New Books Received
Jack Kestner. Fire Tower. Emory: Clinch Mountain Press, 2007. 160 pages with map. Trade paperback, $12.00.
Davitt McAteer. Monongah: The Tragic Story of the 1907 Monongah Mine Disaster, The Worst Industrial Accident in US History. Morgantown: West Virginia University Press, 2007. 331 pages with photos. Hardback with dust jacket, $30.00.
Rozetta Mowery. Tragedy in Tin Can Holler. Global Authors Publications, 2007. 200 pages with photos. Trade paperback, $17.99.
Gin Phillips. The Well and the Mine: A Novel. Portland, Oreg.: Hawthorne Books & Literary Arts, 2007. 251 pages with introduction by Fannie Flagg. Trade paperback, $15.95.
Ron Rash. Chemistry and Other Stories. New York: Picador Press, 2007. 230 pages. Trade paperback, $13.00.
Erik Reece, editor. Field Work: Modern Poems from Eastern Forests. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2008. 140 pages. Hardback with dust jacket, $19.95.
Noel Smith. The Well String. Louisville: MotesBooks, 2008. 137 pages with foreword by Silas House and family tree. Trade paperback, $15.00.
Dosi Elaine Cook Stanberry. Mountain Echoes: Beech Mountain, North Carolina. Boone: Parkway Publishers, 2005. 259 pages with photos. Trade paperback, $24.95.
M. Glenn Taylor. The Ballad of Trenchmouth Taggart. Morgantown: West Virginia University Press, 2008. 286 pages. Trade paperback, $16.50.
Charles Upton. Folk Metaphysics: Mystical Meanings in Traditional Folk Songs & Spirituals. San Rafael, Calif.: Sophia Perennis, 2008. 178 pages. Trade paperback, $17.50.
Bill Walker. Skywalker: Close Encounters on the Appalachian Trail. Macon: Indigo Publishing Group, 2008. 221 pages with photos and map. Hardback with dust jacket, $19.95.
Andy Wood. Backyard Carolina: Two Decades of Public Radio Commentary. Wilmington, N.C.: The Publishing Laboratory, 2006. 171 pages with illustrations. Trade paperback, $14.95.
REPRINTS
Charles H. Ambler. Sectionalism in Virginia from 1776–1861. Morgantown: West Virginia University Press, a 2008 reprint of a 1910 or 1964? original. 366 pages with introduction by Barbara Rasmussen. Trade paperback, $40.00.
Clyde William Carter. Life on Chaney Creek. Emory: Clinch Mountain Press, a 2008 reprint of a 2002 original. 96 pages with photos and chart. Trade paperback, $12.00.
Patrick W. Gainer. Withces Ghosts and Signs. Morgantown: West Virginia University Press, a 2008 reprint of a 1975 original. 216 pages. Trade paperback, $18.95.
Jack Kestner. A View from the Mountain. Emory: Clinch Mountain Press, a 2007 reprint of a 2006 original. 256 pages with preface by Lisa Kestner Quigley, Pam Kestner-Chappalear, and Tim Kestner, foreword by Steven Kaylor, and photos. Trade paperback, $16.00.
Frank Kilgore and Katharine Shearer. Far Southwest Virginia: A Post Card Journey. Clinch Moutnain press, a 2005 reprint of a 2004 original. 176 pages with photos and maps. Trade paperback, $20.00.
Members of the National Committee for the Defense of Political Prisoners. Harlan Miners Speak: Report on Terrorism in the Kentucky Coalfields. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, a 2008 reprint of a 1932 original. 348 pages. Trade paperback, $24.95.
CHILDREN’S BOOKS
Bryna J. Fireside. Private Joel and the Sewell Mountain Seder. Minneapolis: Kar-Ben Publishing, 2008. 47 pages with illustrations by Shawn Costello. Trade paperback, $6.95.