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Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Texas

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Afton Burns is in a foreign land surrounded by movie stars. Yet she finds herself intrigued by a quiet man who will play more of a role in her life than either of them expects.

All That Glitters

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Gwyn Hyman Rubio

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Arizona

A New York Times Notable Book and the March 2001 selection of Oprah's Book Club® ! Icy Sparks is the sad, funny and transcendent tale of a young girl growing up in the mountains of Eastern Kentucky during the 1950’s. Gwyn Hyman Rubio’s beautifully written first novel revolves around Icy Sparks, an unforgettable heroine in the tradition of Scout in To Kill a Mockingbird or Will Treed in Cold Sassy Tree. At the age of ten, Icy, a bright, curious child orphaned as a baby but raised by adoring grandparents, begins to have strange experiences. Try as she might, her "secrets"—verbal croaks, groans, and physical spasms—keep afflicting her. As an adult, she will find out she has Tourette’s Syndrome, a rare neurological disorder, but for years her behavior is the source of mystery, confusion, and deep humiliation. Narrated by a grown up Icy, the book chronicles a difficult, but ultimately hilarious and heartwarming journey, from her first spasms to her self-acceptance as a young woman. Curious about life beyond the hills, talented, and energetic, Icy learns to cut through all barriers—physical, mental, and spiritual—in order to find community and acceptance. Along her journey, Icy faces the jeers of her classmates as well as the malevolence of her often-ignorant teachers—including Mrs. Stilton, one of the most evil fourth grade teachers ever created by a writer. Called willful by her teachers and "Frog Child" by her schoolmates, she is exiled from the schoolroom and sent to a children’s asylum where it is hoped that the roots of her mysterious behavior can be discovered. Here Icy learns about difference—her own and those who are even more scarred than she. Yet, it isn’t until Icy returns home that she really begins to flower, especially through her friendship with the eccentric and obese Miss Emily, who knows first-hand how it feels to be an outcast in this tightly knit Appalachian community. Under Miss Emily’s tutelage, Icy learns about life’s struggles and rewards, survives her first comical and heartbreaking misadventure with romance, discovers the healing power of her voice when she sings, and ultimately—takes her first steps back into the world. Gwyn Hyman Rubio’s Icy Sparks is a fresh, original, and completely redeeming novel about learning to overcome others’ ignorance and celebrate the differences that make each of us unique.

Icy Sparks

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Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Louisiana

The Kentucky Years

"Vana has exhibited an ability to develop scenes and characters and condensed narratives that are often gripping, moving, and unexpectedly funny." -- Robert Root, author of Happenstance Vana Plaisance recalls her childhood memories, with vivid details on her family's history, and her happy, loving marriage. Themes on faith, Christian values, healing, and love punctuate the narrative, creating an enchanting piece. Deep emotional landscapes of characters are skillfully captured in the reading. With the author's emotional descriptions and physical descriptions, readers can easily connect with each emotion.This is an emotionally powerful testament, an exceptional read. The author also does not shy away from speaking truthfully about painful experiences seen as a child, and recalls traumatic experiences in graphic detail. The author has a nice, clean, simple writing style. Very readable. Lovely. Poetic in places. Vana J. Plaisance is a former award-winning newspaper journalist. She lives with her husband, Francis, in Abbeville, Louisiana. Since 1997, she has taught English and Publications at Delcambre High School, located in a shrimping town near the Gulf of Mexico.

Recalling My Beginnings

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#slavery #kentucky #south #history #slaveowner #freedom

Maryland

Autobiography of a Female Slave

Wright Thompson

Kentucky

A Story of Family, Fine Bourbon, and the Things That Last

The story of how Julian Van Winkle III, the caretaker of the most coveted cult Kentucky Bourbon whiskey in the world, fought to protect his family's heritage and preserve the taste of his forebears, in a world where authenticity, like his product, is in very short supply. As a journalist said of Pappy Van Winkle, "You could call it bourbon, or you could call it a $5,000 bottle of liquified, barrel-aged unobtanium." Julian Van Winkle, the third-generation head of his family's business, is now thought of as something like the Buddha of Bourbon - Booze Yoda, as Wright Thompson calls him. He is swarmed wherever he goes, and people stand in long lines to get him to sign their bottles of Pappy Van Winkle Family Reserve, the whiskey he created to honor his grandfather, the founder of the family concern. A bottle of the 23-year-old Pappy starts at $3000 on the internet. As Julian is the first to say, things have gone completely nuts. Forty years ago, Julian would have laughed in astonishment if you'd told him what lay ahead. He'd just stepped in to try to save the business after his father had died, partly of heartbreak, having been forced to sell the old distillery in a brutal downturn in the market for whiskey. Julian's grandfather had presided over a magical kingdom of craft and connoisseurship, a genteel outfit whose family ethos generated good will throughout Kentucky and far beyond. There's always a certain amount of romance to the marketing of spirits, but Pappy's mission statement captured something real: "We make fine bourbon - at a profit if we can, at a loss if we must, but always fine bourbon." But now the business had hit the wilderness years, and Julian could only hang on for dear life, stubbornly committed to preserving his namesake's legacy or going down with the ship. Then something like a miracle happened: it turned out that hundreds of very special barrels of whiskey from the Van Winkle family distillery had been saved by the multinational conglomerate that bought it. With no idea what they had, they offered to sell it to Julian, who scrambled to beg and borrow the funds. Now he could bottle a whiskey whose taste captured his family's legacy. The result would immediately be hailed as the greatest whiskey in the world - and would soon be the hardest to find. But now, those old barrels were used up, and Julian Van Winkle faced the challenge of his lifetime: how to preserve the taste of Pappy, the taste of his family's heritage, in a new age? The amazing Wright Thompson was invited to be his wingman as he set about to try. The result is an extraordinary testimony to the challenge of living up to your legacy and the rewards that come from knowing and honoring your people and your craft. Wright learned those lessons from Julian as they applied to the honest work of making a great bourbon whiskey in Kentucky, but he couldn't help applying them to his own craft, writing, and his upbringing in Mississippi, as he and his wife contemplated the birth of their first child. May we all be lucky enough to find some of ourselves, as Wright Thompson did, in Julian Van Winkle, and in Pappyland.

Pappyland

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Jojo Moyes

North Dakota

A Novel

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER | A REESE WITHERSPOON X HELLO SUNSHINE BOOK CLUB PICK “A great narrative about personal strength and really captures how books bring communities together.” —Reese Witherspoon From the author of The Last Letter from Your Lover, now a major motion picture on Netflix, a breathtaking story of five extraordinary women and their remarkable journey through the mountains of Kentucky and beyond in Depression-era America 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 goes out for a team of women to deliver books as part of Eleanor Roosevelt’s new traveling library, Alice signs on enthusiastically. The leader, and soon Alice's greatest ally, is Margery, a smart-talking, self-sufficient woman who's never asked a man's permission for anything. They will be joined by three other singular women who become known as the Packhorse Librarians of Kentucky. What happens to them--and to the men they love--becomes an unforgettable drama of loyalty, justice, humanity, and passion. These heroic women refuse to be cowed by men or by convention. And though they face all kinds of dangers in a landscape that is at times breathtakingly beautiful, at others brutal, they’re committed to their job: bringing books to people who have never had any, arming them with facts that will change their lives. Based on a true story rooted in America’s past, The Giver of Stars is unparalleled in its scope and epic in its storytelling. Funny, heartbreaking, enthralling, it is destined to become a modern classic--a richly rewarding novel of women’s friendship, of true love, and of what happens when we reach beyond our grasp for the great beyond.

The Giver of Stars

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California

#hardcover #Appalachia #Kentucky #superstition #humor

Come Back to the Farm

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Strathnaver, Scotland, Summer 1792. The Highland Clearances abruptly destroy Artis MacKay's idyllic world. Patrick Steller, the Countess of Sutherland's estate manager murders Artis' family and burns her village. Forced into indentured servitude in the colonies, she becomes a Virginia plantation servant. After seven long years, Artis receives her freedom dues-land in Kentucky.Bear MacKee grew up in the Highlands too, but disease claims his parents on his family's voyage to the colonies. Adopted by the Wyllies, he becomes a loyal and fiercely protective brother who journeys with them to Kentucky. With his brothers safely settled, the time comes for Bear to find his own wife and future.Their past and their destiny entwined, Artis and Bear meet and pledge their love. But a cold-blooded old enemy and a ruthless new adversary threaten to crush Artis and Bear's chance for happiness. And the dark side of nature becomes a frightening adversary too. For love to triumph in the wilderness, they must evoke the MacKay Clan motto-Manu Forti-with a strong hand.Compassionately written, richly authentic, powerfully dramatic, FRONTIER HIGHLANDER VOW OF LOVE, will make you both weep and laugh while you fall in love with the characters. This is the highly-anticipated fourth novel in best-selling author Dorothy Wiley's American Wilderness Series Romances-epic love stories of the frontier. Like her first three award-winning books in the series, this historical romance is a heart-wrenching, memorable, fast-paced action adventure. Spell-bound by horrific events and villains, action readers fear for her valiant characters. And charmed by the beauty of Wiley's love stories, romance lovers cheer for her endearing heroes and heroines."Awesomely written and the well formed sentences made it perfect." - Reader's Favorite 5-Star Review"Wiley is one of my favorite new authors. I love her accurate portrayal of the settling of the American Frontier and also how her characters come to life. I was happy to see that the series will continue since there will be a fifth book that I can't wait to read it. Well done once again Ms. Wiley!" - JoAnne for Romancing the Book"Give it ten stars! Couldn't wait for Bear's story..great read. Hope there are more books about these wonderful people!!!!" - Amazon Reader"Ms. Wiley's writing skills are powerful and compelling and her books are not to be missed." - Timeless Romantic

Frontier Highlander Vow of Love

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- Mass Produced Paperback, Copyright 2002
- Third Book in the Kentucky Series
- In Good Condition - Shows significant shelf and reading wear and yellowing of pages
- From a smoke free home
- Genre: Romance

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(BB-W6.5OZ)#fiction #fiction #romance #love #fernmichaels #kentucky #sunrise #bestseller #derby #headstrongwomen #series

Wyoming

Kentucky Sunrise

Massachusetts

The True Story of How One Woman Outwitted the Night Riders

Silent Brigade

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#paperback #fiction #comingofage #illness #kentucky #orphan 

Connecticut

#tourettesyndrome #comingofage #illness #kentucky #orphan #womanhood #appalachia #oprahsbookclub   A New York Times notable book.


- Mass Produced Paperback
- January 2016
- In Good Condition - Shows shelf and reading wear. Has initials written on the back cover (See third pic)
- From a smoke free home
- Genre: Romance

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(G-W3.7OZ) #harlequin #love #inspired #inspiration #cowboy #heartwarming #oakscrossing #kentucky #smalltown #cowboy 


A Family for the Teacher 

Lily St. George dreams of marriage and a family of her own. But as a temporary kindergarten teacher, she can't get too attached to anyone in Oaks Crossing. When a student brings in her single father for show-and-tell, Lily is drawn to charming cowboy Mike Kinley. Working overtime to save his struggling horse farm, Mike claims to have no room in his life for love. But when they team up to start a riding school for children at his ranch, Lily knows she'll have to help Mike see their partnership is meant to be permanent.

Her Small-Town Cowboy

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- Mass Produced Paperback
- Copyright 1995
- In Good Condition - Shows shelf and reading wear and the pages are yellow
- From a smoke free home
- Genre: Romance 

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(A-W5OZ) #harlequin #romance #love #dunleavylegacy #marriage #betrayals #family #dynasty #farm #kentucky 


Never Done Dreamin’

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Kentucky Heat

A Year in the Vanishing Wilderness --- Radical Strip Mining and the Devastation of Appalachia

A groundbreaking work of literary nonfiction that exposes how radical strip mining is destroying one of America's most precious natural resources and the communities that depend on it. The mountains of Appalachia are home to one of the great forests of the world-they predate the Ice Age and scientists refer to them as the "rainforests" of North America for their remarkable density and species diversity. These mountains also hold the mother lode of American coal, and the coalmining industry has long been the economic backbone for families in a region hard-pressed for other job opportunities. But recently, a new type of mining has been introduced-"radical strip mining," aka "mountaintop removal"-in which a team employing no more than ten men and some heavy machinery literally blast off the top of a mountain, dump it in the valley below, and scoop out the coal. Erik Reece chronicles the year he spent witnessing the systematic decimation of a single mountain, aptly named "Lost Mountain." A native Kentuckian and the son of a coal worker, Reece makes it clear that strip mining is neither a local concern nor a radical contention, but a mainstream crisis that encompasses every hot-button issue-from corporate hubris and government neglect, to class conflict and poisoned groundwater, to irrevocable species extinction and landscape destruction. Published excerpts of Lost Mountainare already driving headlines and legislative action in Kentucky. In Erik Reece, the mountains of Kentucky have found an eloquent and powerful spokesman in the tradition of Edward Abbey, Rachel Carson, Aldo Leopold, and Henry David Thoreau. Like the work of those writers before him, Lost Mountainwill stand as a landmark defense of a natural treasure-and a core part of our national identity-on the verge of extinction, and as the introduction of a mighty new literary voice.

Lost Mountain

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Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Wisconsin


Daring and inventive, this sprawling family saga set in Kentucky combines southern gothic with the drama of horse racing.


     An ambitious, strikingly original novel from a young writer whose first novel, All the Living, received passionate praise and rave reviews, and earned her one of the highly coveted spots on The New Yorker's list of the "20 Best Writers Under 40." This latest novel's energy bursts out of the gate running and gallops through generations, consuming a multitude of characters and plots. 
     The title The Sport of Kings refers to horse racing, and the novel is centred within that world: a connected web of humans and animals, as well as a fertile patch of land, in the heart of Kentucky. With breathtaking fluency, C.E. Morgan puts us inside the consciousness of an extraordinary range of characters who inhabit that patch of land through the years: an adolescent trying to grow up under the withering gaze of his landowner father; a brilliant black woman struggling with her seeming fate to be a household servant; a whip-smart boy who grows up in the ghetto but seeks to know more about his mysterious origins; and a girl whose uncompromising love of her family's legacy leads her to gamble with her own life. 
     A spiraling tale of wealth and poverty, racism and rage, The Sport of Kings is an unflinching portrait of lives cast in shadow by the enduring legacy of slavery. A tale as mythic and fraught as the South itself-- this novel is a moral epic for our time.

The Sport of Kings

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#hardcover #action #litfic #regional #kentucky #gritlit

A new collection of stories by the acclaimed author of Kentucky Straight, whom Tobias Wolff has deemed one of the best writers of short fiction in his--or any--generation.

Out of the Woods

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#hardcover #LivingBooks #DandelionBooks #Kentucky #Bluegrass #Childrens #homeschool 

A Kentucky Alphabet

Mary Ann McCabe Riehle offers readers, young and old, the opportunity to take a horseback ride through the rich history and beautiful landscape of the Bluegrass State. From A to Z, McCabe Riehle's rhyming verse and interesting sidebar text will impart unique facts about Kentucky's spirited heritage, while Wes Burgiss' colorful illustrations are the next best thing to actually spending a week or two exploring the great state yourself.

B Is for Bluegrass

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Oregon

New York

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Gilbert Morris

All That Glitters

Gwyn Hyman Rubio

Icy Sparks

Vana J. Plaisance

Recalling My Beginnings

Martha Griffith Browne

Autobiography of a Female Slave

Wright Thompson

Pappyland

Jojo Moyes

The Giver of Stars

Wright Thompson

Pappyland

Jesse Stuart

Come Back to the Farm

Dorothy Wiley

Frontier Highlander Vow of Love

Fern Michaels

Kentucky Sunrise

Ron Elliott

Silent Brigade

Gwyn Hyman Rubio

Icy Sparks

Gwyn Hyman Rubio

Icy Sparks

Mia Ross

Her Small-Town Cowboy

Janis Flores

Never Done Dreamin’

Fern Michaels

Kentucky Heat

Erik Reece; John J. Cox (Photographer); Wendell Berry (Foreword by)

Lost Mountain

C. E. Morgan

The Sport of Kings

Chris Offutt

Out of the Woods

Mary Ann McCabe Riehle; Wes Burgiss (Illustrator)

B Is for Bluegrass

Gwyn Hyman Rubio

Icy Sparks

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Icy Sparks

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Icy Sparks

Gwyn Hyman Rubio

Icy Sparks