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60 Must-Read Books of the Summer

Nitro Mountain

By Lee Clay Johnson

Publisher: Knopf
Pages: 224

This darkly stunning tale of stark dramas and tragic lives plays out against a backdrop of mournful country music and Appalachia's lush, lonely peaks.

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