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1) Zero day
Author
Series
John Puller novels volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Formats
Description
Military investigator John Puller is called out to a remote, rural area far from any military outpost to investigate the brutal murder of a family in their home. The dead husband was in the army and the wife worked for a Pentagon contractor. The local homicide detective, a woman with personal demons of her own, clashes with Puller over the investigation. What neither of them knows is what is waiting for them across the street from the murdered family's...
2) Troublemaker
Author
Series
GO-team volume 1
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
5) June bug
Author
Publisher
Tyndale House
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
Shocked to see her own face on a missing child advertisement, June Bug sets out on a cross-country journey to discover the truth about the beloved father who has raised her and the mother he rarely speaks about.
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"High summer in Acker's Gap, West Virginia--but no one's enjoying the rugged natural landscape. Not while a killer stalks the small town and its hard-luck inhabitants. County prosecutor Bell Elkins and Sheriff Nick Fogelsong are stymied by a murderer who seems to come and go like smoke on the mountain. At the same time, Bell must deal with the return from prison of her sister, Shirley--who, like Bell, carries the indelible scars of a savage past....
Author
Series
Bell Elkins mysteries volume 6
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"The first drug overdose comes just after midnight, when a young woman dies on the dirty floor of a gas station bathroom. To the people of the small town of Acker's Gap, West Virginia, it is just another tragedy. It is sad--but these days, depressingly familiar. But then there is another overdose. And another. And another. Prosecutor Bell Elkins soon realizes that her Appalachian hometown is facing its starkest challenge yet: a day of constant heroin...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"Javari knew that West Virginia would be different from his home in Bushwick, Brooklyn. But his first day at STEM Camp in a little Appalachian town is still a shock. Though run-ins with the police are just the same here. Not good. Javari will learn a lot about science...And also about rich people, racism, and hidden agendas. But it's Cricket, a local boy, budding activist, and occasional thief, who will show him a different side of the holler--and...
10) Gin Fling
Author
Publisher
That's What She Said Publishing, Inc
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Personal trainer Jonah Bodine discovers more than he bargained for with the half-siblings he didn't know he had in small-town West Virginia. Not only is his dead father a person of interest in a cold case disappearance, but the entire town seems way too invested in Jonah's happily ever after potential. His summer of solitude in a lakeside cottage is ruined when his matchmaking sister saddles him with an unwanted roommate. Adorable, snort-laughing...
11) Bourbon Bliss
Author
Publisher
Bloom Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"June Tucker doesn't understand people. Numbers, data, and statistics? Those make sense. People? Not so much. In a town of Friday night fighters and moonshine-swilling line dancers, she's the odd duck. And that suits her just fine. But her sister and friends are pairing off, and the change is unsettling. George "GT" Thompson was at the top of his game--one of the best receivers in football. But a career-ending injury sidelined him for good. Now he's...
Author
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Elsie Lavender and Homer Hickam (the father of the author) were high school classmates in the West Virginia coalfields, graduating just as the Great Depression began. When Homer asked for her hand, Elsie instead headed to Orlando where she sparked with a dancing actor named Buddy Ebsen (yes, that Buddy Ebsen). But when Buddy headed for New York, Elsie's dreams of a life with him were crushed and eventually she found herself back in the coalfields,...
13) Sidecar Crush
Author
Publisher
Bloom Books
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
"Model turned disgraced reality TV starlet, Leah Mae Larkin, crash lands in her hometown of Bootleg Springs to lay low while a scandal threatens her career. She can't shake the feeling that her agent--and supposed fiancé--manipulated her into the role of made-for-TV homewrecker. Connecting with her roots is just what she needs, and Bootleg Springs is home to her father, moonshine, and her childhood best friend, Jameson Bodine. Only there's nothing...
Author
Publisher
The Dial Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"Miss Layla Beck, the daughter of a powerful Senator from Delaware refuses to marry the gentleman her father has chosen for her and is forced to get a job working for the FWP to write the first official account of Maecdonian History. Her notions of real life--the social whirl of Newport and New York--are totally upended and she despairs in rooming with the overly eccentric Romeyn family in such a small backwater town. The Romeyn family is a fixture...
17) Whiskey Chaser
Author
Series
Bootleg Springs volume 1
Publisher
Bloom books
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
Raised by her three overbearing brothers, Scarlett is a hell-raising tomboy with a tool belt. A tornado stirring up trouble everywhere she goes. Her favorite pastimes? Drinking any man under the table and two-stepping. But she has zero interest in love. Scarlett's only being neighborly when she claims her sexy next-door neighbor as her new pet project. Devlin is a man at rock bottom. Marriage, political career, five-year plan to Washington, D.C. All...
18) The listeners
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2025]
Language
English
Description
"January 1942. The Avallon Hotel & Spa is where high society goes to see and be seen. Located deep in the West Virginia mountains, where healing sweetwater flows, the hotel is managed by a local, June Hudson, whose skills were noted by the wealthy Guilfoyles who own the place. War has begun, and June is trying to shield the Avallon from it, but when the owner's son makes a deal with the State Department to house dozens of Axis diplomats, June must...
19) Highball Rush
Author
Publisher
That's What She Said Publishing, Inc
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Rough around the edges Gibson Bodine takes his lone wolf image seriously. The tough guy. The bad boy. Gibson lives alone. Works alone. He doesn't do love. And he wouldn't have it any other way. In Bootleg Springs--home of moonshine and the nosiest neighbors in West Virginia--secrets don't keep forever. The truth about what happened to Callie Kendall is revealed, drawing Gibson into the fray--along with his family, and the rest of his hometown. Danger...
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