New Books Received
Janet Kemper Beck. Creating the John Brown Legend: Emerson, Thoreau, Douglass, Child and Higginson in Defense of the Raid on Harpers Ferry. Jefferson: McFarland & Co., Inc., 2009. 206 pages with bibliography, timeline, notes, photos, illustrations, index, and a foreword by Richard T. Gillespie. Trade paperback, $35.00.
Matthew Biberman. Big Sid’s Vincati: The Story of a Father, a Son, and the Motorcycle of a Lifetime. New York: Hudson Street Press, 2009. 268 pages with photos and illustrations. Hard back with dust jacket, $25.95.
Christine Blevins. The Midwife of the Blue Ridge: a Novel. New York: Berkley Publishing Group, 2008. 420 pages with readers guide. Trade paperback, $14.00.
Kathryn Eastburn. A Sacred Feast: Reflections on Sacred Harp Singing and Dinner on the Ground. Lincoln: The University of Nebraska Press, 2008. 166 pages with works cited and an appendix. Hardback with dust jacket, $24.95.
Santee Frazier. Dark Thirty. Tucson: The University of Arizona Press, 2009. 82 pages. Trade paperback, $15.95.
Gary W. Gallagher. The Shenandoah Valley Campaign of 1864. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2009. 416 pages, with illustrations, maps, notes, and index. Trade paperback, $19.95.
Michael Guillerman. Face Boss: The Memoir of a Western Kentucky Coal Miner. Knoxville: The University of Tennessee Press, 2009. 347 pages with notes, index, appendices, photos, charts, maps, and glossary. Hardback with dust jacket, $34.95.
Timothy J. Henderson. The Mexican Wars for Independence. New York: Hill and Wang, 2009. 246 pages with notes, photos, illustrations, maps, chronology, suggestions for further reading, and an index. Hardback with dust jacket, $27.50.
Silas House and Jason Howard. Something’s Rising: Appalachians Fighting Mountaintop Removal. Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky, 2009. 306 pages with appendices, index, notes, selected bibliography, and a foreword by Lee Smith. Hardback with dust jacket, $27.95.
Charles Hudson. The Packhorseman. Tuscaloosa: The University of Alabama Press, 2009. 336 pages. Trade paperback, $24.95.
Izumi Ishii. Bad Fruits of the Civilized Tree: Alcohol and the Sovereignty of the Cherokee Nation. Lincoln: The University of Nebraska Press, 2008. 260 pages with a bibliography, notes, and an index. Hardback with dust jacket, $45.00.
Sarah Kennedy. Home Remedies. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2009. 69 pages with notes. Trade paperback, $17.95.
James J. Lorence. The Unemployed People’s Movement: Leftists, Liberals, and Labor in Georgia, 1929-1941. Athens: The University of Georgia Press, 2009. 307 pages with bibliography, index, and notes. Hardback with dust jacket, $44.95.
Irene McKinney, ed. Backcountry: Contemporary Writing in West Virginia. Morgantown: Vandalia Press, 2002. 273 with contributor’s notes and photos. Trade paperback, $37.95.
Louise McNeill. Paradox Hill: From Appalachia to Lunar Shore. Morgantown: Vandalia Press, 2009. 104 pages with an introduction by Editor A. E. Stringer. Trade paperback, $16.95.
Christa Parrish. Home Another Way: a Novel. Bloomington: BethanyHouse Publishers, 2008. 350 pages. Trade paperback, $13.99.
William L. Ramsey. The Yamasee War: A Study of Culture, Economy, and Conflict in the Colonial South. Lincoln: The University of Nebraska Press, 2008. 307 pages with an index, appendix, notes, and a bibliography. Hardback with dust jacket, $50.00.
Frank S. Riddel. The Historical Atlas of West Virginia. Morgantown: West Virginia University Press, 2008. 306 pages with maps, index, references, appendices, charts, and diagrams. Hardback with dust jacket, $30.00.
David Robertson. W. C. Handy: The Life and times of the Man who Made the Blues. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2009. 286 pages with notes, selected bibliography, and an index. Hardback with dust jacket, $27.95.
David Salner. John Henry’s Partner Speaks: Poems. Cincinnati: WorldTech Editions, 2008. 104 pages. Trade paperback, $17.00.
Bob Spitz. The Saucier’s Apprentice: One Long Strange Trip Through The Great Cooking Schools Of Europe. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., 2008. 323 pages with photos and recipes. Trade paperback, $15.95.
Lin Stepp. The Foster Girls: A Smoky Mountain Novel. Boone: Parkway Publishers, Inc., 2009. 238 pages. Trade paperback, $14.95.
LeAnna Alderman Sterste. The Old Man of the Mountain: Eldridge McComb. Dunmore: Pocahontas Communications Cooperative, 2008. 53 pages, with photos. Paperback, $12.00.
Gary Jackson Tucker. Governor William E. Glasscock and Progressive Politics in West Virginia. Morgantown: The West Virginia University Press, 2008. 214 pages with a bibliography, index, photos, and illustrations. Trade paperback, $28.00.
Reprints
Sharon Hatfield. Never Seen the Moon: the Trials of Edith Maxwell. Urbana: The University of Illinois Press, 2009. 320 pages with photos. Trade paperback, $14.95.
David E. Whisnant. All That Is Native and Fine: the Politics of Culture in an American Region. Twenty-fifth Anniversary Edition. Chapel Hill: the University of North Carolina Press, 2009. 384 pages with illustrations, notes, and index. Trade paperback, $24.95.
Children’s Books
Sharon Creech. Hate That Cat. New York: HarperCollins Children, 2008. 153 pages. Hardback with dust jacket, $15.99.
Marjetta Geerling. Fancy White Trash. New York: Viking Young Readers, 2008. 257 pages. Hardback with dust jacket, $16.99.