Contents: CD 1. Ladies on the steamboat (Burnett & Rutherford) -- The dying soldier (Buell Kazee) -- Little rabbit ; Rabbit where's your mammy (Crockett Family Mountaineers) -- I truly understand you love another man (Shortbuckle Roarke & Family) -- Eighth of January (Ted Gossett's Band) -- All night long blues (Burnett & Rutherford) -- Shipping port (Jimmy Johnson's String Band) -- The Rowan County crew...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Yazoo 2003
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD COUNTRY KEN1 available in Sight & Sound Print Material, Call number: SSC CD COUNTRY KEN
Wilkinson, 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 WILHenson, Heather.
Summary: Told from their different points of view, twelve-year-old Shiloh, a troubled foster child, Dream of Night, an abused former racehorse, and Jess, a woman who cares for both, find healing by helping one another through their pain.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2010
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC HENRichardson, Kim Michele
Summary: "The hardscrabble folks of Troublesome Creek have to scrap for everything except books, that is. Thanks to Roosevelt's Kentucky Pack Horse Library Project, Troublesome's got its very own traveling librarian, Cussy Mary Carter. Cussy's not only a book woman, however, she's also the last of her kind, her skin a shade of blue unlike most anyone else. Not everyone is keen on Cussy's family or the...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2019
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC RICContents: disc 1. Old-age pension blues -- Hook & line -- John Henry -- Pretty Polly -- Old Reuben (Bill Cornett) -- Spring of '65 -- Sally in the garden -- Barbara Allen (J.D. Cornett) -- When we shall meet -- Amazing grace (Old Baptist Church) -- Across the rocky mountain -- Graveyard blues -- Cripple Creek -- True love (Roscoe Holcomb) -- Sally in the garden -- Lost Indian -- Hollow poplar (Marion...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Smithsonian/Folkways 1996
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD FOLK MOUKnight, 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 Fiction, Call number: J FIC KNICopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC KNISummary: A traveling circus accidentally leaves behind a baby zebra. The baby is then rescued by horse farmer Nolan Walsh, who takes him home to his young daughter Channing. "Stripes" is soon introduced to the farm's misfit troupe of barnyard residents. The Walsh farm borders the Turfway Racetrack, where highly skilled thoroughbreds compete for the ultra-prestigious Kentucky Crown. From the first moment...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2005
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY RACCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD Family Racing 2005Ormsbee, Kathryn
Summary: "Eleven-year-old homeschooled Katie experiences the ups and downs of growing up and 6th grade--from bad haircuts and friendship breakups to new experiences, new friends, and a new understanding of her OCD"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Children's Books 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J GRAPHIC ORMGabhart, Ann H.
Summary: "Widow Rose Meadows eagerly accepts her brother-in-law's offer for her and her two daughters to live on his farm after her treatments in a sanatorium finds them needing a home. But is this scarred and reclusive man ready for all the changes these women will bring to his life?"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Revell, a division of Baker Publishing Group 2022
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3 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GABCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GABLudwick, Cameron M.
Summary: A drive straight across the Bluegrass State takes nearly eight hours. But that would bypass all the worthwhile distractions between Paw Paw in Pike County and the Kentucky Bend of the Mississippi River in Fulton County. Treasures like Abraham Lincoln's boyhood home that rests inside a Greek-style temple. Or the Jefferson Davis monument rising from a field in Fairview. From rip-roaring barn...
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Publisher / Publication Date: History Press 2015
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 910 TRAVEL USARichardson, 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.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Publishing 2019
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC RICMcGrath, Amy
Summary: "A memoir of the author's journey to becoming a fighter pilot; her twenty years in the military; and the events that led to her decision to run for U.S. Senate"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MCGRATH, AMY MCGSummary: "What's inside: Travel tips about distilleries , bourbon bars, horse farms and waterfall hikes. Interviews with chefs,distillers, poets and musicians. Stories about rivers, drag shows, and family legacies. Special Section: an expert's guide to Kentucky Bourbon Country, Bourbon history and production, tasting and collecting advice, bottles of note and distillers to visit."--Inside front cover flap.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wildsam Field Guides 2021
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Contents: Nine miles out of Louisville (2:09) -- Pine Creek (2:09) -- Cauliflower (2:06) -- New money (2:35) -- Growling old man, fussing old woman (1:33) -- Boatin' up Sandy (2:11) -- Bostony (2:25) -- Warfield (2:39) -- Paddy (2:01) -- Susan's gone (2:36) -- Morris Allen's Brickyard Joe (2:22) -- Weddington's reel (1:43) -- Greek melody (2:08) -- Salt lick (1:45) -- Something sweet to tell (1:22) --...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Rounder 1996
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD COUNTRY COOMurray, Julie
Summary: Presents basic information about Kentucky, including important cities, fun facts, and places of interest.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Big Buddy Books, an imprint of Abdo Publishing 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 976.9 MURFriend, Cliff
Format: notated music
Publisher / Publication Date: Waterson, Berlin & Snyder 1919
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1 available in Sheet Music, Call number: SHMMcComsey, Jeff
Summary: "For two generations, the rural hill town of Grendel, Kentucky has honored its Faustian bargain with the monster living in its abandoned coal mine: a human sacrifice every season in return for agrarian prosperity the likes of which this rocky region had never before seen (including its greatest cash crop: the dankest weed in the land). When one town elder breaks this pact, Grendel's only hope...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Artists Writers & Artisans, Inc. 2021
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 MCCWard, J. R.
Summary: With his brother on trial for patricide, Lane Baldwine is now the head of the family, and the Bradford Bourbon Company. But his lover, Sutton Smythe, is the CEO of their biggest rival. It is said that love survives all things. But murder?
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC WARZeiger, Jennifer
Summary: From the gentle hills of the Bluegrass Region to the peaks of the Appalachian Mountains, Kentucky is a land of great beauty. Readers will explore this Southern state and find out what it is like to live there, from what people like to eat to what kinds of jobs are common. They will also learn about Kentucky’s history, find out how the state is governed, and see what role it plays in the U.S....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Children's Press, an imprint of Scholastic Inc. 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 976.9 ZEIEllis, Mary
Summary: "Travel writer Jill Curtis loves her job, but she desperately needs a break if she's to achieve her dream of becoming an investigative reporter. Sent to Kentucky by her boss to find out why thousands of tourists flock to Bourbon Country every year, Jill's dream seems to be slipping further away. After all, nothing interesting ever happens in rural America . . . does it? Staying at an estranged...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ELLWatts, Julia
Summary: "In rural Kentucky, a sixteen-year-old boy with a love of quilting, cooking and Dolly Parton helps his grandma care for his opioid-addicted mother, until the discovery of a family secret upends everything he has ever believed. While other sixteen-year-old boys in Morgan, Kentucky, love hunting and football, Kody prefers to spend his time quilting with his grandmother ("Nanny"), watching Golden...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Three Rooms Press 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC WATBerenson, Laurien
Summary: When her Aunt Peg lands a gig as judge at a Kentucky dog show, Melanie Travis welcomes the opportunity for a road trip. Too bad a killer has planned a deadly detour. Within three days of her arrival, Ellie Gates has been found dead. Though the police and the family believe the death to be an accident, Aunt Peg is sure they are wrong. Melanie discovers that Miss Ellie was a woman of many...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Books 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BERBlooms, Ashley
Summary: "Maren Walker dreams of finding her own little door. The doors have appeared to the people in her mountain town for as long as anyone can remember, though no one knows where they lead. Maren's mother was the last to go through, leaving nine-year-old Maren behind. Now living with her grandmother, Maren deals prescription medication to pay their bills and nurture her dream of becoming a nurse....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Landmark 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BLOOffutt, Chris
Summary: "Mick Hardin, a combat veteran now working as an Army CID agent, returns home on a leave that is almost done. His wife is about to give birth, but they aren't getting along. His sister, newly risen to sheriff, has just landed her first murder case, and local politicians are pushing for city police or the FBI to take the case. Are they convinced she can't handle it, or is there something else at...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2021