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"Opinionated and iconoclastic, Petersen writes with humor and a well-honed craft that will delight fans of Edward Abbey." -Library Journal (starred review)
Twenty-five years ago David Petersen and his wife, Caroline, pulled up stakes, trading Laguna Beach, California, for a snug hand-built cabin in the wilderness. Today he knows that mountain land as intimately as anyone can know his home.
Petersen conflates a quarter century
Author
Publisher
Orchard Books
Pub. Date
[1996]
Physical Desc
27 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
A young boy, raised by his aunt and uncle, shares a special visit with his grandfather during which he learns about his family's past and about the old man's experiences as a cowboy and living in the Ozark Mountains.
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English
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This early novel from bestselling author James Lee Burke is a gritty coming-of-age story about a young Kentucky miner growing up in the Appalachian mountains who's torn between his family life and the lure of the city.
James Lee Burke, a writer who "can touch you in ways few writers can" (The Washington Post) brings his brilliant feel for time and place to this stunning story of Appalachia in the early 1960s. Here, Perry Woodson Hatfield...
James Lee Burke, a writer who "can touch you in ways few writers can" (The Washington Post) brings his brilliant feel for time and place to this stunning story of Appalachia in the early 1960s. Here, Perry Woodson Hatfield...
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
3 DVDs (1,148 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Television series about the Walton family living on Walton's Mountain in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia. In this season, the Waltons plunge into the chaos and heroism of World War II. John-Boy reports from London for "Stars and Stripes, " Mary Ellen nurses the war wounded, Jason, Ben and even Jim-Bob debate joining up, and John and Olivia expand their lumber business to aid in the war effort. But the personal events are almost as dramatic: still...
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Pub. Date
2015.
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English
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"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."--
47) Clay's quilt
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English
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Clay Sizemore, a coal miner in love, searches his family history for clues about who he is, uncovering a dramatic story woven into the fabric of his uncle's quilts.
Author
Series
First mountain man series volume 10
Publisher
Pinnacle Books
Language
English
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When a girl from Preacher's past is murdered, Preacher knows the time has come to leave the high, wild country--for truth, justice, and a new reason to kill.
49) Mountain wedding
Author
Publisher
Morrow Junior Books
Pub. Date
[1996]
Physical Desc
29 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 24 x 27 cm
Language
English
Description
The children from two mountain families about to be joined in a wedding change their minds about each other only after all of them together cooperate in a rescue.
51) Miss Willie
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Publisher
Westminster Press
Pub. Date
1951.
Physical Desc
268 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
52) Glow
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2012.
Physical Desc
324 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"A breathtaking Georgia-mountain epic about the complex bond of mothers and daughters across a century. In the autumn of 1941, Amelia J. McGee, a young woman of Cherokee and Scotch-Irish descent, and an outspoken pamphleteer for the NAACP, hastily sends her daughter, Ella, alone on a bus home to Georgia in the middle of the night-a desperate action that is met with dire consequences when the child encounters two drifters and is left for dead on the...
Author
Series
Last Mountain Man series volume 33
Publisher
Kensington Pub
Pub. Date
2005.
Physical Desc
255 pages ; 18 cm.
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English
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University of Oklahoma Press
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
195 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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English
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The year is 1902. A young stock-handler named Fenton Pardee has just survived the train wreck that almost destroyed William F. Cody's Wild West show. Surveying the train's smoldering ruins--and what is left of Cody's company of stunt-riders, trick-shooters, and stage actors--Fenton realizes that turning the West into a circus to thrill the world is no longer thrilling for him.
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Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
1992.
Physical Desc
32 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
A new boy in a small mountain village tries to discredit the old peddler who sells magic jars of sundrops, moonbows, and the like; but though he drives the old man away, something remarkable does happen in the sky.
56) Second hand Rose
Author
Series
Smoky Mountain novels volume 5
Language
English
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Life is sometimes hard for a widowed, single mother with three young children, a business to run, bills to meet, and debts to pay. Despite it all, Rosalyn McCreary tries to count her blessings. She cherishes her shop, Second Hand Rose, her family, and her friends. A practical woman by necessity, she seldom indulges in impulse and fancy except for that crazy spring day she danced with a total stranger she'd never met. Whatever was she thinking? And...
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English
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Having been forced to act as mother and housekeeper during Mama's illness, twelve-year-old Amanda has a holiday in Memphis, far removed from the Depression drudgery of her Kentucky mountain family, and finds her world expanding even as she grows to understand and appreciate her own background.
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