When her father is offered a new job-one he is not permitted to discuss- Mattie McDowell and her parents and sister move from the mountains of Kentucky to the city of Oak Ridge, Tennessee. Entrance to the city is restricted, and security is tight. With World War II still raging, Mattie assumes that her father, and others in Oak Ridge, are working for the war effort. Just as she has begun to adjust to life in Oak Ridge, her twelve-yearold cousin Virgil comes to stay with the family. A few months younger than Mattie, Virgil infuriates her with chauvinistic remarks and the way he monopolizes her father. Slowly, Mattie's resentment toward Virgil changes as the McDowells share his grief over the death of his divorced mother, who has been working in the north. By the war's end, in August 1945, when the city's secret mission is revealed, Mattie has reached a new understanding of her relationship to her family and to Virgil, whom she now counts as part of the family. The unusual setting of Oak Ridge and this city's historic significance will fascinate today's young readers, and the encounters between Mattie and Virgil will amuse and move them. Evoking a strong sense of time and place, as well as, portraying a close-knit mountain family, Connie Jordan Green has written an original and well-crafted story that is as enlightening as it is entertaining.

The War at Home

Green, Connie Jordan

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Trailer Trash from Tennessee by David Hunter is a childhood memoir of growing up in Knoxville, Tennessee during the 1950's and early 1960's.

Trailer Trash from Tennessee: A Childhood Memoir

Biographies & Memoirs

Hunter, David

Historical

Jack Neely has written 26 varied true stories of the people and places of Knoxville, Tennessee spanning from the 1890s to the present.

From The Shadow Side: And Other Stories Of Knoxville, Tennessee

History

Neely, Jack

Americas

Plastic Santa is a short collection of Christmas stories set in Appalachia. Mary Hodges is a highly regarded writer whose stories are funny and sometimes bittersweet at the same time.

Plastic Santa and Other Stories

Literature & Fiction

Hodges, Mary Bozeman

United States

Things to Do in Knoxville When You're Dead: And Other Stories

Things to Do in Knoxville When You're Dead by David Hunter is a collection of short stories based in Knoxville, Tennessee.

Short Stories & Anthologies

Jack The Healing Cat is a full color, illustrated children's book. Heather finds Jack abandoned in a box. She rescues him, bringing him home to her family. Later, when Heather gets sick, Jack senses the trouble and rushes to her rescue with his special "kitty powers."

Jack The Healing Cat

Kallet, Marilyn

In the 1920s when her father is disabled in a coal mining accident, eleven-year-old Emmy and the others in her family do what they can to help, with her fourteen-year-old brother taking Pa's place in the mines.

Emmy

Mark D. Harmon served from 2006 to 2010 as a Knox County Commissioner, representing the second district during a time of great turmoil: a crisis stemming from ignored term limits, a successful sunshine lawsuit about botched appointments to office, and a politically motivated shooting at his church.

Crashing the Commission: Confessions of a University Twit

Harmon, Mark D.

Leaders & Notable People

<p>Six Legs and a Buzz by Rikki Hall is a collection of articles that were first published in The Hellbender Press, an alternative environmental newspaper. The columns that he wrote are about insects and the role that they play in the environment. The book also contains many nature photographs that Rikki had taken over the years.</p>

Six Legs and a Buzz

Arts & Photography

Hall, Rikki

Photography & Video

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