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1) This rock
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"The Powell brothers, Muir and Moody, are as different as Cain and Abel. Muir is an innocent, a shy young man with big dreams and not the slightest idea of what to do about them. Moody, the older and wilder brother--embittered by the death of his father, by years of fighting his mother, and by his jealousy of Muir's privileged place in the family--takes to moonshine and gambling and turns his anger on his brother. Muir escapes, hoping to find something--an...
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Every gunslick from the Atlantic to the Rockies is beating a path to the gold strike. Smoke Jensen is outnumbered a hundred to one, but he recruits an army of his own: twenty aging--but still lethal--legends of the frontier in the violent sunset of their grizzled lives.
3) Christy
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 29
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930L
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"The train taking nineteen-year-old teacher Christy Huddleston from her home in Asheville, North Carolina, might as well be transporting her to another world. The Smoky Mountain community of Cutter Gap feels suspended in time, trapped by poverty, superstitions, and century-old traditions. But as Christy struggles to find acceptance in her new home, some see her - and her one-room school - as a threat to their way of life. Her faith is challenged and...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 14
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When Silas House made his debut with Clay's Quilt last year, it touched a nerve not just in his home state (where it quickly became a bestseller), but all across the country. Glowing reviews-from USA Today (House is letter-perfect with his first novel), to the Philadelphia Inquirer (Compelling. . . . House knows what's important and reminds us of the value of family and home, love and loyalty), to the Mobile Register (Poetic, haunting), and everywhere...
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"He was raised by the mountain man called Preacher, and he was said to be the fastest gun alive. Until he hung up his gun belts to raise a family. Smoke Jensen was the last mountain man and a force of nature. But Lee Slater and his gang of low-life desperadoes didn't know that. Stirring up a motherlode of trouble for the retired gunslinger was Slater's first mistake. Shooting Smoke Jensen's wife Sally was his second"--Page 2 of cover.
7) Chill factor
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Lilly and Dutch Burton's marriage didn't withstand the loss of their three-year-old daughter, despite their attempt at a fresh start with the purchase of a vacation cabin in bucolic Cleary, N.C. Dutch is now Cleary's chief of police, and Lilly is a magazine editor in Atlanta. As she races back to the city to beat a blizzard, her car skids out, striking a hiker emerging from the woods. Turns out he's a man she knows: handsome freelance writer Ben Tierney,...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 12
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In the rural town of Big Stone Gap, Virginia, Ave Maria Mulligan MacChesney struggles to deal with change as her daughter enters her teen years, growing more and more strong-willed, and Ave Maria embarks on a journey into her past that she never thought she would take.
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Judge Deborah Knott, having doubts about her impending marriage, decides to get some breathing room by agreeing to fill in for a vacationing judge in Cedar Gap, a community about five hours from her home, but she arrives just in time to preside over a murder case, and soon her theories about the killing put her own life in danger.
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"Chad, an orphan from the little town of Kingdom Come in the Cumberland Mountains of Kentucky, finds his way into an affluent, slave-owning bluegrass community with his dog Jack just before the Civil War breaks out. Befriended by the aristocratic Major Calvin Buford, he begins a new life as "Chadwick Buford, Gentleman." -- Cover.
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The shiny aluminum tree was the symbol of everything he thought was right in their lives and everything she thought was wrong. It was 1958 and Jimmy Jackson had it all: a wife, two kids, and the promotion that was his ticket to success. Finally, he could afford all those things he had gazed at in the Sears Roebuck catalog. But now that he had the money, would he find that the true cost was more than he could pay?
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 12
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In this sequel to Big Stone Gap (LJ 4/1/00), it's now the late 1980s, and Ave Maria and Jack MacChesney have been married 11 years. They have a ten-year-old daughter, Etta, but lost their younger child, Joe, a few years earlier. This loss and other marital stresses have tested their relationship, but the summer brings on the biggest trial yet. As Jack tries to launch a new construction business in Big Stone Gap, VA, Ave Maria and Etta take off for...
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The spectacular, history-making first novel about a young man's coming of age by literary legend Thomas Wolfe, first published in 1929 and long considered a classic of twentieth century literature.
A legendary author on par with William Faulkner and Flannery O'Connor, Thomas Wolfe published Look Homeward, Angel, his first novel, about a young man's burning desire to leave his small town and tumultuous family in search of a better...
A legendary author on par with William Faulkner and Flannery O'Connor, Thomas Wolfe published Look Homeward, Angel, his first novel, about a young man's burning desire to leave his small town and tumultuous family in search of a better...
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Big Stone Gap novels volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 12
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Nestled in the lush Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia, the town of Big Stone Gap has been home to Ave Maria Mulligan MacChesney and her family for generations. She's been married to her beloved Jack for nearly twenty years, raised one child and buried another, and run a business that binds her community together, all while holding close her tight circle of family and friends. But with her daughter Etta, having flown the nest to Italy, Ave Maria has...
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"Lucien (Lucy) Minor is the resident odd duck in the bucolic hamlet of Bury. Friendless and loveless, young and aimless, Lucy is a compulsive liar, a sickly weakling in a town famous for producing brutish giants. Then Lucy accepts employment assisting the Majordomo of the remote, foreboding Castle Von Aux. While tending to his new post as Undermajordomo, Lucy soon discovers the place harbors many dark secrets, not least of which is the whereabouts...
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Gap Creek volume 01
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 17
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When seventeen-year-old Julie Harmond and Hank Richards marry and move to Gap Creek, North Carolina, they must struggle to survive floods, disease, and poverty in late nineteenth century Appalachia.
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