In her first full-length nonfiction narrative, bestselling author Kingsolver opens readers' eyes in a hundred new ways to an old truth: you are what you eat. The bestselling author returns with a wise and compelling celebration of family, food, nature, and community.
Set in Appalachia, Kingsolver's very pastoral novel tells the stories of three women who live close to the land. A wildlife biologist studying coyotes is fascinated by a young man with a passion for hunting. An intellectually inclined farmer's wife finds she must stand up for what she believes in. And two elderly country people battle about ...
A variety of articles taken from Foxfire magazine-includes the art of shoemaking, banjo and songbows, and other events in a region near the Appalachian Mountains.
Young Isaac Holcombe grows up quickly when, in a small South Carolina town in the 1950s, he discovers that Billy, the father he has always known, is, in fact, not his father. And now Billy is under suspicion for the murder of Isaac's real father, a local ne'er-do-well named Holland Winchester. Told from many points of view, this debut novel ...
The tenth volume in the Foxfire series covers a variety of new topics and includes the voices of heretofore untapped Appalachian citizens who present a vibrant picture of the American South in transition, from the turn of the century through the Depression years. Full of wit and wisdom--a celebration of what is basic to life. 150 photographs and ...
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.
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.
Malinda Blaylock dresses in men's clothing and goes off to the Civil War with her husband, Keith, serving as a Union guerilla fighter in their home country in the mountains of North Carolina.
The story of Ivy Rowe, the heroine, is told through the letters she is forever writing to her friends and loved ones. Lee Smith's other novels include "Family Linen" and "Oral History". The author was the 1988 winner of the John Dos Passos Prize for literature.
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 ...
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.
Men and women of all ages will warm to Cramer's elegant prose and Southern charm. William Faulkner once insisted that great stories must capture the "old universal truths...love and honor and pity and pride and compassion and sacrifice." Sutter's Cross delivers the truth in grand style. Sutter's Cross is a resort town in the southern Appalachians ...
A study of literacy among Appalachian families who migrated to northern cities of America. They represent a significant proportion of the urban poor, and their often severe literacy problems provide a perspective of literacy and the relationship between print and culture.
First published in 1964 by Harper & Row, this novel returns to print as a Press 53 Classic. As Hal Borland wrote, in his 1964 "New York Times" review, "In a time of dreamless heroes, of long-winded whimpers that pass as novels, "The Land Breakers" has a rare degree of greatness."
A Tennessee family returns to the bedside of their dying patriarch, Randall Stargill. The Stargills must confront many issues, including an unknown dead sibling as well as individual and passionate ties to the family land.
In an Appalachian mountain community in the mid-19th century, young Larkin's mother dies in childbirth and he is adopted by his cousins, the Norton family, which includes the novel's narrator, Arty, then 9 years old. As time goes by, Larkin and his cousin Hackley vie for the hand of the beautiful Mary Chandler, and when Hackley is killed in the ...
Incorporating the whimsical mountain lore of Appalachia's past, Laskas has crafted a story true to its time, and a cast of characters as poignant as they are original. Elizabeth and her Mama know intimately the histories of every family that comes knocking on their door, each love, loss, and shadowy secret. Few, however, know their own.
Set in Appalachia in the years before World War II, "Velva Jean Learns to Drive" is a poignant story of a spirited young girl growing up in the gold-mining and moonshining South.
In this provocative history of how Appalachia saved civilization, Jeff Biggers knocks New England off its pedestal as the cornerstone of American life, replacing it with the region too often associated with backwoods, rustic, and folky things. Not so, says Biggers, who sees in the Appalachian experience the roots of our shared independent spirit ...
For four decades, Foxfire has brought the philosophy of simple living to readers, teaching creative self-sufficiency, home crafts, and the art of natural remedies as well as preserving the stories of Appalachia. This anniversary edition brings together generations of voices and lessons about the three essential Appalachian values of faith, family, ...
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