March 2008
New Books Received

Terri M. Baker and Connie Oliver Henshaw, Editors. Women who Pioneered Oklahoma: Stories from the WPA Narratives. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2007. 226 pages with foreword by M. Susan Savage and photos.Hardback with dust jacket, $29.95.

John Benhart Jr. Appalachian Aspirations: The Geography of Urbanization and Development in the Upper Tennessee River Valley, 1865-1900. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2007. 184 pages with photos, maps, and tables. Hardback with dust jacket, $38.00.

Jan Carew. The Guyanese Wanderer. Louisville: Sarabande Books, 2007. 107 pages with introduction by Austin Clarke. Trade paperback, $14.95.

Mark de Castrique. Final Undertaking: A Barry Clayton Mystery. Scottsdale: Poisoned Pen Press, 2007. 255 pages. Hardback with dust jacket, $24.95.

Billy C. Clark. To Catch an Autumn. Nicholasville: Wind Publications, 2007. 76 pages. Trade paperback, $15.00.

Mark DeFoe. Weekend Update. Charlotte: Main Street Rag, 2008. 44 pages. Trade paperback, $10.00.

David H. Dye. Cave Archaeology of the Eastern Woodlands: Essays in Honor of Patty Jo Watson. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2008. 278 with photos, tables, and maps. Hardback with dust jacket, $42.95.

Bruce W. Eelman. Entrepreneurs in the Southern Upcountry: Commercial Culture in Spartanburg, South Carolina 1845-1880. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2008. 320 pages. Hardback with dust jacket. $42.95.

Christopher J. Einolf. George Thomas: Virginian for the Union. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2007. 413 pages with maps and photos. Hardback with dust jacket, $29.95.

Charles H. Faulkner. The Ramseys at Swan Pond: The Archaeology and History of an East Tennessee Farm. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2008. 168 pages with photos and illustrations. Hardback with dust jacket, $39.95.

Steve Flairty. Kentucky’s Everyday Heroes. Nicholasville: Wind Publications, 2008. 163 pages with foreword by David Dick and photos. Trade paperback, $15.00.

Thomas Hughes. Rugby, Tennessee: Some Account of the Settlement Founded on the Cumberland Plateau. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2008. 168 pages with introduction by Benita J. Howell. Trade paperback, $17.95.

Leatha Kendrick. Second Opinion. Cincinnati: David Roberts Books, 2008. 68 pages. Trade paperback, $17.00.

Gene Logsdon. The Last of the Husbandmen: A Novel of Farming Life. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2008. 333 pages. Trade paperback, $16.95.

Brent Martin. Poems from Snow Hill Road. Cullowhee, NC: New Native Press, 2007. 20 pages. Staplebound Paperback, $8.00.

Kevin McFadden. Hardscrabble. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2008. 101 pages. Trade paperback, $16.95.

Kristine M. McCusker. Lonesome Girls and Honky-Tonk Angels: The Women of Barn Dance Radio. Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2008. 224 pages with photographs. Trade paperback. $19.95. [comes out on April 14, 2008].

Donald Ray Pollock. Knockemstiff. New York: Doubleday, 2008. 224 pages. Hardback with dust jacket. $22.95.

Katrina M. Powell. The Anguish of Displacement: The Politics of Literacy in the Letters of Mountain Families in Shenandoah National Park. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2007. 212 pages with photos and map. Hardback with dust jacket, $35.00.

Frederick Ramsay. Buffalo Mountain. Scottsdale: Poisoned Pen Press, 2007. 257 pages. Hardback with dust jacket, $24.95.

C. Lynn Shaffer. Persistence of Vision. Nicholasville: Wind Publications, 2008. 87 pages with introduction by John Drury. Trade paperback, $15.00.

Deborah Smith. A Gentle Rain. Smyrna, GA: BelleBooks, Inc., 2007. 372 pages. Trade paperback, $16.95.

Margaret Connell Szasz. Scottish Highlanders and Native Americans: Indigenous Education in the Eighteenth Century Atlantic World. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2007. 285 pages with maps and photos. Hardback with dust jacket, $34.95.

Pia Taavila. Moon on the Meadow. Washington, D.C.: Galludet University Press, 2008. 140 pages. Trade paperback, $24.95.

Allen Tate. Collected Poems, 19119-1976. New York: Farrar, Strauss and Giroux, 2007. 218 pages. Trade paperback. $16.00.

Robert J. Trout, Editor. Memoirs of the Stuart Horse Artillery Battalion: Moorman’s and Hart’s Batteries. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2008. 373 pages with foreword by Peter S. Carmichael and photos. Hardback with dustjacket, $45.00.

Jane Van Ryan. The Seduction of Miss Evelyn Hazen. Glen Echo, MD: GlenEcho Publishers, 2006. 307 pages. Trade paperback, $14.95.

Barry Aron Vann. In Search of Ulster-Scots Land: The Birth and Geotheological Imagings of a Transatlantic People, 1603-1703. Columbia: University of South Carolina press, 2008. 252 pages with maps, tables, and photos. Hardback with dust jacket, $39.95.

REPRINTS

J. Lee Annis Jr. Howard Baker: Conciliator in an Age of Crisis. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, a 2007 reprint of a 1995 original. 326 pages with photos. Trade paperback, $19.95.

Fred Brown Jr. and Juanita Blair. Days of Anger, Days of Tears: The History of the Rowan County War. Nicholasville: Wind Publications, a 2007 reprint. 235 pages with photos. Hardback with pictorial cover, $22.00.

CHILDREN’S BOOKS

Rebecca Caudill. Happy Little Family. Bathgate, ND: Bethlehem Books, 2004. 107 pages with illustrations by Decie Merwin. Trade paperback, $10.95.

Brenda Gough. Legend of the Dogwood. Johnson City: Overmountain Press, 2008. 26 pages with illustrations by Malinda Mays. Hardback with pictorial cover, $16.95.

 

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