New Books Received
Nancy Kelly Allen. Ring the Silver Bell: The Alice Slone Story. Louisville: MotesBooks, 2008. 71 pages with photos. Trade paperback, $10.00.
Kimberly Greene Angle. Hummingbird. New York: Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, 2008. 243 pages. Hardback with dust jacket, $16.95.
Garry Barker. Kentucky Waltz: Collected Short Fiction. Nicholasville: Wind Publications, 2007. 186 pages. Trade paperback, $15.00.
Thomas G. Barnes, Deborah White, and Marc Evans, eds. Rare Wildflowers of Kentucky. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky. 190 pages with photos, index, charts, and references. Hardback with dust jacket, $39.95.
Robert J. Conley. A Cherokee Encyclopedia. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2007. 278 pages with photos and bibliographic essay. Hardback with dust jacket, $24.95.
Robert J. Conley. The Cherokee Nation: A History. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2005. 265 pages with appendices, photos, maps, and index. Trade paperback, $19.95.
Peter Cozzens. Shenandoah 1862: Stonewall Jackson’s Valley Campaign. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2008. 623 pages with photos, maps, notes, bibliography, illustrations, and appendix. Hardback with dust jacket, $35.00.
Claude Lafie Crum. River of Words: James Still’s Literary Legacy. Nicholasville: Wind Publications, 2007. 177 pages with bibliography and index. Hardback with pictorial cover, $20.00.
Linda Scott DeRosier. Songs of Life and Grace: a Memoir. Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 2008. 228 pages with photos and genealogy. Trade paperback, $17.00.
Barbara R. Duncan, ed., Shan Groshorn, ill. The Origin of the Milky Way and Other Living Stories of the Cherokee. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2008. 133 pages with illustrations, maps, timeline, and further reading. Hardback with pictorial cover, $19.95.
George Garrett. Double Vision. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2004. 175 pages. Trade paperback, $19.95.
Silas House. The Hurting Part. Louisville: MotesBooks, 2008. 119 pages with photos. Trade paperback, $16.00.
John C. Inscoe. Race, War and Remembrance in the Appalachian South. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2008. 395 pages with index and notes. Hardback with dust jacket, $50.00.
Jo Neace Krause. The Last Game Played. Brooklyn: Black Lawrence Press, 2008. 199 pages. Trade paperback, $16.00.
Bernard K. Means. Circular Villages of the Monongahela Tradition. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2007. 196 pages with index, maps, tables, charts, and references sighted. Trade paperback, $34.95.
Jim Minick. Her Secret Song. Louisville: MotesBooks, 2008. 70 pages with photos. Trade paperback, $10.00.
Mary Alice Monroe. Time Is a River. New York: Pocket Books, 2008. 369 pages. Hardback with dust jacket, $25.00.
Amanda Petrusich. It Still Moves: Lost Songs, Lost Highways, and the Search for the Next American Music. New York: Faber and Faber, Inc., 2008. 290 pages with index, photos, and selected bibliography. Hardback with dust jacket, $25.00.
Rita Sims Quillen. Her Secret Dream. Nicholasville: Wind Publications, 2006. 89 pages with an introduction by Ron Rash. Trade Paperback, $15.00.
Michelle R. Scott. Blues Empress in Black Chattanooga: Bessie Smith and the Emerging Urban South. Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2008. 198 pages with photos, bibliography, notes, and index. Trade paperback, $25.00.
Bruce D. Smith, ed. The Mississippian Emergence. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1990. 208 pages with tables, charts, maps, illustrations, and references cited. Trade paperback, $42.50.
Frederick Smock. Craft Talk on Writing Poetry. Nicholasville: Wind Publications, 2008. 118 pages. Trade paperback, $12.00.
Jan Sparkman. Silk and Steel: Stories of Strong Women. Nicholasville: Wind Publications, 2005. 100 pages. Trade paperback, $14.00.
H. R. Stoneback and Steven Florczyk, eds. Elizabeth Madox Roberts: Essays of Reassessment and Reclamation. Nicholasville: Wind Publications, 2008. 336 pages. Trade paperback, $20.00.
The Bright Star Family. A Centennial Celebration of the Bright Star Restaurant. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2007. 170 pages with photos, recipes, illustrations, maps, and charts. Hardback with dust jacket, $24.95.
Donna Ackers Warmuth. Images of America: Washington County Revisited. Mount Pleasant: Arcadia Publishing, 2008. 127 pages with bibliography and photos. Trade paperback, $19.99.
Donna Ackers Warmuth. Legends, Stories, and Ghostly Tales of Abingdon and Washington County, Virginia. Boone: Laurel Publishing, 2008. 116 pages with photos and sources. Trade paperback, $14.95.
Laura Weddle. People Like Us: Stories. Nicholasville: Wind Publications, 2008. 179 pages. Trade paperback, $16.00.
Reprints
George Ella Lyon. Catalpa: Poems. Nicholasville: Wind Publications, a 2007 reprint of a 1993 original. 69 pages with a n introduction by Robert West. Trade paperback, $15.00.
Children’s Books
Deborah L. Duvall and Murv Jacob, ill. Rabbit and the Well. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2008. 32 pages with full-color illustration. Hardback with dust jacket, $18.95.
Compact Discs
Public Outcry. Public Outcry. Nekked Rekkedz, 2008. 8 songs recorded by Silas House, Jason Howard, Jessie Lynne Keltner, Kate Larken, George Ella Lyon, and Anne Shelby with 3 bonus songs from the album Songs for the Mountaintop by Kentuckians for the Commonwealth.