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Author
Series
Bell Elkins volume 8
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition
Language
English
Description
Discovering a body at the ruins of a psychiatric hospital that burned down decades earlier, Bell and her partners confront private torments as well as the site's dark history.
Author
Series
Hope River volume 2
Language
English
Description
The Great Depression has hit West Virginia hard. Men are out of work; women struggle to feed hungry children. Luckily, Nurse Becky Myers has returned to care for them. While she can handle most situations, Becky is still uneasy helping women deliver their babies. For these mothers-to-be, she relies on an experienced midwife, her dear friend Patience Murphy.
3) Bitter River
Author
Series
Bell Elkins volume 2
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
An investigation into the murder of a pregnant teenage girl is complicated by county prosecuting attorney Bell Elkins's separation from the daughter who is living with her ex, Sheriff Nick Fogelsong's strange behavior, and a person from her past.
4) Dogwood
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Told from multiple perspectives and laced with startling twists, Dogwood by acclaimed author Chris Fabry is an emotionally rich tale of suffering, sacrificial love, and redemption. A single visit to a West Virginia prison can't resolve the tragic pasts of convicted child-killer Will Hatfield and his former sweetheart Karin. While she struggles with haunting regrets, Will vows to wait for her, no matter how long it takes.
5) Troublemaker
Author
Series
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
For Morgan Yancy, an operative and team leader in a paramilitary group, nothing comes before his job. But when he's ambushed and almost killed, his supervisor is determined to find out who's after the members of his elite squad--and why. Due to worries that this unknown enemy will strike again, Morgan is sent to a remote location and told to lay low and stay vigilant. But between a tempting housemate he's determined to protect and a deadly threat...
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 7
Physical Desc
196 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Remy, a talented auto mechanic, questions his decision to join his girlfriend when she starts college in Pennsylvania after an artist helps him to realize what his family's home in a dying West Virginia mountain town means to him.
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
In this novel a mother and a daughter try to do right by a town and each other before it is too late. What is happening in Acker's Gap, West Virginia? Three elderly men are gunned down over their coffee at a local diner, and seemingly half the town is there to witness the act. Still, it happened so fast, and no one seems to have gotten a good look at the shooter. Was it random? Was it connected to the spate of drug violence plaguing poor areas...
Author
Publisher
The Dial Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
491 pages : illustration ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Taking a job with the Federal Writer's Project after refusing to marry, Miss Layla Beck boards with an eccentric family in a backwater town before discovering long-kept secrets.
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 6
Physical Desc
250 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Foster McFee and her mother escape from her mother's abusive boyfriend and end up in the small town of Culpepper, West Virginia, where they use their strengths and challenge themselves to build a new life, with the help of the friends they make there.
10) Saving Shiloh
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Sixth-grader Marty and his family try to help their rough neighbor, Judd Travers, change his mean ways, even though their West Virginia community continues to expect the worst of him.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2007
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 9
Physical Desc
vi, 250 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Willa, living in a Depression-era West Virginia mining town, works hard to help her family, experiences love and friendship, and finds an outlet for her writing when her family becomes part of the Arthurdale, West Virginia, community supported by Eleanor Roosevelt.
12) Shiloh season
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Having won Shiloh for himself, Marty realizes that he still cannot trust the dog's reckless and alchoholic former owner, and the boy fears that Judd will open fire on Shiloh come hunting season.
14) The healer
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
381 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
15) Second sight
Author
Series
Jigsaw files volume 2
Publisher
Mira
Language
English
Description
After receiving a call from a frantic mother whose daughter has been kidnapped and brought to a cult, the Fourth Dimension, by her ex-husband, Charlie Dodge, upon learning that the cult is using young girls to breed a race of people with supernatural powers, goes to West Virginia with his assistant to infiltrate the cult, destroy it, and rescue the daughter.
Author
Series
Refined by love volume 2
Publisher
Bethany House Publishers
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
"Rose McKay has just graduated from the Philadelphia School of Design for Women and is now making every effort to succeed in the pottery business in post-Civil War West Virginia, including taking advice from er handsome competitor-bust has she put her trust in the wrong man?"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Series
Bell Elkins novels volume 3
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Language
English
Description
"High summer in Acker's Gap, West Virginia--but no one's enjoying the rugged natural landscape. Not while a killer stalks the small town and its hard-luck inhabitants. County prosecutor Bell Elkins and Sheriff Nick Fogelsong are stymied by a murderer who seems to come and go like smoke on the mountain. At the same time, Bell must deal with the return from prison of her sister, Shirley--who, like Bell, carries the indelible scars of a savage past....
Author
Series
Publisher
Vanguard Press
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
viii, 260 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Ten years after fleeing her hometown of Scotia, West Virginia, in disgrace, AJ Palladino returns as a successful environmental lawyer to assist another lawyer with a crusade against moutaintop removal mining and discovers her hometown's secrets while confronting her own past.
Author
Series
Bell Elkins volume 4
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
From the night-black depths of a coal mine to the sun-struck peaks of the Appalachian Mountains, from a riveting murder mystery to a poignant meditation on the meaning of love and family, the latest novel in the critically acclaimed series strikes out for new territory: the sorrow and outrage that spring from a real-life chapter in West Virginia history. Royce Dillard doesn't remember much about the day his parents-and one hundred and twenty-three...