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Don't forget me, little Bessie : a novel / James Lee Burke.

Summary:

"Bestselling author James Lee Burke tells his most thrilling and insightful story yet through the eyes of fourteen-year-old Bessie Holland. At the beginning of the twentieth century, as America grapples with forces of human and natural violence more powerful than humanity has ever seen, Bessie Holland yearns for the love that she has never known. She finds a soulmate and mentor in a brilliant but tormented suffragette English teacher, who inspires Bessie to fight the forces of evil that permeate her world. Watching the vast Texas countryside being destroyed by an oil company and a menacing figure with a violent past, Bessie is prepared to defend her home and her family. But when she accidentally kills an unarmed man to defend her father Hackberry, she must flee to New York. There, her older brother introduces her to boys who will grow into gangsters, but as children admire and respect Bessie's spirit and fortitude as she is cast into a gangland that yearns for justice and mercy. A welcome return to the beloved Holland series and populated with characters both radiant and despicable, Don't Forget Me, Little Bessie is an epic story of a remarkable young girl who fights against potentially overwhelming forces"-- Provided by publisher.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780802164520
  • ISBN: 0802164528
  • Physical Description: 358 pages ; 24 cm.
  • Edition: First edition.
  • Publisher: New York, New York : Atlantic Monthly Press, an imprint of Grove Atlantic, 2025.
Subject: Teenage girls > Fiction.
Murder > Fiction.
Families > Fiction.
Siblings > Fiction.
Gangsters > Fiction.
Gangs > Fiction.
Fathers and daughters > Fiction.
Texas > Fiction.
New York (N.Y.) > Fiction.
Genre: Thrillers (Fiction)
Detective and mystery fiction.
Historical fiction.

Available copies

  • 65 of 153 copies available at NC Cardinal. (Show)
  • 2 of 4 copies available at Rockingham County Public Library.

Holds

  • 7 current holds with 153 total copies.
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