Kiowa County Public Library District

"After her brother dies in a fire, Sasha Harless has no one left and nowhere to turn, but soon discovers family she didn't know she had, and begins to heal through poetry"--

Annadel, West Virginia, was a small town rich in coal, farms, and close-knit families, all destroyed when the coal company came in. It stole everything it hadn't bothered to buy-land deeds, private homes, and ultimately, the souls of its men and women. Four people tell this powerful, deeply moving tale: Activist Mayor C. J. Marcum. Fierce, loveless union man Rondal Lloyd. Gutsy nurse Carrie Bishop, who loved Rondal. And lonely Sicilian immigrant Rosa...

Two weeks after Virginia Kate received her grandmother's journal in the mail and an urgent letter from her mother asking her to come home, she received the phone call from her uncle with news of her mother's death. Filled with remorse and carrying the journal, Virginia Kate heads back to the Appalachian hollow where she was born--the place she had hoped never to see again. The daughter of a mountain wild child and a Shakespeare-quoting salesman, Virginia...

When he finds a lost beagle in the hills behind his West Virginia home, Marty tries to hide it from his family and the dog's real owner, a mean-spirited man known to shoot deer out of season and to mistreat his dogs.

Dr. Joseph Jackowski is the only person alive who can stop the zombie virus but he's been conscripted into the National Guard and is no closer to developing a cure. Meanwhile, retired Air Force Colonel Michael Kinnick is looking for Dr. Jackowski in West Virginia where he finds, instead, former counterterrorism agent Mark Steele and his group facing off with a town of ruthless survivors.

Ledford is a lost man, disconnected from the present and haunted by his violent past, until he meets his cousins, the Bonecutter brothers. Their land, the mysterious, elemental Marrowbone Cut, calls to Ledford, and it is there, with help form an unlikely bunch, that the Marrowbone Marble Company is slowly forged. Over the next two decades, the factory town becomes a vanguard of the civil rights movement and the war on poverty, a home for those intent...

Tells the story of a young couple and their special pet alligator on a crazy 1000 mile journey to return Albert to his home. A testament to that strange and marvelous emotion we call love. The story is based on the relationship of the author's parents during the Great Depression.

A girl describes her family's annual visit with Mamaw and Papaw in West Virginia, then Abuela and Abuelo in Florida, especially the foods and cultural elements that make each kitchen unique.

Grieving over her beloved father's death, talented violinist Melody Logan is astonished when her depressive mother takes them to live at the Logan estate, where she learns a devastating secret about her parents

Into the Web stars Roy Slater, a young man who 25 years ago ran away from his hometown to escape the consequences of an unspeakable crime. Now with his father dying, Roy returns, only to get caught up in another scandal. Murder rocks the small town, and for Roy it draws him into the same web of deceit and treachery he tried so hard to leave behind. Tom Stechschulte's intense narration will have listeners on the edges of their seats.