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The Return of Gabriel Author: John Armistead Published: May 10, 2002 by Milkweed Editions Category: Young adult Main Character: Cooper Grant, Jubal Harris Two thirteen-year-old boys, one white and the other black, find their world turned upside down in the summer of 1964 when civil rights workers come to their Mississippi town and the Ku Klux Klan reacts. Click for more info. |
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The $66 Summer Author: John Armistead Published: May 10, 2000 by Milkweed Editions Category: Young adult Main Character: George Harrison, Bennet and Esther Garrison Three teenage friends, one white and two black, confront the violence of racism in Alabama in the summer of 1955. Click for more info. |
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Cruel as the Grave Author: John Armistead Published: July 10, 1996 by Carroll & Graf Series Name: Sheriff Grover Bramlett mysteries Category: Police Procedural Main Character: Sheriff Grover Bramlett The killing of Naresse Clouse, mother of four, was the stuff of nightmares. The pretty restaurant hostess was shot, stabbed, and left hanging in a rural barn, where some said she was meeting a lover. Three years later her killer has not been found, but no one in Sheffield, Mississippi, has forgotten her, including Sheriff Grover Bramlett. Click for more info. |
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A Homecoming for Murder Author: John Armistead Published: July 10, 1995 by Carroll & Graf Series Name: Sheriff Grover Bramlett mysteries Category: Police Procedural Main Character: Sheriff Grover Bramlett In the town of Sheffield, Mississippi, football is next to godliness, and homecoming is the shrine. But this year, as the homecoming queens - one white, one black - are crowned and families take their usual places in the stands, shocking news is broadcast over the stadum loudspeakers: a popular high school teacher has been found murdered in a cemetery on the edtge of town. Click for more info. |
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A Legacy of Vengeance Author: John Armistead Published: June 10, 1994 by Carroll & Graf Series Name: Grover Bramlett mysteries Category: Police Procedural Main Character: Sheriff Grover Bramlett Sheriff Grover Bramlett is a man who'll sneak a pinch of tobacco in his garage and daydream about the watercolor he's working on in an adult-ed class. But over twenty years ago, when the Mississippi summer was burning with night riders and Klan violence, Bramlett was a man who took a chance, told a lie, and followed his convictions. Now the past is coming back - to him and Chakchiumi County - in a string of brutal murders. Click for more info. |
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