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Heirs of Acadia volume 4
Publisher
Bethany House
Language
English
Description
"A new family business partner catches Serfina's eye and then mysteriously disappears. He is rumored dead, but could he be the mysterious "night angel" freeing slaves with gold?"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Series
Andy Brazil novels volume 2
Language
English
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Description
A woman troubleshooter is dispatched to Richmond, Virginia, to clean up the city's scandal-ridden police. For Judy Hammer, chief of police in Charlotte, North Carolina, the assignment turns out to be the most difficult of her career.
Author
Series
Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 11
Language
English
Description
Medical examiner Kay Scarpetta has become a suspect in the "werewolf" murders and must find the real killer before she is convicted.
4) Isle of dogs
Author
Series
Andy Brazil novels volume 3
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Language
English
Description
A nonconformist island off the coast of Virginia decides they cannot abide by the Governor's latest decree and revolts against the government, cementing its act of defiance by kidnapping a dentist.
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Language
English
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"Told from the perspectives of four people whose actions changed the course of history, this masterful work of historical fiction takes readers back to 1811 Richmond, Virginia, where, on the night after Christmas, the city's only theater burned to the ground, tearing apart a community. Richmond, Virginia 1811. It's the height of the winter social season. The General Assembly is in session, and many of Virginia's gentleman planters, along with their...
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Language
English
Description
Born on a plantation but set apart from the others by her mother's position as a medicine woman, a young slave is forced to leave home at eighteen and unexpectedly finds herself in an infamously cruel jail. Born on a plantation in Charles City, Virginia, Pheby Brown was promised her freedom on her eighteenth birthday. Instead she finds herself thrust into the bowels of slavery at the infamous Devil's Half-Acre, a jail where slaves are broken, tortured,...
8) Postmortem
Author
Series
Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Four young women have been found murdered-tortured and strangled in their own beds-all victims of the same brilliant monster. Using a skilled hand and the latest technology in forensic medicine, Kay Scarpetta begins the process of gathering the microscopic clues the latest battered body has to give.
10) Silent partner
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Language
English
Description
When Angela Day is offered the opportunity of a lifetime by Jake Lawrence, one of the world's wealthiest entrepreneurs, she discovers the dangers of unlimited power, influence, and riches as enemies target him-- and anyone around him--for death.
11) Big girls do cry
Author
Series
Publisher
Dafina Books/Kensington Pub
Language
English
Description
When plus-sized beauty Isis and her sister, Egypt, start a new chapter of the Big Girls Book Club in Richmond, Virginia, they discover that drama follows them everywhere as they deal with family issues, scandalous new members, and betrayal.
12) Copperhead
Author
Series
Starbuck chronicles volume 2
Publisher
Perennial
Edition
1st Perennial ed.
Language
English
Description
The beloved Confederate Captain Nate Starbuck returns to the front lines of the Civil War in this second installment of Bernard Cornwell's acclaimed Nathaniel Starbuck Chronicles. It is the summer of 1862, and Nate has been bloodied but victorious at the battles of Ball's Bluff and Seven Pines. But he can't escape his Northern roots, and it is only a matter of time until he's accused of being a Yankee spy, pursued, and brutally interrogated. To clear...
Author
Publisher
Other Press
Language
English
Description
On an early spring morning in Richmond, Virginia, in the year 1885, a young pregnant woman is found floating in the city reservoir. It appears that she has committed suicide, but there are curious clues at the scene that suggest foul play. As the identity of the woman, Lillie, is revealed, her dark family history comes to light. Soon the investigation focuses on her tumultuous affair with her cousin, Tommie Cluverius.--From book flap.
14) Unthinkable
Author
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Nate Lovejoy is a self-proclaimed nobody, a stay-at-home dad who doesn't believe he's important to anyone but his wife and their two daughters. So it's a shock when members of a powerful secret society kidnap and spirit Nate away to a mansion at the behest of their leader, Vanslow DeGange, who claims to know the future. He's foreseen that a billion people could die--unless Nate acts. It seems improbable, especially given what DeGange says will set...
Author
Series
Raleigh Harmon novels volume 3
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Language
English
Description
"Closing her assignment with the FBI's Seattle office, forensic geologist Raleigh Harmon returns to her hometown of Richmond, Virginia, expecting a warm welcome. Instead she finds herself investigating an ugly cross burning at a celebrity's mansion and standing in the crosshairs of her boss at the Bureau. And the deeper Raleigh digs into the case, the murkier the water becomes...until she's left wondering who the real victims might be. To make matters...
Author
Publisher
One World/Ballantine
Language
English
Description
Bambi Ferguson builds a multimillion dollar party-planning business after her gangster boyfriend breaks up with her, but when she crosses paths with Lynx, a charming drug dealer, she wonders if she falling for the same trouble all over again.
Author
Publisher
Harcourt
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
Description
In February 1865, the end was clearly in sight for the Confederate government. Lee's defeat at Gettysburg had dashed the hopes of the Confederate army, and Grant's victory at Vicksburg had cut the South in two. An Honorable Defeat is the story of the four months that saw the surrender of the South and the assassination of Lincoln by Southern partisans. It is also the story of two men, antagonists yet political partners, who struggled during this time...
20) Freedom
Publisher
ARC Entertainment, LLC
Edition
Widescreen version.
Language
English
Description
Two men separated by 100 years are united in their search for freedom. In 1856 a slave, Samuel Woodward, and his family escape from the Monroe Plantation near Richmond, Virginia. A secret network of ordinary people known as the Underground Railroad guides the family on their journey north to Canada. Over 100 years earlier, in 1748, Captain John Newton is about to set off across the sea with a ship full of slaves. Both men are having struggles of faith...
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