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c2009., Adult, Shaye Areheart Books Call No: MYS Fic Fly Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "I have a meanness inside me, real as an organ. Libby Day was seven when her mother and two sisters were murdered in (3z(BThe Satan Sacrifice of Kinnakee, Kansas.(3y (BAs her family lay dying, little Libby fled their tiny farmhouse into the freezing January snow. She lost some fingers and toes, but she survived<U+2013>and famously testified that her fifteen-year-old brother, Ben, was the killer. Twenty-five years later, Ben sits in prison, and troubled Libby lives off the dregs of a trust created by well-wishers who<U+2019>ve long forgotten her. The Kill Club is a macabre secret society obsessed with notorious crimes. When they locate Libby and pump her for details<U+2013>proof they hope may free Ben<U+2013>Libby hatches a plan to profit off her tragic history. For a fee, she<U+2019>ll reconnect with the players from that night and report her findings to the club-- and maybe she<U+2019>ll admit her testimony wasn<U+2019>t so solid after all. As Libby<U+2019>s search takes her from shabby Missouri strip clubs to abandoned Oklahoma tourist towns, the narrative flashes back to January 2, 1985. The events of that day are relayed through the eyes of Libby<U+2019>s doomed family members<U+2013>including Ben, a loner whose rage over his shiftless father and their failing farm have driven him into a disturbing friendship with the new girl in town. Piece by piece, the unimaginable truth emerges, and Libby finds herself right back where she started<U+2013>on the run from a killer."--Inside jacket.
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2004., Adult, HarperCollinsPublishersLtd. Call No: Fic Rob Edition: 1st Canadian ed. . Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Gilead Volume: 1Summary Note: It's 1956 in Gilead, Iowa, towards the end of the Reverend John Ames's life. The son and grandson of preachers, he is absorbed in recording his family's story, a legacy for theyoung child he will never see grow up. Haunted by his grandfather's presence, John tells of the rift between his grandfather and his father: the elder, an angry visionary who fought for the abolitionist cause, and his son, an ardent pacifist. He is troubled, too, by his prodigal namesake, jack (John Ames) Boughton, his best friend's lost son who returns to Gilead searching for a salvation the town might not hold. Told in John Ames's joyous, rambling voice that finds beauty, humor and truth in the smallest of life's details, Gilead is a wonderful, heartfelt song of celebration and acceptance of the best and the worst the world has to offer. At its heart is a tale of the sacred bonds between fathers and sons, pitch-perfect in style and story.
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2010., Ballantine Books Call No: MYS Fic Pic Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "Rose, Kansas, is a quiet town, content with the orderly and the predictable. But a terrible secret lays long dormant, until one fateful day. Young Jody Linder wakes up one morning to find three uncles on her doorstep. They bring the shocking news that Billy Crosby, the man convicted of murdering her father, is being released from prison and returning to town. There is also Collin Cosby, the lawyer who has spent most of his life trying to prove his father's innocence. Now Jody must confront Collin and their shared antagonism--as well as their shared sense of loss, which no one else can ever understand..."--Container.
