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62) Hill man
Author
Publisher
University Press of Kentucky
Pub. Date
[2000]
Physical Desc
xii, 172 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
With friends and family over-reacting to her announcement that she plans to marry Sheriff's Deputy Dwight Bryant, Judge Deborah Knott gratefully seizes the opportunity to put a five-hour drive between herself and Colleton County when the Chief District Court Judge offers her a week on the bench in Cedar Gap. It is early autumn, leaves are turning, and summer residents are preparing to close up their mountain "cabins" (palatial houses perched atop...
Author
Publisher
Celtic Cat Publishing
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
191 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"Melanie Hutsell brings the mountain town of Beulah Creek to life. Ordinary people live ordinary lives until a stranger arrives among them. Walking away from a past that haunts her, she walks into a present that will haunt her and the rest of the town. Taking up residence in the Old Greenberry place, Malathy Joan gathers a circle of friends and begins to renew herself until the spirits of the dead and fallen stars take her away from the sphere of...
70) Scouts
Author
Publisher
Jimmy Patterson Books, Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
257 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
The summer before seventh grade, five best friends sneak out to watch a meteor shower, but soon find themselves on the run from a violent mountain clan.
Author
Publisher
BridgeWater Books
Pub. Date
[1996]
Physical Desc
29 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
When her father has to leave their mountain home to go to work in the city one cold winter in 1917, a ten-year-old girl sees a special sign as she waits for his return on Christmas.
72) Wish you well
Author
Language
English
Description
Following a family tragedy, siblings Lou and Oz must leave New York and adjust to life in the Virginia mountains—but just as the farm begins to feel like home, they'll have to defend it from a dark threat in this New York Times bestselling coming-of-age story.
Precocious twelve-year-old Louisa Mae Cardinal lives in the hectic New York City of 1940 with her family. Then tragedy strikes—and Lou and her younger brother, Oz, must...
Precocious twelve-year-old Louisa Mae Cardinal lives in the hectic New York City of 1940 with her family. Then tragedy strikes—and Lou and her younger brother, Oz, must...
Author
Series
First mountain man series volume 26
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
Large print edition.
Physical Desc
463 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"There are two kinds of traps in the Old West. One is the kind that Preacher and his buddy Charlie uses to catch a mountain-load of fur pelts. The other is the kind that Charlie steps into-a trap set by a low-life gambler and his seductive partner in crime to swindle Charlie out of his fur money. Preacher hates to see a good friend get robbed. So he sets off after the grifters-on a riverboat bound for New Orleans. First, he infiltrates the criminal...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Since his birth in 1889 in a remote part of the Smoky Mountains called Jake's Creek, Lem Ownby became one of the region's most famous mountain men and hermits. Ownby was sight impaired from an early age but still managed to plant an apple orchard, raise livestock and keep bees in a home he built himself. Lem saw the founding of Elkmont and the rise and fall of logging operations in the pristine wilderness as the last man living within the Great Smoky...
77) A cold spring
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
2002.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
275 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Author
Series
Smoky Mountain dreams volume 3
Publisher
Harvest House Publishers
Language
English
Formats
Description
It's 1935, and Laurel Jackson fears the life she's always known is about to become a memory. The government is purchasing property to establish the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, and nearly all the families in Cades Cove have decided to sell. Laurel is determined to save the land her family has lived on for a hundred years. Andrew Brady, the son of a wealthy Virginia congressman, arrives in the Cove to convince the remaining landowners to sell....
Author
Publisher
Morrow Junior Books
Pub. Date
1999.
Physical Desc
29 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 24 x 26 cm
Language
English
Description
When Mama gets behind the wheel of the new Model T which her husband just drove into the yard of their Georgia mountain home, she proves that she can drive a car as well as the men of the family.
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