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Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 90 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
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.
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (264 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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....
3) Like lions
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
307 pages ; 25 cm.
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...
Author
Description
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.
Pub. Date
2015
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (265 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
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?
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
290 pages ; 24 cm.
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...
7) Deliverance
Pub. Date
©2007
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (109 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
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...
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
219 pages ; 23 cm
Description
"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...
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
264 pages ; 24 cm.
Description
Shares the story of the author's family and upbringing, describing how they moved from poverty to an upwardly mobile clan that included the author, a Yale Law School graduate, while navigating the demands of middle class life and the collective demons of the past.
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
268 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Description
"Pulled from the vast Foxfire archive, ... [some] twenty-one oral histories from southern Appalachian women whose remarkable narratives illuminate a diverse regional culture held together by the threads that are woven between women and place, and through generations. These stories, told sometimes with humor, sometimes with sadness, but always with a gripping rawness and honesty, recount women's lived experiences from 1967 to the present, from Georgia...
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