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"The beloved author of the Mystic Creek series gifts readers with a novel of homespun good cheer, as two families discover the joy of hope and redemption--just in time for the holidays. As summer gives way to fall in Rustlers Gulch, widow Maddie McLendon begins to have second thoughts about uprooting her life to move there with her son and grandson. Contractors have yet to break ground on their new house, leaving them--along with four horses, three...
2) Night vision
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When a local teen from a trailer park being targeted by powerful developers witnesses their hired gun committing a murder, her only hope for survival falls in the hands of Doc Ford and Tomlinson, who undertake a search through the underground in the hopes of finding her first.
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Moving to a senior citizen trailer park with her father, Hazel, the estranged wife of a corporate CEO who demanded she install a brain chip so that they could be constantly connected, tries to carve out a new life while her ex uses sophisticated technology to stalk her.
5) Girlchild
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2012.
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English
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Rory Hendrix is the least likely of Girl Scouts. She hasn't got a troop or even a badge to call her own. But she's checked the Handbook out from the elementary school library so many times that her name fills all the lines on the card, and she pores over its surreal advice (Uniforms, disposing of outgrown; The Right Use of Your Body; Finding Your Way When Lost) for tips to get off the Calle: that is, the Calle de las Flores, the Reno trailer park...
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"Amanda Beth Luker has spent her whole life desperately looking for someone who can show her the way out of her trailer park Florida town. And then, finally, help arrives in the form of Tom Davis, a successful lawyer with political aspirations who grew up just a few towns over from Amanda. But it's his wife Lindsay who really captures Amanda's imagination. Strong, smart, and determined, she gives Amanda something she's never had: a role model."--Amazon.com....
7) Trailerpark
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Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
1981.
Language
English
Description
Get to know the colorful cast of characters at the Granite State Trailerpark, where Flora in number 11 keeps more than a hundred guinea pigs and screams at people to stay away from her babies, Claudel in number 5 thinks he is lucky until his wife burns down their trailer and runs off with Howie Leeke, and Noni in number 7 has telephone conversations with Jesus and tells the police about them. In this series of related short stories, Russell Banks...
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"In this haunting parable of the American west, a young woman faces the violent past of a remote Montana valley. In Montana's Bitterroot Valley, a young Ruthie Fear sees an apparition: a strange, headless creature near a canyon creek. Raised in a trailer by her stubborn, bowhunting father, Ruthie develops a powerful connection with the natural world but struggles to find her place in a society shaped by men. As she comes of age , her small community...
16) Recycling George
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Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2002]
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English
Description
When twelve-year-old George's sister and brother-in-law move out of their trailer park while George is at school, leaving him behind, he moves in with a rich schoolmate and his family.
17) Dodi's Prince
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Dutton's Children's Books
Pub. Date
2003.
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English
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Eight-year-old Dodi hopes to overcome the objections of her family and Texas trailer park neighbors so that she can keep the stray dog she calls Prince.
18) Best served cold
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Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
[2007]
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English
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Wanda Neil is worried when her estranged brother, Rusty, arrives in town, looking to stir up trouble and settle the score with the inhabitants of Tullahoma, especially when a man is found murdered and Rusty, the prime suspect in the crime, mysteriously vanishes.
