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Algeo, Matthew

Summary: "In early 1968, Senator Robert F. Kennedy ventured deep into the heart of Eastern Kentucky to gauge the progress of President Lyndon Johnson's War on Poverty. Author Matthew Algeo meticulously retraces RFK's tour of the region, visiting the places he visited and meeting with the people he met, and explains how and why the region has changed since 1968, and why it matters for the rest of the...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Chicago Review Press 2020

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.922 ALG

Richardson, Kim Michele

Summary: When her parents are imprisoned, Honey picks up her mother's packhorse library route to deliver books in remote Appalachia. But the route can be treacherous, and some folks aren't keen to let a woman pave her own way.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC RIC

Vance, 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. VAN

Richardson, Kim Michele

Summary: As the daughter of the famed blue-skinned, Troublesome Creek packhorse librarian, Honey and her family have been hiding from the law all her life. But when her mother and father are imprisoned, Honey realizes she must fight to stay free, or risk being sent away for good. Picking up her mother's old packhorse library route, Honey begins to deliver books to the remote hollers of Appalachia. But...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

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Chambers, Cassie

Summary: "Nestled in the Appalachian mountains, Owsley County is the poorest county in Kentucky and the second poorest in the country. Buildings are crumbling and fields sit vacant, as tobacco farming and coal mining decline. But strong women are finding creative ways to subsist in their hollers in the hills. Cassie Chambers grew up amidst these hollers, and through the women who raised her, she traces...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2020

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CHAMBERS, CASSIE CHA

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