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The novel follows a woman's flight from Manhattan and her unfaithful husband to her rural ancestral home. Catherine Chapman, a married woman, living in New York one day finds that her husband is having an affair. She immediately packs her bags and sets off, with her dog, down to the family home in rural Kentucky, leaving a note for her husband telling him only that she has gone but not where. Her husband, Jim is, of course, lost without her and dithers...

Rebecca Fowler follows her husband to a Shaker colony in early 19th-century Kentucky. A portrayal of the Shaker way of life.

Drawing from a lifetime of research and his own experiences, Strieber, author of Communion, offers up a fictional account of the conspiracy behind the alien presence on Earth while also giving us a startling look inside the alien mind. Meet the Three Thieves, a group of Grays assigned to duty in a small Kentucky town. They have been preparing a child for generations. Innocent Conner Callaghan will face the ultimate terror as he struggles to understand...

Well known for her gentle folk wisdom, the elderly fictional Aunt Jane vividly describes a picturesque and almost vanished way of life in the rural South of the last century. Her words recall lavish Sunday dinners, courtships, quilting bees, church meetings, and county fair competitions. Yet Aunt Jane of Kentucky is more than a collection of reminiscences about the region of Western Kentucky where Eliza Caroline Obenchain (who published under the...

An historical novel which presents the economic importance of hemp as a early raw material for clothing, maritime ropes, and other cordage products. There is information about the growing and harvesting of hemp in this book.

George Gallion walked into Tad's Barbershop to get a haircut and came out with one of the biggest headaches in the Valley--the job of principal at Kensington High School.

"Heartbroken handyman Avery Dean can't get away from his e --who just happens to be the maid of honor in his sister's upcoming wedding. As the best man, Avery has to grin and bear his sister's misguided attempts to get them back together, until the perfect excuse presents itself in a pretty out-of-towner. With her time in Cricket Creek, Kentucky, coming to an end, hair stylist Sophia Gordon can't deny the town's charms, or her attraction to Avery...

When a six-year-old child named Turtle is the sole witness to a freak accident at the Hoover Dam, she and her adoptive mother Taylor have a moment of celebrity that will change their lives forever. Turtle is claimed by Annawake Fourkiller, a Cherokee activist, to have been wrongly taken from the Cherokee nation. Fear of losing Turtle sends Taylor fleeing across the country with her mother Alice, pursued by Annawake. In the course of their journey,...