Cultural Region/Appalachians
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The Appalachian Trail: A Biography
$16.99 Read moreThe Appalachian Trail is America’s most beloved trek, with millions of hikers setting foot on it every year. Yet few are aware of the fascinating backstory of the dreamers and builders who helped brin… [more below]
- Author: D’Anieri, Philip
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: May 10 2022
- ISBN10: 0358697409
- Language: English
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Willa of Dark Hollow
$7.99 Read moreThis instant New York Times bestselleris perfect for any reader who loves history and mystery and cares deeply about the natural world.
*”A captivating, stirring tale of family, friendship, the envir- Series: Willa of the Wood
- Author: Beatty, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: May 17 2022
- ISBN10: 1368009484
- Language: English
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Ramp Hollow: The Ordeal of Appalachia
$21.00 Add to cartShort-listed for the Phi Beta Kappa Ralph Waldo Emerson Book Award
In Ramp Hollow, Steven Stoll offers a fresh, provocative account of Appalachia, and why it matters. He begins with the earliest Europe- Author: Stoll, Steven
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: November 20 2018
- ISBN10: 0809080192
- Language: English
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What You Are Getting Wrong about Appalachia
$18.95 Add to cart“The most damning critique of Hillbilly Elegy.”―The New York Review of Books
“A spiky polemic.”–Benjamin Wallace-Wells, The New Yorker
In recent years and in countless ways, Appalachia has been
- Author: Catte, Elizabeth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 146
- Publish Date: February 06 2018
- ISBN10: 0998904147
- Language: English
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Grandma Gatewood Hikes the Appalachian Trail
$19.99 Add to cartCritically acclaimed artist Jennifer Thermes’s picture book Grandma Gatewood Hikes the Appalachian Trail is a true inspiring story told with “beautiful illustrations and an emphasis on the value of na… [more below]
- Author: Thermes, Jennifer
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: May 08 2018
- ISBN10: 1419728393
- Language: English
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Folk Medicine in Southern Appalachia
$29.00 Add to cartIn the first comprehensive exploration of the history and practice of folk medicine in the Appalachian region, Anthony Cavender melds folklore, medical anthropology, and Appalachian history and draws … [more below]
- Author: Cavender, Anthony
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: December 08 2003
- ISBN10: 080785493X
- Language: English
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Dazzlin’ Dolly: The Songwriting, Hit-Singing, Guitar-Picking Dolly Parton
$18.99 Add to cartThis inspirational and dazzlin’ story of Dolly Parton–noted singer, songwriter, and humanitarian–follows her rise to fame, from her beginnings in East Tennessee to performing to thousands at the Gra… [more below]
- Author: Slade, Suzanne
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: September 20 2022
- ISBN10: 1635928419
- Language: English
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Yonder
$19.99 Add to cartFrom Ali Standish, award-winning author of The Ethan I Was Before, August Isle, How to Disappear Completely, and The Mending Summer, comes a captivating historical fiction middle grade novel about a b
- Author: Standish, Ali
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: May 10, 2022
- ISBN10: 006298568X
- Language: English
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Grandma Gatewood’s Walk: The Inspiring Story of the Woman Who Saved the Appalachian Trail
$19.99 Add to cart2014 National Outdoor Book Award Winner in History / Biography
Emma Gatewood told her family she was going on a walk and left her small Ohio hometown with a change of clothes and less than two hundre- Author: Montgomery, Ben
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 01 2016
- ISBN10: 1613734999
- Language: English
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The Education of Little Tree
$19.95 Add to cartThe Education of Little Tree has been embedded in controversy since the revelation that the autobiographical story told by Forrest Carter was a complete fabrication. The touching novel, which has entr
- Author: Carter, Forrest
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 228
- Publish Date: August 31 2001
- ISBN10: 0826328091
- Language: English
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Wildflowers and Plant Communities of the Southern Appalachian Mountains and Piedmont: A Naturalist’s Guide to the Carolinas, Virginia, Tennessee, and
$31.95 Add to cartThis richly illustrated field guide serves as an introduction to the wildflowers and plant communities of the southern Appalachians and the rolling hills of the adjoining piedmont. Rather than organiz… [more below]
- Series: Southern Gateways Guides
- Author: Spira, Timothy P.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 540
- Publish Date: May 16 2011
- ISBN10: 0807871729
- Language: English
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Jayber Crow
$17.95 Read more“This is a book about Heaven,” says Jayber Crow, “but I must say too that . . . I have wondered sometimes if it would not finally turn out to be a book about Hell.” It is 1932 and he has returned to h… [more below]
- Series: Port William
- Author: Berry, Wendell
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: August 30 2001
- ISBN10: 1582431604
- Language: English
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A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail
$9.99 Add to cartThe Appalachian Trail trail stretches from Georgia to Maine and covers some of the most breathtaking terrain in America-majestic mountains, silent forests, sparking lakes. If you’re going to take a hi
- Author: Bryson, Bill
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: December 26, 2006
- ISBN10: 0307279464
- Language: English
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How Green Was My Valley
$24.99 Add to cartThe international-bestselling winner of the National Book Award and the basis for the Academy Award-winning film directed by John Ford.
Huw Morgan remembers the days when his home valley was prospero- Author: Llewellyn, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 306
- Publish Date: October 11 2022
- ISBN10: 0795300247
- Language: English
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Witches, Ghosts, and Signs: Folklore of the Southern Appalachians
$18.95 Add to cartWitches, Ghosts, and Signs: Folklore of the Southern Appalachians, by the renowned West Virginia folklorist and former West Virginia University English professor Patrick W. Gainer, not only highlights
- Author: Gainer, Patrick W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 220
- Publish Date: March 01, 2008
- ISBN10: 1933202203
- Language: English
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Willa of the Wood
$9.99 Add to cartFrom #1 New York Times best-selling author Robert Beatty comes a thrilling new series set in the magical world of Serafina.
Move without a sound. Steal without a trace. Willa, a young night-spirit o- Series: Willa of the Wood #1
- Author: Beatty, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: June 04 2019
- ISBN10: 1368009476
- Language: English
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Clay’s Quilt
$17.95 Add to cartA motherless young man must stitch his life together among his relatives and other lively folks of Free Creek Kentucky.
- Author: House, Silas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 324
- Publish Date: July 07 2020
- ISBN10: 1949467244
- Language: English
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Yonder
$9.99 Add to cartFrom Ali Standish, award-winning author of The Ethan I Was Before, August Isle, How to Disappear Completely, and The Mending Summer, comes a captivating historical fiction middle grade novel about a b
- Author: Standish, Ali
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: July 11, 2023
- ISBN10: 0062985698
- Language: English
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Conjure Cards: Fortune-Telling Card Deck and Guidebook
$24.95 Add to cartA unique divination deck based on the authentic backwoods traditions, folklore, and superstitions of Appalachia.
For centuries, people living in Appalachia have used homemade playing cards for fortune
- Author: Richards, Jake
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 64
- Publish Date: May 01 2021
- ISBN10: 1578637449
- Language: English
