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  • Rachel’s Search
    Oscar Patton
    What does the second coming of the Klan portend for Satilla County? Is it one more sign evil is winning? Setting out to find answers, a northern-born young journalist experiences life in the deep South, the struggle to survive for whites and blacks. Her search turns personal and horrific when her best friend disappears. ...
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  • Rachel
    Oscar Patton
    With best friend Eve at her side, aspiring young journalist Rachel Mellon comes 'home' to Satilla County to write the lives of southern women. She collides head-on with the Circle of Brothers, a gang of good old boys who control the illegal liquor business. They claim to stand for God, country, and family values, but Rachel sees them for what they are, a murderous crime syndica...
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  • Serpent in the Pines
    Oscar Patton
    A way of life is threatened as the conflict between North and South rages on long after Lee’s surrender at Appomattox. Combatants include a saw mill superintendent murdered in his home, a hot-headed but fair-minded sheriff who must bring the killer or killers to justice, the superintendent’s pretty blond widow who carries a gun and knows how to use it, a river raftsman who work...
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  • The Doctor
    Oscar Patton
    Love, Hate, Redemption. . . Satilla County doctor Elias Lott must contend not only with the 1918-19 Spanish flu epidemic but also with ignorance, prejudice, and his own questions about love and faith. This is the fifth novel in the Satilla County series. Other titles are When the Bough Breaks, Riding the Fantastics, A Place to Call Home, and The Sheriff. ...
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  • The Sheriff
    Oscar Patton
    This is a work of fiction inspired by a true story. Sheriff George Winters is caught in the middle of a long running feud between south Georgia neighbors. He senses the conflict is coming to a head, but he does not suspect nor can he imagine the horror that erupts. In arresting and helping to prosecute those accused of a double murder, the sheriff agonizes over questions of d...
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    11,04 €

  • A Place to Call Home
    Oscar Patton
    Young professor Oliver Hardin settles in at Georgia Southeastern College, happy to be back home in Satilla County: 'Cock-a-doodle-do. This rooster has come home to roost. Bring your mugs, boys. The keg is iced down. The pork is on the pit. And the chicks are on the way.' Then, in the year he expects to become a tenured professor, storm clouds gather. Discord among the English ...
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    12,98 €

  • Riding the Fantastics
    Oscar Patton
    Narrated in real time by characters in the drama, Riding the Fantastics is about the death and the life of Boy Man Hardin, last King of the Crackers in south Georgia’s old herding culture. This is the second of Oscar Patton’s Satilla County novels and is both a murder mystery and a story of love, courage, and the triumph of the human spirit. Multiple twists and turns take the ...
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  • When the Bough Breaks
    Oscar Patton
    Love, hate, ambition, greed, lasciviousness-- human nature is laid bare in this story about the fall of the grandest house in Hebron,Georgia. Following the sudden death on the same night of her infant son and her rich and powerful husband, Ada McCallum,too young and too beautiful, must assume control of a vast empire and make her way in a world of men at war, at home and abroa...
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    16,19 €