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1) Country dark
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Country Dark is a taut, compelling novel set in rural Kentucky from the Korean War to 1970. Tucker, a young veteran, returns from war to work for a bootlegger. He falls in love and starts a family, and while the Tuckers don't have much, they have the love of their home and each other. But when his family is threatened, Tucker is pushed into violence, which changes everything. The story of people living off the land and by their wits in a backwoods...
Author
Language
English
Description
Vance, a former marine and Yale Law School graduate, provides an account of growing up in a poor Rust Belt town that offers a broader, probing look at the struggles of America's white working class. The decline of this group, a demographic of our country that has been slowly disintegrating over forty years, has been reported on with growing frequency and alarm. J. D. Vance tells the true story of what a social, regional, and class decline feels like...
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Steven Stoll offers a fresh, provocative account of Appalachia, from the earliest European settlers, through crucial episodes such as the Whiskey Rebellion and the founding of West Virginia, and the arrival of timber and coal companies that set off a devastating "scramble for Appalachia."--
4) Like lions
Author
Series
Bull Mountain ; 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Clayton Burroughs is a small-town Georgia sheriff, a new father, and, improbably, the heir apparent of Bull Mountain's most notorious criminal family. As he tries to juggle fatherhood, his job, and his recovery from being shot in the confrontation that killed his two criminally-inclined brothers last year, he's doing all he can just to survive. Yet after years of carefully toeing the line between his life in law enforcement and his family, he finally...
Author
Series
Bull Mountain ; 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
" "Brian Panowich stamps words on the page as if they've been blasted from the barrel of a shotgun, and as with a shotgun blast, no one is safe from the scattered fragments of history that impale the people of Bull Mountain."-Wiley Cash, New York Times-bestselling author of This Dark Road to Mercy. The Godfather meets Daniel Woodrell in this Southern debut, a multigenerational saga of crime, family, and vengeance. Clayton Burroughs comes from a long...
7) 10,000 B.C
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Formats
Description
In a remote mountain tribe, the young hunter D'Leh finds his heart's passion in the beautiful Evolet. But when a band of mysterious warlords raid their village and kidnaps Evolet, D'Leh leads a small group of hunters to save her. As they venture into unknown lands for the first time, the group discovers there are civilizations beyond their own and that mankind's reach is far greater than they ever knew. At each encounter the group is joined by other...
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Get ready for some good old-fashioned fun with the Kettle family, featuring all ten of their classic films: The Egg and I; Ma and Pa Kettle; The Kettles in the Ozarks (WS); The Kettles on Old MacDonald's Farm (WS); Ma and Pa Kettle at Home; Ma and Pa Kettle at the Fair; Ma and Pa Kettle at Waikiki; Ma and Pa Kettle Back on the Farm; Ma and Pa Kettle Go to Town; and Ma and Pa Kettle on Vacation.
13) Wrong turn
Publisher
Saban Films
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Backwoods terror and nerve-jangling suspense meet when Jen and a group of friends set out to hike the Appalachian Trail. Despite warnings to stick to the trail, the hikers stray off course, and cross into land inhabited by The Foundation, a hidden community of mountain dwellers who use deadly means to protect their way of life. Suddenly under siege, Jen and her friends seem headed to the point of no return, unless Jen's father can reach them in time."...
Series
Publisher
Digiview Entertainment
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
Six episodes of the television comedy about the Clampett family. "While living a simple, rural lifestyle in the country, Jed Clampett and his family never expected their daily routine to change very much. But when Jed accidentally strikes oil on his land, he and his family become overnight millionaires! Wanting to make the most of their new wealth, they move to Beverly Hills. And it doesn't take very long before these down to earth folks clash...
Author
Series
Publisher
Harvest House Publishers
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
"Rani Martin, Simon and Anna's only daughter, is a beautiful and spirited young woman living deep in the heart of the Smoky Mountains. She has plenty of ideas about the man she'll marry someday, but none of them could have prepared her for the return of Matthew Jackson. Matthew left Cades Cove as a child after his father's death. Now he's come back to build a new life for himself, and it's his dearest wish that Rani be a part of that life. But the...
Publisher
Warner Bros. Television
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"The Parton clan is determined to scrape together enough money to buy their beloved Mama the wedding ring she's long waited for. But a fierce blizzard threatens to demolish their dream. While the family struggles to save their beloved homestead, an important person in little Dolly's life suggests that her amazing voice and musical gifts may be destined for something far beyond Tennessee's Great Smoky Mountains." --
19) Li'l Abner
Series
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Based on the beloved cartoon strip from Al Capp, Li'l Abner takes place in the hillbilly town of Dogpatch. When the city is chosen as a test site for A-bombs, its colorful citizens take up the good fight, with lots of fun and merriment.
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
A hard-hitting drama that revolves around a local cop struggling to keep his family together while simultaneously policing two clashing communities: the small town where he grew up and the neighboring mountains, home of a Native American tribe. After a terrible tragedy and cover-up occurs involving the cop's wife, an unholy alliance is forged between the cop and Phillip Kopus, a dangerous member of the tribe that will come back to haunt all involved....
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