New Relax & Read Books
November 12, 2009
Southern environments set the stage for these new Relax & Read books.
The Help by Kathryn Stockett
Skeeter Phelan returns to her parent's cotton farm in the south after graduation and realizes the black women who have served the neighboring households have much to tell about their lives and their employers.
South Of Broad by Pat Conroy
The story of Leopold Bloom King develops in 1969 with his eclectic group of high school friends living it up in their home town and finishes with them confronting each other again in 1989 amidst a frantic search in San Francisco.
The Last Song by Nicholas Sparks
Ronnie and her brother are sent to North Carolina to spend the summer with their estranged father. Ronnie hasn't spoken to him since he fractured the family three years earlier and is determined to snub him and return to New York as quickly as she can.
Alex Cross's Trial by James Patterson & Richard Dilallo
This is the story of Cross's great uncle Abraham during the time when the Klu Klux Klan held power in the south.
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