Catalog Search Results
Author
Series
Fever Devilin mysteries volume 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
Fever Devilin is a folklorist who fled the fevered halls of academia to return home to the Blue Mountain region of the Georgia Appalachians and a hopefully quiet life. While on a trip collecting folklore, Fever spots an apparition at a railroad crossing. Such apparitions are traditionally omens of evil, and when he returns home, he finds his suspicions are accurate: his friend Lucinda's two nieces have been killed in a suspicious accident. As he consoles...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 23
Language
English
Formats
Description
The coming of summer to Appalachia's Zebulon Mountain brings a blossoming in nature as well as in the lives of reclusive wildlife biologist Deanna Wolfe, young hunter Eddie Bondo, transplanted city-girl Lusa Landowski, and a pair of elderly, feuding neighbors.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
The lives of twelve-year-old Lou and her younger brother, Oz, change forever in 1940 when an accident involving their parents results in their being uprooted from their New York City home and moved to live with their great-grandmother in the mountains of Virginia.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Men and women of all ages will warm to Cramer's elegant prose and Southern charm. William Faulkner once insisted that great stories must capture the "old universal truths...love and honor and pity and pride and compassion and sacrifice." Sutter's Cross delivers the truth in grand style. Sutter's Cross is a resort town in the southern Appalachians, where people live in comfortable homes, have comfortable portfolios, and wear comfortable clothes. They...
Author
Series
Fever Devilin mysteries volume 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
Fever Devilin, born and raised amongst the hill country folk of the Georgia Appalachians, left home a long time ago and pursued an education, then a career, in the wider outside world. A folklorist by inclination and profession, he left the strange world of academia behind to return to his family-home in the if-anything-stranger mountain town he grew up in. But oddness follows Fever wherever he goes and Blue Mountain, Georgia is no different.
When...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Les, a longtime sheriff, is just weeks from retirement when he is forced to contend with the ravages of crystal meth-and his own corruption-in his small Appalachian town. Meanwhile, Becky, a park ranger with a harrowing past, finds solace amid the lyrical beauty of the North Carolina mountains. - Enduring the mistakes and tragedies that have indelibly marked them, they are drawn together by a reverence for the natural world. When an embittered elderly...
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
From award-winning novelist Idra Novey comes a deft and surprising novel with two unforgettable female voices. (Rumaan Alam) Set in the Allegheny Mountains of Pennsylvania, Take What You Need follows the estrangement and reconciliation of stepmother and daughter, Jean and Leah. Leah always felt her path diverged from Jean's and left her hometown without looking back, making a life for herself in the city as a young mother and academic. Now that Jean's...
11) Spider Mountain
Author
Series
Cam Richter novels volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
Ex-cop Cam Richter agrees to do a favor for a park ranger: investigate the assault on a young woman in a remote area of Appalachia. Since he knows the terrain better than anyone, the victim's family is hoping that Cam can break a case the local cops can't--or maybe don't want to--solve. Cam has no idea how dangerous his search will become. Because in these parts, Ginny Creigh and her extended clan destroy those who intrude into their web. The...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 26
Language
English
Description
At the age of twelve, under the Wind moon, Will is given a horse, a key, and a map, and sent alone into the Indian Nation to run a trading post as a bound boy. It is during this time that he grows into a man, learning, as he does, of the raw power it
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? Try our Materials Request Service. Submit Request