July 2007
New Books Received
Ora E. Anderson, edited by Deborah Griffith. Out of the Woods: A Bird Watcher’s Year. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2007. 176 pages with illustrations by Julie Zickefoose and foreword by Jean Andrews.
Daina Ramey Berry. Swing the Sicle for the Harvest is Ripe: Gender and Slavery in Antebellum Georgia. Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 2007. 224 pages with photos, map and illustration. Hardback with dust jacket. $40.00.
Kevin Lane Dearinger. The Bard in the Bluegrass: Two Centuries of Shakespearean Performance in Lexington, Kentucky. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, Inc., 2007. 308 pages with photos. Trade paperback. $45.00.
Susan Dunn. Dominion of Memories: Jefferson, Madison & the Decline of Virginia. New York: Basic Books, 2007. 310 pages with photo. Hardback with dust jacket. $27.50.
Connie Jordan Green. Slow Children Playing. Georgetown, KY: Finishing Line Press, 2007. 29 pages. Staplebound paperback. $14.00.
John Lane Idol, Jr. Blue Ridge Heritage: An Informal History of Three Generations of the Family of John Nicholson Idol. Boone, NC: Parkway Publishers, 2005. 211 pages with photos. Trade paperback. $19.95.
Naomi Judd. Vanity Insanity. Bloomington, IN: AuthorHouse, 2006. 23 pages with illustrations. Trade paperback. $19.99.
Barbara Kingsolver with Steven L. Hopp and Camille Kingsolver. Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life. New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 2007. 370 pages with illustrations. Hardback with dust jacket. $26.95.
Ed Krause. Our Next of Kin. Boone, NC: Parkway Publishers, 2007. 242 pages. Trade paperback. $19.95.
David Magee. Moonpie: Biography of an Out-of-This-World Snack. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2007. 182 pages with photos and recipes. Trade paperback. $14.95.
E.C. Mantz. Eula. Brentwood, TN: Cold Tree Press, 2007. 184 pages. Trade paperback. $12.95.
Cormac McCarthy. The Road. New York: Vintage Books, 2006. 287 pages. Trade paperback. $14.95.
Candice Ransom. Finding Day’s Bottom. Minneapolis: Lerner Publishing Group, 2006. 176 pages. Hardback with dust jacket. $15.95.
J.D. Rhoades. Safe and Sound. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2007. 275 pages. Trade paperback. $23.95.
Vicki Rozema. Footsteps of the Cherokees: A Guide to the Eastern Homelands of the Cherokee Nation. Winston-Salem, NC: John F. Blair, Publisher, 2007. 394 pages with maps and photos. Trade paperback. $21.95.
Joe Shannon. My Old Gray Coat: Mountainhome Musing. Boone, NC: Parkway Publishers, Inc., 2007. 95 pages. Trade paperback. $14.95.
Amy Hill Shevitz. Jewish Communities on the Ohio River: A History. Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky, 2007. 266 pages with maps, photos and tables. Hardback with dust jacket. $50.00.
W. Glimore Simms, Esq., edited by David W. Newton. Eutaw: A Sequel to the Forayers or the Raid of the Dog Days. Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 2007. 558 pages with illustrations. Trade paperback. $34.95.
Minton Sparks. Desperate Ransom: Setting Her Family Tree. Nashville: Thomas Nelson, 2007. 85 pages with photos and live performance DVD. Hardback with dust jacket. $16.99.
Kevin C. Stewart. The Way Things Always Happen Here. Morgantown: West Virginia University Press, 2007. 160 pages. Trade paperback. $16.50.
Bridget Stutchbury. Silence of the Songbirds: How We Are Losing the World's Songbird and What We Can Do to Save Them. New York: Walker & Company, 2007. 255 pages with illustrations by Julie Zickefoose and photos. Hardback with dust jacket. $24.95.
Larry Thacker. Mountain Mysteries: The Mystic Traditions of Appalachia. Johnson City, TN: The Overmountain Press, 2007. 226 pages with photos. Trade paperback. $14.95.
Robert W. Witt. Approaching New Bethel. Frederick, MD: Publish America, 2007. 167 pages. Trade paperback. $19.95
Reprints
Foxfire’s Book of Wood stove Cookery. Mountain City, GA: The Foxfire Magazine, a 2006 reprint of a 1982 release. Spiralbound paperback. $9.95.
Robert J. Conley. Cherokee Medicine Man: The Life and Work of a Modern-Day Healer. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, a 2007 reprint of a 2005 release. 154 pages with illustrations and photo. Trade paperback. $14.95.
Robert Penn Warren. All The King’s Men. New York: Harcourt Trade Publishers, 1996. 438 pages with foreword by Joseph Blotner. Trade paperback. $14.00.
Children’s Books
Kerry Madden. Gentle’s Holler. New York: Viking Books, 2005. 237 pages. Hardback with dust jacket. $16.99.
Anne Shelby. The Adventures of Molly Whuppie and Other Appalachian Folktales. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2007. 88 pages with illustrations. Hardback with dust jacket. $14.95.
Constance Lindsay Skinner. Becky Landers: Frontier Warrior. Bathgate, ND: Bethlehem Books, a 2006 reprint of a 1926 release. Trade paperback. $12.95.