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23) Harvest moon
Author
Series
Riverbend romance volume 3
Language
English
Description
"Forever walking the line between passion and conflict, Laurel and Gavin's relationship ended in divorce after years of miscommunication and unmet expectations. Now pursuing their own separate lives and careers, the two are content . . . though not completely happy. When their best friends, Mike and Mallory, are killed in a plane crash, Laurel and Gavin are stunned to learn they ve been named guardians of their friends' young daughter, Emma. Putting...
24) Once a midwife
Author
Series
Hope River novels volume 4
Language
English
Description
Though the Great Depression is behind the them, trouble is not: Europe is at war. It is only a matter of time before the U.S. enters the fray. In the town of Hope River, midwife Patience Hester's husband, Daniel has vowed never to take up arms again; he saw too much bloodshed during the First World War. When he is imprisoned for his beliefs, Patience and their four children are left vulnerable, while she tries to keep her practice running during this...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Rural Caball Hollow, surrounded by the vast National Forest. Like her sisters, Linden James was born with an unusual ability: she can taste what others are feeling. But this gift soured her relationship with Cole Spencer one night a year ago... the same night Linden vanished into the depths of the Forest and returned with no memories of what happened, and a haze of nightmares. Now another girl has gone missing... only this time her body is discovered....
26) Groundskeeping
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A love story set in the foothills of Appalachia about two very different people--Owen, from Kentucky, and Alma, the daughter of Bosnian immigrants--navigating the entanglements of class and identify in an America coming apart at the seams."--
Author
Series
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
[2007]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
326 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Tom Bridger, who is half Melungeon, left his small mountain community to escape the lingering prejudice against the mixed race group. Now, in the face of family tragedy, he has returned and taken on his father's job as a county sheriff's deputy. The bones of a Melungeon woman have surfaced and all evidence points to murder. The victim's poor family and the wealthy white family she married into scramble to protect their secrets from Tom's probing....
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"After witnessing the death of his younger brother in a terrible home accident, 14-year-old Kevin and his grieving mother are sent for the summer to live with Kevin's grandfather. In this peeled-paint coal town deep in Appalachia, Kevin quickly falls in with a half-wild hollow kid named Buzzy Fink who schools him in the mysteries and magnificence of the woods. The events of this fateful summer will affect the entire town of Medgar, Kentucky."--
Author
Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
254 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
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, courage, and apple pie. Along the way, Amanda takes a shine to the MacInteer family, especially to the gentle Rai; her quick-study...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
In a long-ago war, the all-powerful A.I. ruler of the Voluntary State of Tennessee--Athena Parthenus, Queen of Reason--invaded and decimated the American Southeast. Possessing the ability to infect and corrupt the surrounding environment with nanotechnology, she transformed flora, fauna, and the very ground itself into bio-mechanical weapons of war. Marcia, a former captain from Kentucky, experienced first-hand the terrifying, mind-twisting capabilities...
34) Luhaney
Author
Publisher
PublishAmerica
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
264 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
36) Sunday's silence
Author
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2001]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
309 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In her rural Appalachian holler, ten-year-old Misty's closest friends are the crawdads. Misty can speak to them, to the birds, to the creek, to everything outside, and she understands how they think. She knows that if she could just speak to her parents in the same way, she could stop all the fighting. But it's too hard. When her only friend William takes their friendship too far, Misty doesn't know how to get help. This is the story of one tough-as-nails...
40) Rennie's way
Author
Publisher
University Press of Kentucky
Pub. Date
[1994]
Physical Desc
x, 220 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
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