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83) Starling house
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Series
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Eden, Kentucky, is just another dying, bad-luck town, known only for the legend of E. Starling, the reclusive nineteenth-century author and illustrator who wrote "The Underland" -- and disappeared. Before she vanished, Starling House appeared. But everyone agrees that it's best to let the uncanny house and its last lonely heir, Arthur Starling go to rot ... Opal is a lot of things--orphan, high school dropout, full-time cynic and part-time cashier--but...
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Language
English
Description
"Searching for a safe haven in the Kentucky hills, city girl Bekah Holloway encounters the unexpected--a handsome country boy who offers her help. Drew Kinley gives her a job working with wounded animals, but on the run from and abusive boyfriend, Bekah needs more than employment. She needs a hero. Instinct tells Drew he's the perfect man for the skittish beauty. But he's spent a lifetime saving his family farm and now it's his turn to see the world...
85) Puss 'n cahoots
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Series
Mrs. Murphy mysteries volume 15
Language
English
Description
Instead of a proper second honeymoon, the newly remarried Harry and Fair Haristeen leave cozy Crozet, Virginia, for Shelbyville, Kentucky, site of the famous saddlebred horse show. There they’ll visit dear friends Joan Hamilton and Larry Hodge and enjoy a week among some of the finest horses, trainers, and riders in the country.
But soon after they arrive, events veer mysteriously–and murderously–off course. First, Joan’s...
But soon after they arrive, events veer mysteriously–and murderously–off course. First, Joan’s...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Description
"Alice Wright marries handsome American Bennett Van Cleve hoping to escape her stifling life in England. But small-town Kentucky quickly proves equally claustrophobic, especially living alongside her overbearing father-in-law. So when a call goes out for a team of women to deliver books as part of Eleanor Roosevelt's new traveling library, Alice signs on enthusiastically. The leader, and soon Alice's greatest ally, is Margery, a smart-talking, self-sufficient...
87) Torrent Falls
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Troublesome Creek volume 3
Language
English
Description
The year 1888. Copper Brown returns to her rural home after her husband's death to work as a midwife in eastern Kentucky.
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Series
Language
English
Description
Things are falling into a steady rhythm in the small town of Goose Creek, Kentucky. Millie Richardson is transforming a drafty Victorian house into a B&B while her husband, Al, is busy writing checks for the renovations. But things don't stay quiet for long in Goose Creek.
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English
Description
"Stifled by tragedy, thirteen-year-old Grace Mockingbird yearns to escape her mother's controlling, grieving hand and find her voice in a small Kentucky coal mining town. A tragic family loss has driven a wedge between Grace and her mother, who seems to be silently punishing Grace by withholding her love. Grace does penance in every chore while doubting she'll ever earn her mother's forgiveness. But change arrives with the hot winds of summer as the...
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English
Description
"Cussy Mary Carter is the last of her kind, her skin the color of a blue damselfly in these dusty hills. But that doesn't mean she's got nothing to offer. As a member of the Pack Horse Library Project, Cussy delivers books to the hill folk of Troublesome, hoping to spread learning in these desperate times. But not everyone is so keen on Cussy's family or the Library Project, and the hardscrabble Kentuckians are quick to blame a Blue for any trouble...
91) Love comes home
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Series
Rosey Corner novels volume 3
Language
English
Description
"World War II is finally over and the Merritt sisters must learn to hold their plans with a loose hand, trusting that God will guide and strengthen them as they share the joys and sorrows of life in Rosey Corner"--
92) Magnolia Creek
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Language
English
Description
A year after the Civil War's end, battle-scarred surgeon Dru Talbot--presumed long dead by all who loved him--returns home. Through everything he'd clung to the dream of starting life over with the bride he'd married on the very eve he left for war. Yet the truth that awaits him in Magnolia Creek is nothing like his fairy tale. Young widow Sara Collier had risen above her grief for Dru, refusing to mourn her life away. But she'd put her faith and...
93) Kentucky
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Series
Publisher
Abdo Pub
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
This book surveys the geography, history, famous people, cities, resources, and entertainment of Kentucky.
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Language
English
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Description
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...
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Language
English
Description
In 1933 Louisville, Kentucky, even the ongoing economic depression cannot keep Piper Danson's parents from insisting on a debut party. After all, their fortune came through the market crash intact, and they've picked out the perfect suitor for their daughter. Braxton Crandall can give her the kind of life she's used to. The only problem? This is not the man--or the life--she really wants. When Piper gets the opportunity to volunteer as a horseback...
97) Kentucky
Author
Publisher
Benchmark Books
Pub. Date
2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Surveys the history, geography, government, economy, and people of Kentucky.
98) Kentucky
Series
Publisher
Benchmark Books
Pub. Date
1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.8 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
An overview of the geography, history, people, and customs of the Bluegrass State.
99) Kentucky
Author
Publisher
Children's Press
Pub. Date
c1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Describes the geography, plants, animals, history, economy, language, religions, culture, sports, art, and people of the Bluegrass State.
100) Kentucky
Author
Series
Publisher
AV2 by Weigl
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
An illustrated introduction to Kentucky, providing information about the land and climate, natural resources, plants and animals, tourism, industry, goods and services, history, population, politics and government, cultural groups, sports, and arts and entertainment of the state.
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