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Dirt road / by Kelman, James,1946-author.(CARDINAL)744573;
After his mothers recent death, sixteen-year-old Murdo and his father travel from their home in rural Scotland to Alabama to be with his émigré uncle and American aunt. Stopping at a small town on their way from the airport, Murdo happens upon a family playing zydeco music and joins them, leaving with a gift of two CDs of Southern American songs. On this first visit to the States, Murdo notices racial tension, religious fundamentalism, the threat of severe weather, guns, and aggressive behavior, all unfamiliar to him. Yet his connection to the place strengthens by way of its musical culture. Murdo may be young but he is already a musician. While at their relatives home, the grieving father and son experience kindness and kinship but share few words of comfort with each other, Murdo losing himself in music and his reticent and protective dad in books. The aunt, "the very very best," Murdo calls her, provides whatever solace he receives, until his father comes around in a scene of great emotional release.
Subjects: Bildungsromans.; Fiction.; Fathers and sons; Mothers; Scots; Zydeco music; Mothers.;
Available copies: 6 / Total copies: 7
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Dirt road home / by Key, Watt.(CARDINAL)475499;
At Hellenweiler, a reformatory for second-offenders, fourteen-year-old Hal Mitchell will soon be free if he can avoid the gang violence of his fellow inmates, but the real enemy may lie elsewhere.HL540LAccelerated Reader AR
Subjects: Young adult fiction.; Reformatories; Gangs; Violence; Correctional personnel; Fathers and sons; Reformatories; Gangs; Violence; Correctional personnel; Fathers and sons;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 4
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Pay dirt road / by Allen, Samantha Jayne,author.;
"Friday Night Lights meets Mare of Easttown in this small-town mystery about an unlikely private investigator searching for a missing waitress. Pay Dirt Road is the mesmerizing debut from the 2019 Tony Hillerman Prize recipient Samantha Jayne Allen. Annie McIntyre has a love/hate relationship with Garnett, Texas. Recently graduated from college and home waitressing, lacking not in ambition but certainly in direction, Annie is lured into the family business-a private investigation firm-by her supposed-to-be-retired grandfather, Leroy, despite the rest of the clan's misgivings. When a waitress at the cafe goes missing, Annie and Leroy begin an investigation that leads them down rural routes and haunted byways, to noxious-smelling oil fields and to the glowing neon of local honky-tonks. As Annie works to uncover the truth she finds herself identifying with the victim in increasing, unsettling ways, and realizes she must confront her own past-failed romances, a disturbing experience she'd rather forget, and the trick mirror of nostalgia itself-if she wants to survive this homecoming"--Winner of the 2019 Tony Hillerman Prize for Best First Mystery Set in the Southwest.
Subjects: Detective and mystery fiction.; Novels.; Private investigators; Murder; Missing persons; Homecoming;
Available copies: 36 / Total copies: 39
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Down the Dirt Road / by Roberts, Diane H.(CARDINAL)264662;
Subjects: Poetry.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The red dirt road / by Callen, Alissa,author.;
"Will facing the past bring them together? After losing a patient, Dr Fliss Knight returns to small town Woodlea and buys a rundown farm, her confidence and city career in tatters. She intends to live a solitary life and hopes that the slow country pace will help her heal. Pickup rider Hewitt Sinclair is no stranger to how hairy things can get in a rodeo arena. But when he can't save the life of his twin brother, he hangs up his spurs. Determined to provide for his brother's widow and young family, he gives himself no time to grieve. But when a motorbike accident proves he needs to also look out for himself, he accepts an old friend's invitation to stay at an isolated property while his body heals. When Fliss meets the cowboy living in the bluestone stables across the garden, all her hopes for a quiet and peaceful life fade. Despite his reserve, Hewitt is impossible to ignore. As they work together to care for an abandoned dog and her puppies they find themselves drawn to each other. But as a family secret threatens every truth Fliss has ever known, and the heavy spring rain continues to fall, both Fliss and Hewitt must face their deepest fears. Will love be enough to guarantee happiness or will the past refuse to relinquish its dark hold?" -Amazon.com
Subjects: Fiction.; Romance fiction.; Man-woman relationships; Physicians; Country life;
Available copies: 0 / Total copies: 1
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Pay dirt road : a novel / by Allen, Samantha Jayne,author.;
"Friday Night Lights meets Mare of Easttown in this small-town mystery about an unlikely private investigator searching for a missing waitress. Pay Dirt Road is the mesmerizing debut from the 2019 Tony Hillerman Prize recipient Samantha Jayne Allen. Annie McIntyre has a love/hate relationship with Garnett, Texas. Recently graduated from college and home waitressing, lacking not in ambition but certainly in direction, Annie is lured into the family business-a private investigation firm-by her supposed-to-be-retired grandfather, Leroy, despite the rest of the clan's misgivings. When a waitress at the café goes missing, Annie and Leroy begin an investigation that leads them down rural routes and haunted byways, to noxious-smelling oil fields and to the glowing neon of local honky-tonks. As Annie works to uncover the truth she finds herself identifying with the victim in increasing, unsettling ways, and realizes she must confront her own past-failed romances, a disturbing experience she'd rather forget, and the trick mirror of nostalgia itself-if she wants to survive this homecoming"--Winner of the 2019 Tony Hillerman Prize for Best First Mystery Set in the Southwest.
Subjects: Detective and mystery fiction.; Novels.; Women private investigators; Missing persons;
Available copies: 4 / Total copies: 4
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Down the dirt road : poems / by Roberts, Diane H.(CARDINAL)264662;
Subjects: Poetry.; Women poets; American poetry; North Caroliniana.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
On-line resources: Suggest title for digitization;
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Turnpikes and dirt roads / by Parks, Leighton,1852-1938.(CARDINAL)778845;
Subjects: Biographies.; Old State Library Collection.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Dirt road revival : how to rebuild rural politics and why our future depends on it / by Maxmin, Chloe,1992-author.; Woodward, Canyon,1993-author.;
Includes bibliographical references."Dirt Road Revival lays out a roadmap for progressive politics in rural America based on two young campaigners' successful races in the most rural county in the most rural state in America"--
Subjects: Democratic Party (U.S.); Rural population; Politics, Practical; Political campaigns;
Available copies: 10 / Total copies: 12
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Sketches from a dirt road / by Jaynes, Gregory.(CARDINAL)747394;
Subjects: Autobiographies.; Jaynes, Gregory.;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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