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"Tara Westover was seventeen the first time she set foot in a classroom. Born to survivalists in the mountains of Idaho, she prepared for the end of the world by stockpiling home-canned peaches and sleeping with her "head-for-the-hills bag." In the summer she stewed herbs for her mother, a midwife and healer, and in the winter she salvaged in her father's junkyard. The family was so isolated from mainstream society that there was no one to ensure...
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"Anyone will tell you the born of this world are marked from the get-out, win or lose." Demon Copperhead is set in the mountains of southern Appalachia. It’s 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. In a plot that never pauses for breath, relayed in his own unsparing voice, he braves...
4) The field
Publisher
Artisan Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2001
Physical Desc
1 DVD (113 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The field is a plot of land in rural Ireland, rented and tended by an old man. When the owner sells the land to an American developer, the old man decides to fight the change, regardless of the cost.
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Jay's gay agenda volume 1
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Growing up in rural Washington as the only out gay kid means Jay is constantly bombarded with reminders that everyone around him can hook up and have relationships, but his list of love-related to-do's -- his own gay agenda -- is indefinitely, frustratingly, on hold. His parents suddenly move the family to Seattle right before his senior year, however, and the thriving LGBTQ+ community means he can finally begin checking things off his list! Will...
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Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
261 p. ; 25 cm.
Description
"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...
10) Parched
Publisher
Wolfe
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (116 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Traces the sale of four ordiary women who begin to question the century-old traditions that lock them in servitude. One fateful night, they take a bold step that will change their lives.
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Publisher
West Virginia University Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
216 pages ; 21 cm
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"Two friends travel around Pennsylvania, passing farm debris, mine ruins, and fracking waste. They show why, amidst all the desperation, there is still a community of hope, filled with survivors who offer joy, laughter, good will, and people looking out for their neighbors"--
12) Show me the gold
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Series
Show me mysteries volume 3
Publisher
Five Star, A part of Gale, Cengage Learning
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
303 pages
Description
"Staking out a country graveyard to catch vandals ex-spy Phoenix Smith and Acting Sheriff Annalynn Keyser respond to a neighboring county's urgent call. The old friends block an exit from an abandoned farmhouse where four bank robbers were spotted. The women engage in a fatal shootout but two gang members escape. Achilles Phoenix's K-9 dropout can't sniff out a trail but smells a trap set to kill pursuers. The FBI takes over the case but fails to...
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Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
c2021.
Physical Desc
xiv, 268 pages : illustrations, map ; 22 cm
Description
A chronicle based on four years of reporting follows five teenage girls as they come of age in one of the most challenging and geographically isolated regions on the Eastern seaboard--Washington County, Maine.
Publisher
Shout! Factory
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
2 blu-rays (233 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
When a man inherits a farm from his mother, he soon learns that a neighbor is trying to steal it from him; Jean de Florette's daughter Manon looks to get revenge on those who were responsible for ruining her father a decade earlier.
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Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
258 pages ; 25 cm.
Description
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.
19) Straw dogs
Series
Publisher
Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (118 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A young mathematician, David Summer, and his English wife, Amy, move to a Cornish village, seeking the quiet life. But beneath the seemingly peaceful isolation of the village lies a savagery and violence that could destroy the couple.
20) The Golden State
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Publisher
MCD, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
292 pages ; 22 cm
Description
"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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