02537cam a2200481 i 4500 2456892035 TxAuBib 20250724120000.0 250527s2025||||||||||||d|||||||||||eng|u 9781420523683 hardcover alk. paper 1420523686 hardcover alk. paper TxAuBib rda Burke, James Lee, 1936- Don't forget me, Little Bessie [large print] / James Lee Burke. Do not forget me, Little Bessie. Large print edition. Farmington Hills, MI : Thorndike Press/Gale, 2025. 559 pgs (large print) ; 23 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Holland Family ; 5 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, she must flee to New York. There, her older brother introduces her to boys who will grow into gangsters, but who as children admire and respect Bessie's spirit and fortitude as she is cast into a gangland that yearns for justice and mercy. 20250728. Holland, Hackberry (Fictitious character) Fiction. Families Fiction. Fathers and daughters Fiction. Gangs Fiction. Gangsters Fiction. Murder Fiction. Siblings Fiction. Teenage girls Fiction. Women Sleuths Fiction. New York (N.Y.) History 20th century Fiction. Texas History 20th century Fiction. Historical fiction. Large Type Books. Detective and mystery fiction. Thrillers (Fiction.) Holland Family ; 5. BTCLS