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A magical novel about Howard Harvard, who is retiring from his longtime job with a little help from a skeleton and Abraham Lincoln. Humor, mystery, fantasy for all ages.

This is a remarkable historical document by a most pleasing author Cornelia Cattell Thompson. She captures Appalachian small town life in the 1920's to 1950's with wit and close detail.

In this moving new novel, a slight Midwest youth deals with a rough high school and a vanishing factory town through a devotion to his running sport and his caring family. Aided by a spunky girlfriend, a humble-wise coach, loyal teammates, and his earned self-awareness, he learns the value of resilience and home.

Fiction. 1948: Wanted: a good family for a Scott County, Kentucky tenant farm. Rudy Johnson moves his young family from nearby Lexington. Only the farm owners weren't expecting the good family to be "colored." "Joe Anthony refuses to treat his characters with less than the respect such complex individuals deserve, their depth and humanity so exposed. Anthony's skillful interweaving of many narrative voices allows us to feel their pain and sorrow, their prejudice and greed and lack of guile. Flawed and only sometimes heroic, they are fellow travelers with no map of the terrain before them."--David Thurman Miller, Appalachian Heritage

A coming-of-age saga of life in Appalachia's 1940s on a tobacco farm in Kentucky. It captures a time and place, a family and community facing a struggle to deal with nature and abuse.

"Timothy Dodd�s stories, set mostly in West Virginia towns and in the shallow country bordering the deep country of forest and farms, are likely to remind readers of other writers, Breece Pancake and Gurney Norman; but Dodd is his own man. His stories offer surprising new takes, like the sleight of hand at the end of �Postcards,� a tale about leaving home. From first story to last, Dodd reveals how tentative are the lines between hope and despair, past and present, and life and death. The fissures in these stories are both wounds and means of escape, deftly wrought and lit with a sly humor that doesn�t force itself on anyone." Eddy Pendarvis, author of Ghost Dance Poems

Jeff Gundy observes, with a humble, winsome eye�and an ear for song. He says, "When / I pause, look up, around, something begins / to swirl and echo." What a joy it is to follow the trails he traces across the page�and out into the world. Finishing this book, my impulse (as with all favorite books of poems) is to return to the beginning and start it all over again! --Terry Hermsen,

Here is a fine book that dares to look into the heart of the personage of American abolitionist John Brown. Using all of the tools he can imagine Craig Paulenich plunges into the heart of the man and of America.

An historical novel set in Lexington, Kentucky around 1900, it deals with post Civil War racism and rise of women's rights. Strong characters rise above repression.

Taking A Walk in My Animal Hat is a tapestry of exquisite poems, phrases and lines that stun, rejuvenate, and have, as Audre Lord hungers for,� the potential to 'set us free.'� These poems are for those of us weary of what Adrienne Rich terms the �atrophy of our power to imagine other ways of navigating into our collective future.� Charlene Fix�s collection is the antidote to that atrophy. It is a call to don the �animal hat," to �manifest the state or aspiration of the soul.� One poem after another takes us there, always surprisingly�.The poetry is knowledgeable, wise, whimsical, challenging, loving, and draws from a wide repertoire � paintings, farms, porches, family, the marketplace, loss, life. This collection is a foundation for recovery, for restoration, for inspiration. -Anna Soter, is Professor Emerita at The Ohio State University, author of Breathing Spaces.

Long admired as a poet, Richard Hague is also a masterful essayist. These essays exploring the creatures, places and occupations that make community are a joy to read and contain a wisdom we need now more than ever. an ode to the art of staying put. --Pauletta Hansel author of Palindrome

Portrait of the Artist as a Bingo Worker is every bit as lively as its title. Jakiela's wide-ranging dispatches from the land of polka, sex chairs, nut-rolls and fish frys are truly unforgettable.She sees human kindness and human folly in equal measure, and describes all of it vividly, Dinty W. Moore

Fiction. In Laurelville, Ohio--a small town in the foothills of the Appalachians--nobody knows why Hannah Marshal drowned in Laurel Creek in 1937. Over two decades later, her niece, Ruth Sherman, takes it upon herself to find out. As she ispressed by her grandmother to learn the folk cures and healing rituals of Appalachian Christianity and armed with only a few rumors, old newspapers clipping and even some ghost stories about her aunt, Ruth begins to uncover the events surrounding Hannah's death. Twenty-one year old Ruth finds herself on a journey into the past, the traditions of a southern-Ohio Pentecostal church, and the shadowy side of the Holy Ghost among serpent handlers. On the journey, Ruth discovers her own spiritual gifts and uncovers the unspoken shame in her family."Healings. Snake handlers. Stills. Quotes from the Bible. Family feuds. Chicken coops. Speaking in tongues. Indian medicine bags. Laying outs. Intergenerational rivalry. Forty lashes of hot wax. Old-fashioned tent revivals. Michael Olin-Hitt, in THE HOMEGOING, has, with skillful writing and a true knowledge of home, combined the aura of the mid-twentieth-century Appalachia of southern Ohio with the puzzle of a mysterious disappearance and the solving of a family mystery. Read and enjoy."--Jane Piirto, author of SAUNAS

�The geologic entry to the Appalachian foothills� had a foreboding quality, a warning to travelers that the world beyond was very different.� So states Chris Offutt in his story, �Back Porch.� His and other stories collected in Appalachia Now serve to hammer the point home like a coal miner�s pick or a fist to the jaw.� Christina Lovin, author of Echo: Poems

Young Salvatore Ciccone leaves Pacentro, Italy in 1902 to come to work in the mines of Colorado where he meets and marries Maria Grosso. When things go horribly wrong with the Starkville mines, they move to Aliquippa, Pennsylvania, where he works in the steel mills. Together they raise five children and create community despite hardship, making their own private paradise. It�s a family saga and an American story of immigration and assimilation where individuality and character are not lost.

A stunning first novel immersed in the world of writers and artists, this book projects the life of Jack Kerouac into the 1970's of America.

Daughters of the Grasslands: Memoirs by Mary Woster Haug "The chapters in this book are layered and interwoven explorations of several cohesive themes: coming to understand the past, cross-cultural experience, knowing oneself through becoming a stranger, and relations to the land and to the traditions of two different places, and the mother-daughter bond both as metaphor and theme.� Kent Meyers, author of The Witness of Combines

This is a gathering of autumn flowers, what has remained of the summer garden, the gathering before the scattering. Poems in the elder�s voice, that ripened voice which grows only out of a considered life, from a man who has spent the currency of his seventy some years in deepening that life through the practice of poetry. "Lake Winds" brings us the poetry of appreciation and gratitude. No busy ego racket here. These poems come from a quieter level of mind that trusts that all of this is held within the secret direction/of everything. They acknowledge that truth, in Rumi�s words, that �Someone has filled the cup before us.� It is understood that we must prepare it for those who follow. Each of these poems is a filled cup awaiting a reader. >>> Take long walks in the woods at dawn or dusk, / Breathe in the damp musty air, / Learn to listen before I die." These poems speak to those who have learned to listen. - Maj Ragain

Upon finishing Suzanne Kelly�s poetic novel Stolen Child I marvel at how accurately and completely the author captures the complexities of the Irish-American experience. Every page sings with particulars�familiar customs, superstitions, song lyrics, dance steps, history, snippets of the Irish language, clan loyalty, upward mobility, and the fierce Catholicism that spawns the familiar wry humor on one hand and coexists with belief in the faeries on the other. The book is a remarkable read if one is looking for authentic cultural immersion.

"I arrived in San Francisco only a year after Kenneth Patchen's death in 1972, but even then his spirit and legend was a major presence amongst those of us who were" the baby Beats," impressionable, and of the 60' s generation. Kenneth Rexroth was singing his praises. For those of us who have gone their own way, counter-culturally, Kenneth Patchen may be, directly or indirectly, the most important influence on our generations' poetic voice. Along with the likes of Jack Spicer, Bob Kaufman, Jack Hirschman, Philip Lamantia, and the Beats, Patchen sings to us still. Kenneth Patchen: Rebel Poet in America is the long-overdue testament and homage to this modem 20th century icon." -- Thomas Rain Crowe

LC copy in original illustrated dust jacket.

The short stories in Karen Kotrba's collection Pottery Town Blues take readers into the lives of characters who exist at the intersection of Appalachia and the Rust Belt, people who survive on their own wits and wisdoms. Each selection offers the intimacy of living rooms and kitchens to which we are made privy by the narrators. Kotrba knows, respects, and values these people and relates their collective episodes with empathy and humor so that their stories resonate and remain with us. -Robert Miltner, author of And Your Bird Can Sing