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Harman, 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...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2018

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HAR

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION HAR

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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Harman 2018

Grisham, 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: Random House Large Print 2014

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC GRI

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FICTION GRI

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP Fiction Grisham 2014

Williams, 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

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WIL

Sickels, 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,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Hub City Press 2020

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SIC

Arnow, Harriette Louisa Simpson

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,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2009

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Knight, 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 KNI

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC KNI

Grisham, John

1 hold on 4 copies

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 GRI

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Grisham 2014

White, 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...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Peachtree Teen 2024

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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC WHI

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC WHI

Grisham, 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

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD Fiction Grisham 2014

Kingsolver, Barbara

4 holds on 4 copies

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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Kingsolver, 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

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3 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC KIN

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC KIN

McCrumb, 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.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 1996

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCC

Bingham, Winsome

Summary: "Two Appalachian families, one White and one Black, are connected by a well-loved kitchen table"--Provided by publisher.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Neal Porter Books/Holiday House 2024

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE BIN

Richardson, Kim Michele

Summary: A last-of-her-kind outcast and member of the Pack Horse Library Project braves the hardships of Kentucky's Great Depression and hostile community discrimination to bring the near-magical perspectives of books to her neighbors.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Publishing 2019

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC RIC

Roberts, Nora

1 hold on 1 copy

Summary: As they do each June, the Foxes have driven the winding roads of Appalachia to drop off their children for a two-week stay at their grandmother's. Here, twelve-year-old Thea can run free and breathe in the smells of pine and fresh bread and Grammie's handmade candles. But as her parents head back to suburban Virginia, they have no idea they're about to cross paths with a ticking time bomb. Back...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2024

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Ffitch, Madeline

Summary: "This hilarious, truth-telling debut upends notions of family, protest, and Appalachia, and forces us to reimagine an America we think we know"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2019

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FFI

Hite, 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...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Mercer University Press 2015

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HIT

Morgan, Robert

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.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 1999

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MOR

Hunter, Denise

Summary: "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...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP Fiction Hunter

Morgan, Robert

1 hold on 1 copy

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: J.F. Blair 1999

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MOR

Rash, Ron

Summary: Showcases the acclaimed author's artistry and craftsmanship in thirty-two stories culled from previously published collections. Each work of short fiction demonstrates Rash's dazzling ability to evoke the heart and soul of this land and its people -- men and women inexorably tethered to the geography that defines and shapes them.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC RAS

Hunter, Denise

Summary: Contractor Wes Mathews is hiking the Appalachian Trail in honor of his recently deceased best friend when he falls terribly ill when he's nearly finished. He stumbles into Riverbend Gap, the nearest town, and finds himself indebted to the doctor who owns the clinic. In lieu of payment, he proposes a trade that will keep him in town-- and away from obligations to his best friend's sister-- for...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Nelson 2022

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HUN

Kingsolver, Barbara

Summary: "From the New York Times bestselling author of Unsheltered and Flight Behavior, a brilliant novel which enthralls, compels, and captures the heart as it evokes a young hero's unforgettable journey to maturity. "Anyone will tell you the born of this world are marked from the get-out, win or lose." Demon Copperhead is set in the mountains of southern Appalachia. It's the story of a boy born to a...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

Copies Available at Woodmere

2 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC KIN

Mills, 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

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FIC MIL

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