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Baldacci, David. Kingsolver, Barbara Morgan, Robert Niven, Jennifer. Scotton, Chris.Kingsolver, 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Large Print, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: 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: 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
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3 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC KINCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC KINMorgan, Robert
Summary: Seen through the eyes of the youngest daughter, Annie, the Richards family faces triumph and hardships during the Great Depression and World War II.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MORCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Morgan 2013Baldacci, David.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Books 2000
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC BALNiven, Jennifer.
Summary: Velva Jean Hart sets out to pursue her dream of singing at the Grand Ole Opry, but when her brother pays her a surprise visit and treats her to a flying lesson, Velva finds a new dream--to become a female pilot.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Plume 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NIVScotton, Chris.
Summary: "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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2015