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2) The cove
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Language
English
Description
The New York Times bestselling author of Serena returns to Appalachia, this time at the height of World War I, with the story of a blazing but doomed love affair caught in the turmoil of a nation at war
Deep in the rugged Appalachians of North Carolina lies the cove, a dark, forbidding place where spirits and fetches wander, and even the light fears to travel. Or so the townsfolk of Mars Hill believe–just as they know that Laurel Shelton, the lonely...
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Language
English
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Description
There's something extraordinary about Thomas Langlois. Thomas is a young boy growing up in Chattanooga, Tennessee, with a French-Canadian father, Albert, and an American mother, Laura. But beyond the fact that he lives between two cultures and languages, there's something else about Thomas that sets him apart: he was born on February 29.Before Albert goes on a strange quest to find out more about their mysterious relative, Aimé Bolduc, he explains...
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Language
English
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This is the story of a family who found, marked, and paved their way into America's eastern frontier. Unfolding in the voices of three generations of mountaineer storytellers specializing in keeping listeners on the edges of their seats, this is fiction that plunks us down right into the thick of pioneer life. Using his own family stories as his inspiration, Robert Morgan has crafted a riveting folk history alive with adventure. Morgan's three gifted...
7) Next of kin
Author
Series
Rebel Ridge novels volume 1
Language
English
Description
Witnessing a major mob hit in L.A., Beth Venable hides out in the Appalachian Mountains of Kentucky, but her blissful reunion with Ryal Walker, the man she's always wanted, is made bittersweet by the fight she's brought to the clan's doorstep.
Author
Publisher
RhetAskew Publishing
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Children are going missing in the small Appalachian town of Harper Pass. As Brooks Raker and his friends are drawn into the police investigation, they soon realize that to survive they must unravel the dark secrets of the town.
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"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 will affect the entire town of Medgar, Kentucky. Medgar...
10) Hotel Paradise
Author
Series
Emma Graham mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Distributed by Random House
Pub. Date
1996
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Harper Audio
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
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. Filled with suspense and myth, hope and heartbreak, told in language that flows like "shimmering, liquid poetry".
12) Stay and fight
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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Description
"This hilarious, truth-telling debut upends notions of family, protest, and Appalachia, and forces us to reimagine an America we think we know"--
Helen arrives in Appalachian Ohio eager to carry out her boyfriend's ideas for living off the land, but when winter comes he calls it quits. Helped by Rudy, her government-questioning, seasonal-affective-disordered boss, and the neighbor couple Karen and Lily, Helen makes it to spring. Helen, Karen and...
Author
Publisher
West Virginia University Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Two friends travel around Pennsylvania, passing farm debris, mine ruins, and fracking waste. They show why, amidst all the desperation, there is still a community of hope, filled with survivors who offer joy, laughter, good will, and people looking out for their neighbors"--
14) Outer dark
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Language
English
Description
This stark novel is set in an unspecified place in Appalachia, sometime around the turn of the century. A woman bears her brother's child, a boy; he leaves the baby in the woods and tells her he died of natural causes. Discovering her brother's lie, she sets forth alone to find her son. Both brother and sister wander separately through a countryside being scourged by three terrifying and elusive strangers, headlong toward an eerie, apocalyptic resolution....
15) The rag coat
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
c1991
Language
English
Description
Minna proudly wears her new coat made of clothing scraps to school, where the other children laugh at her until she tells them the stories behind the scraps.
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