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Author
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Language
English
Formats
Description
After moving to the Appalachian mountains to manage his ailing father's funeral home, ex-cop Barry Clayton finds himself investigating the murder of a stray skeleton discovered when he is hired for the routine job of moving a grave.
83) Blue
Publisher
Indie Rights Movies
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
In the rolling Blue Ridge Mountains of Appalachia, a shy mysterious young man called Blue, named for the color of his skin due to a rare blood disorder, walks down the mountain and into a sleepy small town. Distrusted and feared by the townspeople he encounters, he withdraws into the woods and watches a young woman named Pearl Murphy, who is raising her two younger sisters with her abusive father on a nearby farm.
84) The manor
Author
Publisher
Kensington Pub. Corp
Pub. Date
©2004
Language
English
Description
Ephram Korban was an admirer of the human creative spirit, dedicated to collecting art in its many forms - literature, photography, painting, and sculpture - before he took his own life. Nestled in the heart of the Appalachian Mountains stands the home he built as a retreat for artists to hone their craft, perfect their skills ... perhaps even produce a masterpiece. Isolated from the outside world in the electricity-free mansion, artists gather to...
Author
Publisher
Pocket Star Books
Pub. Date
©1999
Language
English
Description
Linda Anderson's "stunning and powerful debut" (Affair de Coeur), Over the Moon, showcased her talent for seamlessly blending chilling intrigue and sensual romance. Now, in this heart-thumping spellbinder she captures the vivid beauty and dark scandals of Appalachian country. After making a name for herself in war zones around the world, photojournalist Memphis Maynard returns to her hometown in the hills of West Virginia on a most personal assignment....
86) False horizon
Author
Series
(Joseph Patrick)Seth Walker volume 2
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"A commuter flight has fallen from clear skies over West Virginia, its wing sheared off at twenty thousand feet. Air marshal Seth Walker is called to the mountains of Appalachia to investigate. But what he stumbles into is a ground war as unpredictable and combustible as a mason jar full of nitroglycerin. Before he can even start searching for what might have downed the plane, Walker finds himself caught in the confounding--and deadly--cross fire...
87) Born on a train
Author
Publisher
Distributed by Holtzbrinck Publishers
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
89) Cry to the hills
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
1966
Language
English
Description
A young man makes a desperate attempt to escape from the apathy and poverty which surround him in a contemporary Applachian mining community.
90) Demon Copperhead
Author
Publisher
Navona
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
Español
Description
Ambientada en las montañas del sur de los Apalaches, Demon Copperhead es la historia de un muchacho nacido de una madre soltera adolescente en una caravana, sin más patrimonio que el buen aspecto y el pelo cobrizo de su difunto padre, un ingenio cáustico.
Set in the southern Appalachian mountains, Demon Copperhead is the story of a boy born to a teenage single mother in a trailer, with no assets other than his late father's good looks and copper...
91) The tall woman
Author
Publisher
Holt, Rinehart and Winston
Pub. Date
1962.
Language
English
Description
Portrait of a North Carolina woman, a tower of strength for her family during the days of civil war and reconstruction who rises above a harsh environment to affirm her ideals.
92) Out of peel tree
Author
Publisher
West Virginia University Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"Moving through time and space, Out of Peel Tree unfolds the patterns of an Appalachian sensibility that reverberate everywhere: a fatalism balanced by humor and flinty, hard-won hope, an appreciation for the surprises of the everyday, and a search for love and home amid strange and familiar places and people. This innovative debut novel reveals the lives of a far-flung contemporary Appalachian family through a web of delicate turning points. A child...
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the Hazel Creek Valley of the Great Smoky Mountains, Nathan and Callie Randolph, with their five unique daughters, wrestle to maintain their farm, forests, family, and faith against an unforgiving wilderness. As an evil lumber company manager seeks by every means possible to pilfer their land and clear-cut their virgin forest, fifteen year- old Abbie Randolph has to help save her family's farm and raise her sisters while preserving her faith.
Author
Publisher
Bottom Dog Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
The short stories in Karen Kotrba's collection Pottery Town Blues take readers into the lives of characters who exist at the intersection of Appalachia and the Rust Belt, people who survive on their own wits and wisdoms. Each selection offers the intimacy of living rooms and kitchens to which we are made privy to by the narrators. Kotrba knows, respects, and values these people and relates their collective episodes with empathy and humor so that their...
Author
Publisher
Swallow Press, Ohio University Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Goshen Road is an elegiac, unvarnished, and empathetic portrait of one working-class family over two decades in rural West Virginia, with sisters Dessie and Billie Price as its urgently beating heart. Bonnie Proudfoot captures them, their husbands, and their children as they balance on the divide between Appalachia old and new, struggling for survival and reconciling themselves with past hurts and future uncertainties as the economy and culture shift...