October 2006
New Books Received
Doris Musick. Up the Water Spout. Cleveland, VA: Musick Enterprises, 2006. 191 pages. Trade Paperback. $14.95.
Ralph Steadman. The Joke’s Over. Troy, MO: Harcourt, Inc., 2006. 396 pages with photos, illustrations, and foreword by Kurt Vonnegut. Hardback with dust jacket. $26.00.
Emilie Richards. Lover’s Knot. Ontario, Canada: Harlequin Enterprises Limited, 2006. 541 pages. Hardback with dust jacket. $21.95.
Sena Jeter Naslund. Abundance. New York, NY: William Morrow, 2006. 545 pages. Hardback with dust jacket. $26.95.
Wendell Berry. The Way of Ignorance and Other Essays. Emeryville, CA: Avalon Publishing Group, 2005. 180 pages. Trade Paperback. $15.00.
Deborah R. Weiner. Coalfield Jews: An Appalachian History. Champaign, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2006. 234 pages with photos and map. Trade Paperback. $25.00.
Jeff Goodell. Big Coal: The Dirty Secret Behind America’s Energy Future. Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin, 2006. 324 pages with tables and photographs. Hardback with dust jacket. $25.95.
Robert Love Taylor. Blind Singer Joe’s Blues. Dallas, TX: Southern Methodist University Press, 2006. 220 pages. Hardback with dust jacket. $22.50.
Michael Henson. Crow Call. Albuquerque, NM: West End Press, 2006. 88 pages. Trade Paperback. $12.95.
Deborah Smith. The Crossroads Café. Smyrna, GA: BelleBooks, 2006. 378 pages. Trade Paperback. $16.95.
Jon Carloftis. First a Garden. Livingston, KY: Rockcastle River Trading Company, 2005. 126 pages with photographs by Helen Norman. Hardback with dust jacket. $29.95.
Adrienne Martini. Hillbilly Gothic: Memoir of Madness and Motherhood. Riverside, NJ: Free Press, 2006. 221 pages. Hardback with dust jacket. $23.00.
Johnny Molloy. The Best in Tent Camping: Kentucky. Birmingham, AL: Menasha Ridge, 2006. 166 pages with maps, key information, directions, coordinates, and illustrations. Trade Paperback. $14.95.
Suzanne Marrs. Eudora Welty: A Biography. New York, NY: Harcourt Trade Publishers, 2006 paperback reprint of 2005 hardback. 652 pages with photos, appendixes, notes, bibliography, and index. Trade Paperback. $16.00.
Matt Spruill III and Matt Spruill IV. Echoes of Thunder: A Guide to the Seven Days Battles. Knoxville, TN: The University of Tennessee Press, 2006. 341 pages with photos, maps, and illustrations. Trade Paperback. $24.95.
W. Scott Persons and Jeanine M. Davis. Growing & Marketing: Ginseng, Goldenseal & Other Woodland Medicinals. Fairview, NC: Bright Mountain Books, Inc., 2005. 466 pages with tables, charts, photos, and maps. Trade Paperback. $25.00.
Bill Alexander. Mountain Berry Baskets & Mountain Poetry. Knoxville, TN: Bill Alexander, 2002. 64 pages with illustrations. Staplebound Paperback. No price available.
Cynthia Rylant. Ludie’s Life. San Diego, CA: Harcourt Trade Publishers, 2006. 116 pages. Hardback with dust jacket. $16.00.
Lee Smith. On Agate Hill. Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2006. 367 pages. Hardback with dust jacket. $24.95.
Arthur Lloyd Fletcher. Ashe County: A History, a new edition. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company Inc., Publishers, 2007 reprint of 1963 original. 431 pages. Hardback, library binding. $45.00.
Linda S. Prather. The Gifts: A Jacody Ives Mystery. Laurel, MD: Echelon Press, 2005. 276 pages. Trade Paperback. $12.99.
Keith Estep. Growing up in Nitro. Poca, WV: Evergreen Syndicate, 2006. 203 pages. Trade Paperback. No price listed.
Pauline Mueller. West Virginia Belle. Huntington, WV: Mid-Atlantic Highlands, 2006. 316 pages. Trade Paperback. $14.95.
Rosalyn Queen Alonso. Arrivederci: Recipes and Customs Every Italian Girl Takes from Home. Flemington, WV: Rosalyn Queen Alonso, 2006. 160 pages with photos and illustrations. Trade Paperback. No price listed.
Mountain Voices: Illuminating the Character of West Virginia, Writings from the West Virginia Writers Roundtable. Bloomington, IN: AuthorHouse, 2006. 345 pages. Trade Paperback. $17.99.
Childrens Books
Robert Inman. The Christmas Bus. Charlotte, NC: Novello Festival Press, 2006. 77 pages with illustrations by Lyle Baskin. Hardback with dust jacket. $19.95.