McCrumb, Sharyn
Summary: Four sons--a car salesman, a soldier, a naturalist and an actor--gather in Tennessee to build a coffin for their dying father. The novel describes their conflicts as they decide on the future of their farm, which has been in the family since 1790 and which a real estate developer wants to buy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 1996
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCCMorgan, 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.
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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 ARNMcCrumb, 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2003
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC MCCStine, Alison
Summary: "Wylodine comes from a world of paranoia and poverty; her family grows marijuana illegally, and life has always been a battle. Now she's been left behind to tend the crop alone. Then spring doesn't return for the second year in a row, bringing unprecedented, extreme winter. With grow lights stashed in her truck and a pouch of precious seeds, she begins a journey, determined to start over away...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mira 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STIMorgan, 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2013
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Morgan 2013Laskas, Gretchen Moran.
Summary: Serving as midwives to the residents of a small mining town in prewar Appalachia, Elizabeth and her mother share in the intimate details of the lives of every family in the region, but none of their neighbors know their own secrets and desires.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Press 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LASPancake, Ann
Summary: Ann Pancake's 2007 novel Strange As This Weather Has Been exposed the devastating fallout of mountaintop removal mining on a single West Virginia family. In Me and My Daddy Listen to Bob Marley, a follow-up collection of eleven astonishing novellas and short stories, Pancake again features characters who are intensely connected to their land--sometimes through love, sometimes through hate--and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Counterpoint 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PANBaldacci, David.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Books 2000
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC BALNiven, Jennifer.
Summary: Velva Jean Hart sets out to pursue her dream of singing at the Grand Ole Opry, but when her brother pays her a surprise visit and treats her to a flying lesson, Velva finds a new dream--to become a female pilot.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Plume 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NIVMcCrumb, Sharyn
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 1997
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCCNovey, Idra
Summary: "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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC NOVCopies Available at Woodmere
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NOVKingsolver, Barbara.
Summary: This work weaves together three stories of human love within a larger tapestry of lives inhabiting the mountains and small farms of southern Appalachia. It portrays various people who find their connections to one another and to the flora and fauna with whom they share a place.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Audio 2000
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC KINKingsolver, Barbara.
Summary: 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Publishers 2000
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC KINCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KINCopies Available at Fife Lake
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction KinMorgan, 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gnomon Press 1999
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MORAdams, Sheila Kay.
Summary: Larkin Stanton, orphaned at birth in 1845, is raised by his cousin, Arty Norton. Larkin and Arty's younger brother Hackley grow up surrounded by music and are as close as brothers. Larkin sings before he can talk, and Hackley's fiddle makes all feet want to dance. As they become men, both lose their hearts to pretty, redheaded Mary. But through this complex love and the wrenching destruction of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ADARash, Ron
Summary: Enduring the mistakes and tragedies that have shaped their lives in contemporary Appalachia, a sheriff on the brink of retirement and a haunted park ranger confront violent forces when an elderly local is accused of poisoning a trout stream.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: M RASSummary: "Ministers, church members, revivals, baptisms, shaped-note and gospel singing, faith healing, camp meetings, footwashing, snake handling, and other traditions of mountain religious heritage."
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Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Press/Doubleday 1982
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 745.5 FOXHudgins, Phil
Summary: Since 1972, the Foxfire books have preserved and celebrated the culture of Southern Appalachia for hundreds of thousands of readers. In Travels with Foxfire, native son Phil Hudgins and Foxfire student Jessica Phillips travel from Georgia to the Carolinas, Tennessee to Kentucky, collecting the stories of the men and women who call the region home. Across more than thirty essays, we discover...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 975 HUDWilkinson, 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Clarkson Potter/Publishers 2024
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5975 WILKingsolver, Barbara.
Summary: When Kingsolver and her family move from suburban Arizona to rural Appalachia, they take on a new challenge: to spend a year on a locally produced diet, paying close attention to the provenance of all they consume. "Our highest shopping goal was to get our food from so close to home, we'd know the person who grew it. Often that turned out to be ourselves as we learned to produce what we needed,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Audio 2007