Books tagged: small towns

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Lie on a Yardstick    by Rita Hestand
Price: $0.99 USD. 1670 words. Published on October 11, 2009. .

A short story for pre-teens. When you are new in town, it's hard to make new friends at school. Julie should know she's been to enough of them.
Pretend Mom    by Rita Hestand
Price: $2.99 USD. 53170 words. Published on November 29, 2009. .

A short contemporary romance novel. A sweet romance. Dixie came home to be with her family, get some needed rest and see Kevin one last time. She'd had a teenage crush on Kevin and now seven years later she wanted to find out if that is all it was. She hadn't planned on running into Mike his brother and his adorable little daughter either. Amanda wanted her to play...Pretend mom with her.
The Prodigal Sons    by Michael Jasper
Price: $5.99 USD. 75500 words. Published on February 24, 2010. .

At 30, William Koopman knows he needs to move out of the family farm house, where he still lives with his parents and grandmother. But his wife escapes first. A week after she leaves him, William's shiftless younger brother returns home. As rain pelts the family farm all season, William must go after Marcy, keep from killing his brother, and save the farm - and maybe himself - in the process.
The Legacy of Roosevelt Clay    by Janice Daugharty
Price: $1.99 USD. 2370 words. Published on July 10, 2010. .

This is a tale of how a black man in the deep south of the 1950's and 60's became the biggest landowner in all of the region. Or so they say...
Little Big Girls    by Janice Daugharty
Price: $2.99 USD. 3740 words. Published on July 17, 2010. .

Temple, little beauty-queen pro, knows that her mother, Cammie, has spiked drinks of her competitors. Once Cammie even "accidentally" stepped on a child's dress tail and ripped it from the bodice. But tonight is Temple's first contest in her mother's small hometown and Temple will be competing with her first real friend, daughter of one of Cammie's former high-school classmates.
Cammie's Lost Years    by Janice Daugharty
Price: $2.99 USD. 5040 words. Published on August 10, 2010. .

What if you returned to your hometown after a decade of shock treatments in a lock-up away from everything and everybody you knew? When you come home, with no memory, only sensations, everything is new. Gradually, as sensation gives way to memory, you venture out but everybody shuns you. What have you done to them? Cammie Short finds answers better left hidden.
And the Winner Is?    by Janice Daugharty
Price: $1.99 USD. 4620 words. Published on August 26, 2010. .

Eileen and Duck Dixon were on the verge of splitting up before they learned they'd won the Easter Lottery. Now they're stuck. Then they discover a missing ticket out of the twenty-five each bought. So who actually owns the winning ticket? To make matters worse, Eileen's mother Nell had loaned them the money to buy the tickets. By rights, does the winning ticket belong to her?
The AJC Reporter    by Janice Daugharty
Price: $1.99 USD. 1000 words. Published on September 2, 2010. .

An Atlanta newspaper reporter, looking for a story, reveals the secret history of the smallest county in Georgia. Facts unleashed, the resident natives become suspicious of one another and the origins of the old-name families.
Secrets Of Slaters Falls (Contemporary Romance)    by Matthew W. Grant
Price: $6.99 USD. 97950 words. Published on December 26, 2010. .

Four families become intertwined by sex, sin and scandal in a small New England town teeming with secrets. Among the ensemble cast of spiteful busybodies, sleazy hunks, conniving bitches, dirty cops, and scheming murderers, several achieve meaningful change tackling social issues and taboo topics. "Tragicomic deliciousness!" - Publishers Weekly (Breakthrough Novel Award Semifinalist)
Higher Ground    by Meredith Sue Willis
Price: $4.99 USD. 106470 words. Published by Hamilton  Stone  on January 29, 2011. .

This novel, set in small-town West Virginia in the early 1960's, is richly realized in the complexities of relationships and class. The novel captures the paradoxes in Blair Ellen's quest for understanding of her mysterious friends, a brother and sister who live on top of a mountain.