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Author
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...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
In a rural Kentucky river town, "Old Jack" Beechum, a retired farmer, sees his life again through the shades of one burnished day in September 1952. Bringing the earthiness of America's past to mind, The Memory of Old Jack conveys the truth and integrity of the land and the people who live from it. Through the eyes of one man can be seen the values Americans strive to recapture as we arrive at the next century.
Author
Series
Kentucky volume 3
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
c2002
Physical Desc
295 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
The third and final volume in Michaels's Kentucky series finds Nealy Coleman Diamond facing her greatest challenge yet--to produce another Derby winner and repair the damage to her relationship with her daughter, Emmie.
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
1996
Physical Desc
356 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Molly Ballard steals money from the stable where she works, she is seen by FBI agent Will Lyman, who uses his knowledge to coerce her into posing as his girlfriend in an undercover investigation into a racehorse-fixing scheme, setting the stage for danger and love.
Author
Series
Kentucky volume 1
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
c2001
Physical Desc
327 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Nealy Coleman was only 17 and deathly ill when she took her baby, Emmie, and fled into a snowstorm before her father could carry out his threat to send her little girl to an orphanage. Fate guided them to Maud Diamond's stud farm, where Nealy's sad story and her talent for working with horses earned her a place in the old woman's heart and convinced Maud that Nealy alone could chose the right mare and stallion to produce the farm's third Kentucky...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Kentucky packhorse librarian Tansy Calhoun doesn't mind the rough trails and long hours as she serves her Appalachian mountain community during the Great Depression. Yet she longs to find love like the heroines in the books she loves. When a charming writer comes to town, she thinks she might have found it-- or is the perfect man actually closer than she thinks? Perdita Sweet has called these mountains home for so long that she's nearly as rocky...
Author
Series
(Jessica Bird)Bourbon kings volume 2
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
In Charlemont, Kentucky, the Bradford family is the creme de la creme of high society -- just like their exclusive brand of bourbon. And their complicated lives and vast estate are run by a discrete staff who inevitably become embroiled in their affairs. This is especially true now, when the apparent suicide of the family patriarch is starting to look more and more like murder. No one is above suspicion -- especially the eldest Bradford son, Edward....
Author
Series
(Jessica Bird)Bourbon kings volume 1
Language
English
Description
For generations, the Bradford family has worn the mantle of kings of the bourbon capital of the world. Their sustained wealth has afforded them prestige and privilege — as well as a hard-won division of class on their sprawling estate, Easterly. Upstairs, a dynasty that by all appearances plays by the rules of good fortune and good taste. Downstairs, the staff who work tirelessly to maintain the impeccable Bradford facade. And never the twain shall...
14) Devil's cut
Author
Series
(Jessica Bird)Bourbon kings volume 3
Language
English
Description
At first, the death of William Baldwine, the head of the Bradford family, was ruled a suicide. But then his eldest son and sworn enemy, Edward, came forward and confessed to what was, in fact, a murder. Now in police custody, Edward mourns not the disintegration of his family or his loss of freedom . . . but the woman he left behind. His love, Sutton Smythe, is the only person he has ever truly cared about, but as she is the CEO of the Bradford Bourbon...
Author
Series
China Bayles mysteries volume 17
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
While getting some much needed rest and assisting with some herbal workshops, China Bayles stumbles over old secrets in a Kentucky Shaker village after a shocking death occurs during her stay.
16) Paradise County
Author
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
c2000
Physical Desc
370 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
The rolling fields of Shelby County are home to some of the finest horseflesh and bluest blood in Kentucky. With its rural beauty and tranquil lifestyle, it is easy to see why the locals call it Paradise County. But beneath the serene exterior lies a dark underside, and an evil that threatens everyone who touches it.
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
543 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"During the Great Depression, city-dweller Addie Cowherd dreams of becoming a novelist and offering readers the escape that books had given her during her tragic childhood. When her father loses his job, she is forced to take the only employment she can find--delivering books on horseback to poor coal-mining families in the hills of Kentucky. But turning a new page will be nearly impossible in Boone's Hollow, where residents are steeped in superstitions...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Formats
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...
Author
Series
Kentucky volume 2
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
c2002
Physical Desc
330 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
The second Kentucky novel continues the story of the Coleman and Thornton families. Nealy Coleman Diamond nearly loses Shufly, the foal that carries her hopes for the Triple Crown, due to irresponsible acts by her two grown children. When attorney Hatch Littletree, her husband's former partner, pays a visit, he's determined to help Nealy heal the rift with her children.
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