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A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail
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Bill Bryson
Bill Bryson, known in England as "the funniest travel writer alive," returns to the States and walks the Appalachian Trail, starting in Hanover, New Hampshire.
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She Walks These Hills
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Sharyn McCrumb
In the Appalachian community of Dark Hollow, Tennessee some believe the hills are still haunted by a woman kidnapped 200 years ago by the Shawnee. When a convicted murderer escapes from prison and heads home to the wife who divorced him, policewoman Martha Ayres must put superstitions to rest and stop the real flesh-and-blood predator before he ...
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Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon
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Stephen King
Trisha McFarland, a 9-year-old Red Sox fan, accidentally gets separated from her mother and brother while hiking on the Appalachian Trail. As she wanders the wilderness trying to find her way back, her only companions are the baseball games that she hears on her Walkman and, with her batteries running low and her paranoia running high, a ...
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Salvation on Sand Mountain: Snake Handling and Redemption in Southern Appalachia
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Dennis Covington
Journalist Dennis Covington documents the case of Glenn Summerford, arrested and tried for murdering his wife with rattlesnakes. On Sand Mountain, Covington found he discovered the similarities between himself and the devotees of snake-handling, strychnine-drinking religions so quickly it was disturbing to him. This book was voted by the "Voice ...
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Foxfire 7
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Paul F Gillespie (Editor)
Appalachian art, culture, and religious heritage is included in this volume.
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Our southern highlanders : a narrative of adventure in the southern Appalachians and a study of life among the mountaineers
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Horace Kephart
This narrative of adventure in the southern Appalachians and study of the mountaineer life first appeared in 1913, becoming arguably the most significant book ever published about the Southern Mountains. Kephart's fascination with outdoor life and his interest in this mountainous region became his avocation -- he wrote numerous magazine articles ...
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Ballad of Frankie Silver
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Sharyn McCrumb
When he is asked to witness the execution of a young man found guilty of a double murder, Tennessee Sheriff Spencer Arrowood is reminded of a convicted murderer hanged in 1833. But like the long-ago trial and hanging of Frankie Silver, this new case seems far less clear-cut than the judge and jury believe it to be. Will Sheriff Arrowood witness ...
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A Walk in the Woods
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Bill Bryson
From the author of "Notes from a Small Island" and "The Lost Continent" comes this humorous report on his walk along the Appalachian Trail. The Trail covers 14 states and over 2000 miles, and stretches along the east coast of America from Maine in the north to Georgia in the south. It is famous for being the longest continuous footpath in the ...
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Icy Sparks
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Gwyn Hyman Rubio
Set in 1956, this is the story of Icy, a 10-year-old girl with Tourette's syndrome who has been raised in the mountains of Eastern Kentucky by her grandparents. She does her best to hide the jerks and spasms brought on by her disorder, but the other kids call her the "Frog Child", and eventually Icy is sent to a children's asylum. Upon her return, ...
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My Great-Aunt Arizona
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Gloria Houston
Arizona was born in the mountains and, as a school-teacher, she filled children's heads with curiosity about the far-off places she would never see.
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Night comes to the Cumberlands, a biography of a depressed area.
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Harry M. Caudill
At the time it was written, Night Comes to the Cumberlands framed an urgent appeal to the American Conscience. Today it details Appalachia's difficult past, and at the same time, presents an accurate historical backdrop for a contemporary understanding of the Appalachian region.
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Foxfire 11
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Foxfire Fund Inc, Kaye Carver Collins (Editor), Lacy Hunter (Editor)
Continuing the tradition begun in the acclaimed series of "Foxfire" books first published in 1972, the eleventh book includes articles on wild plant uses, gardening wit and wisdom, beekeeping, tool making, fishing, and more affairs of plain living.
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Foxfire Book of Appalachian Cookery
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Linda Garland Page (Editor), Eliot Wigginton (Editor)
More than simply a cookbook, "The Foxfire Book of Appalachian Cookery" combines more that 500 unpretentious, delectable recipes with the wit and wisdom of the southern Appalachian people.
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The Jack Tales
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Richard Chase
Handed down from one storyteller to another for generations in the Southern Appalachians, each folktale in this collection centers on a single colorful character, the irrepressible Jack. Black-and-white illustrations.
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Silver Packages
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Cynthia Rylant, Chris K Soentpiet (Illustrator)
In Appalachia each Christmas, a boy named Frankie waits beside the tracks for the Christmas Train, which will bring presents to the children who live in coal towns and hollows. Year after year, Frankie hopes that one particular gift a very special gift will be tossed to him from that train. It is this enduring hope that will guide him to the true ...
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Hotel Paradise
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Martha Grimes
A twelve year old girl becomes obsessed in the drowning of a small child in a neglected lake near Hotel Paradise forty years previously, and starts to piece together some of the events surrounding the tragedy which no-one has been able to explain. From the author of THE END OF THE PIER.
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Walking the Appalachian Trail
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Larry Luxenberg
Maret is one of the dozens of Appalachian Trail thru-hikers whose fascinating accounts appear in this book. Their experiences are presented by topic and include useful information on food, equipment, surprises, friendships, mental challenges, spiritual awakenings, and adjustment to life after the trail. This unique study offers fresh insight into ...
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Long-Distance Hiking: Lessons from the Appalachian Trail
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Roland Mueser, Mueser Roland
"The definitive guide to long-distance backpacking. With diligence and creativity, Mueser has gone about answering questions that no one else has even asked. Virtually all the material appears nowhere else and will delight both experienced hikers and the novice with only a dream of setting foot down the trail." - Larry Luxenber, author of "Walking ...
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Oral history
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Lee Smith
"The best novel so far by a writer whose growth has been steady and sure . . . . [Oral History] tells the story of the Cantrell family and the odd curse that its members believe to have hung over them. It is a tale that begins in the late 19th century with Granny Younger, the midwife, and continues well into the 20th century through several ...
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Smokehouse Ham, Spoon Bread, & Scuppernong Wine: The Folklore and Art of Southern Appalachian Cooking
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Joseph Earl Dabney
Named Cookbook of the Year (1999) by the James Beard Foundation.
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Backpacker Magazine's Guide to the Appalachian Trail
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Jim Chase
Whether you are just setting out for a day hike or are planning to trek all the way from Maine to Georgia, "Backpacker Magazine's Guide to the Appalachian Trail" is the definitive guide to the most famous footpath in the nation. Drawing on up-to-the-minute reports from hikers all along the length of the trail, it provides detailed descriptions of ...
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Hunter's Horn
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Harriette Louisa Simpson Arnow
Michigan State University Press is proud to announce the re-release Harriette Simpson Arnow's 1949 novel Hunter's Horn, a work that Joyce Carol Oates called "our most unpretentious American masterpiece". In Hunter's Horn, Arnow has written the quintessential account of Kentucky hill people -- the quintessential novel of Southern Appalachian ...
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The Survivors
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Dinah McCall
When their plane goes down in the Appalachian mountains, five-year-old Johnny O'Ryan and Molly Cifelli survive, but they are soon on the run from a killer. Meanwhile, psychic Deborah Sanborn helps Johnny's father, Mike O'Ryan, with the search. Original.
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Foxfire 9
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Eliot Wigginton
The newest entry in the Foxfire publishing phenomenon--which all totalled has sold over 7 million books to date--continues the bestselling tradition with an all-new collection of home-folk material that promotes a more self-sufficient way of life. Black-and-white photographs throughout.
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Appalachian Wilderness: The Great Smoky Mountains
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Eliot Porter
Eliot Porter supplies the photographs and Edward Abbey tells the sad story of the land's deterioration in this tribute to the monumental beauty of the Great Smoky Mountains, first published in 1970.
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