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142) Bitter Falls
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In spite of a harrowing past still haunting her, Gwen Proctor is trying to move forward. Until a new assignment gives her purpose: the cold-case disappearance of a young man in Tennessee. Three years missing, no clues. Just Ruth Landry, a tortured mother in limbo. Gwen understands what it's like to worry about your children. Gwen's investigation unearths new suspects ... and victims. As she follows each sinister lead, the implications of the mystery...
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"Legal investigator Finley O'Sullivan has had a difficult year in the wake of her husband's murder. But in her line of work, there's no time to grieve. Her job is to protect the firm's clients and defend their innocence through grueling investigative work. Ellen Winthrop is a force to be reckoned with in the financial world. In a male-dominated industry, she shattered the glass ceiling by empowering and promoting women. But now her husband is dead,...
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"Small-town lawyer Bocephus Haynes comes home late one night to find District Attorney General Helen Lewis waiting for him. Her ex-husband has just been killed. She's about to be arrested for his murder. And she wants Bo to represent her. There's a lot working against them. Just before his death, Helen's ex-husband threatened to reveal a dark secret from her past. Bo has been in a tailspin since his wife's death. What's more, his whole life has been...
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On a beautiful spring morning in Nashville, Autumn River, an aspiring country singer, is enjoying her coffee at a café when Keegan Lynch, a minor league pitcher, walks into her life. The relationship hits obstacles, hurdles, and mountains as it slowly develops despite the instant attraction between the two.
148) Heartbreak Bay
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They're hunting a killer so silent, so invisible, that his unspeakable crimes are the only proof he exists. A car submerged in a remote pond. The bodies of two girls strapped into their seats. The mystery of their mother, vanished without a trace, leads Gwen Proctor and Kezia Claremont into dangerous territory. On the surface, Gwen's life is good-two children approaching adulthood, a committed partner, and a harrowing past dead and gone. But that...
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Recruited in 1918 to work for the NAACP, Walter White--a lightskinned African-American man who can pass for white--is sent undercover to investigate a lynching, all the while confronted with personal issues of identity. From the author of the award-winning novel Play for a Kingdom comes a masterful story inspired by the early life of Walter White, a dynamic but now all-but-forgotten figure in the history of civil rights. The twenty-four-year-old White...
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Scope and content: Originally begun in 1937, and completed in 1962, John B. Beckett's "Empty Honors" is a fictional account of a feud between the Donnovan and Roy families in the early settlement period of Tennessee, and along the way includes "thumb-nail sketches of many renown people of Tennessee, war heroes, and legends" and poems. The typescript is divided into four parts, and an outline of each part is included at the beginning of the typescript....
151) Inside Hollis House
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"Irene Hollis is in her mid-thirties, widowed, and with a small son to raise. Her fear and uncertainty of her future security prompts her to make the decision to open her large Victorian home to boarders. Taking place in a small Tennessee town around the turn of the twentieth century, Inside Hollis House tells the story of not only Irene Hollis, but of the array of diversely interesting people who come to live at Hollis House -- the day-to-day activities,...
152) Find him
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"Up until now, 18-year-old Lily Stevens has always been the perfect daughter of a Pentecostal preacher, but her insular Arkansas congregation is scandalized when Lily announces she's pregnant with the baby of Peter Cutchin, a young man in the church. When Peter disappears before they can get married, Lily's life is thrown into even greater turmoil. Everyone in their small town, including Peter's furious mother, thinks the boy has simply run off and...
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Scope and content: Manuscripts, some hand-written, some typescript, of numerous works by noted female Tennessee author, Will Allen Dromgoole, dating from approximately 1898 to 1914, with much undated material. Genres include novels, plays, and short stories, as well as a number of unidentified fragments.