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Author
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
2001
Language
English
Description
Nealy Coleman, who left the SunStar thoroughbred horse farm years ago with her illegitimate daughter, returns a rich and powerful woman, changing the lives of everyone around her and confronting the greatest challenges of her life.
Author
Publisher
Revell, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Language
English
Description
Orphaned in the cholera epidemic of 1833, Adria Starr was cared for by a slave named Louis, a man who stayed in Springfield, Kentucky, when anyone with means had fled. A man who passed up the opportunity to escape his bondage and instead tended to the sick and buried the dead. A man who, twelve years later, is being sold by his owners despite his heroic actions. Now nineteen, Adria has never forgotten what Louis did for her. She's determined to find...
3) Horse
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A discarded painting in a junk pile, a skeleton in an attic, and the greatest racehorse in American history: from these strands, a Pulitzer Prize winner braids a sweeping story of spirit, obsession, and injustice across American history Kentucky, 1850. Jarrett, an enslaved groom, and a bay foal forge a bond of understanding that will carry the horse to record-setting victories across the South. As the nation erupts in civil war, an itinerant young...
4) The journey
Author
Series
Publisher
Barbour Pub
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
382 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Titus Fisher moves to Kentucky, escaping the girl who broke his heart, he finds his calling in woodworking, as well as a new friendship with secret artist, Suzanne Yoder.
Author
Series
New Americana volume 8
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First Kensington hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
279 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Determined to save the family farm from foreclosure, Derby-winning horse trainer Jo Beth Ellis reinvents the property as a healing retreat for horses and makes a deal with her handsome neighbor in hopes of winning a trifecta--a champion horse, a happy family and a forever love"--
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Set in Depression-era America, a breathtaking story of five extraordinary women and their remarkable journey through the mountains of Kentucky and beyond, from the author of Me Before You and The Peacock Emporium Alice Wright marries handsome American Bennett Van Cleve hoping to escape her stifling life in England. But small-town Kentucky quickly proves equally claustrophobic, especially living alongside her overbearing father-in-law. So when a call...
Author
Series
The book woman of Troublesome Creek volume 1
Language
English
Description
"Cussy Mary Carter is the last of her kind, her skin the color of a blue damselfly in these dusty hills. But that doesn't mean she's got nothing to offer. As a member of the Pack Horse Library Project, Cussy delivers books to the hill folk of Troublesome, hoping to spread learning in these desperate times. But not everyone is so keen on Cussy's family or the Library Project, and the hardscrabble Kentuckians are quick to blame a Blue for any trouble...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"Deputy Sheriff Michael Keane doesn't particularly enjoy being touted as the hero of Hidden Springs after pulling a suicidal man back from the edge of the Eagle River bridge in front of dozens of witnesses--a few of whom caught the breathtaking moments with their cameras. But the media hype doesn't last long as a new story pushes its way into the public consciousness of Hidden Springs' concerned citizens. Photos of a dead girl arrive in the mail,...
10) The struggle
Author
Series
Publisher
Barbour Pub
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
376 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
12) The healing
Author
Series
Publisher
Barbour Pub
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
377 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
13) Wonderland Creek
Author
Publisher
Bethany House
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
Alice Grace Ripley lives in a dream world, her nose stuck in a book until her boyfriend breaks up with her and she looses her library job during the depression. She goes to the coal-mining town of Acorn where she finds adventure, mystery, and romance.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In the ruggedness of the beautiful Kentucky mountains, Honey Lovett has always known that the old ways can make a hard life harder. As the daughter of the famed blue-skinned, Troublesome Creek packhorse librarian, Honey and her family have been hiding from the law all her life. But when her mother and father are imprisoned, Honey realizes she must fight to stay free, or risk being sent away for good. Picking up her mother's old packhorse library...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
A powerful, vibrant novel about the life-changing weekend shared between two strangers, from the award-winning writer Roxane Gay calls "a consummate storyteller." On a rainy October night in Kentucky, recently divorced therapist Tallie Clark is on her way home when she spots a man precariously standing on the edge of a bridge. Without a second thought, Tallie pulls over and jumps out of the car into the pouring rain. She convinces the man to join...
Author
Physical Desc
360 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
When the soldier she planned to marry at WWII's end writes to tell her he's in love with a woman in England, Francine Howard seeks a fresh start in the Appalachian Mountains, training to be a nurse midwife for the Frontier Nursing Service. Deeply affected by the horrors he witnessed at war, Ben Locke has never thought further ahead than making it home to Kentucky. When their paths intersect, it's immediately clear that they are from different worlds...
Author
Publisher
Harper Perennial
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xxxi, 294 pages : 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Shayla Lawson is major. She is on a mission to move black girls like herself from best-supporting actress to a starring role in the major narrative. Whether she's taking on workplace microaggressions or upending racist stereotypes about her home state of Kentucky, she looks for the side of the story that isn't always told, the places where the voices of black girls haven't been heard. The essays herein ask questions like: Why are black women invisible...