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1) Christy
Author
Language
English
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Description
The train taking nineteen-year-old teacher Christy Huddleston from her home in Asheville, North Carolina, might as well be transporting her to another world. The Smoky Mountain community of Cutter Gap feels suspended in time, trapped by poverty, superstitions, and century-old traditions. But as Christy struggles to find acceptance in her new home, some see her — and her one-room school — as a threat to their way of life. Her faith is
...Author
Series
New Americana volume 5
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First Kensington hardcover edition.
Language
English
Description
"A desire for absolution brought ex-con Travis Alden to Paradise Peak, Tennessee. But when he finds honest work, along with a keen sense of belonging, he shelves his plan to unburden his guilty secret, instead working to rehabilitate a ranch alongside the very people his transgressions hurt the most. With the chance to create a haven for wildfire refugees, Travis seizes the opportunity to do good, to earn the respect his new boss shows him. Only Travis...
Author
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
383 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
When life throws her one setback too many, midwife and young widow Tess Hartsong takes off for Runaway Mountain. In this small town high in the Tennessee mountains, surrounded by nature, she hopes to outrun her heartbreak and find the solace she needs to heal. But instead of peace and quiet, she encounters an enigmatic artist with a craving for solitude, a fairy-tale sprite with too many secrets, a helpless infant, a passel of curious teens, and a...
Author
Publisher
Hub City Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
307 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
Amidst construction of a federal dam in rural Tennessee, Nathan, an engineer hiding from his past, meets Claire, a small-town housewife struggling to find her footing in the newly-electrified, job-hungry, post-Depression South.
As Nathan wrestles with the burdens of a secret guilt and tangled love, Claire struggles to balance motherhood and a newfound freedom that awakens ambitions and a sexuality she hadn't known she possessed. The arrival of electricity...
Author
Language
English
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Description
Tired of living on a failing farm and suffering oppressive poverty, bored housewife Dellarobia Turnbow, on the way to meet a potential lover, is detoured by a miraculous event on the Appalachian mountainside that ignites a media and religious firestorm that changes her life forever.
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Series
Language
English
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Description
A Ghost Rider in the Sky? What happened here, on a historic ranch outside Nashville, during the Civil War? And what's happening now? Olivia Gordon works at the Horse Farm, a facility that assists patients with mental and physical recovery; her specialty is animal therapy. She's always loved her job, always felt safe, until now.
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
The Pickles are new to Midnight Gulch, Tennessee, a town which legend says was once magic--but Felicity is convinced the magic is still there, and with the help of her new friend Jonah the Beedle she hopes to bring the magic back.
Author
Series
David Hunter mystery volume 3
Publisher
Bantam Press
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
317 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Author
Series
Bone Gap Travellers volume Book 1
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
262 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
It's hard to bury the past when bodies keep turning up …
After an abrupt end to her tour of duty, former Marine MP Brynn Callahan and her canine partner, Wilco, arrive stateside-both bearing the scars of battle. With a mix of affection and misgivings, Brynn heads back to Bone Gap, Tennessee, and the insular culture she'd escaped when she enlisted.
The Irish Travellers keep to themselves in the mountains, maintaining an uneasy coexistence with...
11) Fractured truth
Author
Series
A Bone Gap travellers mystery volume 2
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
289 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
When the mutilated remains of a young woman are found in an Appalachian Mountain cave, newly sworn-in deputy sheriff Brynn Callahan is forced to track down a killer driven by twisted motives...
Not long after donning the uniform of the McCreary County Sheriff's department in Bone Gap, Tennessee, ex-Marine Brynn Callahan faces her first official homicide. On a cold February morning, a lone cross-country skier stumbles across the mutilated body of...
Author
Series
Belmont Mansion volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
To create something that will last is Claire Laurent's most fervent desire as an artist. It's also her greatest weakness. When her fraud of a father deals her an unexpected hand, Claire is forced to flee from New Orleans to Nashville, only a year after the War Between the States has ended. Claire's path collides with that of Sutton Monroe, and she considers him a godsend for not turning her in to the authorities. But when they meet again and he refuses...
Author
Series
A Bone Gap travellers novel volume 3
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First Kensington hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
293 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
In the Appalachian town of Bone Gap, Tennessee, backwoods justice is more than just blind. It's swift, silent, and shockingly personal. Especially for Irish Traveller turned deputy sheriff Brynn Callahan . . .
"Hear No Evil."
The first message is found in a playground. A few feet away, a pair of human ears hang from the monkey bars. Deputy sheriff Brynn Callahan isn't sure what to make of this grisly scene. Do the ears belong to a murder victim?...
14) Night's landing
Author
Publisher
MIRA Books
Pub. Date
c2004
Physical Desc
376 p. ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
From New York Times bestselling author Carla Neggers
Returning home means returning to danger in this immersive tale of action, intrigue, and romance.
Sarah Dunnemore has just returned to her family home in Tennessee when she gets news that her twin brother, Rob, has been seriously wounded in a sniper shooting in Central Park. She rushes to New York to be with him, only to come up against his no-nonsense partner.
Deputy U.S. Marshal Nate...
Author
Publisher
Bethany House
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
332 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Julie leaps at a chance to spend a summer in Amish country to help her sister-in-law Susan with a reality television program, an opportunity that forces Julie to confront the cameras, Susan's perfectionism, and her views about family life.
16) Paperboy
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
When an eleven-year-old boy takes over a friend's newspaper route in July, 1959, in Memphis, his debilitating stutter makes for a memorable month.
Author
Series
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
314 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Ada Wentworth moves to Tennessee to forget her Boston past, but she finds herself involved with a local mill owner who wants to move to Texas and her friendship with a racially mixed girl attracts the attention of wary local residents.
Author
Series
Dixie volume 3
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
297 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Leelee's efforts to run a new restaurant with Peter are challenged by her unpredictable friends, a male dog named Roberta, and the return of Leelee's notorious ex-husband.
19) A beauty so rare
Author
Series
Belmont Mansion novel volume 2
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Eleanor's practical plans for the new home for Civil War widows and orphans at Belmont Mansion, in Nashville, conflict with architect Marcus' artistic vision. Will they ever manage to find common ground?"--
20) Death in bloom
Author
Series
Publisher
St. Martin's Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
305 pages ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
When her boss at the Flower House goes AWOL, leaving the store to her for the cost of one dollar, 28-year-old Sierra Ravenswood must solve the murder of a customer before anyone else in town meets an untimely reason for needing funeral flowers.