New Books Received
Wilma Acree, George Lies, Patsy Pittman, and Sand Tritt, eds. Seeking the Swan: a selection of winning entries from the annual writing competition of West Virginia Writers, Inc. 1996-2006. Stonewood: West Virginia Writers, INK, 2008. 264 pages. Trade paperback $16.00.
Rebecca J. Bailey. Matewan Before the Massacre: Politics, Coal, and the Roots of Conflict in a West Virginia Mining Community. Morgantown: West Virginia University Press, 2008. 224 pages. Trade paperback, $27.50
Garry Barker. Head of the Holler: Volume 1. Nicholasville: Wind Publications, 2008. 149 pages. Trade paperback, $15.00.
William J. Buchanan. The Senator and the Sin Eater. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2007. 252 pages with an introduction by Tony Hillerman. Hardback with dust jacket, $24.94.
Andrew Chafin. Ordinary Hero: Sid Hatfield, the Legend of Matewan. West Conshohocken: Infinity Publishing, 2008. 145 pages with photos, appendix, bibliography, and index. Trade paperback, $16.95.
Natalie Chanin with Stacie Stukin. Alabama Stitch Book: Projects and Stories Celebrating Hand-Sewing, Quilting and Embroidery for Contemporary Sustainable Style. New York: Stewart, Tabori & Chang, 2008. 176 pages with patterns, stencil, postcard, diagrams, recipes, and color photos by Robert Rausch. Hardback with pictorial cover, $35.00.
Walter H. Conser, Jr. and Rodger M. Payne, eds. Southern Crossroads: Perspectives on Religion and Culture. Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky, 2008. 382 pages contributors’ notes, illustrations, notes, and index. Hardback with dust Jacket, $60.00.
Jacquelyn Cook. The Gates of Trevalyan. Smyrna: BelleBooks, 2008. 377 pages with bibliography and readers’ guide. Trade paperback, $16.95.
Peter Crow. Do, Die, or Get Along: A Tale of Two Appalachian Towns. Athens: The University of Georgia Press, 2007. 220 pages with index and notes. Trade paperback, $19.95.
Henry G. Crowey. Kentucky Bourbon: The Early Years of Whiskey Making. Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky, 2008. 171 pages with index, and bibliography. Trade paperback, $19.95.
Hugh Davis. The Making of James Agee. Knoxville: The University of Tennessee Press, 2008. 318 pages with works cited, index, notes, poems, and photo. Hardback with dust jacket, $39.95.
Robert D. Denham. Charles Wright in Conversation: Interviews, 1979-2006. Jefferson: McFarland & Co, Inc., 2008. 173 pages with index, selected bibliography, notes, and chronology. Trade paperback, $39.95.
John R. Dichtl. Frontiers of Faith: Bringing Catholicism to the West in the Early Republic. Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky, 2008. 240 pages with index, notes, and works cited. Hardback with dust jacket, $40.00.
David Dick. Let There Be Light: The Story of Rural Electrification in Kentucky. North Middletown: Plum Lick Publishing, Inc., 2008. 314 pages with photos, tables, and maps. Hardback with dust jacket, $25.00.
Mike Dorcas and Whit Gibbons. Frogs and Toads of the Southeast. Athens: The University of Georgia Press, 2008. 238 pages with indexes, glossary, credits, further reading, maps, tables, and color photos. Trade paperback, $22.95.
Chakera Edwina. Product of my Meditation. Bluefield: Ervin Publishing Company, 2008. 54 pages with color photos. Trade paperback, $10.50.
Chakera Edwina. Words of Illumination. Bluefield: Ervin Publishing Company, 2008. 61 pages with color photos. Trade paperback, $10.50.
Ronald D. Eller. Uneven Ground: Appalachia since 1945. Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky, 2008. 326 pages with photos, index, bibliography, and notes. Hardback with dust jacket, $29.95.
Georgann Eubanks. Literary Trails of the North Carolina Mountains: a Guidebook. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2007. 426 pages with index, notes, maps, illustrations, and photos. Trade paperback, $18.95.
Al Fritsch and Paul Gallimore. Healing Appalachia: Sustainable Living through Appropriate Technology. Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky, 2007. 435 pages with index, resources, diagrams, and photos. Trade paperback, $35.00.
Eric Fritzius. “The Hocco Makes the Echo” and other tales of New Southern Love. Princeton: Mister Herman’s Publishing Company, 2008. 141 pages. Trade paperback, limited edition available only at the WV Book Festival.
Ricardo L Garcia. Coal Camp Justice: Two Wrongs Don’t Make a Right. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2005. 317 pages. Hardback with dust jacket, $12.95.
James A. Haught. Fascinating West Virginia: Wild, memorable episodes from the longtime editor of the Mountain State’s largest newspaper, the Charleston Gazette. Charleston: The Printing Press, Ltd., 2008. 169 pages with photos. Trade paperback.
Stanley Hedeen. Big Bone Lick: The Cradle of American Paleontology. Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky, 2008. 182 pages with index, maps, notes, photos, illustrations, and foreword by John Mack Faragher. Hardback with dust jacket, $24.95.
Sally Fletcher Holliday. Rea of Hope: The Story of Betsy Fletcher Rea. Hurricane: Evergreen Syndicate, 2008. 188 pages with photos. Trade paperback, $17.95.
Ron Houchin. Birds in the Tops of Winter Trees. Nicholasville: Wind Publications, 2008. 74 pages with an introduction by Marianne Worthington. Trade paperback, $15.00.
Loyal Jones. Country Music: Humorists and Comedians. Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 2008. 427 pages with index, photos, and sources. Hardback with pictorial cover, $65.00.
Thomas Kiffmeyer. Reformers to Radicals: The Appalachian Volunteers and the War on Poverty. Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky, 2008. 284 pages with index, notes, bibliography, and photos. Hardback with dust jacket, $40.00.
James C. Klotter and Freda C. Klotter. A Concise History of Kentucky. Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky, 2008. 238 pages with index, photos, maps, appendices, illustrations, tables, and further reading. Trade paperback, $19.95.
Harry S. Laver. Citizens More than Soldiers: The Kentucky Militia and Society in the Early Republic. Lincoln: The University of Nebraska Press, 2007. 216 pages with index, notes, bibliography, tables, and appendix. Hardback with dust jacket, $45.00.
Penny Loeb. Moving Mountains: How One Woman and Her Community Won Justice from Big Coal. Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky, 2007. 306 pages with index, bibliography, appendix, and photos. Hardback with dust jacket, $27.95.
William Lynwood Montell. Tales from Kentucky Doctors. Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky, 2008. 249 pages with biographies of storytellers. Hardback with dust jacket, $24.95.
Carolyn Murray-Wooley. Early Stone Houses of Kentucky. Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky, 2008. 227 pages with index, photos, notes, bibliography, illustrations, maps, glossary, and diagrams. Hardback with dust jacket, $50.00.
John Milton Oskison, author, Timothy B. Powell and Melinda Smith Mullikin, editors. The Singing Bird: a Cherokee Novel. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2007. 185 pages with bibliography, notes, and a foreword by Jace Weaver. Trade paperback, $19.95.
Edwina Pendarvis. Raft Tide and Railroad: How We Lived and Died, Collected Memories and Stories of an Appalachian Family and its Seventh Son. Ashland: Blair Mountain Press, 2008. 207 pages with print sources, family tree, and photos. Trade paperback, $14.00.
Richard L. Pimental-Habib, Ph.D. Empowering the Tribe: A Positive Guide to Gay and Lesbian Self-Esteem. New York: Kensington Publishing Corp., 2008. 265 pages with self-assessments and resources list. Trade paperback, $15.00.
Patsy Evans Pittman. Blood Kin & Other Strangers: Award Winning Stories and Poems of Appalachia. Terra Alta: Publisher Page, 2008. 165 pages with photos. Hardback with pictorial cover, $22.95.
Frederick Ramsay. Stranger Room. Scottsdale: Poisoned Pen Press, 2008. 256 pages. Hardback with dust jacket, $24.95.
Jack E. Schairer. Lee’s Bold Plan for Point Lookout: The Rescue of Confederate Soldiers That Never Happened. Jefferson:McFarland & Company, Inc., 2008. 257 pages with index, notes, bibliography, photos, diagrams, and maps. Trade paperback, $39.95.
Roland P. Sharp. Roland Sharp, Country Doctor: Memories of a Life Well Lived. Dunmore: Pocahontas Communications Cooperative, 2008. 262 pages with photos. Trade paperback, $25.00.
Susan M. Shaw. God Speaks to Us, Too: Southern Baptist Women on Church, Home, & Society. Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky, 2008. 300 pages with index and notes. Hardback with dust jacket, $40.00.
Barbara Smith. Chick Flicks. Charleston: Mountain State Press, 2008. 195 pages. Trade paperback, $12.50.
Melanie R. Snapp. From the Hills and Hollows of Appalachia: Poems, True Stories, and Tall Tales. Nashport: New Concord Press, 2008. 223 pages with photos. Trade paperback, $14.95.
John Sparks. On Edge. Plano: Overtime, 2008. 26 pages. Staple bound, $2.50.
Paula Tukey. Paula T’s Favorite Recipes. Baltimore: Publish America, 2008. 160 pages with everyday kitchen measurements. Trade paperback, $19.95.
Roy Underhill. The Woodwright’s Guide: Working Wood with Wedge and Edge. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2008. 192 pages with illustrations. Trade paperback, $22.50.
Steve Watkins. Down Sand Mountain. Cambridge: Candlewick Press, 2008. 327 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket, $16.99.
Rosemary Clark Whitlock. The Monacan Indian Nation of Virginia: The Drums of Life. Tuscaloosa: The University of Alabama Press, 2008. 221 pages with index, references, appendices, and photos. Trade paperback, $24.95.
Wanda Willis. The Beveled Mirror: Reflections of an Appalachian Family. Huntington: Mid Atlantic Highlands, 2008. 398 pages with photos. Trade paperback, $20.00.
Gary S. Winkler. Common Men, Common Good: A West Virginia Family’s Extraordinary Story. Fincastle: Black Larch Press, 2008. 168 pages with tables, photos, notes, maps, and abbreviated genealogy. Trade paperback $19.95.
Reprints
Jim Gasque. Hunting and Fishing in the Great Smokies: The Classic Guide for Sportsmen. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press a 2008 reprint of a 1948 original. 213 pages with index and photos. Trade paperback, $25.00.
Helen B. Hiscoe. Appalachian Passage. Athens: University of Georgia Press, a 2008 reprint of a 1991 original. 321 pages with an introduction by Barbara Ellen Smith. Trade paperback, $24.95.
Raymond Klass. Mammoth Cave National Park: Reflections. Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky, a 2008 reprint of a 2005 original. 120 pages with color photos and a foreword by Ronald R. Switzer. Trade paperback, $25.00.
Children’s Books
Adda Leah Davis. Jason’s Journey. Charleston: Mountain State Press, 2008. 332 pages. Trade paperback, $14.95.
Deborah L. Duvall. Rabbit Goes to Kansas. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2007. 32 pages with full-color illustrations by Murv Jacob. Trade paperback, $16.95.
Walter Dean Myers. Sunrise over Fallujah. New York: Scholastic Press, 2008. 290 pages with glossary and maps. Hardback with dust jacket, $17.99.
Anna Egan Smucker. Golden Delicious: A Cinderella Apple Story. Morton Grove: Albert Whitman & Co., 2008. 30 pages with full color illustrations by Kathleen Kemly. Hardback with pictorial cover, $16.99.
Kristin O’Donnell Tubb. Autumn Winifred Oliver Does Things Different. New York: Delacorte Press Books for Young Readers, 2008. 214 pages. Hardback with dust jacket, $15.99.
Julia Watts. Kindred Spirits. Midway: Beanpole Books, 2008. 143 pages. Trade paperback, $8.95.