mountain life

"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"--Provided by publisher.

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.

A collection of thirty-four short stories by American writer Ron Rash.

Times are hard in Depression era Georgia mountain country. Even so, fourteen-year-old Halley Owenby, her younger brother, Robbie, and their parents, Jim and Kate manage to get by until Jim dies suddenly in an accident, and Kate decides she and her children have no choice but to move in with her parents.

Cuzzy Gage has spent all of his eighteen years in the remote mountain town where he was born and raised, content to hang out with his friends and just get by, until he develops a friendship with an English teacher who has moved to the area to escape the death of his best friend.

A collection of fiction and non-fiction writing that represents and reveals the culture of Appalachia, while attempting to show the literature of the region in the context of the American and human experience.

A collection of fiction and non-fiction writing that represents and reveals the culture of Appalachia, while attempting to show the literature of the region in the context of the American and human experience.

A lonely girl living in a remote mountain community adopts an abandoned bear cub, but their friendship is threatened when a glamorous film crew comes to town.

A mountain family with adopted children and a dog must learn to deal with their new neighbors who bring some "modern" changes to their mountain home.