Dr. Tara Cochrane is a tired and broken young man. Hod Pierce, from Tara's World War II command, invites him to try the quiet rural life of Piney Ridge, Kentucky. The city boy slowly begins to understand the beauty of the hard mountain life, and thus to find meaning in his own existence. "This is the story of Tara Cochrane, who had been Hod's captain during World War II. Tara had returned from Europe to study medicine and start a practice, only to...

4) 40 acres and no mule

Author

Giles, Janice Holt

Pub. Date

[1967]

Physical Desc

239 pages : illustrations, music ; 22 cm

Language

English

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"In the late 1940s, Janice and Henry Giles moved from Louisville, Kentucky, back to the Appalachian hill country where Henry had grown up and where his family had lived since the time of the Revolution. With their savings, the couple bought a ramshackle house and forty acres of land on a ridge top and set out to be farmers like Henry's forebears. To this personal account of the trials of a city woman trying to learn the ways of the country and of...

5) The plum thicket

Author

Giles, Janice Holt

Pub. Date

[1954]

Physical Desc

284 pages ; 22 cm

Language

English

Description

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Retrospective novel about a happy summer in childhood, which points up the fact that we are often unaware of how fast time is running out until it is too late.

6) Shady Grove

Author

Giles, Janice Holt

Pub. Date

1968.

Physical Desc

260 pages ; 22 cm

Language

English

Description

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In the sequel to The Great Adventure, in Broke Neck, Kentucky, the Appalachian natives disapprove of denominations and believe the minister ought to live without pay in the mid-20th century.

7) Hannah Fowler

Author

Giles, Janice Holt

Pub. Date

[1956]

Physical Desc

312 pages ; 22 cm

Language

English

Description

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Hannah Moore, having lost her father on a trip to Kentucky frontier, marries Tice Fowler, and together they share in the struggles and hard won triumphs of the Kentucky wilderness.