Orem Library

He wanted power. Oliver Russell is fated to rise to the pinnacle of power, President of the United States. She wanted revenge. Leslie Stewart is his betrayed fiancee. Amassing her own media empire, on her fortieth birthday, she looks back. What went wrong?

After dropping out of college, nineteen-year-old Laurel Early returns to her uncle's tobacco farm, where she encounters a monster as well as her mother's ghost, and soon Laureal realizes that she must tap into her own innate magic to save everyone she loves.

"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."--

In 1790 in Virginia on the banks of the New River, twenty-year-old Hannah Allison is married to Willard Temple Cole. Among the guests at the wedding is Dolley Todd and her husband. As a wedding gift, Hannah is given a personal journal and encouraged to make a record of her life by Dolley Todd. Following the death of her husband, Dolley will marry James Madison and eventually become First Lady. Temple has a farm in the New River area, but finds that...

"In rural Kentucky, back in 1933, Carol's daddy lost his 13-year-old daughter in a game of cards. Award-winning author Simon Van Booy's spellbinding novel spans decades as he tells the story of Carol and the people in her life. Incidents intersect and lives unexpectedly change course in this masterfully interwoven story of chance and choice that leads home again to a night blessed with light. "What you give in this world," an old man tells his grandson,...

Mona Moon, a scholarly cartographer, has inherited a fortune and is one of the richest women during the Depression. After funding an expedition to find lost Native American silver mines in Eastern Kentucky, she finds herself lost in the Appalachian mountains.

An Irish immigrant family's saga which begins in 19th Century Ireland and ends in present-day Montana. The novel follows the family's fortunes through famine, wars and in love. By the author of A Yellow Raft in Blue.

Autumn Somerset is the reliable sister, the one her family, including her father, who's had a stroke, leans on, sometimes a little too heavily. Her sister Ember is the free spirit, the one with a seemingly perfect life who has experienced more than her share of heartbreak but hides it with laughter. This summer, as Autumn and Ember work hand in hand to run the animal rescue property their grandparents created, they'll see that family can be a blessing...

A compilation of three of the shorter of Wendell Berry's works of book-length fiction.

David Valentine, who is leading a company of soldiers in the rebellion against the Kurian Occupation of Earth, joins forces with a guerrilla army planning to establish a new freehold in the Appalachian Mountains.