Summary: A struggle for power and control set in the rugged and mysterious hills of Appalachia, which tells the story of the Farrell clan, a family of outsiders who've been in these parts since before anyone can remember. Living off the grid and above the law on their mountaintop homestead, they'll protect their world and defend their way of life using any means necessary.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV OUTStoll, Steven
Summary: Steven Stoll offers a fresh, provocative account of Appalachia, from the earliest European settlers, through crucial episodes such as the Whiskey Rebellion and the founding of West Virginia, and the arrival of timber and coal companies that set off a devastating "scramble for Appalachia."--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Hill and Wang, a division of Farrar, Straus, and Giroux 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 333 STOSummary: A struggle for power and control set in the mysterious hills of modern-day Appalachia centers on the Farrells family, who behave as though they are above the law and are prepared to use any means necessary to protect their off-the-grid way of life in rural Kentucky.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV OUTSummary: Set in a rural community heavy with a dark past and dangerous present, the film follows a rebellious young man, Travis, as he struggles to decide between the dark path he is on and the chance at a new life.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD WORHudgins, 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...
Format: text
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 HUDContents: Short trip home / Edgar Meyer (3:48) -- Johnny has gone for a soldier / traditional ; arranged James Taylor & Mark O'Connor (2:58) -- 1B / Edgar Meyer (4:02) -- Applalachia waltz / O'Connor ; arranged Meyer (5:47) -- Soldier's joy / traditional ; arranged O'Connor (4:06) -- Sliding down / Meyer (4:39) -- BT / Meyer (4:50) -- Butterfly's day out / O'Connor ; arranged Meyer (4:43) -- College...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Classical 2001
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD FOLK HEAContents: Jeano (3:57) -- Black eyed Susan (5:07) -- Ripest of apples (3:16) -- Irish patriot (6:00) -- John of Hazelgreen (3:43) -- Woman is walking (1:05) -- Virginia rambler (3:49) -- By the shore (4:42) -- Farewell to Erin (6:26) -- Mother in the graveyard (3:19) -- Margaret (1:46).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD FOLK ANNKnight, 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.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2016
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC KNIAnna & Elizabeth (Musical group)
Contents: Long time travelin' (1:29) -- Little black train (3:38) -- Poor pilgrim of sorrow (3:01) -- Soldier and the lady (2:41) -- Lovin' babe (2:55) -- Orfeo (6:17) -- Father Neptune (2:23) -- Goin' across the mountain (2:19) -- Don't want to die in the storm (1:55) -- Troubles (2:14) -- Voice from on high (2:39) -- Won't you come and sing for me (2:30) -- Greenwood sidey (4:27) -- Very day I'm gone :...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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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...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Large Print, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP 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.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2015
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FIC MILHarman, 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...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Harman 2018Richardson, Kim Michele
Summary: In the ruggedness of the beautiful Kentucky mountains, Honey Lovett has always known that the old ways can make a hard life harder. 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...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Audio, Inc. 2022
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CDA FIC RICHite, 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...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Mercer University Press 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HITRichardson, Kim Michele
Summary: "In the ruggedness of the beautiful Kentucky mountains, Honey Lovett has always known that the old ways can make a hard life harder. 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...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Landmark 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RICCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RICCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC RICCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RICCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction RichardsonSummary: Tom Rush's new CD that fans of modern folk music and contemporary singer-songwriters have been waiting for 50 years. Well known for his golden ear for significant new songs by little-known writers, the New England-based singer-guitarist, one of the last giants of the early 60s folk boom.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Appleseed Recordings 2018
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD FOLK RUSRichardson, 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