January 2007
New Books Received
Nancy Kelly Allen. Daniel Boone: Trailblazer. Gratna, LA: Pelican Publishing Company, 2005. 28 pages with illustrations by Joan C. Waites. Hardback with dust jacket. $15.95.
Belinda Anderson. The Bingo Cheaters. Charleston, WV: Mountain State Press, 2006. 189 pages. Trade paperback. $14.95.
Kenneth Bachand. The Legend of the Big Rock. Cumming, GA: Dream Catcher Publishing, 2006. 316 pages. Trade paperback. $14.95.
Robert Bausch. Out of Season. New York, NY: Harcourt Trade Publishers, 2005. 367 pages. Hardback with dust jacket. $24.00.
Sarah Martin Busse and Jacqueline Briggs Martin. Banjo Granny. Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin, 2006. 31 pages with illustrations. Hardback with dust jacket. $16.00.
Edward J. Cashin. William Bartram and the American Revolution on the Southern Frontier. Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press, 2000. 317 pages with maps and illustrations. Trade paperback. $19.95.
Lenore McComas Coberly. Sarah’s Girls: A Chronicle of Big Ugly Creek. Athens, OH: Ohio Univeristy Press, 2007. 157 pages. Trade paperback. $14.95.
Carlene Cross. Fleeing Fundamentalism: A Minister’s Wife Examines Faith. Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2006. 276 pages. Hardback with dust jacket. $23.95.
Charles Davis. Angel’s Rest. Don Mills, Ontario: Mira Books, 2006. 329 pages. Hardback with dust jacket. $21.95.
Donald Davis. “Don’t Kill Santa!” Christmas Stories. Atlanta, GA: August House, 2006. 112 pages. Hardback with dust jacket. $14.95.
Sharon Arms Doucet. Fiddle Fever. New York, NY: Clarion Books, 2007. 176 pages. Trade paperback. $6.95.
Casie Fedukovich, Steve Sparks, editors. Low Explostions: Writings on the Body. Knoxville, TN: Knoxville Writers Guild, 2006. 275 pages with photos. Trade paperback. $15.00.
Ken Fones-Wolf. Glass Towns: Industry, Labor, and Political Economy in Appalachia, 1890-1930s. Champaign, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2007. 236 pages with photos, maps, and tables. Trade paperback. $25.00.
Elizabeth Hadaway. Fire Baton. Fayetteville, AR: University of Arkansas Press, 2006. 82 pages. Trade paperback. $16.00.
Christopher E. Hendricks. The Backcountry Towns of Colonial Virginia. Knoxville, TN: The University of Tennessee Press, 2006. 186 pages with photos and maps. Hardback with dust jacket. $36.00.
Ronald L. Hatzenbuehler. “I Tremble for My Country:” Thomas Jefferson and the Virginia Gentry. Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida, 2006. 206 pages with photos, table, and map. Hardback with dust jacket. $55.00.
Kevin Jennings. Mama’s Boy, Preacher’s Son: A Memoir. Boston, MA: Beacon Press, 2006. 267 pages. Hardback with dust jacket. $24.95.
Dr. Allen H. Loughry II. Don’t Buy Another Vote, I Won’t Pay for a Landslide: The Sordid and Continuing History of Political Corruption in West Virginia. Parsons, WV: McClain Printing Company, 2006. 623 pages with photos and forewords by John McCain and Robert C. Byrd. Hardback with dust jacket. $34.99.
John P. Kaminski, editor. The Quotable Jefferson. Ptinceton, NJ, 2006. 557 pages with photos. Hardback with dust jacket. $19.95.
Jan Karon. The Mitford Bedside Companion.New York, NY: Penguin Group (USA), 2006. 487 pages with photos and illustrations. Hard back with dust jacket. $26.95.
Kelly Kerney. Born Again: A Novel. New York, NY: Harcourt Trade Publishers, 2006. 312 pages. Trade paperback. $14.00.
Brenda Kay Ledford. Shew Bird Mountain. Georgetown, KY: Finishing Line Press, 2006. 29 pages. Staplebound paperback. $14.00.
Michael McFee. The Napkin Manuscripts: Selected Essays and an Interview. Knoxville, TN: The University of Tennessee Press, 2006. 207 pages with photos and foreword by Doris Betts. Hardback with dustjacket. $29.95.
Ted Olson. Breathing in Darkness. Nicholasville, KY: Wind Publications, 2006. 115 pages. Trade paperback. $15.00.
David Osborne. An Appalachian Childhood. Savannah, GA: Williams Company, Publishers, 2006. 266 pages with photos. Trade paperback. $24.95.
Angela Pneuman. Home Remedies: Stories. New York, NY: Harcourt Trade Publishers, 2007. 230 pages. Trade paperback. $14.00.
Sara Pritchard. Lately: Linked Stories. New York, NY: Houghton Mifflin, 2007. 190 pages. Trade paperback. $12.95.
Frederick Ramsay. Impulse. Scottsdale, AZ: Poisoned Pen Press, 2006. 245 pages. Hardback with dust jacket. $24.95.
Alma Dolen Roberts. Stories from the Upper Cumberland. Ashland, KY: Jesse Stuart Foundation, 2006. 144 pages with photo. Trade paperback. $15.00.
Charles L. Roe. Cumberland: A Novel. Lincoln, NE: iUniverse, Inc., 2006. 336 pages. Trade paperback. $19.95.
Curtis Sharp. Blessings and Burdens: Growing Up Poor and Rich. Bloomington, IN: Authorhouse, 2006. 253 pages with photos, tables, and maps. Trade paperback. $15.69.
Jesse Stuart. The Thread That Runs So True: A Mountain School Teacher Tells His Story. Ashland, KY: Jesse Stuart Foundation, 2006. 331 pages with photos. Hardback with dust jacket. $25.00.
Ken Sullivan, editor. The West Virginia Encyclopedia. Charleston, WV: The West Virginia Humanities Council, 2006. 927 pages with photos and maps. $44.95.
Dr. William M. Talley and Paula Franke. Images of America: Lewis County. Mount Pleasant, Sc: Arcadia Publishing, 2005. 128 pages with photos and map. Trade paperback. $19.99.
Audilee Boyd Taylor. Where Did My Feather Pillow Come From?. Savannah, GA: Castlemarsh Publications, 1982. 32 pages. Hardback with pictorial cover. $14.95.
Jane Tesh. A Hard Bargain. Scottsdale, AZ: Poisoned Pen Press, 2007. 229 pages. Hardback with dust jacket. $24.95.
Donna VanLiere. The Angels of Morgan Hill. New York, NY: St. Martin’s Press, 2006. 228 pages. Hardback with dust jacket. $14.95.
Jan Watson, edited by Jerry B. Jenkins. Troublesome Creek: A Novel. Carol Stream, IL: Tyndale House Publishers, 2005. 369 pages. Trade Paperback. $12.99.
Ruth White. Way Down Deep. New York, NY: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 2007. 208 pages. Trade paperback. $16.00.
Perry Allen Wood. Silent Speedways of the Carolinas: The Grand National Histories of 29 Former Tracks. Jefferson, NC: MacFarland & Company, Inc. Publishers, 2006. 298 pages with photos. Trade paperback. $35.00.
Robert H. Woodrum. “Everybody Was Black Down There:” Race and Industrial Change in the Alabama Coalfields.” Athens, GA: The University of Georgia Press, 2007. 304 pages with photos. Trade paperback. $24.95.
Reprints
W. Ben Hung. Rustic Construction: Making Furniture, Fixtures & Outdoor Structures Using Bark, Branches & Slab Lumber. Fairview, NC: Bright Mountain Books, 1995. 82 pages with photos and illustrations. Trade paperback. $9.00.
Ruth White. Buttermilk Hotel. New York, NY: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2004. 168 pages. Trade paperback. $6.95.
Children’s Books
Gretchen Moran Laskas. The Miner’s Daughter. New York, NY: Simon & Schuster, 2007. 250 pages. Hardback with dust jacket. $15.99.
Margaret Read MacDonald. The Old Woman and Her Pig. New York, NY: HarperCollins Publishers, 2007. 28 pages with illustrations by John Kanzler. Hardback with dust jacket. $16.99.