Истории Appalachia

After three years away, eighteen-year-old senior Cora Boone is finally free and returning to her hometown of Stilllight, deep in Southern Appalachia. Her record runs a mile long, stacked with detentions, suspensions, arrests, and every bad decision she could make before she was sent away. But buried somewhere beneath all that chaos was one person who ever really knew her. While Cora was locked in the Marrowbend Institute, fellow senior Hollis Greer was quietly diagnosed with a rare seizure disorder. He only told those he needed to, and never let it define him. He learned to hide it, paying close attention to his body and keeping a careful hold on what no one else was meant to see. Nothing threatens that careful balance like Cora Boone walking back into Stilllight. Old memories surface. Old instincts flare. And this time, the thing he's fighting to control might not be his seizures, but what he's always felt for her.

a group of teenagers living in a town in the Appalachian mountains start noticing weird things happening. They start getting interested and try getting into the towns history while uncovering the mysteries of the town

When a hurricane tears through the Blue Ridge Mountains, the Whitley Ranch is left in ruins, and the body of a man floats to the surface. As the floodwaters recede, the Whitley family faces not only the wreckage of their home but the unraveling of everything they thought they knew about one another. In the mud and silence of Appalachia, where good people do terrible things to survive, even the daylilies can't grow without death.

In the shadowed hollows of the 1700s Appalachian mountains, seventeen-year-old Eliza lived a life written for her-one of silence, servitude, and sacrifice. Her world was made of cold hands, colder hearts, and a future she never asked for. Until the night she ran into the woods... and met him. Corwin is ancient. Possessive. Beautiful in the way storms are beautiful. He calls to something deep in Eliza's blood, something wild and old and aching to be claimed. In his arms, she learns what it means to be seen, to be chosen-not as a burden, but as a beloved. But theirs is no gentle love. It is a love forged in secrecy, bound in blood, and hunted by enemies both mortal and immortal. As her world falls away, Eliza must decide what she is willing to become for the one who would burn the world for her. She was meant to marry a stranger. Instead, she was marked by a monster. "Do you feel it too?" he whispered. "The thread between us? The blood remembering?" A sweeping gothic romance of ancient bonds, fierce love, and a girl who was never meant to be ordinary.

The first part in a multi series recant of one child's experience in the opioid epidemic. The story follows along a young girl and her experiences growing up with multiple addicts and how that sculpts her into the adult she becomes. Follow along with her as she experiences loss, hardship, love, betrayal and so much more.

When June was eight years old, her mother mysteriously disappeared after playing a gig with her band at a Honkey Tonk. The uncertainty of her disappearance haunted June and her younger brother, Aedon, who were left to be raised by their grandparents in the small, rural town of Toryville, where they grew up surrounded by rumors, grief, and half-remembered stories their mother used to tell-tales of mountain kings and bloodlines with roots deeper than the forest floor. Years later, at twenty-three, June is off to her Junior year at college, determined to escape Toryville and its ghosts, but June and Aedon quickly find out that the past isn't quite finished with them yet. They are taken far from the world they know, into a hidden kingdom carved into a mountain few know exists. There, June's father reigns as king-a ruler of a dying realm torn by rebellion, magic, and old debts. He claims June and Aedon are the last of his line, the only ones who can save the mountain-and that their mother's disappearance was no accident. As June unravels the truth about who her parents really were-and the legacy she was born to inherit-she must decide whether to rise and claim the crown of a kingdom built on secrets, or find a way to burn it all down.

Seven years ago, Clay Mongomery was convicted of poisoning his four children. His sister, Viv, knows he's innocent. In the years that follow, Viv's sister-in-law is losing her sanity and the family's clock-making business is going under. When an old flame comes back to town with a golden opportunity to free her brother, Viv must put aside her feelings for him and do whatever it takes to prove Clay's innocence. As small town secrets are revealed and judicial corruption is unearthed, the ancient creatures that haunt the Appalachian mountainside begin to creep out of the shadows. Whispers spread about these spirits being the cause of the Montgomery childrens' deaths and Viv begins to wonder if that could be true. As she is forced to relive her greatest nightmare, Viv finds herself in grave danger. But is the threat coming from dishonest sheriffs or something far more sinister? The answer pushes her deeper into the case. And into the woods. But everyone in Appalachia knows that if you see or hear something in the woods...no, you didn't.

Meet April Rae Hall, a shy young woman who accidentally catches the eye of the most eligible bachelor in Eastern Kentucky. When she rejects his advances, he threatens to use his wealth and privilege to destroy her mountain community. She challenges him to a fight, winner take all-- a daring move that could buy her community time. She trains for the match with the help of a tough female bounty hunter, hoping to defeat the cocky playboy and save her hollow from destruction. A quirky coming-of-age romance filled with action and humor. ...Karate Kid meets Pride and Prejudice, with a little Demon Copperhead on the side...

#992 youngadult - 2.5.19 #166 nature - 2.8.19 #439 survival - 2.8.19 #39 bookworm - 2.20.19 #33 stepfather - 2.20.19 #397 female - 2.20.19 #521 teenager - 2.20.19 #231 dog - 2.20.19 #106 singleparent - 2.20.19 #63 stepdad - 2.20.19 #23 virginia - 2.20.19 #30 mountains - 2.20.19 #410 femaleprotagonist - 2.20.19 #33 strongfemale - 2.20.19 #65 freshman - 2.20.19 #49 singlemom - 2.20.19 #33 noromance - 2.20.19 #1 appalachia - 2.22.19 #2 appalachian - 2.22.19 100 reads - 2.16.19 River is a freshman in high school in the mountainous region of Virginia who has a deep connection to nature. In school, she is a wallflower. She has few friends despite being a quite likable person. Her best friend is her malamute, Tucker. Almost daily after school River goes to "her world;" an area deep in the forest that no one else visits. There she studies, reads, or just disconnects for awhile. There, away from society, she can be herself. She doesn't have to try to blend in to the crowd when there is no crowd to blend in to. Life is great for River until her mother starts dating a logger who sees no value in the preservation of nature. Upset and frustrated, River takes Tucker and runs away to her world in the dead of night hoping he will not find her beautiful grove and destroy it.

Derica Betton became mayor of Middlehurst, Virginia by accident. Rufus Saunders forgot to file his re-election paperwork because he was fishing. She filed hers on a whim. She won. She came home with her wife Serene, a plan, and infrastructure blueprints Serene had already finished before anyone asked her to. That's Serene. She sees a problem she knows how to solve and she solves it. The asking comes later. Now they have a decaying mountain town, a seven-figure infrastructure budget they have to earn before anyone will give it to them, a father who wants the stadium lights fixed, a mother whose grace covers gonorrhea, the lottery, and Savannah Miller's cooking in the same breath, and a sister who is live-streaming all of it to four hundred thousand people who have decided Middlehurst is the most important place on the internet. All Derica has to do is convince a town that has been told no for thirty years that yes is still possible. All Serene has to do is make sure it actually works. Betton It All is a story about broadband and sweet potato pie and what it actually means to come home.

"Willa..." "It's okay, I am okay." "Willa, I'm sorry." Kudzu vines stretched and sprawled across dilapidated wood slats on the back porch that splintered beneath the weight of themselves. A rich, warm breeze caressed my face almost as gently as the feeling of the pad of her thumb that grazed my cheek. The sun fought to hang between fluffy white clouds, where the god I thought I knew lived. The soft grass beneath my fingers tickled the center of my palm and the leaves on the trees twisted and turned together so intricately I couldn't tell where one branch ended, and the other branch began. Those leaves seemed as though they were pressing against the sky, creating a pattern against the canvas of pastel blues, periwinkle grays, whites, and sunflower yellows. Willa and Halcyon guide each other through trials of love, friendship, trust, and growth in this coming of age YA novel based in the Appalachias. **this story does touch on themes of mental illness**

In the woods of Oakridge, hikers are disappearing left and right―even more so than usual. After much careful deducing, Evan Novak is positive that the locations where the vanishings occur follow a pattern, but when he sets out one night to see for himself, he doesn't return from those woods. The last thing he does before seemingly blipping from existence is send a garbled voicemail to his best friend-his emergency contact. Day Jha wants to get through high school with minimal mayhem. From elementary school, he's been a wallflower, blending in with the crowd-and he prefers it that way. In a town like Oakridge, where strange things are the norm, Day prides himself on being truly mundane. But when his best friend goes missing, and his only lead is a voicemail with nary a voice, the beginning of his freshman year is made up of poking into the odd history of his small town and unearthing disconcerting instances from its places, its people, and even himself. Day wants to be a typical high schooler. He wants to be on the swim team, even if one of its co-captains has a big head. He wants to go out with the new girl, Artie. He wants to slip by as he had in middle school―but mostly, he wants to do all that with his best friend by his side. But where on Earth is Evan, and what really is lurking in those woods? There's only one thing to do: see for himself. They're just trees; it's not like the legends, the tales, the monsters that have always surrounded their town are real, right? BOOK 1 of the Monsters series

a post-apocalyptic scifi fantasy set in what would be considered the Appalachian moutain range. A young man discovers there's a whole new world that he could never even fathom and a young woman learns that her and everyone she knows is being lied to.

A man's discovery of stringy objects leads to a shocking find in the Appalachian Mountains.

Meet Jima or GG she is a human in the Bright World. Not just any human a human with the natural power to control air/wind. Get to know how and why she is stuck in a dead-end social service job in the middle of the LA ' jects. Walk in GG's shoes as she collaborates with her Orc neighbors, members of the famous FG gang faces discrimination at every turn of her life. Hear the back story of how the Elves yet again ruin another life for the greater good. Ward and Jakoby now both Sargents, well decorated are given a special task by a certain high ranking Magic fed elf with menacing gray eyes. What does Kandomere, plan for his bright and his Orc partner this time?

Two men of questionable character embark on an adventure that will be much more than they expected. In a story set in the early 1900's an ex-fighter sets out to rule the underworld of New-York City with the help of an Appalachian hill man on the run from the law and his destiny.

The true story of a young boy, a small, weather worn Tool Shed, and Fear!

Set in Appalachia over two hundred years after the apocalypse, the people are finally experiencing a life that isn't awful. The Responders protect the people, provide medical aid, and even fight fires. The brotherhood of steel has nearly wiped out all of the mutant threats in the area, and the Appalachia Railroad has enough fuel for centuries to come. But... not all is well.... With the reclamation day bicentennial anniversary coming up, will the people of Appalachia be able to see the threat hidden amongst them?

Fresh out of a breakup and desperate to rewire her brain, Brooke Carter books a 'retreat' in the Great Smoky Mountains-because a campsite with running water is basically a resort, right? Her plans for solitude and healing unravel when she discovers a weathered poem tucked beneath her picnic table-signed by Elias Whitaker, the local poet who went missing weeks ago in the mountains. But as Brooke reads the cryptic verses, one thing becomes clear: Elias didn't disappear. He left a trail. Park Ranger Clay White has heard all the rumors-how Elias became obsessed with the mountain's legends, how he found where "they" were hiding out. When Brooke shows up at his office with the poem, Clay dismisses it as a hoax...until they find a second poem carved into an old oak. Then a third tucked away in an old ranger logbook. Now, the unlikely pair are following a trail of poetry deeper into the woods. But the mountain keeps its secrets-and someone wants Elias's to stay buried.