New Books Received
Chad Berry, ed. The Hayloft Gang: The Story of the National Barn Dance. Chicago: The University of Illinois Press, 2008. 215 pages with photos, and index. Trade paperback, $24.95.
Sallie Bingham. Red Car: Stories. Louisville: Sarabande Books, 2008. 181 pages. Trade paperback, $15.95.
Kurt Buhlmann, Tracey Tuberville, and Whit Gibbons. Turtles of the Southeast. Athens: The University of Georgia Press, 2008. 252 pages with photos, diagrams, maps, indexes, charts, and glossary. Trade paperback, $22.95.
Senator Robert C. Byrd with Steve Kettmann. Letter to a President: Commonsense Lessons for Our Next Leader. New York: Thomas Dunne Books, 2008. 192 pages with index. Hardback with dust jacket, $23.95.
Martin Clark. The Legal Limit: a Novel. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2008. 356 pages. Hardback with dust jacket, $24.95.
Karen L. Clinard and Richard Russell, eds. Asheville: Reminiscing books, 2008. 442 pages with photos, appendices, index, and maps. Trade paperback, $29.95.
Keith Donnelly. Three Deuces Down: A Donald Youngblood Mystery. Montgomery: Court Street Press, 2008. 285 pages. Hardback with dust jacket, $24.95.
Anthony Dunbar, ed. American Crisis, Southern Solutions: From Where We Stand, Promise and Peril. Montgomery: NewSouth Books, 2008. 280 pages with a forward by Ray Marshall, notes, and an afterword by Dan Carter. Hardback with dust jacket, $25.95.
Bruce W. Eelman. Entrepreneurs in the Southern Upcountry: Commercial Culture in Spartanburg, South Carolina, 1845-1880. Athens: The University of Georgia Press, 2008. 313 pages with notes, bibliography, and index. Hardback with dust jacket, $42.95.
Ken Fones-Wolf and Ronald L. Lewis, eds. West Virginia History: A Journal of Regional Studies, Spring 2008 Vol. 2 No.1. Morgantown: West Virginia University Press, 2008. 122 pages with photos, notes, and charts. Trade paperback, $45.00.
Jeff Hill and Peggy Daniels. Life Events and Rites of Passage: The Customs and Symbols of Major Life-Cycle Milestones, Including Cultural, Secular, and Religious Traditions Observed in the United States. Detroit: Omnigraphics, 2008. 498 pages with index, photos, bibliography, and a foreword by Professor Clifton D. Bryant. Hardback with pictorial cover, $71.00.
Dot Jackson. Refuge: A Novel. Charlotte: Novello Festival Press, 2006. 346 pages. Hardback with dust jacket, $24.95.
John B. Jensen, Carlos D. Camp, Whit Gibbons, Matt J. Elliott, eds. Amphibians and Reptiles of Georgia. Athens: The University of Georgia Press, 2008. 575 pages with maps, photos, glossary, indexes, and illustrations. Trade paperback, $39.95.
Carolyn Jourdan. Heart in the Right Place: a Memoir. Chapel Hill: Algonquin Books, 2008. 311 pages with an interview with the author, and questions and topics for discussion. Trade paperback, $14.95.
John Lane. Circling Home. Athens: The University of Georgia Press, 2007. 206 pages with maps. Hardback with dust jacket, $24.95.
Irene McKinney. Vivid Companion: Poems. Morgantown: West Virginia University Press, 2004. 98 pages with notes. Trade paperback, $16.50.
Kurt McCoy. White Things: West Virginia’s Weird White Monsters. Morgantown: Ogua Books, 2008. 105 pages with notes. Trade paperback, $9.95.
Robert Morgan. Boone: a Biography. Chapel Hill: Algonquin Books, 2008. 538 pages with notes, bibliography, index, maps, photos, chronology, and Boone Family genealogy. Trade paperback, $18.95.
Kevin Oderman. Going: a Novel. Morgantown: West Virginia University Press, 2006. 263 pages. Trade paperback, $16.50.
Charles F. Price. Nor the Battle to the Strong: a Novel of the American Revolution in the South. Savannah: Frederic C. Beil, Publisher, 2008. 447 pages with photos and illustrations and maps by the author. Hardback with dust jacket, $25.95.
Bruce A. Ronda. Reading the Old Man: John Brown in American Culture. Knoxville: The University of Tennessee Press, 2008. 218 pages with index, and notes. Hardback with dust jacket, $39.95.
Kevin C. Stewart. The Way Things Always Happen Here: Eight Stories and a Novella. Morgantown: West Virginia University Press, 2007. 160 pages . Trade paperback, $16.50.
Harry L. Watson and Larry J. Griffin, eds. Southern Cultures: The Fifteenth Anniversary Reader. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2008. 507 pages with photos, index, and notes. Trade paperback, $24.95.
Stephen A. West. From Yeoman to Redneck in the South Carolina Upcountry, 1850-1915. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2008. 261 pages with maps, bibliography, notes, index, and tables. Hardback with dust jacket, $45.00.
Ann Wicker, ed. Making Notes: Music of the Carolinas. Charlotte: Novello Festival Press, 2008. 225 pages with index. Trade paperback, $22.95.
Thomas Wolfe. Arlyn and Matthew J. Bruccoli, eds. The Four Lost Men: The Previously Unpublished Long Version. Columbia: The University of South Carolina Press, 2008. 92 pages with photos, notes, manuscripts and typescripts, and substantive variants between previously published versions. Hardback with dust jacket, $21.95.
Charles Wright. Scar Tissue: Poems. Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2006. 73 pages with notes. Hardback with dust jacket, $22.00.
Reprints
Billy Graham. Just As I Am: The Autobiography. San Francisco: HarperOne, 2007. 801 pages with photos, appendix, and index. Trade paperback, $19.95.
George B. McClellan. Campaign in Western Virginia. Proctorville: Mark S. Phillips Publishing, a 2008 reprint of an 1863 original. 74 pages with photos, illustrations, index, and an afterword by Tim McKinney. Trade paperback, $8.95.
Sallyann J. Murphey. Bean Blossom Dreams: a City Family’s Search for a Simple Country Life. Bloomigton: Indian University Press, a 2008 reprint of a 1994 original. 330 pages with illustrations, appendices, and recipes.
Children’s Books
Nikki Giovanni and Bryan Collier. Lincoln and Douglass: An American Friendship. New York: Henry Holt and Company, 2008. 35 pages with full-color illustrations. Hardback with dust jacket, $16.95.
Cynthia Rylant and Ivan Bates. Puppies and Piggies. San Diego: Harcourt Children’s Books, 2008. 32 pages with full-color illustrations. Hardback with dust jacket, $16.00.