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-- Daniel Boone and the fight for America's first frontier.2021., Adults, St. Martin's Press Call No: BIOG 976.9 Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "It is the mid-eighteenth century, and in the 13 colonies founded by Great Britain, anxious colonists desperate to conquer and settle North America’s “First Frontier†beyond the Appalachian Mountains commence a series of bloody battles. These violent conflicts are waged against the Native American tribes whose lands they covet, the French, and finally against the mother country itself in an American Revolution destined to reverberate around the world. This is the setting of Blood and Treasure, and the guide to this epic narrative is America’s first and arguably greatest pathfinder, Daniel Boone—not the coonskin cap-wearing caricature of popular culture but the flesh-and-blood frontiersman and Revolutionary War hero whose explorations into the forested frontier beyond the great mountains would become the stuff of legend. Now, thanks to painstaking research by two award-winning authors, the story of the brutal birth of the United States is told through the eyes of both the ordinary and larger-than-life men and women, white and red, who witnessed it."--book jacket.
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[2019]., Adults, Sourcebooks Landmark Call No: FIC RIC Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "Cussy Mary Carter is the last of her kind, her skin the color of a blue damselfly in these dusty hills. But that doesn't mean she's got nothing to offer. As a member of the Pack Horse Library Project, Cussy delivers books to the hill folk of Troublesome, hoping to spread learning in these desperate times. But not everyone is so keen on Cussy's family or the Library Project, and the hardscrabble Kentuckians are quick to blame a Blue for any trouble in their small town. The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek is a story of raw courage, fierce strength, and one woman's determination to bring a little bit of hope to the darkly hollers"--
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[2014]., Adults, Whitaker House Call No: FIC MAC Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Little Hickman Creek Series Volume: FourthSummary Note: "In the very season when the wounds of her heart are most raw, a hurting young widow named Sadie Bennett learns to love again"--
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c2011., Adult, Revell Call No: FIC FRA Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Roxanna Rowan, a genteel Virginia woman, arrives at a remote Kentucky fort hoping to be reunited with her father, but when she learns that he has been killed on a campaign, Roxanna is left with few options and gets entangled with Colonel McLinn, whose past and true identity remain a mystery to Roxanna.
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2002, c2001., 4.6; Ages 3-6, Scholastic Call No: YS DEA Edition: 1st pbk. ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: My AmericaSummary Note: A nine-year-old slave keeps a diary of his journey to freedom along the Underground Railroad in 1857.
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[2019]., Adults, Pamela Dorman Books/Viking Call No: FIC MOY Availability:0 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "Set in Depression-era America, a breathtaking story of five extraordinary women and their remarkable journey through the mountains of Kentucky and beyond, from the author of Me Before You and The Peacock Emporium. Alice Wright marries handsome American Bennett Van Cleve hoping to escape her stifling life in England. But small-town Kentucky quickly proves equally claustrophobic, especially living alongside her overbearing father-in-law. So when a call goes out for a team of women to deliver books as part of Eleanor Roosevelt's new traveling library, Alice signs on enthusiastically. The leader, and soon Alice's greatest ally, is Margery, a smart-talking, self-sufficient woman who's never asked a man's permission for anything. They will be joined by three other singular women who become known as the Horseback Librarians of Kentucky. What happens to them--and to the men they love--becomes a classic drama of loyalty, justice, humanity and passion. Though they face all kinds of dangers, they're committed to their job--bringing books to people who have never had any, sharing the gift of learning that will change their lives. Based on a true story rooted in America's past, The Giver of Stars is unparalleled in its scope. At times funny, at others heartbreaking, this is a richly rewarding novel of women's friendship, of true love, and of what happens when we reach beyond our grasp for the great beyond"--
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c2011., Adults, Barbour Pub. Call No: FIC BRU Availability:1 of 1 At Your LibraryClick here to view Click here to view Series Title: Kentucky brothers Volume: #2Summary Note: Can a man burdened by memories of yesterday find hope in the land of tomorrow? Will peace-loving Samuel and Esther fight for their newfound love? How will God manage to untangle these star-crossed lovers before any damage is done?
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By Vance, J. D.[2016]., Adults, Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers Call No: BIOG 305.562 Edition: First edition. Availability:1 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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c2011., Adults, Barbour Call No: FIC BRU Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Kentucky brothers Volume: #1Summary Note: Titus Fisher, an Amish carpenter, journeys into a Kentucky Amish community where he seeks a new beginning and meets the beautiful and unique Suzanne Yoder. She can't cook but can do woodworking, and she painfully resembles Phoebe, Titus's ex-girlfriend.
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2024., Adult, Kensington Publishing Corp. Call No: FIC DAI Edition: First Kensington hardcover edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "Determined to save the family farm from foreclosure, Derby-winning horse trainer Jo Beth Ellis reinvents the property as a healing retreat for horses and makes a deal with her handsome neighbor in hopes of winning a trifecta--a champion horse, a happy family and a forever love"--
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-- Miracle, Kentucky.c2008., Adult, Summerside Press Call No: FIC BOE Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Love finds you.Summary Note: Following a failed relationship, Meg Jorgenson seeks a fresh start with a new teaching position in Miracle, where eight-year-old Cammy Bayer, confined to a wheelchair but convinced that God will heal her, wins Meg's heart. Cammy's widowed father, Vance, is delighted with the attention Cammy is receiving from her new teacher, but Meg and Vance clash over experimental surgery that might allow Cammy to walk.
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c2005., Family, Warner Home Video Call No: DVD VID Edition: Full-screen ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: A traveling circus accidentally leaves behind a baby zebra. The baby is then rescued by horse farmer Nolan Walsh, who takes him home to his young daughter Channing. "Stripes" is soon introduced to the farm's misfit troupe of barnyard residents. The Walsh farm borders the Turfway Racetrack, where highly skilled thoroughbreds compete for the ultra-prestigious Kentucky Crown. From the first moment Stripes lays eyes on the track, he's hooked. He knows that if he could just get a chance, he could leave all those other horses in the dust. What he doesn't know is - he's not exactly a horse. But with characteristic zeal, he devotes himself to training for the big time.
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c2012., Adults, Barbour Pub. Call No: FIC BRU Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Kentucky brothers Volume: #3Summary Note: When Timothy Fisher decides to move his wife, Hannah, and daughter, Mindy, to Christian County, Kentucky, where two of his brothers now reside, Hannah is very reluctant to leave her Amish home in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
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c1985., Adult, Time-Life Books Call No: HIST 973.7 3013 Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: The Civil WarSummary Note: Discusses the battle strategies of the Union and Confederate Armies during the fight for control of Tennessee.