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"Set in North Carolina in 1960 and brimming with authenticity and grit, The Moonshiner's Daughter evokes the singular life of sixteen-year-old Jessie Sasser, a young woman determined to escape her family's past. Generations of Sassers have made moonshine in the Brushy Mountains of Wilkes County, North Carolina. Their history is recorded in a leather-bound journal that belongs to Jessie Sasser's daddy, but Jessie wants no part of it. As far as she's...

A half-breed and a white man. For years their legend has grown, but few know how far they will go for one another or the roots of their blood bond. Now, that bond will be put to the most deadly test yet. . .
When Matt Bodine and Sam Two Wolves came to Kansas, they didn't know the Governor had just made the state liquor-free. But it doesn't take Matt long to find a place to drink and a family of enterprising moonshiners with one stunningly beautiful...

As the nation grapples with the strictures of Prohibition, Rosa Barclay lives on a Southern California rye farm with her volatile husband, John, who has lately found another source of income far outside the federal purview. Mother to eight children, Rosa mourns the loss of four who succumbed to the mysterious wasting disease that is now afflicting young Ana and Miguel. Two daughters born of another father are in perfect health. When an act of violence...

"Pike Shannon may have put his competitor permanently out of business, but that doesn't mean he's willing to let his family continue to brew white lightning moonshine for the folks of Warbonnet, Texas. Aside from trying to stay on the right side of the law, Pike's attention is divided elsewhere. Vying for his affections are Belle Ramsey, the cousin of his late rival, and Sophie Truesdale, a temperance firebrand. Pike knows women and whiskey don't...

After the death of her best friend, Lennie takes some of her family's moonshine to a party where the wishes everyone makes before drinking seem to come true.

A southern sheriff, intending to bring a man in for moonshining, instead falls for his young daughter and makes sure the feds don't arrest the man. With a deputy's murder and his marriage over, will the sheriff still get his girl?

"Nothing but clear, 100-proof American history. Hooch. White lightning. White whiskey. Mountain dew. Moonshine goes by many names. So what is it, really? Technically speaking, "moonshine" refers to untaxed liquor made in an unlicensed still. In the United States, it's typically corn that's used to make the clear, unaged beverage, and it's the mountain people of the American South who are most closely associated with the image of making and selling...

"When they left the Ozarks to start a new life in Warbonnet, Texas, the Shannon family thought their moonshining days were over. But it turns out that running a horse ranch and farm is harder than it looks--especially when the family patriarch dies under mysterious circumstances. Now it's up to the prodigal son, Pike Shannon, to rescue them from ruin. His plan: break out the old still, brew a batch of the secret family recipe, and sell some 190-proof...

A Kentucky bootlegger battles racketeers who try to muscle in on his territory.

Inspired by the life of a notorious West Georgia moonshiner, Sam Alta Dryden. Ready to end his criminal lifestyle after many years in the Atlanta Federal Penitentiary, Alta heads home with the best of intentions. His new success becomes legendary: he regains the trust of his dying wife Shelby, sells off his moonshine empire, launches a major home building company, and is elected mayor of Tallapoosa. Yet he is haunted by the advice of Doc Dorothy,...