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Hillbilly Elegy is a passionate and personal analysis of a culture in crisis -- that of white working-class Americans. 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, but has never before been written about as searingly from the inside.
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Bull Mountain volume 1
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" "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...
3) Like lions
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Bull Mountain volume 2
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"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
[2008]
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1 videodisc (ca. 90 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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Journey into Appalachia to discover the proud legacy of the region's mountain folk. Learn how hillbillies, misunderstood as isolated and backward, have a history of achievement that has contributed significantly to our national identity.
5) Deliverance
Pub. Date
©2007
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1 videodisc (109 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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They left their troubles at the office. Left the wives and kids behind. Four men bound for the wilderness, for a great adventure--without their golf clubs. Lewis has talked his buddies Ed, Drew, and Bobby into going on a canoe trip down the Cahulawassee River, which is soon to be dammed. It was the weekend they hoped for, but it turns out to be a weekend where the destruction of nature, macho posturing, conflict between city and country folk, and...
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2015
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2 videodiscs (265 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Season two of this action pack 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?
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[2019]
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219 pages ; 23 cm
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"Bee Livingston is a nervy, teenage beauty whose beloved father's sudden death in a snake charming accident has left her alone with her abusive mother. Her one salvation is Miles, the big-city photographer who promises escape and a life full of the adventure she craves. But when Bee is caught in a dangerous cat-and-mouse game with a government man who takes her family's land and won't stop until he claims her too, it may be Torch, the boy she grew...
Pub. Date
[2015]
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2 videodiscs (264 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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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....
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c2012
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xvi, 285 p., [16] p. of plates : col. ill., maps ; 25 cm.
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Presents the stories of the sherpas who have acted as expert consultants to Westerners climbing the Himalayas, focusing in particular on Chhiring Dorje Sherpa and Pasang Lama, who survived when eleven other climbers died on K2 in August 2008.
Pub. Date
[2022]
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1 videodisc (approximately 110 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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The Rocky Mountains are the second largest mountain range on Earth, stretching some 2,000 miles from central New Mexico to the northern edge of Canada. Journey deep into the wild heart of the Rocky Mountains and experience this rugged land as never seen before, through the eyes of its iconic wildlife.
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[2018]
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240 pages ; 21 cm.
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Apple Starkington turned her back on her Native American heritage the moment she was called a racial slur for someone of white and Indian descent, not that she really even knew how to be an Indian in the first place. Too bad the white world doesn't accept her either. And so begins her quirky habits to gain acceptance. Apple's name, chosen by her Indian mother on her deathbed, has a double meaning: treasured apple of my eye, but also the negative connotation...
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