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1) Next of kin
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[1998]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (109 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Truman Gates, a cop from Appalachia, hunts for his brother's killers in Chicago.
Author
Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
2022
Physical Desc
272 pages ; 21 cm
Description
In the Summer of 1968, when thirteen-year-old Jack Elliot overhears the barbershop men grousing, he devises a secret plan to keep his oldest brother, Pete, from the draft. If famous boys don't go to war, he'll make his brother their small town's biggest celebrity. Jack gets unexpected help when his book-smart cousin Frankie arrives in their rural Pennsylvania town for the summer. Together, they convince Jack's brothers to lead an expedition to find...
5) Songcatcher
Series
Publisher
Lions Gate Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2003
Physical Desc
1 DVD (109 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
When musicologist Doctor Lily Penleric is passed over for a prominent teaching position, she decides to leave the city to visit her sister in the rugged mountains of Appalachia. Here she discovers a wellspring of emotional tunes passed down from the original Irish and Scottish immigrants who settled in the area. Determined to document the history of the songs, she immerses herself in mountain life, falls in love with a local musician, and is profoundly...
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
352 pages
Description
"A heart stopping memoir of a wrenching Appalachian girlhood and a multilayered portrait of a misrepresented people, from Rona Jaffe Writer's Award winner Shawna Kay Rodenberg. When Shawna Kay Rodenberg was four, her father, fresh from a ruinous tour in Vietnam, spirited her family from their home in the hills of Eastern Kentucky to Minnesota, renouncing all of their earthly possessions to live in the Body, an off-the-grid End Times religious community....
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