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Intended to be a cross-over book for both teens and the trade, this is the story of a fourteen-year-old girl who flees the Tennessee foster care system and hides out as a boy in Boone, North Carolina. The author is a retired psychology professor who lives in Blowing Rock, North Carolina.
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Bob Barnett grew up in Newell, West Virginia, in Hancock County, in the 1950s, and now is Professor Emeritus of Marshall University, where he taught sports history for thirty-five years.
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This book presents many fascinating perspectives on a college and its region. Best has been an observer of Berea College for the last fifty-seven years, ever since he enrolled as a freshman from the Upper Crabtree community in Haywood County, North Carolina. During most of that time he has worked for the College.
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This book of humorous political parody may have been inspired by a talk show host with a somewhat similar name.
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These were the Civil War battles that, for the first time, delayed Union General William T. Sherman's famous March to the Sea. They took place in the last week of May in 1864 in Paulding County, Georgia. The author taught history in high school and is now a senior vice president of Surety Land Title, Inc., of Mobile, Alabama. [End Page 104]
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The title story of this collection first appeared in Appalachian Heritage, and several of the poems first appeared in other regional publications. The author lives in St. Paul, Virginia.
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This, Bryner's fifth poetry collection, begins with poems of her great-grandmother followed by her grandmother, her mother, and herself. "Their hardscrabble lives of making-do, barely, in rural West Virginia and later in housing projects of industrialized Ohio, are vibrantly presented."–Colette Inez. "Her dependably deft use of imagery and finely paced storytelling create poems to which readers will return for sustenance and probing insights into both horrors and delights of being family."–Marc Harshman The author is a practicing registered nurse in Ohio.
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The editor of this book is Fiction Editor of The Atlantic, and the authors here are so well qualified that it is truly impressive that they all come from the same South Carolina city. An exemplary collection.
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Adda Leah Davis is a native of McDowell County, West Virginia, who now lives in nearby Russell County, Virginia. She is a retired elementary school teacher and the author of eight books. This is the third in a novel trilogy set in the 1950s. "This book tells the gripping story of how a woman's strength, perseverance, and faith carry her through an abusive marriage into redemptive love." –Ann B. Ross
