Growing Up Hard in Harlan County
By: G.C. Jones
4.24
Format: 192 pages, Kindle Edition
This classic memoir is “an absorbing tale” of life in Appalachian Kentucky during the Great Depress…
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1. Teacher Man (Frank McCourt, #3)
By: Frank McCourt
3.75
Format: 258 pages, Paperback
McCourt's long-awaited book about how his thirty-year teaching career shaped his second act as a wr… read more
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"Teaching is bringing the news."-Frank McCourt, Teacher Man (Frank McCourt, #3)
"I am teaching. Storytelling is teaching."-Frank McCourt, Teacher Man (Frank McCourt, #3)
"Nobody ever told them they had a right to an opinion."-Frank McCourt, Teacher Man (Frank McCourt, #3)
"If everyone moved on and up and out who would teach the children?"-Frank McCourt, Teacher Man (Frank McCourt, #3)
2. The Devil Is Here in These Hills: West Virginia's Coal Miners and Their Battle for Freedom
By: James R. Green
4.12
Format: 207 pages, Hardcover
From before the dawn of the 20th century until the arrival of the New Deal, one of the most protrac… read more
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- history
3. My Appalachia: A Memoir
By: Sidney Saylor Farr
4.20
Format: 32 pages, Hardcover
"My family lived as far back in the hollers as it was possible to go in Bell County, Kentucky. Dad … read more
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- history
- biography
4. Pin
By: Andrew Neiderman
4.04
Format: 417 pages,
Mother was driven by a psychotic compulsion to clean - constantly - everything in sight. Father was… read more
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5. To the Edge of the Sky: A Story of Love, Betrayal, Suffering, and the Strength of Human Courage
By: Anhua Gao
3.21
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
To the "Edge of the Sky" is the harrowing account of a remarkable woman's life in communist China-a… read more
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6. Serena
By: Ron Rash
3.94
Format: 456 pages, Hardcover
A New York Timesbestseller and PEN/Faulkner Award Finalist, Serena by award-winning author Ron Rash… read more
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7. Dream Wheels
By: Richard Wagamese
4.18
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Rodeo cowboy Joe Willie Wolfchild, riding an explosive bull called See Four and moments away from b… read more
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8. American Boy
By: Larry Watson
3.31
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Esquire Top 9 Books of the Year Midwest Booksellers Choice Award Finalist BooklistEditor's Choice 2… read more
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9. Tears of the Silenced: A True Crime and an American Tragedy; Severe Child Abuse and Leaving the Amish
By: Misty Griffin
3.93
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
When I was six years old my family started to live and dress like the Amish, it was the beginning o… read more
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10. A Dog Called Hope: The wounded warrior and the dog who dared to love him
By: Damien Lewis , None
3.79
Format: 160 pages,
When special forces soldier Jason Morgan awoke from a months-long coma, he was told he'd never walk… read more
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11. The Road to Bittersweet
By: Donna Everhart
4.00
Format: 120 pages,
Set in the Carolinas in the 1940s, The Road to Bittersweet is a beautifully written, evocative acco… read more
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12. A Man of Iron: The Turbulent Life and Improbable Presidency of Grover Cleveland
By: Troy Senik
4.16
Format: 384 pages, ebook
“A thoroughly engaging and enjoyable” (National Review) biography of Grover Cleveland—the honest, p… read more
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- history
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13. Murder on the Train (DI Hillary Greene #21)
By: Faith Martin
4.35
Format: 261 pages, Kindle Edition
Six passengers in a locked train carriage. One of them is dead. No one saw a thing.Former Detective… read more
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14. The Fire and the Ore
By: Olivia Hawker
4.07
Format: 393 pages, Kindle Edition
Three spirited wives in nineteenth-century Utah. One husband. A compelling novel of family, sisterh… read more
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15. Mustard Seed (Freedman/Johnson, #2)
By: Laila Ibrahim
4.28
Format: 282 pages, Kindle Edition
The bestselling author of Yellow Crocus returns with a haunting and tender story of three women ret… read more
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16. October in the Earth
By: Olivia Hawker
4.21
Format: 310 pages, Kindle Edition
In Depression-era Kentucky, a defiant wife embarks on an impulsive and liberating journey in a powe… read more
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17. The Price of Bread and Shoes: A Novel
By: Lonormi Manuel
4.47
Format: 354 pages, Kindle Edition
When nineteen-year-old Alafair Sizemore Slone journeys to Chemame Creek, West Virginia to join her … read more
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"It's a hard life for a woman, married to a man who's married to the bottle."-Lonormi Manuel, The Price of Bread and Shoes: A Novel
18. Threshing of Straw
By: Kim Catron
4.51
Format: 308 pages, Kindle Edition
A grandmother who only ever wanted to protect her two little girls. A mother who did the unthinkabl… read more
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19. The Thirteenth Child: A World War 2 historical novel based upon an enthralling and heart-wrenching true story
By: Mark deMeza
4.26
Format: 403 pages, Kindle Edition
Inspired by the true story of the author’s ancestors, this enthralling WWII novel tells of the Kisc… read more
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20. Sunflower Sisters (Lilac Girls, #3)
By: Martha Hall Kelly
4.26
Format: 528 pages, Hardcover
Lilac Girls introduced readers to Caroline Ferriday, an American philanthropist who helped young gi… read more
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21. Refuge
By: Dot Jackson
4.25
Format: 306 pages, Kindle Edition
“An intensely readable novel of the complexity of family ties . . . Dot Jackson is a true Southern … read more
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22. Out of the Dust
By: Joyce E. Patterson
4.24
Format: 397 pages, Kindle Edition
Two of America’s worst economic disasters occurred during the same period. One was the crash of the… read more
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23. The Secret Orphan
By: Glynis Peters
3.93
Format: 402 pages, Kindle Edition
As the Nazis' relentless bombs fall during the Blitz of Coventry, six-year-old Rose Sherbourne find… read more
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24. The Girls We Sent Away
By: Meagan Church
3.95
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
“[A]n important and vital story. With exquisite writing, Church exposes a murky little pocket of hi… read more
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25. Tobacco Rose
By: Florence Love Karsner
4.33
Format: 304 pages, Kindle Edition
South Georgia 1955. Racial tensions lead to riots in the South. An old black woman named Rosie and … read more
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26. The Family
By: S.E. Green
4.14
Format: 148 pages, Kindle Edition
Nothing’s more important than family... Leah When Leah’s daughter, Nyla, unexpectedly appears at … read more
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27. Tisha: The Story of a Young Teacher in the Alaskan Wilderness
By: Robert Specht
4.32
Format: 466 pages, Kindle Edition
Anne Hobbs is a prim and proper 19-year-old schoolteacher who yearns for adventure. She finds this … read more
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"It was like traveling through a stage setting, the air clear and tingling, the moonlight sparkling off bushes laced with frost."-Robert Specht, Tisha: The Story of a Young Teacher in the Alaskan Wilderness
28. The Stardust Grail
By: Yume Kitasei
3.78
Format: 312 pages, Hardcover
Save one world. Doom her own. From the acclaimed author of The Deep Sky comes a thrilling anti-c… read more
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29. It Happened in Silence
By: Karla M. Jay
4.52
Format: 340 pages, Kindle Edition
Honorable Mention in the 2022 Eric Hoffer Book Award Historical Fiction Category 2021 Benjamin Fra… read more
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"The sharpest image I hold from that day are the shiny nailheads in the wood, where someone overdone the hammering to shut the wood-slat crate they sent my brother home in. A note came attached, stiff…"-Karla M. Jay, It Happened in Silence
30. Altar of Resistance (World War II #2)
By: Samuel Marquis
4.19
Format: 525 pages, Kindle Edition
In this second thriller in the bestselling WWII series, the Eternal City of Rome during the Nazi Oc… read more
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31. Growing Up Hard in Harlan County
By: G.C. Jones
4.24
Format: 192 pages, Kindle Edition
This classic memoir is “an absorbing tale” of life in Appalachian Kentucky during the Great Depress… read more
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