New Books Received
John R. Burch, Jr. Owsley County, Kentucky, and the Perpetuation of Poverty. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, 2008. 221 pages with maps and tables. Trade paperback. $35.00.
Casey Clabough. The Warrior’s Path: Reflections along an Ancient Route. Knoxville, TN: University of Tennessee Press, 2007. 200 pages. Trade paperback. $24.95.
Donald A. Davis. Stonewall Jackson: A Biography. New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007. 204 pages with foreword by General Wesley K. Clark. Hardback with dust jacket. $21.95.
Robert D. Denham. Charles Wright: A Companion to the Late Poetry, 1988-2007. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, Inc., 2008. 260 pages. Trade paperback. $39.95.
Susan Freinkel. American Chestnut: The Life, Death, and Rebirth of a Perfect Tree. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2007. 284 pages with map. Hardback with dust jacket. $27.50.
George Hovis. Vale of Humility: Plain Folk in Contemporary North Carolina Fiction. Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press, 2007. 336 pages. Hardback with dust jacket. $39.95.
Daniel Walker Howe. What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815-1848. New York, NY: Oxford University Press. 928 pages. Hardback with dust jacket. $35.00.
Robert J. Kapsch. The Potomac Canal: George Washington and the Waterway West. Morgantown, WV: West Virginia University Press, 2007. 374 pages. Softcover with illustrations. $40.00.
Terry Kay. The Book of Marie. Macon, GA: Mercer University Press, 2007. 271 pages. Hardback with dust jacket. $23.00.
Marie Kimball. Thomas Jefferson’s Cook Book. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2003. 128 pages with illustrations. Trade paperback. $11.95.
Janine Latus. If I Am Missing or Dead: A Sister’s Story of Love, Murder, and Liberation. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2007. 309 pages with photos. Hardback with dust jacket. $25.00.
Marc Leepson. Saving Monticello: The Levy Family’s Epic Quest to Rescue the House That Jefferson Built. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2001. 303 pages with photos. Trade paperback. $14.95.
Barbara Mabry. In My Own Voice. Lexington, KY: The Clark Group, 2007. 298 pages with photos. Trade paperback. $21.95.
Robert M.S. McDonald, editor. Thomas Jefferson’s Military Academy: Founding West Point. Charlottesville: University if Virginia Press, 2005. Hardback with dust jacket. 272 pages. $35.00.
John McKernan. Resurrection of the Dust. Omaha: Backwaters Press, 2007. 223 pages. Trade paperback. $22.00.
Ted Olson and Kathy H. Olson, editors. James Still: Critical Essays on the Dean of Appalachian Literature. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, 2007. 252 pages with photos. Trade paperback. $35.00.
Ann Pancake. Strange As This Weather Has Been. Emeryville, CA: 2007. 360 pages. Trade paperback. $15.95.
Thomas Warlick and Lucy Warlick. The WBT Briarhoppers: Eight Decades of a Bluegrass Band Made for Radio. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, Inc., 2008. 207 pages with foreword by Robert Inman and photos. Trade Paperback. $29.95.
REPRINTS
Francis D. Cogliano. Thomas Jefferson: Reputation and Legacy. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2006. 276 pages. Hardback with dust jacket. $45.00.
CHILDREN’S BOOKS
Elisa Kleven. The Apple Doll. New York, NY: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007. 40 pages with illustrations. Hardback with dust jacket. $16.00.
Patricia C. McKissack. The All-I’ll-Ever-Want Christmas Doll. New York:Schwartz & Wade Books, 2007. 31 pages with illustrations by Jerry Pinkney. Hardback with dust jacket. $16.99