Long Gone, Come Home
Long Gone, Come Home

Author: Monica Chenault-Kilgore

Publisher: Harlequin

Published: 2023-06-06

Total Pages: 359

ISBN-13: 0369720563

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GoodReads, Time Travel with Summer's Biggest Historical Fiction Novels The Root, June 2023 Books By Black Authors We Can't Wait to Read Ms. Magazine, June 2023 Reads for the Rest of Us 88 Upcoming Books the Goodreads Editors Can't Wait to Read SheReads, Most Anticipated Historical Fiction of Summer 2023 Thoughts from a Page, Most Anticipated Historical Fiction of Summer 2023 BookBub, Best Historical Fiction of Summer 2023 Audiofile's Best Audiobooks of July 2023 and Earphones Award Winner Spanning from the joyous peak of the 1930s jazz era to the Great Depression and civil rights movement, Long Gone, Come Home weaves a poetic tale of love, life, and loss as one woman learns the true meaning of home. Birdie Jennings dreams of a big life beyond her small town of Mt. Sterling, Kentucky—beyond her mundane job tying tobacco leaves at Wrights Factory, beyond her position as the baby of the family. Her life changes when she meets smooth-talking Jimmy Walker. Jimmy makes big promises for an exciting life together, and Birdie is quickly swept off her feet. But some short years after they marry, Jimmy disappears without a trace, leaving Birdie hurt and alone with their two toddlers. Out of money and out of options, Birdie moves back home with her overbearing mother. Just as she's settling into her new life, Birdie witnesses a gruesome murder and is urged to flee Mt. Sterling to avoid questioning. With nothing but a borrowed suitcase and a questionable note about a house in Cincinnati promised to Jimmy, she travels to the big city just as she and Jimmy dreamed, determined to put her life back together. Plunged into the bustling jazz scenes of the hottest nightclubs and backwoods juke joints, Birdie learns that finding her place among criminals and saints is tough—but she is tougher. Even when some harsh lessons threaten the life she’s created on her own terms…

Long Gone
Long Gone

Author: Paul Hemphill

Publisher: Ivan R. Dee Publisher

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 236

ISBN-13:

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Stud Cantrell senses a last chance for love and glory."--BOOK JACKET.

Long Gone
Long Gone

Author: Alafair Burke

Publisher: Harper Collins

Published: 2011-06-21

Total Pages: 294

ISBN-13: 0062092227

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“Long Gone is a tremendous novel, and Alafair Burke is one of the finest young crime writers working today.” --Dennis Lehane, author of Moonlight Mile Echoing the intensity of Harlan Coben’s Tell No One and the psychological depth of Laura Lippman’s What the Dead Know, Alafair Burke’s first stand-alone novel catapults her into the top ranks of modern suspense. In New York City’s cut-throat world of art, appearances can be deceiving—especially when art world newcomer Alice Humphrey becomes a suspect in a gruesome murder at a Chelsea gallery, and is thrown into a treacherous labyrinth of intrigue, crime, and conspiracy. Now, Alice must discover the truth behind the murder before the unsolved mystery claims her as its next victim.

Long Way Gone
Long Way Gone

Author: Charles Martin

Publisher: Christian Series Level I (24)

Published: 2016

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781683242024

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"A radical retelling of the story of the prodigal son takes the reader from tent revivals to the Ryman Auditorium to the tender relationship between a broken man and the father who never stopped calling him home"--

Long Gone
Long Gone

Author: Marliss Melton

Publisher:

Published: 2012-10

Total Pages: 98

ISBN-13: 9781938732065

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After four years of fear and isolation, Skyler Dulay has had enough of being in the federal witness protection program. Uprooted every few months to stay ahead of her father's murderous associates, she fears they will stop at nothing to silence her damning testimony, and now they've found her again. Skyler reaches out to the FBI special agent who saved her once before, the man she has never stopped loving-- Special Agent Drake Donovan. The desperate call from Skyler pulls him right back in to the fight for her future. Drake will assume any risk to keep Skyler from being lost to him again, but will it be enough to free her from the mob-ties that bind her?

The Jewel of the Blues
The Jewel of the Blues

Author: Monica Chenault-Kilgore

Publisher: Harlequin

Published: 2024-11-19

Total Pages: 395

ISBN-13: 0369746651

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Set in the sparkling 1920s jazz era, The Jewel of the Blues pulls back the curtain on all the romance, danger and drama in the bustling backstage life of a young performer. Billed as the Little Girl with the Big Voice, blues singer Lucille Arnetta Love always dreamed of life under the lights. From traveling family gospel band to lead singer in a riotous vaudeville troupe, Lucille is on the rise. But a devastating family secret, one that’s poised to shatter every dream she’s ever had, casts an inescapable shadow over Lucille’s career. Decades ago, a botched robbery ended in a suspicious death—and all signs point to Lucille’s own father as the culprit. It’s a secret that Lucille’s family is determined to keep buried—even from Lucille herself. For a time, a fresh start feels possible, especially when Marcus Williams, Lucille’s manager—and sometimes paramour—sets her up with a band to tour the country: Miss Lucille’s Black Troubadours. Lucille’s dream of seeing her name in the bright lights of Broadway may happen yet, if she and the Troubadours can endure the highly competitive, rocky road to fame. Beneath the dazzling glamour of the vaudeville scene lies a wicked underbelly, as drinking, gambling, salacious love affairs and racial tensions compete to dim Lucille’s shining star. And when shady figures from her father’s past emerge, their thirst for revenge threatens to silence Lucille’s career—and the sultry singer herself—for good.