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Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
314 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Wylodine comes from a world of paranoia and poverty; her family grows marijuana illegally, and life has always been a battle. Now she's been left behind to tend the crop alone. Then spring doesn't return for the second year in a row, bringing unprecedented, extreme winter. With grow lights stashed in her truck and a pouch of precious seeds, she begins a journey, determined to start over away from Appalachian Ohio. But the icy roads and strangers...
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A richly rewarding novel about family bonds, the power of words, and the resilience of mothers and daughters in 1930s Appalachia. The folks in the Kentucky Appalachians are scraping by. Coal mining and hardscrabble know-how are a way of life for these isolated people. But when Amanda Rye, a young widowed mother and traveling packhorse librarian, comes through a mountain community hit hard by the nation's economic collapse, she brings with her hope,...
65) Hotel Paradise
Author
Series
Emma Graham mysteries volume 1
Pub. Date
1996.
Physical Desc
348 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
67) Some beasts
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (89 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The physical tolls and harsh realities of Appalachia force Sal Damon, a modern-day Thoreau, to reconcile his place in a world that lives outside of the law.
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the wake of a sensationalized 1934 trial involving an Appalachian Virginia teacher's alleged murder of her tyrant father, novice journalist Carl Jennings is denounced by a greedy media determined to portray the defendant as a backwards mountain girl.
Author
Series
Spirit of Appalachia volume 2
Pub. Date
[1997]
Physical Desc
pages ; cm.
Language
English
Author
Series
Ballad novels volume 1
Pub. Date
[1990]
Physical Desc
312 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
The Hamelin High School class of 1966 plans a grand reunion. In the meantime, a famous singer has bought the town mansion and is stalked by a killer.
75) Shady Grove
Author
Pub. Date
1968.
Physical Desc
260 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In the sequel to The Great Adventure, in Broke Neck, Kentucky, the Appalachian natives disapprove of denominations and believe the minister ought to live without pay in the mid-20th century.
77) Songcatcher
Series
Pub. Date
[2003]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (109 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"When musicologist Doctor Lily Penleric ... is passed over for a prominent teaching position, she decides to leave the city to visit her sister in the rugged mountains of Appalachia. Here she discovers a wellspring of emotional tunes passed down from the original Irish and Scottish immigrants who settled in the area. Determined to document the history of the songs, she immerses herself in mountain life, falls in love with a local musician ... and...
Author
Pub. Date
[1988]
Physical Desc
316 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Fair and Tender Ladies is an epistolary novel that traces the life of Ivy Rowe, born in the isolated Virginia mountain community of Sugar Fork. Through births and deaths, marriages and funerals, the decades of Ivy's life are captured in a rich dialect that carries the sounds and sights of the Appalachians in each syllable.
80) That Book Woman
Author
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 21 x 27 cm
Language
English
Description
A family living in the Appalachian Mountains in the 1930s gets books to read during the regular visits of the "Book Woman"--a librarian who rides a pack horse through the mountains, lending books to the isolated residents.
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