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Deborah Knott mysteries volume 10
Pub. Date
[2004]
Description
Deborah is finally ready to marry her long-time friend Deputy Sheriff Dwight Bryant and settle down--or is she? She jumps at a chance to fill in for a judge far away in the state's high country. But human ugliness haunts the beauty of the Appalachian Mountains. The community of Cedar Gap is rocked by a murder just as Deborah pulls into town. Within days, she becomes involved in helping an innocent man prove himself, even if it means putting her own...
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Series
First mountain man series volume 22
Pub. Date
[2016]
Description
When trappers in the Rockies are hunted down, murdered and then mutilated, their hearts carved out of their chests, Preacher must go up against a secret cult as old as the Aztecs to save his friends who have gone missing.
83) Anybody shining
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 6
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In a series of letters to her cousin, twelve-year-old Arie Mae relates her life in a mountain valley of North Carolina in the 1920s.
84) Mountain worlds
Pub. Date
[1988]
Description
Examines the mountains of the world and the people who inhabit them.
86) A distant music
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Series
The mountain song legacy trilogy volume 1
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Christian Historical Fiction
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Series
Spirit of Appalachia volume 2
Pub. Date
c1997
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 18
Description
Hawk and Elizabeth Spencer struggle to raise a family in the Tennessee frontier in the midst of Indian troubles and the American Revolution.
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Pub. Date
New York :
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"Sixkiller has come to Ringgold, Wyoming, on the trail of Bart Skillern, a vicious murderer he's been carefully stalking for weeks. But before Sixkiller can strike, Skillern takes a job with the town's duly elected mayor, a politician so corrupt that the only way to get near him is by being even more corrupt. So Sixkiller takes a job as a hired gun, and sets out to destroy the mayor's gang from inside out ..."--Back cover.
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First mountain man series volume 28
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
"A village is destroyed. A vengeance is born. And one man blazes a trail to hell and back to pay the devils their due--in bullets and blood. They call him Preacher... JOHNSTONE COUNTRY. FIGHT FIRE WITH FIRE. It starts as a happy reunion between Preacher and his fellow trappers in a peaceful Indian village. But it ends swiftly in death and destruction when a rival tribe attacks the village, slaughters some of Preacher's Crow and mountain man friends,...
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Lost Texas hearts volume 2
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As the middle child, Pepper Prescott's rebellious nature helped her survive when her parents disappeared and she and her siblings were sent to different foster homes around the country. Now an independent young woman, Pepper finds herself on the run after witnessing a shooting. Fearing for her life, Pepper flees to the only place she ever considered home and is shocked to find her old lover, Dan Graham, living on the remote mountain ranch. A battle-hardened...
92) Oral history
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Pub. Date
1993
Description
Oral History, the lyrical saga of a Virginia mountain family, follows four generations of Cantrells over more than a century. With each chapter, Lee Smith, a master of regional voices, adds another branch to a family tree that sings with secrets and sadness, beauty and joy. Researching an assignment for an Oral History course, Jennifer drives to the Virginia hills where her mother and father grew up. Raised by a stepmother, the young college student...
93) Dovey Coe
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 6
Description
Accused of murder in her North Carolina mountain town in 1928, Dovey Coe, a stronged-willed twelve-year-old girl, comes to a new understanding of others, including her deaf brother, as she attempts to clear her name.
94) The Songcatcher
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Series
Ballad novels volume 6
Description
Skipping back and forth in time from the 18th to the late 20th century, and drawing on her own family history, McCrumb tells two stories in her appealing new novel, one heading toward, the other returning to, the Appalachians. In the present-day sections, 83-year-old John Walker is slowly dying in the eastern Tennessee town where he has lived most of his life, while his estranged daughter, Linda Walker better known as the country singer Lark McCourry...
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Series
Spirit of Appalachia volume 5
Pub. Date
2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 13
Description
Sabrina Fairfax was raised in an elegant house with servants catering to her every desire. With her father's unexpected death, she finds herself impoverished and alone in London. Among his papers, however, she discovers a deed to a piece of land in the Colonies and seizes it as her best, and perhaps only, hope.
96) My mountain song
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Pub. Date
2004.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Description
One summer day on her great-grandparents' Kentucky farm, a squabble with her cousin Melvin spurs Brenda Gail to begin choosing the moments that will become her own special song made of memories.
97) Preacher's purge
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Series
First mountain man series volume 29
The First Mountain Man volume 29
The First Mountain Man volume Book 29
Thorndike Press large print hardcover western
The First Mountain Man volume 29
The First Mountain Man volume Book 29
Thorndike Press large print hardcover western
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"When greed overtakes men's souls, it falls to the righteous mountaineer known as Preacher to rain fire and brimstone upon them from the barrels of his guns . . . Preacher has agreed to escort Barnaby Cooper through Dakota Territory's hills to establish a trading post. Accompanied by his friends Lorenzo and Tall Dog, the mountain man hopes they'll be able to protect Cooper from Sioux warriors who don't want any white man trespassing on their sacred...
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Fever Devilin mysteries volume 2
Pub. Date
2004
Description
Folklorist and academic Fever Devilin, a native of the Georgia Appalachians, is drawn into a strange mystery that has its roots deep in the hills of Blue Mountain. After a spat during a church supper, Able Carter and his fiancee, Truevine Deveroe, are missing. A bit later, a body is found in the ravine behind Fever's cabin and identified as the local mortician, Harding Pinehurst. Folks suspect Able Carter of the deed. A few -- like Truevine's drunken,...