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Appalachian Region Appalachian Region Economic conditions Decoration and ornament, Rustic New York (State) Adirondack Mountains Region Log cabins New York (State) Adirondack Mountains Region Mountain life Appalachian Region, Southern Fiction Mountain life Fiction Mountain people United States Vance, J. D Vernacular architecture New York (State) Adirondack Mountains RegionSummary: 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 OUTStoll, Steven
Summary: Steven Stoll offers a fresh, provocative account of Appalachia, from the earliest European settlers, through crucial episodes such as the Whiskey Rebellion and the founding of West Virginia, and the arrival of timber and coal companies that set off a devastating "scramble for Appalachia."--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Hill and Wang, a division of Farrar, Straus, and Giroux 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 333 STOSummary: 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 SONSummary: "Ministers, church members, revivals, baptisms, shaped-note and gospel singing, faith healing, camp meetings, footwashing, snake handling, and other traditions of mountain religious heritage."
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Press/Doubleday 1982
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 745.5 FOXSummary: Filmed in Georgia, Kentucky, Ohio, Tennessee, Virginia, and West Virginia, the movie uncovers an unexpected set of artists, poets, activists, queer musicians, 'Affrilachian' poets, and intersectional feminists, all unexpected voices emerging form this historically misunderstood region.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Passion River 2019
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF HILWilkinson, Crystal
Summary: "A lyrical culinary journey that explores the hidden stories of Black Appalachians through powerful essays and forty comforting recipes from the Poet Laureate of Kentucky. Years ago, when O. Henry Prize-winning writer Crystal Wilkinson was baking a jam cake, she felt her late grandmother's presence. She soon realized that she was not the only cook in her kitchen. There were an abundance of...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Clarkson Potter/Publishers 2024
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5975 WILDeRosier, Linda Scott
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: University Press of Kentucky 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 976.914 DERKephart, Horace
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Tennessee Press 1976
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 975 KEPSummary: Appalachian Reckoning is a retort, at turns rigorous, critical, angry, and hopeful, to the long shadow Hillbilly Elegy has cast over the region and its imagining. But it also moves beyond Hillbilly Elegy to allow Appalachians from varied backgrounds to tell their own diverse and complex stories through an imaginative blend of scholarship, prose, poetry, and photography. The essays and creative...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: West Virginia University Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 974 HARVance, J. D.
Summary: Vance, a former marine and Yale Law School graduate, provides an account of growing up in a poor Rust Belt town that offers a broader, probing look at the struggles of America's white working class. The decline of this group, a demographic of our country that has been slowly disintegrating over forty years, has been reported on with growing frequency and alarm. J. D. Vance tells the true story...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning 2017
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4 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 921 VANCE, J.D. VANVance, J. D.
Summary: From a former marine and Yale Law School graduate, a powerful account of growing up in a poor Rust Belt town that offers a broader, probing look at the struggles of America's white working class. Hillbilly Elegy is a passionate and personal analysis of a culture in crisis--that of white working-class Americans. The decline of this group, a demographic of our country that has been slowly...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD 921 VANCE, J.D. VanSummary: Shelby Lee Adams has been photographing the eastern Kentucky Appalachian mountain people for thirty years, and been both praised and derided for his portraits of impoverished Appalachian families. Accused of perpetuating stereotypes, Adams is said to exploit his subjects; this documentary explores the controversy. The director allows Adams, his critics and the subjects of his work to speak...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Docurama 2003
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC TRUSummary: On the western frontier of 1750's North America, a minister and his followers are driven from their pioneer settlement because of his serial adultery and other deviations from orthodoxy. Their choice of a new town site in the wilderness is even more disastrous, thanks to Native American spirits who may be lurking there.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Horror DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY HORROR EYEMorgan, 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
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Publisher / Publication Date: Michigan State University Press 1997
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ARNSummary: The inspiring story of how a small town in West Virginia, steeped in the rich tradition of college football, struggled to cope with a devastating loss and restore their community after one of the worst disasters in the history of American sports. On the evening of Saturday, November 14, 1970, a chartered jet carrying Marshall University's football team, coaches and fans, was on its way home...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2007
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA WECopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD Family We 2007Summary: Fantastic voyage: A team of miniaturized scientists go on a remarkable journey through the human body. The lost world: Prehistoric beasts are discovered in the modern-day world. The towering inferno: Faulty wiring sparks a deadly fire in a high-rise building. Voyage to the bottom of the sea: Adventures aboard the submarine Seaview.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2010
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD FANMorgan, 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 ARNRobertson, Joanne
Summary: "A translation of The Water Walker into Anishinaabemowin. The book contains both Anishinaabemowin and English. The Water Walker is the story of a determined Ojibwe Grandmother who walked around all of the Great Lakes to protect our water."--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Second Story Press 2019
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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