March 2007
New Books Received
William E. Akin. West Virginia Baseball: A History, 1865-2000. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, Inc., 2006. 229 pages with photos. Trade paperback. $29.95.
Lisa Alther. Kinfolks: Falling off the Family Tree—The Search for My Melungeon Ancestors. New York, NY: Arcade Publishing, 2007. 241 pages with photos. Hardback with dust jacket. $25.00.
Jefferson Bass. Flesh and Bone: A Body Farm Novel. New York, NY: William Morrow, 2007. 361 pages. Hardback with dust jacket. $24.95.
Wayne Caldwell. Cataloochee: A Novel. New York, NY: Random House, 2007. 352 pages. Trade paperback.
Bob Carlin. The Birth of the Banjo: Joel Walker Sweeney and Early Minstrelsy. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, Inc., 2007. 193 pages with photos. Trade paperback. $35.00.
Michael Chitwood. From Whence: Poems. Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press, 2007. 62 pages. Trade paperback. $15.95.
Robert J. Conley. Mountain Windsong: A Novel of the Trail of Tears. Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992. 218 pages. Trade paperback. $14.95.
Peter Crow. Do, Die, or Get Along: A Tale of Two Appalachian Towns. Athens, Georgia: The University of Georgia Press, 2007. 220 pages with index, notes, and photos. Paperback. $19.95.
Shutta Crum. A Family for Old Mill Farm. New York, New York: Clarion Books, 2007. 32 pages with illustrations by Niki Daly. Hardback with dust jacket. $16.00.
Jan D. Curran. The Appalachian Trail: A Journey of Discovery. Highland City, FL: Rainbow Books, Inc., 1991. 326 pages with photos and maps. Trade paperback. $12.95.
Jan D. Curran. The Appalachian Trail: Onward to Katahdin. Highland City, FL: Rainbow Books, Inc., 1999. 273 pages. Trade paperback. $14.95.
William C. Davis and James I. Robertson, Jr., editors. Virginia at War, 1862. Lexington, KY: The University Press of Kentucky, 2007. 243 pages with illustrations. Hardback with dust jacket. $35.00.
P.T. Deutermann. Spider Mountain. New York, NY: St. Martin’s Press, 2006. 309 pages. Hardback with dust jacket. $24.95.
Eric Dezenhall. Spinning Dixie. New York, NY: St. Martin’s Press, 2007. 323 pages. Hardback with dust jacket. $24.95.
Lynda Durrant. Betsy Zane: The Rose of Fort Henry. New York, New York: Clarion Books, 2000. 198 pages. Hardback with dust jacket. $15.00.
Lynda Durrant. The Sun, the Rain, and the Apple Seed: A Novel of Johnny Appleseed’s Life. New York, New York: Clarion Books, 2003. 200 pages. Hardback with dust jacket. $15.00.
Kim Gaines Eckert. Stronger Than You Think: Becoming Whole Without Having to be Perfect. Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 2007. 238 pages with illustrations. Trade paperback. $15.00.
Howard A. Kisner. Everyone Needs a Guardian Angel. Parsons, WV: McClain Printing Company, 2006. 25 pages. Staplebound paperback. $8.00.
Ken Light and Melanie Light. Coal Hollow: Photographs and Oral Histories. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2006. 139 pages with photos and forewords by Orville Schell and Robert B. Reich. Hardback with dust jacket. $34.95.
Tiya Miles. Ties That Bind: The Story of an Afro-Cherokee Family in Slavery and Freedom. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2005. 306 pages with photos, maps, and charts. Trade paperback. $21.95.
Johnny Molloy. Day & Overnight Hikes: West Virginia’s Monongahela National Forest. Birmingham, AL: Menasha Ridge Press, 2006. 176 pages with maps and charts. Trade paperback. $12.95.
Scott Reynolds Nelson. Steel Drivin’ Man: John Henry, The Untold Story of an American Legend. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2006. 214 pages with illustrations, photos, and maps. Hardback with dust jacket. $25.00.
James W. Parins. Elias Cornelius Boudinot: A Life on the Cherokee Border. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 2006. 250 page swith photos. Hardback with dust jacket. $60.00.
Sandra Parshall. Disturbing the Dead. Scottsdale, AZ: Poisoned Pen Press, 2007. 326 pages. Hardback with dust jacket. $24.95.
Douglas Reichert Powell. Critical Regionalism: Connecting Politics and Culture in the American Landscape. Chapel Hill, NC: The University of North Carolina Press, 2007. 260 pages with photos and map. Hardback without jacket. $59.95.
Ron Rash. The World Made Straight: A Novel. New York, NY: Picador, 2006. 289 pages. Trade paperback. $14.00.
Betty L. Sheridan. Tuckahoe Holler. Parsons, WV: McClain Printing Company, 2006. 235 pages. Trade paperback. $14.95.
Saundra Carter Toussaint. Up Harold’s Branch: A Collection of Childhood Memories. Frederick, MD: PublishAmerica, 2007. 81 pages with photos. Trade paperback. $14.95.
Simon Van Booy. The Secret Lives of People in Love. New York, NY: Turtle Point Press, 2007. 155 pages. Trade paperback. $14.95.
Raymond B. Vickers. Panic in Paradise: Florida’s Banking Crash of 1926. Tuscaloosa, AL: The University of Alabama Press, 1994. 312 pages with photos. Trade paperback. $36.00.
Raymond Wemmlinger. Booth’s Daughter. Honesdale, PA: Boyds Mills Press, 2007. 210 pages. Hardback with dust jacket. $17.95.
Jack Williams. East 40 Degrees: An Interpretive Atlas. Charlottesville, VA: University of Virginia Press, 2006. 248 pages with photos and maps. Trade paperback. $30.00.
Charles Wright. Littlefoot. New York, NY: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2007. 87 pages. Trade paperback.
Reprints
Jan D. Curran. The Appalachian Trail: How to Prepare For & Hike It. Highland City, FL: Rainbow Books, 1995. 192 pages with maps. Trade paperback. $14.95.
George Ella Lyon. With a Hammer for my Heart: A Novel. Lexington, KY: The University Press of Kentucky, 2007. 213 pages. Trade paperback. $16.00.
Katherine Paterson. Bridge to Terabithia. New York, NY: HarperCollins Children’s Books, 2006. 163 pages with illustrations. Trade paperback. $6.99.
Lynn Riggs. The Cherokee Night and Other Plays. Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 2003. 343 pages with photos. Trade paperback. $14.95.
Thomas H. Schoenbaum. The New River Controversy: A New Edition. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, Inc., 2007. 202 pages with photos, maps, foreword by Sam J. Ervin, Jr., and epilogue by R. Seth Woodard. Trade paperback. $30.00.
Sam Shumate. The Bridge Crew: Growing Up in the Blue Ridge Mountains in the 1940’s and 50’s. Boone, NC: Parkway Publishers, Inc., 2006. 158 pages with photos and map. Trade paperback. $19.95.
Children’s Books
Gail E. Haley. My Father’s Beast. Boone, NC: Parkway Publishers, Inc., 2006. 32 pages with illustrations. Trade paperback. $14.95.
Alison Hart. Gabriel’s Horses. Atlanta, GA: Peachtree Publishers, 2007. 161 pages with photos. Hardback with dust jacket. $14.95.
Patricia Thomas. Firefly Mountain. Atlanta, GA: Peachtree Publishers, 2007. 28 pages with illustrations by Peter Sylvada. Hardback with dust jacket. $16.95.