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Series
Language
English
Description
Ava Maria Mulligan has been married to Jack MacChesney for eight years. They have a daughter and have lost a son to disease. Ava Maria feels distance growing between herself and her husband, and she doesn't know how to bring closeness back to their marriage. A summer trip to her father's home in Italy will bring further challenges and fresh visions into what she wants her life to be.
3) Scouts
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Formats
Description
The summer before seventh grade, five best friends sneak out to watch a meteor shower, but soon find themselves on the run from a violent mountain clan.
4) Chill factor
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Language
English
Description
"Set against a backdrop of snowy, North Carolina mountains, Chill Factor melts through the ice with generous doses of scorching romance and searing suspense. During a bad snowstorm, Lilly Martin skids off the road into the handsome but mysterious Ben Tierney, chief suspect in a string of recent disappearances. With nowhere else to go, the two are forced to take shelter in an isolated cabin and wait for the blizzard to weaken"--Publisher's web site....
5) Heidi
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Language
English
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Description
"When Heidi is sent to live in the Swiss Alps with her grumpy grandpa, the village takes pity on her. But Heidi's sweet and inquisitive nature quickly softens Grandpa's scowl and his heart. Heidi loves her new life in the mountains shepherding goats, gathering flowers, and playing with her best friend, Peter ... until she is forced to move away to the soot and smoke of Frankfurt to be the companion of a young girl. Will Heidi ever return to Grandpa...
Author
Series
Last Mountain Man series volume 12
Language
English
Description
Two Mexican gunfighters known as Carbone and Martine had put away their six-guns, married, and turned to ranching. Then they came up against an army of outlaws under a warlord who called himself Carvajal. That was when they called on Smoke Jensen for help.
7) Christy
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Series
Language
English
Description
The train taking nineteen-year-old teacher Christy Huddleston from her home in Asheville, North Carolina, might as well be transporting her to another world. The Smoky Mountain community of Cutter Gap feels suspended in time, trapped by poverty, superstitions, and century-old traditions. But as Christy struggles to find acceptance in her new home, some see her - and her one-room school - as a threat to their way of life. Her faith is challenged and...
Author
Series
Last Mountain Man series volume 14
Pub. Date
2003.
Physical Desc
415 pages (large print) ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Smoke Jensen is determined to find a way out of a New Mexico jail cell--as well as to escape the hide-hungry lynch mob who's after him for a murder he didn't commit. Then he must win the trust of the beautiful widow of the rancher they say he gunned down, because Smoke is all she's got standing between her and the cunning killers out for land--and blood.
Author
Series
Spirit of Appalachia volume 1
Pub. Date
[1996]
Physical Desc
346 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Patrick and Elizabeth MacNeal and their two children join a wagon train heading west, but their journey is troubled by broken wheels, fierce storms, flooded creeks, and an attack by renegade Indians.
12) Mountain town
Author
Pub. Date
2000.
Physical Desc
32 pages : color illustrations ; 21 x 29 cm
Language
English
Description
Describes a year in the present-day life of a mountain town that was founded when prospectors searching for gold arrived in the Rocky Mountains in the mid-nineteenth century.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[1994]
Physical Desc
336 pages : map ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Dr. Cheney Duvall, finding all doors closed to female physicians in 1865, answers a friend's plea to set up a practice in the primitive wilderness of Wolf County, Arkansas, but she finds herself as equally unwelcome in the mountain community as she was in Philadelphia society.
Author
Pub. Date
[2000]
Physical Desc
xii, 177, 170, xii, 258 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
A young boy relates his adventures during the year he spends living alone in the Catskill Mountains including his struggle for survival, his dependence on nature, his animal friends, and his ultimate realization that he needs human companionship.
15) A distant music
Author
Series
The mountain song legacy trilogy volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Maggie MacAuley and her friend Summer Rankin try to help Jonathan Stuart, a respected teacher in the one-room schoolhouse, hold onto hope when his cherished flute is stolen.
17) White bird
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[1990]
Physical Desc
62 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm
Language
English
Description
A lonely boy is found and reared by a hermit in the wilderness of the Tennessee mountains in the 1880s.
18) Carl's nose
Author
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
Carl the weather dog, famous for his accurate prediction of bad weather, has to find a new sense of purpose when the climate in his mountain town of Grimsville changes from storms to sunshine.
19) Mountain wedding
Author
Pub. Date
[1996]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
The children from two mountain families about to be joined in a wedding change their minds about each other only after all of them together cooperate in a rescue.
20) Wild boy
Author
Pub. Date
2002.
Physical Desc
159 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Jesse runs away from home and tries to survive on his own in the nearby mountains.
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