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Series
John Puller novels volume 1
Description
Combat veteran John Puller, now working as an investigator for the Army's Criminal Investigative Division, tries to solve the murder of an Army man and his Pentagon contractor wife in their isolated rural home.
23) Project princess
Author
Series
Princess diaries volume 4
Publisher
HarperTrophy
Pub. Date
2003
Physical Desc
50, 5 p. ; 18 cm.
Description
Princess Mia and her friends volunteer to build a house for the less fortunate during their spring break.
24) Shiner
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
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Description
"An hour from the closest West Virginia mining town, fifteen-year-old Wren Bird lives in a cloistered mountain cabin with her parents. They have no car, no mailbox, and no visitors-except for her mother's lifelong best friend. Every Sunday, Wren's fatherdelivers winding sermons in an abandoned gas station, where he takes up serpents and praises the Lord for his blighted white eye, proof of his divinity and key to the hold he has over the community,...
25) Witch catcher
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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.
Author
Series
Refined by love volume 2
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Description
"Rose McKay has just graduated from the Philadelphia School of Design for Women and is now making every effort to succeed in the pottery business in post-Civil War West Virginia, including taking advice from her handsome competitor--but has she put her trust in the wrong man?"--
27) Close to famous
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2011.
Physical Desc
250 pages ; 22 cm
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.
Author
Series
Appalachian blessings volume 1
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Description
In small town West Virginia, 1954, one newcomer's special gift with food produces both gratitude and censure. Will Perla Long and her daughter find a home there?"--
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
360 pages ; 22 cm
Description
"Javari knew that West Virginia would be different from his home in Bushwick, Brooklyn. But his first day at STEM Camp in a little Appalachian town is still a shock. Though run-ins with the police are just the same here. Not good. Javari will learn a lotabout science...And also about rich people, racism, and hidden agendas. But it's Cricket, a local boy, budding activist, and occasional thief, who will show him a different side of the holler--and...
30) The poison flood
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
278 pages ; 24 cm
Description
"Hollis Bragg lives on the fringes. The hunchbacked son of a West Virginia hill preacher, he now resides in rural isolation next to the burned-out husk of his father's church, and earns his living ghostwriting songs for a popular band that left the poverty and corruption of Appalachia and never looked back. It's the life he prefers, free from the harsh glare of the spotlight and attachments that lead only to heartbreak. Then, much to his consternation,...
31) Bitter river
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Phone calls before dawn are never good news. And when you're the county's prosecuting attorney, calls from the sheriff are rarely good news, either. So when Bell Elkins picks up the phone she already knows she won't like what she's about to hear: 16-year-old Lucinda Trimble's body has been found at the bottom of Bitter River. And Lucinda didn't drown -- she was dead before her body ever hit the water. With a case like that, Bell knows the coming weeks...
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Pub. Date
2023.
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Description
"In 1874, in the wake of the War, erasure, trauma, and namelessness haunt civilians and veterans, renegades and wanderers, freedmen and runaways. Twelve-year-old ConaLee, the adult in her family for as long as she can remember, finds herself on a buckboard journey with her mother, Eliza, who hasn't spoken in more than a year. They arrive at the Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum in West Virginia, delivered to the hospital's entrance by a war veteran who...
33) Fault lines
Author
Publisher
Running Press Teens
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
379 pages ; 21 cm
Description
In rural West Virginia, anti-fracking teen Viv discovers an ability to sense forests' energy, a power that becomes heightened the more she interacts with Dex, the new boy in town.
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
vii, 286 pages ; 24 cm.
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
Greenwillow Books
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
233 p. ; 22 cm.
Description
Eleven-year-old Charlotte is not a dog person but does not like that the rest of her family neglects their Saint Bernard puppy, and so with a lot of determination and a little sneakiness, she works on finding a good home for the gentle giant.
36) The mine wars
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (120 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Looks at the West Virginia Mine wars that took place 1897-1921 which developed out of a dispute between coal companies and the coal miners.
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Appears on these lists
Description
"Journalist Walls grew up with parents whose ideals and stubborn nonconformity were their curse and their salvation. Rex and Rose Mary and their four children lived like nomads, moving among Southwest desert towns, camping in the mountains. Rex was a charismatic, brilliant man who, when sober, captured his children's imagination, teaching them how to embrace life fearlessly. Rose Mary painted and wrote and couldn't stand the responsibility of providing...
Author
Series
Bell Elkins mysteries volume 8
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
viii, 306 pages ; 25 cm
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
vii, 354 pages ; 25 cm.
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....
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