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A Swiss orphan must leave her beloved grandfather and happy mountain top home to go to school and to care for an invalid girl in the city.

While attending a strict academy for potential princesses with the other girls from her mountain village, fourteen-year-old Miri discovers unexpected talents and connections to her homeland.

There's Nothing A Man Won't Do To Clear His Name. They called him fastest gun alive, but Smoke Jensen is determined to stay on the right side of the law. That is, until he's jumped by six low-life robbers who steal his shirt--and his identity. Smoke's tried for robbery and murder, and sentenced to hang in morning. Someone's out to frame the Mountain Man . . . someone who's made a big mistake. Justice--Mountain Man Style. Barely managing to escape...

"Thor Norgaard hasn't spoken to anyone in his twenty-eight years, but when the young widow he loves crosses an ocean to live on his Appalachian farm, this reclusive alcoholic will brave much more than words to heal her heart"-- When Aven Norgaard leaves Norway to serve as housekeeper to her late husband's cousins in Appalachia, she expects lads in need of care, not three grown men, each in need of a wife and bound by a powerful brotherhood. As the...

Bootlegger Rory Docherty has returned home to the fabled mountain of his childhood - a misty wilderness that holds its secrets close and keeps the outside world at gunpoint. Slowed by a wooden leg and haunted by memories of the Korean War, Rory runs bootleg whiskey for a powerful mountain clan in a retro-fitted '40 Ford coupe. Between deliveries to roadhouses, brothels, and private clients, he lives with his formidable grandmother, evades federal...

This is our most popular title as far as accumulating files of fan letters. Stella Patterson may have been over 80 when she wrote this book, but like Grandma Moses, she most certainly had a lot of talent! Told by her doctor she had "young legs, " this city lady at age 80 vowed to spend one full year on her remote mountain mining claim for solitude to write. Instead came the challenges of this vastly different life: frightening storms, homesickness,...

Following a family tragedy, siblings Lou and Oz must leave New York and adjust to life in the Virginia mountains—but just as the farm begins to feel like home, they'll have to defend it from a dark threat in this New York Times bestselling coming-of-age story.
Precocious twelve-year-old Louisa Mae Cardinal lives in the hectic New York City of 1940 with her family. Then tragedy strikes—and Lou and her younger brother, Oz, must...

Revenge of the Mountain Man: Smoke Jensen returns from a cattle buying trip to discover that his wife has been shot by outlaws, and is determined to track down her attackers. Vengeance of the Mountain Man: Just when it seemed that Smoke Jensen's life had settled down to something resembling normal ... He's all but forgotten the vicious young gunfighter who called himself Sundance. Smoke had hoped to teach that twisted kid a lesson by shooting off...

Ave Maria Mulligan has lived her whole life in tiny Big Stone Gap, a picturesque coal-mining town nestled in the hollers of southwestern Virginia. When she's not making deliveries from her family's pharmacy to far-flung neighbors, Ave Maria directs the annual outdoor drama festival, keeps chaste company with her longtime beau, Theodore, and exchanges good-natured barbs with local hunk Jack MacChesney.

In country stores and diners, old men gather over breakfast and coffee to swap tall tales. The fish are bigger, danger greater, and adventures wilder in the stories told at a Liars' Table. No harm in stretching the truth when nothing exciting happens in their small town. Until someone steals Purvis Webb's car. Life is hard enough. A wife in a nursing home. An estranged daughter. A grandson he didn't know existed. Unable to accept one more indignity,...