I'm Afraid of That Water
I'm Afraid of That Water

Author: Luke Eric Lassiter

Publisher:

Published: 2020

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781949199369

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"On January 9, 2014, chemicals used for cleaning crushed coal poured into the public drinking water in Charleston, WV. This book tells a particular set of stories of this chemical spill and its aftermath, an unfolding water crisis that would lead to months, even years, of fear and distrust. It is both oral history and collaborative ethnography, jointly conceptualized, researched, and written by people-more than 50 in all-across various positions in both academe and local communities"--

Wish You Well
Wish You Well

Author: David Baldacci

Publisher: Grand Central Publishing

Published: 2000-10-01

Total Pages: 357

ISBN-13: 0759520127

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Following a family tragedy, siblings Lou and Oz must leave New York and adjust to life in the Virginia mountains--but just as the farm begins to feel like home, they'll have to defend it from a dark threat in this New York Times bestselling coming-of-age story. Precocious twelve-year-old Louisa Mae Cardinal lives in the hectic New York City of 1940 with her family. Then tragedy strikes--and Lou and her younger brother, Oz, must go with their invalid mother to live on their great-grandmother's farm in the Virginia mountains. Suddenly Lou finds herself growing up in a new landscape, making her first true friend, and experiencing adventures tragic, comic, and audacious. When a dark, destructive force encroaches on her new home, her struggle will play out in a crowded Virginia courtroom...and determine the future of two children, an entire town, and the mountains they love.

Early Native Americans in West Virginia: The Fort Ancient Culture
Early Native Americans in West Virginia: The Fort Ancient Culture

Author: Darla Spencer

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

Published: 2016

Total Pages: 160

ISBN-13: 1467118516

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Once thought of as Indian hunting grounds with no permanent inhabitants, West Virginia is teeming with evidence of a thriving early native population. Today's farmers can hardly plow their fields without uncovering ancient artifacts, evidence of at least ten thousand years of occupation. Members of the Fort Ancient culture resided along the rich bottomlands of southern West Virginia during the Late Prehistoric and Protohistoric periods. Lost to time and rediscovered in the 1880s, Fort Ancient sites dot the West Virginia landscape. This volume explores sixteen of these sites, including Buffalo, Logan and Orchard. Archaeologist Darla Spencer excavates the fascinating lives of some of the Mountain State's earliest inhabitants in search of who these people were, what languages they spoke and who their descendants may be.

Another Appalachia
Another Appalachia

Author: Neema Avashia

Publisher:

Published: 2022

Total Pages: 168

ISBN-13: 9781952271427

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"Examines both the roots and the resonance of Neema Avashia's identity as a queer desi Appalachian woman. With lyric and narrative explorations of foodways, religion, sports, standards of beauty, social media, and gun culture"--

Zigzag
Zigzag

Author: Robert D. San Souci

Publisher: august house

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 44

ISBN-13: 9780874837643

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With some help from a group of field mice, an odd-looking doll--named Zigzag for his crooked mouth--searches for a child to love him.

I Know Your Kind
I Know Your Kind

Author: William Brewer

Publisher:

Published: 2017

Total Pages: 75

ISBN-13: 9781571314956

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"This work quakes and blooms and dares us to try to resist the world's grace."-Ada Limón

The Right Kind of Fool
The Right Kind of Fool

Author: Sarah Loudin Thomas

Publisher: Baker Books

Published: 2020-11-03

Total Pages: 318

ISBN-13: 1493428144

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Thirteen-year-old Loyal Raines is supposed to stay close to home on a hot summer day in 1934. When he slips away for a quick swim in the river and finds a dead body, he wishes he'd obeyed his mother. The ripples caused by his discovery will impact the town of Beverly, West Virginia, in ways no one could have imagined. The first person those ripples disturb is Loyal's absentee father. When Creed Raines realized his infant son was deaf, he headed for the hills, returning only to help meet his family's basic needs. But when Loyal, now a young teen, stumbles upon a murder it's his father he runs to tell--shaping the words with his hands. As Creed is pulled into the investigation he discovers that what sets his son apart isn't his inability to hear but rather his courage. Longing to reclaim the life he abandoned, Creed will have to do more than help solve a murder if he wants to win his family's hearts again.

Don't Buy Another Vote, I Won't Pay for a Landslide
Don't Buy Another Vote, I Won't Pay for a Landslide

Author: Allen H. Loughry

Publisher:

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 664

ISBN-13:

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"Allen Loughry's meticulously documented book on the bribe-soaked history of West Virginia is sordid, spellbinding, and mortifying but ultimately uplifting in the author's conviction that real change in West Virginia is practical and possible. The book is filled with not only outrage but common sense and an attitude that the reader comes to recognize as a patriotic love of this wild, wonderful and deeply corrupt state. Loughry has written an indispensable and irreplaceable book."--Book Jacket.

The Book of the Dead
The Book of the Dead

Author: Muriel Rukeyser

Publisher:

Published: 2018

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781946684219

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Written in response to the Hawk's Nest Tunnel disaster of 1931 in Gauley Bridge, West Virginia, The Book of the Dead is an important part of West Virginia's cultural heritage and a powerful account of one of the worst industrial catastrophes in American history. The poems collected here investigate the roots of a tragedy that killed hundreds of workers, most of them African American. They are a rare engagement with the overlap between race and environment in Appalachia. Published for the first time alongside photographs by Nancy Naumburg, who accompanied Rukeyser to Gauley Bridge in 1936, this edition of The Book of the Dead includes an introduction by Catherine Venable Moore, whose writing on the topic has been anthologized in Best American Essays.