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  To Dance with the White Dog

  by Terry Kay

  Sam Peek's children are worried. Since that "saddest day" when Cora, his beloved wife of fifty-seven good years, died, no one knows how he will survive. How can this elderly man live alone on his farm? How can he keep driving his dilapidated truck down to the fields to care for his few rows of pecan trees? And when Sam begins telling his children about a dog as white as the pure driven snow -- that seems invisible... (more)
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  The Runaway: A Novel

  by Terry Kay

  Tom and Son Jesus spend their days dreaming, fishing , and trying to escape work.  But their fun comes to an abrupt halt when they discover a human bone, which later turns out to be part of the skeletal remains of Son Jesus' long missing father.  As sheriff Frank Rucker, a World War II hero, begins an investigation into remains, he unmasks the racially motivated killer known only as Pegleg.  The sheriff's findings... (more)
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  Taking Lottie Home: A Novel

  by Terry Kay

  When Foster Lanier and Ben Phelps are released from a professional baseball team in 1904, it is the only experience they have in common, until they meet a runaway -- a girl-woman named Lottie Parker -- on the train that takes them from Augusta, Georgia, and away from their dreams of greatness. Foster will marry her and father her son. Ben will escort her home. And Lottie will change the lives of everyone she... (more)
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  The Valley of Light: A Novel

  by Terry Kay

  From Terry Kay, one of America's most gifted storytellers, comes a poignant novel of love, acceptance, and the wonders of the world in which we live. In the summer of 1948, Noah Locke arrives in the small North Carolina hamlet of Bowerstown, set deep in the Valley of Light. A quiet, simple man and army veteran, Noah is haunted by the horrors he witnessed when his infantry unit liberated Dachau. Wandering the... (more)
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  The Year the Lights Came on (Brown Thrasher Books)

  by Terry Kay

  First published in 1976, The Year the Lights Came On was Terry Kay's debut novel. Revolving around the electrification of rural northeast Georgia shortly after the end of World War II, the novel has become a classic coming-of-age story. Kay, now an acclaimed writer with an international following, has reread the novel with the eyes of a seasoned storyteller. Cutting here and adding there, Kay has enriched an... (more)
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  The Kidnapping of Aaron Greene

  by Terry Kay

  Aaron Greene is barely a year out of high school when he disappears on his way to work at a powerful Atlanta bank. The kidnappers demand ten million dollars, with one condition: the money must come from the bank, not Aaron's parents. But the bank refuses to pay. Suddenly Aaron's case is at the center of a storm of outrage that sweeps the nation--while the shy young mailroom boy waits in an environment he never... (more)
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  Special Kay: The Wisdom of Terry Kay

  by Terry Kay

  Terry Kay is one of the South's most loved, widely acclaimed, and successful writers. Most know Kay for his bestselling novels and their star-studded movie adaptations; often his readers are not aware of the astute and humorous social critic resting behind the novelist's veil. Special Kay reveals the essayist, critic, and humorist who has written for a wide array of newspapers and magazines for years. From "The... (more)
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  After Eli

  by Terry Kay

  AFTER ELI is the story of three women who encounter the most formidable of dangers-an enchanting man. Though strangers are rare in the small town of Yale, and a recent double murder is still unsolved, itinerant actor Michael O'Rear wins over the people of the remote Appalachian village. Intrigued by the legend of eli's hidden money, Michael uses his actor's talents and his gift of hypnotically lyrical gab to win... (more)
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  Shadow Song

  by Terry Kay

  In the summer of 1955, Madison Lee "Bobo" Murphy was a waiter at the Catskills' Pine Hill Inn. A rural Southerner, he had never heard the word meshugge until Avrum Feldman -- a retired New York City furrier -- became his unlikely friend. For Bobo, nothing about that special time and place ever lost its glow: Avrum's obsession with the haunting voice of a famous opera diva, music that no one else could hear; the... (more)
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  The Book of Marie

  by Terry Kay

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  To Whom the Angel Spoke: A Story of the Christmas

  by Terry Kay

  To Whom the Angel Spoke is the story of three men--shepherds--who were as different as men can be. Yet, one night, those men heard a voice, and because they believed what the voice told them about the birth of Jesus, they were alike. In author Terry Kay's moving story, the unifying power of simple belief touches the hearts of everyone, and reminds us that, for different people with different feelings, there is a... (more)
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  Dark Thirty

  by Terry Kay