Summary: On the western frontier of 1750's North America, a minister and his followers are driven from their pioneer settlement because of his serial adultery and other deviations from orthodoxy. Their choice of a new town site in the wilderness is even more disastrous, thanks to Native American spirits who may be lurking there.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

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1 available in Horror DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY HORROR EYE

Contents: CD A. Amazing grace / Dye's Sacred Harp Singers -- How firm a foundation / Dye's Sacred Harp Singers -- Soar away / Denson Quartet -- Sabbath morning / Denson Quartet -- Rejoicing on the way / Fa Sol La Singers -- Jesus walks with me / Fa Sol La Singers -- Happy on the way / Fa Sol La Singers -- Weeping Mary / Roswell Sacred Harp Quartet -- Odem / Roswell Sacred Harp Quartet -- Bound for Canaan...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RELIGIOUS SAC

Riess, Jana.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: HiddenSpring 2002

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 917.44 RIE

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 OUT

Covington, Dennis.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Addison-Wesley 1995

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 289.9 COV

Summary: Coach Clay Driscoll is a small town basketball coach who seems to have everything going against him. A team he doesn't want. A town that doesn't support girl's sports and small town politics that threaten to undermine any chance he has of winning. But his pride and his "girls" refuse to let him quit. Both the young women and their hard-headed coach fight for equality and a share of the dream,...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: GT Media 2007

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD BEL

Summary: When musicologist Doctor Lily Penleric is passed over, again, for a prominent teaching position, she decides to leave the city to visit her sister in the rugged mountains of Appalachia. While there, Lily, discovers a well spring of emotional "love songs" (ballads) that have been passed down through generations from the original Irish and Scottish immigrants who have settled in the area....

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Lions Gate Home Entertainment 2001

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA SON

Summary: The inspiring story of how a small town in West Virginia, steeped in the rich tradition of college football, struggled to cope with a devastating loss and restore their community after one of the worst disasters in the history of American sports. On the evening of Saturday, November 14, 1970, a chartered jet carrying Marshall University's football team, coaches and fans, was on its way home...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2007

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA WE

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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD Family We 2007

Summary: "Ministers, church members, revivals, baptisms, shaped-note and gospel singing, faith healing, camp meetings, footwashing, snake handling, and other traditions of mountain religious heritage."

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Press/Doubleday 1982

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 745.5 FOX

Summary: Dramatizes the historic feud between two families living along the Tug Fork River on the border between West Virginia and Kentucky in the late 1800s.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2012

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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV HAT

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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV HAT

Stoll, 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 STO

Summary: 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 OUT

Summary: 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 WOR

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...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Clarkson Potter/Publishers 2024

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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5975 WIL

Hudgins, 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 HUD

DeRosier, Linda Scott

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: University Press of Kentucky 1999

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 976.914 DER

Kephart, Horace

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: University of Tennessee Press 1976

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 975 KEP

Summary: Appalachian Reckoning is a retort, at turns rigorous, critical, angry, and hopeful, to the long shadow Hillbilly Elegy has cast over the region and its imagining. But it also moves beyond Hillbilly Elegy to allow Appalachians from varied backgrounds to tell their own diverse and complex stories through an imaginative blend of scholarship, prose, poetry, and photography. The essays and creative...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: West Virginia University Press 2019

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 974 HAR

Dashner, James

Summary: In the second book of The Maze Cutter Trilogy ... Sadina and the islanders are up against both man and nature as they navigate their way to Alaska. There, they hope to meet the mysterious Godhead, unsure of what separates myth from truth. But the Godhead, now led by Alexandra, is fractured. Within the cracks of their sacred trinity, secrets are revealed that blur the lines of good and evil...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Akashic Media Enterprises 2023

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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC DAS

Kingsolver, Barbara.

Summary: When Kingsolver and her family move from suburban Arizona to rural Appalachia, they take on a new challenge: to spend a year on a locally produced diet, paying close attention to the provenance of all they consume. "Our highest shopping goal was to get our food from so close to home, we'd know the person who grew it. Often that turned out to be ourselves as we learned to produce what we needed,...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Audio 2007

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 641.0973 KIN

Summary: A man who has served a sentence for arson returns to his rural home in Galicia, Spain, and tries to resume normal life with his elderly mother, but when another devastating fire starts in the region, he becomes the primary suspect.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2021

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN FIR

Summary: A shy young boy is brought out of his cocoon by a wise teacher who shows him the wonder of the natural world around him, amidst the growing tensions and chaos of the Spanish Civil War in Galicia.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Miramax Home Entertainment 2000

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN BUT