Tawni O'Dell
Author
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
"On the surface, Chief Dove Carnahan is a true trailblazer who would do anything to protect the rural Pennsylvanian countryside where she has lived all fifty of her years. Traditional and proud of her blue-collar sensibilities, Dove is loved by her community. But beneath her badge lies a dark and self-destructive streak, fed by a secret she has kept since she was sixteen. When a girl is beaten to death, her body tossed down a fiery sinkhole in an...
2) Back roads
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 15
Physical Desc
viii, 338 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
With his mother in jail for killing his abusive father, nineteen-year-old Harley Altmyer is charged with caring for his three sisters in a backwards Pennsylvania coal town, but despite his fatherly responsibilities, he is still a teenage boy and lusts after the mother of two who lives down the road.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
When their hard-drinking, but loving, father dies in a car accident, teenage brothers Kyle and Klint Hayes face a bleak prospect: leaving their Pennsylvania hometown for Arizona and the mother who ran out on them. Then Candace Jack, a wealthy eccentric whose family once owned the county coal mines, decides for reasons even she doesn't understand to offer them a home--a stately mansion of a home full of artwork centered, oddly, on bullfighting. Under...
Author
Publisher
Shaye Areheart Books
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 18
Physical Desc
405 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Shae-Lynn Penrose has spent years building a life for herself and her son in Jolly Mount, Pennsylvania, the tiny coal-mining town in which she grew up, but her life is thrown into disarray by the arrival of the younger sister she had thought dead.