Summary: A struggle for power and control set in the rugged and mysterious hills of Appalachia, which tells the story of the Farrell clan, a family of outsiders who've been in these parts since before anyone can remember. Living off the grid and above the law on their mountaintop homestead, they'll protect their world and defend their way of life using any means necessary.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV OUTSummary: Dramatizes the historic feud between two families living along the Tug Fork River on the border between West Virginia and Kentucky in the late 1800s.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2012
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV HATCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV HATSummary: When musicologist Doctor Lily Penleric is passed over, again, for a prominent teaching position, she decides to leave the city to visit her sister in the rugged mountains of Appalachia. While there, Lily, discovers a well spring of emotional "love songs" (ballads) that have been passed down through generations from the original Irish and Scottish immigrants who have settled in the area....
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Lions Gate Home Entertainment 2001
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA SONMorgan, 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 MORArnow, Harriette Simpson
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Michigan State University Press 1997
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ARNMorgan, Robert
Summary: Stories on working-class people in North Carolina. In The Ratchet, a truck driver descending a mountain discovers his brakes do not work, while in The Bullnoser an unemployed worker makes a living blackmailing a farmer who is dumping toxic wastes.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Gnomon Press 1999
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MORArnow, 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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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ARNFurlong, Susan
Summary: "In the Appalachian town of Bone Gap, Tennessee, backwoods justice is more than just blind. It's swift, silent, and shockingly personal. Especially for Irish Traveller turned deputy sheriff Brynn Callahan... "Hear No Evil." The first message is found in a playground. A few feet away, a pair of human ears hang from the monkey bars. Deputy sheriff Brynn Callahan isn't sure what to make of this...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Publishing 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FURCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FURMarshall, Catherine
Summary: "In the year 1912, nineteen-year-old Christy Huddleston leaves home to teach school in the Smoky Mountains -- and comes to know and love the resilient people of the region, with their fierce pride, their dark superstitions, their terrible poverty, and their yearning for beauty and truth. But her faith will be severely challenged by trial and tragedy, by the needs and unique strengths of two...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Oasis Audio 2017
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC MARSummary: 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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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD WORSummary: A struggle for power and control set in the mysterious hills of modern-day Appalachia centers on the Farrells family, who behave as though they are above the law and are prepared to use any means necessary to protect their off-the-grid way of life in rural Kentucky.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV OUTRash, 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
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC RASMarshall, Catherine
Summary: The train taking nineteen-year-old teacher Christy Huddleston from her home in Asheville, North Carolina, might as well be transporting her to another world. The Smoky Mountain community of Cutter Gap feels suspended in time, trapped by poverty, superstitions, and century-old traditions. But as Christy struggles to find acceptance in her new home, some see her - and her one-room school - as a...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction MarshallSummary: In a remote prehistoric mountain tribe, the young hunter D'Leh finds his heart's passion in the beautiful Evolet. But when a band of mysterious warlords raid their village and kidnaps Evolet, D'Leh leads a small group of hunters to save her. As they venture into unknown lands for the first time, the group discovers there are civilizations beyond their own and that mankind's reach is far greater...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2008
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE TENMcCrumb, Sharyn
Summary: It is up to mountain wisefolk Rattler and Nora Bonesteel to calm the Civil War ghosts who are still wandering the mountains and prevent a clash between the living the dead.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2003
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC MCCMorgan, 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.
Format: text
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 2013McCrumb, Sharyn
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 1997
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCCMorgan, Robert
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: J.F. Blair 1999
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MORMorgan, Robert
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2001
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MORCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC MORMorgan, Robert
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Highbridge Co. 2001
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC MORMcCrumb, Sharyn
Summary: In the wake of a sensationalized 1934 trial involving an Appalachian Virginia teacher's alleged murder of her tyrant father, novice journalist Carl Jennings is denounced by a greedy media determined to portray the defendant as a backwards mountain girl.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCCScotton, 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...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SCOCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SCOTekulve, Susan
Summary: In 1924, the derailment of a passing train buries 16-year-old Emma Palmisano's house in coal. Caleb, the railroad man who rescues Emma, marries her a week later and gifts her with 47 acres of Virginia farmland. Successive generations of Emma and Caleb's family endure and grow despite poverty and hardship.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Hub City Press 2013