April 2006
New Books Received

Stewart Skeate. A Nature Guide to Northwest Carolina. Boone, NC: Parkway Publishers, 2005. 215 pages with maps, bibliography, index and 44 pages of colored photographs. Trade paperback. $24.95.

Barbara Smith. Their Name Means Medicine: The Story of the Myers Family. Parsons, WV: McClain Printing Company, 2005. 132 pages with appendix, photos and charts. Trade paperback. $15.00

Glen Smith. Tunes from the Tug: And Others. Parson, WV: McClain Printing Company, 2005. 119 pages. Trade paperback. $10.95.

Michele Zirkle Starcher. The Ornery Angel. Indianapolis, IN: Dog Ear Publishing, 2005. 56 pages. Trade paperback. $13.95.

Elizabeth Tidwell. Memories Will Always Linger: A Novel History. Bloomington, IN: AuthorHouse, 2005. 183 pages. Trade paperback. $17.50.

Sylvia Thompson. John’s Little Acre: Sweet and Bitter Stories of a Little Girl Lost. Huntington, WV: Mid-Atlantic Highlands Publishing, 2005. 147 pages with photos. Trade paperback. $12.00.

Rudy Abramson and Jean Haskell, eds. Encyclopedia of Appalachia. Knoxville, TN: University of Tennessee Press, 2006. 1832 pages with photographs, illustrations, maps and index. Hardback in dust jacket. $79.95.

Hassan Amjad. Dragonflies of West Virginia. Place of publication unstated but known to be Beckley, WV: self-published, date unstated but known to be 2006. 163 pages with color photographs, glossary, bibliography and index. Oversized trade paperback. $34.99.

Hassan Amjad. Folk Medicine of Appalachia. Place of publication unstated but known to be Beckley, WV: self-published, date unstated but known to be 2006. 340 pages with photographs, bibliography, appendix and index. Oversized trade paperback. $24.99.

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.

Kathryn Stripling Byer. Coming to Rest: Poems. Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press, 2006. 63 pages. Trade paperback. $16.95.

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