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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
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Sent with their invalid mother to the rugged mountains of 1940 southwestern Virginia, Lou and her young brother Oz follow a relentless but critical legal battle while encountering prejudice, innocence, greed, and faith in their new home.
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Language
English
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Shares the story of the author's family and upbringing, describing how they moved from poverty to an upwardly mobile clan that included the author, a Yale Law School graduate, while navigating the demands of middle class life and the collective demons of the past.
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Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
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In this poetic and haunting tale set in contemporary Appalachia, New York Times bestselling author Ron Rash illuminates lives shaped by violence and a powerful connection to the land.
Les, a long-time sheriff just three-weeks from retirement, contends with the ravages of crystal meth and his own duplicity in his small Appalachian town.
Becky, a park ranger with a harrowing past, finds solace amid the lyrical beauty of this patch of
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Series
Velva Jean novels volume 4
Publisher
Plume
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Follows a returning war heroine and pilot who leaves World War II far behind when she reinvents herself as "Kit Rogers" and ventures onto movie sets and into romances, fame, and backstabbing during the Golden Age of Hollywood.
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Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Set in the Allegheny Mountains of Pennsylvania, Take What You Need follows the estrangement and reconciliation of stepmother and daughter, Jean and Leah. Leah always felt her path diverged from Jean's and left her hometown without looking back, making a life for herself in the city as a young mother and academic. Now that Jean's gone, Leah must return to sort through all Jean has left behind. What she wasn't expecting to find was Jean's studio filled...
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Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
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"Kentucky packhorse librarian Tansy Calhoun doesn't mind the rough trails and long hours as she serves her Appalachian mountain community during the Great Depression. Yet she longs to find love like the heroines in the books she loves. When a charming writer comes to town, she thinks she might have found it-- or is the perfect man actually closer than she thinks? Perdita Sweet has called these mountains home for so long that she's nearly as rocky...
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