Search Results: Returned 11 Results, Displaying Titles 1 - 11
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[2022]., Adults, Sourcebooks Landmark Call No: FIC RIC Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Book Woman of Troublesome Creek Volume: #2Summary Note: "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 good. Picking up her mother's old packhorse library route, Honey begins to deliver books to the remote hollers of Appalachia. Honey is looking to prove that she doesn't need anyone telling her how to survive. But the route can be treacherous, and some folks aren't as keen to let a woman pave her own way. If Honey wants to bring the freedom books provide to the families who need it most, she's going to have to fight for her place, and along the way, learn that the extraordinary women who run the hills and hollers can make all the difference in the world"--
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c2007., Adult, Random House Call No: FIC CAL Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: A novel about three generations of three families in North Carolina's Cataloochee Valley, beginning with young, ambitious Ezra Banks's arrival to the valley and marriage to a landowner's daughter in the 1880s and stretching to the 1920s, when the government tries to clear the region for the Great Smoky Mountains National Park and tragedy strikes.
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[2014]., Adult, Doubleday Call No: FIC GRI Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Losing her job at New York City's largest law firm in the weeks after the collapse of Lehman Brothers, Samantha becomes an unpaid intern in a small Appalachian community, where she stumbles upon dangerous secrets.
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By Vance, J. D.[2016]., Adults, Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers Call No: BIOG 305.562 Edition: First edition. Availability:0 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Vance, a former marine and Yale Law School graduate, provides an account of growing up in a poor Rust Belt town that offers a broader, probing look at the struggles of America's white working class. The decline of this group, a demographic of our country that has been slowly disintegrating over forty years, has been reported on with growing frequency and alarm. J. D. Vance tells the true story of what a social, regional, and class decline feels like when you were born with it hung around your neck. The Vance family story begins hopefully in postwar America. J. D.'s grandparents were "dirt poor and in love," and moved north from Kentucky's Appalachia region to Ohio in the hopes of escaping the dreadful poverty around them. They raised a middle-class family, and eventually their grandchild (the author) would graduate from Yale Law School, a conventional marker of their success in achieving generational upward mobility. But as the family saga of Hillbilly Elegy plays out, we learn that this is only the short, superficial version. Vance's grandparents, aunt, uncle, sister, and, most of all, his mother, struggled profoundly with the demands of their new middle-class life, and were never able to fully escape the legacy of abuse, alcoholism, poverty, and trauma so characteristic of their part of America.
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[2022]., Adults, Thomas Nelson Call No: FIC HUN Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Riverbend romance Volume: #2Summary Note: "Avery Robinson decided to be a physician after helplessly watching her mother lose a battle with a terrible disease. Now at risk of developing the same illness, Avery guards her heart from love. She’s driven to protect her loved ones as a workaholic doctor in the tiny mountain town of Riverbend Gap, North Carolina. Contractor Wes Garrett is hiking the Appalachian trail, in memory of the man who died saving his life, when an illness racks his body. After an agonizing fifteen-mile hike to Avery’s clinic, he collapses on her doorstep. He recovers to find himself in debt again, this time to a beautiful doctor. When he decides to help her renovate a rundown carriage house, the obstacles to their attraction sprout like weeds—starting with the woman waiting for Wes at the end of the trail. Will he be able to relinquish the debt he owes his best friend? And will Avery find the courage to risk everything for love? The second book in Denise Hunter’s popular Riverbend Romance series explores what it might be like to live fearlessly and free"--
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c1986., Ages 3-6, Clarion Call No: J PLAC 975.4 Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Text and photographs from a living history village in West Virginia re-create the pioneer life of young people in Appalachia in the early nineteenth century.
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![Prodigal summer : [a novel]](/Library/images/~imageCT395.JPG "Prodigal summer : [a novel]")
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c2000., Adult, HarperCollins Call No: FIC KIN Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: The coming of summer to Appalachia's Zebulon Mountain brings a blossoming in nature as well as in the lives of reclusive wildlife biologist Deanna Wolfe, young hunter Eddie Bondo, transplanted city-girl Lusa Landowski, and a pair of elderly, feuding neighbors.
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c1991., Ages 4-8, Little Brown Call No: PB MIL Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Minna proudly wears her new coat made of clothing scraps to school, where the other children laugh at her until she tells them the stories behind the scraps.
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2002, c1998., 4.8; 5-8, Simon Pulse Call No: Y NAY Edition: 1st Simon Pulse ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: When his mother is killed in an automobile accident, high-schooler Josh decides to hitchhike across country, and finds himself trapped in a mysterious village somewhere in the Appalachian Mountains, among a group of people who call themselves Melungeons.
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2001., Adult, Algonquin Bokks Of Chapel Hill Call No: FIC MOR Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: The Powell brothers, Muir and Moody, are as different as Cain and Able. Muir is an innocent, a shy young man with big dreams and not the slightest idea of what to do about them. Moody, the older and wilder brother - embittered by the death of his father, by years of fighting his mother, and by jealousy of Muir's privileged place in the family - takes to moonshine and gambling and turns his anger on his brother.
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p2000., Adults, Time Warner Audiobooks Call No: AUD BAL Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "Precocious twelve-year-old, Louisa Mae Cardinal, is living with her acclaimed but sadly underpaid writer father, her compassionate mother, and her timid younger brother, Oz. For Lou, her family's financial struggles are invisible to her. Instead, she is a daughter who idolizes her father and is in love with the art of storytelling. Then, in a single, terrifying moment, Lou's life is changed forever, and she and Oz are on a train rolling away from New York and down into the mountains of Virginia. There, Lou's mother will begin a long, slow struggle between life and death. And there, Lou and Oz will be raised by their remarkable great-grandmother, Louisa, Lou's namesake." .
