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The keeper of the doves
In the late 1800s in Kentucky, Amie McBee and her four sisters both fear and torment the reclusive and seemingly sinister Mr. Tominski, but their father continues to provide for his needs.
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Remember My Beauties
Imagine a hawk's view of the magnificent bluegrass pastures of Kentucky horse country. Circle around the remnants of a breeding farm, four beautiful horses grazing just beyond the paddock. Inside the ramshackle house, a family is falling apart. Hack, the patriarch breeder and trainer, is aged and blind, and his wife, Louetta, is confined by rheumatoid arthritis. Their daughter, Jewel, struggles to care for them and the horses while dealing with her own home and job—not to mention her lackluster second husband, Eddie, and Carley, her drug-addicted daughter.
Many days, Jewel is only sure she loves the horses. But she holds it all together. Until her brother, Cal, shows up again. Jewel already has reason to hate Cal, and when he meets up with Carley, he throws the family into crisis—and gives Jewel reason to pick up a gun. Every family has heartbreaks, failures, a black sheep or two. And some families end in tatters. But some stumble on the secret of survival: if the leader breaks down, others step up and step in. In this lyrical novel, when the inept, the addict, and the ex-con join to weave the family story back together, either the barn will burn to the ground or something bigger than any of them will emerge, shining with hope. Remember My Beauties grows large and wide as it reveals what may save us. For more information, visit lynnehugo.com
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The secret wisdom of the earth
\"After witnessing the death of his younger brother in a terrible home accident, 14-year-old Kevin and his grieving mother are sent for the summer to live with Kevin's grandfather. In this peeled-paint coal town deep in Appalachia, Kevin quickly falls in with a half-wild hollow kid named Buzzy Fink who schools him in the mysteries and magnificence of the woods. The events of this fateful summer will affect the entire town of Medgar, Kentucky, [which] is beset by a massive mountaintop removal operation that is blowing up the hills and back-filling the hollows\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Interview: Andrew S. Garrison
Andy Garrison, an award-winning independent filmmaker, discusses his association with the Dayton (OH) Community Media Workshop and with Appalshop, the eastern Kentucky media arts center. His interests lie in making films that suggest political or social statements as evidenced in his most recent films, Fat Monroe and Night Shift, which depict family life in rural Kentucky. (LP)
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The lonesome young
Told from both viewpoints, high school juniors Victoria Whitfield and Mickey Rhodale are instantly drawn to one another when financial losses send her from an elite boarding school to her grandmother's Kentucky horse ranch, but a century-old feud and dangerous drug ring conspire to keep the two apart.
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Hope in the holler
Upon her mother's death, Wavie Conley, eleven, must go live with a scheming aunt in the Kentucky town her mother left behind.
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Trouble the water
In the segregated south of Kentucky in 1953, twelve-year-olds Callie, who's black, and Wendell, who's white, are brought together by an old dog that's clearly seeking something or someone, but they not only face prejudice, they find trouble at a haunted cabin in the woods.
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