In the Depression-era Deep South, a destitute farmer struggles to raise a family on his own: The bestselling classic by the author of Tobacco Road.
  Single father and poor Southern farmer Ty Ty Walden has a plan to save his farm and his family: He will tear his fields apart until he finds gold. While Ty Ty obsesses over his fool’s quest, his sons and daughters search in vain for their own dreams of instant happiness—whether...

A New York Times Bestseller & Oprah's Book Club Pick Young Julie Harmon works "hard as a man," they say, so hard that at times she's not sure she can stop. People depend on her to slaughter the hogs and nurse the dying. People are weak, and there is so much to do. At just seventeen she marries and moves down into the valley of Gap Creek, where perhaps life will be better. But Julie and Hank's new life in the valley, in the last years of the...

As a slag heap, the result of strip mining, creeps closer to his house in the Ohio hills, fifteen-year-old M. C. is torn between trying to get his family away and fighting for the home they love.

"Preacher has agreed to escort Barnaby Cooper through Dakota Territory's hills to establish a trading post. Accompanied by his friends Lorenzo and Tall Dog, the mountain man hopes they'll be able to protect Cooper from Sioux warriors who don't want any white man trespassing on their sacred grounds. But the Sioux aren't the only hostiles staking their claim in the region. Englishman Albion Shaw knows there's gold in the hills. And with a band of cutthroat...

Despite the fact that it's forbidden, Cadi Forbes is determined to find the sin eater after her grandmother's death.

Arriving from North Carolina, nineteen-year-old Christy Huddleston is overwhelmed by the beauty -- and the poverty -- of Cutter Gap, where she must learn to teach school while learning to live and fit in with the locals.

In order for big-city doctor Evan Gibbs to get the job of a lifetime, the workaholic single parent must spend his summer in the mountains of North Carolina setting up a clinic. Arriving in Dunn's Rock with his 10-year-old son, the doctor discovers what is most important to him and learns to enjoy the simple things in life.

An orphan sent to live with her grandfather learns to love both the old man and the Swiss Alps and is homesick when she goes to the city to be a companion to an invalid.

Reminiscences of the pleasures of life in the mountains as a child.