When 12-year-old Lacey and her mother return to Southern Appalachia to live, her grandmother does not approve of the independent lifestyle of Lacey's mother. A tragedy makes clear the meaning of love and family as everyone learns to grieve and to accept.
Ruthie and her mother wonder how they will fulfill their obligation of getting the perfect Christmas tree to the town for the holiday celebration, since Papa has left the Appalachian area to go to war.
Kate Riordan attends the posh Swan River Academy in hopes of escaping her small Appalachian community where the local girls go wild and start fires around town. But even there, Kate is torn between her dark hometown and a life of privilege. Kate must find out where she really belongs before it's too late.
Follows the lives and experiences of one family from the time of the Great Depression to the twenty-first century, centering around Myra Lamb, a young girl who has the extraordinary talent of connecting with animals and people around her.
Complete with instructions, diagrams and photographs, this is a collection of directions for playing indoor and outdoor games and making dolls, homemade board games, and other toys.
Julie Harmon, having taken over the work of a man after her father gets ill and dies, imagines that marriage will be different, but she and her young husband Hank discover their life together is also full of struggles.
Icy Sparks has spent most of her life being ridiculed because she suffers from Tourette Syndrome, but as she grows older, she teaches the people in her town how to accept people for who they are, not what they appear to be.
Two brothers, Moody and Muir Powell, handle the difficulties of life in the Appalachian Mountains in very different ways with Moody turning to moonshine and gambling, and Muir leaving to seek a calling that matches his directionless ambition.
