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Deliverance
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James Dickey |
The setting is the Georgia wilderness, where the state's most remote white-water river awaits. In the thundering froth of that river, in its echoing stone canyons, four men on a canoe trip discover a… |
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Mist over the mountains
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Raymond Bial |
An overview of life past and present in the geographic region known as Appalachia. |
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Yesterday's people; life in contemporary Appalachia
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Jack E. Weller |
The distinctive way of life of the Southern Appalachian people has often been criticized, romanticized or derided, but rarely has it been understood. Yesterday's People, the fruit of many years' labo… |
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Taps for Private Tussie
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Jesse Stuart |
Teenage Sid Tussie sees big changes in his poor Kentucky family when they receive $10,000 insurance money for the death of his uncle in World War II and other greedy relatives scramble to share the w… |
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Songs of Life and Grace
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Linda Scott DeRosier |
228 p., [16] p. of plates : 23 cm |
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What you are getting wrong about Appalachia
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Elizabeth Catte |
An insider's perspective on Appalachia, and a frank, ferocious assessment of America's recent fascination with the people and the problems of the region. |
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GodPretty in the tobacco field
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Kim Michele Richardson |
A young woman in 1969 Kentucky imagines what life can be through the gorgeously designed, handmade paper fortunetellers she distributes to the townsfolk while she tries to deal with the prejudice and… |
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The yesteryear tales
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David Lee Kirkland |
A unique collection of short stories set both in the Appalachian countryside and the Ozarks. The stories are sometimes gritty, but always honest in their telling. The voice in this collection is one … |
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Clinch River justice
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Alfred Patrick |
"As an inexperienced but idealistic deputy sheriff, Charley Scott, faces a rash of deaths in a normally idyllic, peaceful Appalachian community in the early 1940s. These deaths of neighbors and a bel… |
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Sweetie
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Kathryn Magendie |
"For shy, stuttering Melissa, the wild mountain girl named Sweetie is a symbol of pride and strength. But to many in their Appalachian town Sweetie is an outcast, a sinister influence, or worse. This… |
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