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1 online resource (468 pages) |
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Intro; Title Page; Welcome; Dedication; Epigraph; PART 1; Chapter 1: THE DIAMOND STATE; Chapter 2: WHAT HORSES SMELL LIKE AFTER RAIN; Chapter 3: THE TELLING CAVE; Chapter 4: THE AERODYNAMICS OF FLYROCK; PART 2; Chapter 5: BULL TESTICLES; Chapter 6: THE RIFLE-SHOT SLAP; Chapter 7: THE NEW BEST KINGS OF THE EARTH; Chapter 8: THE PRICE OF FUTURE MEMORIES; PART 3; Chapter 9: THE DEAD MULE; Chapter 10: THE PARADOX OF PENNING CATS; Chapter 11: THE DRAWING UP OF IT ALL; Chapter 12: THE OCCASIONAL SHIFTING OF BOOT SOLE ON PINE; Chapter 13: THE HIDING; Chapter 14: HOW BAD DREAMS HAPPEN |
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Chapter 15: INTO RICH AND SPLENDID WINGSChapter 16: TWO HEARTS BEATING EACH TO EACH; Chapter 17: THE SECRET LIFE OF THE EMPTY PACKHORSE; Chapter 18: STONES OF A RUINED CASTLE; Chapter 19: HOW TO CARVE A WHISTLE OUT OF GREEN WILLOW; Chapter 20: WHEN HIGH EXPECTATIONS AND LOW EXPECTATIONS ARE DEVASTATINGLY UNMET; Chapter 21: THE HAINT; Chapter 22: THE TELLING; Chapter 23: THE AIR AROUND AN EMPTY PEDESTAL; Chapter 24: JUKES HOLLOW; PART 4; Chapter 25: THE TWICE-TOOK MOUNTAINS; Chapter 26: NIGHT VISITOR; Chapter 27: THE CROSSING; Chapter 28: THE WHITE STAG; Chapter 29: THE HUNDRED-YEAR STORM |
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Chapter 30: THE MOUTH-HOOKED LURE AND THE QUEEN BEEChapter 31: EVERYTHING IN BETWEEN; Chapter 32: IN THE WEAVE OF TIME AND BEING; Chapter 33: THE RIVER; Chapter 34: THE WALKING-STICK SPEAR; Chapter 35: UNDER THE PROTECTION OF RED CLOUD; Chapter 36: AT THE BOTTOM OF PRETTYMAN; Chapter 37: WHAT NEIGHBORS DO; Chapter 38: RECOVERY; Chapter 39: THE CROSSBOW BOLT; Chapter 40: LEAVINGS OF THE SOUL; Chapter 41: THE CALLING IN; PART 5; Chapter 42: NEEDFULS; Chapter 43: JUKES HOLLOW; Chapter 44: JULY 2014; Acknowledgments; Discover More Christopher Scotton; Acclaim for the Secret Wisdom of the Earth |
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Reading Group GuideDiscussion Questions; A Conversation with Christopher Scotton; Table of Contents; Copyright |
| Summary |
"After witnessing the death of his younger brother in a terrible home accident, 14-year-old Kevin and his grieving mother are sent for the summer to live with Kevin's grandfather. In this peeled-paint coal town deep in Appalachia, Kevin quickly falls in with a half-wild hollow kid named Buzzy Fink who schools him in the mysteries and magnificence of the woods. The events of this fateful summer will affect the entire town of Medgar, Kentucky. Medgar is beset by a massive Mountaintop Removal operation that is blowing up the hills and back filling the hollows. Kevin's grandfather and others in town attempt to rally the citizens against the 'company' and its powerful owner to stop the plunder of their mountain heritage. When Buzzy witnesses the brutal murder of the opposition leader, a sequence is set in play which tests Buzzy and Kevin to their absolute limits in an epic struggle for survival in the Kentucky mountains. Redemptive and emotionally resonant, The Secret Wisdom of the Earth is narrated by an adult Kevin looking back on the summer when he sloughed the coverings of a boy and took his first faltering steps as a man among a rich cast of characters and an ambitious effort to reclaim a once great community"-- Provided by publisher. |
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Witnessing his younger brother's accidental death, teenaged Kevin spends the summer traumatized in his grandfather's Appalachia coal-mining community, which is fighting plans for a massive mountaintop-removal operation. |
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"After witnessing the death of his younger brother in a terrible home accident, 14-year-old Kevin and his grieving mother are sent for the summer to live with Kevin's grandfather. In this peeled-paint coal town deep in Appalachia, Kevin quickly falls in with a half-wild hollow kid named Buzzy Fink who schools him in the mysteries and magnificence of the woods. The events of this fateful summer will affect the entire town of Medgar, Kentucky. Medgar is beset by a massive Mountaintop Removal operation that is blowing up the hills and back filling the hollows. Kevin's grandfather and others in town attempt to rally the citizens against the 'company' and its powerful owner to stop the plunder of their mountain heritage. When Buzzy witnesses the brutal murder of the opposition leader, a sequence is set in play which tests Buzzy and Kevin to their absolute limits in an epic struggle for survival in the Kentucky mountains. Redemptive and emotionally resonant, The Secret Wisdom of the Earth is narrated by an adult Kevin looking back on the summer when he sloughed the coverings of a boy and took his first faltering steps as a man among a rich cast of characters and an ambitious effort to reclaim a once great community"-- Provided by publisher. |
| System Details |
Requires Boundless App. |
| Subject |
Mountain life -- Appalachian Region -- Fiction.
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Families -- Kentucky -- Fiction.
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Families. |
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Mountain life. |
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Appalachian Region. |
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Kentucky. |
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Bildungsromans.
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Electronic books. |
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Bildungsromans.
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Fiction.
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Bildungsromans.
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Electronic reproduction of (manifestation): Scotton, Chris. Secret wisdom of the earth New York : Grand Central Publishing, 2015 9781455551927 (DLC) 2014012917 (OCoLC)879602962 |
| ISBN |
9781455558803 : $78.00 |
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145555880X : $78.00 |
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