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1) Mean streak
Author
Language
English
Description
"Dr. Emory Charbonneau, a pediatrician and marathon runner, disappears on a mountain road in North Carolina. By the time her husband Jeff, miffed over a recent argument, reports her missing, the trail has grown cold. Literally. Fog and ice encapsulate the mountainous wilderness and paralyze the search for her. While police suspect Jeff of "instant divorce," Emory, suffering from an unexplained head injury, regains consciousness and finds herself the...
Author
Language
English
Description
Vance, a former marine and Yale Law School graduate, provides an account of growing up in a poor Rust Belt town that offers a broader, probing look at the struggles of America's white working class. The decline of this group, a demographic of our country that has been slowly disintegrating over forty years, has been reported on with growing frequency and alarm. J. D. Vance tells the true story of what a social, regional, and class decline feels like...
Author
Series
Bull Mountain volume 1
Language
English
Description
" "Brian Panowich stamps words on the page as if they've been blasted from the barrel of a shotgun, and as with a shotgun blast, no one is safe from the scattered fragments of history that impale the people of Bull Mountain."-Wiley Cash, New York Times-bestselling author of This Dark Road to Mercy. The Godfather meets Daniel Woodrell in this Southern debut, a multigenerational saga of crime, family, and vengeance. Clayton Burroughs comes from a long...
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (87 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The Parton clan is determined to scrape together enough money to buy their beloved Mama the wedding ring she's long waited for. But a fierce blizzard threatens to demolish their dream. While the family struggles to save their beloved homestead, an important person in little Dolly's life suggests that her amazing voice and musical gifts may be destined for something far beyond Tennessee's Great Smoky Mountains.
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (265 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Season two of this action packed series doesn't miss a beat as the season sets off a ripple effect that forces everyone in town to question their values. Jean learns of dark family secrets; Kopus battles his conscience; and Harold must decide where his morals lie. Can they all find a path to redemption?
6) Wrong turn
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 110 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Backwoods terror and nerve-jangling suspense meet when Jen and a group of friends set out to hike the Appalachian Trail. Despite warnings to stick to the trail, the hikers stray off course, and cross into land inhabited by The Foundation, a hidden community of mountain dwellers who use deadly means to protect their way of life. Suddenly under siege, Jen and her friends seem headed to the point of no return, unless Jen's father can reach them in time....
7) Like lions
Author
Series
Bull Mountain volume 2
Language
English
Description
"Clayton Burroughs is a small-town Georgia sheriff, a new father, and, improbably, the heir apparent of Bull Mountain's most notorious criminal family. As he tries to juggle fatherhood, his job, and his recovery from being shot in the confrontation that killed his two criminally-inclined brothers last year, he's doing all he can just to survive. Yet after years of carefully toeing the line between his life in law enforcement and his family, he finally...
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (264 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A hard-hitting drama that revolves around a local cop struggling to keep his family together while simultaneously policing two clashing communities: the small town where he grew up and the neighboring mountains, home of a Native American tribe. After a terrible tragedy and cover-up occurs involving the cop's wife, an unholy alliance is forged between the cop and Phillip Kopus, a dangerous member of the tribe that will come back to haunt all involved....
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
xviii, 410 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Steven Stoll offers a fresh, provocative account of Appalachia, from the earliest European settlers, through crucial episodes such as the Whiskey Rebellion and the founding of West Virginia, and the arrival of timber and coal companies that set off a devastating "scramble for Appalachia."--
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
5 videodiscs (457 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Wrong turn : Chris is driving through West Virginia. He takes a detour down an old dirt road, where he becomes distracted and doesn't see an SUV stuck in the middle of the road. He plows into the back after his tires suddenly blow. The driver of the SUV and Chris compare notes on their accidents, they discover that the road has been sabotaged with barbed wire. Two of the group are left to look after the cars while the others set out to find help....
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
xvi, 251 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"In the tradition of Joe Bageant's Deer Hunting With Jesus and J. D. Vance's Hillbilly Elegy, an intimate account of social change, country music, and a vanishing way of life as a Shenandoah town collides with the twenty-first century"--
13) Country dark
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Formats
Description
A taut, compelling novel set in rural Kentucky from the Korean War to 1970. Tucker, a young veteran, returns from war to work for a bootlegger. He falls in love and starts a family, and while the Tuckers don't have much, they have the love of their home and each other. But when his family is threatened, Tucker is pushed into violence, which changes everything. The story of people living off the land and by their wits in a backwoods Kentucky world...
14) 10,000 BC
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (109 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In a remote mountain tribe, the young hunter D'Leh finds his heart's passion in the beautiful Evolet. But when a band of mysterious warlords raid their village and kidnaps Evolet, D'Leh leads a small group of hunters to save her. As they venture into unknown lands for the first time, the group discovers there are civilizations beyond their own and that mankind's reach is far greater than they ever knew. At each encounter the group is joined by other...
15) Forest warrior
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 97 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
John McKenna uses his powers and skillful guidance to help a group of local youths win the battle to save their mountain.
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
5 videodiscs (823 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Get ready for some good old-fashioned fun with the Kettle family, featuring all ten of their classic films: The Egg and I; Ma and Pa Kettle; The Kettles in the Ozarks (WS); The Kettles on Old MacDonald's Farm (WS); Ma and Pa Kettle at Home; Ma and Pa Kettle at the Fair; Ma and Pa Kettle at Waikiki; Ma and Pa Kettle Back on the Farm; Ma and Pa Kettle Go to Town; and Ma and Pa Kettle on Vacation.
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
8 videodiscs (approximately 1,187 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A struggle for power and control set in the mysterious hills of modern-day Appalachia centers on the Farrell family, who behave as though they are above the law and are prepared to use any means necessary to protect their off-the-grid way of life in rural Kentucky.
18) Li'l Abner
Series
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (113 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Based on the beloved cartoon strip from Al Capp, Li'l Abner takes place in the hillbilly town of Dogpatch. When the city is chosen as a test site for A-bombs, its colorful citizens take up the good fight, with lots of fun and merriment.
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