- Browse
- » Your Account
- » List
Author
On Shelf
Burleson Public Library - Audiobooks - New Display Area
PLAY F KINGSOL
1 available
PLAY F KINGSOL
1 available
Published
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Description
On Shelf
Burleson Public Library - Audiobooks - New Display Area
PLAY F KINGSOL
1 available
PLAY F KINGSOL
1 available
eAudiobook
Published
Source
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Description
Checked Out
Checked Out
1 copy, 57 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
1 copy, 57 people are on the wait list.
eBook
Checked Out
Checked Out
1 copy, 66 people are on the wait list.
Published
Source
Checked Out
1 copy, 66 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
1 copy, 66 people are on the wait list.
Published
Source
Checked Out
1 copy, 66 people are on the wait list.
Description
"Demon Copperhead is set in the mountains of southern Appalachia. It’s the story of a boy born to a teenaged single mother in a single-wide trailer, with no assets beyond his dead father’s good looks and copper-colored hair, a caustic wit, and a fierce talent for survival. In a plot that never pauses for breath, relayed in his own unsparing voice, he braves the modern perils of foster care, child labor, derelict schools, athletic success, addiction,...
Author
Formats:
Published
Edition
First HarperCollins paperback edition.
Physical Description
Checked Out
1 copy, 1 person is on the wait list.
Checked Out
1 copy, 1 person is on the wait list.
eBook
Published
Source
Checked Out
Published
Source
Checked Out
Description
In 1990, Jarvis Jay Masters was moved to death row after being convicted of conspiracy in the murder of a prison guard. In 2008, the California Supreme Court ordered an evidentiary hearing based on the lack of evidence for Masters's conviction. Many believe in Masters's innocence and are actively working in the legal system to free him. This is his story.
Author
Formats:
eAudiobook
Published
Source
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Description
Available Online
Checked Out
1 copy, 3 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
1 copy, 3 people are on the wait list.
eBook
Source
Physical Description
Available Online
Checked Out
1 copy, 3 people are on the wait list.
Source
Checked Out
1 copy, 3 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
1 copy, 3 people are on the wait list.
Source
Checked Out
1 copy, 3 people are on the wait list.
Description
"A dazzling, unforgettable novel about a young Black woman who walks the streets of Oakland and stumbles headlong into the failure of its justice system-a debut that announces a blazingly original voice. Kiara Johnson and her brother Marcus are barely scraping by in a squalid East Oakland apartment complex that calls itself, optimistically, the Royal-Hi. Both have dropped out of high school, their family fractured by death and prison. But while Marcus...
4) Finding me
Author
Published
Edition
First edition.
Physical Description
Published
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Description
Published
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Description
eAudiobook
Published
Source
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Description
Checked Out
Checked Out
4 copies, 52 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
4 copies, 52 people are on the wait list.
eBook
Checked Out
Checked Out
2 copies, 8 people are on the wait list.
Published
Source
Checked Out
2 copies, 8 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
2 copies, 8 people are on the wait list.
Published
Source
Checked Out
2 copies, 8 people are on the wait list.
Description
"Much-anticipated, emotionally-charged debut memoir from award-winning actor and icon Viola Davis"--
Author
Published
Physical Description
Description
Despite a police search that will turn into a nationwide obsession, Beth Cappadora's three-year-old son has vanished without a trace. Beth and her husband are torn apart while their other son turns delinquent trying to break through their grief-stricken silence.
Author
Series
Everyman's library volume 216
Formats:
Published
Physical Description
Published
Physical Description
Published
Physical Description
Published
Physical Description
Published
Physical Description
Source
Checked Out
Source
Checked Out
Description
Milkman Dead was born shortly after a neighborhood eccentric hurled himself off a rooftop in a vain attempt at flight. For the rest of his life he, too, will be trying to fly. With this brilliantly imagined novel, Toni Morrison transfigures the coming-of-age story as audaciously as Saul Bellow or Gabriel García Márquez. As she follows Milkman from his rustbelt city to the place of his family's origins, Morrison introduces an entire cast of strivers...
Author
Formats:
Published
Physical Description
Description
From the New York Times–bestselling author of The Excellent Lombard's and A Map of the World, this is "an extraordinary story of a family's disintegration [that] will be compared to Jane Smiley's A Thousand Acres" (People). It follows Ruth Grey, a young woman in a tiny Illinois farm town, who has lost her father to World War II, and constantly faces her unhappy mother's wrath-when she isn't being ignored in favor of her math-prodigy brother. As...
Author
Published
Edition
Washington Square Press trade paperback ed.
Physical Description
Published
Physical Description
Description
Dolores has suffered almost every abuse and familial travesty that exists. Her father is a violent, philandering liar, her mother has the mental and emotional consistency of Jell-O, and the men in her life are probably the gender's most loathsome creatures. She is determined to rise above all of it.
Author
Published
Edition
1st Scribner Paperback ed.
Physical Description
Physical Description
Author
Formats:
Published
Physical Description
Description
It is the summer of 1960 in Atkinson, Vermont. With no help from her alcoholic ex-husband, Marie Fermoyle is raising three children on the edge of poverty. Her seventeen-year-old daughter, Alice, is becoming emotionally involved with a local priest in a staunchly Catholic town that disapproves of Marie's divorce. Alice's brother Norm is a hotheaded sixteen-year-old, and twelve-year-old Benjy is isolated and full of anxieties, looking with yearning...
Author
Published
Physical Description
Description
Angelou's fourth autobiographical volume proceeds from her departure from California with her son, Guy, through her early years in Harlem and the civil-rights movement, in London and Cairo and the breakup of her marriage.
Author
Series
Published
Physical Description
Published
Physical Description
Description
From the author of, A Gathering of Old Men and The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman comes a deep and compassionate novel. Grant Wiggins is a college-educated man who returns to the 1940s Cajun community where he grew up. He visits and forms an unlikely bond with Jefferson, a young Black man convicted of murder and sentenced to death, for a crime he didn't commit. Together they come to understand the heroism of resisting.
13) Ellen Foster
Author
Series
Ellen Foster duology volume 1
Description
"Cuando era pequeña pensaba en cómo matar a mi padre." Así comienza Ellen Foster, una de las contadas obras cuya protagonista, al igual que el Huckleberry Finn de Mark Twain o la Pecola Breedlove de Toni Morrison, ha entrado por derecho propio en la cultura popular norteamericana.
Ellen es una niña de once años que, haciendo gala de una inteligencia y una determinación fuera de lo común, busca su lugar en el mundo mientras todo se tambalea...
Author
Formats:
Published
Physical Description
Description
Two unforgettable characters, Jack Ernest Stokes, known as Blinking Jack, and his wife, Ruby Pitt Woodrow Stokes, tell the story of their years together. Jack was forty and Ruby only twenty when they were married. For twenty-five years they lived together, man and wife, until Ruby died of lung cancer.
15) Paradise
Author
Formats:
Published
Physical Description
Published
Physical Description
Published
Physical Description
Description
The books begins deep in Oklahoma early one morning in 1976, nine men from ruby, in defense of the one all black town worth the pain, assult the nearby Convent and the women in it. From the town's ancestral origins in 1890 to the fateful day of the assult. Paradise tells the story of people ever mindful of the relationship between their spectacular history and a void Out there... where random and organized evil erupted when and where it chose. ...
16) Black and blue
Author
Series
Formats:
Published
Physical Description
Published
Physical Description
Published
Physical Description
Published
Physical Description
Description
After enduring years of abuse, a woman flees with her son to another city to start a new life, always dreading the time when her husband would finally catch up with them.
Author
Published
Edition
Second Vintage contemporaries edition.
Physical Description
Description
At an astonishingly young age, Edwidge Danticat has become one of our most celebrated new novelists, a writer who evokes the wonder, terror, and heartache of her native Haiti--and the enduring strength of Haiti's women--with a vibrant imagery and narrative grace that bear witness to her people's suffering and courage. At the age of twelve, Sophie Caco is sent from her impoverished village of Croix-des-Rosets to New York, to be reunited with a mother...
Author
Series
Formats:
Published
Edition
1st Regan Books/HarperPernnial ed.
Physical Description
Description
Dominick Birdsey, a 40-year-old housepainter whose subdued life in his hometown of Three Rivers, Connecticut, is disturbed in 1990 when his identical twin brother Thomas, a paranoid schizophrenic whose condition is complicated by religious mania, commits a shocking act of self-mutilation. The story is that of the embattled Birdseys, as recalled in Dominick's elaborated memory-flashbacks.
Author
Series
Formats:
Published
Physical Description
Published
Physical Description
Description
After a decade of elegant pleasures and luxe living with the Atlanta brothers and sisters with the best clothes and biggest dreams, Ava Johnson has temporarily returned home to Idlewild-her fabulous career and power plans smashed to bits by cold reality. But what she imagines to be the end is, instead, a beginning. Because, in the ten-plus years since Ava left, all the problems of the big city have come to roost in the sleepy North Michigan community...
20) Midwives
Author
Published
Physical Description
Description
A midwife takes desperate measures to save a babies life and is accused of killing the mother who she believes died fo stroke during the emergency cesarean section birth.