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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
c2011
Physical Desc
175 p. ; 22 cm.
Description
"...Ana Maria Spagna explores the enduring human connection to place, journeying from Tijuana to a California beach to Utah's canyon country--and, always, back to the sparsely populated valley in the North Cascades that she calls home."--P. [4] of cover.
63) Beauty for ashes
Author
Series
Rendezvous novels volume 2
Pub. Date
p2011
Physical Desc
11 sound discs (13 hr., 15 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Disenchanted by his return home to Pennsylvania, 19-year-old Sam Morgan once again sets off for adventure in the American Plains of the 1820s. This time out, however, he is searching for his lost love--the Indian maiden Meadowlark.
64) Jeremiah Johnson
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (116 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Jeremiah Johnson, disillusioned by society, sets out to be a mountain man in the mid-1800s.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
447 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Description
Long ago, the legendary trapper known as Preacher took shelter with the Absaroka, and fell in love with a girl called Bird in the Tree. Twenty years later, he rescues a woman and her son from an ambush by the hated Blackfoot. The woman is Birdie, and the valiant young warrior is Hawk That Soars -- Preacher's son. Now the greatest fighter on the frontier is about to go to war, to protect a family he never knew he had. Hopelessly outnumbered by vicious...
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (ca. 570 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Life is a challenge for any priest in a small mountain town, and Father Aiden O'Connell finds himself not only dealing with a new romance for Niamh and Orla and a new garda for Bally K, but some troubles of his own as well.
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
507 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Description
Tom Dooley returned from the Civil War to a tumultuous affair with Ann Foster Melton, a married woman, and later became involved with her cousins Pauline and Laura. Tom is about to elope with Laura, who is found murdered, and he and Ann are arrested. After exonerating Ann, Tom is tried and found guilty. But why would he kill the girl he was going to run away with?
Author
Series
Ballad novels volume 9
Formats
Description
A story inspired by a true crime made famous by the Kingston Trio's folk song recording reimagines the events surrounding the murder of North Carolina mountain girl Laura Foster and the hanging of her lover, Tom Dula, in a meticulously researched account that reveals additional information that may prove Dula's innocence.
70) The walk
Author
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
155 p. : map ; 22 cm.
Description
"Set on the small farm in a New Mexico mountain valley that the author has tended since 1976, the book explores how personal history and natural history interweave in a familiar landscape. Three interrelated essays move from conflict and loss in the author's life to a place of acceptance"--Provided by publisher.
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
5 videodiscs (1237 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Television series about the Walton family living on Walton's Mountain in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia. This season is a big year for welcomes-- welcome back to John-Boy, visiting from New York, and to Grandma, finally home from the hospital. And welcome to the family for Mary Ellen and Curt's baby boy, John Curtis. But all that joy is set against the tragedy of events in the outside world. As the fall of 1939 turns into the spring of 1940,...
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (1148 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Television series about the Walton family living on Walton's Mountain in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia. In this season, the Waltons plunge into the chaos and heroism of World War II. John-Boy reports from London for "Stars and Stripes," Mary Ellen nurses the war wounded, Jason, Ben and even Jim-Bob debate joining up, and John and Olivia expand their lumber business to aid in the war effort. But the personal events are almost as dramatic: still...
Pub. Date
©2006
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (907 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Nineteen-year-old Christy Huddleston has lived a life of luxury in her cosmopolitan, turn-of-the-century hometown. Determined to reach beyond her sheltered world to help others, the headstrong schoolteacher heads for the impoverished Great Smoky Mountains of Tennessee to teach in a remote schoolhouse. As she grapples with the ignorance and poverty of the members of her new community, she strives to make a difference in the lives of the children she...
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