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New Americana volume 7
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"A woman who puts down new roots in a small Alabama town finds love unexpectedly blooming."--
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USA TODAY bestseller from the author of The Mountain Between Us, now a major motion picture!"Tucker, I want to tell you a secret." Miss Ella curled my hand into a fist and showed it to me."Life is a battle, but you can't fight it with your fists. You got to fight it with your heart."An internationally famous photographer, Tucker Mason has traveled the world, capturing things other people don't see. But what Tucker himself can't see is how to let go...
5) Alabama
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2014
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IL: MG - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 3
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144 pages : color illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.
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Describes the history, geography, ecology, people, economy, cities, and sights of the state of Alabama, and includes ideas for classroom assignments.
6) Alabama
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1998
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IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
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32 p. : col. ill., maps ; 21 cm.
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2014
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 1
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32 pages: color illustrations, color maps ; 24 cm.
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"Developed by literacy experts for students in grades three through seven, this book introduces young readers to the geography and culture of Alabama"--Provided by publisher.
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In 1969, Dixie Dupree is eleven years old and already an expert liar. Sometimes the lies are for her mama, Evie's sake-to explain away a bruise brought on by her quick-as-lightning temper. And sometimes the lies are to spite Evie, who longs to leave her unhappy marriage in Perry County, Alabama, and return to her beloved New Hampshire. But for Dixie and her brother, Alabama is home, a place of pine-scented breezes and hot, languid afternoons. Though...
10) Fancy strut
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Lee Smith, author of the acclaimed The Last Girls, delights with a tale of dry wit. Smith has won many prizes, such as the Southern Book Critics Circle Award and the Academy Award in Literature. Speed, Alabama is celebrating 150 years of proud existence-and its whimsical inhabitants will definitely not let the event pass without a party.
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"The eleven o'clock lady has always been one of garden club president Liz Lacy's favorite spring wildflowers. The plant is so named because the white blossoms don't open until the sun shines directly on them and wakes them up. But another Eleven O'Clock Lady is never going to wake up again. Rona Jean Hancock--a telephone switchboard operator who earned her nickname because her shift ended at eleven, when her nightlife was just beginning--has been...
12) A place to land
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"[A] story of sisterhood, healing, and the meaning of home. A hidden past isn't past at all. Violet Figg and her sister Trudy have lived a quiet life in Sugar Bend, Alabama, since a night forty years ago that stole Trudy's voice and cemented Violet's role as her sister's fierce and loyal protector. Now Trudy spends her days making sculptures from found objects and speaking through notes written on scraps of paper, while Violet runs their art shop,...
14) Mrs. Wiggins
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The daughter of a prostitute mother and an alcoholic father, Maggie Franklin knew her only way out was to marry someone upstanding and church-going. Someone like Hubert Wiggins, th most eligible man in Lexington, Alabama--and the son of its most revered preacher. Proper and prosperous, Hubert is glad to finally have a wife, even one with Maggie's background. For Hubert has a secret he desperately needs to stay hidden. And Maggie's unexpected charm,...
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"It's the spring of 1933 and times are tough all over. The only businessman not struggling is moonshiner Mickey LeDoux, though he still has to steer clear of federal agents. But banks are closing all over the country, and the small town of Darling is no exception. Folks are suddenly caught short on cash and everyone is in a panic. Desperate to avoid disaster, several town leaders--including Alvin Duffy, the bank's new vice president--hatch a plan...
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IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 20
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When Rick Bragg, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, thought about writing an appreciation of his mother and a memoir of his life, he hesitated. How would mama feel about seeing her life in print? When he asked her, she told him, "Write it," especially since she had remained quiet about her life for 50 years. All Over but the Shoutin' tells the story of a woman who endures years of hardship and deprivation to raise her three sons. It is not a simple...
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Darling Dahlias mysteries volume 2
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The Dahlias become suspicious of the newest visitors to Depression-era Darling, Alabama, rumored to be the Naughty and Nice Sisters from the Ziegfeld Frolic, who specialize in dancing nearly naked, and dig for the truth when one of the pair denies the association.
19) Georgia Bottoms
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Georgia Bottoms is known in her small community of Six Points, Alabama, as a beautiful, well-to-do, and devoutly Baptist Southern belle. Nobody realizes that the family fortune has long since disappeared, and a determinedly single woman like Georgia needs an alternative and discreet means of income. None of her six well-heeled lovers knows about the others--until the married preacher decides to confess their affair in front of the whole congregation......
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IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 8
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Minutes after the principal of Opportunity High School in Alabama finishes her speech welcoming the student body to a new semester, they discover that the auditorium doors will not open and someone starts shooting as four teens, each with a personal reason to fear the shooter, tell the tale from separate perspectives.
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