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1) Heidi
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English
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A Swiss orphan is heartbroken when she must leave her beloved grandfather and their happy home in the mountains to go to school and to care for an invalid girl in the city.
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Nestled in the lush Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia, the town of Big Stone Gap has been home to Ave Maria Mulligan MacChesney and her family for generations. She's been married to her beloved Jack for nearly twenty years, raised one child and buried another, and run a business that binds her community together, all while holding close her tight circle of family and friends. But with her daughter Etta, having flown the nest to Italy, Ave Maria has...
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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.
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Milk Glass Moon, the third book in Adriana Trigiani's bestselling Big Stone Gap series, continues the life story of Ave Maria Mulligan MacChesney as she faces the challenges and changes of motherhood with her trademark humor and honesty. With twists as plentiful as those found on the holler roads of southwest Virginia, this story takes turns that will surprise and enthrall the reader.
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2024: The American Civil War
2025 ARC: Historical Fiction Recommended by A Librarian
Wars other than WWII
2025 ARC: Historical Fiction Recommended by A Librarian
Wars other than WWII
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Cold Mountain is a novel about a soldiers perilous journey back to his beloved near the Civil War's end. At once a love story & a harrowing account of one mans long walk home, Cold Mountain introduces a new talent in American literature. Based on local history & family stories passed down by Fraziers great-great-grandfather, Cold Mountain is the tale of a wounded Confederate soldier, Inman, who walks away from the ravages of...
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[Christy films] volume 1
Publisher
TriMark Home Video
Pub. Date
c2001.
Language
English
Description
"Set in early 20th century Tennessee, this touching family film tells the story of schoolteacher Christy Huddleston, who learns a lesson in loyalty, faith and friendship when she attempts to force a small community into progressing with the outside world." --container.
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Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
c1982.
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English
Description
For twenty years, Cynthia Rylant's story of childhood in the Appalachian Mountains has been an enduring favorite. Growing up in the mountains is depicted with a spare, lyrical text and beautiful, tender illustrations by Diane Goode. The book was awarded a Caldecott Honor Medal.
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Mountain man volume 1
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English
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Accompanied by an elderly mountain man named Preacher, Smoke Jensen, a young boy with a thirst for vengeance, ventures westward from his Missouri farm in pursuit of the enemies that destroyed everything he has ever loved
13) White bird
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Series
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c1990.
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English
Description
A lonely boy is found and reared by a hermit in the wilderness of the Tennessee mountains in the 1880s.
16) Heidi
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Publisher
Disney DVD
Pub. Date
[2005]
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English
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After charming her reclusive grandfather and falling in love with the beautiful mountain he calls home, Heidi is uprooted and sent to Frankfurt where she befriends Klara, a young girl confined to a wheelchair, and must make a difficult decision.
17) Heidi
Series
Shirley Temple collection volume 1
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2005.
Language
English
Description
The story of a girl sent to live with her hermit grandfather in the Alps, where her influence reconciles her grandfather to the town. Then her aunt takes her away from the grandfather she has come to love, to live in Frankfurt as the companion of a girl with disabilities whom Heidi encourages to try walking again.
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Mountain man volume 32
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English
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Somewhere in his past, Smoke crossed paths with a lowlife who has now built a little kingdom as a frontier sheriff. For the corrupt lawman, holding Smoke's friend hostage is the perfect way to lure Smoke into a deathtrap. Now there's no choice for the mountain man. He knows how many guns are waiting up ahead. But he won't ever leave a brother behind. And this time, there won't be an enemy left standing-or a bullet left in Smoke's gun
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English
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Prodigal Summer weaves together three stories of human love within a larger tapestry of lives inhabiting the forested mountains and struggling small farms of southern Appalachia. From her outpost in an isolated mountain cabin, Deanna Wolfe, a reclusive wildlife biologist, watches a den of coyotes that have recently migrated into the region. She is caught off-guard by a young hunter who invades her most private spaces and confounds her self-assured,...
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