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Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
At the request of his fellow slave Granny Judith, Christmas John risks his life to take runaways across a river from Kentucky to Ohio. Based on slave narratives recorded in the 1930s.
Author
Series
Trident deception volume 1
Publisher
Blackstone Audio, Inc
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
Unabridged.
Language
English
Description
The USS Kentucky--a Trident ballistic missile submarine carrying a full complement of 192 nuclear warheads--is about to go on a routine cruise. Not long after it reaches the open sea, however, the Kentucky receives a launch order. After receiving that launch order, it is cut off from all counter-orders and disappears into the Pacific while it makes the eight-day transit to the launch site. What the Kentucky's crew doesn't know is that those launch...
Author
Language
English
Description
Vance, a former marine and Yale Law School graduate, provides an account of growing up in a poor Rust Belt town that offers a broader, probing look at the struggles of America's white working class. The decline of this group, a demographic of our country that has been slowly disintegrating over forty years, has been reported on with growing frequency and alarm. J. D. Vance tells the true story of what a social, regional, and class decline feels like...
85) 23 blast
Publisher
Ocean Avenue Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
High school football star Travis Freeman finds himself at a crossroads when he is suddenly stricken with total and irreversible blindness. He must choose whether to limit his life due to his impairment or to continue playing high school football in his hometown of Corbin, Kentucky.
87) Above suspicion
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Formats
Description
When rookie FBI agent Mark Putnam received his first assignment in 1987, it was the culmination of a lifelong dream, if not the most desirable location. Pikeville, Kentucky, is high in Appalachian coal country, an outpost rife with lawlessness dating back to the Hatfields and McCoys. As a rising star in the bureau, however, Putnam soon was cultivating paid informants and busting drug rings and bank robbers. But when one informant fell in love with...
Author
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
c1997
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
Description
He wants power, and she wants revenge. The Best Laid Plans is full of manipulators, dirty dealers, and dastardly rascals, all snatching at power - political, financial, and sexual, or all of the above.
Against the backdrop of Washington politics and the war in Bosnia, a handsome, charismatic attorney is determined to win the presidency at all costs, while his jilted fiancée is intent on revenge and grows a media empire to destroy him. In a world...
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2008
Edition
Widescreen version.
Language
English
Description
Bushrod Gentry is a right restless man, a bullwhip-crackin', tough-brawlin' trapper passing through Barren River, Kentucky, and heading for the pelts and promise of the Northwest Territory. He'll never get there if Mary Stuart Cherne has her way. It's marryin' season, the preacher is making his annual visit to Barren River and Mary has her heart and rifle barrel set on buckskinned bachelor Bushrod.
92) Icy Sparks
Author
Publisher
HighBridge
Pub. Date
2001
Edition
Abridged
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
An Oprah's Book Club selectionSet in Appalachia during the late 1950s, this acclaimed first novel chronicles a young girl's heartbreaking battle with Tourette's syndrome.Ten-year-old Icy Sparks already has one strike against her: She's an orphan. Life becomes even more difficult when Icy develops strange symptoms: violent tics, inexplicable convulsions, sudden outbursts, and uncontrollable cursing that accompany her rare neurological disorder. Her...
94) Wake the bones
Author
Publisher
Macmillan Audio
Pub. Date
2022
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
After dropping out of college, nineteen-year-old Laurel Early returns to her uncle's tobacco farm, where she encounters a monster as well as her mother's ghost, and soon Laureal realizes that she must tap into her own innate magic to save everyone she loves.
Author
Series
Bradleyville series volume 1
Publisher
Zondervan
Pub. Date
[2003], c2001
Language
English
Description
Ever since her mother's death, Jessie has dreamed of leaving the small town where she lived with her aunt and uncle in order to follow in her mother's footsteps serving the homeless, but when a labor strike threatens the town and Jessie must choose between staying and supporting her aunt and uncle and living her dream.
96) Racing Stripes
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2005
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Language
English
Description
A traveling circus accidentally leaves behind a baby zebra. The baby is then rescued by horse farmer Nolan Walsh, who takes him home to his young daughter Channing. "Stripes" is soon introduced to the farm's misfit troupe of barnyard residents. The Walsh farm borders the Turfway Racetrack, where highly skilled thoroughbreds compete for the ultra-prestigious Kentucky Crown. From the first moment Stripes lays eyes on the track, he's hooked. He knows...
97) Rides a hero
Author
Series
Publisher
Harlequin Books
Pub. Date
1989
Edition
Harlequin historical 1st ed.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Harlequin Audio
Pub. Date
2018
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
Drix thought his life was over. But the opportunity to get his life on track came with the Second Chance Program, the governor's newest initiative to get delinquents off the streets and back into society. Now he's the program's poster child. Elle, the governor's daughter, knows she lives a life of privilege. But the expectations and pressure may be too much to handle. She wants to follow her own path, whatever that means. Their connectionc is immediate,...
99) Next of kin
Author
Series
Rebel Ridge novels volume 1
Publisher
Mira
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
Hiding out in the Appalachian Mountains of Kentucky, Beth Venable, a witness to a major mob hit who even the FBI can't protect, dreams of a new life with Ryal Walker, the man she's always wanted, but must survive her old one first.
100) Magnolia Creek
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
2002
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
Description
On the eve of the Civil War, Sara Collier marries Dru Talbot just before he joins the Confederate Army. When Dru dies heroically on the battlefield, Sara rises above her grief. Then, a year after the end of the war, battle-scarred Dru surprises everyone when he returns home, still clinging to the dream of starting over with his bride.
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