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121) John Henry McCoy
Author
Publisher
Macmillan
Pub. Date
©1971
Language
English
Description
Tired of constant moves, a ten-year-old boy tries to find a way to help his family settle permanently in Appalachia.
Author
Publisher
Ohio University Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Weedeater is a contemporary story of love and loss told by a pair of eastern Kentucky mountaineers. Gene is a lovelorn lawnman who bears witness to the misadventures of a family entangled in drugs, artmaking, and politics, a family beset by environmental and self-destruction. And a young mother, Dawn Jewell, is at the center of the family. She spends the pages of Weedeater searching--for lost family members, lost youth, lost community, and lost heart....
Author
Publisher
Scrivenings Press LLC
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"When Larkin Maybie buries her mother in the foothills of Appalachia, she is left all alone. Her only inheritance? A crazy aunt, a mountain of debt, and a run-down, secluded cabin left by a mysterious benefactor. While Larkin thinks an escape to a cabin miles from anything familiar might be exactly what she needs, the quick answer to her problems only leaves her with more questions... Questions concerning her true identity. As Larkin searches for...
124) Given ground
Author
Publisher
University Press of New England/Middlebury College Press
Pub. Date
c2001
Language
English
125) Lost highway
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Co
Pub. Date
1997
Language
English
Description
Banjo player Sharp Reeves of West Virginia forms a trio and they hit the road. The novel describes their women, their successes and disappointments, and his descent into alcoholic depression. But the sight of his son, wounded in Vietnam, snaps him out of it.
Author
Series
Vampire Earth volume 10
Publisher
Roc, published by the Penguin Group
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
"Captured and sold to the Kurian-allied Maynes Conglomerate to work as a slave in the coal mines of Appalachia, Ahn-Kha is angered and appalled by the dangerous working conditions and the brutal treatment inflicted upon his fellow miners. When a protest against shortages is deliberately and bloodily suppressed, Ahn-Kha sets himself against the ruling Maynes family and embarks on a trail of vengeance through the Coal Country. Finally, the people of...
129) Yellowhawk
Author
Publisher
McGraw-Hill
Pub. Date
[1973]
Language
English
Description
"Yellowhawk school is a new red brick elementary school sprawled ranch style along the flat river land that curves up to meet the hills behind it. It looks like all the other eastern-Kentucky elementary schools built in the early 60s because they were all built alike." This is a musing of Rhoda Miller, in her first year of teaching at Yellowhawk. You will meet eccentrics and matchmakers; the well-adjusted and the ill-adapted; the wise and the funny....
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury USA
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
While Cole alternately attempts romance with two troubled women, he also spends most of his time with the elderly patients at the nursing home where he works, desperately trying to ignore the decay of everything and everyone around him. Only when a disaster befalls these mountains is Cole forced to confront his fears and, finally, take decisive action-if not to save his world, to at least save himself.
132) The law of revenge
Author
Series
Publisher
Ivy Books
Pub. Date
1997
Language
English
Description
"Fifteen years ago Alma Bashears fled Contrary, Kentucky severing her Appalachian roots to forget the memory of a brutal gang rape. Now she's a savvy attorney at a prestigious San Francisco law firm. But an urgent call from her estranged family has summoned her back to defend her kin. Alma's brother, Vernon, is charged with murdering a crafty, influential businessman. Yet Alma soon discovers that the prosecutor is also the boy who was responsible...
134) In a dark season
Author
Series
Publisher
Dell Book
Pub. Date
©2008
Language
English
Description
When Elizabeth Goodweather prevents the otherwise sane town matron from committing suicide at a house locally known as haunted, she uncovers a mystery surrounding the house's scandalous past.
137) Góra Bezprawia
Author
Publisher
Wydawnictwo Albatros Andrzej Kuryłowicz
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
Polish
Description
The year is 2008 and Samantha Kofer's career at a huge Wall Street law firm is on the fast track -- until the recession hits and she gets downsized, furloughed, escorted out of the building. Samantha, though, is one of the "lucky" associates. She's offered an opportunity to work at a legal aid clinic for one year without pay, after which there would be a slim chance that she'd get her old job back. In a matter of days Samantha moves from Manhattan...
Author
Publisher
Vintage Español, una división de Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
Español
Description
Hace una semana Samantha Kofer trabajaba en una prestigiosa firma de abogados de Nueva York. Ahora trabaja gratis en una asesoría legal para clientes sin recursos en una pequeña ciudad de Virginia. La caída de Lehman Brothers supuso para ella la pérdida del trabajo, de la seguridad y del futuro. Su mundo no tiene nada que ver con su vida pasada de peces gordos y bonos desorbitados. En la actualidad se enfrenta a clientes reales con problemas...
Author
Publisher
Wheeler Publishing, A part of Gale, Cengage Learning
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"After witnessing the death of his younger brother in a terrible home accident, 14-year-old Kevin and his grieving mother are sent for the summer to live with Kevin's grandfather. In this peeled-paint coal town deep in Appalachia, Kevin quickly falls in with a half-wild hollow kid named Buzzy Fink who schools him in the mysteries and magnificence of the woods. The events of this fateful summer will affect the entire town of Medgar, Kentucky."--