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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Description
"The Great Recession of 2008 left many young professionals out of work. Promising careers were suddenly ended as banks, hedge funds, and law firms engaged in mass lay-offs and brutal belt tightening. Samantha Kofer was a third year associate at Scully & Pershing, New York City's largest law firm. Two weeks after Lehman Brothers collapsed, she lost her job, her security, and her future. A week later she was working as an unpaid intern in a legal aid...
Author
Series
Emma Graham mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Distributed by Random House
Pub. Date
1996
Language
English
Author
Language
English
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Set in the mountains of southern Appalachia, the story of a boy born to a teenaged single mother in a single-wide trailer, with no assets beyond his dead father's good looks and copper-colored hair, a caustic wit, and a fierce talent for survival. In a plot that never pauses for breath, relayed in his own unsparing voice, he braves the modern perils of foster care, child labor, derelict schools, athletic success, addiction, disastrous loves, and crushing...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"Small-town Appalachia doesn't have a lot going for it, but it's where Brian is from, where his family is, and where he's chosen to return to die. At eighteen, Brian, like so many other promising young gay men, arrived in New York City without much more than a love for the freedom and release from his past that it promised. But within six short years, AIDS would claim his lover, his friends, and his future. With nothing left in New York but memories...
Author
Series
Northampton County novels volume 3
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Another spring, another dead girl pulled from a lake in the Appalachian foothills: the latest victim in a series of murders with few leads. But Detective Geena Brassard and her partner, Parker Reed, finally land a break when they receive a tip about a previously unknown survivor of the so-called Spring Strangler. The survivor's reluctant to help with the case for reasons that aren't all clear. Even so, Geena uncovers a connective thread between the...
Author
Series
Riverbend romance volume 2
Language
English
Description
"Avery Robinson decided to be a physician after helplessly watching her mother lose a battle with a terrible disease. Now at risk of developing the same illness, Avery guards her heart from love. She's driven to protect her loved ones as a workaholic doctor in the tiny mountain town of Riverbend Gap, North Carolina. Contractor Wes Garrett is hiking the Appalachian trail, in memory of the man who died saving his life, when an illness racks his body....
Author
Language
English
Description
"Haunted by her sister's mysterious disappearance, Lucy Wilson arrives in Rowan County, Kentucky, in the spring of 1911 to work for Cora Wilson Stewart, superintendent of education. When Cora sends Lucy into the hills to act as scribe for the mountain people, she is repelled by the primitive conditions and intellectual poverty she encounters. Few adults can read and write.Born in those hills, Cora knows the plague of illiteracy. So does Brother Wyatt,...
Author
Publisher
Navona
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
Español
Description
Ambientada en las montañas del sur de los Apalaches, Demon Copperhead es la historia de un muchacho nacido de una madre soltera adolescente en una caravana, sin más patrimonio que el buen aspecto y el pelo cobrizo de su difunto padre, un ingenio cáustico.
Set in the southern Appalachian mountains, Demon Copperhead is the story of a boy born to a teenage single mother in a trailer, with no assets other than his late father's good looks and copper...
Author
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books
Pub. Date
c2019
Language
English
Description
In Strickland County, a forgotten stretch of land in southern Appalachia, there isn't a lot of anything to go around. But when eighteen-year-old Harlowe Compton's brother is killed by the Praters, the family who controls everything from the mines to the law to the opioid trade, he wonders if the future will ever hold more than loss. With Tennessee, Harlowe feels for the first time that something good might happen, that he might have found the rarest...
14) Stay and fight
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"This hilarious, truth-telling debut upends notions of family, protest, and Appalachia, and forces us to reimagine an America we think we know"--
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
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Description
Witnessing his younger brother's accidental death, teenaged Kevin spends the summer traumatized in his grandfather's Appalachia coal-mining community, which is fighting plans for a massive mountaintop-removal operation.
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c1988
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Ruthie and her mother wonder how they will fulfill their obligation of getting the perfect Christmas tree to the town for the holiday celebration, since Papa has left the Appalachian area to go to war.
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury USA
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
While Cole alternately attempts romance with two troubled women, he also spends most of his time with the elderly patients at the nursing home where he works, desperately trying to ignore the decay of everything and everyone around him. Only when a disaster befalls these mountains is Cole forced to confront his fears and, finally, take decisive action-if not to save his world, to at least save himself.
19) Saving Wonder
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Curley Hines has lost his father, mother, and brother to coal mining, and now he lives with his grandfather in the Appalachian mountains of Wonder Gap, Kentucky--but when the mining company prepares to destroy their mountain he must use the words his grandfather has taught him to save Red Hawk Mountain, even if it means losing the life he loves.
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks Landmark
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"In her rural Appalachian holler, ten-year-old Misty's closest friends are the crawdads. Misty can speak to them, to the birds, to the creek, to everything outside, and she understands how they think. She knows that if she could just speak to her parents in the same way, she could stop all the fighting. But it's too hard. When her only friend William takes their friendship too far, Misty doesn't know how to get help. This is the story of one tough-as-nails...
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