Author: Mary Elizabeth Pope
Publisher: Blair
ISBN: 9781949467710
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
Coralee Harper struggles for justice for her dead brother and her own sanity in Depression-era rural Arkansas. In 1926 in rural Green County, Arkansas, where cotton and poverty reign, young Coralee Harper hopes for a family and a place in her community, but when her brother Buddy is killed by a powerful sheriff, she can't recover from his death or the injustice of his loss. When she begins to spot her dead brother around town, she wonders--is she clairvoyant, mistaken, or is she losing her mind? What Coralee can't fathom is that there are forces at work that threaten her and the very fabric of the town: Leroy Harrison, a newly minted, ambitious lawyer who makes a horrible mistake, landing him a judgeship and a guilty conscience for life; an evangelical preacher and his flock of snake-handling parishioners; the women of the town who, along with Coralee's own mother, make up their own kind of jury for Coralee's behavior; Sheriff Wiley Slocum who rules the entire field, harboring dark secrets of his own; and finally, Coralee's husband Earl, who tries to balance his work at the cotton gin with his fight for family and Coralee's life. When Coralee ends up in a sanity hearing before Judge Leroy Harrison, the judge must decide both Coralee's fate and his own. The chain of events following his decision draws him more deeply into the sheriff's far-reaching sphere of influence, and reveals the destructive nature of power, even--and especially--his own.
The Gods of Green County
Author: Mary Elizabeth Pope
Publisher: Blair
ISBN: 9781949467710
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
Coralee Harper struggles for justice for her dead brother and her own sanity in Depression-era rural Arkansas. In 1926 in rural Green County, Arkansas, where cotton and poverty reign, young Coralee Harper hopes for a family and a place in her community, but when her brother Buddy is killed by a powerful sheriff, she can't recover from his death or the injustice of his loss. When she begins to spot her dead brother around town, she wonders--is she clairvoyant, mistaken, or is she losing her mind? What Coralee can't fathom is that there are forces at work that threaten her and the very fabric of the town: Leroy Harrison, a newly minted, ambitious lawyer who makes a horrible mistake, landing him a judgeship and a guilty conscience for life; an evangelical preacher and his flock of snake-handling parishioners; the women of the town who, along with Coralee's own mother, make up their own kind of jury for Coralee's behavior; Sheriff Wiley Slocum who rules the entire field, harboring dark secrets of his own; and finally, Coralee's husband Earl, who tries to balance his work at the cotton gin with his fight for family and Coralee's life. When Coralee ends up in a sanity hearing before Judge Leroy Harrison, the judge must decide both Coralee's fate and his own. The chain of events following his decision draws him more deeply into the sheriff's far-reaching sphere of influence, and reveals the destructive nature of power, even--and especially--his own.
Publisher: Blair
ISBN: 9781949467710
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
Coralee Harper struggles for justice for her dead brother and her own sanity in Depression-era rural Arkansas. In 1926 in rural Green County, Arkansas, where cotton and poverty reign, young Coralee Harper hopes for a family and a place in her community, but when her brother Buddy is killed by a powerful sheriff, she can't recover from his death or the injustice of his loss. When she begins to spot her dead brother around town, she wonders--is she clairvoyant, mistaken, or is she losing her mind? What Coralee can't fathom is that there are forces at work that threaten her and the very fabric of the town: Leroy Harrison, a newly minted, ambitious lawyer who makes a horrible mistake, landing him a judgeship and a guilty conscience for life; an evangelical preacher and his flock of snake-handling parishioners; the women of the town who, along with Coralee's own mother, make up their own kind of jury for Coralee's behavior; Sheriff Wiley Slocum who rules the entire field, harboring dark secrets of his own; and finally, Coralee's husband Earl, who tries to balance his work at the cotton gin with his fight for family and Coralee's life. When Coralee ends up in a sanity hearing before Judge Leroy Harrison, the judge must decide both Coralee's fate and his own. The chain of events following his decision draws him more deeply into the sheriff's far-reaching sphere of influence, and reveals the destructive nature of power, even--and especially--his own.
Picturesque Catskills, Green County
Author: Richard Lionel De Lisser
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Category : Catskill Mountains (N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages : 170
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Publisher:
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Category : Catskill Mountains (N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages : 170
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Guide to the Great West
Author: Joshua L. Tracy
Publisher:
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Category : West (U.S.)
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : West (U.S.)
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
Guide to the Great West ... a Brief ... Description of the Country Bordering Upon All the Principle Railroads of the West ...
Author: J. L. Tracy
Publisher:
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Category : West (U.S.)
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : West (U.S.)
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
The Human Tradition in the New South
Author: James C. Klotter
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN: 1461600960
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
In The Human Tradition in the New South, historian James C. Klotter brings together twelve biographical essays that explore the region's political, economic, and social development since the Civil War. Like all books in this series, these essays chronicle the lives of ordinary Americans whose lives and contributions help to highlight the great transformations that occurred in the South. With profiles ranging from Winnie Davis to Dizzy Dean, from Ralph David Abernathy to Harland Sanders, The Human Tradition in the New South brings to life this dynamic and vibrant region and is an excellent resource for courses in Southern history, race relations, social history, and the American history survey.
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN: 1461600960
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
In The Human Tradition in the New South, historian James C. Klotter brings together twelve biographical essays that explore the region's political, economic, and social development since the Civil War. Like all books in this series, these essays chronicle the lives of ordinary Americans whose lives and contributions help to highlight the great transformations that occurred in the South. With profiles ranging from Winnie Davis to Dizzy Dean, from Ralph David Abernathy to Harland Sanders, The Human Tradition in the New South brings to life this dynamic and vibrant region and is an excellent resource for courses in Southern history, race relations, social history, and the American history survey.
History of Greene County, New York
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Category : Dutch Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 628
Book Description
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Category : Dutch Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 628
Book Description
The North Americans of Antiquity
Author: John Thomas Short
Publisher:
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 558
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 558
Book Description
W. F. Matthews
Author: Travis Monday
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1411607880
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
The true story of a God-and-Country American.
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1411607880
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
The true story of a God-and-Country American.
The Living Church
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 448
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 448
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Tobacco
Author: Charles A. Lilley
Publisher:
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Category : Tobacco industry
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Tobacco industry
Languages : en
Pages : 148
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