West Virginia University Press
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Permafrost Is an Archive: And Other Inheritances from the Alaska-Yukon Borderlands
$22.99 Add to cartThe Yukon Ice Patch Project reveals ancient lives. A road through the boreal forest reads like a map of climate upheaval. Those houses with broken doorknobs–a legacy of government regulation over Ind
- Series: In Place
- Author: Cook, Corinna
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 298
- Publish Date: February 24 2026
- ISBN10: 1959000705
- Language: English
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Dizzy: A Memoir
$21.99 Add to cartBeverly Donofrio, author of Riding in Cars with Boys, says “Dizzy is a testament to the power of hope. Weaver’s courage and strength are so inspiring they encourage the same in the reader. If all of t
- Series: Connective Tissue
- Author: Weaver, Rachel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 324
- Publish Date: February 10 2026
- ISBN10: 1959000748
- Language: English
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Epic and Lovely
$19.99 Add to cartEpic and Lovely is the swan song of Nina Simone Blaine, the daughter of a long-dead 1950s Vegas crooner and a Texas beauty queen forty years his junior. In the wake of her unexpected divorce, Nina ret… [more below]
- Author: Daviau, Mo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: September 01 2025
- ISBN10: 1959000624
- Language: English
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Dispatch from the Mountain State: Poems
$16.99 Add to cartDispatch from the Mountain State encompasses the trademark themes of a mature poet-death, despair, dread, and the seeming randomness with which all of these come into life. The dispatches provide, if
- Author: Harshman, Marc
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 108
- Publish Date: April 01 2025
- ISBN10: 1959000411
- Language: English
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How to Make Your Mother Cry: Fictions
$24.99 Read more2024/25 Story Prize Longlist
2024 Foreword Indies Finalist, Multicultural Adult Fiction
From the author of This Is One Way to Dance, linked genre-queer short stories braided with images and ephemera e
- Author: Shah, Sejal
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: May 01 2024
- ISBN10: 1959000136
- Language: English
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This Book Is Free and Yours to Keep: Notes from the Appalachian Prison Book Project
$26.99 Add to cart2024 Weatherford Award Winner, Nonfiction
This Book Is Free and Yours to Keep presents a captivating collection of letters and artwork by people in prison that highlights the crucial work done by the- Author: Banta, Connie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 242
- Publish Date: December 01 2024
- ISBN10: 1959000357
- Language: English
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Blue Futures, Break Open
$19.99 Add to cartBlue Basin Island is the final resting spot of formerly enslaved Africans whose souls have flown from Earth–not to heaven or purgatory but toward freedom and a new life. Lucille, the island’s seamstr… [more below]
- Author: Gadegbeku, Zo?
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: March 01 2025
- ISBN10: 195900039X
- Language: English
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Appalachian Reckoning: A Region Responds to Hillbilly Elegy
$28.99 Add to cart2020 American Book Award winner, Walter & Lillian Lowenfels Criticism Award
With hundreds of thousands of copies sold, a Ron Howard movie in the works, and the r
Weatherford Award winner, nonfiction- Author: Harkins, Anthony
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: February 13 2019
- ISBN10: 1946684791
- Language: English
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Softie: Stories
$19.99 Add to cart- Author: Howell, Megan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 270
- Publish Date: December 01 2024
- ISBN10: 1959000314
- Language: English
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Slime Line
$21.99 Add to cartA trippy and darkly funny portrait of the commercial fishing industry, Slime Line is the tragicomic yarn of one troubled college dropout’s desperate attempts to remake himself into a hard-nosed workin… [more below]
- Author: Maynard, Jake
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 292
- Publish Date: June 01 2024
- ISBN10: 1959000195
- Language: English
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Utter, Earth: Advice on Living in a More-Than-Human World
$21.99 Add to cartPart nature guide, part self-help column, and all love letter to the more-than-human world, Utter, Earth is an exercise in wonder. For animal lovers and readers of Brian Doyle, Aimee Nezhukumatathil, … [more below]
- Author: Yuen, Isaac
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: April 01 2024
- ISBN10: 1959000152
- Language: English
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Mountains Piled Upon Mountains: Appalachian Nature Writing in the Anthropocene
$27.99 Add to cart“Mountains Piled upon Mountains features nearly fifty writers from across Appalachia sharing their place-based fiction, literary nonfiction, and poetry. Moving beyond the tradition of transcendental n… [more below]
- Author: Cory, Jessica
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: August 01 2019
- ISBN10: 1946684902
- Language: English
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Fifty Cents and a Box Top: The Creative Life of Nashville Session Musician Charlie McCoy
$24.99 Add to cartFrom Ann-Margret to Bob Dylan and George Jones to Simon & Garfunkel, Nashville harmonica virtuoso and multi-instrumentalist Charlie McCoy has contributed to some of the most successful recordings of c… [more below]
- Series: Sounding Appalachia
- Author: McCoy, Charlie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: June 01 2017
- ISBN10: 1943665710
- Language: English
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The Road to Blair Mountain: Saving a Mine Wars Battlefield from King Coal
$27.99 Add to cart“Keeney delivers a riveting and propulsive story about a nine-year battle to save sacred ground that was the site of the largest labor uprising in American history. . . . He unveils a powerful playboo… [more below]
- Author: Keeney, Charles B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 300
- Publish Date: January 01 2021
- ISBN10: 1949199851
- Language: English
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Hollows, Peepers, and Highlanders: An Appalachian Mountain Ecology
$19.95 Add to cartIn this revised and expanded edition of Hollows, Peepers, and Highlanders, author George Constantz, a biologist and naturalist, writes about the beauty and nature of the Appalachian landscape
- Author: Constantz, George
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: June 01 2004
- ISBN10: 0937058866
- Language: English
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On Dark and Bloody Ground: An Oral History of the West Virginia Mine Wars
$22.99 Add to cartAn oral history of the West Virginia Mine Wars published to coincide with the centennial of the Battle of Blair Mountain.
In 1972 Anne Lawrence came to West Virginia at the invitation of the Miners f- Author: Lawrence, Anne T.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: August 01 2021
- ISBN10: 1952271096
- Language: English
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I Hate It Here, Please Vote for Me: Essays on Rural Political Decay
$21.99 Add to cart- Author: Ferrence, Matthew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 228
- Publish Date: August 01 2024
- ISBN10: 1959000276
- Language: English
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Hippie Homesteaders: Arts, Crafts, Music, and Living on the Land in West Virginia
$22.99 Add to cartHippie Homesteaders tells the story of this movement from the viewpoint of forty artisans and musicians who came to the state, lived on the land, and created successful careers with their craft.
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- Author: Seaton, Carter Taylor
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: April 01 2014
- ISBN10: 1938228901
- Language: English
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West Virginia: A History
$19.95 Add to cart- Author: Williams, John A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 239
- Publish Date: October 23 2003
- ISBN10: 0937058564
- Language: English
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Woody Plants in Winter
$15.95 Add to cartA manual to identify trees and shrubs in winter when the lack of leaves, fruits, and flowers makes them least identifiable.
- Author: Core, Earl L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 218
- Publish Date: May 01 2011
- ISBN10: 0937058521
- Language: English
