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      By Hurston, Zora Neale  Plant, Deborah G., 1956-  Walker, Alice, 1944-
       2018., Adult, Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers Call No: BLK 306.36 H959b   Edition: 1st ed.    Availability:1 of 1     At Your Library Summary Note: In 1927, Zora Neale Hurston went to Plateau, Alabama, just outside Mobile, to interview eighty-six-year-old Cudjo Lewis. Of the millions of men, women, and children transported from Africa to America as slaves, Cudjo was then the only person alive to tell the story of this integral part of the nation's history. Hurston was there to record Cudjo's firsthand account of the raid that led to his capture and bondage fifty years after the Atlantic slave trade was outlawed in the United States. In 1931, Hurston returned to Plateau, the African-centric community three miles from Mobile founded by Cudjo and other former slaves from his ship. Spending more than three months there, she talked in depth with Cudjo about the details of his life. During those weeks, the young writer and the elderly formerly enslaved man ate peaches and watermelon that grew in the backyard and talked about Cudjo's past--memories from his childhood in Africa, the horrors of being captured and held in a barracoon for selection by American slavers, the harrowing experience of the Middle Passage packed with more than 100 other souls aboard the Clotilda, and the years he spent in slavery until the end of the Civil War. Based on those interviews, featuring Cudjo's unique vernacular, and written from Hurston's perspective with the compassion and singular style that have made her one of the preeminent American authors of the twentieth-century, Barracoon masterfully illustrates the tragedy of slavery and of one life forever defined by it. Offering insight into the pernicious legacy that continues to haunt us all, black and white, this work is an invaluable contribution to our shared history and culture."--Publisher's website.
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      By Barton, Beverly
       c2010., Kensington Call No: MYS Fic Bar    Availability:1 of 1     At Your Library Series Title: Griffin Powell   Volume: 11Summary Note: "In murder...and in live..timing is everything. The last sounds Dean Wilson hears are a clock striking twelve and a killer<U+2019>s taunting words. And his death is just the first. One by one, victims are stalked and shot at close range. Only the killer knows their sins, and who will be the next to die at midnight<U+2026> In the ten years since her Hollywood career imploded, Lorie Hammonds has built a good life in her Alabama hometown. When the first death threat arrives, she assumes it<U+2019>s a joke. Then she gets a second note. Sheriff Mike Birkett, her high-school sweetheart, has avoided Lorie since she returned to Dunmore, but when investigators uncover her connection to a string of recent murders, he<U+2019>s drawn into a case that<U+2019>s terrifyingly personal. With every murder, the killer edges closer. Soon Lorie<U+2019>s will be the last name left on his list. Her only hope is to unearth a deadly secret<U+2014>before the clock runs out for good..."--Back cover.
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      By Barton, Beverly
       c2010., Zebra Books/Kensington Pub. Series Title: Griffin Powell   Volume: 11Summary Note: In the ten years since her Hollywood career imploded, Lorie Hammonds has built a good life in her Alabama hometown. When the first death threat arrives, she assumes it's a joke. Then she gets a second note. Sheriff Mike Birkett, her high-school sweetheart, has avoided Lorie since she returned to Dunmore, but when investigators uncover her connection to a string of recent murders, he's drawn into a case that's terrifyingly personal.
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      By Lee, Harper
       c2015., General, HarperCollins Call No: Fic Lee    Availability:1 of 1     At Your Library Summary Note: "Originally written in the mid-1950s, "Go Set a Watchman" was the novel Harper Lee first submitted to her publishers before "To Kill a Mockingbird". Assumed to have been lost, the manuscript was discovered in late 2014. "Go Set a Watchman" features many of the characters from "To Kill a Mockingbird" some twenty years later. Returning home to Maycomb to visit her father, Jean Louise Finch - Scout - struggles with issues both personal and political, involving Atticus, society, and the small Alabama town that shaped her. Exploring how the characters from 'To Kill a Mockingbird ' are adjusting to the turbulent events transforming mid-1950s America, 'Go Set a Watchman ' casts a fascinating new light on Harper Lee's enduring classic. Moving, funny and compelling, it stands as a magnificent novel in its own right."--Publisher.
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      By Lee, Harper  Witherspoon, Reese, 1976-
       2015., HarperAudio Call No: CD Fic Lee   Edition: Unabridged.    Availability:1 of 1     At Your Library Summary Note: "Go Set a Watchman features many of the characters from To Kill a Mockingbird some twenty years later. Returning home to Maycomb to visit her father, Jean Louise Finch--Scout--struggles with issues both personal and political, involving Atticus, society, and the small Alabama town that shaped her" --
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      By Johansen, Iris
       2006., Bantam Books Call No: MYS Fic Joh    Availability:1 of 1     At Your Library Summary Note: Grace Archer and her eight-year old daughter are living on a rural horse farm in Alabama. When a killer from Grace's highly classified past shatters her safe world, she turns for protection to a man even more dangerous than her worse enemy.
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      By Perkins-Valdez, Dolen
       2023., Adult, Berkley Call No: BLK Fic Per   Edition: Berkley trade paperback edition.    Availability:1 of 1     At Your Library Summary Note: 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 women make their own choices for their lives and bodies. But when her first week on the job takes her down a dusty country road to a worn-down one-room cabin, she's shocked to learn that her new patients, India and Erica, are children--just eleven and thirteen years old. Neither of the Williams sisters has even kissed a boy, but they are poor and Black, and for those handling the family's welfare benefits, that's reason enough to have the girls on birth control. As Civil grapples with her role, she takes India, Erica, and their family into her heart. Until one day she arrives at the door to learn the unthinkable has happened, and nothing will ever be the same for any of them. Decades later, with her daughter grown and a long career in her wake, Dr. Civil Townsend is ready to retire, to find her peace, and to leave the past behind. But there are people and stories that refuse to be forgotten. That must not be forgotten. Because history repeats what we don't remember.