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Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Description
"From award-winning novelist Idra Novey comes a "deft and surprising novel" with two unforgettable female voices. (Rumaan Alam) Set in the Allegheny Mountains of Pennsylvania, Take What You Need follows the estrangement and reconciliation of stepmother and daughter, Jean and Leah. Leah always felt her path diverged from Jean's and left her hometown without looking back, making a life for herself in the city as a young mother and academic. Now that...
82) Fearless Jack
Author
Pub. Date
[2001]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
Description
In this Appalachian folktale, Jack wins fame and fortune after killing ten yow jackets with one whack,
Pub. Date
2009
Description
Wrong turn: The nightmare begins when a group of young friends, stranded on an isolated road deep in the Appalachain hills of West Virginia, finds themselves relentlessly pursued by a force of evil beyond their imaginations--Container.
Wrong turn 2: A post-apocalyptic reality show, in which participants are challenged to survive a remote West Virginia wasteland, turns into a nightmarish showdown when the contestants realize they're being hunted for...
Author
Pub. Date
2008
Description
The summer of 1979 was heavy not only with the humid Appalachian air, but also with the raw emotion brought on by a stranger in their midst. The new girl. The new girl with the deeply colored skin and the straight shiny ebony hair and the father who prayed on a rug facing east each morning. The new girl who changed the hearts, minds, and lives of everyone in the small, provincial mountain town, merely by accepting a ride one hot summer day to the...
Author
Pub. Date
[2016]
Description
"Victuals is an exploration of the foodways, people, and places of Appalachia. Written by Ronni Lundy, regarded as the most engaging authority on the region, the book guides us through the surprisingly diverse history--and vibrant present--of food in the Mountain South. Victualsexplores the diverse and complex food scene of the Mountain South through recipes, stories, traditions, and innovations. Each chapter explores a specific defining food or tradition...
Author
Series
Ballad novels volume 2
Pub. Date
[1992]
Description
Laura Bruce, wife of a minister in Appalachia, experiences dangers after she is asked by the sheriff to help tend the survivors from a scene of carnage at a farm.
89) Old Dry Frye
Author
Pub. Date
1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Description
A humorous retelling of an Appalachian folktale about a preacher who chokes on a chicken bone.
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Description
In Strickland County, a forgotten stretch of land in southern Appalachia, there isn't a lot of anything to go around. But when eighteen-year-old Harlowe Compton's brother is killed by the Praters, the family who controls everything from the mines to the law to the opioid trade, he wonders if the future will ever hold more than loss. With Tennessee, Harlowe feels for the first time that something good might happen, that he might have found the rarest...
92) Songcatcher
Pub. Date
c2003
Description
When musicologist Doctor Lily Penleric is passed over for a prominent teaching position, she decides to leave the city to visit her sister in the rugged mountains of Appalachia. Here she discovers a wellspring of emotional tunes passed down from the original Irish and Scottish immigrants who settled in the area. Determined to document the history of the songs, she immerses herself in mountain life, falls in love with a local musician, and is profoundly...
Author
Series
Ballad novels volume 2
Pub. Date
c1992
Description
Laura Bruce, wife of a minister in Appalachia, experiences dangers after she is asked by the sheriff to help tend the survivors from a scene of carnage at a farm.
Author
Pub. Date
2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Description
In this fictional account of the folk song's origin, a girl writes a song that expresses her feelings about Jesus while dealing with the loss of her mother and life on the roads of Appalachia after her father becomes an itinerant preacher.