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She Who Is Like a Mare: Poems of Mary Breckenridge and the Frontier Nursing Service by Karen Kotrba "The skillfully rendered dramatic monologues of Karen Kotrba’s She Who is Like a Mare document the remarkable history of the Frontier Nursing Service in eastern Kentucky in the early twentieth century... She has brought to light a little known piece of women’s history--a story of cunning, courage, and caring- and has done so with unforgettable imagery, beautiful music, and love." ~Maggie Anderson
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The Free Farm: A Novel by Larry Smith "Forbidden love. Counter-culture. The shadow of Vietnam. Sexual revolution. Social unrest. Marijuana and LSD. In this intriguing coming-of-age novel by Larry Smith, The Free Farm, we journey back to America’s turbulent late 60s and early 70s…. Smith provides a unique window into Lee’s young life that is driven by idealism, love of Emerson and Thoreau, and devotion to his beautiful partner, who practices Zen, meditates, and can fix cars….In this realistic yet often surprising and tender novel, a quoted line from 'The Waking' by Theodore Roethke serves as a guidepost: 'I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow/ I feel my fate in what I cannot fear/ I learn by going where I have to go.'" ~ Laura Treacy Bentley, author of Lake Effect
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Sinners of Sanction County: Stories by Charles Dodd White
"Sinners of Sanction County is one of the best story collections to come out of the American South in recent times. Writing in a spare, poetic style that fairly crackles with energy, Charles Dodd White makes his mark as a major new talent as he masterfully explores the raw beauty and pathos of life among tough people caught in bad situations. With this book, he has nailed the coonskin to the wall." ~Donald Ray Pollock, author of Knockemstiff
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Learning How: Stories, Tales & Yarns by Richard Hague
22 Stories, Yarns, & Tales, rich in character, voice, and landscape.
"The fiction in this collection is as comforting as it is challenging, as familiar as it is surprising, and, in all of the aspects that matter to the serious reader of literature, it is thoroughly satisfying." ~Chris Holbrook, author of Upheaval
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Degrees of Elevation: Short Stories of Contemporary Appalachia Edited by Charles Dodd White & Page Seay
A wonderful and rich collection of some of our best fiction writers treating the American landscape of Appalachia and its people.
Writers include: Rusty Barnes, Sheldon Lee Compton, Jarrid Deaton, Richard Hague, Silas House, Chris Holbrook, Denton Loving, Mindy Beth Miller, John McManus, Jim Nichols, Valerie Nieman, Chris Offutt, Mark Powell, Ron Rash, Alex Taylor, Crystal Wilkinson "From manic to elegiac to rough, raw, beautiful, and heartbreaking, these stories will strike the reader as both absolutely true and as unforgettable, like the high pure ring of an ax on a cold winter morning, vibrating across distance, hanging in the air long afterward." -Lee Smith, author of Saving Grace
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Eclipse: Stories by Jeanne Bryner
These are powerful stories about the dignity, hope, wit, compassion, and struggles of seemingly ordinary people in small town of Ohio, West Virginia, and Pennsylvania. Jeanne Bryner moves beyond K-Mart class stereotypes into deeper spaces, uncovering a complexity and variety of working-class lives few acknowledge." ~Janet Zandy
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Rushlight: Poems by Chris Green
Chris Green's Rushlight is a powerful new book of poems. Rushlights were made from rushes growing in marshy ground by old-time working people as substitutes for candles, to push against the darkness of the night. For me, Chris’ poems light the world in a similar way. I see better in my own dark through these brilliant poems, for which I thank this very necessary writer. — Gurney Norman, author of Kinfolks
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Blind Horse: Poems by Jeanne Bryner
"I hear the sweet drawl of country music lyric in Jeanne Bryner's poems and the push and drive of a mountain fiddle too. Energetic and clear-sighted, these poems are never afraid of their difficult subjects....Jeanne Bryner is the real thing." ~Maggie Anderson
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Lake Effect: Poems by Laura Treacy Bentley
"Everywhere I look these days no poetry is being written. There is a lot of pretend poetry, but nothing really this fine. With this book it makes it very easy for me to say: Laura Bentley, I dub thee poet supreme.” - Ray Bradbury Laura’s love of the people and landscapes of West Virginia, western Maryland, and Ireland is evident in her work. From earth to sky, this collection merges a lake effect of meditations that creates its own weather.
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Green-Silver and Silent: Poems by Marc Harshman *Poet Laureate of West Virginia
"Marc Harshman knows these people, these places, and he has the wisdom of someone who knows when to be quiet, when to watch, and listen, so that he can come to us and tell these heart-felt stories. These poems earn their keep, weaving together the physical and spiritual worlds in a landscape that can both sustain us and break our hearts." -Jim Daniels, author of Show and Tell: Selected Poems
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Smoke: Poems by Jeanne Bryner
"The poems in Jeanne Bryners Smoke reveal her to be an angel of mercy not only in her work with patients but also in her ability to create poems that comfort and guide us as we face universal fears: sickness, personal and societal abuse, family tragedy, physical pain and emotional longing. Her poems dig deep, reaching what Emily Dickinson called the zero at the bone." - Cortney Davis, author of The Hearts Truth: Essays on the Art of Nursing
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Sky Under the Roof: Poems by Hilda Downer
"Hilda Downer's poems in Sky Under The Roof affected me deeply. The poems are powerful expressions of hard truths of human life. They are beautiful, sophisticated, brave poems that do not flinch from the challenges of living and of writing. Grounded in details of Appalachian life and land, Hilda Downer's poems are products of a good heart, mature sensibility and developed talent. These poems have moved me and taught me about things I thought I knew but didn't." –Gurney Norman
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The Long River Home: A Novel Larry Smith
"In this fine Appalachian novel, Larry Smith chronicles four generations of McCalls, their joys and sorrows, their sins and their nobility. Such regional fiction has always been about people: their connections with one another, their home place, their struggles to survive and to prosper. It is all here, set, in the grand tradition of Wendell Berry and Conrad Richter, against the Ohio landscape: its hills and its rivers, its frontier beginnings and its later industrial development. We care about the place and its people. Finishing the novel, we understand ourselves and our nation with a deeper knowledge." -Annabel Thomas
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232 pgs. Soft cover
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232 pgs. Hardcover
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