New Books Received
Sarah Addison Allen. Garden Spells: A Novel. New York: Bantam Dell, 2007. 290 pages. Hardback with dust jacket. $20.00.
Ted Anthony. Chasing the Rising Sun: The Journey of an American Song. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2007. 307 pages with photos. Hardback with dust jacket. $36.00.
Garry Barker. Kentucky Waltz. Nicholasville, KY: Wind Publications, 2007. 186 pages. Trade paperback. $15.00.
Tony Byworth and Bob Allen, Editors. The Billboard Illustrated Encyclopedia of Country Music. New York: Billboard Books, 2007. 320 pages with photos. Hardback with dust jacket. $50.00.
Nan K. Chase. Asheville: A History. Jefferson, NC: 2007. 272 pages with photos. Trade paperback. $35.00
Sarah Chastain, Martha Crockett, Debra Leigh Smith and others. On Grandma’s Porch. Dahlonega, GA: Bellebooks, 2007. 240 pages with recipes. Trade paperback. $14.95.
Billy C. Clark. To Find a Birdsong. Nicholasville, KY: Wind Publications, 2007. 97 pages with illustrations by Elizabeth Ellison. Hardback with pictorial cover. $20.00.
Jim Clark. Notions: A Jim Clark Miscellany. Mount Olive, NC: Rank Stranger Press, 2007. 279 pages with foreword by Jeff Daniel Marion. Trade paperback. $15.00.
Clarissa W. Confer. The Cherokee Nation in the Civil War. Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 2007. 199 pages with photos. Hardback with dust jacket. $24.95.
Doug Crandell. The Flawless Skin of Ugly People. New York: Virgin Books, 2007. 211 pages with discussion questions. Trade paperback. $14.95.
Richard R. Duncan. Beleaguered Winchester: A Virginia Community at War, 1861-1865. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2007. 380 pages with photos and map. Hardback with dust jacket. $40.00.
Sidney Saylor Farr. My Appalachia: A Memoir. Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky, 2007. 231 pages with photos. Hardback with dust jacket. $35.00.
Edward Francisco. The Alchemy of Words. Delhi, NY: Birch Book Press, 2007. 56 pages. Trade paperback. $13.00.
Diane Asseo Griliches. An Appalachian Farmer’s Story: Portrait of an Extraordinary Common Man. Macon, GA: Mercer University Press, 2007. 121 pages with foreword by Peter I. Rose, photos, and CD. Hardback with dust jacket. $40.00.
Lou Harshaw.Asheville: Mountain Majesty. Fairview, NC: Bright Mountain Books, Inc., 2007. 358 pages with photos. Trade paperback. $29.00.
Katherine Henninger. Ordering the Façade: Photography and Contemporary Southern Women’s Writing. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2007. 232 pages with photos. Trade paperback. $19.95.
Hank Hudepohl. The Journey of Hands. Cincinnati: Word Press, 2007. 96 pages. Trade paperback. $17.00.
Stacey Jean Klein. Margaret Junkin Preston, Poet of the Confederacy: A Literary Life. Columbia: The University of South Carolina Press, 2007. Hardback with dust jacket. $34.95.
Penny Loeb. Moving Mountains: How One Woman and Her Community Won Justice from Big Coal. Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky, 2007. 306 pages with photos. Hardback with dust jacket. $27.95.
James J. Lorence. A Hard Journey: The Life of Don West. Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 2007. 308 pages with photos. Hardback with dust jacket. $39.95.
David Madden. Touching the Web of Southern Novelists. Knoxville: The University of Tennessee Press, 2006. 258 pages with photo. Hardback with dust jacket. $37.00.
Brent Martin. Poems From Snow Hill Road. Cullowhee, NC: New Native Press, 2007. Trade paperback.
Tennant S. Mc Williams. New Lights in the Valley: The Emergence of UAB. Tuscaloosa: The University of Alabama Press, 2007. 546 pages with photos. Hardback with dust jacket. $39.95.
Jacob J. Podber. The Electronic Front Porch: An Oral History of the Arrival of Modern Media in Rural Appalachia and the Melungeon Community. Macon, GA: Mercer University Press, 2007. 166 pages with map. Hardback with dust jacket. $35.00.
Mark Powell. Blood Kin. Knoxville: The University of Tennessee Press, 2006. 237 pages. Hardback with dust jacket. $32.00.
Rita Sims Quillen. Her Secret Dream. Nicholasville, KY: Wind Publications, 2006. 89 pages. Trade paperback. $15.00.
Rob Riggan. The Blackstone Commentaries. Winston-Salem, NC: John F. Blair, Publisher, 2007. 340 pages. Trade paperback. $16.95.
Paul Salstrom. From Pioneering to Persevering: Family Farming in Indiana to 1880. Ashland, OH: Purdue University Press, 2007. 208 pages with photos. Trade paperback. $23.95.
Joe Shannon. My Old Gray Coat. Boone, NC: Parkway Publishers, Inc., 2007. 95 pages. Trade paperback. $14.95.
Debra Leigh Smith, Sandra Chastain, Virginia Ellis, Debra Dixon and Martha Crockett. At Home in Mossy Creek. Dahlonega, GA: Bellebooks, 2007. 287 pages with illustrations and recipes. Trade paperback. $14.95.
Margaret Supplee Smith and Emily Herring Wilson. North Carolina Women: Making History. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1999. 382 pages with foreword by Doris Betts and photos. Trade paperback. $29.95.
Pamela Steele. Paper Bird. La Grande, OR: Wordcraft of Oregon, LLC, 2007. 76 pages. Trade paperback. $12.00.
Jack Wright, Producer. Music of Coal: Mining Songs from the Appalachian Coalfields. Big Stone Gap, VA: Lonesome Records & Publishing, 2007. 69 pages with sanctus by Archie Green, foreword by Jon Lohman and two CDs. Hardback with pictorial cover. $35.00.
REPRINTS
George Ella Lyon. Catalpa. Nicholasville, KY: Wind Publications, a 2007 reprint of a 1993 publication. 69 pages. Trade paperback. $15.00.
Charles B. Sanford. The Religious Life of Thomas Jefferson. Charlottesville, VA: University of Virginia Press, a 2002 reprint of a 1984 publication. 246 pages with chart. Trade paperback. No price listed.
CHILDREN’S BOOKS
Christopher Canyon. John Denver’s Grandma’s Feather Bed. Nevada City, CA: Dawn Publications, 2007. 29 pages with illustrations, musical score and CD. Hardback with dust jacket. $19.95.
Hush, Little Baby. Orlando: Voyager Books, 2003. 35 pages with illustrations by Marla Frazee. Trade paperback. $6.00.
Sally M. Keehn. Magpie Gabbard and the Quest for the Buried Moon. New York: Philomel Books, 2007. 198 pages. Hardback with dust jacket. $16.99.