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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
In 1940, tragedy forces Lou, her little brother Oz, and their invalid mother to move to the mountains of southwestern Virginia to live with their great-grandmother, but a courtroom battle could determine the fates of the entire family.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2000
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 23
Language
English
Description
Wildlife biologist Deanna is caught off guard by an intrusive young hunter, while bookish city wife Lusa finds herself facing a difficult identity choice, and elderly neighbors find attraction at the height of a long-standing feud.
Author
Publisher
Revell, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
362 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"Kentucky packhorse librarian Tansy Calhoun doesn't mind the rough trails and long hours as she serves her mountain community during the Great Depression. Even the rough people-like ornery Perdita Sweet-have their charms. But can love bloom in such rocky soil?"--
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
242 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"From award-winning novelist Idra Novey comes a "deft and surprising novel" with two unforgettable female voices. (Rumaan Alam) Set in the Allegheny Mountains of Pennsylvania, Take What You Need follows the estrangement and reconciliation of stepmother and daughter, Jean and Leah. Leah always felt her path diverged from Jean's and left her hometown without looking back, making a life for herself in the city as a young mother and academic. Now that...
Author
Publisher
Mira
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
314 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
An impoverished girl from a marijuana farming family is forced by another summerless year to embark on a treacherous journey through the backroads of Appalachia to find missing relatives and a new way to survive.
Author
Series
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
225 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
When his cousin is killed while attending a family moonshine still, Jesse Sutherlin's investigation into the crime is hampered by his family, a girl who insists he get away before he gets killed, and the local sheriff, who arrests him for the murder.