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Documentary photography United States History 20th century Magic Fiction Midwives Fiction Murder Fiction Murder Investigation Fiction Stepmothers Fiction United States Social life and customs 1918-1945 Pictorial works United States. Farm Security Administration. West Virginia West Virginia FictionWalls, Jeannette.
Summary: In the tradition of Mary Karr's "The Liars' Club" and Rick Bragg's "All Over But the Shouting," Jeannette Walls has written a stunning and life-affirming memoir about surviving a willfully impoverished, eccentric and severely misguided family. The child of an alcoholic father and an eccentric artist mother discusses her family's nomadic upbringing, during which she and her siblings fended for...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2006
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Summary: "From the co-author of The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society comes a wise, witty, and exuberant novel, perfect for fans of Lee Smith, that illuminates the power of loyalty and forgiveness, memory and truth, and the courage it takes to do what's right. Annie Barrows once again evokes the charm and eccentricity of a small town filled with extraordinary characters. Her new novel, The...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION BarrowThomas, Sarah Loudin
Summary: "Thirteen-year-old Loyal Raines is supposed to stay close to home on a hot summer day in 1934. When he slips away for a quick swim in the river and finds a dead body, the ripples caused by his discovery will impact the town in ways no one could have imagined"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bethany House, a division of Baker Publishing Group 2020
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Summary: Elsie Lavender and Homer Hickam (the father of the author) were high school classmates in the West Virginia coalfields, graduating just as the Great Depression began. When Homer asked for her hand, Elsie instead headed to Orlando where she sparked with a dancing actor named Buddy Ebsen (yes, that Buddy Ebsen). But when Buddy headed for New York, Elsie's dreams of a life with him were crushed...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION HickBaldacci, David.
Summary: Combat veteran John Puller, now working as an investigator for the Army's Criminal Investigative Division, tries to solve the murder of an Army man and his Pentagon contractor wife in their isolated rural home.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Pub. 2011
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2012
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Summary: "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,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Mystery, Call number: MYSTERY KellerKing, Dean.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 975.440 KingYolen, Jane.
Summary: Recasts the tale of Snow White, setting it in West Virginia in the 1940s with a stepmother who is a snake-handler.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Philomel Books 2011
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: Y FICTION YolenCohen, Stuart
Contents: Foreword / Peter Bacon Hales -- Photography and the Farm Security Administration / Stu Cohen, 1975-1995 ; revised and annotated by Peter Bacon Hales, 2007 -- An overview of the FSA file, 1935-1942 -- Ben Shahn : West Virginia, Kentucky, Arkansas, October 1935 -- Walker Evans : Pennsylvania, Alabama, Louisiana, November 1935-January 1936 -- Dorothea Lange : migratory workers in California,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: David R. Godine 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 779.092 CohenHarman, Patricia
Summary: 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wheeler Publishing 2015