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Updated July 18, 2024
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Kentucky cooks favorite recipes from Kentucky living
Allison-Lewis, Linda
Ebook
Kentucky has a rich culinary tradition with distinctive regional recipes that reflect the unique heritage of the commonwealth, and few know that tradition better than Linda Allison-Lewis. In the ten years since the publication of her celebrated first collection, Kentucky's Best: Fifty Years of...
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That distant land : the collected stories
Berry, Wendell
Paper Book
Originally 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 it is a coherent temporal mapping of this landscape over time, revealing Berry's mastery of...
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Kentucky folktales revealing stories, truths, and outright lies
Hamilton, Mary
Ebook
"An entertaining collection . . . It will encourage readers to explore the lore of their own communities, no matter how near to or far from Kentucky." --Library JournalWinner of the Storytelling World Resource Award and the Anne Izard Storytellers' Choice Award<...
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Appalachian elegy poetry and place
hooks, bell
Ebook
Author, activist, feminist, teacher, and artist bell hooks is celebrated as one of the nation's leading intellectuals. Born in Hopkinsville, Kentucky, hooks drew her unique pseudonym from the name of her grandmother, an intelligent and strong-willed African American woman who inspired her to...
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Belonging : a culture of place
hooks, bell
Ebook
What does it mean to call a place home? Who is allowed to become a member of a community? When can we say that we truly belong? These are some of the questions of place and belonging that renowned cultural critic bell hooks examines in her new book, Belonging: A Culture of Place....
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Something's rising : Appalachians fighting mountaintop removal
House, Silas
Paper Book
Like an old-fashioned hymn sung in rounds, Something's Rising gives a stirring voice to the lives, culture, and determination of the people fighting the destructive practice of mountaintop removal in the coalfields of central Appalachia. Each person's story, unique and unfiltered, articulates the...
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Animal, vegetable, miracle : a year of food life
Kingsolver, Barbara.
Paper Book
At long last, the bestselling author of Small Miracles and The Poisonwood Bible returns with the wise and compelling true story of her family's adventure to reclaim the food they eat America has long been a nation of farmers. But within the past several decades, our food supply has become...
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Prodigal summer : a novel
Kingsolver, Barbara.
Paper Book
National Bestseller "A blend of breathtaking artistry, encyclopedic knowledge of the natural world. . . and ardent commitment to the supremacy of nature." -- San Francisco Chronicle In this beautiful novel, Barbara Kingsolver, New York Times bestselling author of Demon...
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Restoring Shakertown The Struggle to Save the Historic Shaker Village of Pleasant Hill
Parrish, Thomas
Ebook
Mother Ann Lee, founder of the Shakers, articulated a vision of a community that embraced sacrifice over the needs of the individual; the result was one of the most successful utopian experiments of nineteenth-century America. The Shakers, an idealistic offshoot of the ascetic Quaker religion,...
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Divide and Dissent Kentucky Politics, 1930-1963
Pearce, John Ed.
Ebook
Few men have been more important to the life of Kentucky than three of those who governed it between 1930 and 1963--Albert B. Chandler, Earle C. Clements, and Bert T. Combs. While reams of newspaper copy have been written about them, the historical record offers little to mark their roles in the...
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River Of Earth
Still, James
Ebook
First published in 1940, James Still's masterful novel has become a classic. It is the story, seen through the eyes of a boy, of three years in the life of his family and their kin. He sees his parents pulled between the meager farm with its sense of independence and the mining camp with its...
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Drowned Town
Waldrop, Jayne Moore.
Ebook
"They had been told their sacrifice was for the public good. They were never told how much they would miss it, or for how long." Drowned Town explores the multigenerational impact caused by the loss of home and illuminates the joys and sorrows of a group of people bound...
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The Birds of Opulence
Wilkinson, Crystal
Ebook
From the critically acclaimed, award-winning author of Blackberries, Blackberries and Water Street comes an astonishing new novel. A lyrical exploration of love and loss, The Birds of Opulence centers on several generations of women in a bucolic southern black township as...
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The girl singer : poems
Worthington, Marianne
Ebook
Feminism, Appalachian culture, and country music: three threads beautifully woven into one in Marianne Worthington's poetry collection The Girl Singer. The poet grew up in urban Appalachia, listening to country and folk music and letting it live within her. The speakers in The...
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