New Books Received
Daniel Bailey. A Lowcountry Murder. Johnson City: Overmountain Press, 2007. 202 pages. Trade paperback, $9.95.
Meredith Mason Brown. Frontiersman: Daniel Boone and the Making of America. Baton Rouge: LSU Press, 2008. 375 pages with index, notes, biographical note, illustrations, photos, maps, and chronology. Hardback with dust jacket, $34.95.
Casey Clabough. The Art of the Magic Striptease: The Literary Layers of George Garrett. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2008. 203 pages with notes, index, and works cited. Hardback with dust jacket, $39.95.
John Michael Cummings. The Night I Freed John Brown. New York: Philomel Books, 2008. 251 pages. Hardback with dust jacket, $17.99.
Richard Fountain. The Wellwishers. Johnson City: Overmountain Press, 2008. 262 pages. Trade paperback, $14.95.
Patricia Harman. The Blue Cotton Gown: A Midwife’s Memoir. Boston: Beacon Press, 2008. 290 pages. Hardback with dust jacket, $24.95.
Dean Hill. Appalachia: Spirit of the Seasons. West Liberty: Dean Hill Photography, 2008. 144 pages with index, color photos, and introduction by Silas House. Hard back with dust jacket, $34.95.
Jeffrey Scott Holland. Weird Kentucky: Your Travel Guide to Kentucky’s Local Legends and Best Kept Secrets. New York: Sterling Publishing Company, 2008. 253 pages with photos and index. Hardback with dust jacket, $19.95.
Nancy Ross Hugo and Jeffery Kirwan. Remarkable Trees of Virginia. Earlysville: Albemarle Books, 2008. 205 pages with index, and color photos by Robert Llewellyn. Hardback with dust jacket, $39.95.
Annette Gordon-Reed. The Hemingses of Monticello: an American Family. New York: W. W. Norton & Co., Inc., 2008. 798 pages with genealogy, chronology, photos, index, and notes. Hardback with dust jacket, $35.00.
Thomas Kiffmeyer. Reformers to Radicals: The Appalchian Vounteers and The War on Poverty. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2008. 284 pages with index, photos, bibliography, and notes. Hardback with dust jacket, $40.00.
David Lee Kirkland. The Yesteryear Tales. High Hill Press, 2008. 212 pages. Trade paperback, $14.95.
Ronald L. Lewis. Welsh Americans: A History of Assimilation in the Coalfields. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2008. 395 pages with photos, tables, maps, notes, bibliography, and index. Hardback with dust jacket, $49.95.
Keven McQueen. Cruelly Murdered: The Murder of Mary Magdalene Pitts and Other Kentucky True Crime Stories. Ashland: Jesse Stuart Foundation, 2008. 220 pages with bibliography. Trade paperback, $16.00.
Joe Richard Morgan. Into the Chilling Water. Fairview: Bright Mountain Books, 2007. 123 pages. Trade paperback, $15.00.
Joe Richard Morgan. Potato Branch: Sketches of Mountain Memories. Fairview: Bright Mountain Books, 2007. 164 pages with appendix and illustrations. Trade paperback, $16.00.
Ron Rash. Serena: A Novel. New York: Ecco, 2008. 371 pages. Hardback with dust jacket, $24.95.
John Shelton Reed and Dale Volberg Reed with William McKinney. Holy Smoke: The Bog Book of North Carolina Barbecue. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2008. 316 pages with recipes, index, photos, and further reading. Hardback with dust jacket, $30.00.
Emilie Richards. Touching Stars: a Shenandoah Album Novel. Ontario: Mira, 2008. 521 pages. Hardback with dust jacket, $24.95.
Tony Smith. These Old Hills. Bloomington: AuthorHouse, 2008. 208 pages with photos. Trade paperback, $14.49.
Patricia Spangler. The Hawks Nest Tunnel: An Unabridged History. Charleston: West Virginia Book Co., 2008. 264 pages with photos, maps, appendices, and index. Trade paperback, $22.95.
Georgia Green Stamper. You Can Go Anywhere: From the Crossroads of the World. Nicholasville: Wind Publications, 2008. 217 pages with photos and an introduction by Leatha Kendrick. Trade paperback, $16.00.
Bob Terrell. John Henry Moss: Baseball’s Miracle Man. Fairview: Bright Mountain Books, 2008. 177 pages with appendix and photos. Trade paperback, $16.00.
Leonard Todd. Carolina Clay: The Life and Legend of the Slave Potter Dave. New York: W. W. Norton & Co., Inc., 2008. 317 pages with photos, notes, selected bibliography, credits, and index. Hardback with dust jacket, $25.95.
Kathleen Walls. Kudzu. Saint Augustine: Global Authors Publications, 2003. 160 pages. Trade paperback, $12.99.
Diane Wilson. Holy Roller: Growing Up in the Church of Knock Down, Drag Out; or, How I Quit Loving a Blue-Eyed Jesus. White River Junction: Chelsea Green Publishing, 2008. 210 pages. Hardback with dust jacket, $24.95.
Karen Spears Zacharias. Where’s Your Jesus Now?: Examining How Fear Erodes our Faith. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2008. 218 pages with notes. Hardback with pictorial cover, $18.99.
Edra Ziesk. The Trespasser: a Novel. Dallas: Southern Methodist University Press, 2008. 274 pages. Hardback with dust jacket,$22.50.
Reprints
Gloria Houston. Littlejim. Fairview: Bright Mountain Books, a 2008 reprint of a 1990 original. 176 pages. Trade paperback, $7.00.
Douglas Swaim. Cabins and Castles: The History and Architecture of Buncombe County, North Carolina. Fairview: Bright Mountain Books, a 2008reprint of a 1981 original. 224 pages with index, illustrations, maps, glossary and essays by John Ager and Talmage Powell, along with photos by Mary Jo Brezny. Trade paperback, $30.00.