New Books Received
Sandra L. Ballard and Leila E. Weinstein, eds. Neighbor to Neighbor: A Memoir of Family, Community, and Civil War in Appalachian North Carolina. Boone: Appalachian State University Center for Appalachian Studies, 179 pages with photos, tables, and maps. Trade paperback, $25.00.
Shirley Stewart Burns. Bringing Down the Mountains:The Impact of Mountaintop Removal on Southern West Virginia Communities. Morgantown: The University of West Virginia Press, 2007. 213 pages with photos. Trade paperback, $27.50.
Robert J. Conley. A Cherokee Encyclopedia. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2007. 278 pages with photos and illustrations. Hardback with dust jacket, $24.95.
David P. Elkington. Fighting to Protect the Highlands: The First Forty Years of the West Virginia Highlands Conservancy. Blacksburg: Pocahontas Press, Inc., 2007. 517 with foreword by Ken Hechler, photos, and map. Trade paperback, $24.95.
Gilbert Elliott. Shattered Dawn. Parsons, W. Va.: McClain Printing Company, 2007. 165 pages. Trade paperback, $15.00.
Krista Fink. Silent No More: Speaking Out About Domestic Violence. Terra Alta, W. Va.: Headline Books, Inc., 2007. 171 pages. Trade paperback, $19.95.
Lila Hopkins. The Master Craftsman: Heartwarming Novel of Father-Son Relationships and the Incredible Gifts of Love. Boone: Ingalls Publishing Group, Inc., 2008. 184 pages with illustrations. Trade paperback, $14.95.
Thelma Kormos, Why Not Smile. Parsons, W. Va.: McClain Printing Company, 2007. 261 pages. Trade paperback, $22.50.
Janna McMahan. Calling Home: A Novel. New York: Kensington Publishing Corp., 2008. 326 pages with author interview and discussion questions. Trade paperback, $15.00.
Darlene Irvin Parsons. The Parsons Pioneers. Parsons, W. Va.: McClain Printing Company, 2007. 250 pages with photos. Trade paperback, $25.00.
Kristofer Ray. Middle Tennessee, 1775-1825: Progress and Popular Democracy on the Southwestern Frontier. Knoxville: The University of Tennessee Press, 2007. 236 pages with maps and table. Hardback with dust jacket, $41.00.
William H. Rice. Elkins, West Virginia, 1889: The Magic City of the Wilderness. Parsons, W. Va.: McClain Printing Company, 2007. 256 pages with tables, maps and photos. Trade paperback, $35.00.
Mary Lee Settle, edited by Anne Hobson Freeman. Learning to Fly: A Writer’s Memoir. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2007. 224 pages with photos. Hardback with dust jacket, $24.95.
Michael Shnayerson. Coal River: How a few brave Americans took on a powerful company—and the federal government—to save the land they love. New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 2008. 321 pages. Hardback with dust jacket, $25.00.
Young Smith. In a City You Will Never Visit. San Francisco: California Institute of Arts and Letters, 1996. 56 pages. Trade paperback, $14.95.
Frank X Walker. When Winter Come: The Ascension of York. Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky, 2008. 117 pages. Trade paperback, $15.00.
REPRINTS
F. Keith Davis. The Secret Life and Brutal Death of Mamie Thurman. Charleston: Quarrier Press, a 2007 second edition. 205 pages with photos. Trade paperback, $15.95.
John Ehle. Move Over, Mountain. Winston-Salem: Press 53, a 2007 reprint of a 1957 original. 275 pages. Trade paperback, $19.95.
John Ehle. The Free Men. Winston-Salem: Press 53, a 2007 reprint of a 1965 original. 340 pages with foreword by David Riesman, afterword by Wayne King, photographs, and map. Trade paperback, $19.95.