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2014., Large Print Treasury Call No: LP Fic Twa Edition: Large print edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: A nineteenth-century boy, floating down the Mississippi on a raft with a runaway slave, becomes involved with a feuding family, two scoundrels pretending to be royalty, and Tom Sawyer's aunt, who mistakes him for Tom.
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2022., William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers Call No: BLK Mys Fic Mor Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: After the murder of a white man in Jim Crow Mississippi, two Black sisters run away to different parts of the country...But can they escape the secrets they left behind? Two sisters on the run--one from the law, the other from social shame. What they don't realize is that there's a man hot on their trails. This man has his own brand of dark secrets and a disturbing motive for finding the sisters that is unknown to everyone but him.
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By Iles, Greg2009., Scribner Call No: MYS Fic Ile Availability:1 of 1 At Your LibraryPublisher description Contributor biographical information More... Summary Note: Lawyer Penn Cage goes up against a mix of murder, racial tension, double-crosses, illicit sex...and all of the ensuing violent consequences in the kudzu-strangled, snake- rat- and armadillo-infested hole of the Devil's Punchbowl.
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2024., Doubleday Call No: NEW Fic Eve Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: James, a retelling of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, both harrowing and ferociously funny, told from the enslaved Jim's point of view. When the enslaved Jim overhears that he is about to be sold to a man in New Orleans, separated from his wife and daughter forever, he decides to hide on nearby Jackson Island until he can formulate a plan. Meanwhile, Huck Finn has faked his own death to escape his violent father, recently returned to town.
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c2013., Adult, Doubleday Call No: Fic Gri Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "When wealthy Seth Hubbard hangs himself from a sycamore tree and leaves his fortune to his black maid, Jake Brigance once again finds himself embroiled in a controversial trial that will expose old racial tensions and force Ford County to confront its tortured history."--NoveList.
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2013., Adult, Random House Large Print Call No: LP Fic Gri Edition: 1st large print ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Jake Brigance series Volume: book 2Summary Note: "When wealthy Seth Hubbard hangs himself from a sycamore tree and leaves his fortune to his black maid, Jake Brigance once again finds himself embroiled in a controversial trial that will expose old racial tensions and force Ford County to confront its tortured history."--NoveList.
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2013., Adult, Random House, Inc. Edition: eBook ed. Series Title: Jake Brigance series Volume: book 2Summary Note: Seth Hubbard is a wealthy man dying of lung cancer. He trusts no one. Before he hangs himself from a sycamore tree, Hubbard leaves a new, handwritten, will. It is an act that drags his adult children, his black maid, and Jake Brigance into a conflict as riveting and dramatic as the murder trial that made Brigance one of Ford County's most notorious citizens, just three years earlier.
![Sycamore row [eBook]](/Library/images/~imageCT83963.JPG "Sycamore row [eBook]")
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2014., Gallery Books Call No: Fic Cra Edition: First Gallery Books paperback edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Determined to get to Nashville to find her mother in 1963, nine-year-old spitfire Starla Claudelle runs away from her strict grandmother's Mississippi home, eventually accepting a ride from a Eula, a black woman traveling alone with a white baby.
