When Foster Lanier and Ben Phelps are released from a professional baseball team in 1904, it is the only experience they have in common, until they meet a runaway - a girl-woman named Lottie Parker - on the train that takes them from Augusta, Georgia, and away from their dreams of greatness.
Foster will marry her and father her son.
Ben will escort her home.
And Lottie will change the lives of everyone she meets, from the day she runs away until she finally finds the place where she belongs.

Taking Lottie Home: A Novel

Literature & Fiction

Kay, Terry

Dramas & Plays

Harper-perennial

When two twelve-year-old boys--Tom and Son Jesus--decide to embark on an adventure involving fishing, rafting, and exploring, they find a human bone, which leads to a murder investigation that causes the local townsfolk to question their convictions about fellowship, humankind, and justice in their community. Reprint.

The Runaway

United States

Bard

When a nondescript young man is kidnapped on the way to his job at a large city bank, which refuses to pay the millions demanded in ransom, the abduction sets off a nationwide debate over the value of an average life. Reprint.

The Kidnapping of Aaron Green

AVON.

Tom and Son Jesus spend their days dreaming, fishing , and trying to escape work. But their fun comes to an abrupt halt when they discover a human bone, which later turns out to be part of the skeletal remains of Son Jesus' long missing father. As sheriff Frank Rucker, a World War II hero, begins an investigation into remains, he unmasks the racially motivated killer known only as Pegleg. The sheriff's findings divide the people of Overton County, forcing a surprising conclusion --or beginning of justice.
Set in the 1940's and using the relationships of two boys -- one black and the other white -- as a springboard for the begining of desegregation in the South, The Runaway examines the joys, sorrows, conflicts, and racial disharmony of their historical biased environment.

The Runaway: A Novel

Nostalgically recreates the joy, sensitivity, and loneliness of growing up in a small southern town in the years following the Second World War

The Year the Lights Came on

Houghton/Mifflin

In the Nahella Valley of Appalachia, a rumor is whispered about a man named Eli Pettit and the small fortune in stolen money he supposedly hid on his farm before disappearing, leaving a wife, daughter and sister-in-law to tend the land and guard the money - if the money even exists. It is a rumor Michael O'Rear cannot resist. A wandering actor from the remnants of the Chautauqua circuit, gifted with Irish gab and charm, he arrives ready to perform his last and most horrific role - that of a murderer. Yet, it is not simple theater for Michael. In the Appalachia of 1939, he is a stranger in a region that does not easily accept strangers. He first must ingratiate himself to the three women of the Pettit home - Eli's wife, Rachel; his daughter, Sarah; and Rachel's sister, Dora, and then he must curry favor with the townspeople of Yale. For Michael, it becomes an exhilarating performance, acted with patience and with the cunning persuasion of dreamy - often outlandish - tales. One by one, he entices the cast of his drama to embrace him and to do his bidding, but in the wake of his presence, he leaves an imprint of physical and emotional terror that scars everyone who becomes mesmerized by him. Still, in this tantalizing story of deception and senseless slaughter, of threat and fear, it is the powerful instinct for survival that eventually drops the curtain on Michael O'Rear and restores the quiet secrets of the Nahella Valley to those who know them.

After Eli

Nostalgically recreates the joy, sensitivity, and loneliness of growing up in a small southern town in the years following the Second World War

Year the Lights Came on

BANTAM BOOKS

Jesse Wade returns home to find his wife, children, and grandson murdered, and he and his small southern town enter a time of panic, controversy, legal maneuvering, and media exploitation

Dark Thirty: A Novel

Simon&Schuster

Shadow Song

Romance

Touchstone Books

To Dance with the White Dog

Sam Peek's children are worried. Since that "saddest day" when Cora, his beloved wife of fifty-seven good years, died, no one knows how he will survive. How can this elderly man live alone on his farm? How can he keep driving his dilapidated truck down to the fields to care for his few rows of pecan trees? And when Sam begins telling his children about a dog as white as the pure driven snow -- that seems invisible to everyone but him -- his children think that grief and old age have finally taken their toll. But whether the dog is real or not, Sam Peek -- "one of the smartest men in the South when it comes to trees" -- outsmarts them all. Sam and the White Dog will dance from the pages of this bittersweet novel and into your heart, as they share the mystery of life, and begin together a warm and moving final rite of passage. Winner of the Southeastern Library Association's Outstanding Author Award.

To Dance With the White Dog

Contemporary

Atria Books

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