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Vance, a former marine and Yale Law School graduate, provides an account of growing up in a poor Rust Belt town that offers a broader, probing look at the struggles of America's white working class. The decline of this group, a demographic of our country that has been slowly disintegrating over forty years, has been reported on with growing frequency and alarm. J. D. Vance tells the true story of what a social, regional, and class decline feels like...
2) Mean streak
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English
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Dr. Emory Charbonneau, a pediatrician and marathon runner, disappears on a mountain road in North Carolina. By the time her husband Jeff, miffed over a recent argument, reports her missing, the trail has grown cold. Literally. Fog and ice encapsulate the mountainous wilderness and paralyze the search for her. While police suspect Jeff of "instant divorce," Emory, suffering from an unexplained head injury, regains consciousness and finds herself the...
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Bull Mountain volume 1
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English
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"Brian Panowich stamps words on the page as if they've been blasted from the barrel of a shotgun, and as with a shotgun blast, no one is safe from the scattered fragments of history that impale the people of Bull Mountain."-Wiley Cash, New York Times-bestselling author of This Dark Road to Mercy. The Godfather meets Daniel Woodrell in this Southern debut, a multigenerational saga of crime, family, and vengeance. Clayton Burroughs comes from a long...
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Experience the down-home charm of Jed, Granny, Elly May, and Jethro, as these country folk adjust to a new life of fabulous wealth and everything that comes with it. Along with hobnobbing with movie stars, millionaires, and magicians, hilarity ensues as they deal with bumbling burglars, fend off unwanted marriage proposals, and get used to life with bankers and butlers!
8) Deliverance
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
They left their troubles at the office. Left the wives and kids behind. Four men bound for the wilderness, for a great adventure--without their golf clubs. Lewis has talked his buddies Ed, Drew, and Bobby into going on a canoe trip down the Cahulawassee River, which is being soon to be dammed. It was the weekend they hoped for, but it turns out to be a weekend where the destruction of nature, macho posturing, conflict between city and country folk,...
10) Like lions
Author
Series
Bull Mountain volume 2
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Clayton Burroughs is a small-town Georgia sheriff, a new father, and, improbably, the heir apparent of Bull Mountain's most notorious criminal family. As he tries to juggle fatherhood, his job and his recovery from being shot in the confrontation that killed his two criminally-inclined brothers last year, he's doing all he can just to survive. Yet after years of carefully toeing the line between his life in law enforcement and his family, he finally...
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English
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Get ready for some good old-fashioned fun with the Kettle family, featuring all ten of their classic films: The Egg and I; Ma and Pa Kettle; The Kettles in the Ozarks (WS); The Kettles on Old MacDonald's Farm (WS); Ma and Pa Kettle at Home; Ma and Pa Kettle at the Fair; Ma and Pa Kettle at Waikiki; Ma and Pa Kettle Back on the Farm; Ma and Pa Kettle Go to Town; and Ma and Pa Kettle on Vacation.
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
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A struggle for power and control set in the rugged and mysterious hills of Appalachia, which tells the story of the Farrell clan, a family of outsiders who've been in these parts since before anyone can remember. Living off the grid and above the law on their mountaintop homestead, they'll protect their world and defend their way of life using any means necessary.
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
The Parton clan is determined to scrape together enough money to buy their beloved Mama the wedding ring she's long waited for. But a fierce blizzard threatens to demolish their dream. While the family struggles to save their beloved homestead, an important person in little Dolly's life suggests that her amazing voice and musical gifts may be destined for something far beyond Tennessee's Great Smoky Mountains.
14) 10,000 BC
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
In a remote mountain tribe, the young hunter D'Leh finds his heart's passion in the beautiful Evolet. But when a band of mysterious warlords raid their village and kidnaps Evolet, D'Leh leads a small group of hunters to save her. As they venture into unknown lands for the first time, the group discovers there are civilizations beyond their own and that mankind's reach is far greater than they ever knew. At each encounter the group is joined by other...
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Description
Jed is still a kind and sensible man with his millions. Things happen around him without he knowing it. Granny is an excentric who still thinks she knows how to deal with every situation. Elly May is still beautiful and naive. Jethro is Jed's nephew who is still as strong as he is dumb. Mr. Drysdale is the greedy banker who will do anything to keep the Clampett money in his bank.
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Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
Fourteen episodes of the television comedy about the Clampetts, Ozark Mountain people who move to Beverly Hills after discovering oil in their front yard. There they receive special treatment from Milburn Drysdale, their banker, who finds them a house next door to his own so he can look after them and attempt to "civilize" them.
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