New Books Received
Jack Riggs. The Fireman’s Wife. New York: Ballantine Books, 2008. 329 pages with reader’s guide. Trade paperback, $14.00.
Roger Alan Skipper. The Baptism of Billy Bean: a Novel. Berkeley: Counterpoint, 2009. 361 pages. Trade paperback, $15.95.
LeAnna Alderman Sterste. The Old Man of the Mountain: Eldridge McComb. Dunmore: Pocahontas Communications Cooperative, 2008. 53 pages with photos by Drew Tanner. Staple-bound paperback, $12.00.
Bruce E. Stewart, Ed. King of the Moonshiners: Lewis R. Redmond in Fact and Fiction. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2008. 127 pages with index, notes, illustrations, and photos. Trade paperback, $19.95.
L.M. Sutter. Ball, Bat and Bitumen: A History of Coalfield Baseball in the Appalachian South. Jefferson: McFarland & Company, Inc., 2009. 204 pages with index, photos, bibliography, and notes. Trade paperback, $35.00.
Arnold Taylor, J.D. Rose, a Woman of Colour: A Slave’s Struggle for Freedom in the Courts of Kentucky. Bloomington: iUniverse, 2008. 130 pages with index, notes, bibliography, photos, map, and appendices. Trade paperback, $13.95.
Jan Watson. Torrent Falls: a Novel. Stream: Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., 2008. 393 pages. Trade paperback, $12.99.
Bill Whorrall. From Art to Zoar: A Personal Journey through Southern Indiana. Shoals: Herald Printing, Inc., 2001. 220 pages with photos by the author.
Bill Whorrall. Goodbye, Mom and Pop: Independent Businesses in Southern Indiana. Shoals: Walsworth Publishing Co., 1999. 222 pages with photos by the author and map.
Bill Whorrall. The Amish Community in Daviess County, Indiana: A Photodocumentation. Shoals: Herald Printing, Inc., 2003. 358 pages with photos by the author.
Children’s Books
James L. Swanson. Chasing Lincoln’s Killer. New York: Scholastic, Inc., 2009. 194 pages with photos, illustrations, and map. Hardback with dust jacket, $16.99.