Alamosa Public Library

Thus begins the new novel from John Grisham, a story inspired by his own childhood in rural Arkansas. The narrator is a farm boy name Luke Chandler, age seven, who lives in the cotton fields with his parents and grandparents in a little house that's never been painted. The Chandlers farm eighty acres that they rent, not own, and when the cotton is ready they hire a truck-load of Mexicans and a family from the Ozarks to help harvest it. For six weeks...

"Her sister couldn't be alive... could she? The little girl she spotted outside a store in Foggy Ridge had to be Riley Jo, her long-lost sister. Abby Cummings is certain. Almost. But her family has their hopes dashed before and quickly dismisses the idea. After all, her father and sister have been missing for five years, and are presumed dead. Abby refuses to ignore her intuition. She had her best friend, Jay, team up to track down the child in...