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Published Aug 2015
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by Susan Tekulve
Published Apr 2013
Read ReviewsBleak, harrowing, and beautifully told, In the Garden of Stone is a haunting saga of endurance and redemption.
by Tony Earley
Published Aug 2009
Read ReviewsJim Glass has fallen in love with his classmate Chrissie Steppe. Unfortunately, Chrissie is Bucky Bucklaw's girlfriend, and Bucky has joined the navy on the eve of war. Jim vows to win Chrissie's heart in his absence, but the war makes high school less than a safe haven and gives a young man's emotions a grown man's gravity.
by Tawni O'Dell
Published May 2008
Read ReviewsShae-Lynn Penrose is former police officer with a closet full of miniskirts, a sharp tongue, and a tendency to deal with men by either beating them up or taking them to bed. But when the younger sister she thought was dead arrives on her doorstep, followed closely by a gun-wielding Russian gangster, a shady New York lawyer, and a desperate ...
by Jennifer Haigh
Published Dec 2005
Read ReviewsA compelling story of love and loss in a western Pennsylvania mining town in the years after World War II.
by Barbara Freese
Published Feb 2004
Read Reviews'Offers an exquisite chronicle of the rise and fall of this bituminous black mineral.... Part history and part environmental argument, Freese's elegant book teaches an important lesson about the interdependence of humans and their natural environment both for good and ill throughout history.'
by Linda Scott DeRosier
Published Jul 2002
Read ReviewsA humorous and poignant memoir of an educated and cultured woman who came of age in Appalachia. A story of relationships, the challenges and consequences of choice, and the impact of the past on the present.
by Robert R. Morgan
Published Oct 2000
Read ReviewsSet in the last years of the nineteenth century. Julie and Hank's new life in the valley of Gap Creek, in the Appalachian high country, is more complicated than the couple ever imagined.
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