women struggle to feed hungry children. Luckily, Nurse Becky Myers has returned to care for them. While she can handle most situations, Becky is still uneasy helping women deliver their babies. For these mothers-to-be, she relies on an experienced midwife, her dear friend Patience Murphy.
6) June Bug
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English
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From the best-selling author of War Room comes a Christy Award finalist, now a Lifetime original movie called Child of Grace.
"I believed everything my daddy told me until I walked into Wal-Mart and saw my picture on a little poster . . ." For as long as she can remember, June Bug and her father have traveled the back roads of the country in their beat-up RV, spending many nights parked at Wal-Mart. One morning, as she walks...
"I believed everything my daddy told me until I walked into Wal-Mart and saw my picture on a little poster . . ." For as long as she can remember, June Bug and her father have traveled the back roads of the country in their beat-up RV, spending many nights parked at Wal-Mart. One morning, as she walks...
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Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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Old Town?s midsummer festivities are getting a tasty addition this year. To coincide with a public performance of Shakespeare?s ?A Midsummer Night?s Dream,? Bobbie Sue Bodoin, the Queen of Cheesecake, has hired Sophie to organize a dinner with a dessert buffet on the waterfront. Bobbie Sue has only one menu demand: no cheesecake! But her specialty isn?t the only thing missing from the evening?Tate, Bobbie Sue?s husband, is too much to her annoyance....
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Appalachian blessings volume 1
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English
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"In small town West Virginia, 1954, one newcomer's special gift with food produces both gratitude and censure. Will Perla Long and her daughter find a home there?"--
9) Oral history
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English
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A curse laid on the inhabitants of Hoot Owl Holler follows each succeeding generation for a century, in a tale of love, murder, obsession, and betrayal set in Appalachia.
10) Bitter River
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Bell Elkins mysteries volume 2
Pub. Date
2013.
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English
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An investigation into the murder of a pregnant teenage girl is complicated by county prosecuting attorney Bell Elkins's separation from the daughter who is living with her ex, Sheriff Nick Fogelsong's strange behavior, and a person from her past.
11) Almost heaven
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Tyndale House Publishers
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English
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Billy, a gifted mandolin player in Dogwood, West Virginia, lives his life as an offering to his divine creator. Malachi is an angel sent to observe Billy. He begins to see the bigger picture of how each painful step Billy takes is a note added to a beautiful symphony that will forever change the lives of those who hear it.
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John Puller novels volume 1
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English
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Combat veteran John Puller, now working as an investigator for the Army's Criminal Investigative Division, tries to solve the murder of an Army man and his Pentagon contractor wife in their isolated rural home.
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Bell Elkins mysteries volume 4
Pub. Date
2015.
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English
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Decades after the Buffalo Creek Flook of 1972, Royce Dillard, a recluse whose parents perished in the flood, becomes a suspect when a dog sniffs out the corpse of Ed Hackel, a slick marketer, in a creek outside Acker?s Gap. Hackel had been pressuring Dillard to sell his land so that it could be developed as part of the new Mountain Magic resort planned for the region. As prosecuting attorney, Bell is tasked with proving Dillard?s guilt. When it becomes...
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Pub. Date
2019.
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English
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Pulitzer Prize-winning author Keller takes readers back to West Virginia and a ragged chunk of what was once a high stone wall. This is all that remains of Wellwood, a psychiatric hospital for the poor that burned to the ground decades ago. And it is here that Bell Elkins -- prosecutor turned private investigator -- makes a grim discovery while searching for a missing teenager: a dead body, marred by a ghastly wound that can only mean murder.
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Bell Elkins mysteries volume 3
Pub. Date
2014.
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English
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In the West Virginia town of Acker's Gap, county prosecutor Bell Elkins has her hands full dealing with her sister Shirley's release from prison, as well as trying to identify a killer stalking the streets. At the same time, Lindy Crabtree, a true coal miner's daughter, struggles to keep family secrets from exploding into the world. When these women's lives collide, Bell must do her best to ensure that the body count does not climb any higher.
16) Saving Faith
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English
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When lobbyist Faith Lockhart stumbles upon a corruption scheme at the highest levels of government, she becomes a dangerous witness who the most powerful men in the world will go to any lengths to silence in this #1 New York Times bestselling thriller.
In a secluded house not far from Washington, D.C., the FBI is interviewing one of the most important witnesses it has ever had: a young woman named Faith Lockhart. For Faith has done...
In a secluded house not far from Washington, D.C., the FBI is interviewing one of the most important witnesses it has ever had: a young woman named Faith Lockhart. For Faith has done...
19) Shiner
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Pub. Date
2020.
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English
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"An hour from the closest West Virginia mining town, fifteen-year-old Wren Bird lives in a cloistered mountain cabin with her parents. They have no car, no mailbox, and no visitors--except for her mother's lifelong best friend. Every Sunday, Wren's father delivers winding sermons in an abandoned gas station, where he takes up serpents and praises the Lord for his blighted white eye, proof of his divinity and key to the hold he has over the community,...
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Knockemout volume 2
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English
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Struggling after being shot, Chief of Police Nash Morgan, feeling like a broody shell of the man he once was, finds himself drawn to his new next-door neighbor, smart and sexy Lina, and determined to make this mysterious woman his, discovers that means facing the danger that nearly killed him.
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