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Author
Series
Blue Ridge library mystery volume 1
Publisher
Crooked Lane Books, an imprint of The Quick Brown Fox & Company LLC
Language
English
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Description
"Fleeing a disastrous love affair, university librarian Amy Webber moves in with her aunt in a quiet, historic mountain town in Virginia. She quickly busies herself with managing a charming public library that requires all her attention with its severe lack of funds and overabundance of eccentric patrons. The last thing she needs is a new, available neighbor whose charm lures her into trouble. Dancer-turned-teacher and choreographer Richard Muir...
Author
Series
Blue Ridge library mystery volume 4
Publisher
Crooked Lane Books
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
"Blue Ridge library director Amy Webber learns it wasn't all peace and love among the "flower children" when a corpse is unearthed on the grounds of a 1960s commune. Taylorsford Public Library director Amy Webber's friend "Sunny" Fields is running for mayor. But nothing puts a damper on a campaign like an actual skeleton in a candidate's closet. Sunny's grandparents ran a commune back in the 1960s on their organic farm. But these former hippies face...
Author
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
In the wake of a sensationalized 1934 trial involving an Appalachian Virginia teacher's alleged murder of her tyrant father, novice journalist Carl Jennings is denounced by a greedy media determined to portray the defendant as a backwards mountain girl.
Author
Series
Blue Ridge library mystery volume 3
Publisher
Crooked Lane Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Spring has sprung in quaint Taylorsford, Virginia, and the mayor has revived the town's long-defunct May Day celebration to boost tourism. As part of the festivities, library director Amy Webber is helping to organize a research project and presentation by a local folklore expert. All seems well at first--but spring takes on a sudden chill when a university student inexplicably vanishes during a bonfire.
Author
Series
Blue Ridge library mystery volume 5
Publisher
Crooked Lane
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Investigating an art dealer's murder to help clear a friend's name while juggling the demands of her approaching nuptials, librarian Amy Webber is thwarted by her aunt Lydia's boyfriend, who believes the chief suspect is guilty.
Author
Series
Blue Ridge library mystery volume 8
Publisher
Crooked Lane
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
When the chair of Taylorsford's first Winterfest is murdered and her brother-in-law is the prime suspect, library director Amy Muir must race against time to prove his innocence before another life is claimed by a killer who's on Santa's naughty list.
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury USA
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Most of the wealth in Dove Creek, West Virginia, is in the earth-in the coal seams that have provided generations with a way of life. Born and raised here, twenty-seven-year-old Cole Freeman has sidestepped work as a miner to become an aide in a nursing home. He's got a shock of bleached blond hair and a gentle touch well suited to the job. He's also a drug dealer, reselling the prescription drugs his older patients give him to a younger crowd
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Language
English
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"Colman Harpe works for the C&O in the Appalachian rail town of Thurmond, West Virginia, but he'd rather be a preacher and lead his own congregation. When a member of the rival McLean clan guns down his cousin and the clan matriarch, Serepta McLean, taunts the Harpes by coming to a tent revival in their territory, Colman chooses peace over seeking revenge with the rest of his family. Colman, known for an unnaturally keen sense of hearing, is shocked...
13) The homecoming
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Series
Language
English
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Description
When Clay-Boy's father fails to return home on Christmas Eve, Clay-Boy takes to the snowy Virginia hills in search of him, leaving his worried family to keep watch at the homestead. Along the way, he meets an irate deer, a threatening county sheriff, a congregation of African-American churchgoers, and two elderly women who happen to be bootleggers. The story of Clay-Boy's search for his father is told with warmth and intensity.
Along with its prequel,...
14) Oral history
Author
Publisher
Putnam
Pub. Date
[1983]
Language
English
Description
A curse laid on the inhabitants of Hoot Owl Holler follows each succeeding generation for a century, in a tale of love, murder, obsession, and betrayal set in Appalachia.
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
Remy, a talented, seventeen-year-old auto mechanic, questions his decision to join his girlfriend when she starts college in Pennsylvania after a visiting artist helps him to realize what his family's home in a dying West Virginia mountain town means to him.
Author
Series
Publisher
Vergara Grupo Zeta
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
Español
Description
"Virginia, pleno verano. La guapa Casey Reddick, que antepone su carrera de chef a su vida amorosa, no entiende por qué todas las chicas del pueblo suspiran por el arrogante Tate Landers, el actor de Hollywood que está allí para participar en una pequeña producción de Orgullo y prejuicio. Tate hará de Darcy, y Casey es la Elizabeth Bennett perfecta. Pero en la vida real las cosas no son como en las historias de Jane Austen...¿o sí?"--Page...
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Television series about the Walton family living on Walton's Mountain in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia. This season is a big year for welcomes-- welcome back to John-Boy, visiting from New York, and to Grandma, finally home from the hospital. And welcome to the family for Mary Ellen and Curt's baby boy, John Curtis. But all that joy is set against the tragedy of events in the outside world. As the Fall of 1939 turns into the Spring of 1940,...
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
"Honesty. Integrity. Family. Stories of a family's, and a nation's, yesteryear continue in six reunion movies. Six warm Walton memories are yours to share"--Container.
A wedding on Walton's Mountain (1982 ; 100 min.): "Set immediately after World War II [it] focuses on the wedding plans of Erin Walton and Paul Northridge"--IMDb.com.
Mother's Day on Walton's Mountain (1982 ; 120 min.): "Ben is upset by Cindy's mother interfering and wanting to spoil...
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