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2) Next of kin
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[1998]
Description
Truman Gates, a cop from Appalachia, hunts for his brother's killers in Chicago.
Author
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
Nameless, Kentucky, in 1969 is a hardscrabble community. RubyLyn is luckier than some. Her God-fearing uncle, Gunnar, has a short fuse and high expectations, but he's given her a good home ever since she was orphaned at the age of five. Yet now, a month shy of her sixteenth birthday, RubyLyn itches for more. Maybe it's something to do with the paper fortunetellers RubyLyn has been making for the townsfolk. Or perhaps it's because of Rainey Ford, an...
4) Songcatcher
Series
Publisher
Lions Gate Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2003
Description
"When musicologist Doctor Lily Penleric ... is passed over for a prominent teaching position, she decides to leave the city to visit her sister in the rugged mountains of Appalachia. Here she discovers a wellspring of emotional tunes passed down from the original Irish and Scottish immigrants who settled in the area. Determined to document the history of the songs, she immerses herself in mountain life, falls in love with a local musician ... and...
5) Foxfire 7
Publisher
Anchor Press/Doubleday
Pub. Date
1982
Description
"Ministers, church members, revivals, baptisms, shaped-note and gospel singing, faith healing, camp meetings, footwashing, snake handling, and other traditions of mountain religious heritage"--Cover.
Author
Series
book woman of Troublesome Creek volume 1
Description
"In the ruggedness of the beautiful Kentucky mountains, Honey Lovett has always known that the old ways can make a hard life harder. As the daughter of the famed blue-skinned, Troublesome Creek packhorse librarian, Honey and her family have been hiding from the law all her life. But when her mother and father are imprisoned, Honey realizes she must fight to stay free, or risk being sent away for good. Picking up her mother's old packhorse library...
7) Praisesong for the kitchen ghosts: stories and recipes from five generations of black country cooks
Author
Publisher
Clarkson Potter/Publishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
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Description
"A lyrical culinary journey that explores the hidden stories of Black Appalachians through powerful essays and forty comforting recipes from the Poet Laureate of Kentucky. Years ago, when O. Henry Prize-winning writer Crystal Wilkinson was baking a jam cake, she felt her late grandmother's presence. She soon realized that she was not the only cook in her kitchen; There were an abundance of ancestors stirring, measuring, and braising with her. These...
Author
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2024.
Description
"While the century began with such promise, it is 1910 when Mira Dean's hopes of being a wife and mother are dashed to pieces. Her fiancé dead from tuberculosis, Mira resigns herself to being a spinster schoolteacher -- until Gordon Covington shows up. No longer the boy she knew from school, Gordon is now a preacher who is full of surprises. First, he asks Mira to come to Sourwood in eastern Kentucky to teach at his mission school. Second, he asks...
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