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Appalachian Region Appalachian Region Drama Appalachian Region Fiction Appalachian Region History 20th century Fiction Books and reading Fiction City and town life Fiction Mountain life Appalachian Region, Southern Fiction Packhorse librarians Packhorse librarians Fiction Women Appalachian Region FictionSummary: A struggle for power and control set in the rugged and mysterious hills of Appalachia, which tells the story of the Farrell clan, a family of outsiders who've been in these parts since before anyone can remember. Living off the grid and above the law on their mountaintop homestead, they'll protect their world and defend their way of life using any means necessary.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV OUTKnight, Mary, (E. Mary)
Summary: Curley Hines has lost his father, mother, and brother to coal mining, and now he lives with his grandfather in the Appalachian mountains of Wonder Gap, Kentucky--but when the mining company prepares to destroy their mountain he must use the words his grandfather has taught him to save Red Hawk Mountain, even if it means losing the life he loves.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC KNICopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC KNIMcCrumb, Sharyn
Summary: Four sons--a car salesman, a soldier, a naturalist and an actor--gather in Tennessee to build a coffin for their dying father. The novel describes their conflicts as they decide on the future of their farm, which has been in the family since 1790 and which a real estate developer wants to buy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 1996
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCCKingsolver, Barbara
Summary: Southern Appalachia. He was born to a teenaged single mother in a single-wide trailer, with no assets beyond his dead father's good looks and copper-colored hair, a caustic wit, and a fierce talent for survival. Damon braves the perils of foster care, child labor, derelict schools, athletic success, addiction, disastrous loves, and crushing losses. Through all of it, he reckons with his own...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Large Print, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022
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Summary: A novel on the harsh life in the Appalachian Mountains at the turn of the century. The heroine is Julie Harmon whose work load includes hauling water, butchering a hog, rendering lard, plucking a turkey, baking and preserving--all described in detail.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 1999
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MORMills, Lauren A.
Summary: In the poverty of the Appalachian coal country in 1908, eight-year-old Minna's life gets even more difficult after her father dies of black lung, and that winter she cannot go to school because she does not have a coat--until the quilting mothers make her a coat using pieces of cloth from their own lives, each with a special story behind it.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2015
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FIC MILSummary: A struggle for power and control set in the mysterious hills of modern-day Appalachia centers on the Farrells family, who behave as though they are above the law and are prepared to use any means necessary to protect their off-the-grid way of life in rural Kentucky.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV OUTGrisham, John
Summary: "The Great Recession of 2008 left many young professionals out of work. Promising careers were suddenly ended as banks, hedge funds, and law firms engaged in mass lay-offs and brutal belt tightening. Samantha Kofer was a third year associate at Scully & Pershing, New York City's largest law firm. Two weeks after Lehman Brothers collapsed, she lost her job, her security, and her future. A week...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD Fiction Grisham 2014Harman, Patricia
Summary: Though the Great Depression is behind the them, troubles are not, for Europe is at war. It is only be 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HARCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION HARHenson, Heather.
Summary: 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.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2008
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: E HENCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J Fiction HensonCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE HENRichardson, Kim Michele
Summary: In the ruggedness of the beautiful Kentucky mountains, Honey Lovett has always known that the old ways can make a hard life harder. As the daughter of the famed blue-skinned, Troublesome Creek packhorse librarian, Honey and her family have been hiding from the law all her life. But when her mother and father are imprisoned, Honey realizes she must fight to stay free, or risk being sent away for...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Audio, Inc. 2022
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD Fiction RichardsonWhite, Andrew Joseph
Summary: A queer Appalachian thriller that pulls no punches--following a trans autistic teen who's drawn into the generational struggle between the rural poor and those who exploit them. On the night Miles Abernathy--sixteen-year-old socialist and proud West Virginian--comes out as trans to his parents, he sneaks off to a party, carrying evidence that may finally turn the tide of the blood feud plaguing...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Peachtree Teen 2024
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC WHICopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC WHIArnow, Harriette Simpson
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Publisher / Publication Date: Michigan State University Press 1997
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ARNHite, Ann
Summary: At the age of ten, Annie Todd finds not only is her mother quite mad but that Annie has inherited an unusual legacy. The ghost of a young girl visits Annie in her new home deep in the mountains of Western North Carolina, where Annie's mother, Grace Jean, has hidden them away from the life they used to know. Annie finds an unlikely ally in Pearl, a young woman who keeps house in Annie's new...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mercer University Press 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HITWilliams, Sheila.
Summary: Starting over in the Appalachian river country after leaving her abusive husband, Opal Sullivan takes refuge in a dilapidated but proud old house while befriending a parade of locals.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WILSummary: Dramatizes the historic feud between two families living along the Tug Fork River on the border between West Virginia and Kentucky in the late 1800s.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2012
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV HATCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV HATSummary: Set in a rural community heavy with a dark past and dangerous present, the film follows a rebellious young man, Travis, as he struggles to decide between the dark path he is on and the chance at a new life.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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Summary: Strong-willed, self-reliant Gertie Nevel's peaceful life in the Kentucky hills was devastated by the brutal winds of change. Uprooted form their backwoods home, she and her family were thrust into the confusion and chaos of wartime Detroit. And in a pitiless world of unendurable poverty, Gertie would battle fiercely and relentlessly to protect those things she held most precious--her children,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2009
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Summary: "In the ruggedness of the beautiful Kentucky mountains, Honey Lovett has always known that the old ways can make a hard life harder. As the daughter of the famed blue-skinned, Troublesome Creek packhorse librarian, Honey and her family have been hiding from the law all her life. But when her mother and father are imprisoned, Honey realizes she must fight to stay free, or risk being sent away...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Landmark 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RICCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC RICCopies Available at Woodmere
3 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RICCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RICCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RICCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction RichardsonSickels, Carter
Summary: "Small-town Appalachia doesn't have a lot going for it, but it's where Brian is from, where his family is, and where he's chosen to return to die. At eighteen, Brian, like so many other promising young gay men, arrived in New York City without much more than a love for the freedom and release from his past that it promised. But within six short years, AIDS would claim his lover, his friends,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hub City Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SICBingham, Winsome
Summary: "Two Appalachian families, one White and one Black, are connected by a well-loved kitchen table"--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Neal Porter Books/Holiday House 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE BINHenson, Heather.
Summary: 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.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Weston Woods Studios 2010
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JFIC HENGrisham, John
Summary: "The Great Recession of 2008 left many young professionals out of work. Promising careers were suddenly ended as banks, hedge funds, and law firms engaged in mass lay-offs and brutal belt tightening. Samantha Kofer was a third year associate at Scully & Pershing, New York City's largest law firm. Two weeks after Lehman Brothers collapsed, she lost her job, her security, and her future. A week...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2014
Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION GRICopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Grisham 2014Kingsolver, Barbara
Summary: An Appalachian boy braves the modern perils of life in a beautiful, poverty-ridden place he can't imagine leaving. Steered by a teacher and a best friend, he comes to learn how to cope with outside forces.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperAudio 2022