March 2006
New Books Received
Amanda Adams, Docia Adams, Byrd Adams, Jr. Stories of a Kentucky Mountain Family: As Told by Two Sisters and a Brother. North Charleston, SC: BookSurge Publishing, 2005. 326 with maps, and photos. Paperback. $23.99.
Yvonne Honeycutt Baldwin. Cora Wilson Stewart and Kentucky’s Moonlight Schools: Fighting for Literacy in America. Lexington, KY: The University Press of Kentucky, 2006. 248 pages with notes, photos, index, and bibliography. Hardback in dust jacket. $40.00.
Donald E. Davis. Homeplace Geography: Essays for Appalachia. Macon, GA: Mercer University Press, 2006. 221 pages with footnotes and index. Paperback. $25.00.
George Garrett. Empty Bed Blues: Stories. Columbiana, MO: University of Missouri Press, 2006. 179 pages. Paperback. $19.95.
Burl H. Gillum. The Life of a Farm Boy During the Great Depression: A Young West Virginia Boy’s Life During the Great Depression, The War, and into His Later Years. Parson, WV: McClain Printing Company, 2005. 264 pages with photos, references, and poetry. Hardback in dust jacket. $23.00.
Kristin Johannsen. Ginseng Dreams: The Secret World of America’s Most Valuable Plant. Lexington, KY: The University Press of Kentucky, 2006. 215 pages with photos, bibliographical notes, and index.
C. John Kruzeski. WESAP: Weirton Steel Employee Stock Annihilation Plan. Parson, WV: McClain Printing Company, 2005. 422 pages with information sources and references and index. Paperback. $24.95.
Heather A. Lapham. Hunting for Hides: Deerskins, Status, and Cultural Change in the Protohistoric Appalachians. Tuscaloosa, AL: The University of Alabama Press, 2005. 184 pages with list of figures, tables, maps, charts, photos, diagrams, references cited, and index. Paperback. $29.95.
E. Leon Linger, M.D. Poems of Faith. Parsons, WV: McClain Printing Company, 2005. 100 pages. Paperback. $14.00.
Brian McKnight. Contested Borderland: The Civil War in Appalachian Kentucky and Virginia. Lexington, KY: The University Press of Kentucky, 2006. 328 pages with maps, tables, photos, notes, bibliography, and index. Hardback in dust jacket. $40.00.
G. Keith Parker. Seven Cherokee Myths: Creation, Fire, The Primortial Parents, The Nature of Evil, The Family, Universal Suffering, and Communal Obligation. Jefferson, NC: McFarland and Company, 2006. 216 pages with illustrations, maps, appendices, notes, bibliography, index, and forewords by Joyce Dugan and Paul Brutsche. Paperback. $29.95.
James W. Parrins. Elias Corneilius Boudinote: A Life on the Cherokee Border. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 2006. 252 pages with index, bibliography, notes, and photos. Hardback in dust jacket. $60.00.
Erik Reece. Lost Mountain: A Year in the Vanishing Wilderness, Radical Strip Mining and the Devastation of Appalachia. New York, NY: Riverhead Books, 2006. 250 pages with foreword by Wendell Berry, photos, charts, footnotes, notes, and recommended reading. Hardback in dust jacket. $24.95.
Susan Starr Richards. The Hanging in the Foaling Barn: Stories. Louisville, KY: Sarabande Books, 2006. 157 pages. Paperback. $14.95.
Glen Smith. Tunes from the Tug: And Others. Parson, WV: McClain Printing Company, 2005. 119 pages. Paperback. $10.95.
Edgell Turly. Reflections of a Native Son. Parsons, WV: McClain Printing Company, 2006. 140 pages with photos. Paperback. $15.00.
Shannon H. Wilson. Berea College: An Illustrated History. Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, 2006. 246 pages with photos, appendices, notes, bibliography, and index. Hardback in dust jacket. $35.00.
Reprints
Wendell Berry. The Unforeseen Wilderness: Kentucky’s Red River Gorge. Emeryville, CA: Shoemaker & Hoard, 2005 reprint of 1971 original. 144 pages with photos. Paperback. $15.00.
Hugh Maxwell. The History of Randolph County, West Virginia: From Its Earliest Settlement to the Present. Parson, WV: McClain Printing Company, 2005 reprint of 1898 original. 531 pages with illustrations, list of subscribers, notes, charts, maps, photos, and index. Hardback. $45.00.
Children’s Books
Kevin Henkes. Lily’s Big Day. New York, NY: Greenwillow Books, 2006. 30 pages with illustrations. Hardback in dust jacket. $16.99.