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"Set in the mountains of southern Appalachia, Demon Copperhead is 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. Relayed in his own unsparing voice, Demon braves the modern perils of foster care, child labor, derelict schools, athletic success, addiction, disastrous loves, and crushing losses....
2) Us fools
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English
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A tragicomic, intimate American story of two precocious sisters coming of age during the Midwestern farm crisis of the 1980s.
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English
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"Set in rural southern Ohio and West Virginia, The Devil All the Time follows a cast of compelling and bizarre characters from the end of World War II to the 1960s. There's Willard Russell, tormented veteran of the carnage in the South Pacific, who can't save his beautiful wife, Charlotte, from an agonizing death by cancer no matter how much sacrificial blood he pours on his prayer log. There's Carl and Sandy Henderson, a husband-and-wife team of...
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"A man comes to awareness in a cold church in the Icelandic countryside, not knowing who he is, why he’s there or how he arrived, with a stranger staring mockingly from a few pews back. Startled by the man’s cryptic questions, he leaves—and plunges into a history spanning centuries, a past pressed into his genes that sinks him closer to some knowledge of himself. A city girl is drawn to the fjords by the memory of a blue-eyed gaze, and a generation...
6) Postcards
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Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
c1992
Physical Desc
308 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
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English
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
Widescreen.
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English
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For years, rumors of the 'Marsh Girl' have haunted Barkley Cove, a quiet town on the North Carolina coast. So, in late 1969, when handsome Chase Andrews is found dead, the locals immediately suspect Kya Clark, the so-called Marsh Girl. But Kya is not what they say. Sensitive and intelligent, she has survived for years alone in the marsh that she calls home, finding friends in the gulls and lessons in the sand. Then the time comes when she yearns to...
10) The Golden State
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English
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"In Lydia Kiesling's razor-sharp debut novel, The Golden State, we accompany Daphne, a young mother on the edge of a breakdown, as she flees her sensible but strained life in San Francisco for the high desert of Altavista with her toddler, Honey. Bucking under the weight of being a single parent-her Turkish husband is unable to return to the United States because of a “processing error”-Daphne takes refuge in a mobile home left to her by her grandparents...
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Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
258 pages ; 25 cm.
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English
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A young woman returns home with her child to her ghost-haunted father, while a religious extremist hunts the stormridden territory of southern Mississippi to find the girl who may be a savior in the apocalypse.
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Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c2009
Edition
1st ed.
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346 p. ; 24 cm.
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English
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Out of prison, Theo Mykolayenkos tirelessly clears his untamed land on the 1938 Canadian prairie and begins to heal himself and his family, but when his sister's rogue husband returns, he stirs up rancor that will end in tragedy.
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Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
2023.
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327 pages ; 22 cm.
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English
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Katie's divorce was, in a word, humiliating. So when her friend Bess offers a fresh start, a resident caretaking job at a nature preserve, Katie accepts. No matter that she's not exactly a "nature person". How har dcan it be? But from day one, something feel soff. Katie's new farmhouse looks as if the last caretaker barely moved out at all. When a frantic, terrified woman arrives late at night, expecting a safe place to hide, it's clear "caretaking"...
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Mulholland Books, Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
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vii, 293 pages ; 25 cm
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English
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After fifteen years of growing up in the Ozark hills with his widowed mother, Boady Sanden is beyond ready to move on. At high school, if he isn't being pushed around, he's being completely ignored. He dreams of glass towers and cityscapes, driven by his desire to be anywhere other than Jessup, Missouri. Then Thomas Elgin moves in across the road. Coming to know the Elgins-a black family settling into a community built on a foundation of "us" and...
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Distributed by Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
4 DVDs (approximately 761 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Green Acres is the place to be. Join Oliver and Lisa as they continue to adjust to life in Hooterville. Seeking the good, old-fashioned pleasures of country life, a Manhattan lawyer and his wife move to a farm outside Hooterville, where the eccentric citizens make the simple life complicated.
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Publisher
Melville House
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
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360 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
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"Set in failing small town in central Ohio, [this novel] asks how one manages, in an America of increasing division, to find a sense of family and community. [It focuses] on the members of three families: the Baileys, a white family who have put down deep roots in the community; the Marwats, an immigrant family that owns the town's largest employer; and the Shaws, especially young Anthony, an outsider whose very presence gently shakes the town's understanding...
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