Geographic Orientation/Kentucky
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Blood and Treasure: Daniel Boone and the Fight for America’s First Frontier
$29.99 Read moreThe Instant New York Times Besteller
National Bestseller “[The] authors’ finest work to date.” —Wall Street Journal
The explosive true saga of the legendary figure Daniel Boone and the bloody struggle- Author: Drury, Bob
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: April 20, 2021
- ISBN10: 1250247136
- Language: English
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Waverly Hills Sanatorium: A History
$21.99 Add to cartHigh on a hill on the south side of Louisville, Kentucky, a massive Tudor Gothic Revival building still stands as a testament to past struggles with a deadly disease. The structure was once part of th… [more below]
- Series: Landmarks
- Author: Pohl, Lynn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: June 06 2022
- ISBN10: 1467149993
- Language: English
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Affrilachia: Poems
$19.95 Read moreA milestone book of poetry at the intersection of Appalachian and African American literature. In this pathbreaking debut collection, poet Frank X Walker tells the story of growing up young, Black, ar… [more below]
- Author: Walker, Frank X.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: November 17 2020
- ISBN10: 0967542405
- Language: English
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Dessa Rose
$18.99 Add to cartSherley A. Williams’ highly acclaimed historical novel details two women’s fierce strength of will and an unlikely bond despite racial barriers in the pre-civil war south.
In 1829, in Kentucky, a pregn
- Series: P.S.
- Author: Williams, Sherley A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: January 01 2011
- ISBN10: 0062011251
- Language: English
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Coal Dust
$17.95 Add to cart- Author: Swiesz, Shirley Noe
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: December 01 2000
- ISBN10: 059515574X
- Language: English
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Her Secret
$15.99 Add to cartNew York Times and USA Today bestselling author Shelley Shepard Gray begins a new series–The Amish of Hart County–with this suspenseful tale of a young Amish woman who is forced to move to a new tow
- Author: Gray, Shelley Shepard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: August 03 2023
- ISBN10: 006246910X
- Language: English
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Thread That Runs So True
$18.99 Add to cartFirst published in 1949, Jesse Stuart’s now classic personal account of his twenty years of teaching in the mountain region of Kentucky has enchanted and inspired generations of students and teachers.… [more below]
- Author: Stuart, Jesse
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: January 01 1950
- ISBN10: 0684719045
- Language: English
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Grounded
$13.69 Add to cartNew York City flight attendant Annie Taylor is grounded, putting a halt to weekends in Rome and her jet-setting lifestyle. Soon her noncommittal boyfriend’s true nature is revealed, and to top it all
- Series: May Hollow Trilogy #1
- Author: Correll, Angela
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 274
- Publish Date: October 01 2013
- ISBN10: 1938467566
- Language: English
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The Wild Birds: Six Stories of the Port William Membership
$16.95 Add to cart“Berry is a superb writer. His sense of what makes characters tick is extraordinary . . . Short stories don’t get any better than these.” —People
As part of Counterpoint’s celebration of beloved Amer- Series: Port William
- Author: Berry, Wendell
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: May 14 2019
- ISBN10: 1640092102
- Language: English
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The Gift of Good Land: Further Essays Cultural and Agricultural
$16.95 Add to cartThe essays in The Gift of Good Land are as true today as when they were first published in 1981; the problems addressed here are still true and the solutions no nearer to hand. The insistent theme of … [more below]
- Author: Berry, Wendell
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: May 01 2009
- ISBN10: 1582434840
- Language: English
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The Memory of Old Jack
$15.95 Add to cartOld Jack, born just after the American Civil War and dying in contemporary times, spends one beautiful September day in Port William, his home since birth, remembering.
The story tells of the most sea- Series: Port William
- Author: Berry, Wendell
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: October 08 1999
- ISBN10: 1582430438
- Language: English
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A Parchment of Leaves
$17.95 Add to cartIn 1900s Kentucky, Saul Sullivan leaves his bride behind to seek work, and his brother steps in, with violent consequences.
- Author: House, Silas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 306
- Publish Date: July 07 2020
- ISBN10: 1949467252
- Language: English
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The Feud: The Hatfields and McCoys: The True Story
$22.99 Add to cartFor more than a century, the enduring feud between the Hatfields and the McCoys has been American shorthand for passionate, unyielding, and even violent confrontation. Yet despite numerous articles, b… [more below]
- Author: King, Dean
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: May 27 2014
- ISBN10: 031616707X
- Language: English
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The Stonemason: A Play in Five Acts
$15.00 Add to cartFrom the bestselling author of The Passenger and the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Road comes a taut, expansively imagined drama about four generations of an American family.
The setting is Louisvi- Series: Vintage International
- Author: McCarthy, Cormac
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: August 01, 1995
- ISBN10: 0679762809
- Language: English
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The Hidden Wound
$15.95 Add to cartAn impassioned, thoughtful, and fearless essay on the effects of racism on the American identity by one of our country’s most humane literary voices.
Acclaimed as “one of the most humane, honest, libe- Author: Berry, Wendell
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: May 18 2010
- ISBN10: 1582434867
- Language: English
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That Distant Land: The Collected Stories
$18.95 Add to cartOriginally published in 2005, That Distant Land brings together twenty-three stories from the Port William Membership. Arranged in their fictional chronology, the book is not an anthology so much as i… [more below]
- Series: Port William
- Author: Berry, Wendell
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 440
- Publish Date: February 24 2005
- ISBN10: 159376054X
- Language: English
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A Place on Earth
$17.95 Add to cartPublished in 1967, we return to Port William during the Second World War to revisit Jayber Crow, the barber, Uncle Stanley, the gravedigger, Jarrat and Burley, the sharecroppers, and Brother Preston, … [more below]
- Series: Port William
- Author: Berry, Wendell
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: May 17 2001
- ISBN10: 1582431248
- Language: English
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Compact Guide to Kentucky Birds
$13.95 Add to cartA great introductory field guide to the birds of Kentucky. This book features over 80 species. Each account has two pages of color illustrations and detailed information including each bird’s common a… [more below]
- Series: Compact Guide
- Author: Roedel, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: March 01 2006
- ISBN10: 9768200014
- Language: English
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The Cornbread Mafia: A Homegrown Syndicate’s Code of Silence and the Biggest Marijuana Bust in American History
$19.95 Add to cartIn the summer of 1987, Johnny Boone set out to grow and harvest one of the greatest outdoor marijuana crops in modern times. In doing so, he set into motion a series of events that defined him and his
- Author: Higdon, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 424
- Publish Date: May 01 2019
- ISBN10: 1493038494
- Language: English
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Sleepless Nights
$15.95 Read moreIn Sleepless Nights a woman looks back on her life–the parade of people, the shifting background of place–and assembles a scrapbook of memories, reflections, portraits, letters, wishes, and dreams. … [more below]
- Series: New York Review Books Classics
- Author: Hardwick, Elizabeth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: August 31 2001
- ISBN10: 0940322722
- Language: English
