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Book Notes: Appalachian Ground

I came across Lisa Bledsoe’s poetry collection on a list of recommended Appalachian reading. And I’m very glad I did.

McDowell County, West Virginia Gets Some Love

E-book looks back at a life and at a “living museum” of a county.

Book Notes: That Bright Land, by Terry Roberts

It’s hard to drop this novel neatly into a slot. You get a good dose of grisly battle and hospital scenes alongside lyrical descriptions of the mountains; men and women who can be trusted and those who can’t; real murderers and ghost murderers.

Book Notes: Jacob’s Ladder

Donald McCaig. (W.W. Norton & Company, 1998; Penguin Books, 1999) 525 pp.

Book Notes: “Gap Creek”

By Robert Morgan. 326 pp. Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 1999

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Book Notes: Appalachian Ground

I came across Lisa Bledsoe’s poetry collection on a list of recommended Appalachian reading. And I’m very glad I did.
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McDowell County, West Virginia Gets Some Love

E-book looks back at a life and at a “living museum” of a county.
That Bright Land, by Terry Roberts.

Book Notes: That Bright Land, by Terry Roberts

It’s hard to drop this novel neatly into a slot. You get a good dose of grisly battle and hospital scenes alongside lyrical descriptions of the mountains; men and women who can be trusted and those who can’t; real murderers and ghost murderers.
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Book Notes: Jacob’s Ladder

Donald McCaig. (W.W. Norton & Company, 1998; Penguin Books, 1999) 525 pp.
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Book Notes: “Gap Creek”

By Robert Morgan. 326 pp. Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 1999
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