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Wendell Berry. Andy Catlett: Early Education. Monterey, Ky.: Larkspur Press, 2010. 27 pages with wood engravings by Wesley Bates. Handbound chapbook, $30.00.

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This is a delightful little hand-set and hand-bound paperback chapbook in dust jacket that tells of mischief a young boy's curiosity gets him into. It is probably autobiographical!

Cathy Smith Bowers. Like Shining from Shook Foil. Winston-Salem, N.C.: Press 53, 2010. 120 pages. Trade paperback, $14.95.

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Cathy Smith Bowers, the current Poet Laureate of North Carolina, now lives in Tryon, North Carolina. She was born and raised in a South Carolina mill town and now teaches at Wofford College. "Cathy Smith Bowers' poetic gifts are immense, and, as these poems show, so is her heart." –Ron Rash.

Irene Brand and Anita Higman. Love Finds You under the Mistletoe: Two Heartwarming Stories of Christmas Past and Present. Minneapolis: Summerside Press, 2010. 315 pages. Trade paperback, $12.99.

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This book consists of two novellas. The first is set in Owsley County, Kentucky, in 1946 and written by Irene Brand, who lives in Southside, West Virginia, in Mason County. The second is set in Missouri.

Warren Brunner and Al Fritsch. Mountain Moments. Morley, Mo.: Acclaim Press, 2010. 168 pages with photos by Warren Brunner and reflections by Al Fritsch. Hardback with dust jacket, $34.95.

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Here Warren Brunner lends his photographic expertise to illuminate the words of the Jesuit Priest, Al Fritsch, who founded Appalachia Science in the Public Interest. The result is a coffee table book of oversized full-color beauty matched by wise reflections.

Tim Callahan. Kentucky Summers: Above Devil's Creek. Mustang, Okla.: Tate Publishing & Enterprises, 2010. 271 pages. Trade paperback, $15.99.

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This novel is the fourth installment of the Kentucky Summers series. It is a coming-of-age story for readers of all ages about a young boy who isn't happy with his mother's decision to move with him and his sister to Eastern Kentucky. [End Page 96]

John Casteen. For the Mountain Laurel. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2011. 62 pages with notes on poems. Trade paperback, $16.95.

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The son of a former President of the University of Virginia, John Casteen serves on the editorial board of the Virginia Quarterly and teaches at Sweet Briar College. This is his second poetry collection, and it tells of solitude, marriage, fatherhood, loss, and recovery.

C. Daniel Crews and Richard R. Starbuck, eds. Records of the Moravians among the Cherokees, Volume Two: Beginnings of the Mission and Establishment of the School, 1802–1805. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2010. 862 pages with index, maps, and illustrations. Hardback with dust jacket, $50.00.

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Not the easiest reading, but full of striking details that illuminate the lives of both the Cherokees and the missionaries involved in their lives.

Thomas Rain Crowe. Crack Light. Nicholasville, Ky.: Wind Publications, 2011. 89 pages with photos by Simone Lipscomb. Trade paperback, $15.00.

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Twenty-two photographs by Asheville photographer, Simone Lipscomb, accompany these poems by prolific writer Thomas Rain Crowe, best known for his memoir of briefly homesteading near Hendersonville, North Carolina, Zoro's Field: My Life in the Appalachian Woods.

Shae Davidson. Appalachian Buddha. Georgetown, Ky.: Finishing Line Press, 2010. 27 pages. Staplebound paperback, $12.00.

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Shae Davidson was born in Buckhannon, West Virginia, studied at Marshall University, and now lives in Illinois. This is a collection of 75 five-line poems known as cinquains that celebrate the natural beauty of Appalachia.

Sharon Davies. Rising Road: A True Tale of Love, Race, and Religion in America. New York: Oxford University Press, 2010. 327 pages with notes, and index. Hardback with dust jacket, $27.95.

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On August 11, 1921, Edwin Stephenson, a Methodist minister, murdered Father James Coyle, the priest who had married Stephenson's eighteen-year-old daughter to a Puerto Rican Catholic. Stephenson's defense lawyer was Hugo Black, the future Klan member and eventual liberal Supreme Court Justice. This is the story of the crime, the trial, and the verdict. "In this exquisite book, Sharon Davies takes us...

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