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Bloodroot Bloodroot Amy Greene Named for a flower whose blood-red sap possesses the power both to heal and poison, Bloodroot is a stunning fiction debut about the legacies--of magic and madness, faith and secrets, passion and loss… OL13785439W
Cole family Christmas Cole family Christmas Jennifer Liu Bryan One snowy Christmas in the coal-mining town of Benham, Kentucky, nine children and their parents discover that the most precious gifts come from the heart, in this tale based on family members' recol… OL13815138W
Flight Behaviour Flight Behaviour Barbara Kingsolver Written by Barbara Kingsolver, the Orange Prize-winning author of The Lacuna and million-selling The Poisonwood Bible, and brought to you by FaberShop, Flight Behaviour is a novel about catastrophe a… OL16816027W
Gray Mountain Gray Mountain John Grisham 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. L… OL17116913W
Where the lilies bloom Where the lilies bloom Vera Cleaver,Bill Cleaver In the Great Smoky Mountains region, a fourteen-year-old girl struggles to keep her family together after her father dies. OL18183220W
Sleeping Beauties Sleeping Beauties Owen King,Stephen King In this spectacular father/son collaboration, Stephen King and Owen King tell the highest of high-stakes stories: what might happen if women disappeared from the world of men? All around the world… OL19634713W
Moonshine Moonshine Brian Azzarello,Eduardo Risso,Diego de los Santos "'Torpedo' Lou Pirlo thought his troubles might be over when he and his new girl, Delia, hopped a boxcar headed south--as far and as fast as they could get away from the hillbillies in Appalachia and… OL19763206W
The Barrowfields The Barrowfields Phillip Lewis "Just before Henry Aster's birth, his father -- outsized literary ambition and pregnant wife in tow -- reluctantly returns to the small Appalachian town in which he was raised and installs his young … OL20055978W
Appalachian abduction Appalachian abduction Debbie Herbert Undercover detective Charlotte Helms agrees to partner with officer James Tedder to rescue her best friend's daughter from a child-trafficking ring. OL20086516W
November Mourns November Mourns Tom Piccirilli Two years ago Shad Jenkins went to prison for assaulting his sister's attacker. Now he has returned to the southern mountain town of Moon Run Hollow, only to find that Megan is dead. No one knows how… OL2011872W
Appalachia Appalachia Gina Fields,JoAnn A. Grote,Irene B. Brand,Catherine Runyon A Mountain Refuge The mist-covered mountains are a haven for four women who have been bruised by the pace of the modern world while the gentle strength of the mountain people lull them back to a per… OL26129464W
Newfound Newfound Jim Wayne Miller A boy growing up in his grandparents' house in the Appalachians learns about the town and the people around him, their habits, stories, and lore. OL2768373W
Midnight in Lonesome Hollow Midnight in Lonesome Hollow Kathleen Ernst While staying with her Aunt Millie in the Appalachian Mountains of Kentucky in the summer of 1934, Kit tries to discover who is sabotaging a visiting folklore researcher. OL41764W
Fools' parade Fools' parade Davis Grubb "Convicted murderer Mattie Appleyard has just served forty-seven years in Glory Penitentiary. His release puts him in possession of a check for $25,452.32 - the result of his having salted away his m… OL4793564W
Finders weepers Finders weepers Katie Letcher Lyle During a visit to the home of her dying grandmother in the Blue Ridge Mountains, Lee happens on a famous lost treasure which may prove unlucky for herself as well as for others. OL58725W
Hawk's nest Hawk's nest Hubert Skidmore This work of historical fiction tells the story of the worst industrial disaster in US history as Union Carbide and their contractor hired desperate workers during the great depression to tunnel thro… OL6032070W