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Author
Publisher
Penguin Young Readers Group
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Formats
Description
Twelve-year-old Foster McFee and her mother escape from her mother's abusive boyfriend and end up in the small town of Culpepper, West Virginia, where they use their strengths and challenge themselves to build a new life, with the help of the friends they make there.
2) Shiloh
Author
Series
Shiloh quartet volume 1
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
When he finds a lost beagle in the hills behind his West Virginia home, Marty tries to hide it from his family and the dog's real owner, a mean-spirited man known to shoot deer out of season and to mistreat his dogs.
3) Key of valor
Author
Series
Publisher
Doubleday Large Print
Pub. Date
2004
Edition
Large ptint ed.
Physical Desc
546 p. ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
""Fate brings three women together for a chance to unlock their deepest desires in the Key Trilogy. Now, in the stunning conclusion, it's Zoe's turn... Growing up, Zoe McCourt did not have an easy life--some might call it ""disadvantaged."" A hairstylist from a West Virginia trailer park, she ended up in beautiful Pleasant Valley, Pennsylvania, by sheer determination. How she ended up on a quest for a key to unlock the soul of a warrior demigoddess...
4) Zero day
Author
Series
John Puller novels volume 1
Language
English
Description
Military investigator John Puller is called out to a remote, rural area far from any military outpost to investigate the brutal murder of a family in their home. The dead husband was in the army and the wife worked for a Pentagon contractor. The local homicide detective, a woman with personal demons of her own, clashes with Puller over the investigation. What neither of them knows is what is waiting for them across the street from the murdered family's...
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
371 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
In this novel a mother and a daughter try to do right by a town and each other before it is too late. What is happening in Acker's Gap, West Virginia? Three elderly men are gunned down over their coffee at a local diner, and seemingly half the town is there to witness the act. Still, it happened so fast, and no one seems to have gotten a good look at the shooter. Was it random? Was it connected to the spate of drug violence plaguing poor areas...
Author
Series
Publisher
Silhouette
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Formats
Description
Don't miss the first book in the beloved Stanislaski series from #1 New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts!
When Spence Kimball sets eyes on Natasha Stanislaski, he's thunderstruck by the intensity of his attraction to the foreign beauty. While the former ballet dancer turned toy shop owner has a fiery temperament that keeps most men safely at bay, Spence can't seem to resist her. But he isn't sure Natasha would be
...Author
Series
Hope River novels volume 2
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
409, 8 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
The Great Depression has hit West Virginia hard. Men are out of work; women struggle to feed hungry children. Luckily, Nurse Becky Myers has returned to care for them. While she can handle most situations, Becky is still uneasy helping women deliver their babies. For these mothers-to-be, she relies on an experienced midwife, her dear friend Patience Murphy.
Author
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
"Miss Layla Beck, the daughter of a powerful Senator from Delaware refuses to marry the gentleman her father has chosen for her and is forced to get a job working for the FWP to write the first official account of Maecdonian History. Her notions of real life--the social whirl of Newport and New York--are totally upended and she despairs in rooming with the overly eccentric Romeyn family in such a small backwater town. The Romeyn family is a fixture...
11) Bitter River
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First Minotaur Books paperback edition.
Physical Desc
ix, 400 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Phone calls before dawn from the sheriff are rarely good news. When Bell Elkins picks up the phone she already knows she won't like what she's about to hear, but she's still not prepared for this: Lucinda Trimble's body has been found at the bottom of Bitter River-- and she was dead before her body ever hit the water. Searching for the truth, both behind Lucinda's murder and behind her own complicated relationships, will lead Bell down a path that...
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
390 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
After her role in a family tragedy in the midst of the Great Depression, fifteen-year-old Thea Atwell has been cast out of her Florida home to an equestrian boarding school for Southern debutantes; she must grapple with her responsibility for the events that led her to the school.
13) Witch catcher
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Formats
Description
Having just moved into the West Virginia home they inherited from a distant relative, twelve-year-old Jen is surprised that her father is already dating a local antiques dealer, but more surprised by what the spooky woman really wants.
14) Missing May
Author
Publisher
Orchard Books
Pub. Date
c1992
Physical Desc
89 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
After the death of the beloved aunt who has raised her, twelve-year-old Summer and her uncle Ob leave their West Virginia trailer in search of the strength to go on living. Twelve-year-old Summer, her classmate Cletus, and her grieving Uncle Ob set off across West Virginia in search of a "Small Medium at Large" in fond hopes of reaching Aunt May beyond the grave. Their journey is heartening, funny, and altogether unforgettable.
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books, St. Martin's Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First Minotaur Books paperback edition.
Physical Desc
v, 376 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"High summer in Acker's Gap, West Virginia--but no one's enjoying the rugged natural landscape. Not while a killer stalks the small town and its hard-luck inhabitants. County prosecutor Bell Elkins and Sheriff Nick Fogelsong are stymied by a murderer who seems to come and go like smoke on the mountain. At the same time, Bell must deal with the return from prison of her sister, Shirley--who, like Bell, carries the indelible scars of a savage past....
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
[2015].
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
372 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
From the night-black depths of a coalmine to the sun-struck peaks of the Appalachian Mountains, from a riveting murder mystery to a poignant meditation on the meaning of love and family, the latest novel in the critically acclaimed series strikes out for new territory: the sorrow and outrage that spring from a real-life chapter in West Virginia history. Royce Dillard doesn't remember much about the day his parents-and one hundred and twenty-three...
17) Troublemaker
Author
Series
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
384 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
For Morgan Yancy, an operative and team leader in a paramilitary group, nothing comes before his job. But when he's ambushed and almost killed, his supervisor is determined to find out who's after the members of his elite squad--and why. Due to worries that this unknown enemy will strike again, Morgan is sent to a remote location and told to lay low and stay vigilant. But between a tempting housemate he's determined to protect and a deadly threat...
Author
Publisher
Dzanc Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
246 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"Frankie is an orphan (or a reluctant wife). Mave is an autodidact (or the town pariah). Nan is an artist (or the town whore). Each separately haunted, Frankie, Mave, and Nan - with a hound in tow - set out in an Oldsmobile Royale for Abiqui©ð and the desert of Georgia O'Keeffe, seeking an escape from everything they've known.Frankie records the journey in letters to her aunt Mave's dead lover, a linguist named Ruth, sketching out her troubled life...
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
286 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"The first drug overdose comes just after midnight, when a young woman dies on the dirty floor of a gas station bathroom. To the people of the small town of Acker's Gap, West Virginia, it is just another tragedy. It is sad--but these days, depressingly familiar. But then there is another overdose. And another. And another. Prosecutor Bell Elkins soon realizes that her Appalachian hometown is facing its starkest challenge yet: a day of constant heroin...
Author
Publisher
Swallow Press/Ohio University Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
224 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Goshen Road is an elegiac, unvarnished, and empathetic portrait of one working-class family over two decades in rural West Virginia, with sisters Dessie and Billie Price as its urgently beating heart. Bonnie Proudfoot captures them, their husbands, and their children as they balance on the divide between Appalachia old and new, struggling for survival and reconciling themselves with past hurts and future uncertainties as the economy and culture shift...
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