Harman, Patricia
Summary: Though the Great Depression is behind the them, troubles are not, for Europe is at war. It is only be a matter of time before the U.S. enters the fray. In the town of Hope River, midwife Patience Hester's husband, Daniel has vowed never to take up arms again; he saw too much bloodshed during the First World War. When he is imprisoned for his beliefs, Patience and their four children are left...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Harman 2018Grisham, John
Summary: "The Great Recession of 2008 left many young professionals out of work. Promising careers were suddenly ended as banks, hedge funds, and law firms engaged in mass lay-offs and brutal belt tightening. Samantha Kofer was a third year associate at Scully & Pershing, New York City's largest law firm. Two weeks after Lehman Brothers collapsed, she lost her job, her security, and her future. A week...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2014
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP Fiction Grisham 2014Williams, Sheila.
Summary: Starting over in the Appalachian river country after leaving her abusive husband, Opal Sullivan takes refuge in a dilapidated but proud old house while befriending a parade of locals.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WILSickels, Carter
Summary: "Small-town Appalachia doesn't have a lot going for it, but it's where Brian is from, where his family is, and where he's chosen to return to die. At eighteen, Brian, like so many other promising young gay men, arrived in New York City without much more than a love for the freedom and release from his past that it promised. But within six short years, AIDS would claim his lover, his friends,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hub City Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SICArnow, 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,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ARNKnight, Mary, (E. Mary)
Summary: Curley Hines has lost his father, mother, and brother to coal mining, and now he lives with his grandfather in the Appalachian mountains of Wonder Gap, Kentucky--but when the mining company prepares to destroy their mountain he must use the words his grandfather has taught him to save Red Hawk Mountain, even if it means losing the life he loves.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2016
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC KNIGrisham, John
Summary: "The Great Recession of 2008 left many young professionals out of work. Promising careers were suddenly ended as banks, hedge funds, and law firms engaged in mass lay-offs and brutal belt tightening. Samantha Kofer was a third year associate at Scully & Pershing, New York City's largest law firm. Two weeks after Lehman Brothers collapsed, she lost her job, her security, and her future. A week...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Grisham 2014Grisham, John
Summary: "The Great Recession of 2008 left many young professionals out of work. Promising careers were suddenly ended as banks, hedge funds, and law firms engaged in mass lay-offs and brutal belt tightening. Samantha Kofer was a third year associate at Scully & Pershing, New York City's largest law firm. Two weeks after Lehman Brothers collapsed, she lost her job, her security, and her future. A week...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD Fiction Grisham 2014Kingsolver, Barbara
Summary: Southern Appalachia. He was born to a teenaged single mother in a single-wide trailer, with no assets beyond his dead father's good looks and copper-colored hair, a caustic wit, and a fierce talent for survival. Damon braves the perils of foster care, child labor, derelict schools, athletic success, addiction, disastrous loves, and crushing losses. Through all of it, he reckons with his own...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Large Print, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC KINRussell, Kristin
Summary: In Strickland County, a forgotten stretch of land in southern Appalachia, there isn't a lot of anything to go around. But when eighteen-year-old Harlowe Compton's brother is killed by the Praters, the family who controls everything from the mines to the law to the opioid trade, he wonders if the future will ever hold more than loss. With Tennessee, Harlowe feels for the first time that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Katherine Tegen Books 2019
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC RUSKingsolver, Barbara
Summary: An Appalachian boy braves the modern perils of life in a beautiful, poverty-ridden place he can't imagine leaving. Steered by a teacher and a best friend, he comes to learn how to cope with outside forces.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperAudio 2022
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC KINMcCrumb, 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 MCCRichardson, Kim Michele
Summary: A last-of-her-kind outcast and member of the Pack Horse Library Project braves the hardships of Kentucky's Great Depression and hostile community discrimination to bring the near-magical perspectives of books to her neighbors.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Publishing 2019
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC RICFfitch, Madeline
Summary: "This hilarious, truth-telling debut upends notions of family, protest, and Appalachia, and forces us to reimagine an America we think we know"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FFIHite, Ann
Summary: At the age of ten, Annie Todd finds not only is her mother quite mad but that Annie has inherited an unusual legacy. The ghost of a young girl visits Annie in her new home deep in the mountains of Western North Carolina, where Annie's mother, Grace Jean, has hidden them away from the life they used to know. Annie finds an unlikely ally in Pearl, a young woman who keeps house in Annie's new...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mercer University Press 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HITMorgan, 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 MORHunter, Denise
Summary: "Forever walking the line between passion and conflict, Laurel and Gavin's relationship ended in divorce after years of miscommunication and unmet expectations. Now pursuing their own separate lives and careers, the two are content . . . though not completely happy. When their best friends, Mike and Mallory, are killed in a plane crash, Laurel and Gavin are stunned to learn they ve been named...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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Publisher / Publication Date: J.F. Blair 1999
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MORRash, 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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Summary: Contractor Wes Mathews is hiking the Appalachian Trail in honor of his recently deceased best friend when he falls terribly ill when he's nearly finished. He stumbles into Riverbend Gap, the nearest town, and finds himself indebted to the doctor who owns the clinic. In lieu of payment, he proposes a trade that will keep him in town-- and away from obligations to his best friend's sister-- for...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Nelson 2022
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Summary: "From the New York Times bestselling author of Unsheltered and Flight Behavior, a brilliant novel which enthralls, compels, and captures the heart as it evokes a young hero's unforgettable journey to maturity. "Anyone will tell you the born of this world are marked from the get-out, win or lose." Demon Copperhead is set in the mountains of southern Appalachia. It's the story of a boy born to a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC KINMills, Lauren A.
Summary: In the poverty of the Appalachian coal country in 1908, eight-year-old Minna's life gets even more difficult after her father dies of black lung, and that winter she cannot go to school because she does not have a coat--until the quilting mothers make her a coat using pieces of cloth from their own lives, each with a special story behind it.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2015
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Summary: "Based on true events, a young woman used to the finer things in life arrives in small town Appalachia in 1911 to help her formidable cousin combat adult illiteracy by opening moonlight schools"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2021
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC FISAtwell, Mary Stewart.
Summary: Kate Riordan fears two things as she grows up in the small Appalachian town of Swan River: That she'll be a frustrated townie forever, or that she'll turn into one of the monstrous Wild Girls that menace the community, throwing flame from their hands. Struggling to better her chances of escaping, Kate attends the posh Swan River Academy and finds herself divided between two worlds.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio 2012