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Christian biography Farm life Fiction Home schooling Idaho Anecdotes North Carolina History 20th century Fiction North Carolina Rural conditions Fiction Rural conditions Rural conditions Fiction Twins Fiction United States Rural conditions Fiction Victims of domestic violence BiographyCampbell, Bonnie Jo
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CAMHardy, Thomas
Summary: Beautiful and spirited, but also impoverished and mistreated, Tess suffers through the hypocrisy of Victorian society, and falls victim to injustice. Controversial at the time of writing and censored when it was first published, the novel is now considered Hardy's masterwork.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Texas Book Company 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HARJune, Jason
Summary: Growing up in rural Washington as the only out gay kid means Jay is constantly bombarded with reminders that everyone around him can hook up and have relationships, but his list of love-related to-do's -- his own gay agenda -- is indefinitely, frustratingly, on hold. His parents suddenly move the family to Seattle right before his senior year, however, and the thriving LGBTQ+ community means he...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harperteen, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC JUNCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC JUNSummary: "For most of America's history, rural people and culture have been casually mocked, stereotyped, and, in general, deeply misunderstood. Now an array of short stories, poetry, graphic short stories, and personal essays, along with anecdotes from the authors' real lives, dives deep into the complexity and diversity of rural America and the people who call it home. Fifteen extraordinary...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC RURCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC RURKiesling, Lydia
Summary: In Lydia Kiesling's debut novel, we accompany Daphne, a young mother on the edge of a breakdown, as she flees her sensible but strained life in San Francisco for the high desert of Altavista with her toddler, Honey. Bucking under the weight of being a single parent--her Turkish husband is unable to return to the United States because of a "processing error"--Daphne takes refuge in a mobile home...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KIEWall, Carolyn D.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delta Trade Paperbacks 2009
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC WALJackson, Lisa
Summary: The ranch country of Montana is beautiful, unforgiving, and for Colton and Denver McLean, filled with a whole lot of bad memories. It's been seven years since a fire claimed their parents' lives and drove both brothers away. Now their uncle's death has brought them back to a place where loyalty and love runs deep, but so do grudges.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC JACProulx, Annie.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Pub. 2001
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC PROKingsolver, 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.
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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 KINFrazier, Charles
Summary: Charles Frazier, the author of National Book Award winning Cold Mountain, presents a new novel. In Nightwoods, Frazier envisions a late 1950s North Carolina through the eyes of Luce, a single woman who must care for the quiet twins of her murdered sister, Lily.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2011
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC FRACopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC FRAFrazier, Charles
Summary: Named the guardian of her murdered sister's troubled twins, Luce struggles to build a family with the children before being targeted by the twins' father--her sister's killer--who believes that the children are in possession of a stolen cache of money.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FRAPollock, Donald Ray
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC POLProulx, Annie.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner Classics 1996
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PROJones, Cynan
Summary: "Jones's sense of place is acute, and his passion for the landscape-for its colors, its creatures, its textures, its scents-is absolutely magnetic."-Sarah Waters "A dark, tense, and vital short novel. Profound, powerful, and utterly absorbing."-The Guardian" It is a book about the essentials: life and death, cruelty and compassion. It is a book that will get in your bones, and haunt you."-Daily...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Coffee House Press 2015
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Summary: When seventeen-year-old Avery moves to rural Georgia to live with her ailing grandmother, she encounters decade-old family secrets and a mystery surrounding the town's racist past.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Roaring Brook Press 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC HAMCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC HAMGrostephan, Alan.
Summary: In this taut, moving novel set in present-day Columbia, Wilfredo decides to relocate his family from their small town to a slum in Bogota with relatives. Plunged into a world of almost total ruin, fear, and violence, the family fights to stay alive and stay together.
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Publisher / Publication Date: TriQuarterly Books/Northwestern University Press 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GROWestover, Tara
Summary: Cómo una educación puede salvar una vida. "Podéis llamarlo transformación. Metamorfosis. Falsedad. Traición. Yo lo llamo una educación." Nacida en las montañas de Idaho, Tara Westover ha crecido en armonía con una naturaleza grandiosa y doblegada a las leyes que establece su padre, un mormón fundamentalista convencido de que el final del mundo es inminente. Ni Tara ni sus hermanos van a la...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lumen 2018