August 2005
New Books Received

Jim Chase. Backpacker Magazine’s Guide to the Appalachian Trail. Mechanicsburg, PA: Stackpole Books, 2005. 228 pages with resources, appendix, maps, photographs, tables, illustrations, introduction, and acknowledgements. Paperback. $19.95.

Janice Hold Giles. Act of Contrition. Lexington, KY: The University Press of Kentucky, 2001. 252 pages with foreward. Paperback. $19.00.

Sarah Shun-Lien Bynum. Madeleine is Sleeping. New York City: Harcourt Trade Publishers, 2004. 259 pages with notes. Paperback. $13.00.

Christine Schutt. Florida. New York City: Harcourt Trade Publishers, 2004. 156 pages. Paperback. $12.00.

Vivian Shipley. Hardboot. New Haven, CT: Connecticut Review, 2005. 123 pages with about the author and acknowledgements. Paperback. $14.95.

Ronni Lundy, ed. Cornbread Nation 3: Foods of the Mountain South. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2005. 266 pages with acknowledgements, contributors, and introduction. Paperback. $17.95.

Jack Igelman and Corey Hadden. Trekking the Southern Appalachians: The Carolinas, Tennessee, Georgia.Emmaus, PA: The Mountaineers Books, 2005. 285 pages with index, about the authors, bibliography, appendix, photographs, maps, graphs, tables, and introduction. Paperback. $18.95.

Harry Brown. Felt Along the Blood: New and Selected Poems. Nicholasville, KY: Wind Publications, 2005. With acknowledgements, foreword, about the author, and about the editor. Paperback. $11.20.

Mark F. Sohn. Appalachian Home Cooking: History, Culture, & Recipes. Lexington, KY: The University Press of Kentucky, 2005. 384 pages with index, about the author, bibliography, recipes, photographs, maps, acknowledgements, preface, and foreword. Paperback. $26.00.

Ouida Dickey and Doyle Mathis. Berry College: A History. Athens, GA: The University of Georgia Press, 2005. 238 pages with index, bibliography, notes, appendix, photographs, illustrations, introduction, acknowledgements, and foreword. Hardback. $39.95.

William Roosevelt Hudnall. Kelly’s Creek Chronicles: The Illustrated Diary of James Alexander Jones, a West Virginia Coalminder 1870-1939. New Canton, VA: Kelly’s Creek Publishers, 2005. 222 pages with about the author, bibliography, appendix, introduction, preface, epigraph and photographs. Paperback. $24.50.

Jan Watson. Troublesome Creek. Wheaton, IL: Tyndale House Publishers, 2005. 369 pages with about the author, acknowledgements, and foreword. Paperback. $12.99.

Gregg S. Clemmer. Old Alleghany: The Life and Wars of General Ed Johnson. Germantown, MD: Hearthside Publishing, 2004. 760 pages with illustrations, maps, appendices, index, bibliography, photographs, and introduction. Hardback. $34.95.

Mary Noailles Murfree. In the “Stranger Peopl’s” County. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 2005. 211 pages with editor’s introduction. Paperback. $19.95.

Wade Hall, ed. The Kentucky Anthology: Two Hundred Years of Writing in the Bluegrass State. Lexington, KY: The University Press of Kentucky, 2005. 896 pages with index, bibliography, appendix, introduction, and acknowledgements. Hardback. $45.00.

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