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1972. While the Vietnam War rages overseas and his beloved Pirates battle back-to-back World Series titles, Matt Plumley's family moves to Dogwood, West Virginia, where he quickly bonds with two unlikely friends for a preacher's kid: Dickie Darrel Lee Hancock, a mixed-race boy, and Jesse Woods, a tough-as-nails Appalachian girl. As the trio traipses the hills and hollers, Matt falls for Jesse, and their promises to each other draw him deeper into...
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Sheriff Elven Hallie volume 1
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"A lifeless girl slips into the river, cold and crumpled. Her body washes away with the rain. Her killer remains a mystery. Sheriff Elven Hallie has been longing for a new case that would add some excitement to his small-town life. But a dead girl wasn't what he expected. On the last murder case he worked, he was just a deputy with an experienced Sheriff to guide him and they were looking for an outsider. This time, he's in charge, and the killer...
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Refined by love volume 2
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English
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"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?"--
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Appalachian blessings volume 2
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English
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"In 1970s West Virginia, a family tragedy derails Henry Phillips's college studies, and he returns home to Appalachia feeling devastated and desperate. Can a sweet and unique young girl and her older sister help him find his way again?"--
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Children's Press, an Imprint of Scholastic Inc
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[2014]
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English
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As the only state to be located entirely within a mountain range, West Virginia has a unique landscape. Readers will tour the states peaks and valleys as they learn about its history, government, and economy. They will also discover what it is like to live in the Appalachian Mountains as they experience the states rich cultural heritage.
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Red Hen Press
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[2021]
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English
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"Summer of the Cicadas is about a West Virginian town where a brood of Magicicadas emerges for the first time in seventeen years. The cicadas damage crops and trees, and swarm locals. Jessica, a former cop whose entire family was killed in a car crash two years earlier, is deputized during the crisis. Throughout the book, Jessica must deal with her feelings for her sister's best friend, Natasha, who is a town council member. After Fish and Wildlife...
9) Troublemaker
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Isabeau Maran, a police chief in a West Virginia mountain town, crosses paths with Morgan Yancy, the leader of a paramilitary group who's been ambushed and almost killed.
For Morgan Yancy, an operative and team leader in a paramilitary group, nothing comes before his job. But when he's ambushed and almost killed, his supervisor is determined to find out who's after the members of his elite squad-- and why. For his safety, Morgan is sent to a remote...
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Find out about the bizarre creatures that live in West Virginia. Rosemary Ellen Guiley lives in Connecticut and is one of the leading experts on the paranormal, with more than 50 published books on the subject, including The Encyclopedia of Ghosts & Spirits (978-0-8160-6737-4) and The Encyclopedia of Witches, Witchcraft, & Wicca (978-0-8160-7104-3). She has worked full time in the paranormal since 1983, researching, investigating, writing, and presenting...
12) Shiloh
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Shiloh quartet volume 1
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English
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When he finds a lost beagle in the hills behind his West Virginia home, Marty tries to hide it from his family and the dog's real owner, a mean-spirited man known to shoot deer out of season and to mistreat his dogs.
13) The pledge
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Bridgestone Multimedia Group
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[2013]
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English
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Tory Hedderman is a typical, self-centered 16-year-old with the motto, 'If it doesn't have to do with me, why should I care?' However, when Tory is caught vandalizing a statue of a World War I vet, he is ordered to perform community service at a local veterans' home where he comes face to face with those who teach him about the sacrifices that have been made for the country. Features footage of real veterans sharing their thoughts on patriotism and...
14) Wild hearts
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Secrets and lies trilogy volume 1
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English
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"Dallas Phillips refuses to believe her father committed suicide, even though things were tough on his farm and he was deeply in debt. When she hears he'd told a neighbor about an upcoming windfall, she grows suspicious, and her suspicion only deepens when she realizes someone is lurking in the nearby mountains after dark. For help, she turns to Trey Jakes, local police chief--and her former lover. As they begin to investigate, another mystery comes...
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Shiloh quartet volume 4
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English
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"Marty and his best friend, Shiloh are on another adventure. Marty learns when a secret is too dangerous to keep, and that hate can spread like fire"--
16) Second sight
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Jigsaw files volume 2
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"When Charlie Dodge gets a phone call from a frantic woman stating her daughter has been kidnapped by her ex-husband and taken into a cult called Fourth Dimension, he takes the case without hesitation. The cult's rumored purpose is to gather men with psychic abilities with the goal of breeding a race of people who have supernatural powers. Once accepted into the cult, men are given a young girl to marry in exchange for one of their own daughters....
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This early novel from bestselling author James Lee Burke is a gritty coming-of-age story about a young Kentucky miner growing up in the Appalachian mountains who's torn between his family life and the lure of the city.
James Lee Burke, a writer who can touch you in ways few writers can brings his brilliant feel for time and place to this stunning story of Appalachia in the early 1960s. Here, Perry Woodson Hatfield James, a young man torn between...
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An award-winning journalist takes us deep into the Appalachian Mountains where the last truly quiet town of America exists and where its residents live a life free from constant digital connectivity, challenging us to rethink the role of tech in our lives.
Deep in the Appalachian Mountains, Green Bank, West Virginia, is a place at once futuristic and old-fashioned. It is home to the Green Bank Observatory, where astronomers search the depths of the...
19) The escape
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John Puller novels volume 3
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English
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"When John Puller's older brother Robert inexplicably escapes from the military's most secure prison, where he's being held for national security crimes, Puller finds himself part of an investigation to hunt down his own brother. As he digs more deeply into the case, Puller discovers troubling details about his brother's conviction and that someone is out there who doesn't want the truth to ever come out." --
20) Cropped to death
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Henery Press
Pub. Date
[2012]
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English
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"Former US Army JAG specialist, Faith Hunter, returns to her West Virginia home to work in her grandmothers' scrapbooking store determined to lead an unassuming ife after her adventure abroad turned into a disaster. But her quiet life unravels with her friend is charged with murder, and Fath inadvertently suppplied the evidence. Faith decides to cut through the scrap and piece together what really happened. With a sexy prosecutor, a determined...
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