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22) Still
Pub. Date
[2019]
Description
A young hiker stumbles on an isolated farm after she had lost her way in the Appalachian Trail. She is then taken in by a strange yet surprisingly beautiful couple who are desperate to protect a secret.
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
"A richly rewarding novel about family bonds, the power of words, and the resilience of mothers and daughters in 1930s Appalachia. The folks in the Kentucky Appalachians are scraping by. Coal mining and hardscrabble know-how are a way of life for these isolated people. But when Amanda Rye, a young widowed mother and traveling packhorse librarian, comes through a mountain community hit hard by the nation's economic collapse, she brings with her hope,...
Author
Series
Ballad novels volume 6
Pub. Date
c2001
Description
Folksinger Lark McCourry is haunted by the memory of a song she heard as a child living in the North Carolina mountians. Over the years, the memory of the old song has dimmed and lark's only hope of preserving her family legacy lies in mountain wisewoman Nora Bonsteel, who talks to both the living and the dead.
Author
Series
Detective Ellie Reeves volume 2
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
Detective Ellie Reeves heads into the wilds of the Appalachian Mountains when she wants to get lost--to forget the whispers chasing her and the past that keeps her up at night. She's sick of having to prove herself to her small town. But hiking in the endless miles of woods isn't the escape she was hoping for. One night, as dusk falls, a gust of wind blows some petals on to Ellie's path. Following the trail, she finds a golden-haired young woman dead...
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Description
"Critically acclaimed author David Joy, whose debut, Where All Light Tends to Go, was hailed as "a savagely moving novel that will likely become an important addition to the great body of Southern literature" (The Huffington Post), returns to the mountains of North Carolina with a powerful story about the inescapable weight of the past. A combat veteran returned from war, Thad Broom can't leave the hardened world of Afghanistan behind, nor can he...
Pub. Date
2018.
Description
"America's Wild Frontier tells the story of the frontier and wildlife closest to America's heart. We explore the woods that Davy Crocket once called home in The Great Valley of Appalachia, and where Wild Bill Hickok saw his last sunset in The Badlands of South Dakota. We reveal a cast of critter characters that includes everything from bears, bison and burrowing owls, to weasels, wood ducks and wild horses. Whether it's beneath the ice sheets in the...
36) Hidden bones
Author
Series
Detective Ellie Reeves volume 6
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
"The girl trips over branches, losing her footing. The darkness swallows her and she grabs thin air as she falls, her scream piercing the night. When she slams into the bottom of the pit, her heart hammers. She can't believe what she's seeing--a pile of perfect white bones... In the small town of Crooked Creek, where the Appalachian Mountains climb into the clouds, nineteen-year-old Mandy's Spring Break takes a sinister turn. Detective Ellie Reeves...
37) Silent dolls
Author
Series
Detective Ellie Reeves volume 1
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
"Silent tears trickle down her cheeks as she curls inside the tiny cave-like space. She lies on her side, darkness all around her, rubbing her fingers over the little wooden doll he'd carved. He told her to be quiet, not to cry or scream. Not to be a baby. Her throat was raw, her eyes swollen shut. She wanted her mommy and daddy. She wanted to go home. When Penny Matthews, a seven-year-old girl with blonde curls and a gap-toothed smile, goes missing...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
GhostWalker Rubin Campo’s rough upbringing made him into the man he is today: strong, steadfast and wary of outsiders. When he and his brother return to their family’s homestead in the Appalachian Mountains, he can immediately sense that a stranger has taken up residence in their cabin—a woman who just happens to be a GhostWalker too.
Jonquille looks deceptively delicate but is clearly a fighter. She also doesn’t seem to care that Rubin could...