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Author
Publisher
Algonquin
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
In the very white, very Christian world of Altlanta society in 1958, New York transplant Ruth decides not to tell her new high school friends and boyfriend that she is Jewish, but when a violent act rocks the city, Ruth must figure out where her loyalties lie.
Author
Series
Callahan Garrity mystery volume 7
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
When his wife is found murdered just before Christmas, Callahan Garrity's brother disappears, leaving her with the daughter he has kidnapped and the hope of clearing his name.
63) A blade so black
Author
Series
Nightmare-verse volume 1
Publisher
Imprint, a part of Macmillan Publishing Group, LLC
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"This isn't the Wonderland you remember. The first time the Nightmares came, it nearly cost Alice her life. Now she's trained to battle monstrous creatures in the dark dream realm known as Wonderland with magic weapons and hardcore fighting skills. Yet even warriors have a curfew. Life in real-world Atlanta isn't always so simple, as Alice juggles an overprotective mom, a high-maintenance best friend, and a slipping GPA. Keeping the Nightmares at...
64) Bliss
Author
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
Not Supplied
Language
English
Description
Having grown up in a California commune, Bliss sees her aloof grandmother's Atlanta world as a foreign country, but she is determined to be nice as a freshman at an elite high school, which makes her the perfect target for Sandy, a girl obsessed with the occult.
65) Ten
Author
Series
Winnie years volume Prequel
Publisher
Not Supplied
Pub. Date
Not Supplied
Language
English
Description
Winnie's celebrates her unique style through her first year with a double-digit age as she has many new experiences, from the high of spending time in New York City with her aunt and big sister, to the low of her two best friends suddenly becoming interested in boys.
66) Whiteout
Author
Publisher
Harpercollins Childrens Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"As the city grinds to a halt, twelve teens band together to help a friend pull off the most epic apology of her life. But will they be able to make it happen, in spite of the storm? No one is prepared for this whiteout. But then, we can't always prepare for the magical moments that change everything." --Amazon.
67) Thirteen
Author
Series
Winnie years volume 3
Publisher
Dutton Children's Books
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Winnie's thirteenth year brings many joys and challenges as she negotiates her relationship with her first boyfriend and realizes that change is inevitable in her friends, family, and even herself.
Author
Series
Body movers novels volume 4
Publisher
Stephanie Bond, Inc.]
Pub. Date
c2013.
Language
English
Description
"Carlotta Wren is happy to be back to work and in the middle of a big publicity event for a celebrity's new line of charm bracelets. When the event goes sideways, Carlotta thinks a humiliating photograph of her is the worst thing to come out of it...until bodies start surfacing with charms in their mouths. To make matters worse, a member of the Wren family is connected to every murder. When clues start pointing to her long-lost father as The Charmed...
Author
Publisher
Dey Street Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
The popular comedian traces her youth in Atlanta's most troubled neighborhood at the height of the crack epidemic, discussing her experiences with petty crime and prostitution that led to her becoming a mother at age thirteen before resolving to secure a better life for her children.
Author
Series
Body movers novels volume 2
Publisher
Stephanie Bond Incorporated
Pub. Date
2013]
Language
English
Description
When their parents abandoned them ten years ago, Carlotta Wren raised her younger brother, Wesley. Now a teenager in trouble, Wesley is ordered to get a job--and finds one moving bodies from crime scenes to the morgue. Carlotta is soon dragged into the sordid business herself.
Author
Series
Will Trent series volume 1
Publisher
Not Supplied
Pub. Date
Not Supplied
Language
English
Description
Troubled by a rocky marriage and the recent loss of his partner, Atlanta detective Michael Ormewood launches an investigation into the savage murder of a local woman, and ex-con John Shelley may be the key to solving the case.
Author
Series
Grant County series volume 6
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
Dr. Sara Linton, the county's resident pediatrician and medical examiner, is marred in a devastating lawsuit, accused by grieving parents of indirectly causing the death of their terminally ill son. Then Sara and her husband, police chief Jeffrey Tolliver, must travel to rural Reese, Ga., where Lena Adams, Jeffrey's often reckless detective, has been injured in an explosion that killed a local woman. Lena's mysterious escape from the hospital plunges...
73) Zero option
Author
Publisher
Not Supplied
Pub. Date
Not Supplied
Language
English
Description
Receiving a low-profile assignment to investigate an Atlanta military base after blowing the whistle on a corrupt colleague, FBI agent, David Stafford, finds a cylinder containing an extremely hazardous biochemical weapon is missing.
74) 10 bodies lying
Author
Series
Body movers novels volume 10
Publisher
Stephanie Bond, Inc
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Liar liar, pants on fire... Carlotta Wren is dazed and confused--everything she thought she knew about her life has been a lie. How can she ever trust anyone again? And where does she go from here? She hopes a business trip out of town will help to clear her head... instead it lands her in the middle of a murder, as the prime suspect! While Carlotta works frantically to prove her innocence, she's also forced to confront the lies she's been telling...
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
1993
Language
English
Description
"What does a Dunwoody matron wear to a funeral?"--BOOK JACKET. "Her black tennis dress."--BOOK JACKET. "It's no joke, however, when the funeral is given for your high school buddy's wife, and she has been brutally murdered."--BOOK JACKET. "Sheila Travis, successful corporate executive and attractive fortyish widow, has met Yvonne Delacourt once, at a party. Yvonne is stunning, ambitious - and intensely disliked. Under the local residents' gracious...
76) Richard Jewell
Author
Publisher
Not Supplied
Pub. Date
Not Supplied
Language
English
Description
The world is first introduced to Richard Jewell as the security guard who reports finding the device at the 1996 Atlanta bombing, his report making him a hero whose swift actions save countless lives. But within days, the law enforcement wannabe becomes the FBI's number one suspect, vilified by press and public alike, and his life ripped apart. Reaching out to independent, anti-establishment attorney Watson Bryant, Jewell staunchly professes his innocence....
Author
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Caroline Cashion, a professor of French literature at Georgetown University, is stunned when an MRI reveals that she has a bullet lodged near the base of her skull. It makes no sense. She has never been shot. When she confronts her parents, they initially profess bewilderment. Then, over the course of one awful evening, she learns the truth. She was adopted when she was three years old, after her real parents were murdered in cold blood. That was...
78) Stomp the Yard
Publisher
Columbia Tristar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
After the death of his younger brother, D.J., a troubled 19-year-old street dancer from Los Angeles is able to bypass juvenile hall by enrolling in the historically black, Truth University in Atlanta, Georgia. His efforts to get an education and woo the girl he likes are sidelined when he discovers 'stepping,' an old traditional dance performed by African American fraternities and soon finds himself in the middle of a fierce rivalry between the top...
80) Magic triumphs
Author
Series
Publisher
Ace
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Mercenary Kate Daniels must risk all to protect everything she holds dear ... Kate has come a long way from her origins as a loner taking care of paranormal problems in post-Shift Atlanta. She's made friends and enemies. She's found love and started a family with Curran Lennart, the former Beast Lord. But her magic is too strong for the power players of the world to let her be. Kate and her father, Roland, currently have an uneasy truce, but when...