Marshall, Catherine
Summary: Christy Huddleston's dream is to teach poor mountain children. Join Christy as she crosses from the familiar world of parties and pretty things to the different world of Cutter Gap, located in the heart of the Smoky Mountains. There she meets the doctor who needs her help to save a life and the handsome minister who helps her face the challenges of teaching and loving the mountain people.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Evergreen Farm 1995
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: Y FICTION MARGreenland, Shannon
Summary: Stranger Things meets The Goonies in this suspenseful yet heartwarming adventure story about a group of friends who set out to find a crashed meteor, but find mystery and danger instead as their close relationships begin to fracture. Annie, Beans, Rocky, and Fynn are the Scouts, best friends who do everything together. It's 1985, and the summer before seventh grade is just beginning. The Scouts...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Audio 2019
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Summary: An abridged version of Johanna Spyri's classic story of a Swiss orphan who is heartbroken when she must leave her beloved grandfather and their happy home in the mountains to go to school and to care for an invalid girl in the city.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sterling Pub. 2007
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC SPYMarshall, 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oasis Audio 2017
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC MARJohnstone, William W.
Summary: The town of Bury took up a piece of Idaho Territory that was still raw, untamed frontier. It was no place for the cowardly or faint-hearted, but Smoke Jensen was neither. Nor were Stratton, Potter and Richards, the three bloodthirsty outlaws who came there to live. Or, if Smoke had his way...to die!
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Books 2009
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Publisher / Publication Date: Aeonian Press 1980
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FISMarshall, Catherine
Summary: The train taking nineteen-year-old teacher Christy Huddleston from her home in Asheville, North Carolina, might as well be transporting her to another world. The Smoky Mountain community of Cutter Gap feels suspended in time, trapped by poverty, superstitions, and century-old traditions. But as Christy struggles to find acceptance in her new home, some see her - and her one-room school - as a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction MarshallBlaylock, Bonnie
Summary: "The folks in the Kentucky Appalachians are scraping by. Coal mining and hardscrabble know-how are a way of life for these isolated people. But when Amanda Rye, a young widowed mother and traveling packhorse librarian, comes through a mountain community hit hard by the nation's economic collapse, she brings with her hope, courage, and apple pie. Along the way, Amanda takes a shine to the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lake Union Publishing 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BLABrown, Taylor
Summary: Bootlegger Rory Docherty has returned home to the fabled mountain of his childhood - a misty wilderness that holds its secrets close and keeps the outside world at gunpoint. Slowed by a wooden leg and haunted by memories of the Korean War, Rory runs bootleg whiskey for a powerful mountain clan in a retro-fitted '40 Ford coupe. Between deliveries to roadhouses, brothels, and private clients, he...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BROMorgan, 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 2013Trigiani, Adriana.
Summary: Town pharmacist and local spinster Ave Maria has been keeping the secrets of Stone Gap for a long time, but now a skeleton is about to tumble from her own family closet.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TRIJohnstone, William W.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pinnacle Books/Kensington Pub. Corp. 2004
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC JOHHalpern, Sue.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HALArnow, 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 ARNDodd, Christina.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2004
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC DODBrown, Sandra
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2005
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Summary: Folksinger Lark McCourry is haunted by the memory of a song that has been passed through the generations of her family since 1759, and her only hope of remembering the song, and preserving her family legacy, lies with a mountain wisewoman who talks to both the living and the dead.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2001
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Summary: When a serial killer who leaves a blue ribbon at the site of his victims' last sightings appears in the peaceful town of Cleary, North Carolina, police chief Dutch Burton finds the case complicated by his ex-wife's disappearance during a blizzard.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2005
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC BROMaron, Margaret.
Summary: Taking an out-of-town assignment to put distance between herself and her hyper-reactive family, recently engaged judge Deborah Knott finds her peaceful break disrupted by a local murder that she becomes determined to solve.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mysterious Press 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MARMcCrumb, 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 MCCWoodrell, Daniel.
Summary: Reaching her sixteenth year in the harsh Ozarks while caring for her poverty-stricken family, Ree Dolly learns that they will lose their house unless her bail-skipping father can be found and made to appear at an upcoming court date.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Back Bay Books 2007
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WOOCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WooMcCrumb, Sharyn
Summary: "John Sevier had not taken much interest in the American Revolution, he was too busy fighting Indians in the Carolinas and taming the wilderness. But when an arrogant British officer threatened his settlement--promising to burn the farms and kill families--the war became personal. That arrogant officer is Patrick Ferguson of the British Army--who is both charmingly antagonistic and surprisingly...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books, LLC 2013
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC MCCCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD Fiction McCrumb 2013McCrumb, Sharyn
Summary: When someone buys the old Honeycutt house, Nora Bonesteel is glad to see some life brought back to the old mansion, even if it is by summer people. But when the new owners decide to stay in their summer home through Christmas, they find more than old memories in the walls.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abingdon Press 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCCHamner, Earl.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Pub. 2007