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Environmental lawyers Crimes against Fiction Family life West Virginia Fiction Mining corporations West Virginia Fiction Mountaintop removal mining Environmental aspects West Virginia Fiction Murder Fiction Owls Fiction Single mothers Fiction West Virginia West Virginia Fiction West Virginia Juvenile fictionMills, 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2015
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FIC MILLilly, Elizabeth (Elizabeth Marie)
Summary: Whether you're settling in for a heaping plate of banana pudding or arepas and tostones, a good meal can always bring families together. Once a year, on a Friday night, My family leaves the city And drives hours and hours . . . First my family drives through the mountains to stop at Mamaw and Papaw's house in rural West Virginia. We share blueberry jam and toast for breakfast the next morning,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: [Library Ideas, LLC] 2021
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Summary: "Marty and his best friend, Shiloh are on another adventure. Marty learns when a secret is too dangerous to keep, and that hate can spread like fire"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2015
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FICTION NAYWeaver, Brynne
Summary: "When a chance encounter sparks an unlikely bond between rival murderers Sloane and Rowan, they find something elusive -- the friendship of two like-minded, pitch-black souls who just happen to enjoy killing other serial killers. From small-town West Virginia to upscale California, and from downtown Boston to rural Texas, the two hunters collide in an annual game of blood and suffering, one...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Zando 2023
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Summary: A mysterious accident in time causes twenty-first-century American democracy to collide head-on with the Thirty Years War in seventeenth-century Germany as Mike Stearn and a group of armed miners take on a gang of strangely attired invaders who are threatening peaceful Grantville, West Virginia. Original. Freedom and Justice-American Style 1632. And in northern Germany things couldn't get much...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Baen 2001
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Summary: In rural West Virginia, anti-fracking teen Viv discovers an ability to sense forests' energy, a power that becomes heightened the more she interacts with Dex, the new boy in town.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Running Press Teens 2023
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1 available in New YA Materials, Call number: YA FIC CARHarman, Patricia
Summary: The Great Depression has hit West Virginia hard. Men are out of work; women struggle to feed hungry children. Luckily, Nurse Becky Myers has returned to care for them. While she can handle most situations, Becky is still uneasy helping women deliver their babies. For these mothers-to-be, she relies on an experienced midwife, her dear friend Patience Murphy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2015
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC HARLilly, Elizabeth (Elizabeth Marie)
Summary: A girl describes her family's annual visit with Mamaw and Papaw in West Virginia, then Abuela and Abuelo in Florida, especially the foods and cultural elements that make each kitchen unique.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE LILHoff, B. J.
Summary: "West Virginia, 1869 Three years ago, Dr. Daniel Kavanagh settled down in the quaint town of Mount Laurel and established a medical practice there. The single doctor has been nursing an unrequited crush on Serena Norman, the local schoolteacher. Just down the road lies the coal mining town of Owenduffy, considered by most in Mount Laurel to be a backwoods hamlet. When the mine company's doctor...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harvest House Publishers 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HOFDooley, Sarah
Summary: "After her brother dies in a fire, Sasha Harless has no one left and nowhere to turn, but soon discovers family she didn't know she had, and begins to heal through poetry"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: G. P. Putnam's Sons, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J FIC DOOCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC DOOMoore, David Barclay
Summary: "Javari knew that West Virginia would be different from his home in Bushwick, Brooklyn. But his first day at STEM Camp in a little Appalachian town is still a shock. Though run-ins with the police are just the same here. Not good. Javari will learn a lot about science ... And also about rich people, racism, and hidden agendas. But it's Cricket, a local boy, budding activist, and occasional...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC MOOCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC MOOBrockovich, Erin.
Summary: Ten years after fleeing her hometown of Scotia, West Virginia, in disgrace, AJ Palladino returns as a successful environmental lawyer to assist another lawyer with a crusade against moutaintop removal mining and discovers her hometown's secrets while confronting her own past.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vanguard Press 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BRORoberts, Nora.
Summary: Zoe is about to discover her true courageous spirit. She must find the key of valor--on the last of three dangerous quests that will force her to confront her darkest fears ... or suffer immeasurable loss.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Jove Books 2004
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: A collection of tales set in the universe of Eric Flint's Ring of Fire series includes contributions by Mercedes Lackey, Charles E. Gannon, Tim Roesch, Brad Sinor, Garrett Vance, David Carrico, and Karen Bergstralh.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Baen Books 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FLIPokwatka, Aimee
Summary: When tens of thousands of owls descend on her hometown library, rending and tearing at anyone foolish enough to step outside, Madigan Purdy, tasked with keeping her students safe, seeks inspiration from her favorite childhood book, The Silent Queen, to find a solution to their dilemma.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tordotcom, Tor Publishing Group 2024
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Summary: Ten years ago, a pregnant seventeen-year-old, Angela Joy Palladino, fled her hometown, Scotia, West Virginia, as a pariah. Over time, AJ succeeded in establishing herself as an environmental activist, only to be forced to retreat from the spotlight in the wake of a crushing media disaster. Upon arriving in Scotia, AJ learns of the sudden death of the lawyer who hired her. Soon after joining...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tantor Media, Inc. 2011
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC BROBrockovich, Erin.
Summary: As a single mom of a special-needs boy, Angela is happy for any work she can get, even if it means returning to the West Virginia hometown she left in disgrace. But when her new boss turns up dead, Angela discovers that her own secrets aren't the only ones her mountain hometown has kept buried.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Playaway Digital Audio 2011
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Summary: Zoe is about to discover her true courageous spirit. She must find the key of valor--on the last of three dangerous quests that will force her to confron her darkest fears...or suffer immeasurable loss.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Jove Books 2004
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC ROBTanenbaum, Robert.
Summary: While New York City sizzles beneath a blanket of early summer humidity, the Karp family is happily taking refuge in their renovated farmhouse on Long Island's north shore. Karp's battles against the city's corrupt politicians are never-ending. His wife, Marlene, is training guard dogs; Lucy is enjoying her summer break from Boston College. The tide quickly changes, however, when Marlene...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TANFields, Jan
Summary: Gabe and the other monster hunters arrive in a wildlife management area in West Virginia to investigate reports of a monster called the Mothman--but mostly what they see are owls, until something much larger attacks them in the night.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Magic Wagon 2016
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1 available in J Series, Call number: J FIC FIEKeller, Julia.
Summary: From the night-black depths of a coalmine to the sun-struck peaks of the Appalachian Mountains, from a riveting murder mystery to a poignant meditation on the meaning of love and family, the latest novel in the critically acclaimed series strikes out for new territory: the sorrow and outrage that spring from a real-life chapter in West Virginia history. Royce Dillard doesn't remember much about...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KELBarrows, Annie.
Summary: "Miss Layla Beck, the daughter of a powerful Senator from Delaware refuses to marry the gentleman her father has chosen for her and is forced to get a job working for the FWP to write the first official account of Maecdonian History. Her notions of real life--the social whirl of Newport and New York--are totally upended and she despairs in rooming with the overly eccentric Romeyn family in such...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Dial Press 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BARCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC BARCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Barrows 2015Keller, Julia.
Summary: "High summer in Acker's Gap, West Virginia--but no one's enjoying the rugged natural landscape. Not while a killer stalks the small town and its hard-luck inhabitants. County prosecutor Bell Elkins and Sheriff Nick Fogelsong are stymied by a murderer whoseems to come and go like smoke on the mountain. At the same time, Bell must deal with the return from prison of her sister, Shirley--who, like...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2014
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Summary: "High summer in Acker's Gap, West Virginia--but no one's enjoying the rugged natural landscape. Not while a killer stalks the small town and its hard-luck inhabitants. County prosecutor Bell Elkins and Sheriff Nick Fogelsong are stymied by a murderer whoseems to come and go like smoke on the mountain. At the same time, Bell must deal with the return from prison of her sister, Shirley--who, like...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio 2015