Appelt, Kathi
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2001
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1 available in Juvenile Collection, Call number: J 027.0769 APPELTSantella, Andrew
Summary: Describes the history, geography, ecology, people, economy, cities, and sights of the state of Kentucky, and includes ideas for classroom assignments.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Collection, Call number: J 976.9 SANTELLAMorgan, Robert
Summary: This sweeping biography is the story of early America--its ideals, its promise, its romance, and its destiny. Novelist Morgan transforms a mythic American hero--a legend in his own time--into a flesh-and-blood man, the man who was the largest spirit of his time. Hunter, explorer, settler, visionary, he was a trailblazer and a revolutionary--an American icon for more than two hundred years. Born...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 976.9 MORGANWells, Jane.
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Publisher / Publication Date: New Horizon Press 1996
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.1523 WELLSWilder, Laura Ingalls
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Publisher / Publication Date: T. Nelson 1991
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 813.52 WILDERJohnstone, William W.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pinnacle Books/Kensington Pub. Corp. 2004
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1 available in Adult Western, Call number: WESTERN JOHNSTONEWoodrell, Daniel.
Summary: Reaching her sixteenth year in the harsh Ozarks while caring for her poverty-stricken family, Ree Dolly learns that they will lose their house unless her bail-skipping father can be found and made to appear at an upcoming court date.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Back Bay Books 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION WOODRELLBerry, Wendell
Summary: Seven Kentucky stories set in the 1940s and featuring farmer Ptolemy Proudfoot and his schoolteacher wife, Miss Minnie. In The Solemn Boy, they invite a couple of hobos to a meal, while Nearly to the Fair comprises Proudfoot's amusing reflections on travel by car. By the author of What Are People For?
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 1994
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION BERRYDrury, Bob
Summary: "The explosive true saga of the legendary figure, Daniel Boone, and the bloody struggle for America's frontier by two bestselling authors at the height of their writing power--Bob Drury and Tom Clavin. It is the mid-eighteenth century, and in the 13 colonies founded by Great Britain, anxious colonists desperate to conquer and settle North America's "First Frontier" beyond the Appalachian...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 976.9 DRURYHall, James W. (James Wilson)
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Minotaur 2005
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1 available in Adult Mystery, Call number: MYSTERY HALLJohnstone, William W.
Summary: Honed by hardship, steeped in survival and carrying the last name of the man who raised him, eighteen-year-old Matt Jensen hunts down the band of outlaws who murdered his family nine years ago.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wheeler Pub. 2010
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP WESTERN JOHNSTONEFaragher, John Mack
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Publisher / Publication Date: Holt 1993
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 976.9 BOONE FARAGHERHarington, Donald.
Summary: What starts out as a suspenseful recounting of child abduction evolves into the story of eight-year-old Robin Kerr growing up in the wilds of the Ozarks, left to fend for herself on a remote, inaccessible mountain-top.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Toby Press 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION HARINGTONJohnstone, William W.
Contents: Trail of the mountain man / William W. Johnstone -- Return of the mountain man / William W. Johnstone.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Adult Western, Call number: WESTERN JOHNSTONERylant, Cynthia.
Summary: Reminiscences of the pleasures of life in the mountains as a child.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton Children's Books 1982
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1 available in Picture Books, Call number: E RYLCopies Available at Birch Street Elementary
1 available in Picture Books, Call number: JE RYLANTVance, J. D.
Summary: "Hillbilly Elegy is [an] analysis of a culture in crisis -- that of poor, white Americans. The disintegration of this group, a process that has been slowly occurring now for over forty years, has been reported with growing frequency and alarm, but has never before been written about as searingly from the inside. In Hillbilly Elegy, J.D. Vance tells the true story of what a social, regional, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in CD, Call number: CD ADULT 530Borden, Louise.
Summary: A young boy, living in rural Kentucky, looks forward to the annual Christmas festivities, especially the traditional family cream candy; but, when his favorite dog disappears, he comes to realize that tradition and family have a deeper meaning.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 1994
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1 available in Holiday Collection, Call number: JE HOLIDAY BORDENMatson, Morgan.
Summary: "Taylor Edwards' family might not be the closest-knit--everyone is a little too busy and overscheduled--but for the most part, they get along just fine. Then Taylor's dad gets devastating news, and her parents decide that the family will spend one last summer all together at their old lake house in the Pocono Mountains. Crammed into a place much smaller and more rustic than they are used to,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books For Young Readers 2012
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1 available in Fiction, Call number: FIC MATDowell, Frances O'Roark.
Summary: 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2000
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1 available in Fiction, Call number: [Fic] DOWMason, Bobbie Ann.
Summary: Kentucky native Nancy Culpepper boldly left home to attend school in Massachusetts, married a Yankee, and raised her son in the Northeast. Yet no matter where she travels, her rural southern heritage is never far from her thoughts, her habits, and her heart. Nancy is on a lifelong quest to understand her place in the world. Returning home to the family farm, she brings home strange ideas and an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION MASONThomas, Leah
Summary: Kalyn, living under a pseudonym, and Gus, who has cerebral palsy, get caught in an uproar in Samsboro, Kentucky as the truth about the brutal murder of Gus's father by Kalyn's comes to light.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2019
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: Y FICTION THOMASCrum, Shutta.
Summary: In the small town of Baylor, Kentucky, twelve-year-old Jessie K. Bovey and her friends confront some of life's questions during their summer vacation in the late 1960s.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Clarion Books 2003
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: Y FICTION CRUMWitt, Lana.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 1996
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION WITTJorrâin, Sylvia.
Contents: June grass rose -- Pastel country -- Racing for the gold -- Dandelion green -- Shearing past, shearing present/of course, you sell the wool -- The first day of summer -- Cows -- My grandfather, my grandson, and I -- The maple leaf -- A story of three barns -- Two stories in one : my mother's kitchen, Christmas 1993 -- January 14, 1994 -- Tomato soup -- Epiphanies and other moments -- Samantha...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2004