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James
'Truly extraordinary books are rare, and this is one of them' – Roddy Doyle 'A brilliant retelling of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn from the point of view of the enslaved Jim' – The Observer James is a profound and ferociously funny novel from one of our greatest living writers, Percival Everett. The Sunday Times Bestseller Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction Winner of the National Book Award for Fiction Winner of the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction Shortlisted for the Booker Prize Shortlisted for the Dublin Literary Award Finalist for the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction The Mississippi River, 1861. When the enslaved Jim overhears that he is about to be sold ...
Ember Boys
Emmett Bradley thinks his adventures are over. Together with his friends, he stopped an ancient evil and lived to tell about it. But life as a survivor, even as a survivor of a victory, isn’t easy, and when Emmett runs away from Vehpese, Wyoming, he takes a few things with him: a battered ego, a broken heart, and his addictions. He’s lucky that Jim Spencer, his former English teacher, happens to have ended up in the same small, coastal town. He’s even luckier that Jim is doing everything he can to help Emmett hold himself together. When Emmett’s parents commit him to the psychiatric ward of an infamous hospital, though, Emmett finds himself struggling day to day to remember that the ...
Abingdon's Boardinghouse Murder
On a bitter November night in 1945, a widow shot her young boarder, a WWII veteran, and left him to die on the floor of his room. Helen Clark tossed the gun under the neighbor's porch and then took a taxi to join her teen daughters at a movie in Bristol. When the body was found, after several conflicting statements, she settled on the claim that he shot himself-four times, twice in the back. The Commonwealth of Virginia called it murder in a jealous rage. The trial enthralled the nation. Local author Greg Lilly uses newspaper coverage of the murder, the investigation and the trial to reveal the facts of the Abingdon boardinghouse murder.
Lee's Ferry
Tells the story of the people of Lee's Ferry, a critical communication and transportation link on the Colorado River for many years. From the first ferry trip in 1872 to the actions of the National Park Service in the 1970s, the author relates the comings and goings of Indian traders, ferry operators, and many others who crossed paths at Lee's Ferry, including Theodore Roosevelt, Joseph Smith, and Buffalo Bill Cody.
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The Nolen Story
Ancestors include: Stephen Nolen (1753-1846), a Revolutionary War soldier, of Frederick County, Virginia; Fairfield District, South Carolina; and Chambers County, Alabama; and Griffith Chapman (d. 1894) of Coosa County, Alabama.
