May 2007
New Books Received
Thomas S. Abler. Cornplanter: Chief Warrior of the Allegany Senecas. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2007. 238 pages with photo and illustrations. Trade paperback. $19.95.
W.F. ‘Bill’ Armstrong. When Whip-poor-wills Call. Parsons, WV: McClain Printing Company, 2006.182 pages with illustrations. Trade paperback. $22.00.
Tim Barnwell. The Earth’s Furrowed Brow: The Appalachian Farm In Photographs. New York, NY: W.W. Norton & Company, 2007. 159 pages with photos, and foreword by John Ehle. Hardback with dust jacket. $35.00.
Albert A. Bell Jr. The Secret of the Lonely Grave. Boone, NC: Ingalls Publishing Group, Inc., 2007. 159 pages. Trade paperback. $8.95.
Danielle Bernstein. Hiking the Carolina Mountains. Almond, NC: Milestone Press, 2007. 359 pages with maps and photos. Trade paperback. $19.95.
Tom Birdseye. A Tough Nut to Crack. New York, NY: Holiday House, Inc., 2006. 113 pages. Hardback with dust jacket. $16.95.
Maggie Bishop. Emeralds in the Snow. Boone, NC: High Country Publishers, 2004. 189 pages with photos. Trade paperback. $12.00.
Maggie Bishop. Murder at Blue Falls. Boone, NC: High Country Publishers, 2006. 192 pages with photos. Trade paperback. $12.00.
Natalie S. Bober. Thomas Jefferson: Draftsman of a Nation. Charlottesville, VA: University of Virginia Press, 2007. 360 pages with photos, illustrations, maps, and family tree. Hardback with dust jacket. $22.95.
Steve Bodkins. Bemis & Glady West Virginia: A History of Two Mountain Towns. Parsons, WV: McClain Printing Company, 2006. 608 pages with photos and charts. Hardback with dust jacket. $45.00.
Wayne Caldwell. Cataloochee: A Novel. New York, NY: Random House, 2007. 352 pages with chart. Hardback with dust jacket. $24.95.
Jo Carson. Teller Tales: Histories. Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 2007. 138 pages. Hardback with pictorial cover. $14.95.
Marian Coe. Once Upon a Different Time.Boone, NC: High Country Publishers, 2004. 141 pages with illustrations by Paul Zipperlin. Trade paperback. $12.95.
Tess Collins. The Law of Revenge. Lincoln, NE: iUniverse, Inc., 1997. 340 pages. Trade paperback. $19.95.
Tess Collins. The Law of Betrayal. Lincoln, NE: iUniverse, Inc., 1997. 281 pages. Trade paperback. $17.95.
Tess Collins. The Law of the Dead. Lincoln, NE: iUniverse, Inc., 1999. 327 pages with author interview. Trade paperback. $19.95.
Loretta Creech. No Tears for Ernest Creech: A Forgotten Man in “The Great Society.” Bloomington, IN: AuthorHouse, 2006. 197 pages with photos. Trade paperback. $14.49.
Victor M. Depta. An Afterthought of Light. Ashland, KY: Blair Mountain Press, 2007. 86 pages. Trade paperback. $15.00.
Pancho Doll. Day Trips with a Splash: Northeastern Swimming Holes. Berkeley, CA: Wilderness Press, 2002. 270 pages with photos and maps. Trade paperback. $18.95.
Pancho Doll. DayTrips with a Splash: Southeastern Swimming Holes. Berkeley, CA: Wilderness Press, 2004. 280 pages with photos and maps. Trade paperback. $18.95.
Betty Dotson-Lewis. Sago Mine Disaster (Featured Story) Appalachian Coalfield Stories. West Conshohocken, PA: Infinity Publishing, 2007. 301 pages with photos and tables. Trade paperback. $16.95.
Al Fritsch and Paul Gallimore. Healing Appalachia: Sustainable Living Through Appropriate Technology. Lexington, KY: The University Press of Kentucky, 2007. 435 pages with photos and illustrations. Trade paperback. $35.00.
Nikki Giovanni. Acolytes: Poems. New York, NY: William Morrow, 2007. 131 pages. Hardback with dust jacket. $16.95.
John Hailman. Thomas Jefferson on Wine. Jackson, MS: University Press of Mississippi, 2006. 467 pages with photos, maps, diagrams, and illustrations. Hardback with dust jacket. $38.00.
Timothy J. Henderson. A Glorious Defeat: Mexico and its War with the United States. New York, NY: Hill and Wang, 2007. 216 pages with photos and map. Hardback with dust jacket. $25.00.
Randy Hendricks and James A. Perkins, editors. David Madden: A Writer for All Genres. Knoxville, TN: The University of Tennessee Press, 2006. 177 pages. Hardback with dust jacket. $34.95.
Hugh Howard. Dr. Kimball and Mr. Jefferson: Rediscovering the Founding Fathers of American Architecture. New York, NY: Bloomsbury, 2006. 305 pages with photos. Hardback with dust jacket. $25.95.
Anne B. Jones and Rex White. All Around the Track: Oral Histories of Drivers, Mechanics, Officials, Owners, Journalists and Others in Motorsports Past and Present. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, Inc. Publishers, 2007. 244 pages with photos, and foreword by Ed Clark. Trade paperback. $35.00.
Michael A. Lafaro, editor. Agee Agonistes: Essays on the Life, Legend, and Works James Agee. Knoxville, TN: The University of Tennessee Press, 2007. 350 pages with introduction by David Madden and photos. Hardback and dust jacket. $48.00.
Barry Lopez, editor. Home Ground: Language for an American Landscape. San Antonio, TX: Trinity University Press, 2006. 449 pages with illustrations. Hardback with dust jacket. $29.95.
Maurice Manning. Bucolics. New York, NY: Harcourt Trade Publishers, 2007. 94 pages. Hardback with dust jacket. $23.00.
Joanne Marshall Mauldin. Thomas Wolfe: When do the Atrocities Begin? Knoxville, TN: The University of Tennessee Press, 2007. 361 pages with photos. Hardback with dust jacket. $38.00.
Pat Mattaini Mestern. No Choice But Freedom. Boone, NC: High Country Publishers, 2005. 249 pages with maps. Trade Paperback. $16.00.
Gerald C. Milnes. Signs, Cures, and Witchery: German Appalachian Folklore. Knoxville, TN: The University of Tennessee Press, 2007. 245 pages with photos. Hardback with dust jacket. $35.00.
Ron Rash. Chemistry and Other Stories. New York, NY: Picador, 2007. 230 pages. Trade Paperback. $13.00.
Peter S. Onuf. The Mind of Thomas Jefferson. Charlottesville, VA: University of Virginia Press, 2007. 281 pages. Trade paperback. $19.50.
Rail-Trails: Mid-Atlantic. Berkeley, CA: Wilderness Press, 2007. 195 pages with photos and maps. Trade paperback. $15.95.
Rail-Trails: Southeast. Berkeley, CA: Wilderness Press, 2006. 203 pages with photos and maps. Trade paperback. $15.95.
Roni Stoneman and Ellen Wright. Pressing On: The Roni Stoneman Story. Champaign, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2007. 248 pages with photos. Trade paperback. $19.95.
Jarrod West. Growing Up on the Hard Wood: Gale Catlette's Mountaineer Basketball One Player Story. Waldoboro, ME: Goose River Press, 2006. 153 pages. Trade paperback. $20.00.
Rex White. Some Things to Think About. Parsons, WV: McClain Printing Company, 2006. 44 pages. Staple-bound paperback. $9.99.
Lowell Gene Wise. The Desolating Hand: A Civil War Novel. Parsons, WV: McClain Printing Company, 2006. 297 pages. Hardback with dust jacket. $27.50.
Reprints
Tom Deitz. Windmaster’s Bane. Boone, NC: High Country Publishers, 2006. 303 pages. Trade paperback. $17.95.
M.J. Eberhart. Ten Million Steps: Nimblewill Nomad’s Epic Ten-Month Trek from the Florida Keys to Quebec. Birmingham, AL: Menasha Ridge Press, 2007. 528 pages with illustrations. Trade paperback. $16.95.
Andrew Gennett. Sound Wormy: Memoir of Andrew Gennett, Lumberman. Athens, GA: The University of Georgia Press, 2007. 218 pages with photos. Trade paperback. $24.95.
Cameron Judd. Boone: A Novel of an American Legend. Boone, NC: High Country Publishers, 2005. 344 pages with photos. Trade paperback. $16.95.
May Theilgaard Watts. Flower Finder: A Guide to Identification of Spring Wild Flowers and Flower Families. Rochester, NY: Nature Study Guild, 1955. 60 pages with illustrations. Staple-bound Paperback. Price unlisted.
Children’s Books
Nancy Merical. Sarah Beth, Eat Your Broccoli! Parsons, WV: McClain Printing
Company, 2006. 47 pages with illustrations. Trade paperback. $6.99.