Catalog Search Results
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the latest installment in Wendell Berry's long story about the citizens of Port William, Hannah Coulter sorts through her memories. Her first husband, Virgil, was declared "missing in action" shortly after the Battle of the Bulge; and after she married Nathan Coulter, about all he could tell Hannah about the Battle of Okinawa was "Ignorant boys, killing each other." The community was stunned and diminished by the war, with some of its sons lost...
Author
Series
Publisher
Tyndale House Publishers
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Lilly Gray Corbett loves living on Troublesome Creek, but she would much rather play with her best friend than watch her little brother and the twins. Her mama, Copper, is often gone helping to birth babies, and Lilly has to stay home. When Aunt Alice sends a note inviting her to visit in the city, Lilly is excited to go, and Copper reluctantly agrees to let her. Later, when they hear the news that the train crashed, Copper and her husband, John,...
Author
Series
Troublesome Creek volume 4
Publisher
Tyndale House Publishers
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Learning from the same mentor in spite of their disparate personalities, Darcy Whitt falls for an unscrupulous lawyer who plots to steal her family's land while her sister-in-law, Cara, struggles with sudden isolation in her rickety cabin
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"In the ruggedness of the beautiful Kentucky mountains, Honey Lovett has always known that the old ways can make a hard life harder. As the daughter of the famed blue-skinned, Troublesome Creek packhorse librarian, Honey and her family have been hiding from the law all her life. But when her mother and father are imprisoned, Honey realizes she must fight to stay free, or risk being sent away for good. Picking up her mother's old packhorse library...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Description
Volunteering for Eleanor Roosevelt's new traveling library in small-town Kentucky, an English bride joins a group of independent women whose commitment to their job transforms the community and their relationships.
1937. Alice Wright marries handsome American Bennett Van Cleve hoping to escape her stifling life in England. But small-town Kentucky proves equally claustrophobic, especially living alongside her overbearing father-in-law. When a call...
6) The journey
Author
Series
Kentucky brothers volume 1
Language
English
Description
Titus Fisher, an Amish carpenter, journeys into a Kentucky Amish community where he seeks a new beginning and meets the beautiful and unique Suzanne Yoder. She can't cook but can do woodworking, and she painfully resembles Phoebe, Titus's ex-girlfriend
Author
Series
Nauti boys volume 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
After she is framed in a sex scandal and skips town, taking a new identity, Rogue meets Sheriff Zeke Mayes, who is determined to win her heart, but Zeke has secrets of his own that could prove to be deadly for both of them.
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Bopped on the head from a falling plastic Santa, local undertaker Emma Lee Raines is told she's suffering from 'funeral trauma'. It's trauma all right, because the not-so-dearly departed keep talking to her. Take Ruthie Sue Payne--innkeeper, gossip queen, and arch-nemesis of Emma Lee's granny--she's adamant that she didn't just fall down those stairs. She was pushed. Ruthie has no idea who wanted her pushing up daisies. All she knows is that...
9) Shattered
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Attorney Lisa Grant is back home in Kentucky to care for her ill mother. The Thoroughbred farm that has been in her mother's family for generations is near bankruptcy, so Lisa takes the only job available: research assistant to District Attorney Scott Buchanan. While reviewing cold cases, she comes across the file on a family disappearance thirty years earlier in which the mother and the toddler bear an uncanny resemblance to herself. Together with...
10) Coyote's mate
Author
Series
Breeds volume 18
Language
English
Formats
Description
Despite the fact that Del-Rey Delgado, the genetically altered rebel known as the Coyote Ghost, betrayed her during a rescue mission, Anya Korbin, an altered Coyote breed, is unable to deny the animalistic desire between them
Author
Language
English
Description
"Katie Daniels is a perfection-seeking 28-year-old lawyer living the New York dream. She's engaged to charming art curator Paul Michael, has successfully made her way up the ladder at a multinational law firm, and has a hold on apartments in Soho and the West Village. Suffice it to say, she has come a long way from her Kentucky upbringing. But the rug is swept from under Katie when she is suddenly dumped by her fiancé, Paul Michael, leaving her devastated...
Author
Language
English
Description
In 1992, celebrated novelist Ann Patchett launched her remarkable career with the publication of her debut novel, The Patron Saint of Liars. On this 25th anniversary, read the best-selling book that is "beautifully written... a first novel that second- and third-time novelists would envy for its grace, insight, and compassion" (Boston Herald).
St. Elizabeth's, a home for unwed mothers in Habit, Kentucky, usually harbors its residents for only a little...
13) Don't cry for me
Author
Series
Rebel Ridge novels volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
When her ex-lover Quinn Walker takes her to his log cabin in the Appalachian Mountains of Kentucky to rest and recuperate, Mariah Conrad, badly wounded on active duty in Afghanistan, discovers that bad things are happening on the mountain and she must once again battle for survival
14) The bean trees
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
If the saga of Top O' Hill Casino becoming Arlington Baptist College were written as fiction, readers would dismiss it as improbable and were written as fiction, readers would dismiss it as improbable and impossible. The story of a tearoom evolving into the gambling hot spot of North Central Texas that was then acquired by a fiery gospel preacher, who foretold its transformation into a Baptist seminary and ultimately an accredited Bible college, is...
Author
Series
Summer friends volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
Sunset, Kentucky. After putting the brakes on her dead-end relationship, local veterinarian Ivey Anders is ready to soak up this summer on her own terms. The way she sees it, no dating means no disappointment. But when she meets Corbin Meyer-- and his troubled young son, Justin-- Ivey's no-strings strategy threatens to unravel before she can put it into practice. Trust doesn't come easy for Ivey's best friend, Hope Mage, a veterinary-clinic assistant...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"When her Aunt Peg lands a gig as judge at a Kentucky dog show, Melanie Travis welcomes the opportunity for a road trip. Too bad a killer has planned a deadly detour"--
When her Aunt Peg lands a gig as judge at a Kentucky dog show, Melanie Travis welcomes the opportunity for a road trip. Within three days of her arrival, Aunt Peg's old friend Ellie Gates is found dead. Though the police and the family believe the death to be an accident, Aunt Peg...
17) Starling house
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Eden, Kentucky, is just another dying, bad-luck town, known only for the legend of E. Starling, the reclusive nineteenth-century author and illustrator who wrote "The Underland" -- and disappeared. Before she vanished, Starling House appeared. But everyone agrees that it's best to let the uncanny house and its last lonely heir, Arthur Starling go to rot ... Opal is a lot of things--orphan, high school dropout, full-time cynic and part-time cashier--but...
18) The return
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Catherine Fane travels to Camarune, Kentucky, to bury her beloved guardian, she discovers that the townspeople considered her guardian to be a witch and believes Catherine to be one as well.
19) Westward hearts
Author
Series
Homeward on the Oregon Trail volume 1
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Formats
Description
Kentucky, 1854. Elizabeth has mourned her husband's death for three years, but nqow she feels ready to fulfill the dream they had shared: to take their two children west. At Kansas City, they join a substantial wagon train. Elizabeth soon finds herself being drawn to the group's handsome guide, Eli Kincade.
Author
Series
Book woman of Trouble Creek volume 1
Language
English
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...
In Interlibrary Loans
Didn't find what you need? Items not owned by Coastline Library Network can be requested from other Interlibrary Loans libraries to be delivered to your local library for pickup.
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? Try our Materials Request Service. Submit Request